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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39269	A sermon preached on the 29th of May 1661 the day of His Majestie's birth and happy restauration, after a long exile, to his crown and kingdome : before His Excellency William Ld Marquis of Newcastle, at his house of Welbeck / by Clement Ellis.	Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700.	1661 (1661)	Wing E573; ESTC R24953	16,827	54

Summons unto all Israel in the second verse particularly to the house of Aaron verse the third and in short to all that feare the LORD at the fourth verse and all the reason in the world they should comply with his will who would share in his happinesse And yet behold a greater authority then David's is here for Secondly 'T is the Day which the LORD hath made He that made every Day is pleased to make some dayes over againe and againe and so hath he new-made by some extraordinary mercy or other all those dayes which Holy Church has commanded us in commemoration of the same to keep Holy such was this Day made againe by a new Sun shine of his Speciall favour overthe Land a Day by a most glorious mercy so guilded and dignified that it were a profanenesse to fully it with the low drudgeryes of our common employments Graced it must be with hearts and countenances as glad and cheerfull as the day it self is bright and glorious There must be gladnesse in the heart not only in the mouth and in the cloathes such new-made dayes are to be celebrated with all inward cheerfulnesse and alacrity of soul proceeding from a sweet and pleasing sense of his favour who made them for us away wich that grudging and Irksomenesse of spirit we meet with Amos 8. 5. which is ever crying out when will the Sabboth be gone that we may set● forth wheat except wee please our selves in the observation of these Daies we cannot please the LORD that made them And as Gladnesse is required so is 2. Rejoycing a signification of that gladnesse to the world an externall expression and profession ought always to be the inseparable attendant of that internall affection which GOD delights in thus were the feasts of old celebrated with shoutings and soundings of trumpetts and distributing gifts c all sober manifestations of Joy become that day whereon GOD vouchsafes to manifest his Favour Onely men are to take heed how instead of be glad and rejoyce they read be drunk and Prophane that were not to sanctifie but pollute the Day David and his Subjects expresse their joy by entring into the Gates of Righteousnesse into the Courts of GOD's house provoking mutually each other cheerfully to acknowledg and heartily to sing aloud to his Honour and Glory who had done such great things for them whereof they are glad with an O give thanks unto the GOD of all GOD's for his mercy endureth forever We have heard of the Day which the LORD once made for Israel let us now descend to consider the Day the LORD hath lately made for England where it would be very easie would it not be too tedious almost in every particular to shew you how King David and his Day is paralell'd by King CHARLES the Second to whom God make many long and happy Dayes and his Day How much of England's happinesse is bound up in the Prudence and Fortune of England's Kings How long this famous Nation may possibly continue one Body without one Head How long those two great sides of this glorious Fabrick the Church and State may stand firme and unshaken as they ought to be the beauty the strength and support of each other if not well knit together by these Corner-stones Our ancient flourishing and out late miserable and never sufficiently deplored condition when compared together will too manifestly evidence We have known what it is to have Kings our Nursing Fathers and Queenes our nursing Mothers and how happily those two Twins the Church and Commonwealth did thrive and grow and flourish when fed and cherished at such brests and alas we have to our sorrow found what sad Daies those were wherein there was no King in our Israel dayes full of nothing but black clouds raging winds and fat all stormes in which both God's house and Cesar's were blowne downe to the ground all honest and Loyall men driven out of the Land or dispersed and scatter'd and hurled into the little narrow Corners of the earth making privacy and poverty their sanctuary nothing appear'd for many yeares together but the horrid face of Rebellion and confusion no Religion no Law no Justice no Charity no Order nay nothing but the bare name of that a meer pretence wherof was craftily imposed upon a deluded multitude as a sufficient warrant for their disobedience a sure basis for Anarchy or what 's neerest of Kin to it a Democracy indeed nothing but the bare name of Liberty Was it ever thus so long as England willingly embraced the Corner-stones which GOD proffer'd her and did she ever want such praecious stones till her State-Architects became altogether as wise as the foolish builders in the text refusing the stone which GOD had prepared They rejected a stone such as England never saw before and therefore could never know how to prize sufficiently and I would to GOD that it might truly be said in diminution of their guilt that through Ignorance they did it The singular worth and use of that Head-stone they first rejected alas so altogether brutish were we nothing could teach us to understand but the succeeding ruine of three most flourishing Kingdomes A stone indeed he was so truly precious in himselfe and for those many signall excellencies which never shone brightes to the eye of the Christian world then as such true starres and Diamonds use to do in the darkest night of his persecution that he vvas highly and deservedly valued of all that knew him is still cabinetted up in the hearts and affections of those that loved him and shall I doubt not be found in the first row in that great day when GOD shall make up his Iewells And as our Corner-stone he was so exactly squared so solidly laid by the great author of all piety and Justice that nothing but Sathan and Envy could find a fault His Pious reign had left us nothing but a superfluity of happinesse to be sick of and his exemplarȳ Clemency nothing but too much mercy to coplain of the noted softnesse and freedome of his nature gave those rude flints that came against him too great an advantage over him so good a man and so gracious a King that his most inveterate enemies had nothing else to fear hardly to pretend but that God's house vvould by the help of such a stone in a very short time become more strong glorious then their own Late Posterity may indeed very well believe that God removed this stone so early as too rich a Pearl to be thrown away upō such unworthy svvine but what faith will be so daring as to believe that the very Master builders did reject this stone as uselesse and cumbersome Oh! that it might be however forgotten in Gath silently bury'd in the streets of Askalon how that a Christian Nation an English Subject rejected a King that vvas as a Saint such a Saint as CHARLES the First Oh the desperate tementy of a blinded

all dying all Projects and endeavours failing enemies rejoycing flourishing triumphing friends scatter'd impoverish'd imprison'd all disponding the Conquerors sitting downe securely and dividing the spoyle and crying with David's enemies Ah so would we have it persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him even then God throws in the Apple of dissention and in pieces they fall and a sudden storme from the North scatters them An Army marches up not knowing whither all Sects and Factions meet it and congratulate and know not for what Well the all-knowing God brings all this to an happy Issue the LORD 's Anointed is restored his dying friends revived all barking Shimeies silenced Sectaries and Schismaticks confounded Rome and her Children troubled and amazed This surely was the LORD's doing and therefore marvailous in our Eyes What Praises therefore do we now owe unto God for all these his Marvailous workes This is the Day which God hath thus as you have heard re-made for England a bright and clear Sunshine after black clouds and thick darknesse The Day of our Redemption from a more then Aegyptian bondage and slavery the Day of our freedome from Tyranny and Oppression the Day wherein our gracious King was at first usher'd into the world with a new miraculous light from Heaven and the Day wherein he was welcomed into his Kingdome by all the lights of the Nation Starres of all Magnitudes with all the lustre and Glory they could cloath themselves withall A Day by the light whereof we begin to see our late Follies God grant we may truly repent us of them And our present happinesse Oh that we could be heartily thankfull for it A Day wherein Religion begins to appear again in her own dresse and all those maskes and vizors too freequently worne in the darke night of Ignorance begin to fall off frō her face All the Night-birds of prey and rapine begin to betake themselves to their Holes the doors of God's house are set wide open that we his servāts may freely enter in and worship the God of our Fathers after the manner of our Fathers solemnly and decently 'T were an endlesse task to recount half the blessings of this Day the summe of all is this The Anointed of the LORD whom we fear'd to have been taken in their nets is return'd in peace Let us therefore be Glad and Rejoyce be Glad inwardly and Rejoyce outwardly be so glad that God may accept of our Joy as an acceptable sacrifice of praise and thansgiving for his great and provident mercy in having reguard unto his holy One and so rejoyce that the world may see we are glad indeed acknowledg him the Author of our Happinesse It is most fit that as the world hath seen us sad yea perhaps too sinfully dejected in the Day of our Afflictions so it should now behold us cheerfull and full of joy but still without sinfulnesse in this Day which the LORD hath made Onely let us here beware lest we so rejoyce as to forfeit againe the ground of our joyes In vain do we observe this Day as a Thanksgiving-day except we labour to keep every Day of our life henceforward Holy-day It is not enough to say LORD we thanke thee but we are to Sacrifice our Persons and our endeavours to his honour and glory returning him not onely the Calves of our lips but the Affections of our hearts and the labours of our hands and the obedience of the whole man for the abundance of his mercies Our King our Church our Land have all too long groaned under our Sinfull rejoy cings and let us take heed lest all these suffer over again by our confident and presumptuous re-assuming of such carnall Joyes Why should it be any longer said and that with so much colour of truth that Loyalty and Piety cannot dwel together in the same brest Why should it be any longer said to our shame that swearing drinking and deriding Religion and making a mock of Holinesse are the Principall badges of such as call themselves Royallists We know who and what they are who have long agoe publikely boasted that they have been the King's best Subjects and Friends the way to confute them is not to swear they are not so but to prove by our actions that we indeed are so and to do this there 's no way left us but to be as sincerely Religious as they hypocrytically We may safely give leave to the Covenanter the Engager and the rest of a Schismaticall people to pretend as high as they can whil'st we are sure we are as much as they can pretend to Let us but once out-doe and out live them 't is no great matter who out-talks and out-braves us but let us by no meanes give occasion to the enemies of God to Blaspheme but whilst we endeavour to expresse our Loyalty in our Ioy let our joy be most clearly manifested in our Obedience to His just commands and in our Conformity to his good example whose first Proclamation was to condemne and prohibit and whose whole course of life is to shame all manner of Profanenesse and debauchery Let but our good and righteous actions first stop the mouthes of our Enemies and then our Righteous God will undoubtedly bind their hands and turne their hearts and make us all at last charitably and unanimously to joyne in the Praises of that great God who hath miraculously restored our Corner-stone and rebuilt our Hierusalem and made her once more a Citty in a fair way to be at unity within herself He will then make our King a glorious Prince and us happy Subjects and all of us at last more happy Saints when we shall all obtain Crownes and Kingdomes and be built up together one triumphant Church on our Head Corner-stone Christ IESVS full of all Gladnesse and Rejoycing and perpetuall singings to the Honour and Glory of him that sitteth upon the everlasting Throne who is LORD of Lords and KING of Kings to whom for his unspeakable mercy to our Gracious King and to us his Subjects in his happy Restauration let us ascribe all Honour and Glory Praise and Thanksgiving now and for ever AMEN