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A23817 The period of the grand conspiracy delivered in two sermons, The desire of nations, preached on the fast day, April 6, 1660, the second, The joy of nations, preached on the thanksgiving day, June 29, 1660 / by John Allington. Allington, John, d. 1682. 1663 (1663) Wing A1212; ESTC R25234 38,105 114

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now Absolon was dead bethinking what they had done and what they had to do How they must either live in a perpetual war or call back their King How if they set up another instead of Absolon they must keep an Army on foot to maintain the usurpation Josephus relating the story telleth us they thus concluded That it behoved them since he was dead whom they had chosen to make their supplication and submission unto David that dismissing his wrath he would receive the people into his favour and according as before time so now also he would vouchsafe them his pardon and protection And indeed as before I intimated the King was so gracious that not so much as Shimei who reviled cursed and threw stones at him suffered upon that account Now if the desires of Israel was as the desires of England To settle Peace and Government upon foundations of Truth and Righteousness they could then pitcht upon no better course then indeed was done which was the bringing back of David to Jerusalem the King to the City For a righteous Foundation builds upon this score That every man may have his right and that made David himself to say unto his God Thou hast maintained my Right and my Cause Thou satest in the throne judging right Now the men both of Judah and Israel they were all convinced they all very well knew that the seat of the Kingdom was Davids knew Absolon to have no Title but what the sword made him knew the right of the Throne belonged to him who was fled to him who was out of the land And therefore if they would have peace and government built upon the foundation of Righteousness they could not but conclude the King himself must have his right He who was unjustly banisht must in Righteousness be called home He who was unjustly driven from his Royal City must in all right and reason be reduced and brought back again For if there were all the right and reason in the world that Ahab who unjustly got possession should restore Naboths vineyard certainly then there is no less righteousness that all the people of Israel should restore David to his own when themselves very well knew there was nothing but Rebellion and Treason that drove him out so that either righteousness and right dealings must be confined to the subject or else David the King must have his right and of this doubtless all the people of Israel were then convinced when they thus said Why speak ye not a word of bringing the King back Again as Righteousness even so Truth requires it For if you will run through the whole book of Kings you shall finde that true Religion it always adhered to the Kings party during the rebellion of Absolon Zadock and Abiathar and all the Levites they were of Davids side they went out with him they carried the Ark with him they returned it to Jerusalem upon command from him yea when after Solomons days there was a division made between the house of Judah and the house of Israel when there was Kings of Israel and Kings of Judah In Judah still was the Lord known in the City of David was the Temple the Sacrifice and the undoubted Priests of God 1 Kings 12. 28. When Jeroboam had exalted himself to be King of Israel you shall finde one of the first things he fate in Council on it was Religion And because he knew the true Religion and his false Title could not do together he made two Calves of Gold and said to the people It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem Behold thy gods oh Israel which brought thee out of the land of Egypt They who will live under an usurped Title they must never hope to live under a true Religion for Usurpers they will have such Worship such Priests and such Confessions as may serve their turns And therefore had the men of Israel onely upon the account of Truth and Religion considered and consulted they could not have found a better expedient for the enjoying of it then by moving as they did to bring back their King again For to David and his line adhered the profession of the true Religion In a word to settle Peace and Government upon those two immoveable Pillars Truth and Righteousness cannot possibly be effected unless we be true to this common principle Suum cuique To give every one his own Now Matth. 22. 21. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods saith the Saviour of the world the Prince of Peace Whence it appears that both God and King have their interests and their properties Caesar hath and God hath his Rights Now if God and Caesar have a right how can we expect that God should bless us with the blessing of peace unless we give both to him and his anointed what is their rights Suppose Absolon Achitophel Amasa or all Israel whilst the power was in their hands had sold the Tabernacle which David pitched to put the Ark in or had they made sale or given away the Kings Cedar house that was in Jerusalem ● Could the Government of Israel have been settled upon Truth and Righteousness till God had had his Tabernacle and the King his palace certainly Restitution is as great a part of Righteousness as Preservation and God and Caesar as considerable to their dues as any persons in the world Truly among us Christians it is a great defect that we are quick and highly sensible of every trespass of every wrong of every encroachment that is personal and done to us but what is done to others the s●questrations deprivations wrongs and ejectments of any but our own relations those as nothing at all to us we scarce lend an ear to so we scape all 's well And hence it comes to pass what is done to God or what is done to Caesar we make no account no reckoning on Now sure I am God Almighty was very ill pleased with them who in their fulness did not think of them that wanted who drank wine in Bowls anointed themselves with the chief ointments but grieved not for the affliction of Joseph Now certainly if the afflictions of Joseph the troubles of David should be remembred and indeed with what face can we desire our God to settle us in peace if we have no Bowels for our Brethren nor melting hearts for the Father of our Countrey certainly we are not worthy to sit in peace under our own Vines if we will not endeavour to bring the Lord of our Vineyards to his own possessions To the people of Israel whilst they understood themselves nothing was so dear as the Ark and the King But neither the Ark without the King nor the King without the Ark could make a settlement A time there was when Jerusalem had their King but the Ark was at Kiriath-jearim and whilst so David himself could be contented and therefore that