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A50026	Sionis reductio, & exultatio. Or, Sions return out of captivity with Sions reioycing for her return. A discourse, intended for the solemn festivity of the English nation, at Livorno in Italy, upon the happy news of King Charles the Second his return into England, which was there celebrated with munificent feasting, and magnificent shows, fire-works, and other signs of triumph, three days together, in the month of July anno Dom. 1660. Since occasionally preached in part, at St. Margarets in Westminster, the Sonday [sic] after the solemnization of the Kings birth-day, and entry into London; and now presented to publick view, as to correct the mis-apprehension, and mis-interpretation of some that were present; so to prevent the mis-information, and depravation of others that were absent. By Ro. le Grosse, cleric. An orthodox priest of the Church of England; and D. Oecumenical, then residing in Livorno, at his return from grand Cairo in Egypt.	Le Grosse, Robert.	1662 (1662)	Wing L961; ESTC R222044	50,728	74

take notice that Machalath as our Anthours do inform us was a kind of Instrument with which they were wont to play when they sung this Psalm not much unlike to Nechiloth which by the name seemed to be a kind of wind Instruments as Fluits Trumpets Cornets and the like As Neginoth were stringed Instruments of Musick played on with the hand as the Harp and the Lute and the Instrument of Ten Strings of which we read and with which the righteous are excited and exhorted to praise the Lord Psal 33.2 3. Psal 33.2 3. So that according to all Editions the Inscriptions or Titles of these two Psalms do teach us to make musick in rejoycing and being glad for the vengeance of God shewed upon the wicked who have troubled Gods people and vexed his inheritance And that we ought to celebrate such our joy with all kinds of Musick both Vocal and Instrumen●al with still and loud Musick in singing and sounding forth our praises to God with joyful and thankful hearts and voices for the destruction of the Enemies of his people and truth Which as it is the purport of both our Psalms we are now treating of so it was the occasion of our late Solemnitie the Lord having turned the Captivity of us his people in England by returning our dread Soveraign King Charles the Second to the native right and inheritance of his three Crowns of Great Britain and Ireland without the further effusion of his Subjects blood so much feared and deserved in these three Kingdoms In the next place we are to enquire why it is called an Instructing Psalm of David or Maschil Now the reason why it is thus stiled An Instructing Psalm why is from the use of it because this and other Psalms that are intituled Instructing Psalms are so called because they give Instruction Even as the Proverbs of his Son King Solomon are said to give Wisdom and Instruction and Understanding because they make men Prudent and Wise and give Understanding Pro. 1.2 And this our Prophet doth confirm unto us in the 32 d. Psalm Pro. 1.2 which is also intituled an Instructing Psalm of David a Psalm that maketh Prudent that causeth Understanding as he explains himself in the 8 th verse of that Psalm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the Septuagint do render the words Psal 32.8 I will wake thee prudent and instruct thee I will teach thee in the way which thou shalt go Where we may observe that the good man David practizing that counsel which his Son according to the flesh and our Saviour Luk 22.32 gives to St. Peter in the Gospel Et tu conversus confirma fratres Thou being converted strenghen thy brethren Luk. 22.32 promiseth to make the rest of Gods Children partakers of the benefits which he felt and that which every Christian ought to do especially Ministers Fathers and Masters of Families he will diligently look and take care to direct them in the way of salvation Now a Psalm that we may not leave any thing unexplained since we have begun to unfold the Title is called in the Hebrew Mizmor which hath the signification of pruning or cutting off superfluous Twiggs and Branches and is applyed to Songs which are composed of short Sentences or Verses where many superfluous words are cut off and taken away And here for better information that you may the more distinctly apprehend what a Psalm is it will not be amiss to give you to understand that there be three kinds of Songs which are mentioned in the Psalmographie of the sweet Singer of Israel 2 Sam. 23.1 In Hebrew Mizmor Tehillah Shir. In Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In English Psalm Hymn Song All which three kinds of Songs St. Paul the great Doctor of the Gentiles as well as the Prophet David the great Poet of the Jews doth mention in his Epistle to the Ephesians where he exhorts them and in them all Christians to be filled with the Spirit rather than with excess of Wine and to speak to themselves in Psalms Eph. 3.18 19. and Hymns and spiritual Songs making melody in their hearts to the Lord Eph. 5.18 19. This Song here you see it is a Psalm the first of the three kinds of Songs and the Septuagint read it as I told you before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The vulgar Translation among the Latines In finem Psalmus David or In finem pro Maeleth intelligentiae David A Psalm of David to the end or for Maeleth an Instructing Psalm of David to the end Which as I insinuated above doth lesson to us to persevere and continue in Gods Service to the end not only whiles we are in the Temple or Gods House to continue there till the end of all those holy Mysteries and Dispensations be performed that so we may have Gods blessing by the Bishop or Priest pronounced upon us but also when we are out of the Temple in our own houses or else where we being as St. Paul stiles us 1 Cor. 3.16 Temples of the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 3.16 We ought to continue in Gods service the whole course of our life serving him as good old Zachary doth prescribe unto us in his Benedictus in holiness and righteousness all the dayes of our life As the end for which he did redeem us Luk. 1.74.75 Luk. 1.74.75 And as we our selves did promise to perform faithfully by our Sureties that did undertake for us at our Baptisme when we were initiated into Christs Church to become Christians that we might be sanctified For then Rubrick in the Ministrat of Baptism if we do well remember as we ought and as our Catechism doth rightly inform us they did promise for us that we would forsake the Devil and all his works and constantly believe Gods holy Word and obediently keep his Commandements And then did we receive the sign of the Cross if we did receive it at all and the more to be blamed they that do omit it in Baptism because it is so significant to put us in mind of our duty in token that hereafter we would not be ashamed to confess the Faith of Christ crucified but manfully fight under his Banner against Sin the World and the Devil and to continue Christs faithful Souldiers and Servants to our lives end But leaving the Title which yet Aug. to use St. Augustines saying is clavis Psalmi the Key to unlock the meaning of the Psalm let us address our selves to the Argument of it which according to the Dictates of Expositors in brief is this The holy man David by the Spirit of Prophesy contemplating the constitution of the visible Church and seeing the greater part of the people to lye in their natural estate of corruption working iniquity and impiety with greediness and hating the Children of God which are got out of that estate by Regeneration Philip. 3.6 with a perfect hatred and

Sionis Reductio Exultatio OR Sions RETVRN out of CAPTIVITY WITH Sions REIOYCING for Her RETURN A DISCOURSE Intended for the Solemn Festivity of the English Nation at Livorno in Italy upon the happy news of King Charles the Second his Return into England which was there celebrated with Munificent Feasting and Magnificent Shows Fire-works and other signs of Triumph three days together in the Month of July Anno Dom. 1660. Since occasionally preached in part at St. Margarets in Westminster the Sonday after the Solemnization of the Kings Birth-Day and Entry into London and now presented to publick view as to correct the mis-apprehension and mis-interpretation of some that were present so to prevent the mis-information and depravation of others that were absent By Ro. le Grosse Cleric An Orthodox Priest of the Church of England and D. Oecumenical then residing in Livorno at his return from Grand Cairo in Egypt Fructus liberationis est laetitia laetitiae autem fructus gratiarum actio Laetari est multis gaudere non nisi bonis LONDON Printed by Tho Leach in the Year MDCLXII Imprimatur Ex Aed Sabaud 24. Aug. 1662. G. Stradling Reverend in Chr. Patr. Gilb. Episc Lond. Sacel Domesticus TO His most Illustrious Highness RUPERT Prince Palatine of the Rhene Duke of Cumberland Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SIR May it please your Highness HAving had the Honour to wait upon Your Highness at Tolon in France and from thence to be remanded by Your Highness into Italy about some affairs concerning his Majesties Service in those parts whiles I was abroad I should be most grossely incivil if I should not tender those due respects of Service which I am able to express to Your Highness now I am come home Not that I do or can imagine Your Highness any ways to stand in need of my Service But that by my Service to Your Highness I may the better serve my self and have better esteem in the eys of others Multa ideo habentur sancta saith Pliny in his Epistle to Trajane the Emperour quia Templis sunt dicata And I see it verified by experience that many men are accounted great and in reputation because they have relation to and are in the Service of great men But alas What service can I perform to Your Highness I can do nothing now but pray and that I shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nazianzen sometimes in another case first to God for Your Highness that he would bless and protect You then to Your Highness for my Self and this poor mis-reported Sermon that You would please according to Your wonted goodness to cast an eye of favour upon me and protect it The occasion of its composure was the happy news of His Majesties happy return into his Kingdoms whiles I was abroad and the occasion of its dedication to Your Highness is the unhappy entertainment it hath received from the Pulpit since I came home There I conceived it here I preached it So that though it was a Forraigner in its conception yet it is a Denizon in its production The Subject of it is Our Sions Return out of Captivity by reason of His MAJESTIES Return unto his Throne And the duty it doth enforce to my self and others redeemed out of our former Captivity is our thankful joyfulness and joyful thankfulness to God for both It hath met with much mis-apprehension and sinister interpretation by some that are not well-wishers to Sions prosperity but would rather She should remain in Captivity and in misery than be blessed with the present liberty and felicity which through Gods blessing she doth enjoy and long may she continue in the enjoyment of it by the prosperous Raign of his SaCRed Majesty And so by reason of their malign aspect to and dis-respect of the Church they do as much as Malice and the Devil can suggest unto them asperse traduce and calumniate all such as are Conformable and Orthodox Church-men For vindication therefore of my Self and this Sermon honestly intended but maliciously traduced I have been necessitated to make it publick which I thought should still continue private and to present it to open view as to correct the mis-apprehension of some that were present when it was delivered so to prevent the depravation of others that were absent and so mis-informed And thus coming from the Pulpit to the Presse in the plain dresse of Loyalty and Christianity I do with all submission addresse my self with it to Your Illustrious Highnesse And do humbly beseech Your Highness that as You have been a Peerlesse Champion of both against the Enemies of GOD and the KING so You will vouchsafe it now fleeing in these robes for refuge to Your Quarters a favourable acceptance and a gracious Protection And thus shelterd under Your Highness tuition it will go abroad secure from all black-mouthd aspersion In confidence of which Princely Favour according to Your innate godnesse I do further addresse my self to the Throne of Grace and shall continually sollicite the Prince of Princes with my Prayers that he will still grace Your Highnesse with encrease of Honour here and for ever honour Your Highness with the perfection of happiness hereafter So prayeth SIR Your Highnesses most humbly devoted and Religiously addicted Oratour and Servant Ro le Grosse To his Honoured Friends Mr. James and George Man sometimes the Prime Merchants but always the Royal Entertainers of the KINGS real Friends at Livorno in ITALY 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Honoured Friends THis Sermon though it be primarily Dedicated to a Prince whom you did always honour yet of right it doth most properly belong to you who have been like Princes in the Entertainment of the Kings Friends for which I can say you too much suffered then if not still by reason of the then prevailing times whiles they were in exilement abroad and being in Italy Amongst which I cannot but ingenuously confess though I was one of the most unworthy yet I was without any Relation or Letters of Credit and Commendation to you the only supporters of Gentlemen in their Travels most worthily entertained and for many years when I was in Italy still fostered by you In my last being with you at my return from Grand Cairo when after our Conflict with three Spanish men of War being set upon by them in the good Ship Recoverie having discomfited the other two we brought in the third the great Alexander their Admiral with triumph into Liverno upon the happy news of His Majesties Return into His Kingdoms this Treatise was conceived in your House In your House it was framed and composed and in your House if occasion had served it should have been delivered But that which opportunity then would not permit me to Preach having been as you very well know delated into the Inquisition by some ill-confiding Brethren for Preaching once before though not