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A87212	A sermon preached at Dorchester in the county of Dorcet, at the proclaiming of His sacred Majesty Charles the II. May 15. 1660. By Gilbert Ironsyde Batchelour of Divinity, and minister of Stepleton in the said county.	Ironside, Gilbert, 1588-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing I1048; Thomason E1034_15; ESTC R209046	21,155	36

A SERMON Preached at DORCHESTER In the County of DORCET AT THE PROCLAIMING OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES THE II. May 15. 1660. By Gilbert Ironsyde Batchelour of Divinity and Minister of Stepleton in the said County LONDON Printed for Robert Clavell at the Staggs head in S. Pauls Church-yard 1660. To the Right worshipfull the Knights and Gentry c. of the County of Dorset that came with Loyall bearts to Proclaim his Sacred Majesty at Dorchester May 15. 1660. Right Worshipfull BEauty consists more in proportion of parts then in the exquisitnesse of Complexion for whatsoever this be if the other be wanting it begets a deformity And was it not so in your late meeting about the greatest affair that ever this County or Nation had the Proclaiming of the Kings Majesty I must needs acknowledge and record it for your Honour that you did it with all Alacrity Solemnity and Loyalty yet an ill choice was made of your Preacher an intigrall part of that Service an old man much decayd in Strength Lungs Parts plundered of Abilities as well as Books by the Discouragements and Distractions of our late Confusions and this was not so handsome I have but a few things to say for him besides that he was of their own appointing that there was a kind of proportion even in this disproportion I mean as to the work in some sort to which he was to speak for concerning this Origens observation is good Deus vult ex locustis vincere Gigantes God will by grassehoppers overcome Giants as we see at this day and as for him Davids words are verified Ex ore infantium fundasti robur God can perfect praise out of the Mouth of a weak instrument Besides when Abraham entertain'd the Angels Senex currit Vxor festinat Puer accellerat nullus piger est in to●● familia The Servant made haste the VVife bestird her self the old man ran too as fast as he could It 's the same Fathers observation It was so when we received our gracious Soveraign as an Angel of God sent from heaven in that blessed Proclamation Nullus piger in tota familia Every man acted his part with the best of his abil ties the Sheriff proclaimed the Gentry attended the Country waited the young men displayed their banners the whole Town triumphed Men Women and Children acclaimed and the old man your Preacher did run too as fast as he could and though he fetcht not with Abraham a fatling from the herd yet with Mary be brought his young Pigeons and his Turtle as much Affectionate Zeal and Loyalty as the best And now if you ask why I present it to you the second time in this dresse being so leane Answerable to the time I had I shall not make use of that old Gentleman-usher or Trapanner to the Print-house Importunity not to be resisted though this also might be pretended the more I pitty their Judgments the true reason is that the loudnesse of my Voice might be supplied by the loudnesse of the Presse and that those that could be but spectators for the Noise Croud and my Defects may now be readers of the Sermon if they please and thereby both retain and renew within themselves the solemnity of that day never to be forgotten And upon this account craving your pardons and praying for your happinesse from under our most Wise God and our most Gracious and Dread Soveraign whom God preserve be pleased to accept the services of Gentlemen Yours most Affectionately Devoted G. J. PSALM 85.8 I will hearken what God the Lord will say for he will speake peace to his people and to his Saints but let them not turn again to folly WHen our blessed Lord went from Bethphage to Jerusalem they that went before and they that followed and the very children in the Temple cryed Hosanna to the son of David Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord Mat. 21.8 9 15. This Hosanna is a long prayer in a short word comprehending much matter in a few syllables Ne sibi blandiantur verbosi oratores as Mr. Calvin speaks on another place God is not always best pleased when we make him the longest Orations You may read if you please this long-short prayer for so I may call it in Psal 118.25 O Lord I pray thee save now O Lord send now prosperity Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Some will tell you that this 118. Psalm was penned by David for the use of the people when he returned victorious from the Philistins but give me leave to say when he returned from his long banishment from being hunted by Saul another Nimrod as a partridge upon the mountains when the people had proclaimed him in Hebron and Samuels unction had taken full effect as in 2 Sam. 5. This appears to me by the precedent verses The stone which the builders refused Saul and his counsell which should have been builders but were indeed destroyers is become the head in the Corner the chief pillar and support both of Church and State This was the Lords doing and it was marvellous in our eyes this is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad in it It is therefore you see a Psalm of prayers and praises and this Hosanna is a great acclamation containing both even the same which they commonly used at all their Kings Inaugurations When Saul was presented by Samuel with a See ye not him whom the Lord hath chosen All the people shouted and said God save the King 1 Sam. 10.24 and when Zadock had anointed Solomon they blew the Trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon 1 King 1.39 It is so here these people look upon Christ as the King of Israel therefore cry Hosanna to the son of David There is yet more in this Hosanna and it lies Emphatically in this particle of the present tense Now O Lord I pray thee save now O Lord send now prosperity This Now refers to what was past as much as to say we have hitherto been opprest by Saul and his Agents commonly styled the violent and the cruel man but now we have a King of another nature of a better temper therefore Save now O Lord O Lord send now prosperity Besides those that hitherto we have had come in their own names Saul was a proud usurper David the true proprietor and that by Gods own donation which is here called his name Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. And how well doth all this suit with our present occasion Is not our David returned from his long exile and banishment Have not our Tribes proclaimed him in Hebron No longer hunted by any Nimrod we know Is not this long refused stone become the head of our corner Is not this the Lords onely doing and is it not marvellous in our eyes and in the eyes of all the world It 's surely the day which God alone hath

Emulation and heart-burnings greater our Dissimulation both with God and Man greatest of all and why might not Antiochus come in These you will say were Cleargy sins but those of the Layety were not inferiour nay the very same But what do I I promised not to rake into the sink of these Follies and surely I have gone no further then of necessity I must to the satisfying of the Text and my own duty for had I not shewed our Follies how could I have forewarned you not to turn again unto them To return again unto our Follies when we have not only seen them but so lately and deeply smarted for them is the greatest Folly in the World Every child that hath been burnt will dread the fire should not men do so the reason of the difference is the child continually sees the fire and remembers its burning but we forget the Judgements of God as soon as they are removed out of our sight O Remember remember that Gods quiver is full of deadly Arrowes though these be gone he hath heavier Judgements in store for us if forgetting what is past we return again to our former Follies Christ you know told him so in the Gospel go sin no more lest a worse thing fall unto thee sin no more not Absolutely but Relatively the same which now thou hast sinned the sin of Unthankfulness to him that so graciously had forgiven thee Briefly therefore the Folly of returning again appeares in these two things First in the guilt contracted for if you believe the Schools and you may for it s grounded on these words of Christ a returning to sin past over and forgiven puts new life into that very sin and makes us doubly guilty in the sight of God at least unto Temporal Judgements Secondly in the difficulty of a second pardon to be obtained for that such cannot be forgiven is the Novatian Errour because by such returnings our minds are more darkned the light of Gods grace is more diminished the will is more depraved the heart more hardned the conscience nearer to be defiled and seared such returnings must needs grieve Gods spirit and if the greater care be not had quench it Therefore though God can easily forgive our greatest Follies yet not our returnings again unto them It is storied of a Grandee in Rome that he barbarously slew his Servant even in the presence of the Emperour whom he entertain'd at a Feast because he threw down unawares a Cubbord of his curious Glasses it seems he esteemed more of his fine Glasses then of the precious bloud of a man Our National Follies which you have heard were like curious new-fangled glasses but will you esteem these glasses more then the bloud of men of a Nation of your own souls Let me beseech you as many as be well-wishers to our peace and this present solemnity in Gods name and the Kings in the name of the Church and State for your own sakes your wives and children and your native Countries sake turne not againe to your former follies but lay aside all faction dis-affection all emulation and animosities all envy hatred malice uncharitablenesse with all our former ungodly courses else I must tell you you have no part in the businesse and blessing of this day Think not that our present peace is a new Patent for future wickednesse or that if we can upbrayd some insult over others and drink the Kings Health till with it our own sicknesse that we are the Kings best friends and most faithfull Subjects No we are his greatest enemies such as doe what in us lies betray both him and our selves to our former miseries and so I have done Nor can I conclude with a better Prayer then that of the first Text which is both a Text and a Prayer We pray thee save now O Lord O Lord send now prosperity Blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord. Long may the King live Long may He reign Long may He be a Father to the State a Nursing Father to the Church Let all his enemies O Lord be confounded but upon himself let his Crown flourish to the joy of his people and to the glory of his God and let all the people say Amen Amen FINIS