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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57856	Moses returned from Midian; or, Gods kindnesse to a banished king his office, and his subjects duty. As it was delivered in a sermon, preached at Linlithgow, on the day of thanksgiving for His Majestie our Soveraigns happy restauration. By J.R. M.L. and published by A.G. P.L. Published by authority.	Ramsey, James.	1660 (1660)	Wing R222; ESTC R217055	11,311	18

go together The Church may be persecuted by wicked Rulers but ordinarily is not taken away and wholly rooted out but by the rooting out of the established Government of that Nation wherein the Church is And have we not seen how the Church was wronged among us by the boundless toleration of errour the Government and Judicatories thereof encroached upon by Acts and Ordinances taking the power of Plantations out of the hands of established Judicatories and putting the same in the hands of others not concerned and severall such other practices as might be instanced ever since the violence was done to the settled Civil Government of these Kingdoms from these things we may see how useful civil Government is not only for the State but for the Church also Therefore as we ought to bewaile the sad sufferings of our King and seriously mourn before the Lord for these sins that provocked his Holinesse to make our Israel be so many dayes without a King So it is our duty to praise and magnifie the Lord who hath graciously returned to us our ancient and known Government and our own King to exercise the same whereby we have a full accomplishment of that promise Isa 1.26 I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellours as at the beginning The second Doct. is That even a righteous and good King may be thrust away and refused by these over whom he is sent of God to Govern This so clearly ariseth from what is in the text that we need not stand to clear the ground See also vers 27. and 39. The same was Davids case 2 Sam. 2. and 5. chap. And for the prosecution of this point I judge it not unfit to take a short view of these few things which concurred in the thrusting of Moses away As first Who the person was that refused and thrust him away and he is described ver 27. to be one that did the other wrong that is a violent and wicked oppressour of his brethren Secondly What it was that moved this oppressour to thrust Moses away even fear of punishment he had done evil and feared the Judge Thinks thou to kill me He desired in effect to be Judge himself and could not endure any above him to controul his dealing with the weaker and therefore would not so much as suffer Moses to be an amicable adviser ver 26. much lesse to be Judge ver 27. Thirdly The means whereby this rebellion is carried on and they are three 1. The calling in question and contemning of his Authority and Warrantablenesse of his undertaking Who made thee a Ruler c 2. Reproaches of him as a bloody man that would kill all he ruled over though he had no other ground but his own prejudged opinion misrepresenting Moses for one act of Justice in killing the Egyptian Wherein though hee speak the truth materially yet it was malo animo to bring Moses in hazard 3. The third mean whereby this rebellion was carried on to it's hight was violence he thrust him away ver 27. And where the Authority of a Ruler begins to be contemned there if it be in the contemners power thrusting away cometh in the close The fourth thing considerable in the thrusting of Moses away is the grounds upon which this refusing and rebellion is builded and we find no real ground of provocation from Moses his worst word we find ver 26. to be Sirs ye are Brethren why do ye wrong one to another Innocencie in a King will not restrain rebellious Subjects Fifthly Consider what are the sad effects of a rebellion coming to it's hight even upon the Subjects to wit oppression of the weaker by the stronger See Isa 3.2 3 4 5. And lastly That rebellion once coming the length of thrusting away God must in a more then ordinary way interpose for the reintroducing of the expulsed Ruler I shall say no more for the application of this point But that the sin of these who had hand in the horrid murther of our late Soveraign or the expulsion of our present is more inexcusable then that of this oppressing Israelite who thurst Moses away because their just tittle to the Government was more evident to them then Moses tittle at that time was to the Jews And therefore we ought earnestly to supplicat the throne of grace that these sins may no more be laid to the charge of these Lands and that the divisions of the people may be solidly healed for it is marked as the first rise of the occasion of this rebellion against Moses that the people strove v. 26. We might gather our third Doct. by comparing this vers wherein their refusall of Moses is spoken of with vers 30. Where his fourty years sojourning in a exiled condition is mentioned to be That sinfull opposition and thrusting away of a righteous Ruler may have successe for along time but the successe of the oppressour is the servitude of the subjects I will not stand on this Doct. It is too sad a Theme to insist upon Only this Although we have reason to lament that by the successe of oppressours our King hath been so long kept away from us yet we have also reason to blesse God that it hath not been for full fourty years and to praise Him from our souls who hath said concerning us as he said concerning the Jews vers 34. I have seen I have seen the affliction of my people I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them and now come I will send thee into Egypt The fourth Doct. arysing clearly from the words is That though a righteous Ruler be thurst away and long kept away from his just right Yet the Lord can in his time send him back to the exercise of that Government he had right to So dealt the Lord with David both after Sheba's rebellion and Absolom's And so hath the Lord done to our King and it will not be amisse here to consider a little some things wherein the sufferings and the return of our King is parallel to the sufferings and the return of Moses And first their sufferings after their expulsion are parallel First In that both their rights was unquestionable before God and man though they wanted the exercise Secondly both driven to exile and put to great pinches under it Thirdly made to sojourn among people of another Religion Fourthly Yet both remained constant in the Truth the great glory of their sufferings notwithstanding of their strong temptations Fifthly Both found more relief of strangers then of friends Sixthly Both waited patiently untill Gods time of outgate came There are also some things wherein the manner of their returning is parallel as First Gods hand was eminently seen in both Secondly their return was without blood or War Thirdly Both were unexpected Fourthly both were when the affliction of their people was at a great hight Let us then blesse and praise the mighty Lord whose right hand hath done marvellously