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A sermon preach't at Christs-Church Dublin before the generall convention of Ireland. May 24. 1660. By Henry Jones D.D. Vicechancellour of the University of Dublin and Bishop of Clogher.
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his distresses in that kind of which I need not speak nor make farther application That not withstanding such his sufferings yet was not David forsaken for first even then when at lowest he had the hearts of many who followed him in all his troubles so as that even then he was not altogether inconsiderable 1. Chr. 12. 1 to the 23. but after when the Lord had indeed prepared the hearts of his People and that they were generally bowed to him how great then was the confluence to him from all parts of his Kingdom and that when he was yet at a great distance and farr off they then inviting and pressing his return to his own Country and people 1. Chr. 12. 23. to the end I know not why in this parallel I should omit the Circumstance of time when David made this his entrance in to his power It was long after his having been anointed King by Samuel he had at first his right of title to the Government but had not untill now possession of it And his right considered he might in his very first entrance have written the 12th year of his Reign supposing him to have been about 18. when he was anointed by Samuel as some have it although that others whom I reverence add more to his years but as to Davids age when he was actually brought in it is clear that he was then about Thirty years old 2. Sam. 5 4. An age that carrieth in it an Omen for good for so was Josetph when he stood before Pharoah and was made Governour of Egypt Gen. 41. 46. And of Jesus Christ also it is said that he began to be about thirty years of age when he did first put himself forth into the World in his baptisme Luke 3. 23. Nor have we reason to debarr our selves of our hopes of his Majesty among those he beginning to be now about 30. years of age the 29th of this Month giving the entrance thereunto as doth this Month to his happy Government over us That I may proceed in this parallel Davids return to his People was with generall acclamations Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord So here v. 26. taking this in the letter to be of David such a Prince could not but be a blessing to his People so as they had good cause to bless him and God for him He came to them in the name of the Lord Saul did not so come to them he came not with a blessing to the People his reign was with confusion and with blood even of the very high Priest himself also of other the Priests cruelly murdered by him on a charge of complyance with David 1. Sam. 22. 9. to the end no wonder therefore if it should be said of Saul whether personally intended of him or of some such other That God gave him to be a King in his anger and took him away in his wrath Hos. 13. 11. Which Scripture some have enlarged against Kings in general and against Kingly Government as if that had been a form of Government not from God whereas David was a King given by God He came in the name of the Lord and was given a blessing unto his People God chose David his Servant and took him from the Sheep folds from following of the ewes great with young He brought him to feed Jacob his People and Israel his inheritance So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skilfullness of his hands Psalm 78. 70. 71. 72. A good King is given in mercy and there is wrath to that People from whom he is kept or removed As on the contrary it is the mercy of that People from whom such a Prince as Saul is removed and to whom a David is given whereunto that spoken in another case may be applied Thou profane wicked Prince of Israel whose day is come when iniquity shall have an end Thus saith the Lord God remove the Diadem and take off the crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more untill he come whose it is and I will give it him Ezek. 21. 25 26 27. And great cause had the People to hope well of David and to promise themselves a blessing in him as coming to them in the name of the Lord considering 1. In what might have been observed of his great piety and constant holding on in the truth of his profession Notwithstanding many Temptations This is to our case this day very eminently and give me leave to change the person a little from David to his sacred Majesty our Soveraign on whom we look in all this more especially Might not his sufferings have been in this his Temptation Many have fallen therein Or might not hopes of being restored to his Kingdoms by those abroad have wrought him to a compliance nothing being then from his own at home hopefully visible towards his return Or was there not danger in the very abiding among and converse with Idolaters which was necessarily enforced besides strong endeavours purposely used to withdraw him from the truth of his profession How greivous this was to David above any thing beside of all his sufferings we may remember and that there was nothing whereof he so complained as of this very thing cursed be they saith he before the Lord For they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying go serve other Gods 1. Sam. 26. 19. The driuing him into those streights was as to the Temptation to say go serve other Gods But David did not so and his Majesties return is with the same Spirit he was not overcome but confirmed in the truth by what he had suffred 2ly Those Davids suffrings were a better fitting him for Government It was an inducement to the People for receiving Henry the 4th of France with hopes of much good by him in that he was a Prince of great sufferings So doth God by sufferings fit his for great things and for good to themselves and others Thus was David kept back many years from what he had been appointed unto So Joseph Psalm 105. 17 18 19 20 21 22. So Jesus Christ also he was made perfect through suffrings Heb. 2. 10. So also Gods Children for whom a Kingdom is preserved they are to be thereunto fitted and perfected for it by sufferings Nor was the hopes of the People disappointed in what they might expect of happiness in Daâ—â—ds Government for a Prince he was of rich endowments and in the very entrance of his Government they had experience of his clemency Clemency is a Princely qualification Davids sufferings and personall injuries were by him soon forgiven and forgotten and all passed over as it were by generall Act of Oblivion and that given by him not demanded of him Thus was it to the generality of his People who
A SERMON Preach't at CHRISTS-CHURCH DUBLIN Before the GENERALL CONVENTION OF IRELAND May 24. 1660. By Henry Jones D. D. Vicechancellour of the University of Dublin and Bishop of Clogher LONDON Printed by J. C. for J. Crook at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1660. A Declaration of the General Convention of Ireland for a day of publick Thanksgiving to be observed throughout the Kingdom WHereas it hath pleased Almighty God after so many and various Revolutions to look upon these Kingdoms of England Ireland and Scotland with the eye of Mercy by resettleing them upon the ancient basis of their lawful Government in which onely they can be happy And whereas God hath made his arm bare in this signal and eminent transaction that no flesh might assume glory to it self and hath removed all those great obstructions without the effusion of bloud a mercy as much beyond humane expectation as our merits We therefore the General Convention of Ireland that we may give unto God the things that are Gods as unto Caesar what belongs unto Caesar do in manifestation of our sense of this high undeserved mercy the humble yet fervent return of our praises to him for placing his royal Majesty King Charls King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. not onely in the throne of his Ancestors but in the hearts of his people Appoint accordingly ordain that Thursday the 24. day of this instant May be a day appointedand set apart throughout all the Churches in this Kingdom to praise God for this great seasonable deliverance afforded to us that are less then the least of his mercies and that this Declaration be then publickly read by the respective Ministers in their Congregations and all Mayors Sheriffs Justices of the Peace and other Officers and Ministers are respectively to take notice hereof and to take care that the samebe put in due execution accordingly and that all persons do forbear to labor or exercise their ordinary calling on that day God save the King Dated at Dublin the 15. day of May 1660. Ordered that this Declaration be forthwith Printed published Mat. Barry Cl. of the General Convention of Ireland Ordered Monday 14. May 1660. THat Dr. Henry Jones Lord Bishop of Clogher one of the Members of this Convention be and is hereby desired to carry on the work of the thansk giving day appointed upon thursday next come seven night being the 24. day of this instant May at Christ Church Dubl Signed by Order Math. Barry Cl. of the General Convention of Ireland Thurseday 24. May 1660. WHereas Dr. H. Jones L. B. of Clogher one of the members of this Convention was desired to carry on the work of this day appointed a day of thanksgiving that God in much mercy has restored his Majesty to the Government of these his Kingdoms which was both learnedly piously performed by his Lordship It is Ordered that the Chairman of this Convention do returne their hearty thanks to his Lordslip And that he be desired to cause his Sermon to be printed and published at the charge of the said Convention Signed by Order Math. Barry Cl. of the General Convention of Ireland PSALM 118. 24 25 26. This is the day which the Lord hath made We will rejoyce and be glad in it Save now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord I Have chosen these words for this time A Psalm and of praise is a fit subject for this occasion such is this psalm It begins and ends with praise ending as beginning and with the same words O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever ver. 1. 29. There are we called on and invited to the Duty but here in the Text we are in the duty in the practice of it This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it c. This Psalm hath not the Author in its Title yet may we probably conclude it Davids A general consent of Writers ancient and modern is for it The matter also of the Psalm leads to it being much the same with the second Psalm that being as this of Davids and Christs Kingdom both first opposed and after established notwithstanding all to the contrary Why do the Heathen rage and the People imagine a vain thing the Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Councell together against the Lord and against his anointed Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion Psa. 2. 1 2 6. where note that that Psalm hath also no title as this here yet is that declared to be Davids by the Testimony of the holy Ghost Acts 4. 25 26 27. Who by the mouth of thy Servant David hast said why did the Heathen rage c. Nor is this our Psalm as to the matter of it to be Apropriated unto David for here we find Jesus Christ of whom are principally the words which are next foregoing in the Text v. 22 23. The stone which the Builders refused is become he head stone of the corner This is the Lords doing it t is marvelous in our eyes Which are applied unto Chr i st Acts 4. 11 10. So also are these words in the Text Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord v. 26. with Math. 21. 9. David was here the tipe and what is to be said of David must be principally referred unto Christ the Antitipe the same matter being here as in many other Psalms common to both And whereas David is said to be A tipe of Jesus Christ it is intended Principally as he was a King he a tipe of Christs Kingly office as were others of his other offices propheticall and Priestly Therefore and for other reasons is Christ as a King called by the very name of David Ezech. 34. 23 24. I will set up one Shepheard over them and he shall feed them even my Servant David he shall feed them and he shall be their Shepheard and I the Lord will be their God and my Servant David a Prince amongst them I the Lord have spoken it Therefore must this Psalm be understood of David and of Christ as to the Kingly power and Government vested in them therefore is this Psalm in that yet neerer to the present occasion And yet more particularly these words seem to point to that very period of time when David first entred on his Kingdom in peace freed from those disturbances till then given him as it was also with Jesus Christ of either of them it might be said that he was A stone which the builders refused being after made the head stone of the corner v. 22. 23. unto this this tryumphant day in the Text doth particularly referr This is the day c. In all which