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A33727	Noah's dove with her olive-branch, or, The happy tidings of the abatement of the flood of England's civil discords as it was delivered in a sermon preached at Preston in the county-palatine of Lancaster on the 24th of May, 1660, being the publick day of thanksgiving for the restoring of His Sacred and Most Excellent Majesty, Charles the Second / by William Cole ...	Cole, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing C5037; ESTC R40846	32,990	45

hower it shall be after all such passages I publish this that all men may see That it was not the confidence of conformity with our Principles that was the foundation of our asserting of the Royal Interest that we bottom not our Allegiance upon the comporting of Authority with our Iudgements that subjection is owned to be our duty although we should fall under the most diametral opposition of Civil Laws and Sanctions to our Principles in the things of God that we will give submission to lawful Powers though we should suffer the deepest affliction by lawful Powers which yet we hope we shall never see Subjection to Authority and subjection to Iesus Christ are not things of inconsistencie but where Christian profession is made up more of the dross of self-interest then of the refined Gold of the Sanctuary Sir I humbly beg your Honours Pardon for this accompt You are one of the Healers of our Breaches You are able to take off the Disguise is put upon us by your own knowledge of our Fidelity when the work of the Lord had little else to support it but prayers and tears You may stand as a Mediator in the behalf of the Church for Peace and Reformation and Moderation That God that honours them that honour him fill your heart more and more with his blessed Grace Spirit Your Soul with Peace Your Family with Prosperity Your Life with Comfort and Your Death with Blessedness Your Memorial with the richest Perfumes Your Example with a Crowd of Followers who treading in Your steps may know how to confederate those two Sacred Interests of CAESAR and GOD. Preston Octob. 31. 1660. Your HONOURS most Humble and most Affectionate SERVANT W. C. Noah's Dove WITH Her Olive-Branch ISAIAH 1. 25 26. And I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy Dross and take away all thy Tinne And I will restore thy Iudges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning Afterwards thou shalt be called The City of Righteousness The faithful City IN the midst of those Threats which are given forth from God by the Prophet against Israel for the sin thereof these Words do interweave a Promise of Mercie It 's Calvin's observation on the Text That this is a constant method of God in the Prophecies of Judgement to interlineate some comfortable Promise to give some lucida intervalla and that Ne de Ecclesi● pror sus actum esse putent ne terroribus fracti animos despondeant left his People should think he hath cast them off a thing which he so much abhors the very apprehension of Rom. 11. 1. lest their hearts should faint under the hopelesness of deliverance And indeed however both the threats against and present seizures of wrath upon a people be lightly esteemed by the Sons of ●elial the seated sinners of this generation whose Brow hath Brass and whose Heart hath Steel enough toward off and rebound from themselves any the most piercing Arrow that is shot from the Prophets if not pointed and sharpened by that penetrating Spirit of the Almighty Yet upon them who tremble at the word of the Lord it works a necessity of some intermixed Cordials And my Text is one That Mercy that signal and capital Deliverance which is promised here and promised to be as the pregnant Womb of many subordinate Blessings which were to have their birth upon the restauration of this of it the Verses I have read give us to observe 1. The manner of its Production how it is brought to pass And 1 therein is remarkable God would bring it about at such a time and that time was the worst of times a time when rational conjecture would have said Neither shall People nor Prince be any more He that shall consider the resolution of the Lord heightned with some vehemencie of passion if I may so speak of that impassible blessed Deity expressed vers 24. and part of this cannot but admire at the connexion of that with this I will ease me of my adversaries I will turn my hand upon thee and I will restore c. Yet thus it is the way of God to disappoint the fears of his People when they are fed with the deepest discouragements to bring out the greatest hopes when Good and Restoring is in the greatest hazard though we cannot make such a coherence and connexion to be sense yet God can make it to be Reason and Experience doth so in the Text and hath done it at this day At the same time when he is irat●●s peccatis he is propitius peccatoribus as á Lapide comments on the Text. When one would think they had been smitten by God with an incurable blow that they were even dropping into the pit and the grave shutting its mouth upon all their glory for ever yet then saith God even then when Hope is lost and Expectation hath groan'd out its last then I will restore thy Iudges as at the first and thy c. 2. God would bring this about by such means in such a way and by the influence of such things and this is further remarkable in the Text. These means are either 1. More remote he would do it by a sore and deep affliction God his easing of himself is the loading of the People with a burden that shall break their hearts and cause the strongest Axletrees of Government to crush in pieces under it the little finger of his displeasure is heavier then the loyns of humane revenge and yet he will lay his hand his whole hand upon them and yet he will do it again and again for so the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports reducam reversabo manum and the whole is brought in with this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from God Ita fissores lignorum gravem daturi ictum cum gemitu suspirio eum eliciunt the blow shall be so grievous that he himself shall as it were gather up all his spirits to set it home with the greatest violence so grievous that when he doth but mention it he cries out Alas alas and wo unto the people when it falls And yet by this deadly breach the Lord would binde them up A strange course that that Providence which tends in it self to their utter subversion should be appointed to issue in their happy Establishment that God should order that to contribute to their weal which they could expect onely to contribute to their wo. But this is both usual and easie for that God who can bring from evil good from darkness light from the Eater meat and glorious Beings from nothing or from the most indisposed matter He oftentimes saves a soul through the operation of affliction and unsettlement as Petrus de Valdo from whom the Waldenses was converted by a sudden judgement upon one of his Company and therefore no wonder if by it also he can save a State And indeed where the happiness of people is wrapped up

away the dross of their iniq●●●y 〈◊〉 are prepared and fitted for it I will purely purge away thy dross and take away thy tin and then I will restore thy Judges as at the first I shall not further insist upon this but ●hut up all with a few words of Application of these things 1. Oh! bless then the Lord for the hopes of such a 〈◊〉 restored to us this day as was that of Moses I Iosh●● 〈◊〉 and David Authority vested and re-estated in ●he hands of its rightful Subject Usurpation which for these twelve year● past without dispute hath invaded the Throne broken and ●hiver'd into pieces in a moment and the 〈◊〉 head of him l●●●●d up by God whose known ●eportment under his de●pest ●●yals and whose 〈…〉 report and fa●● 〈◊〉 him to us as another Titus d●●icia humani generi● another C●sar of whom Cicero said Oblivis●i nihil solet nisi injur● and as another 〈◊〉 whose zeal for the truth and strenuous interposings of his Authority for the peace and settlement of the discompo●●d Church ma●e 〈◊〉 the Mir●our of Monarch● the Pat●●n 〈…〉 the glory of Christian Princes to this day Such ●n one report and relation tells us he is Religion teacheth us to believe and pray that he may be to this people however 〈…〉 those pregnant presages of future good to all that are de●●●●●le enough from divers things 〈◊〉 not now enumerate yet we have the unquestionable ●oundation of his rightful title to these Dominions that may raise up our triumphings to the greatest pitch and wind up our hearts i● thanksgivings to the highest elevation Bless thou the Lord Oh! my soul and all that is within ●hee bl●●● his holy Name I ●● not unsensible how many 〈…〉 others whose lot it was in 〈…〉 of the●● distr●ctions to judge it their duty to 〈…〉 Parliament as if this desired blessed day were the 〈…〉 hearts and 〈…〉 with their principles 〈…〉 The Lord comes with ●en thousand of ●is 〈…〉 judgment upon them that are ungodly But if the constant profession of their judgment in point of allegiance even in the saddest times their Sufferings and Sequestrations for non-compliance with those Anti-monarchical Engagements which overspread so great a part of the Nation pretending to greater loyalty if their volleys of prayers and flouds of tears for the settlement of the Kingdoms upon their own Basis if their unwearied activity till the Nation were as now it is purged from the guilt and freed from the yoke of Usurpation nay if the bloud of divers of them spilt in the justification of that part of their Covenant which relates to the interest of his sacred Majesty I say If all these may evidence the reality of their joy at this deliverance I know not what can be defective and a more assured testimony of their cordial joy then all those practices of debauchery in which too many have the hard fate to be involved But I forbear to harp any more upon that string the Lord in his mercy bury those distinctions and animosities among the people which in their continuation have too ominous an aspect upon the settlement and tranquillity of the Kingdom But Christians do you bless the Lord in and for the mercy of this day Bless him that God hath restored us such a Magistracy whose endowments and qualifications for the regal Office and Imployment carry such a bright and glorious beam of hope to all such a Prince as by his publick Declaration hath held forth such unalterable resolutions of preserving and supporting the Protestant cause of burying the exorbirancies of our times in everlasting oblivion and of satisfactory care to the Consciences of good men that they be not tyrannized over by unscriptural impositions and however God shall issue the results of this mutation yet bless the Lord that Authority is returned to its natural centre the scandals upon Covenanters wiped off and the most necessary part of righteousness done to the breath of our nostrils who is worth ten thousand of us in that restauration of him which the Saints pray'd for the World expected the very Angels themselves approve and the God of Gods with many pier●ing c●ies and calls required from us I hope there is no sufficient reason to suspect any diminution to come hereby to the interest of the Protestant cause and the saving truths of the Gospel we are not without much ground to hope that the intended and Coven●nted Reformation of the Church shall hereby attain some ●●●ther advance to its full accomplishment and that so it may we shall with all subjection supplicate at his royal feet If in other things of temporal importance this mutation shall bring any impairing or loss yet I shall say as Mephibosheth when abused by Ziba No matter forasmuch as my Lord the King is returned home in peace to his own house 2. Be exhorted to pray for your Superior Powers that forasmuch as their glory lies in the grace and goodness of their people God would bless them with being effectually instrumental that this Nation may become a City of righteousness a faithful people This is the flower of their Crown and you may be useful to the adorning of the Imperial Diadem with it not only by your practice that it may be said and observed by all that since his royal Majesty sat upon his Throne iniquity and sin wither'd and perished blush'd and was ashamed in all his people and that the prophaness of your spirits could not breath and live in the purer air of his pious princely Government but also by your prayers that God would under the impressions of his Soveraignty keep his Saints from being persecuted his Sabbaths from being prophaned his Ministers from being despised or impoverished men now pretending to be Ministers but such whose right eye is utterly darkned of desperate life and despicable knowledge from being advanced his Worship from being corrupted his Ordinances from being defiled his Sacraments from being disorderly administred his Name from being blasphemed the Antichristian state and apostacy from being encouraged profession from being scorned and the liberty of communion with God and his people from being abridged or invaded and in stead thereof that God would lay up his precious truths Ordinances and People in the most intimate shades of the love and protection advancement and encouragement of his royal Majesty and so shall this and after-generations call him blessed 3. Lastly As we expect the full accumulation of these blessings upon us Oh! let your dross be purely purged cease not till the way to these royal priviledges be fully prepared by the purging away of that filth from the daughter of Zion which as hitherto it hath debarr'd us from that mercy we now enjoy so if still not purged thoroughly may render even this blessing but as the shell and shadow of a deliverance destitute of that which is the soul and marrow and fatness of it I might tell you 〈◊〉 dross is yet unpurged what rust lies upon the face of 〈◊〉 Church and Kingdom but I conclude Oh! as you have a ●●spect to the future honour and excellency of your Pri●●● and to the happinesse of this whole body purge away 〈◊〉 dross of wickedness from your lives of Atheism and Irrelig●●● from your own persons and practices purge away the dross 〈◊〉 erroniousness instability and Pyrrhenian fluctuations from yo●● heads purge away the dross of violence extortion ●apine a●● injustice from your hands purge away the dross of will worship innovations superstitions and traditions of men which 〈◊〉 not of God from your Assemblies purge away the dross 〈◊〉 your places too of blind and ignorant and prophane Administrators of holy things that they may neither creep in no● ke●● in to the defilement of the sacred Ministerial Office purg●●● way the dross and dregs of that bitter cup of animosities 〈◊〉 rences hatred of which the Nation hath drunk so deeply 〈◊〉 all your spirits expressions deportments purge away the dro●● of an empty profession of God and zeal to the trifles and fring●● of external forms and worship without the power and life 〈◊〉 godliness And lastly purge away the dross of any root of 〈◊〉 terness against or contradiction to the sacred interest of law 〈◊〉 Princes which spirit hath eaten as a Gangrene to the reproa●● of our Religion and advantage of the Popish cause in 〈◊〉 Oh! let every National Personal sin every sin and crook●● path in Church or State be discovered and discarded And 〈◊〉 when these things which are the wall of separation betwi●● people and the refreshing beneficial beams of their Supre●● Authority are withdrawn we may with confidence hope 〈◊〉 as our Judges are restored so they shall be as at the first 〈◊〉 our Counsellors as at the beginning and afterwards we shall 〈◊〉 called A City of righteousness a faithful City Which God of his dear love wherewith he hath love● 〈◊〉 out of the bowels of his mercy Grant unto this 〈◊〉 serving Generation Amen FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Corn●l à Lapi●● Guido Perigran in flor● Chro●●c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Facit ut moriatur v. g. Petrus impurus ●brius incestus superbus resurg at p●rus sobrius castus humilis A lap in loc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sept. Vide Abulensem Menoch 9 de rep Hebr. Menochius de rep Hebrae●rum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 70. Civita● veritatis urbs fideles Chald. Observ. 1. Vide Sixt. Senens Lib. de Poenit. Since the preaching of this he is fallen asleep in Iesus and gone to his rest a person of the sad impression upon all good men of whose loss I shall only say as August of Cyprian's Quos asflixerat sollicitudo certaminis hos consol●ta est corona victoris Mach. disput cap. 26. Claudian ad Honor. Non ante rebus suis privatis consultum eupivit quam publicarum procurationem prorsus absolisset Mas. Luc. Malorum blandientium virus est occultum arridentis nequitiae facies quidem laet● sed calamitatis abstrusae illecebrosa fallacia Cypr. Observ. 2. Exercitus ducere aliena vastare urbes delere oppida excidere liberos populos aut trucidare aut subjicere servituri Lact. lib. 1. de falsà relig Observ 3●