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A34713	England's restoration parallel'd in Judah's, or, The primitive judge and counsellor in a sermon before the honourable judge at Abington assizes, for the county of Berks, Aug. 6. 1689 / by Francis Carswell ...	Carswell, Francis, d. 1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing C649; ESTC R222147	22,865	40

what our Saviour did when he stood up in the Temple to preach and having read his Text out of this very Prophet he closed his Book and sat down having said no more Then This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears So may I. I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellours as at the beginning c. This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears in your Eyes in all your Senses in the midst of our Towns and County After all our Distractions just Fears Apprehensions and Threats of Arbitrary Power Subversion of our Religion Laws Liberties and even Justice it self Behold our Judges as at the first in our respective Counties throughout the Kingdom at a General Assize gone forth to judge the People Behold our Counsellors as at the beginning in the Court to advise our Prince In our Grand Senate both House of Parliament sitting advising and enacting according to our ancient Rights Freedoms and Priviledges Behold our Religion our Church which is our Sion redeemed from Romish Superstitions Behold her Converts Protestant Proselytes and Professors of this Pure Holy Reformed Religion redeemed from all Fears of Rome's bloody Inquisition or France's Dragooning for Conscience sake Behold our Universities and Colledges our Cities and Corporations with their Free-holds Charters and Immunities restored as at the first To Crown all behold a King reigning in Righteousness the Support of our present and Pledge of our future happiness even England's Jotham Warring with the great King of Assyria his Neighbour the grand Enemy of our Religion and Country God grant him also a Jotham's Success to overcome them in Battel and to make them Tributary and that he may ever wax mighty because he prepares his way before the Lord. What remains now but that our Cities shall in a short time become Cities of Righteousness faithful Cities And our Sion which is our Church be redeemed with Judgment and her Converts with Righteousness In Summ then this Vision discovers these four things Of a Church and Nation 's Restauration and Deliverance from the Smart of such Calamities as they felt for the present or feared for the future 1. The Author 2. The Instruments 3. The Order 4. The Nature 1. The Author and Principal Efficient Cause of the Prosperity and Restauration of a sinking Church and Nation is God alone I will restore 2. The Instruments and Essential parts of a People's Restauration are 1 Judges as at the first 2 Counsellours as at the beginning 3. The Order and Method of a People's Prosperity after that For before that Judges and Counsellours are restored a Nation cannot flourish but they first then after that the other follows 4. The Nature and Comprehensiveness of a compleat Restauration it must be in Sacred as well as Civil Rights 1 Civil and Political Prosperity Cities shall flourish and become Cities of Righteousness 2 Sacred and Religious Prosperity The Church and her Proselytes must be saved Sion shall be redeemed with Judgment and her Converts with Righteousness As the result of the whole I infer 5. That whenever a People are thus restored they are highly obliged without murmuring to rejoyce in and to bless that God who is the Author of all for it These five Generals shall bound my present Discourse 1. That God alone is the Principal Efficient Cause of all Mutations of Government whether they tend to the Destruction or Restauration of a Church or Nation He sets up and he pulls down at his pleasure He deliver'd Israel out of Egypt and destroyed the Egyptians in the Red Sea. He rooted out the Canaanites and planted his own People in their Cities He took Saul from the Herd and David from the Flock and seated them on the Throne And he pulled down the High and Mighty Nebuchadnezzar in the midst of all his Glory and turned him to graze with the Beasts of the Field Alexander's and Caesar's may build Alexandria's and Caesarea's like great Babylon for their Honour and Glory when as all the while except the Lord build and keep the City too the Builder and the Watchman take care in vain These may arrogantly think that by their Power Policy and numerous Armies they have founded Empires and Dominions when as he that sits in the Heavens derides the vanity of their thoughts and frequently brings to nought their mighty Designs and many Devices For 't is the Counsel of the Lord that at last shall stand and his Purposes shall come to pass All the Powers on Earth are but as Tools in his hand to work out his good pleasure The mighty Cyrus was but his Shepherd and shall fulfil all his good pleasure saying to Jerusalem Thou shalt be built and to Sion Thy Foundation shall be laid And when his Ends are accomplished their Dominions are determin'd as the great Belshazzar's was by his Hand-writing MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN Thy Kingdom is weighed numbred and finished and being found wanting is divided and distributed Thus he made Zerzes with his 2500000 Zenacharib and Siserah with Hosts as numerous as the Sands by the Sea to return with shame and dishonour and sent the great Bajazet about the World in a Cage for a show And again gave glorious Victories to a single Sampson with a Jaw-bone of an Ass To David with a Sling and a Stone To Gideon with the noise of Pitchers Rams-horns and but 300 Men. It is He that makes a fruitful Land to become a barren Wilderness and depopulates Cities by the Sword Famine and Pestilence And 't is the same hand that made the Wound that applies the Remedy cures all our Diseases and makes the noise of the Drum and Trumpet to cease and restores Peace in all our borders For as Clay in the hands of the Potter so are all Nations in his And 't is no more but for him to speak the word and they are made or utterly undone He can destroy or save as he pleases either by or without means but his usual methods are by Instruments and second Causes as here in my Text by restoring Judges and Counsellors who are both Instruments and Essential parts of a Nations Restoration 2. Which is the 2d thing in order to be discoursed of viz. That the Restoration of Primitive Judges and Counsellors are both the necessary and essential parts as well as instrumental Causes of a Peoples Restoration And here my first enquiry ought to be Who and what those Judges and Counsellors were at first 1. Neg. It is not Judges in general no matter who or what they are provided they are but Judges for of these we never wanted such as they were but they must be such as were at first For there are a sort who are so far from being a blessing that they are the greatest Scourge and Plague as can befall a Nation There are a sort of High Commission Judges there are Arbitrary Dispensing Judges there are Judges who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉