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A46638	Rebellio debellata et Scotia rediviva, or, The downfall of rebellion and Scotlands resurrection, as it was represented in two sermons the one at Eccles last of May, the other preached at Jedburgh June 27, 1660, being both dayes set apart for solemn rejoycing and publike thanksgiving for the happy restauration of the king's most excellent Majesty to the exereise [sic] of his royall power / by Jo. Jameson minister at Eccles.	Jameson, John, minister of Eccles.	1661 (1661)	Wing J442; ESTC R31158	40,896	102

thee for ever Psal 18.47 It is God that avengeth me and subdueth the people under me Psal 54.7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble and my eye hath seen his desire upon my enemies Tu velut eximium post tristia nubila tandem Sidus ades Tu bella fugas pacemque reducis Tu leges jura novas Te praeside rerum Grata redit facies Certusque renascitur ordo c. Utere jure tuo quicquid rectumve piumve Esse putas servare jube nos vero volentes Omnia suscipimus libertas maxima nobis Tam placido parere viro Guntherus lib. 8. v. 535. Alta cernens non deficio Virtus onerata triumphat EDINBVRGH Printed by a Society of Stationers Anno Dom. 1661. SCOTIA REDIVIVA OR Scotlands Resurrection SERMON II. Isa 1.26 I will restere thy Judges as at first and thy Counsellours as at the beginning WE have spoke of the malum ablatum We come now to the bonum collatum I will restore thy Judges as at first c. As in the Verse preceeding you have the extirpation of Usurpers so here ye have the Restauration of the Lawful Magistrate faithfully promised In which promise you have somewhat imported and somewhat reported First Somewhat imported and that is the decay of Lawful Magistracy in Judah the wonted Glory and Honour due thereto being under cloud the time of which darknesse being then when Senacherib came up against Hezekiah taking all the fenced Cities of Judah Or else in the time of Achaz when the Kingdom was under the feet of the Kings of Israel and Edom and under the Philistines 2 Chron. 28. who did possesse and rule over the Cities of the low Countries giving Law to them at their pleasure Doct. The Lawful and Supream Magistrate may have his due Glory and Greatnesse for a time eclipsed so was it with Achaz the Philistines ruling in many places of his Dominions Yea what is more strange so was it with Hezekiah a good and a gracious King Senacherib overrunneth all Isa 36. But what is strangest David was not only a gracious Prince to his people but a man according to Gods own heart and yet his greatnesse is brought under cloud in a sudden 2 Sam. 15. The reason why the Lord permitteth this is That he may punish people for their contempt of Lawful Authority Israel was not sensible of their felicity and prosperous dayes under their Religious and Gracious King David but wearying of his reign and itching after a new Governour therefore he suffers Absolom to usurp the Throne that he might punish their ingratitude to God for so good a King and the disloyalty of their hearts to so gracious a Master A second reason is For punishing of Magistrates for the abuse of their power for though God hath exempted Kings as his Vicegerents from the punishment of men yet he keepeth this prerogative for himself And therefore though God promised the continuance of the Kingdom to Davids posterity yet he reserved the Authority of chastising of them for their sins A third reason is That he may fit and prepare Kings for the great matters he hath to imploy them into doing like a wise Architector who digs lowest when and where he mindeth to build highest humbling these most whom he intendeth to exalt to the upmost pitch of eminency David must not come to the Crown God had given him right to at first but must reign some years at Hebron before he get the Throne and Crown of Israel 2 Sam. 5.5 Fourthly That people may be the more convinced of their advantage they have by a Lawful Authority and their prosperous condition under the same after they have tasted of the bloody and bitter effects of Usurpation and may behold the Lords superlative goodnesse to them in restoring of the same again Lastly That he may instruct Princes of whom it is they hold their Crowns and upon whose Good-will their Soveraignity doth depend The Lord doth by this as in a Table draw before their eyes and face in great Capital Letters that it is by him that Kings raign and Princes decree justice Vse 1. Behold here what will be the case of Loyal Subjects May their Master be brought down from his Greatnesse and Glory it cannot fare well with them the members of the Body must sympathize with the Head their condition we have pinselled out in that of Davids Loyal Subjects and faithful Servsnts 2 Sam. 15.23 Their enjoyments will be imbittered to them and their spirits under a cloud of discontent living in the world as Jonathan and Achimaz when they were hid in the well of Bethuram 2 Sam. 17.20 21. in a shade of obscurity with such a darknesse of sorrow upon their spirits as that which was upon the face of the deep in the first day of the Creation This hath been the carriage and condition of many thousands in this Land but the fury of the enemy hurried them from their retirement chasing them from mountain to mountain and from corner to corner Vse 2. What then will the carriage of Traitors be when as their condition through the eclipse of the Lawful Magistrate will be prosperous his fall being the rise of such and the harvest in which they reap the reward of their basenesse Questionlesse such will be blown up in a timpynie of pride and will speak presumptuous things and like Owles in the night come abroad boldly looking big upon all We have seen such a generation as these and such a carriage as this with our eyes and there was a fourfold Owl or Noctambulo who these years bypast came abroad and walked in pride First The Souldier Noctambulo or night Owle who was the Gentleman Usher to the rest he under pretence of Liberty brought all men in thraldome and for the defence of an upstart Commonwealth brought all the Country unto utter poverty these as the froges with which Pharaoh and his Country was smitten swarmed both in City and Country in our Fields and in our Houses The second Owle or Noctambulo was the Schismatick who under the pretence of Piety both intitling and intailing to themselves the name of true Christians made a gape both in the Civil to let in and keep up the Usurper And also in the Ecclesiastical Government to throw it down and to make way for Liberty of Conscience The third Owle that cometh abroad in this night time was the Sectarian a Nactambulo who under high pretentions of Religion invadeth the Doctrine as the other had done the Discipline of the Church And that he might do it with the greater successe he must cry up their Diana of Usurpation and defame the Lords Deputy and Vicegerent The last Owle or Nactambulo was the Mammonist who to keep his riches did losse his conscience coming abroad to Court the Foxe under the pretence of necessity fathering the same upon providence as if this had called him to fall down to worship the Beast that he might save his Estate and

new form of Government Goverment being as unconstant as to its form as the Moon and as to the Management thereof like to a young Heretrix every year ravished by the strongest Sword both which portended our utter ruine For a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand And here also was opened a door to confusion Justice and Equity were like to the Levite and his Concubine at Gibeah who could get no lodging That then the Ancient Government is settled upon its right basis shuteth the door upon all these Confusions Fourthly Look to the private Interest of persons Was not there designs like the earth to Corah Dathan and Abiram in regard of mens Patrimonies and Portions ready to swallow them up with a great pretence of Liberty to the Subject and indeed they brought about a Liberty to him But judge you what that was Even to deliver up to them with his own hand that which otherwise they would have violently taken away so that men were cheated in their Estates and complemented to utter ruine and misery Doth not here then a Beam of Mercy clearly break out that men may challenge for their own what is justly theirs and sit quietly under their own figtree All this we owe to his Majesties happy Restauration so that in him all publike Interests are wrapped up as well Religious and Civil as of every private man in particular not only as to restitution but also as to preservation When news came to Rome of Germanicus his desperate sicknesse saith Suetonius it struke them all to the heart but so soon as the contrary report arrived of his recovery all people run to the Capitol Men Women and Children and filled the City with Acclamations of joy crying out Salva Civitas salva Patria salvus Germanicus The certainty of his Majesties happy return giveth us occasion of the like joyful Acclamations and hereupon may we truely say Salva Civitas salva Patria yea more salva Ecclesia salvus Carolus the City is safe the Country is safe the Church is safe King Charles is safe Vse 2. This serveth to reprove such who what ever they say look upon our Kings Restauration as no Mercy And however I disapprove their judgement with abhorrency yet I must commend their wit if not their astonishment which command them silence for in this they prudently imitate the silly Crans who flying over Mount Taurus taketh each of them a Peeble-stone in his mouth to withhold their chattering lest the Eagles should hear and make prey of them remembering as might seem what was said to King Philip Domine Philippe ubique sanè ades undequaque vides omniaque auscult as apud Atheninses verò Potissimum Philip our Lord thou art every where present thou seeth every where and heareth all things but most especially among the Atheniens which with little alteration may be as well applied to most of Kings so that it were far better for them together with the Arms of that Bloody Commonwealth now falling to the ground to pull down and reject their base Antimonarchical principles and bury them in the Rubbish of their fallen Babel Doct. 2. The surrounding of a restored King with pious and prudent Counsellours is a great mercy for this tendeth both to the prosperity of the King and the felicity of his Kingdome This promise in these words maketh the truth manifest and the wisest Monarchs we read of in holy Scripture have studied to have such about them David had his Hushai and Solomon his Old Wise Sage States-men who gave good counsel to Rehoboam had he been so happy as to have followed it 1 King 12.6 Ahasuerus had seven who Ezra 7.14 are called his Counsellours And Esther 1.14 you have all their names mentioned Great Affairs require deep consultations Vnius mens non est capax tantae molis saith Tacitus And therefore it is that Kings have both their publike and private Councels which they call together propter ardua Regni for to assist them in hard and difficult Points and Occurrencies in Government Doct. 3. It is God alone who raiseth and restoreth a fallen and lapsed Magistrate It was he that brought David back again over Jordan and restored Mannasseh to his Throne Nebuchadnezzar to his wonted greatnesse By me Kings reign and Princes decree Justice Prov. 8.15 For confirmation hereof take these following reasons First He and He alone hath right so to do God is Judge Psal 75.7 And to him it was that David went for redresse in his banishment Psal 3.3 For thou O Lord art the lifter up of my head the protecting and defending of banished Princes which the Emperour thinketh to be his priviledge this God doth perform upon an unquestionable title Psal 3.8 Salvation belongeth to the Lord. Secondly As he hath the Right so he hath the Power A man may have the Right but not the Power to execute the same Aliud jus ad rem atqui aliud jus in re It is not so with God the right he hath is accompanied with power to put the same in execution As Psal 7.10 My defence is of God who saveth the upright in heart And hence he is called The mighty God the Almighty When his Vicegerent is stripped naked of Moasts and Armies he can raise up Armies for his Service or send the Spirit of Division amongst the Enemies of his Adversaries Thirdly He hath not only Power but Valour Valour is required to so high an Atchievement as this otherwise both Right and power may fail in accomplishing their destinate end This Attribute the Lord asketh to be his own Exod. 15.3 The Lord is a man of War Jehovah is his Name He is the tenth Worthy that never fled in Batttel and all the other nine that Histories mention come far far short of him in this Fourthly As he hath Right Power and Valour so likewise hath he good Conduct he is both Vigilant Diligent and Prudent Dux autem esto qui tum ea quae ante ipsum tum quae à tergo sunt prospiciat Saith one He only is fit to be a General who can see round about him that is who hath prowess and skill to lead and conduct his Army and God is eminently such a one He can order all things so fitly for the work as is wonderful to think upon find out the materials and joyn them like so many pieces of timber in some Elaborate Artifice by a wise and cunning Mechanick in the Arte of His Holy and Wise Providence He hath such intelligence of his enemy as he exactly knoweth what is a doing in his Camp 2 King 6.8 He can go unto his enemies Camp as David and Abishai to Abners taking Sauls Spear and can either snatch the weapons out of the hands of his enemies or so blunt them as they cannot hurt yea he can go unto the enemies hearts and as the rivers of water turn their rebellious projects into the channels of loyalty and obedience Vse 1. This Doctrine as the hand of