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A29136	Anastasis Britannica & Hibernica Great Brittain and Irelands resurrection. Or the happy turn upon his Majesties happy message and happy return. The first part upon occasion of the thanksgiving, May 24. 1660. which was for his Majesties gracious message from beyond seas to the two houses, delivered upon 2 Sam.19.14. And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, ... The second part upon occasion of the thanksgiving, June 28. 1660. for His Majesties safe return to His kingdomes, ... By John Bradshaw pastor of Etchingham in Sussex.	Bradshaw, John, 17th cent.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4151B; ESTC R224001	29,369	53

is in my eye the most glorious and happy thing that is upon earth This makes the Psalmist cry out Psalm 133.1 Quam bonum jucundum good and pleasant Many things are good that are not at present very delightsome as fasting weeping mortification self-denyal suffering And many things are pleasant which are not good as many things pleasing to the flesh which please not God but Unity is both so greatly good and so greatly comely that the Psal mist cannot express it How good this was the praise of the primitive Christians Acts 4.32 The multitude were of one heart and one mind Vnus communis Christus unus communis Sumptus as Ambrose saith Origen observes out of 1 Cor. 9.24 That though in an earthly race all run and only one of all obtains the prize yet in the heavenly race all that run obtain and yet these are in the Protasis called One. Origen in Hom. There is none so fit to bear rule as they to whom God hath given both ability and faculty to make peace with a desire to do it Moses that did keep rule betwixt the two Hebrews did afterwards bear rule over the Hebrews Blessed is that land like to be whose King is a Peace-maker that hath much practised it in forraign Kingdomes and States whose delight is to bow mens hearts to unity Who so fit to be a Moses in Israel and who so fit to govern the Church as they that are true Shepherds and not wolves and keep the flock from being scattered and torn in pieces or use endeavours so to do There is so near a Tye betwixt ens unum that when any thing looses its unity it hazards it entity especially then when much of the being is aggregative and consists in the closing of severals into one And were it so that Christians had the true love of God in their hearts there would be a far greater union of hearts one with another than there is And this is that Tit. 144. that excellent Writer Raymundes de Sabunde doth clearly demonstrate For love saith he changes the will into that which is chiefly beloved And if that be some one thing which is common to all and beloved of all then all those loves are united in one And so there would be perfect unity amongst men and no man would have his own will but Gods Will. But when every man loves his own will primarily he then seeks that chiefly opposes what opposes it When men meet not in the common love of God but love themselves firstly and chiefly they oppose all that stand in their light and hence come strifes and wars and animosities And so sayes Solomon from Pride comes Contention But if all mens hearts were bowed they would sweetly close and clasp together as trees bowed meet together and make one Arbour Oh how glorious were Christianity if the hearts of Christians were as the heart of one man If we had all not only the same Confession as indeed we have in the Apostles Creed as to pure Fundamentals but the same Catechism the same form of Worship and Rule of Discipline and all set free both From homely rudeness in one extream and vain superstition in the other sure I am it was oecumenical Unity of all persons and all ages our Saviour prayd for to continue in his Church 1. There is a fourfold Unity say the Schooles The first and greatest is that which denies all divisibility and so nothing divisible is one And thus the divine nature is only one 2. Is the Unity of composition when several things are compounded together as water and earth make one lump soul and body make one man and this may be divided and severed 3. Unity of Aggregation as many things meeting together in one so many grains of wheat or any other grain makes one heap Many people in one House make one Company in one Church make one Congregation 4. Is Unity of Conformity and this is threefold 1. Unity of Nature and Species and so all individuals of the same Species are one So Plato Socrates Peter Paul James John are all one 2. Of Will to will and wish the same things 3. Of Action and operation to joyn in the same work as when many Souldiers joyn in fighting many Labourers in reaping c. The first Christ prayed not for which is impossible to be in any Creature nor properly for the second For the third he did that we may be as in Heaven we perfectly shall be one collected body The fourth he chiefly aymed at in the two last branches of it that we might will and wish judge and speak the same things And would Christ pray for any thing that is not glorious and excellent What Nation is it that can subsist without this What Army can conquer without it This we shall find perfectly observed by the Saints Triumphant in Glory and it should be sought by Saints Militant in the way to Glory The fourth fold or complication of a wonder and a mercy is their invitation implying both submission and a desire of reconciliation It was strange but well they did so yea the most probable way of their felicity The Kings return was very probably the return of their settlement in peace and all prosperity This word Return implyes 1. Their sense of his absence 2. Their desire of his presence 3. The security given of his safety and honour upon his Return For no doubt the most bloody and treacherous enemies he had desired his presence not to deliver him but to destroy him So that this Message was as much as to say Return and fear not Return and welcome yea thou and all thy servants But 1. Here is his absence implyed and the occasion worthy our enquiry What! David gone from his people Little do wicked people consider and as little able are any to express how great their folly and how abominable their practise is who drive and keep away a gracious just and loving Prince Is not this to quench out the light of Isra l 2 Sam. 21.17 To drive the Sun out of our Horizon and to draw upon our selves darknesse and confusion Ever since we have been without our King we have been but in the dark neither knowing where we are or where to be How have we stumbled and fallen over every new Government layd before us Is not he called the breath of our Nostrils Lam. 4. and what have we been all this time such especially whose hearts are with the King but as so many dead men out souls being as it were sequestred from our bodies whilst our King was driven from his Kingdomes 2. Here is his presence desired Return thou we desire to see you upon your Throne and in your Presence-Chamber we will see your Palaces and Royal Mansions shall be ready prepared and furnisht for you 3. Here is his safety and Honour provided not onely safely but honourably chearfully joyfully received and welcom'd home again And this is that

which when we considered the strength of the enemy and the successe of their Forces and the continual blasts of all undertakings for the King we thought in the sight of flesh and blood to be impossible at least improbable but when we considered the Piety Charity Humility Meeknesse Clemency and the frequent Prayers Teares of the late good King and how many ungratefull injuries base affronts and cruel usages were offerd to him we hoped then that so many prayers and teares would not be unheard and so may injuries would not be past by and the rather because his Son our gracious King was esteemed of sober intelligent men as a Son treading his Fathers steps Only here was the mistake in the manner we thought God would cut the way of the Kings Return by the sword but our gracious God hath done it in a farre more happy glorious way than we did imagine and could conceive The King is sent for and all his servants a true signe of their love who sent to the King to Return that they loved his servants For if I love the King I cannot hate persecute or seek the destruction of such as I believe have been true and faithfull servants to him Yea God hath granted the King his own in his own way and according to his own and his Fathers desires that is with love and without blood-shed And though I never yet was at his Majesties Closet-door nor ever saw his Royal Face yet I do verily believe and am fully perswaded it hath been his constant and ardent prayer for many yeares together that God would restore him to his own again without the shedding of blood and that God would bow the hearts of his Subjects to him And we may now say with joyfull hearts as it is Psalm 21.1 7. The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not withholden the requests of his lips c. Yea it now appeares that God did file up the prayers and bottle up the teares shed in Carisbrook-Castle and in other places by that King of Martyrs and most precious of Saints whom my tongue could hardly ever mention without teares and who is he that will not now give thanks Surely an evil spirit from the Lord hath their hearts in Fee-simple that will not be removed by the sweet Musick of this Day For it may be said of almost the whole body of the Nation as it is Esay 9.3 4. They joy before thee according to the joy in harvest and as men rejoyce when they divide the spoil For thou hast broken the yoak of his burden and the staffe of his shoulder the Rod of his oppressour as in the day of Midian The joy of harvest is for what labour hath brought in the joy of dividing the spoil i● for what hazard and victory hath brought in But our joy is for a strange Providence and an incomparable blessing obtained without paines or hazard A blessing dropt down from Heaven into our lapps and bosomes And now what shall we render to the Lord for all his benefits Salvation belongeth to the Lord Psam 3.8 and his blessing is upon his people The King cryed to the Lord with his voyce verse 4. and he heard him out of his holy Hill and thou onely makest him and us to dwell in safety Do thou O Lord Psalm 4.8 blesse the righteous with favour do thou compass him as with a friest O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end 〈…〉 but establish the just Thou hast maintained the Kings right and his cause thou satest in the Throne judging right verse 9. Thou hast been a Refuge for the oppressed a Refuge in times of trouble he that knows thy name will put his trust in thee verse 10. Psalm 144.9 for thou Lord hast not forsaken him that sought thee And for this new mercy will we sing a new song to thee yea to thee will we sing prayses Thou alone givest salvation to Kings Thou didst deliver Charles the second thy servant from the hurtfull sword Thou didst preserve him here at home all along those sharp Warres against his Royal Father and when he was forced to flye into forraign parts for safety Psalm 11.1 as a bird flees to the Mountaines the wicked bending their bow and making ready their arrow on the string thou hast kept him safe in a strange land Blessed be thy holy Name that when he was called home unto his Northern Kingdom that neither the malice or filthy lucre of any evil persons made a prey of him Psalm 21.3 but that thou didst prevent him with the blessings of goodnesse thou didst set a Crown of pure Gold upon his head And when his straights forced him into his Native Kingdom thou didst preserve him in those sharp and dangerous encounters at Worcester and when after that he was hunted as a Partridge in the Mountaines Psalm 27.5 and was forced into the Woods and Wilderness in the time of trouble thou didst hide him in thy Pavillion in the secret of thy Tabernacle didst thou hide him and didst set him up upon a Rock And now is his head lifted up above his enemies round about him therefore will we offer up in thy Tabernacles sacrifices of joy The Lord was the Kings strength and his shield Psalm 28. his heart trusted in him and he is helped Therefore his heart greatly rejoyceth and with his song will he praise thee the saving strength of his anoynted For thine anger endureth but a moment Psalm 30. in thy favour is life sorrow hath endured for a night but joy is now come in the morning and thou hast turned his mourning into dancing thou hast put off his sackcloath and girded him with gladness Great were his dangers and straits indeed Psalm 31. Psalm 31.13 but thou hast not shut him up in the hand of the enemy but hast set his feet in a large room We have heard the slander of many fear was on every side whilst they took counsel together against him they devised to take away his life But he trusted in the Lord and said my times are in thy hand Psalm 55.18 Psalm 64.1 c. He hath delivered his soul in peace from the Battel that was against him The Lord hid him from the secret Counsel of the wicked and from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity Thou O Lord which didst shew him great and sore troubles Psalm 71.20 hast quickned him again thou hast increased his greatness and comsorted him on every side Thou didst seem indeed to cast off and to abhor Psalm 89.38 and to be wroth with thine anoynted thou didst profane his Crown by casting it to the ground thou hast broken down all his hedges thou didst bring his strong Holds to ruine But thou hast given him the shield of thy salvation Psalm