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A66730	The true interest of nations impartially stated in a sermon preached at the Lent assizes at Chelmesford in Essex, March 2d. 1690/1 : proving that the promoting universal righteousness, piety, justice, and honesty, is the sure means to exalt a nation ... / by Anthony Walker ...	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1691 (1691)	Wing W311; ESTC R5492	23,518	42

needs no Proof and the very Text expounds it making any People in the latter Branch parallel to Nation in the former 3. The Government and Polity by which such a People are governed in such a Country defended from their Enemies secur'd in their Rights restrain'd from doing ill encourag'd to do well by Wise and Righteous Laws and just Execution of them by Rewards and Punishments For if House may be put for the Master of it as Luke 19.9 This day is Salvation come to this House i e. to Zacheus as I find it expounded And Church for the ruling Part in the Church Matth. 18.17 Tell it to the Church 'T is not less proper to expound Nation for the Government of a Nation Secondly The Cause Righteousness with respect to Nations may be considered as Threefold for Evangelical Righteousness respects Persons singly not Nations complexly which we may call Religious Civil Moral Righteousness Religious Righteousness is Godliness or Piety which gives to God the Worship and Service he expects The Glory due unto his Name Psal 29. Which is the Scope of the first Table 2. Civil Legal Political Righteousness which is Justice and Equity consisting in due Administration of Judgment by just distribution of Rewards and Punishments according to the true Design and Intent of the Wise and Righteous Laws of every Nation and Society of Men defending and rewarding those who observe and keep them and restraining and punishing those who transgress and break them that the Administration of Justice may be really the Terrer of evil doers and to the Praise of them who do well Rom. 13. 3. Moral Righteousness is Honesty and Probity fair and upright dealing by private Persons betwixt Man and Man the Source of which is to love our Neighbour as our selves Mat. 22.39 And that Golden Rule of our Saviour to do to others as we would they should do to us Luke 6.31 And the whole amounts to walking in all capacities with all good Conscience void of offence towards God and Men Acts 24.16 Thirdly The Effect Exalteth This also may imply Three Things Honour Safety Plenty 1. To Exalt signifies to set up on high in Honour Renown and Fame To make thee high above all Nations which he hath made in Praise in Name and Honour Deut. 26.19 And the very Text intimates this in opposing Reproach to being exalted 2. Safety To be set on high oft signifies to be placed out of the reach of Danger To set him on high from him that puffeth at him He shall dwell on high his place of Defence shall be the Munition of Rocks Isa 33.16 He is my Shield and my Salvation my high Tower and my Refuge my Saviour thou savest me from violence 2 Sam. 22.3 3. Plenty and Prosperity when it is with a Notion as David pray'd it might be with his Psal 144.13 14 15. That our Sons may be as Plants grown up in their youth our Daughters as Corner-Stones polished after the similitude of a Palace That our Garners may be full affording all manner of Store That our Sheep may bring forth Thousands and ten Thousands in our Streets That our Oxen may be strong to labour That there be no breaking in nor going out that there be no complaining in our Streets Happy is the People that is in such a case Happy here is consignificant to being exalted And that enlarged Promise of exceeding Plenty Deut. 28.11 12. The Lord shall make thee plenteous in Goods in the fruit of thy Body thy Cattel thy Ground The Lord shall open to thee his good Treasure Ends thus v. 13. And the Lord shall make thee the Head and not the Tail and thou shalt be above only and thou shalt not be beneath So that Plenty and Prosperity properly exalts in Scripture-Language and Account Thus from this genuine Explication of the Words you may please to take a comprehensive view of this excellent Text and grasp the Strength and Substance of it into one Proposition viz. That Religion and Piety Justice and Equity Probity and Honesty exalt into Honour and Renown Safety and Peace Plenty and Prosperity a Nation the Land in which they are found the People by whom they are practised the Government by which they are defended and promoted In the handling which Proposition I shall set these Limits and bounds to my Discourse as the Method and Measures of it 1. To confirm its Truth that they do it 2. To shew the Season and Circumstances when they do it 3. To demonstrate the Reasons why or shew the Means by which they do it All which I shall pursue as distinctly as I can I begin with the First to confirm this Truth viz. that Piety Justice Honesty exalt Countries People Governments in Honour Safety Plenty There cannot be a more full and comprehensive Confirmation given of any Truth than what may be drawn to confirm this from Deut. 28. in the 14 first Verses in all the Branches of it which I must refer you to being too long to transcribe and point at the Particulars When it goeth well with the Righteous the City rejoiceth By the Blessing of the Vpright the City is exalted Prov. 11.10 11. Religion and Justice are like the two Pillars Solomon erected before the Porch of the Temple Jakin and Bouz Establishment and Strength 1 Kings 7.21 Justice with Religion as a Great Man hath observed is the strong Foundation and the steddy Prop of States and Kingdoms Therefore good Men are as Elisha call'd Elijah The Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof 2 Kings 2.12 What a Blessing had ten righteous Men been to Sodom for the sake of so small a number God would not have destroyed them Gen. 18.32 Peace is the Skin of a Nation but Religion and Justice are its Soul and Spirits The rubbing off the Skin may make it sore but the loss of Soul and Spirits bring Death without Remedy Golden Christians are truly the Brazen Walls and Iron-Gates which secure Cities Wisdom that is Goodness or Piety in Solomon's Stile is better than Weapons of War and strengthneth more than Ten a number of Perfection that is very many mighty Men that are in the City Eccl. 7.19 But I shall confirm the Truth of this Sentence Righteousness exalts a Nation according to the more enlarged Sense of it given in the Explication and Proposition By Arguments drawn from 1. God's Promises 2. Observation and Experience 3. The Aptitude and Tendency of such Causes to produce such Effects I begin with the First God hath made good Promises that it shall be so The Text is express and speaks in the present Tense for greater assurance it exalteth to prove it shall so do I at present take the Promises for granted and shall by and by produce them and on that Supposition argue They being made shall be made good or else either God cannot do it or he will not do it Not the first for he is Almighty He can do all things Job 42.2 Nothing is too

weary Legs and fainting Hearts renew their Strength and mount up as Eagles and Religion spreads amain like the Vine which God brought out of Egypt which when his Hand planted fill'd the Land Psal 80.9 4. When 't is scorn'd by few persecuted and suppress'd by none then as the Gospel when it hath a free Course runs and is glorified 2 Thes 3.1 when the Stream of Righteousness hath no Dams in its Chanel to obstruct its flowing it will like Jordan in the time of Harvest overflow its Banks and water the Land as Nilus doth Aegypt to make it fertile When neither the Sword of the Mouth nor the Mouth of the Sword are whet against it When no Arrows of invenom'd bitter Words dipp'd in the Poison of Asps are shot against it 'T is not stigmatized or branded with opprobious Names which blast it as the burning East-wind nips the tender Buds and when the Foot of Violence cannot approach to hurt it but those Dogs who delight to worry and to suck the Blood of the Lambs of Christ are so muzzled or chain'd up that though they may grin and show their Teeth they cannot tear and rend them But Men may be as good as they will and the Grace of God excites and enables them to be and the Voice of Providence say to them even in this Life present what Christ spoke with relation to the Life to come Fear not little Flock Luke 12.32 And what our Lord speak in a Vision to Paul Be not affraid but speak and hold not thy Peace for I am with thee and none shall set upon thee to hurt thee Acts 18.9.10 And Righteousness obtains that Privilege with which St. Luke concludes the History of the Acts in relation to St. Paul He received all that came into him preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all Confidence no Man forbidding him When the Children of God are not at the proud and cruel Mercy of the Slaves of Satan nor at the Will of them who hate them for their Father's sake When a Nation is an holy safe and quiet Habitation to righteous Men. When under Kings and those in Authority we may lead a quiet and peaceable Life in all Godliness and Honesty 1 Tim. 2.2 as St. Paul directs us to pray and as our own Liturgy excellently teacheth us with Fervency to beg for our King and Queen That in all their Thoughts Words and Actions they may ever seek God's Honour and Glory and study to preserve the People committed to their Charge in Wealth Peace and Godliness In such a Season Piety Equity and Honesty are in a hopeful way to be exalted in a Nation and then they will exalt that Country People Government in Honour Safety Plenty which was the second Head of Discourse to shew when or in what Circumstances of Time it doth it I proceed to the third Head to be discoursed on viz. To demonstrate the Reasons why and shew the means by which Piety Equity Probity thus exalt a Nation And though they are many Time will allow me to insist upon but few of them The first and principal is because they engage God to be God of such a Nation and to own them and bless them as his People To demonstrate this might supersede the rest as needless or leave them but as Grains to be cast into the Balance which add but little to the main weight I may say of this as the great Statesman who being ask'd what was the wisest and safest way to govern a Kingdom wrote in the top the middle and foot of the Page Moderation Moderation Moderation Or as the Rhetorician who was ask'd what was the chief Excellency of an Orator reply'd Pronunciation Pronunciation Pronunciation So may we truly answer him who asks what exalts a Nation with redoubled Repetition God's Presence with them This is the First the Second and the Third this is truly all in all 'T was a bold Motto that King us'd Cui adhaereo praeest He prevails whose part I take But it is certainly so with those on whose side God vouchsafes to be Isa 43.5 Fear not for I am with thee is full Security If God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8.31 Let who will let who dare kick against the Pricks they are like to have a hard Task and they are sure to be over-match'd The Lord is on my side I will not fear what Man can do unto me Psal 118.6 124.1 2. When David spent many Verses in recounting what makes Nations flourish in Men's Esteem and concluded Happy is the People which are in such a Case he corrects himself in the last Words yea Happy is that People whose God is the Lord Psal 144. ult They chiefly nay they only will be found so In his Hand is Power and Might so that none is able to withstand him 2 Chron. 20.6 as Jehosophat strengthned his own Faith and the Faith of his People And David as fully as excellently Thine O Lord is the Greatness and the Power and the Glory and the Victory and the Majesty for all that is in Heaven and in Earth is thine Thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted as Head above all Both Riches and Honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine Hand is Power and Might and in thine Hand it is to make great and to give Strength unto all 1 Chron. 29.10 11 12. Safety is of the Lord as the holy Father David Psal 3.8 and the wise Solomon Prov. 21.31 both assure us Yea how oft and fully doth Nebuchadnezar an Heathen acknowledge God's absolute Dominion as God of Gods and Lord of Kings Dan. 2.47 His Dominion is an Everlasting Dominion and his Kingdom from Generation to Generation All the Inhabitants of the Earth are as nothing He doth according to his Will in the Armies of Heaven and among the Inhabitants of the Earth None can stay his Hand or say What doest thou Dan. 4.34 35. How oft doth David call him his Strength And when 't is said of Sampson his Strength departed from him the next Verse explains it telling us God was departed from him Judg. 16.19 20. Excuse my overdoing in so plain a Case I must suppose they have no Bibles or use them not or believe them not to be God's Word that need more Now to have this All-sufficient God to be with us and to be our Sun and Shield we must walk before him and be perfect which I look upon not as spoken to Persons only but to Nations because to Abraham to whom God said upon the changing of his Name and the reason of his doing it A Father of many Nations have I made thee and I will make thee exceeding fruitful and I will make Nations of thee and Kings shall come out of thee Gen. 17.5 6. He was to be the Father of the Faithful and all Nations were to be blessed in him 'T is spoke to