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A23817	The period of the grand conspiracy delivered in two sermons, The desire of nations, preached on the fast day, April 6, 1660, the second, The joy of nations, preached on the thanksgiving day, June 29, 1660 / by John Allington.	Allington, John, d. 1682.	1663 (1663)	Wing A1212; ESTC R25234	38,105	114

case of the Kings Son The abjects of our times State-lecturers News-mongers Mercenary pens and Tongues they have made it their work to tumble down and degrade this stone for as some out of superstitious fear rob Gods Saints of their honour calling Saint Paul Paul and Saint Peter Peter even so those who to the rebellious cry your Excellency your Honour your Lordship call the corner stone even below a Gentleman Charles Stuart Tarquin one of the cursed Family A stone fitter for a threshold then a Throne But what these did may seem no more then the fabulous Cocks preferring a Barly-corn to a Jewel For they were no Builders and therefore knew not when they saw a stone for building But when professed Builders when those who would behold the Council of a Nation and the Master-builders of a Kingdom when they shall disallow or refuse a stone when they shall vote the Head to the feet and the chief stone to be incapable this is a considerable reprobation and such as might seem to put a stone out either of heart or hope of getting any higher And hath not the Kings Son been thus dealt withall Have not Builders and prime Builders too even by a solemne act disallowed this stone Did not the successors to such who killed the Heir enacted a Disinherison of all the Royal Family As the Jews by a stone and a seal thought to have kept the Son of David from ever rising to sit upon the Throne of his Father even so so for ever did many Master-builders repudiate and disallow this quarry that they thought never any stone of it should become Caput or Caput Anguli the Head or Head of the corner And yet blessed be God I may now in relation to our Kings Son say The stone which the Builders refused is become the Head stone of the corner Secondly We read not of any King but onely one who is graced with this high Eulogy or Character A man after Gods own Heart Now this King this King whom God declared should act according to his own Heart God so provided that he should be humbled before he was exalted that he should be a Rejected before he was an Elected stone First a vilified and refused and then the Head stone of the corner Now as was David even so the son of our David he hath been bred up in the Schools of affliction he hath had the experience of many many various troubles He hath been rowled like a stone from City to Country and from one Kingdom to another Being then God hath so bred our King as he did the King after his own heart in trouble persecution exile Being as was David he hath been a stone refused we have very great hopes that now becoming as was David The Head of the corner we shall finde that God hath prepared him as he did David for a flourishing Kingdom Thirdly David whilst yet he was a refused stone complains They have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying Go serve strange gods The Builders so furiously rejected this anointed stone that they would not suffer it lye or abide in the Land of his Nativity they have driven me out saith David From abiding in the inheritance of the Lord Where the best Religion and worship of God was they would not suffer this stone to be they drive him out saying Go serve strange gods They hoped in an Idolatrous Country necessity assistance or something might turn this stone into an unholy altar so that if once they could bring him under the just infamy of serving strange gods they might then as well before God as good men make him a refused stone for ever But the stone whom wicked men refused he would never refuse his maker he was resolved to be a stone for Gods Altar in what posture so ever providence should cast him Now hath not the stone of our David our Kings Person even been just thus served we all know he hath we all know driven he hath been from abiding within the inheritance of his Fathers yea they who drove him seemed to say Go and serve strange gods Glad would some of our late Builders have been to have had him the stone of a Popish Altar But as David when God from a refused stone called him to take his place and to be Head of the corner came like gold out of the fire pure and undefiled Even so the Kings Son or Son of our David he comes with the same impress of Religion that he carried forth no more corrupred by the King of Spain then was David by the King of Gath Education like a tool in Marble it hath made a durable impression as it was with David even so we believe it is with him whether a refused stone or a corner stone whether at home or abroad he serves the same God and the same way Fourthly As David was a refused before he was an approved stone even so it is very considerable how long God did exercise the patience of his servant how long he suffered him to be a rejected before he came to be the corner stone Now 2 Sam. 5. 4. it is written David was thirty years old when he began to reign The King by whom God resolved to do great things he wonted him to troubles he experienced him with tentations till he was Thirty years of age he began not to reign he was Thirty years old before he sate upon the throne Thirty years old before he became the Head stone in the corner Now if we look upon our Kings Son and if we compute his age we shall finde just Davids year the first year of his actual reign the first year of his being in his own place the first day of his entrance into his Royal City it was the day of his Nativity and the Head of the corner just as was David the thirtieth year Lastly Being our King is not onely a King but a Kings son let us take one parallel between him and the Son of David In the Rejection Reparation Psalm 69. 8. I am become a stranger to my brethren and an alien to my mothers children The son of David complaineth he was a stone rejected by his own brethren I became a stranger to them yea his very mothers children looked strangely on him I was an alien to my mothers children And was not this the very case of the son of our David Hath not he been even from his Childhood up a stranger to his brethren and an alien to his mother-City yea when he was fain to fly out of the Land as the son of David a Babe did from him that sought his life The Lilly had no pitty the Lilly was not candid to the Rose his kindred stood a far off and he was an alien to his mothers children yea he was upon this account a stone more refused then the son of David For Cant. 1. 6. He onely

the Ark of God might be brought home like the Ark of God with Honour and Solemnity David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel thirty thousand men A time there also was that Jerusalem had the Ark but they wanted their King for the ark was at Jerusalem even all the while that the King was fled out of the land for Absolon But the ark without the King the worship of God without the great Patron and Observer of it this could not make Jerusalem at unity within it self And so Iudah went out to Gilgal to meet the King as then it was the Kings zeal to fetch home the ark even so it was Israels loyalty to bring back their King both had been taken away that both might be better valued And so Lord grant it may be in this Land of ours restore thy worship restore thine anointed and so unite Israel and Iudah that now Absolon is dead all animosities may be buried in his grave Now Absolon is dead O let our David live and let the ark and him rest in a lasting peace which we beg of thee the God of peace even for his sake who is the Prince of peace Jesus Christ the Righteous to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen The Joy of Nations PREACHED On the Thanksgiving Day FOR THE HAPPY RETURN Of our Gracious Soveraign CHARLES II. June 29. 1660. LONDON Printed by J. Grismond 1663. Psalm 118. 22 23. The Stone which the Builders refused is become the Head stone of the Corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvelous in our eyes IN the Eighty second Psalm at the fifth Verse there is a sad complaint that All the foundations of the earth are out of course Yea there is not a complaint onely as to matter of fact that it was so but there is an assertion of the cause and reason that of necessity it must so be for the Verse thus begins They know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness When the present Power and chief Rulers of the Commonwealth of Israel were so blinded with interest that They walked in darkness When they were so bent upon cruelties oppression and injustice that they would not understand when those who had the high and honourable appellative of gods acted rather as Ministers of Sathan accepting the persons of the ungodly and afflicting the poor and fatherless whilst it thus went in Israel all the foundations must needs be out of course Now have not we of this Nation been a very late parallel to this sad condition Have not all our foundations been out of course Have not such who were called The house of gods Such who themselves pretended as saints to judge the earth have not even they bound our Kings in chains and our Nobles in fetters have not our Fundamental Laws and our deepest bottoms been digged up The square Stone of our Law it hath been removed and a round Arbitrary pebble placed in the room of it The Marble Charte● of our Nation and the glorious Pillars of three Kingdoms they have been ground to powder and that powder laid as the Sandy Base of a Rebellious Sacrilegious and Fanatick-Commonwealth Yea whereas it is observed of Rome that beside the material foundation of seven Hills she was bottomed upon seven Governments First Kings secondly Consuls thirdly Decemviri fourthly Tribunes fifthly Dictators sixthly Emperours and lastly Popes Since our Foundations have been out of course attempt hath been made of as many if not more Foundations But as Boys oft by experience finde when the Right shell is wanting among ten thousand more one poor Cockle cannot be matched compleated or made up again even so though we have had ten thousand Builders some Hewing some Canting some Levelling some trying this stone and some that No stone could do the the work till the providence of the chief Builder so ordered it that The stone which the builders refused became the head stone of the corner These words upon their very reading appear to be an Allegory a Figurative expression in which of necessity there must be some hidden or latent meaning For the stone which the Builders refused doth not imply the act of a Mason or the rejection of a stone but the contempt of a person so that the person couched under this stone and the builders intended by this Metaphor must be our first enquiry Now by Stone in the Text there is generally meant either David or the Son of David the King or the Kings Son a person exalted above ordinary men a person exalted above all his brethren Whence my first Observation shall be The great distance between man as man and man as King upon the account of this present Metaphor When the Scripture speaks of man as man the Spirit puts a very low value and esteem upon him calling him Dust Grasse Esay 46. yea Vanity But when he speaketh of Man as a King when he speaks of a Man made the Lords anointed and exalted to regall Dignity then you shall finde the style riseth For old Iacob drawing to his Dust when in blessing his children he came to speak of a royal Emanation out of Ioseph the Spirit of God taught him thus From thence is the Shepheard the stone of Israel Under the notion Shepheard Expositors doubt not is meant the Kingly office now he who was to bear that he is not as a mortall or a man called Dust or Grass or Vanity But the stone of Israel Nor is a King decyphered at large by any sort of Stone for if Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius If every block is not fit to make a Statue every Stone is not fit to represent a King and therefore the spirit of God is choice even upon this account For the Kingly person decyphered he is set forth not simply by a stone but by a tryed stone a precious stone a corner stone yea in my Text there is yet a gradation higher for not onely a stone and a corner stone but Caput Anguli the Headstone in the corner Look then how far a stone transcendeth Dust a pretious stone excelleth grass The Head stone in the choysest structure surpasseth vanity such is the proportion such the distance between man as man and man as King As men we are but dust and grass and vanity but he who is our King he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the stone of our Israel the corner stone yea the Head stone of the corner Now truly this I had not observed but to check such if such yet there be who think themselves as good as a King and a King to be no more then one of us 1 Sam. 10. We read that men as I may phrase it upon the Coronation day even upon that day when it is written All people shouted and said God save the King even then some contemptibly said How shall this

man save us even very then some despised him And 2 Sam. 20. When God beyond all expectation had removed the usurpation and brought that King who was fled out of the land to his royall City even then Sheba the son of Bichri blew a trumpet and said We have no part in David neither have we inheritance in the son of Iesse every man to his tents O Israel The Son of Bichri in behalf of himself and his party professed unless they might have inheritances out of the son of Iesse unless they might have the Crown land they were rather for a war then a settlement rather for confusion then a King they valued a King at no more then what was their own interest and their own advantage Now truly thus to do is not with the Spirit of God to deem a King a stone a Corner stone a Head stone but a stepping stone a stirrup stone a stone laid onely for advance to private interests and to raise and get up to personal advantages But they who so did the Spirit of God puts an eternal brand upon them calling them Children of Belial A man of Belial yea between the Loyal and the Seditious the Spirit of God most remarkably distinguisheth for they who adhered and went with the King they are said to be such Whose hearts God had touched but those who despised and brought him no presents they who looked upon him but as one of them they are such Whose hearts Sathan governed men of Belial Those whose hearts God had touched they owned and joyed and triumphed in their King they shouted and said not God save Saul as a man But God save the King God grant he may live not as a man but a King in Glory and Majesty in Power and Greatness But the children of Belial they hung down their heads like a Bulrush and had rather see a Kings head on a block then to be as God would have it the head stone of the corner But in despight of all who devised how to put him by whom God would exalt the Lord would and hath compassed his own design For The stone which the Builders refused is become the head stone of the corner This is the Lords doing and marvelous in our eyes c. In the words we may for methods sake observe these two Generals First Matter of fact Secondly The manner of doing In the matter of fact two Considerabl● 1. A Reprobation a Stone Refused 2. A Reparation Exalted The stone which the Builders refused is become the Head c. In the second General in the manner of doing two Particulars 1. Gods extraordinary efficiency The Lords doing 2. Mans duty and regard in these words Marvelous in our eyes First of the matter of fact The stone which the Builders refused is become the Head stone of the corner Now for as much as Expositors of great note attribute the prime sense to David and the principal to the Son of David I shall follow their steps and indeed shall consider this matter of fact upon three accounts 1. Davids Reprobation and Reparation how he was the stone both refused and exalted 2. The Son of David Christ our Lord his Reprobation and Reparation how the Builders refused him who became the Head 3. Lastly how far by way of Analogy or resemblance our David and our Davids Son our late King and the Son of this King may be here concerned whether he who is become the Head of the corner hath not been a stone reprobated and refused First That David was a rejected stone the History of his life will easily evince For if we look upon him upon the account of Nature we finde him the youngest not the seventh but the eighth Son yea we finde seven at home or about home but he as a neglected Pebble in the Fields keeping sheep when Samuel came to look him up 1 Sam. 15. 11. Yea afeter this when Samuel by anointing had made him a precious stone Eliab his eldest brother even then when he came by Gods appointment to work a mighty deliverance accused him of pride and naughtiness of heart 1 Sam. 17. 28. Saul he adopts him for a Son gives him a daughter but hurls him off as a stone and persecutes him as a Partridge upon the Mountains Yea 1 Sam. 26. 19. David himself complaineth saying They have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying Go serve strange gods So that he was now become a very rowling stone a stone one would think neither fit to Bed nor Head Yea when he was in the land of strangers even there and that by those who pretended of loyalty to follow him when a cross accident befell them They began to speak of stoning of him 1 Sam. 30. 6. So that a poor King had need be a stone a well weathered stone for storms and cross winds will soon crack break and crumble him to dust else Now who would think that a poor shepheard Boy persecuted by a King driven out of the Land of his Nativity despised by his brethren ready to be stoned by his followers opposed by a General who would think that that stone which such Master-Builders did set at naught should become the Head of the corner and the Glory of his people And yet such was his Reparation for 2 Sam. 2. 4. The men of Judah anointed him King in Hebron And the tribes of Israel seven years and six moneths after came and made him King over all Israel So that albeit Judah and Israel were not two Nations nor two Kingdoms yet they were two high parties malignant and well-affected loyal and rebellious for the King and against the King But when the rejected stone was put in where it ought to be when the Builders wearied with war and perverseness put him in his right place and made him the Head of the corner This union made up the breach and that Head so closed the joynts that Israel and Judah the rebellious and the loyal all Davids days lived as brethren So that to this change and reparation of King David we may well say This is the Lords doing and marvelous in our eyes Secondly let us consider this stone as relating to the son of David and truly we shall finde him a stone refused and set at naught indeed In every Erection there are divers sorts of Builders some plot some work some serve The Master-Builders are for plotting the Masons for raising the labourers for serving Now by every of these was the stone in the Text refused Psalm 2. 2. The Kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers took counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed Against the Kings son against the son of David there was a combination of Princes the very Master-Builders took counsel and plotted against him they would not have this stone to head them The Pharisees Scribes and Elders those whom I may call the Masons in