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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56576	Post nubila Phoebus, or, A sermon of thanksgiving for the safe and happy returne of our gracious soveraign ... preached in the city of Aberden at the desire of the lord provest, bailies and councell thereof, upon the XIX [19] day of Iune / by Iohn Patersone ...	Paterson, John, 1604?-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing P687; ESTC R1742	16,018	27

tempestuous Night Surely this is a matter of exceeding great Praise to GOD and of wonderfull Rejoycing to all the truely Godly and Loyall in the three KINGDOMS But as for Mal-contents let them gnaw their Tongues for sorrow feed on their own Bowels lyke young Vipers The third point in the Text is the JEWS Deliverer Who brought back their captivity IT was not Themselves it was not their own Wisdom Policy nor Strength nor Power but the LORD JEHOVAH When the Lord The LORD had a very immediate and visible hand in their deliverance as may be read at length in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah And may not SCOTLAND ENGLAND and IRELAND say That the LORD JEHOVAH hath brought back our Captivity Hath not the LORD made His Arme bare and His steps manifest and His Hand visible in our DELIVERANCE Who is so blinde but sees the very FINGER of GOD and a wonderfull PROVIDENCE in this Worke to be delivered at such a nick of time when few or none were expecting any deliverance but all things looking worse and worse when that Fanatique Party had forced that pretended Parliament of ENGLAND and had brought all to a meere Anarchy and intended to rule not by the SPIRIT but by the sword and that none should have RVLE or POWER but these Fift Monarchy men Quakers such like deluded giddy spirits Yet at that very point of time GOD divided the Army and did spirit animat the honest and Loyall Party of it under the Command of that Noble and Valorous GENERALL MONCK to stand up for lawfull Authority and to call for a free and well-constituted PARLIAMENT which could not be in ENGLAND without a KING and house of LORDS And although there were many Plottings and Contrivings Stirrings and Risings to hinder the electing and sitting of a free PARLIAMENT and many illegall Qualifications intended to be put upon Elections and persons elected yet then did the LORD aryse and befoole these Firebrands of Sedition and Confusion and took them in their own Snares when as they had not so much confidence as to draw a Sword in their own defence Guiltines within often makes feeble hands and did not the LORD send the Ring-leaders of that Fanatique party prisoners to LONDON the very day before that the PARLIAMENT sat down a very Presage from HEAVEN of better dayes and was it not GOD who did put it so unanimously into the hearts of both houses of PARLIAMENT of the ARMY and body of the people of the three KINGDOMES of all Ranks to erect MONARCHIE the only Ancient and Lawfull government of these NATIONS and to send for the KING and to bring him home with great HONOUR and STATE with the universall acclamations of his People Yea and all that so great a Worke to be brought to passe without one drop of bloud Who ever dreamed of such a peaceable sweet and unanimous REDUCTION of our native KING and is not this the very immediat hand of GOD Yes indeed it is The LORD hath brought back our captivity and to his NAME be the Glory of that MERCY The Fourth Point is in these words Then wee were lyke them that dreame Now in this Expression take notice of two Things 1. That these who ar under Captivity Bondage are lyke to men in a Dream 2. When these who have been in Bondage Captivity are delivered they ar not at first sufficiently awakened out of their Dream that is they cannot get their Deliverance fully beleeved These who are under Bondage and Captivity are lyke these in a Dream or Captivity is a Dream or it is as a dreaming Time and that in these Considerations These that Dreame dreame in the Night the night is a time of Dreaming even so is Captivity a dreaming Time it is a Night a civill Night it is a time of Darknesse Clouds upon a Land And what have these late yeares of our Bondage been but a Night a night of Confusion of Usurpation of Tyranny a night of Blacknesse of Darknesse upon the three NATIONS a night which did overcloud all these Ancient lights which sometimes shined cleare in Britaine and Ireland a black night which overshaddowed KING PARLIAMENT STATE CHURCH NOBILITY GENTRY BURROUGHES MINISTRY and body of the People Captivity Bondage is like a dreame in this respect These that dreame are sleeping so a Land under Captivity and Bondage is sleeping ordinarly it is so I meane not sleeping in respect of externall peace and rest ease and plenty but they are sleeping in a sense Morall and Spirituall thus did the IEWS I beleeve dreame in their Captivity they were sleeping in sin and security under the LORDS Wrath and Anger and in this sense our bondage was like a dream for although GOD hath been persuing these Lands these severall years bygone for many abominations and particularly for the cry of bloud and above all for that Royall and innocent Bloud of our Late SOVERAIGN yet we have sleeped on in our sinnes and security Wee have keeped fast deceit and have hid our sins like Adam wee have been as one that sleepes on the top-mast These that sleepe have their senses bound up Their Eyes are shute they see not their Eares are shut they heare not so it fareth ordinatly with a People that are in Bondage and Captivity a people lying under sin and wrath Their Eyes are shut their Vnderstanding and mindes are darkned they do not take to heart their own sinfull and slavish Condition they do not see nor consider these things which may conduce for their reliefe and deliverance This was the Iewish people their Condition under the Romanes as yee may reade Matth. 22. O if thou hadst knowen in this thy day these things which belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes How so They were sleeping and dreaming in their sins I am sure that was our Condition during our late Captivity and bondage our eyes were shute wee were dreaming we did neither see nor consider rightly how to win out of our Thraldome and slavery Wisdome Counsell Resolution Courage all our politique Senses for the most part at least were gone We were become lyke EPHRAIM A silly doue without an heart Captivity and Bondage is lyke a Dreame because as they who dreame know not when they shall awake So a land in Captivity knowes not when their Captivity shall be loosed and the Yoke broken In this consideration also Britain and Ireland were dreaming Captivity is lyke a Dreame because as they who dreame know not that they are Dreaming till they awake so a people under Slavery are oftentimes so stupified benummed and do sit down lyke Issachar under the burden that for the time scarce are they sensible of their Condition they do not take to heart that they are in Bondage like Galley-slaves who can be merry under their Guardians lash but when a Captive people are restored to their wounted freedome and Liberty and Lawes and King

then they finde that before that they have been dreaming then they look upon their former base dishonourable and slavish Condition with astonishment and admiration thus are these three NATIONS awakned out of their dreame and these who of late were studying to keep the three KINGDOMS under slavery bondage doth now I beleeve finde that they were dreaming also but some of them are now awakned out of their dreame when Iustice is beginning to persue them These that are dreaming their heads are full of imaginations and fancies How many thousand fancies float up and down their Braines a Poor-man dreames that he is Rich a Thirsty-man that he is Drinking a Beggar dreams that he is a King Even so a people that is in Captivity Bondage are lyke Dreamers ordinarly their heads are full of Fancies and Imaginations And I must say that never a people were filled with more Fancies Imaginations Whimsies then many in Britain during these late Revolutions have been Have not some been dreaming to be Kings did not all the Fift-monarchists dreame to be Kings Princes Rulers Possessors of the Earth did they not call thēselves The sword of the Lord of Gideon that to cut off all the Canaanits in the three NATIONS to possesse All this was a greedy Dreame Were not some dreaming to be Protectors to be Dictators to be the Councell of Estate the Cōmitty of safety yea some dreaming to have this Place or that Place Were not Anabaptists Quakers Seekers Levellers and all the rable of that fanatique Party dreaming strange dreames And did not these pretended Parliaments of late and their Councell of Estate dreame strongly How many new fancies and modells of Government did they hatch in their brains one Government this yeare then another government the second yeare and a third Governmēt the third yeare How often did they change their Principles and instruments of Government even lyke to young Children building Castles of clay they build one that pleases not down goes it and then another is put up but in end all is throwne down and the Builders evanish are scattered The second Particular proposed on this branch of the text was this that when a people who have been under Bondage and Captivity are delivered from their Bondage they are so surprysed with their Deliverance at first that they can hardly get it beleeved they think that it is not reall but a dreame and so was it with the IEWS at this tyme. Because of their long continuance under Bondage they were so accustomed habituated with Captivity that when they were delivered they could not get it at first beleeved they thought it a Dreame They thought it a Dreame in respect of the nick of tyme when it fell out that is when least expected They thought their Deliverance a dream and were surprysed with it because of the Manner Way how they were Delivered which was without Armies without Fighting for their Delivery and for their Liberty without Bloud without any common Consultation or Meeting amongst themselves yea without so much as petitionating for their own Deliverance They thought it a Dreame in respect of the Instruments of their Deliverance Cyrus and Artaxerxes to do it that is these who detained them in Captivity and Bondage They thought it a Dreame in respect of the Suddennesse of it They thought it a Dreame in respect of the Repairer of their breaches Now let us apply these things As the JEWS Condition was sad and wofull and as they were accustomed to Captivity and so habituated in it that when they wer indeed Delivered they could not at first get it beleeved but thought it a Dreame so our Deliverance seemed to us at first a Dream wee have been so sore tossed with Troubles so accustomed to Slavery that when our Bondage is broken by the good hand of our GOD wee can hardly get it beleeved wee are lyke men that Dreame As the Occasion of their present Deliverance was strange which made it look lyke a Dreame so the Occasion of BRITAINS Deliverance was very strange wee may look upon it as a Dreame And what was it even the Pryde and Ambition of that Fanatique Party who raised that pretended Parliament that they might have wreathed a new Yoke upon the necks of the three KINGDOMS As the JEWS Deliverance was lyke a Dreame to them in respect of the Time when GOD did bring it to passe so is our Deliverance the LORD wrought it at such a Time when wee were not expecting Deliverance but looking for sadder dayes when all Matters were casten loose all in a Confusion the pretended Government in a non-entry an Army on foot to rule by the Sword then and not till then did the LORD step out for out Help and Deliverance As the JEWS Deliverance out of Babylon looked lyke a Dreame at first in respect of the Instruments of their Delivery so may our Deliverance look lyke a Dreame who could have imagined that an English GENERALL an English Army an English Parliament should have been the Instruments of SCOTLANDS Deliverance this is lyke a Dreame The Suddennesse of the JEWS Deliverance made it lyke a Dreame so may wee look on our Deliverance in respect of it's Suddennesse That noble and worthy PARLIAMENT having but newly sit down when matters are brought to such a passe that our GRACIOVS KING is voted unanimously nemine contradicente to have the just and undoubted Right to the CROWNES of the three KINGDOMS and voted to be sent for and so brought home in great State and Honour these Bloudy Parricids and Murtherers of his DEAREST FATHER voted Traytors the KING so much longed for received and welcomed by the joyfull Acclamations of the three NATIONS and all this in so short a Time is not this lyke a Dreame were not people thinking that there would be a long intricate and doubtfull Treaty between the KING and the PARLIAMENT and were not the Salamanders of Britain Ireland preparing all the Doubts Scruples Obstructions Remora's that lay in their power to cast in the way to have rendered such a Treaty void and ineffectuall but the LORD of his rich Mercy was pleased to preveen yea and befoole such unthankfull and disloyall Incendiaries and the KING is at home before they can get their ginnes and snares well ordered and laid As the JEWS Deliverance out of Babylon looked like a dreame at first in respect of the Repairer of their breaches so is our deliverance Whom hath GOD made the Repairer of our breaches Even our own Native Gracious KING by His Gracious Messages to His Parliament Army Navy to His whole Subjects of the three NATIONS Who dreamed that KING CHARLES the SECOND on whom too many of late looked as upon water spilt on the ground that a PRINCE Exiled without Armies without reall and cordiall Friends abroad a KING without the Sinews of warre should have been the Repairer of our Breaches This is the LORDS doing and