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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

one likely on the like occasion to be as impudent and insulting as ever nor did David order Solomon directly to put him to death for that offence for then Solomon had done it without any further delay but Solomon did not only confined him to the line granting him a tether long enough This leads me to the fifth meeting of Mercy and Truth which were here met together that is mercy and faithfulness For as Gods mercies to David were sure and therefore are called the sure Mercies of David and in that sense Mercy and Truth now met so Davids mercies to his people and his enemies were sure mercies and so they met again 6. Righteousness and Peace met in this great meeting for as in Warrs civil especially all unrighteousness cruelty outrages do prevail so that we may say war and unrighteousness meet together so Peace and Righteousness meet together For inter arma non solum silent leges sed virtutes but in peace vigent leges vigent virtutes and we know that moral Vertues are concatenated as Pindar in Olymp. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As there is not only peace but a League amongst the Vertues so this peace is confirmed by peace Oh blessed is that meeting when King and people meet together in peace especially after a time of distance and a time of broi●es Therefore in the seventh and last place there was in this meeting a congress of rejoycing and praising God and this I conjecture though I find it not written by what our eyes have lately seen in which there was as much joy and praising God by sober and religious persons as ever was seen upon any occasion We read 1 Chron. 12.40 there was joy in Israel when David was inaugurated King and why not when he was restored There was occasion there was place for joy any blessing God The end of this meering is our Text to conduct the King over Jordan that is to bring him with honour into his native Kingdom No doubt it was a welcome conduct to him to be brought in by them whom he styles his Brethren his bones and his flesh If he had had the conduct of all the valiantest men and most honourable personages of all the Nations round about it could not have pleased the soul of David so well as to have the men of Judah to fetch him home Obser 1 If a mans wayes please the Lord he will make his enemies to be at peace with him and not that only but will teach both friends and enemies to serve and honour him Prov. 11.27 He that diligently seeks good procures favour yea and procures honour and service and attendance if God see it meet for him Proverbs 14.28 In the multitude of people is the Kings honour how much more when they shall meet together purposely in multitudes to present honour to him Prov. 21.21 He that followeth after Righteousness and mercy findeth Life Righteousness and Honour David no doubt did set his heart to do works of remarkable righteousness and remarkable mercy and he finds life God preserves him in the midst of most urgent and imminent dangers when his life was hunted and sought for and when they laid snares privily saying who shall see us Secondly He finds Righteousness which is Suum cuique tribuere he hath his Own given him again of which he was unrighteously deprived Thirdly He finds honour to have as much given him as possibly could be given at so short warning Righteousness found seems to be the suitable reward of Righteousness done and honour conferred seems to be the reward of Alliance to mercy bestowed and life seems to be the common reward of both He follows righteousness and finds life and he follows mercy and finds life for life is defended by Justice and saved by Mercy Obser 2 How ready good subjects should be to make a fitting compensation to their Kings and Princes for their injuries that have been offered to them David was basely and unworthily forced to fly out of the land now therefore they bring him back with honour He was forced to slip away privately over Jordan now they make for him an honourable conduct at his return Nil ●am nisi vota supersunt My Application of the Premises shall be supplication with Thanksgiving The Kings glory is great in thy salvation O Lord Majesty and Honour hast thou laid upon him Thou hast given him safety after danger boldness after fear joy after grief gain after loss establishment after exile restitution after persecution honour after dejection test after perturbation a Throne after a thorn a Crown after a cross He fled away over this Jordan with little more than his staff and now he is become according to thy grant and his Right the King in actual possession of more than two great Kingdoms What shall we render unto thee for what thou hast done for him Praise is comely but it is too little we can give nothing to thee but what is thine own but alas what can such poor beggars as we are give thee Blessed Lord thou givest us the grace to beg that thou mayest give us the grace we do beg Now for Jesus his sake grant to our gracious King increase of all Grace perseverance in all good Wisdome in all difficulties Courage in all his noble enterprizes Moderation in all prosperity Patience in all adversity Success in his undertakings Honour in his atchievements Joy in his Crown and dignity Bless him O Lord with an obedient people a learned pious and painfull Clergy a religious and loving Gentry a loyal and gracious Nobility a just and couragious Magistracy a wise and faithfull Counsel Bless the two royal Brethren through thy Mercy here with us and the two royal Sisters beyond the water Let thy blessing rest upon this honourable and happy Parliament and upon those wise Commanders and loyal Subjects that have been instrumental in this great work Finally O Lord Bless his Majesty with a long life and an happy Reign and when he must no longer reign over us let him for ever reign with Christ Amen and Amen FINIS

innocent Prince must needs carry a great stroke but much more if under affliction We often read of the best Princes that they have been some part of their reign either in the beginning o● in the end thereof much afflicted And besides Princes many other renowned persons Cosmo de Medicis who next after his father Johannes was the foundation of a great and renowned family was the most honourable and famous Common-wealths man that ever had been in any memory before his time for Authority Wisdome Justice Riches Liberality and Magnificence the first part of his life was full of troubles he was exiled and frequently in danger of death but after lived and governed most happily He was happy in his son Petrus de Medicis and in his Grand-child Laurentius de Medicis And I hope a branch of that family will flourish for ever The greater the person the greater the affliction and the greater that is the more should their words move affection 8. Their injured King injured by Absalom his natural son injured by the men of Judah his Political sons injured by his chief Councellour Achitophel basely used by Shimei yea injured after many acts of Grace and favour after great deliverances wrought for the people Ver. 9. And all the people were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israel saying the King saved us out of the hand of our enemies and he delivored us out of the hand of the Philistins and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom c. These eight ingredients mixt together in the Kings message the body of the people being before well prepared by consideration wrought very effectually to the removing of any Scirrhus from the hearts of the men of Judah and to make them so soft and tender as to bow and yield to this healing touch of the Kings hand in his message Application And have I not all this while been speaking of things pertaining to our King and Countrey I shall only crave this clemency of you that whilst I make up the parallel which I shall do as briefly as I can you would not either imagine that I disparage you as if your minds were so dull as that you had not done it already or that I flatter the King in whose presence as I do not now speak so neither do I speak besides Truth or beyond sobriety nor would I have you to imagine that I detract from or neglect in my speech the Worthies assembled in this most honourable free and happy Parliament which shall be as famous to posterity for this wise just pious loyal work of inviting home the King with so much love and duty as the Bran of another Parliament hath been and will be to all ages infamous for destroying the gracious Father and expulsing the hopefull Son I call them Bran because they had been often sifted and the worst was still left in the sive I pray you also let us bless God as we go along for that it is the work of the day as the parallel is work for the day Verbum sapientibus a little to the intelligent is enough And blessed be God for the Kings Message that it was no worse than a Message Had the Kings heart been set upon revenge he would have sent in another strein Let us not flatter our selves or undervalew this favour The peace of those two great Nations full South of us might have begotten War against us nor would the Sword-men of two such rich and populous Nations have been willing to receive a Quietus est or to sit down as Reformadoes when so just a cause and such good booties and so well beloved a pay-master had given incouragement 2. A gracious message Blessed be our gracious God and blessed of God be our gracious King For he declares he neither desires the blood nor dammage of his people that he is ready to pardon nay to remove the reproaches of them that have been reproachers 3. Which sufficiently makes good the third thing that it is message of love and comfort declaring a readiness not only to pardon but to bestow not only to forgive but to give 4. It was a Kings message and whatever of late years hath been acted or spoken in a tendency to eclipse the dignity of that high office yet the Scriptures the Lawes and customes of all Nations have ever been to honour it with the highest degree of humane honour To speak of regall dignity deserves a day and a Text by it self This is enough to shew why this message should be so soveraign in operation they are next to God and I will only mention that of Tertullian Reges in solius Dei potestate sunt a quo sunt secundi post quem Primi ante omnes super omnes Deos homines 5. Our own Kings message True indeed driven out by meanes of a subtile traiterous Absalom a politicall son yet a politick rebell and so forced to be as a stranger to his own people and to go over Jordan for succour and safety 6. Our blamelesse King and yet to take in the two last our afflicted injured King I would speake much upon this part and my heart would indite with more life and affection then yet it hath done and oh that I had leave from his Majesty to limb out his and His Fathers sufferings But his very goodnesse seems to take me off who in his letter to the noble Generall wishes that the memory of what is passed may be buried in the world and who heartily seeks the reconciliation of all PART II. I Therefore come in a few words to the second Complication Here are hearts bowed and the hearts of such as had been if not active against David yet not active for him and however the hearts of the latter sort might be and were flexible yet no doubt the other were more stubborne Observ 1 Obser That even stubborn hearts when before prepared and wakened by consideration may at last be bowed v. 9. they were startled and began to consider what they had done in setting up Absalom and now when the message comes it setts them right this warme message proceeding from an heart in which was kindled love and piety thawed their hearts and made them begin to be more gentle Application Appli And here perhaps is not so full or cleare a compliance betwixt the history of the Text and the history of the day For as for the worthies of this Parliament I look on them as such whose hearts before the message were internally bowed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not in outward expression and declarative till the message came At least there were hearty good wishes this I believe no man can doubt of well this day is by their order And blessed be the Lord for their choyce to that great work and their meeting upon their choice their good enacting upon their assembling and their loyall reception of the Kings message and their dutifull

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

that this late great appearance of English subjects met there leige Lord it may well be called a Gilgal as it puts us into possession of one prevailedge and puts us in hope of another corresponding to the two former For first I hope the reproach of our worse than Egyptians slavery is rowled a way whose misery was almost like Canaans curse a servant of servants shall he be we were subjects unto subjects yea to very servants that having got up tyrannized to some purpose Yea whereas for the sakes of a few the land lay under the reproach of base disloyalty and treachery to the King I trust that is rowled a way in this meeting and as for the other I hope every one will do their part that it may be done away that we may not be lookt upon any longer as on an unbaptized nation in any part of it which I look upon as a reproach to us Now for observation this coming of Judah to Gilgal teaches us first Observ 1 That when we have begun a work of righteousness or piety we should go on forward with it It was not enough for them to send a dutifull message to their King to encourage him to a returne but it was their duty to encourage him and assist him in his returne It is one thing to say you may come if you please another thing to promise him all honourable assistance at his coming many begin well but are quickly at a stan d Gen. 28. The angells upon Jacobs ladder were alwayes ascending or descending none standing still Bern. sic necesse est spiritum nostrum aut proficere aut deficere Christ chose to do good works on the Sabbath to shew that though we should rest from secular works on the Sabbath day yet never should rest from doing good 1 Cor. 13.8 Charity never failes Duties likewise of humanity and humility should never fail Observ 2 That Subjects must be ready to shew all due regard and to give all good encouragement to their injured and offended Princes King David had been much injured and provoked by a considerable party in Judah They could not therefore in common civility or common pollicy do less than go to meet their King nay doubtless what they did was to express their love and hearty alacrity in receiving home their exiled Prince But of this afterwards They chose Gilgal as their generall rendezvouse to put themselves into a fit Posture to meet the King Observ 3 Teaching us not only to chuse fit times but also fit places for all worthy actions or good enterprizes The fittest places for Hearing and the fittest for Praying and the fittest for all civil actions There is much choyce and wisdome in all such things Circumstances are very preservative of or very destructive to Substantials We come now to the fourth part Part. 4 which is the end of their egress to Gilgal and that is congressus to meet the King and to testifie their readiness and joyfulness in their reception of his royal Person And indeed this was not only a very splendid but an happy and not only an happy but a fruitfull meeting And whilest I unfold it and put you into a window to behold it carry along in your thoughts the meeting of our King and his subject and suppose that what is said of the one is spoken of the other And in this one meeting I see seven very happy meetings and very handsome Congresses 1. A meeting of strength and Magnificence 2. Of safety and Honour 3. Of lawfull Government and true Subjection 4. Of Pardon and submission 5. Of Mercy and Truth 6. Righteousness and Peace 7. Rejoycing and Praising 1. Strength and Magnificence You may imagine by what hath lately been at home the strength that was at Gilgal when Judah the strongest Tribe was there and sure if they be cloathed with soft Rayment that are in Kings Houses they would not offer to meet the King as the Gibeonites did with old clouted shooes or thred-bare patcht Coats it is very probable there appeared at Gilgal the very bravery of Judah therefore there was a meeting of strength and magnificence strength in the multitude and magnificence in the Attire and accoutrement 2. Upon this here is a meeting of safety and Honour The King is safely received from the number and loyalty of his people and he is honourably received from the number and quality of his people so that as strength and magnificence so safety and honour waited upon him And this we are commanded to praise God for this day For there was a time when he could not come for divers yeares into his own Kingdoms but with danger to his life and in fear to have his honour laid in the dust Psal 31.13 They took Counsel together against him they devised to take away his life But now God be praised for it he hath preserved his life from fear of the enemy Psal 64.1 God hath shewed him the path of life Psal 16.11 He asked life of the Lord and he gave it him whilest he preserved his life in former yeares when dangers were round about him Psalm 18.4 verse 5. Psalm 21.5 when the sorrows of death compast him and the floods of ungodly men made him affraid In his distress he called on the Lord and cryed unto his God and he heard his voyce out of his Temple His Glory is great in thy salvation O Lord Honour and Majesty hast thou laid upon him 3. Meeting of lawfull Government and loyal subjection Absolom was no lawfull Governour and Judah when they set him up or did acknowledge him were no loyal subjects for the alliegance they did owe was to David not to Absolom For a people with activity approbation and contrivance to set up a false power cuts the very sinews of true Alliegiance and such possibly a considerable part of Judah had been But now here is an happy meeting of recovered true Supremacy and true Allegiance What before was lawless is now not only lawfull but joyfull not only warrantable but very righteous And God be blessed that our eyes have lately seen such a meeting that true and faithfull subjects and a true and lawfull Prince have met together The fourth meeting is of Pardon and submission Both though not exprest yet to be supposed who can otherwise than imagine but that the people did humbly submit themselves in this day of his power and who can think other but that the King who pardon'd Shim●i and granted him his life for his own life granted also a pardon to the men or Judah who had not done after the similitude of Shi●●'s transgression who was pardoned for the time past for what he had done not for what he should after do if he should offend again and this only for his own life and Reigne Nor was it against Davids oath made to Shimei to give order to Solomon to put him to death for no doubt David did know his disposition and principles as