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Gods working and Brittains wonder. A sermon congratulating the most happy establishment of His sacred Majesty Charls the II. on His throne. Presented to the Kings most Excellent Majtie [sic]. By a person of honor. By Wil. Price B.D. late preacher of Covent-Garden, now to the Reformed English Church in Amsterdam.
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Price, William, d. 1666.
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of the whole body To this headship Abigail prophecied he should arrive 1 Sam. 15.17 Esa 7.4 1 Sam. 25.29 30. All Authors style the supreme governour head The head stone that covers and protects from storms or what ever might rot loosen or weaken the building The head and the foundation also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the greek name for K. Βασιλὲυς imports the foundation of the People Of the corner The head stone of the corner a corner stone uniting and strengthning the double wall of Church and State He being custos utriusque tabulae the keeper of both tables of Gods law Psal 115.9.10 Therefore the fifth commandement stands as the center of the Decalogue Psa 135.9.10 being as the joynt combining the duties Godward and Manward This is the History so remarkable in David's the work to which God is so peculiarly intitled striking the world with admiration The Mystery is fulfilled in Davids Son and Lord the Lord Jesus Christ The Mystery The stone Den. 2.34 Heb. 7.3 The stone cut out without hands prophesied of by Daniel without hands for as man he had no father as God no mother He is the stone the rock whence all comforts flow 1 Cor. 10.1 4. The rock whereon the Church is so firmly founded that the gates Matth. 16.18 the power and the policy of Hell shall not totally or finally prevail against it A stone laid by God himself Esa 28.15 16. the Master-builder in Sion A living stone 1 Pet. 2.5 and an enlivening stone A stone whereon a Moses may rest his hands at prayer and a Jacob his head in the greatest distresses Though a stone of offence to some through their own unbelief and disobedience Refused This stone was refused and rejected misused cut mangled bruiz'd broken hewen nail'd hang'd so mis-handled that the vale of the Temple rent the earth trembled Zech. 3.9 Matth. 27.29 John 18.40 Psa 53.3 1 Pet. 2 4. the Sun hid himself at it He was contemtibly cast aside wretches cried we will not have this man to reign over us not him but Barrabas So refused he was that a theif a murtherer was preferred afore him And refused by those then went for Builders Builders John 7.48 11.49.50 by a Disciple the High Priest other rulers which of the rulers value him On a farfetch'd politick conceit of saving their nation by this feat they utterly ruin'd it They lopp'd of that branch whereon they stood They brought the guilt of that sacred invaluable blood on their own head and their childrens which lies heavy to this day This is the stone that was buried in a grave of stone and a stone was rouled against it Yet this stone maugre the malice of men and devils Psa 1.6 is become the head stone of the corner Yet yet that is notwithstanding the Peoples rage and the Grandees combination against him and the builders spiteful rejection of him yet saith God I have set him on my holy hill of Sion ver 6. Head He is become the head stone the Head in all things to his body the Church especially Ephes 1. end She deriving from him spiritual life sense and motion light and influence Besides he is head and Lord of all Col. 1.18 all is subdued under him Men Angels Devils Law 1 Cor. 15.27 Death his Jurisdiction is unlimited Of the corner Head of the Corner he is uniting the second wall of male and female of bond and free of Graecian and Barbarian of Jew and Gentile of dead and living Eph. 2.14.20 21. Col. 3.11 And all this is said to happen in David's days to denote the infallible certainty of Scripture promises Indeed David and Esay deserved the names of Evangelists as Prophets and their writings are Gospels as well as Prophecies The Lords doing This this is said here to be The Lords doing or from the Lord as the Hebrew hath it Supremus actus The Lord of Lords is all action ever doing the father hitherto works S. John 5.17 but in this he shewed himself an all-wise all able artificer Herein he manifested not onely his finger but his hand ver 15. his right hand his arm All is from the Lord both good Jam. 1.17 Amos 3.6 1 Kin. 12.24 and vindictive penal evil even the rending of Solomons Kingdom in two but this here was the issue not onely of his Almighty power but also of his unspeakable mercy Acti Egimus Isai 10.5 15. What ever were the instruments they were acted by the Lord He was the doer they were but axes rods staves pens in his hand In our Eys This work in the History David and others lived to see as in the mystery he by faith foresaw it Wonderful They saw it with admiration it being indeed a wonder David owns it for such here and else where and gratefully acknowledges it 2 Sam. 7.18 He celebrates it in this song and registers it for posterity that it might never be buried in the grave of oblivion but survive a lasting monument of Gods miraculous operation and a fartherer and quickner of our faith hope joy comfort and instruction That we may so improve it we shall gather these flowers as it were into nosegays in a few observations which I shall open and prove generally but apply joyntly because I study brevity Observations sprouting hence Observe That 1. Observa ∣ tion 1 Though all good is from the Lord yet some things are justly and rationally said by way of Eminence to be the Lords doing Such namely wherein more of God and lesse of the creature appeareth Exod. 8.19 then in the crowd of common Occurrences so that Pharaoh a Nebuchadnezzer can see and say oh the finger of God Digitus Del. Dan. 2.47 3 29. 1. When occurrences fall out above or against the course of nature as that fire shall descend from heaven That it should rain brimstone hell out of heaven Gehennam de Coelo as Salvian speaks That a Virgin should bear a child Esa 7.14 That he that is the eternal word should become an infant not able to speak a word This is the Lords doing Gen. 19.24 Luke 5.26 Rom. 1.16 Acts 2.41 Not to insist on Christs miracles 2. When events puzzle and put reason to a stand as that a frail mans preaching shall convert souls 3000 at a Sermon That baptismal water and Sacramental bread and wine shall nourish to eternall life That a noyse of Rams hornes shall lay Jericho walls flat This is the Lords doing Josh 6.20 Such works the Scripture calls new creations Psal 104.30 Jer. 32.22 3. When matters happen beyond all humane hopes and Expectation Zech. 4.6 Psal 126.2 Ezek. 37.3 4 5. as Judah's return from the Babylonish captivity It was as a dream It was prefigured by the enlivening of dead dry bones Such are call'd sensible tokens that confound men
Gods Working AND BRITTAINS WONDER A SERMON CONGRATULATING The Most Happy Establishment of His Sacred MAJESTY CHARLS the II. On His THRONE Presented to the Kings most Excellent Maj tie By a Person of Honor. By WIL. PRICE B. D. late Preacher of Covent-Garden now to the Reformed English Church in Amsterdam The stone which the builders refused is become the Head-stone of the Corner Psal 118.22 There was no King in Israel and every man did what seemed good in his owne eyes Judg. 17.6 Yea let him take all Since my Lord the King is returned in peace 2 Sam. 19.30 The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad Psal 126.6 London Printed by W. Godbid for Peter Dring at the Sun in the Poultrey next dore to the Rose Tavern 1660. CAROLO Secundo nemini secundo TO CHARLES the II. second to none Primum laetitiae signum clamare secundum Plaudere vox ego sum carmina bina manus Triumphant joy cries and applause demands I am the voyce these verses my two hands To the KINGS most Excellent MAJESTIE May it please your Majesty I Am so much a Christian that I could not distrust those precious divine promises that like filings of Gold or dust of Diamonds are scattered in Holy writ those soveraign cordials against fainting fits of unbelief namely that the patient expectation of the righteous shall not perish for ever Psal 9.18 Prov. 10.28 and the rest yet I durst not hope to live to see those promises thus miraculously accomplished to the amazement of all the world and to the unspeakable joy of your MAJESTIES Loyal Subjects among whom I have been ambitious to be reckoned in the worst of times Who would ever dis-believe that great and good God whose words are deeds whose promises are performances Silence admiration astonishment I confess are the best Rhetorick to expresse these ravishing providential dispensations yet vouchsafe Great Sir to condescend so farre below your Royal Self as to accept this lisping stammering but unfaigned congratulating acclamation from a lame Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 19.26 who wisheth he were able personally to attend our David to present on his knee this Ave Caesar My first thoughts designed for your MAJESTY an Art of memory which lies ready by me compos'd during my weakness that the variety and novelty might divert or allay my pain and the sad impressions that the late Dogdays of Anarchy and confusion in the publick wrought on me but my second thoughts prompted to me that an Art of Forgetfulness is now more seasonable then an Art of memory your Majesty being graciously pleased to offer an Act of Amnesty And surely if any people under heaven need it we are they though we least deserve it So that your unmerited mercy may well be styled the kindness of God since men use not to shew such as David asked after the survivors of Saul's houshold 2 Sam. 9.3 that he might shew them the kindness of God May your Crown Royal Sir that like your Saviours hath alass too long been lined with thorns flourish on your head and may your Scepter like Aarons rod bloome and blossome in Peace Piety and Righteousness is and shall be the dayly Prayer of Your Majesties most humble Subject WILLIAM PRICE Proverbs 24.21 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knows the ruine of them both Ezekiel 21.27 I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more till he come whose right it is and I will give it him Micah 7.8 Rejoyce not against me O mine enemy though I fall I shall rise again Zechariah 1.15 16. I was a little displeas'd and they helped forward the affliction Therefore thus saith the Lord I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies Psalm 118.23 This is the Lords doing it is marvellous in our eyes OUr good God knowing our collapsed nature liable to be poysoned by a vain song and an unhappy proverb beside many counterpoysons hath by his gracious providence rais'd David and Solomon to pen heavenly Psalms and holy Proverbs as antidotes against such malignity The Psalms are like the High Priests breast plate rich both in words and matter pregnant with divinity morality history mystery And such is the context that lies afore us Ver. 22.23 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner This is the Lords doing it is marvellous in our eyes Part God's working and Man's wonder divide the Text between them to subdivide it were to crumble it I need no other Preface to invite attention then the close of the Text since we all love to view wonders Order Let us first make a stand and survey the wonder of our Text in a short Paraphrase and then endevour to improve it in seasonable Observations and Applications May the Text prove as profitable as it is seasonable Exposition This is the Lords doings This that Indeed what not but this in an eminent sense What this is the foregoing verse informs us The stone which the builders refused ver 22. is become the head of the corner Which words are historically mystical and mystically historical The History was verified in the Kingly Prophet David The Mystery was accomplish'd in David's Son and Lord our King Priest and Prophet Jesus Christ to whom they are applied by S. Acts 4.11 Peter in his Sermon This saith he is the stone that ye builders refused Let us briefly see how these words fit King David History David He was a select The stone 2 Sam. 7.8 Homo quadratus a precious a firm stone in Gods building a square stone in all estates which way soever he was cast he fell right a stone trampled on by Sons of Belial and he killed Goliah with a stone Refused Refused this stone was as not fit to head or bed well in the building as architects use to speak we have no part in David cryed a mutinous rebellious malecontent This stone was hewen 2 Sam. 20.1 and cut by homebred and other foes by Saul Absalon Achitophel and many others 1 Sam. 29.4 2 Sam. 16.10 many ways yet under all was he patient as a stone though not senseless or stupid Builders By builders was he refused that is those that were esteemed and thought themselves state-builders though they by refusing this stone took the next way to demolish all as he that but loofens a foundation stone endangers the whole fabrick This very rejected stone David in Gods due time Psa 78.70.71 which is ever the best time became the head stone of the corner The Head stone The head of Gods own and onely people the head whence under God they derived civil life sense and motion He being the light of their eyes the breath of their nostrils as the Scripture speaks 2 Sam. 5.1 2 3. The head is the glory the guide