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A89053	Britannia rediviva, or, a gratulatory sermon for his Majesties safe arrivall and happy restitution to the exercise of his royall government. Preached, at the desire of the magistrats and councell of Aberdene, on the XIX of June, which they had designed to be a day of solemne rejoycing within the city, for the mercy above mentioned, by John Menzeis, professor of divinity: and preacher of the gospell in Aberdene	Menzeis, John, 1624-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1724; ESTC R230727	28,599	38

many others Surely these Lands have as much matter to blesse the Lord as ever a people if we had hearts to be about the duty aright After that Athaliah 2. King 11. had cut off the Royall seed and usurped the Crowne of Judah for the space of seven years one onely young child upon the breasts of the Nurse having thorow the mercy of God escaped the fury of that Bloodie Usurper When at length by the means of Jehojada the High Priest Joas is Crowned and the usurpng Queen received the deserved stroak of justice it s said v. 14. The whole Land rejoyced and Blew with Trumpets How much more have these Lands cause to rejoyce in the Lord who after such a barbarous and unparalleled Regicide after such a labyrinth and maze of confusions which within these few dayes to humane reason appeared inextricable who I say after all this is settling the government of the Nations upon the ancient foundations and hath reduced our Native and Gracious SOVERAIGN to sit upon the Throne of his ANCESTORS IT is promised as a great mercy Jer. 30. 21. Their Nobles shall be of thēselves their Governours shall proceed from the midst of them IT S a mercy to have a native Prince to rule over a people and not strangers They have not naturall affiction who do not with it and rejoyce in it Were not the fundamentals of Christianity strucken at in time of these late Confusions and a standing Ministry together with Gospel Ordinances like to be overturned And is it not a mercy so to have the Civill Government settled as all interests both sacred and civill may be secured Who then can deny but there is matter of rejoycing in the Lord if we had hearts to do it Christianly But we have cause to be jealous of our owne hearts lest the Lord be provoked by our carnall deportment on such a day It s my earnest exhortation to you in the name of the LORD I have also warrant to speak it in Our SOVERAIGNS name from his MAJESTIES Late Declaration that ye neither offend GOD nor dishonour your SOVERAIGN by debauching your selves to day Dear People be afraid to draw on wrath to day on the Lands or on your SOVERAIGN there is such a near relation betwixt Prince and People that the one smarts often for the others sin As the Apostle sayes Eph. 4. 26. Be angry but sin not So I today Rejoyce but sin not Let forth your hearts as much in rejoycing as you can providing yee guard against sin As there is no small difficultie so to be angry as not to go beyond bounds so I beleeve it hath its owne difficultie to get the heart rightly ordered in such dayes of rejoycing that we be not carn●ll but holy spirituall in the performance of the duty Wherefore That your hearts may be the better ballasted in Praising Rejoycing I desire you to joyne with it that other necessary duty of Praying Reasōs why earnest pray er should be joyned with our praises There be many Considerations to move us to be much in holding up the condition of our Gracious SOVERAIGN before the Lord by prayer This is 1. A duty laid upon all subjects by the Apostle I. Tim. 2. 1. 2. I exhort that Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Giving of Thanks be made for all men and particularly for Kings for all that are in authority Ancient Christians were much in this duty even under Heathen Princes as wi●nesseth Tertull. Apol cap. 39 Oramus pro Imperatoribus pro Ministris corum potestatibus pro statu saeculi pro rerum quiet● pro mora finis On this lait clause pro mora finis Tertull. himself cōmenteth cap 32. as is well observed by Pameliu● Dum saieth TERTULL clausulam saeculs precam●r differri Romanae diuturnitati favemus Were they so eatnest for the continuance of the Roman Empyre how much more ought we to plead with God for the perpetuity of the Brittish Empyre in his MAJESTIES Royall line 2. A spirit of Government is a speciall blessing from God Therefore we ought to be much in praying for it SOLOMON was a very hopfull Prince to whom many Promises w●re entailed Yet O so earnest as DAVID is in prayer for a spirit of Government to him Psal 72. 1. Give the King thy judgements O God and thy righteousnesse to the Kings son 3. No men are compassed with greater temptations then Princes and Great Ones And therefore They have the more neede of Remembrancers before the Thron of God 4. Who can be such Instruments of publick good as zealous godly Princes And therefore wee ought to be much in prayer for them And the rather 5. Seing the Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water Hee turneth it whethersoever hee will prov 21. 1. A beleeving Supplicant can have more influence on the heart of a Prince though many hundreth myles from Cour● then Courtiers who are daylie admitted to his Presence When that wicked Haman was suggesting bad counsell to that great King Asuerus against the people of God Mordeeai's prayers defeated all Haman's contrivments they influenced Ahasuerus more then Haman's Court-sollicitations Beleeving supplicants have power with God Isai 45. 11. Ask of me of things concerning my sons concerning the works of my hands command ye me Blessed be God he who heares Prayer hath hearts of Princes in his hand 6. O what an unvaluable mercy is it when Prince and People concurre harmoniously each in there own sphere to maintaine and promove the publick interests of Iesus Christ in the Nations O how sweet is it when a Prince rules not only over the bodies but also in the hearts of subjects Divines observe Rob. Abbo● lib. de suprema potestate Regia Praelect 3. §. 2. Animae vocabulo requirere videtur Apos●olus ut non corporie tantuns obsequium sed animae queque voluntatem et affectum Principibus accommodemus upon that word Rom. 13. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers that subjects obedience to their Prince should be affectionat and cordiall from the Heart and Soule Ought we not then be much at the Throne of grace That the Lord would blesse Britaine Ireland with these rich mercies that thoughts of disloyaltie may be had in everlasting abhorrency by all his Majesties subjects Lastlie Hath not the Lord been pleading a very bitter and long Controversie with these Lands that in the view of the Nations round about have we not then cause to plead with MOSES Psal 90. 〈◊〉 15. 16. 17. That the LORD would make us glad according to the dayes wherein he hath afflicted us and the years wherein wee have seen evill That the Lord would make his WORK appeare unto his Servants his GLORY unto their children that the BEAUTIE OF THE LORD OUR GOD may be upon us that as Isaiah Prophecieth cap. 60. 18. Violence may no more be heard in our Land nor wasting or destruction within our borders but our walls may be called SALVATION our gates PRAISE For these things the Lord will bee enquired by us to do them for us Ezekiel 36. 37. O that a spirit of Prayer Praise wer poured out on hearts to day Onely let me againe obtest you in the Name of the Lord Jesus to beware of ranting debauching and of what ever may indispose you to these two great duties of the day Prayer Praise I close all with that word of Benajah concerning King SOLOMON A Gratulatory Conclusion I. King 1. 36. 37. After that Ado●ijah had taken the Throne by usurpation Bathsheba and Nathan came unto David who lay a dying regrating the matter Whereupon David commanded Nathan Zadok to anoint King SOLOMON for said he Solomō shall sit on my throne him have I appointed to be R●ler over Israel and Iudah Then said Benajah the son of Iehojada Amen The Lord God of My Lord the King say s● too As the Lord hath been with my Lord the King so be he with SOLOMON make his Throne greater then the Throne of my Lord King David So say I. As the Lord was with King David so bee hee with our Gracious SOVERAIGN The Lord make the Throne of KING CHARLES THE SECOND greater then the Throne of either David or Solomon greater then ever was the Throne of King CHARLES the I. or King JAMES the VI. then ever was the Throne of any Scotish English or British king Let him be CAROLO MAGNO major greater thē CHARLES the great Now to Him who is able to do aboundantly above all that we can think To the King Eternall Immortall Invisible the onely Wise GOD be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen Grata DEO ac REGI nullique libentius unquam Responsura sono Britonum Gens accinat Amen Et Reboaturis geminetur vocibus AMEN T. G. V. S.

Britannia Rediviva Or A GRATVLATORY SERMON For His MAJESTIES safe Arrivall and happy Restitution to the exercise of His Royall GOVERNMENT Preached at the desire of the Magistrats and Councell of ABERDENE on the XIX of June which they had designed to be a day of Solemne Rejoycing within the City for the Mercy above mentioned By JOHN MENZEIS Professor of Divinity and Preacher of the Gospell in ABERDENE Psal 118. This is the day which the LORD hath made Wee will rejoyce and be glad in it TERTULL ad Scapulam Colimus IMPERATOREM sic quomodo et nobis licet et ipsi expedit ut hominem a DEO secundum et quicquid est a DEO consecutum et solo DEO minorem Hoc et ipse volet Sic omnibus major est dum solo vero DEO minor est ABERDENE Printed by James Brown Ann. 1660. Unto The Right Honourable JOHN JAFFRAY L. Provost bailies Patrick Moir Gilbert Gray Alexander Alexander Gilbert Molysone Thomas Mercer Dean of Gild. Thomas Mitchell Thesaurer And to the rest of the Honourable COUNCELL of the City of Aberdene Right Honourable UPon your call and invitation this Sermon was preached and now your command hath drawen it to the presse I cannot but observe a Divine over-ruling Providence that thong● I have been often solicited to publish other Papers both casuistique and Polemique yet my first appearance in print if ever there shall be a next most needs be on such a Royall Theame I account it my mercy that the Lord hath honoured me not only by the vocall delivery of this ensuing discourse to excite our hearers unto but now also by the printing thereof to be though the meanest yet among the standing Remembrancers of these two great duties to which the LORD is signally calling these Nations viz. Thankfulnes to the Most High God for the late wounderfull deliverance of Britaine Ireland and which is the root of the former genuin Christian Loyalty to our GRACIOUS SOVERAIGN whom the Lord hath with an out-stretched arme repossessed with his due rights Loyaltie was the glory of the Primitive Christians Confessours Martyrs both under the heathen Persecutions in the first three centuries afterwards under Hereticall Empero●rs as CONSTANTIUS VALENS VALENTINIAN the younger Arrians ANASTASIUS an E●TYCHIAN HERACLIUS a Monothelite yea under JULIAN himself who from Christianity did shamefully apostatise to grosse Heathenisme Did not the body of JULIANS Army consist of Christians did they not in evidence hereof instantly vpon the death of IULIAN proclaime IOVINIAN a zealous Christian EMPEROUR When IOVINIAN fearing lest the Army had been ledvened with Heathenism declyned the Empyre protesting that he would not be an Emperour to Heathens Did they not all with one voice as witnesseth SOCRATES hist Eccles lib. 3. cap. 19. Theod. hist Eccles lib. 4. cap. 1. professe themselves Christians some from the dayes of CONSTANTINE Others from the dayes of CONSTANTIUS Lo a Christian Army which retained their allegeance under the worst of Princes under that Heathenish Apostate IULIAN whom NAZIANZEN Orat. 1. adversus IULIAN affirmes to have been more pernicious in his Contrivances against the Church then either DIOCLESIAN or MAXIMINUS In the Army of VALENS an Arrian Emperour and bloudy Persecutour wer not many of his commanders both sound in the faith and precious godly men as Terentius Trajanus Arintheus Victor who not only publickly professed the trueth but also with such humble freedom as became Loyall Subjects did represent to the Emperour as is recorded by Theod. hist Eccl. lib. 4. capp 28. 29. his heresis and opposition to a fundamentall trueth of Gul. Barclayus lib. de potest pape cap. 7. the Gospel yet as one sayes In tam Religiosa libertate manus abstinuerunt nec ultra admonitionem processit indignatio They abstained from all violence and contained themselves within the bounds of Loyall freedom of admonition Did not Valentinian the younger who also was Arrian acknowledge that Ambrose had such influence upon his Army that if he would have given a word to the Souldiers they would have seised on the Emperour and laid him fast Hence Ambrose LIB 5. epist 33. to Marcellina his sister brings in the Emperour speaking thus Si vobis jusserit AMBROSIUS vinctum me tradetis But precious Ambrose was acted by another spirit Of the heroïck Loyalty of the more ancient Christians under the heathen persecutions even then when the Lord had so exceedingly encreased their numbers that they wanted not strength to have repulsed the injuries which they sustained from Heathens Is not TERTULL a speaking witnes Apologet. cap. 37. Vel una nox c. In one night saies he we could avenge our selves if it were lawfull with us to recompence evill with evill Si malum malo dispungi penes nos licerer sed absit ut aut igni humano vindicetur divina secta aut doleat pati in quo probatur c. These and other pregnant instances of primitive Loyaltie we left upon record sundry years ages in our publick Divinity Lectures in the famous Colledge of this City founded by the Most Noble Lord the Earle MARISCHALL cherished by the Honourable Councell of this Burgh authorised by that Most Illustrious MONARCH K. IAMES the VI. And further endowed and united with the Old Colledge into one CAROLINE UNIVERSITY by K. CHARLES the FIRST of ever Glorious Memorie To theses now onlie I adde the testimony of judicious CALVINE though it were easy to muster up an Army of testimonies from Reformed Divines yeelding a most harmonious Echo to the Loyaltie of these Ancient Worthies in his Commentarie on Rom. 13. upon these words v. 3. Rulers are not a terrour unto good works but to the evill wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good On which learned Calvine commenteth thus Hic de vero et quasi nativo Magistratus officio loquitur a quo tametsi non raro degenerant qui Principatum tenent nihil-ominus deferenda est illis Obedientia quae Prinicpib ' debetur Nam si malus Princeps flagellum est ad punienda populi delicta illud fieri nostro vitio cogitemus quod eximia Dei benedictio nobis vertatur in maledictionem ideoq non desinamus bonam Dei ordinationem revereri and again upon these words v. 5. Wherefore yee must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake Ergo saieth Calvin etiamsi exarmatus esset Magistratus quem impunè lacessere contemnere liceret nihilo magis esset id tentandum quam si poenam statim imminere cerneremus O how dissonant to the primitive Loyaltie of Christians is the usurpation of the Bishop of Rome who spared not to rob Leo Isaurus of a part of the Empyre Henrie the IV. of Germany of the whole Childerick of the Kingdom of France not to mention the horrid murder of the two Henries the III. and IV. Of Pope Sixtus the V. his approbatiō of the murder

v. 3. at last be had 14000 cap. 43. v. 12. at first he had 3000 camels cap. 1. v. 3. at list he had 6000 cap. 42. v. 12. and so the spirit of God goes on cap. 42. doubling his estate in his latter dayes beyond what it was before For reasons take these few hints The Lords does so Reason first First to shew his Almighty power that he can help at a dead lift even when creatures are laid in the depths of the earth Reasō secōd Secondly to manifest his faithfulnes that he is a God who keepeth promise Providence may seem to crosse promises for a season yet the Lord is ever myndfull of his promise and therefore in end will suffer nothing to fall to the ground of all the good word which he hath spoken Reasō third Thirdly To engage those whom he thus signally exalteth to tune up a song of praise to him Psalm 40 2. The Lord brought me up out of an horrible pit and out of the myrie clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings Now what was the result of his deliverance is subjoined v. 3. He put a new song in my mouth even praise to our God Reason 4 And Fourthly to engage them to be zealous for him and his interests Sure it becomes them ●●● whom the Lord hath done great things to say Quid retribuam Demino What shall I render to the Lord Psalm 116. 12. Vse The poynt might afford many uses specially for the consola●tion and strengthening of the hands of afflicted ones but these I forebeare to day Only this one We have to remember to day to the Lords praise as signall a providence in exalting Our SOVERAI●N Lord the KINGS MAIESTY to the throne of his ROYALL FATHER of eternall memory as either David or any Prince mentioned in sacred or prophane history did ever meet with If ye consider first the low and lamentable condition to which his Sacred MAJESTY was brought these diverse years ●bygone Secondly The manifold attempts with great and potent Armies for his deliverance all which were blasted Thirdly The unexpectednes of this revolution surely When the Lord turned our captivity we were as those who dreamed Psalm 126. 1. Fourthly the poynt of tyme when the Lord appeared namely when our confusions wer like to be greater our yoke heavier then ever So that at evening tyme as Z●ch speaketh c. 14. 7. when all were fearing mid-night darknes The Lord hath made light to arise And Fifthly which is no lesse admirable then any of the former that so great a change should be carried on without blood There have been many strange changes in Britaine within these twenty years but surely none like to this wherin the gracious hand of divine providence hath so signally appeared Verily we may sing and say with our Royall Psalmist Psal 118. 22. 23. 24. The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner This is the Lords doing it is marvellous in our eyes This is the day which the Lord hath made we will be glad and rejoyce in it Now that I may close this doctrine and withall the second Three hopefull desires branch of the text there are three things which from my heart I both wish and hope from the Lord to his MAJESTIE they ought to be all our desires and hope in his behalfe The first is that the promise of my text may be fulfilled in him viz. That the Lord would increase his greatnes and confort him on every side that he may be the most glorious renowned trulie blessed KING that ever Britaine injoyed I wish that Patriarchall Blessing to him which Jacoh Propheticallie pronounced upon Ioseph Gen. 49. 25. 26. The Blessings of heaven above The Blessings of the depth that lyes under The Blessings of the breasts and of the womb Blessings beyond all the blessings of his progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hils be upon the head of our Ioseph upon the Sacred head of our Gracious SOVERAIGN whom the Lord hath separated to rule ever TERTUL Apolog c. 30. Denique sine monitore quia de pectore oramus Note here that from this phrase sine Monitore quia de pectore some learned men have observed that CHRISTIAN'S in Tertullians time did not wholly tye themselves to stinted liturgicall formes in prayer precantes su●us semper pro omnibus Imperatoribus vitam illis prolixam Imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem populum probum orbem quietum quecunque hominis et CAESARIS vota sunt his people in these Nations Blessed be he in his Royall Person In his Counsels and Government in his Allyes abroad in his Subjects of all ranks at home in his Parliaments Armies Navies Nobilitie Gentrie Borroughs Ministers of the Gospell c. Let him be blest Bonis Throni et Scabelli Poliet Soli both with Blessings of the throne and of the footstool with an eminent measure both of Saving graces and Kingly graces with length of dayes a flourishing Crown with Loyal subjects with a thriving Gospell Church with pure spirituall ordinances throughout his Dominions Thus shall the promise of the text be accomplished His greatnesse shall be increased he comforted on every side My second wish which also I hope is that with David in my Text He may look on the Lord as the God of all his mercies and first Fountain of them DAVID doth not attribute these great things which here he expects either to Joabs gallantry or Hushai's policy though both wer greatly instrumentall in this deliverāce of David in overturning this cōspiracy of Absolom But he looks above all unto God as the first Spring the first wheel the first Mover THOU O Lord said he shalt quicken me againe THOU shalt raise me up THOU shalt inerease my greatnes THOU shalt cōfort me on every side GOD was all in all to him IT is far frō my purpose to undervalue the atchievments of Instruments or to derogate in the least from the high respect that is due to them Succeeding Generations will blesse that truely Noble Valorous and Loyall GENERALL MONCK Whom God hath chiefly honoured as an Instrument in the work Neither should Hushas's be forgotten who by counsel have been assisting I hope these who have been most instrumentall have learned Christ better then to offend that I say The Lord should be looked to as the first Authour of all Nay themselves must will acknowledge all their instrumentality to be of Him O so signally as the Lords hand hath appeared therefore let Him above all be looked to and this will help through his blessing to the sanctified improvment of these late mercies But my third desire which I likwise waite and hope for is That OUR SOVERAIGN like another DAVID may be Zealous for God and the precious interests of the Gospell O how zealous was David for the Lord psal 69. 9. The zeale of thy

alwayes rejoyeing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing yet possessing all things He puts as one saies a tanquā an as upon all his the people of God their afflictions as if they were more in seeming then in reali●ie Reason 2 Secondly As the sting is taken away so the Lord sweetneth rods to beleevers by his own gracious presence Hee is with them in fire and water Isai 43. 2. The refreshing influence of his gracious presence made some call their prison an Orchard of delights and others to sing at the stake Hence said one Tua prasentia Domine Laurentio ipsam craticulā●ulcem fecit Thy gracious presence O Lord made the burning gridiron sweet to Laurence when he was rosted alive upon it Reason 3 And thirdly not to adde more reasons the afflictions of Saints in tyme are as was said of Julians persecution but a passing clond What were all the hardships which David met with from Saul after he was peaceably setled on the thron but as the remembrance of a shew upon a stage When Absoloms conspiracie was discussed what was the remembrance thereof but like a dream when it past Vse Is there not here unspeakable comfort to the people of God It s but a transient view of afflictions they have here in time when they are up in glory cloathed with robs of immortality with palmes in their hands what will the remembrance of the afflictions of tyme be to them but as a dream when it s gone Now my earnest desire to the Lord is that all the bitter tryals with which the Royall familie have been hitherto exercised may bee swallowed up with such a blessed and sanctified prosperity for the future that all their former sufferings may be as a dream whē its past as a shew upon a stage when it s withdrawn And this for the 1. branch of the text Thou hast shewed me great sore troubles The second branch of the text I come to the second branch wherin faith promises a glorious out-gate to David from all his troubles Thou shalt quicken me againe and shalt bring me up againe from the deepths of the earth As if he had said I am like a man dead and buried I am laid in the explication of the secōd branch deepths of the earth In abyssis sayes Tremell In voraginibus ●erra says Pagnin Swallowed up in the g●●s of the earth I am civilly dead and buried laid by as a broken vessell in the thoughts of the people wherof can be no more use So spoke sense O but sayes Faith there shall be a resurrection Thou O Lord wilt returne and quicken me yea Thou wilt bring me up from the depths of the earth Though I be low yet thou wilt exalt me This was much yet Davids faith rests not here it goes on Thou shalt increase my greatnes multiplicabis magnitudinem meam sayes Montanus thou shalt multiplie my greatnes thou shalt make my state grandour dignity more eminent then ever and far beyond my predecessors and so indeed it was And yet more sayes he Thou shalt comfort me on every syde circuibis consolaberis me so Montan. thou shalt compasse me comfort me that is thou shalt surround me with comfort as my afflictions have abounded so shall my comforts Thus yee have a short explication of this branch I only give two short doctrines from it that I may passe thorow the text Doctrine first Doct. first It s a very dark clo●d through which faith will not see an out-gate It s deep trouble indeed wherin faith will not see a vision of peace David now was under great sore trouble yet behold what his faith sayes Thou shalt quicken me againe and bring me up from the depths of the earth thou shalt encrease my greatnes and comfort me on every syde Reason first A First reason may be Faith is the evidence of things not seen H●b 11. 1. when sense saies It will not be when reason saies It cannot be then faith saies It shall be I see it saies faith Though I sit in darknes the Lord shall be a light unto me Micah 7. 8. Yea it realizes things absent Trem. reades these prophecies of faith in my text in the present Pagnin in the pret imperfect Vivificabas faci●bas ascendere multiplicabas consolabaris Faith assures the heart as much of promised mercies as if they were already enjoyed Reasō secōd Secondly When faith acteth upon a promise it contemneth all difficulties I see sayes faith these and the other difficulties in the way but faithfull is he who hath promised the mouth of the Lord hath spoken he will performe Reasō third Thirdly Faith saileth in a room sea It improveth infinite Omnipotencie the almighty power of God Rom. 4. 20. 21. Abraham staggered not at the promise through unbeliefe being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able to perform Hence it is said All things are possible to him that believeth Mark 9. 23. Vse Dear people study the cleanly exercise of this precious grace of faith it will prove a brave supporter in a day of strait when sense and reason are miserable comforters and ready to say there is no help for thee in God now thou art fallen and shall never rise againe then faith will prophecie good things as in my text Yet God will quicken me againe and bring me up from the depths of the ●arth O happy they who know by experience what this jewel ●●●faith is Surely I know nothing which could have upheld either our late gracious SOVERAIGN or his MAJESTY who now is under their incomparable sufferings but this heavenly grace of faith The just lives by faith Hab. 2. 4. faith maketh the beleeving sufferer more then Conquero●r Doctrine second But I come to the second and maine doctrine at which I drive It is not unusuall with our Lord to raise these eminently whom he hath laid once very low How low was David brought under Sauls persecution when he was forced to flee among heathens and once had no other way to save his life but by feigning himself mad How low was he brought by Absolem when he is put to flee bare-footed from Ierusalem when a dog like Shimei durst come and throw stones at him yet after all this the Lord did honour him exceedingly and as my text speaketh The Lord did increase his greatnes and comfort him on every syde I give but another instance How low was Iob brought stript of all his estate bereaved of all his children in one day moreover smitten with loathsom diseases in his person the arrows of God in the meane while drinking up his spirit yea and under such temptations that as he speaketh cap. 7. 15. he was ready to choyse strangling death rather then life yet as you reade c. 42. 10. 12. The Lord ●urned ●ask the captivity of Iob his latter end was more prosperons ●hen the first at first he had 7000 sheep cap. 1.