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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46638	Rebellio debellata et Scotia rediviva, or, The downfall of rebellion and Scotlands resurrection, as it was represented in two sermons the one at Eccles last of May, the other preached at Jedburgh June 27, 1660, being both dayes set apart for solemn rejoycing and publike thanksgiving for the happy restauration of the king's most excellent Majesty to the exereise [sic] of his royall power / by Jo. Jameson minister at Eccles.	Jameson, John, minister of Eccles.	1661 (1661)	Wing J442; ESTC R31158	40,896	102

thee for ever Psal 18.47 It is God that avengeth me and subdueth the people under me Psal 54.7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble and my eye hath seen his desire upon my enemies Tu velut eximium post tristia nubila tandem Sidus ades Tu bella fugas pacemque reducis Tu leges jura novas Te praeside rerum Grata redit facies Certusque renascitur ordo c. Utere jure tuo quicquid rectumve piumve Esse putas servare jube nos vero volentes Omnia suscipimus libertas maxima nobis Tam placido parere viro Guntherus lib. 8. v. 535. Alta cernens non deficio Virtus onerata triumphat EDINBVRGH Printed by a Society of Stationers Anno Dom. 1661. SCOTIA REDIVIVA OR Scotlands Resurrection SERMON II. Isa 1.26 I will restere thy Judges as at first and thy Counsellours as at the beginning WE have spoke of the malum ablatum We come now to the bonum collatum I will restore thy Judges as at first c. As in the Verse preceeding you have the extirpation of Usurpers so here ye have the Restauration of the Lawful Magistrate faithfully promised In which promise you have somewhat imported and somewhat reported First Somewhat imported and that is the decay of Lawful Magistracy in Judah the wonted Glory and Honour due thereto being under cloud the time of which darknesse being then when Senacherib came up against Hezekiah taking all the fenced Cities of Judah Or else in the time of Achaz when the Kingdom was under the feet of the Kings of Israel and Edom and under the Philistines 2 Chron. 28. who did possesse and rule over the Cities of the low Countries giving Law to them at their pleasure Doct. The Lawful and Supream Magistrate may have his due Glory and Greatnesse for a time eclipsed so was it with Achaz the Philistines ruling in many places of his Dominions Yea what is more strange so was it with Hezekiah a good and a gracious King Senacherib overrunneth all Isa 36. But what is strangest David was not only a gracious Prince to his people but a man according to Gods own heart and yet his greatnesse is brought under cloud in a sudden 2 Sam. 15. The reason why the Lord permitteth this is That he may punish people for their contempt of Lawful Authority Israel was not sensible of their felicity and prosperous dayes under their Religious and Gracious King David but wearying of his reign and itching after a new Governour therefore he suffers Absolom to usurp the Throne that he might punish their ingratitude to God for so good a King and the disloyalty of their hearts to so gracious a Master A second reason is For punishing of Magistrates for the abuse of their power for though God hath exempted Kings as his Vicegerents from the punishment of men yet he keepeth this prerogative for himself And therefore though God promised the continuance of the Kingdom to Davids posterity yet he reserved the Authority of chastising of them for their sins A third reason is That he may fit and prepare Kings for the great matters he hath to imploy them into doing like a wise Architector who digs lowest when and where he mindeth to build highest humbling these most whom he intendeth to exalt to the upmost pitch of eminency David must not come to the Crown God had given him right to at first but must reign some years at Hebron before he get the Throne and Crown of Israel 2 Sam. 5.5 Fourthly That people may be the more convinced of their advantage they have by a Lawful Authority and their prosperous condition under the same after they have tasted of the bloody and bitter effects of Usurpation and may behold the Lords superlative goodnesse to them in restoring of the same again Lastly That he may instruct Princes of whom it is they hold their Crowns and upon whose Good-will their Soveraignity doth depend The Lord doth by this as in a Table draw before their eyes and face in great Capital Letters that it is by him that Kings raign and Princes decree justice Vse 1. Behold here what will be the case of Loyal Subjects May their Master be brought down from his Greatnesse and Glory it cannot fare well with them the members of the Body must sympathize with the Head their condition we have pinselled out in that of Davids Loyal Subjects and faithful Servsnts 2 Sam. 15.23 Their enjoyments will be imbittered to them and their spirits under a cloud of discontent living in the world as Jonathan and Achimaz when they were hid in the well of Bethuram 2 Sam. 17.20 21. in a shade of obscurity with such a darknesse of sorrow upon their spirits as that which was upon the face of the deep in the first day of the Creation This hath been the carriage and condition of many thousands in this Land but the fury of the enemy hurried them from their retirement chasing them from mountain to mountain and from corner to corner Vse 2. What then will the carriage of Traitors be when as their condition through the eclipse of the Lawful Magistrate will be prosperous his fall being the rise of such and the harvest in which they reap the reward of their basenesse Questionlesse such will be blown up in a timpynie of pride and will speak presumptuous things and like Owles in the night come abroad boldly looking big upon all We have seen such a generation as these and such a carriage as this with our eyes and there was a fourfold Owl or Noctambulo who these years bypast came abroad and walked in pride First The Souldier Noctambulo or night Owle who was the Gentleman Usher to the rest he under pretence of Liberty brought all men in thraldome and for the defence of an upstart Commonwealth brought all the Country unto utter poverty these as the froges with which Pharaoh and his Country was smitten swarmed both in City and Country in our Fields and in our Houses The second Owle or Noctambulo was the Schismatick who under the pretence of Piety both intitling and intailing to themselves the name of true Christians made a gape both in the Civil to let in and keep up the Usurper And also in the Ecclesiastical Government to throw it down and to make way for Liberty of Conscience The third Owle that cometh abroad in this night time was the Sectarian a Nactambulo who under high pretentions of Religion invadeth the Doctrine as the other had done the Discipline of the Church And that he might do it with the greater successe he must cry up their Diana of Usurpation and defame the Lords Deputy and Vicegerent The last Owle or Nactambulo was the Mammonist who to keep his riches did losse his conscience coming abroad to Court the Foxe under the pretence of necessity fathering the same upon providence as if this had called him to fall down to worship the Beast that he might save his Estate and

beget a silly and simple Dove Besides that from their very Cradle they are bred to what is most suitable to such high and eminent Administrations Thirdly In regard of their indubitable Interest and Right as from God so likewise from man Hence it is that such for the most part set before them the advantage of the people rather than that of their own resembling in this the prudence of wise and tender-hearted Parents for as much as they usually moderate and temper their Government according to the condition and exigence of the Governed Fourthly Because of the Execution of the Law for by such the Laws will be fully duely and faithfully execute according to that of Cicero Vere dici potest Magistratum esse legem loquentem legem autem esse mutum Magistratum That is the Magistrate may be truely said to be the Law speaking and the Law to be the Magistrate silent But when an Usurper gets into the Throne he is not the Law speaking but in this case the Law is Tougne-tyed for if the Laws were suffered to speak they would command him to the door Vse 1. What a great Mercy hath this Land got in the restoring of our King to the Thrones of his Ancestors to all the Glory and Rights of his Fathers and the due extent of his Greatnesse The word in the Original Shub here translated Restore hath five significations each whereof representeth the matter under a distinct notion and will help us to look upon this favour in its due latitude First It signifieth to Return 1 Sam. 26.25 And indeed in this signification we may behold Mercy that we see him again with our eyes after so many dangers at Home so many hazards abroad by tedious Travels dangerous Sicknesse and perverse Enemies after so many Temptations there to desert and provocations here to relinguish his Religion in that he is returned to us his Subjects in the safety both of his Person and Profession is a great Mercy Secondly It signifieth to Restore and so it is Translated here Had he been but all these years in his Travels his returning in safety had been matter of great joy but it is not a simple Returning but a Restoring he is restored to his Crowns his Kingdoms his Revenues and to all his Jura Regalia after he had been so many years most unjustly and inhumanely outted of them Is not this a signal Mercy Thirdly It signifieth to Give 1 Sam. 6.3 And the Translation would not be wide of the scope of Gods Spirit if it should run thus I will give Judges as at the first c. Indeed in this sense we have got our King again he is a free gist from God and his restoring an act of free Grace and not of merit on our part But upon the contrary the sins of these Lands cryed for continuance of bondage and increase of Brick rather then any ease or deliverance by his Majesties Restauration and in this God hath in part fulfilled Hos 14.4 I will love them freely His mercy and goodnesse herein being most free Fourthly The word signifieth to Answer Numb 22.8 And this also displayeth yet a further degree of Mercy For his Return is an Answer And to what Even to the Prayers of both the Kings and all their Loyal Subjects To the late King his Devote his Divine Supplications which ye may read in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to his present Majesties prayers That God would subdue his people under him and scatter the people who delight in Warre To the prayers of all his Loyal Subjects many thousands within these three Kingdomes dayly supplicating the Throne of Grace both a part by themselves and joyntly with others in private Fasts for this Which since God hath brought to passe we ought to look upon it as a most gracious and comfortable return of prayer both to our Kings and to us Lastly It signifieth to Dwell and Rest Psal 23.6 Numb 10.36 As it were saith Buxtorf derived from Jashav this being the signification the Translation would run I will make your Judges to rest or dwell as at first c. This I hope shall be the lot of his Majestie His coming home being not only a Restauration but a long prosperous and peaceable settlement of him on his Throne in despight of all his enemies and most desperate unfriends that as heretofore he hath been tossed by the wayes of Affliction in a rouch and dangerous Ocean of Rebellion so likewise in time coming we may hope that he shall Live and Raign in Peace since the pillars of his Throne are Religion and Righteousnesse which are the strong Supporters of Royal Soveraignty and Greatnesse But to look upon it yet a little further which way soever you cast your eyes you shall finde a Beam of Mercy breaking out therefrom Look to the King himself and the Royal Family their tossings abroad their troubles at home and the tumults of the people against his Majesty Had he not reason to say The floods have lifted up their voice the floods have lifted up their voice The floods of popular Insurrection the voice of unnatural Rebellion that god hath delivered him from all these and let him see that the Lord on high is mightier then many waters having so stilled these clamours that they dare not utter now one syllable of that which of late they belched on t most insolently and liberally and hath capacitated him to command Justice to have her course against these Monsters of men and reproach of Christianity who most barbarously murthered his Royal Father and further hath given him liberty to go to the House of God and solemnly Worship the God of his Fathers after that way which the people among whom he hath so long sojourned counted Heresie O how much of mercy is here redounding to his Majesty Look to the Church and you shall see a Beam of Mercy breaking out likewise to her What was our Church these many years bygone Was it not like to become an Africa of monstroseties he was thought a Christian of no account that had not his Religion of a new cut Changes of Religion was become as ordinary as fashions in Apparel but now we have so careful a nursing Father Isa 60.16 that as he is by his place custos utriusque tabulae So we trust with good Jehoshaphat he will cause teach the Law of the Lord his God throughout all his Dominions not meerly upon a politick account because as saith Lactantius Religio timor Dei solus est qui hominum inter se custodit societatem but upon a divine Because as Isa 49.23 Kings are required to be Nursing Fathers to the Church and Gods Ministers for our good as well Sacred as Civil Thirdly Look upon the Publick and Common Interest of the Kingdomes and behold a new Ray of Mercy appear The Ancient fundamental model of Government being altered the Door of Division and Bloody War was opened every year of late affording to us a