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A58858	Mirabilia dei, or, Britannia gaudio exultans Opened in a congratulatory sermon for the safe return of our Gracious Soveraign, and happy restitution to the full and free exercise of His royall authoritie. Preached on the 14th. of June, [16]60. which was the day set apart for the members, master, and students of the Kings Colledge, in the town and parish of Old Aberdeen, to commemorat and solemnly praise the Lord for the rich mercies above mentioned: by Alexander Scrougie preacher of the Gospel, and minister at Old Aberdeen.	Scrogie, Alexander, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing S2127; ESTC R218663	34,871	47

and Wife exults at the return of the Parent and Husband after a long absence and the poor captive being set at freedom rejoyceth with joy unspeakable and should not a Nation rejoyce and exult when after many and sore pangs and troubles under misery when after a long and dark night of calamity when after long pantings often desired but withholden comforts the Lord comes with both his arms full of blessings and cleares up a fair Sun-shining day of prosperity and knocks off the Fetters and delivereth a fainting people from all their miseries and smiles upon them and satisfieth their longing desires and sits down in the midst of them and biddeth them live in his sight Sure these must quicken the heart and fill it with joy glorious and abundant Promises of good things rejoyceth the heart and cheareth the spirit how much more suppose ye when they are turned to deeds and fulfilled If the promise have such an Influence then how much more when perfected and enjoyed Vse 1. Let us resolve the Doctrine into practice to day and with glad hearts and joyfull lips sing This is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad in it and say Blesse the Lord O my soul and all that is within me blesse his holy Name blesse the Lord my soul and forget not all his benefits c. Psal 103. 1 2. And say O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Who remembered us in our low estate and hath redeem'd us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for ever Psal 136. 1. 23 24. We will sing and praise thy power O Lord Psal 21. 13. But let us take heed that our joy fall not short of the Jews joy let us endeavour to resemble them in it 1. Let it be great like theirs and like the joy of the people when Solomon was anointed after whom they piped with pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rented with the sound of them 1 King 1. 4. Secondly Let our joy be full Let our heart be glad and our glory rejoyce Psal 16. 9. Thirdly Let it be sincere and cordial saying My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise Psal 57. 7. Fourthly Universall like the joy of Israel upon their deliverance from Egypt and of the people at Solomons Coronation when All rejoyced 1 King 2. 4. Fifthly Manifest the Jews were not ashamed to publish their joy God was not ashamed to have done these great things for us but did them with delight in the open view of men and Angels and shall we be ashamed to publish our joy with loud acclamations Sixthly Constant not for a flash The Jews desires to perpetuate their joy And ye may observe in the Psam joy upon joy and joy after joy and such should our joy be rejoyce continually let not the memorial of it become wearisome to us like Israél whose praises and prayers ended almost assoon as they passed the Red-sea within three dayes turning their melody unto murmuring Exod. 15. 24. They song his praise but they soon forgot his works Psal 106. 12 13. Be ever ready to embrace all fresh occasions whereby our slumbering affections may be awakned and pray That the Lord wilt not only make us glad according to the dayes wherein he hath afflicted us but that we may r●joyce and be glade all our dayes Psal 90. 14 15. Seventhly Let our joy be chiefly spiritual singing Psalms Jam. 5. 13. Speaking in ●salms and Hymns and spiritual Songs singing and making melody in our hearts to the Lord Eph. 5. 19. singing praises to the name of the most high Psal 92. 1. and 98. 5. Let no drunken ca●●all or ranting joy be once heard or seen which will but provock the Lord Remember the Statute among the Jews upon their deliverance from Haman to keep dayes of feasting and to remember the poor by sending them gifts Esth 9. 22. Eightly Let our joy be practicall and strongly influentiall upon our lives follow after holinesse of Conversation which is a reall Thanksgiving Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord saith the Psalmist Psal 106. 2 Who can shew forth all his praise and he sheweth in the 3. verse the best way to do it is to keep Gods Judgements and do righteousnesse at all times seeing the Lord hath done so great things for us break not his Commandements any more least he be angry with us and consume us Ezra 9. 14. Vse 2. What shall we think and say then of these in whom these great doings of the Lord produceth no real joy but through the corruption of their hearts occasions these following evils First Sorrow and indignation like Haman grieving at the safety and advancement of Mordecai or like Athalia renting their hearts with indignation because of Joash his advancement to his own and his Fathers Throne 2 King 11. 14. The wicked see it and be grieved he gnasheth his teeth and melts away Psal 112. 10. Secondly Envie like Sheba fretting against the Instruments of Davids reduction and against David himself and turning away Israel from owning him because he had not the chief hand in calling him home 2 Sam. 20. 1 2. Thirdly Confusion Mi●●● 7. 16. being confounded to see their power and glory to vanish into smoak Fourthly Fained submission bowing down with their faces towards the earth Isa 49. 23. and licking the 〈◊〉 a serpent Micah 7. 17. Fifthly Counterfeit joy like Shimei 2 Sam. 19. 18 19 20. or Rufus of whom Tacitus 〈◊〉 lib. 2 who came to Vitellius after his Victory Laetitiam 〈◊〉 vultu 〈◊〉 at animo anxius Counterfeiting joy yet with rep●ning hearts ●rinding and grieving these 〈…〉 ●●●●ming to themselves the fa●●●on 〈…〉 tongues to speak the language of Canaan in thanksgiving but it is of no price with God who weigheth the heart As dale of death so do I hate that kind Whose heart from mouth whose tongue dissents from mind Quest If any ask how shall I know such And secondly What be the reasons of it Answ To the first it is answered they may be known First by their countenance Ex tristitia cordis sequitur tristitia oris saith Gregory on the place a sad countenance discovereth the want of joy Secondly If men have learned the arte of dissimulation and not so ingenious as the former they may be discouered by a quavering voice a tremblying note or some such thing while they are speaking of these great transactions Or Thirdly some word falls through inadvertancy from their lips that bespeaketh their sorrow and anguish of heart Or Fourthly Qualifications and reserves in their speaking and praying or preaching crying up and crying down with the same breath now Hosanna then Crucifie in the neck of it as for example God save the King if he be for this or that else c. Secondly The reasons why men are not really glad are 1. Misapprehensions and Jealousies some being void of charity that thinks no evil but of disposition suspecting the worst and interpreting all to the worst and therefor fear possessing their hearts choaks their joy 2. Deep rooted malice having contracted a habite of hating Kingly Government the King and the Royal Family and inured their tongues to revile it and Him therefore are tormented to see that Government re-established and the King restored 3. Old guiltiness being guilty of so execrable wrongs that although Shimei like they anticipate others and professe subjection yet their guilty consciences doth so affright them still fearing Shimei's reward that still echoes in their ears had Zimri peace that slew his Master 4. Envie choaks the joy of some others being chief in the Imployment in bringing home the King and turning away our captivity and ther●●●●● like to be chief in Thanks Honour and Reward This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so ready to revolt when Sheba blew the trayterous Trumpet 2 Sam. 20. because they thought the men of Judah would have the greatest thanks for bringing King David back 2 Sam. 19. 5. Covetousnesse men ha●e gained on the Kings Revenues and Church Patrimony by the c●●ft of pulling down Kings they have their wealth and places of Trust and by the Kings restitution they see their gain in danger and therefore Demetrius-like Acts 19. 24. they are full of wrath 6. Love to their opinions lusts and fancies like little Children who desire not their Father may recover that without controle they may run up and down They fear the Kings bands and cords will ty them too straitly Conclusion But I hope there is none such here ye have been better instructed in the principles of obedience and loyalty by my Reverend Father now with the Lord once your Pastor whose Doctrine and loyall Conversation notwithstanding of his removall from you ye have lively expressed in all these Revolutions And therefore let us all rejoyce in our Kings salvation Psal 20. 5 and pray Save Lord the King and let him hear us when we call Psal 20. 9. Let the Vniversity say O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Psal 118. 1. Let Old Aberdeen and the Parish say The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad And blesse thou the Lord O my soul Let us all say This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it Psal 118. 24. God save the King The Name of the God of Jacob defend Him and grant Him according to his own heart and fulfill all his Counsel Psal 20. 1 4. Amen and Amen FINIS

us whereof we are glad TO show this Text pertiuent to the present occasion will require no long processe We may say of it as our Lord Christ did of an other Text This day is this Scripture fulfilled in our ears Luk. 4. 21. If ever God did great things for these Lands and his Church in them now hath he done them If ever he gave us cause of Rejoycing sure this is the time God did a great work in delivering his People the Jews from the Babylonian captivity in freeing their Consciences from Tyranny in bringing them home to their own Land and granting them the free exercise of his Worship and in overthrowing their enemies This was so great that it wrought in the Heathen admiration and in themselves great joy and congratulation Gods arm is not shortned toward us he hath made it bare and turned again the captivity of our Sion of our King and advanced him to his Forefathers and his own Throne He hath put down the mighty from their seats in remembrance of his mercy and scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts Luk. 1. 51 52. 54. for his mercy endureth for ever Psal 136. 23. and this is so great a work that at first it seemd incredible to us so great that strangers stand wondering at it so great that Enemies stands amazed and discouraged at it But I hope it is so great in our eyes that it hath wrought and ere we have done will work in us a religious Intertainment a solemn and thankfull acknowledgment thereof and beget in us a great joy even a full joy joy of the heart and tongue too and engage all of us to pray in the highest fervency of our spirits for the increase and continuance thereof To come to the Text I will first shew the diverse readings thereof and the meaning of the words The Arabick Version hath the first part of this Verse thus Multiplicavit Dominus beneficium erga nos The Syriack Multiplicavit Dominus facere nobiscum The Chaldee Paraphrase Multiplicavit Dominus benignè facere nobiscum The Septuagints 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Ethiopian Magnificavit Dominus facere nobiscum so the vulgar Latine Junius and Tremelius Magnifica Jehova efficit erga nos The last words both the Arabick Ethiopian Version Chaldee Paraphrase and vulgar Latine reads Et facti sumus laetantes the Syriak Et facti sumus in laetitia Trem. and Jun. Sumus laeti August Facti sumus jocundati The first word in the Original is Higdil from Gadal which signifies to grow or wax great so Gen. 26. 23. the man Isaac waxed great in Hiphil it signifies to magnifie and also to multiplie and so here and it is some times taken intransitivè so Ezek. 38. 23. Thus will I magnifie my self and other whiles it is taken transitivè so Josh 3. 7 And the Lord said unto Joshua this day will I begin to magnifie thee in the sight of all Israel It may be taken both wayes here First Intransitivè I will magnifie my self to do or in doing efficiendo as Jun. and Trem. in their Marginal Notes Translate it in the former Verse and the Lord did magnifie in this great work 1. His power when the people in their bondage were calling for the manifestation of his power Isa 51. 9. Awake awake put on strength O arm of the Lord awake as in the ancient dayes c. It is answered in the 11 vers Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return with singing unto Sion and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads c. and vers 14. The Captive exile hastneth that he may he loused and that he should not die in the pit And the reason of this is taken from Gods power vers 15. I am the Lord thy God that divided the sea whose waves roared the Lord of hosts is his Name and Nehem. 1. 10. Now these are thy servants whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power and by thy strong hand 2. His goodnesse as it is Jer. 32. 41. I will rejoyce over them to do them good and I will plant them in the land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul And God promises to magnifie this his goodnesse that it shall be to him a name of praise and an hononr before all the Nations of the earth which should hear all the good he did to his people Jer. 33. 9. 3. His faithfulnesse in performing his promise The Lord had promised to turn again their captivity Jer. 29. 14. I will turn away your captivity and I will gather you from all the Nations and from all the places whither I have driven you saith the Lord and I will bring you again to this place So Jer. 30. 3. 10. and Chap. 32. 37. 44. and by so doing he magnified his word his gracious promise above all his Name Psal 138. 2. 4. His Justice by the overthrow of the Babylonians the enemies of his people of whom God threatned to take vengeance Isa 47. 3. by sending out upon them in a moment in one day Losse of Children and Widow-hood in their perfection vers 9. and Jer. 25. 12. he threatned that after seventy years were accomplished he would punish the King of Babylon and that Nation and make that Land perpetuall desolations see Isa 13. and 14. Chap. and Jer. 50. and 51. Chap. Secondly It may be taken transitivè and then it relates either to his facere his doing or to his people and God did magnifie both he magnified his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his doing For First he made it appear so great and glorious that the Heathen did notice it as it is vers 3 and Jer. 32. he promiseth that this restitution of his people shall be a name of joy a praise and an honour before all the Nations of the earth and he assureth that he will so magnifie it that the Nations shall fear and tremble c. and it is Lyra his observation on the place that Gods doing was so magnified in the sight of the Nations that thereby some of them were turned Proselyts Secondly He magnified his doing by making it grow and increase as the word in the Original bears and ye heard some Translate it multiplicavit for this work was not done in a moment but of a longer tract being much opposed and retarded as appears from Ezra and Nehemiah and is clear by comparing the former Verses of this Psalm with the prayer in the 4 verse but God left not his work in its Infancy and half done but still stepped on in his glorious working and multipliing his work till the top-stone was put on that all might cry Grace to the Work and Glory to the Worker As God did magnifie his doing and his work so by it he magnified his people their enemies a little before mockt at their Sabbaths Lam. 1. 7 They opened their mouths against them they hissed and gnashed the teeth Lam. 2. 16. Their King the anointed of the Lord was