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A90992 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. Price, William, d. 1666. 1660 (1660) Wing P3400; Thomason E1034_5; ESTC R209032 11,539 26

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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