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<P>Davids Devotions UPON HIS DELIVERANCES: Set forth in a SERMON AT <HI>All-Saints</HI> in <HI>Derby, June</HI> 28, 1660.</P>
<P>BEING The Day of publique Thank&s;giving FOR HIS MAJESTIES Happy Re&s;tauration, By <HI>JOSEPH SWETNAM</HI> PREACHER There.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>H. M.</HI> and are to bee &s;old at his &s;hop, at the Phoenix in St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard, neer the little North door. 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>A SERMON PREACHED At <HI>All-Saints</HI> in <HI>Derby, June</HI> 28. 1660.</HEAD>
<P>_WHen my thoughts were &s;ummoned to make provi&s;ion for this day, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 19.14, 15. came to minde. <HI>And hee bowed the hearts of all the men of Judah as the heart of one man, &s;o that they &s;ent this word to the King, Return thou, and all thy &s;ervants: &s;o he King returned and came to Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the King, to conduct the King over Jordan.</HI> But &s;eeing &s;ince the happy arrival of our gracious &s;ove|raign, &s;o many additaments to our prai&s;es have flow|ed
<PB N="2" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 107 -->in uppon us, I judged that text too &s;traight, unle&s;s I &s;hould alogically ramble, and &s;o di&s;plea&s;e my &s;elf and you. I then flitted in my fancy, to ver&s;es 41.42, 43. <HI>And behold all the men of I&s;rael came to the King, and &s;aid to the King, Why have our brethren the men of Judah &s;tolen thee away, and have brought the King and his hou&s;hold, and all Davids men with him over Jordan? and all the men of Judah an&s;wered the men of I&s;rael; becau&s;e the King is neer of kin to us, wherefore then bee yee angry for this matter, have wee eaten at all of the Kings co&s;t? or hath hee given us any gift? and the men of I&s;rael an&s;wered the men of Judah and &s;aid, Wee have al&s;o more right in David than you, why did you de&s;pi&s;e us, that our advice &s;hould not bee fir&s;t had in bring|ing back our King? and the words of the men of Judah were feircer than the words of the men of I&s;rael.</HI></P>
<P>This text after a &s;hort &s;urvey I pa&s;&s;ed by, le&s;t any rancor might revive, old &s;ores being too apt to bleed afre&s;h, withall con&s;idering tho&s;e two fir&s;t jar|ring intere&s;ts, laid by their animo&s;ities to bring our King back, but above all our dread &s;overaign in his gracious declaration and proclamations, which breathe out nothing but &s;weete&s;t cementings, have|ing conjured all intere&s;ts, to pre&s;erve peace and unity, and &s;ince tho&s;e two &s;ticks, like them <HI>Ezekiel</HI> 37.16. are become one, and own one King, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 24. I &s;hall pray that <HI>Ephraim</HI> may not envy <HI>Judah,</HI> nor <HI>Judah</HI> vex <HI>Ephraim,</HI> and if old prophanene&s;s and its abettors, like that bea&s;t, <HI>Reve.</HI> 13.3, 12. have not their dead|ly wound healed, I hope wee &s;hall not hear of war any more.</P>
<P>My thoughts now began to hover, di&s;puting about
<PB N="3" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 107 -->texts fit for the occa&s;ion, or whether I &s;hould, with the antient fathers, make the occa&s;ion my text, but &s;e|riou&s;ly pondering his Maje&s;ties gracious expre&s;&s;ions in the proclamation, <HI>That due thanks, and prai&s;e bee offered up to Almighty God, by us, and our people, with one heart, &amp; that humble &s;upplications be powred out before him for his continual a&s;si&s;tance and improvement of this and all his mercies,</HI> I then had by the conduct of a Divine finger pointed out to mee, <HI>P&s;alme</HI> 34.3. <HI>O magnifie the Lord with mee, and let us exalt his name together.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1 The title tells you the author, and occa&s;ion of this P&s;alm; the author <HI>David,</HI> a King by unction, heir apparent to the Crown, though not by de&s;cent, yet by divine de&s;ignation, and <HI>Sauls</HI> voluntary offer upon <HI>Goliahs</HI> fall.</P>
<P>Our dread Soveraign, a King by birth, and by confuting tran&s;cendently &s;ignal providences, was by the envious <HI>Sauls</HI> of tho&s;e times, forced to &s;ecure him&s;elf in forraign parts, when hee was but heir apparent.</P>
<P N="2">2. This p&s;almi&s;ts occa&s;ion was his &s;traights, fleeing to the Phili&s;tines, and his exile thence by <HI>Abemilech,</HI> a common name to all their Kings, its &s;ignification excellent, the King father, but in order to <HI>David</HI> an Antiphra&s;is, expelling him that fled for &s;helter.</P>
<P>Our dread Soveraign fleeing to a &s;uppo&s;ed fa|ther, the French King, from the fury of a Je&s;uited faction, imbrewing cruel hands in his Fathers Royal blood, again&s;t all Oaths, Prote&s;tations, and Co|venants, to the irreparable &s;candal of the real, not nominal Prote&s;tant religion, and many thou&s;and
<PB N="4" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 108 -->&s;ouls who had never any &s;uch de&s;tructive thoughts to his Maje&s;ties per&s;on, or po&s;terity, I &s;ay our graci|ous King flying into <HI>France,</HI> was upon the matter exiled thence; driven from one nation to another people, yet God &s;uffered none to do him harm, pre&s;erving our <HI>David</HI> where ever hee went, and for &s;uch a time as this; Now ble&s;&s;ed bee God who hath put &s;uch a thing as this into the heart of the King, to walk in <HI>Davids</HI> &s;teps, who being delivered out of the hands of all his enemies, doth, not in per&s;on only, but by his proclamation al&s;o, injoyn all to ble&s;s God for <HI>Englands</HI> redemption. I hope no pious &s;pirit will quarrel with my parallel or prolix Preface, &s;ince I have been all this while within the call of my text, and not di&s;-&s;ervi&s;ed the duty of the day.</P>
<P>The two fir&s;t ver&s;es &s;peak <HI>Davids</HI> re&s;olution, in his per&s;on to prai&s;e God at all times, and the &s;equel of his prai&s;es, the humble &s;hall hear and be glad, up|on which my text is attendant.</P>
<Q>O magnifie the Lord with mee, and let us exalt his name together.</Q>
<P>This p&s;alm being one of tho&s;e the fir&s;t letter of every ver&s;e following the order in the hebrew Al|phabet, imports the writer to bee in an extraordi|nary rapture.</P>
<P>To baulk all curio&s;ity, con&s;ider this, plain but proper doctrine.</P>
<Q>Prince and people, being joynt &s;harers in mercy, &s;hould bee joynt magnifiers of God for a mercy.</Q>
<P>The word, <GAP DESC="foreign"> rendred <HI>magnifie,</HI> and <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>ex|alt,</HI> will be&s;t manife&s;t what the magnifying of Gods name is.</P>
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<P>The fir&s;t &s;ignifieth to <HI>multiply, excelling, honour,</HI> and &s;o to magnifie God, properly, is above crea|tures reach; man declares what God is, which is his highe&s;t pitch attainable unto; for the phra&s;e to <HI>magnifie</HI> and <HI>ju&s;tifie,</HI> rather <HI>declare</HI> or manife&s;t, than <HI>make,</HI> hence the word, <HI>Nehem.</HI> 8.4. is tran&s;lated a <HI>Pulpit,</HI> &s;hewing that after &s;ignal mercies, they &s;hould bee &s;o imployed, &s;hewing it forth that God is good.</P>
<P>The latter hebrew word rendred <HI>exalt,</HI> &s;ignifies vocal prai&s;e, when <HI>David</HI> re&s;olves to ble&s;s God with the be&s;t member that hee hath, which hee calls his glory. The word further, as &s;ome Criticks &s;ay, &s;ig|nifies to &s;eparate from a prophane to a &s;acred u&s;e; Chri&s;tians joyes mu&s;t bee &s;piritual, not in <HI>May games,</HI> and <HI>Morris dances,</HI> the reviving of that ob&s;olete <HI>Roman whore, Flora,</HI> her fe&s;tivals, the promoters of which now &s;peak out, that prophanene&s;s and de|bauchery they prefer before their King, and their <HI>Venerean, Bacchanalian joy,</HI> will &s;o provoke an holy healing God, that if his mercy were not above all, our prai&s;es might bee impeaded or polluted; but I hope tho&s;e Idolatrous, popi&s;h, prophane prac|ti&s;es with their abettors and promoters will fall, as <HI>Satan</HI> did before the Apo&s;tles, like lightning; how|ever, let no humble heart bee dumb in prai&s;es this day, &s;ince a returning &s;un gives at the fir&s;t, life to weeds as well as to flowers: I doubt not but care will in due time bee taken to crop at lea&s;t, if not pluck up the&s;e tares, I mean not their per&s;ons, but their impieties.</P>
<P>To prove my doctrine, con&s;ult <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 12.4. <HI>And in that day &s;hall yee &s;ay, Prai&s;e the Lord, call upon
<PB N="6" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 109 -->his Name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted,</HI> P&s;alm 66.2. <HI>Sing forth the honour of his name, make his Prai&s;e glorious,</HI> P&s;alm 68.4. <HI>Sing unto God, &s;ing prai&s;e to his name, extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoyce before him.</HI></P>
<P>Our <HI>David</HI> is <HI>precentor</HI> in this &s;piritual <HI>quire,</HI> and let none with <HI>Michal</HI> jeer, or with the victors after <HI>Ab&s;oloms</HI> rout &s;link away a&s;hamed.</P>
<P>God is magnified</P>
<P N="1">1 When wee utter the memory of his great good|ne&s;s. <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 145.7. <HI>They &s;hall abundantly utter the memory of thy Great goodne&s;s, and &s;hall &s;ing of thy righ|teou&s;ne&s;s. Its a good day,</HI> as the four leapers &s;aid when the &s;eige was rai&s;ed from <HI>Samariah, and if wee hold our peace, evil will befall us.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 God is exalted when his actings are &s;et forth to the life. <HI>P&s;alme</HI> 66.2. <HI>Sing forth the honour of his Name, make his Prai&s;e glorious.</HI> The le&s;s &s;hadowed the more magnificent. God is never more magnified than when his work is owned, as being only his: with his holy arm hee hath got him&s;elf the victory.</P>
<P N="3">3 When wee are &s;peedy in our prai&s;es, not defer|ring them till a mercy grow &s;tale, or &s;uffer an eclip&s;e, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Miriam, Deborah</HI> and <HI>Barach,</HI> took no day, but &s;ang &s;weet &s;ongs whil&s;t the deliverance was fre&s;h.</P>
<P N="4">4 God is then magnified indeed when our prai&s;es are &s;piritual, <HI>&s;inging with grace in our hearts to the Lord,</HI> Collo&s;. 3.16. when wee con&s;tantly boa&s;t of God, as ver. 1. not like tho&s;e <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> that &s;ang his prai&s;e, and &s;oon forgat him, turning his glory into the &s;imilitude of a <HI>Calf,</HI> whence <HI>Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> compares
<PB N="7" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 109 -->them to gra&s;hoppers, <HI>Subito &s;altantes protinus in ter|ram cadentes.</HI></P>
<P>If you look for rea&s;ons to enforce this duty.</P>
<P N="1">1 God is great, and &s;o is his name, hence, <HI>Jerem.</HI> 10.6. <HI>fora&s;much as there is none like unto thee, O Lord, thou art great, and thy name is great in might;</HI> Hee exhorts to magnifie.</P>
<P N="2">2 Wee are wi&s;domes children, and its our duty to ju&s;tifie our parent, <HI>Mat.</HI> 11.19. <HI>wi&s;dome is ju&s;tified of her children;</HI> wee may not then bee tongue-tided in &s;uch a day as this.</P>
<P N="3">3 Kindne&s;&s;es are conferred upon this account, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 50.15. <HI>Call upon mee in the day of trouble, I will de|liver thee, and thou &s;halt glorifie mee; were not ten clean&s;ed? but where are the nine?</HI></P>
<P N="4">4 God his goodne&s;s endures dayly in de&s;pite of all iniquity, <HI>P&s;alm.</HI> 54.6. <HI>I will freely &s;acrifize unto thee: I will Prai&s;e thy name, O Lord, for it is good.</HI> And &s;hall not the redeemed of the Lord &s;ay &s;o who were remembred by him in their low e&s;tate? <HI>O magnifie the Lord with mee, and let us exalt his name together.</HI></P>
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<P>I &s;hall infer only an exhortation to give God the honour due to his name, for the return of &s;o graci|ous a King.</P>
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<HEAD>Motives.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 Many of us have the return of our prayers, hum|bly groaned forth, and not in rancor and malice bol|ted out, though tho&s;e like the fly on the wheel think they &s;tir up all the du&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2 God is now cleared to bee the wi&s;e, and only moderator, ruleing, yea over-ruleing all pretended
<PB N="8" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 110 -->providences, &s;ucce&s;s was their <HI>Diana,</HI> and mu&s;t bee the decider of that great controver&s;ie, Whether <HI>regi|cidium</HI> by &s;ubjects was lawful or no: but God almigh|ty to the honour of his name hath confuted tho&s;e blood-hounds which killed and took po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="3">3 Wee have now judgment running down like wa|ter, King <HI>Charles</HI> the &s;econd re&s;tored, and that without the lo&s;s of one drop of bloud; who more in|jured than our gracious King? and now God hath in &s;pite of furious heatheni&s;h people, &s;et him up upon his Throne, &s;o that his enemies bow them&s;elves, hee treading upon the <HI>A&s;p</HI> and <HI>Adder.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4 Hypocritical tyranny is exiled, which <HI>Jezabel</HI> like, when proclaimed a fa&s;t, meant murther, devotions being the harbingers to too many innocents de&s;tructi|ons, which made us in tho&s;e times choo&s;e redarguing texts, though wee dur&s;t do no more, witne&s;s <HI>Luke the</HI> 12.1. <HI>In the mean time, when there were gathered to|gether an innumerable multitude of people, in &s;o much that they trod one upon another, hee began to &s;ay to his di&s;ciples fir&s;t of all, Beware yee of the leaven of the Phari&s;ees, which is hypocri&s;ie;</HI> upon <HI>December</HI> the 6.1655. but I &s;corn to crouch or flatter.</P>
<P N="5">5 Here&s;ie, and bla&s;phemy, like <HI>Apolloes</HI> oracles at Chri&s;t his birth being &s;ilenced; <HI>oracula ce&s;&s;ant,</HI> as <HI>Juvenal</HI> &s;aid, A canting <HI>Augu&s;tus,</HI> as <HI>Suidas</HI> hath it, enquiring about his &s;ucce&s;&s;or, might, if hee could re|turn, write <HI>haec e&s;t ara primogeniti dei;</HI> this is hee who&s;e right it is from God; in a &s;ound &s;ence I may &s;ay, the &s;on of God, the &s;onne of his care, and de|light witne&s;s tho&s;e wonderful providences in his pre&s;ervation, and re&s;tauration.</P>
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<P N="6">6 Heedfully con&s;ider &s;even things in our gracious King.</P>
<P N="1">1 Hee is no alien born, but a native, as <HI>Juda</HI> &s;aid of <HI>David</HI> neer a kin to us, the fir&s;t King that drew his fir&s;t breath in <HI>England</HI> &s;ince King <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixth, hence that admired Sympathy and lenity towards his &s;ubjects hath much of its ri&s;e, Happy art thou O land who&s;e Prince is impatient till thy wounds bee healed.</P>
<P N="2">2 Ponder his prudence, evidenced in the choice of men, once jarring in their intere&s;ts, to bee imploy|ed in greate&s;t tru&s;ts, by which hee prevents fears and jealou&s;ies, once <HI>Englands</HI> fal&s;e fiers, &s;o that wee may &s;ay as it was of <HI>David</HI> and <HI>Solomon,</HI> our Lord <HI>the King is as an Angel of God, to di&s;cern good and evil.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3 Hee is no childe, to bee carried to and fro by the breath of &s;elf-&s;eeking Sycophants, but at that age the Lord Chri&s;t was, when hee undertook his &s;piritual King&s;hip, and <HI>David</HI> his temporal, thir|ty years old; a childe is often a mi&s;ery to a peo|ple, which King <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixt, and his &s;ub|jects, &s;adly felt from his courtiers factions, <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 10.16. <HI>Wo to thee O land, when thy King is a childe, and thy Princes eat in the morning,</HI> And I&s;a. 3.4. <HI>And I will give children to bee their Princes, and babes &s;hall rule over them.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4 His temperance is exemplary, &s;o that debauched ones, like tho&s;e loo&s;e youths in <HI>Job,</HI> fear, and fly, our great <HI>Charles</HI> being a &s;econd <HI>Charles</HI> the great, <HI>ci|bi potu&s;&abque; parci&s;simus.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5 Hee is the Son of antient Kings, and our King by an indi&s;putable de&s;cent, &s;o that none can &s;ay as tho&s;e
<PB N="10" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 111 -->rebellious I&s;raelites did in &s;corn, <HI>what is David or the Son of Je&s;&s;e?</HI> our Chronicler <HI>Speede</HI> proving King <HI>James</HI> his title to this Crown was not from <HI>Hen|ry</HI> the &s;evenths daughter only, but before the con|que&s;t. Now as <HI>Plato</HI> in his <HI>Alcibiades, con&s;entaneum e&s;t meliores e&s;&s;e naturas in nobili genere, quam igno|bili.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6 See how none could ne&s;tle, or bottome in peace, upon this throne, though by Sycophants fawned upon, and with large promi&s;es of &s;upport, addre&s;&s;ed unto, God verifying that of <HI>Ezekiel</HI> 21.27. <HI>I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, untill hee come who&s;e right it is; and I will give it him.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7 Hee is the de&s;ire of three kingdomes, being a divine and rea&s;onable donation, invited home by com|mon con&s;ent, and entertained with highe&s;t expre&s;&s;ions of joy.</P>
<P>And now what remaines but that wee &s;hould walk worthy of &s;uch a Prince, le&s;t God in anger deprive us of him? as 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.25. <HI>But if yee &s;hall &s;till do wickedly, you &s;hall bee con&s;umed, both you and your King.</HI> And then wee may at our lea&s;ure with groans and &s;ighs repeat <HI>Jeremiahs lamentations</HI> to the breaking of our hearts. Think not by &s;urfeiting, and drunkenne&s;s, chambering and wantonne&s;s, pride and envying, to ce|ment our breaches, and maintain his honour, <HI>Re|hoboams</HI> roy&s;ters ruined him, the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Princes in|joyned the <HI>Jews</HI> to pray for the Kings life, where drinking was without compul&s;ion, healths were not heard off.</P>
<P>Damning and drinking provoked the Almighty, and is not God (being alwayes the &s;ame) as angry
<PB N="11" REF="7"><!-- PDF PAGE 111 -->with the &s;ame &s;in as hee was? nay, recoyls upon old &s;ins will cau&s;e recalls of old Judgments; you con|tradicting &s;pirits who &s;ide with many, you hate out of an antipathy again&s;t holine&s;s, know, that our gra|cious King expects better things from you, in that pithy pa&s;&s;age, <HI>That humble &s;upplications bee powred out God for his continual a&s;si&s;tance and improvement of this and all his mercies, to the honour of his great name, and &s;afety, peace, and benefit, of our Kingdomes and domini|ons.</HI> Is God honoured by reviving old revellings? and is &s;afety &s;ecured by prophanene&s;s &s;pitefully com|mitted? <HI>will you thus requite the Lord, yee fooli&s;h peo|ple and unwi&s;e?</HI> but I direct my &s;peech to tho&s;e hum|ble ones in the 2. ver&s;e, who will rejoyce, and with upright hearts pray, that the Throne of our King may bee greater than his progenitors, and that God would build him a &s;ure hou&s;e, &s;o that wee may ne|ver hear the &s;ound of the trumpet, as alaruming to war, nor know the &s;ad &s;equels of dome&s;tick broyls. And now to cloze up all, I &s;ay with <HI>Mephibo&s;heth,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 19.30. <HI>Fora&s;much as my Lord the King is come again in peace, unto his own hou&s;e, let them enjoy re|wards that &s;eek them,</HI> all I de&s;ire, is liberty to preach Chri&s;t Je&s;us the Lord.</P>
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