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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17304	Israels fast. Or, a meditation vpon the seuenth chapter of Ioshuah a faire precedent for these times. By H.B. rector of S. Mathews Fryday-Street.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 4147; ESTC S106964	36,749	58

Christian Resolution and zeale in the casheering of these Troublers of Israel A third sort of Achans are Neutralizers but so as the Bias of their affections wheeles and swayes them round to Popery These are so much the more pernicious plagues to Israel in that vnder the seemely vale and masionlike habit of the Church of England they labour to bring in that old Babylonish strumpet hoodwinkt that we should all reacknowledge her for our Mother As may appeare in a certaine Booke of Priuate Deuotions so called published by Authority the maine scope thereof all along being to reduce vs all to one Church and that none other but forsooth the holy Catholike Church of Rome But the whole Mysterie of iniquitie folded vp therein would require a more particular vnfolding These Neutralizers or Popish Arminians or Arminian Papists or what ye will vnder the name of the Church of England dare vent any Arminian haeresie As in a Booke lately printed by Authority too there is this most blasphemous Arminian heresie that there is a goodnesse obiectiue in the Creature which in order of Nature is precedent to the Act or exercise of Gods will thus by necessary consequence making the Creature a God hauing a selfe-being independent but onely vpon Gods bare Prescience vpon which and not vpon that suprema causa causarum Gods will he hangeth the being and well being of all the Creatures And this sort and confederacy of Achans haue gotten such a high hand that no Booke may be set out if it be directly against Popery and Arminianisme nor against Popery in speciall but with some qualification or Ingredient such as this That the Church of Rome though she haue many errours yet is a true Church And by this deuice they doe like Balaam mightily preuaile and that with great ones Scholars and others to draw vs to some friendly commerce and correspondence with that Whoore. And they are growne so much the more confident becaue they haue Authority in their hand either to approue or prohibit what Books they list Whereas if the way were open as formerly freely to print Bookes by Authority against Popery and her confederate Arminians their Neutralizing Achans as so many Owles would fly into their darke Cels as not able to behold the sunbeames of the Truth But we hope and pray that Ioshua and the Elders of Israel will take such order that instead of Popish and Arminian Bookes Orthodox bookes may be freely published by Authority And suffer mee to speake O noble Sages of Israel I am for God my King for Religion and my Country if you O Ioshua and the Elders of Israel purge not out these pestilent Acans or close clip their wings they must needs bring vtter confusion vpon this state ere it be long They daily creepe into high fauour in Court they preuaile mightily by their plausible insinuating intoxicating flattery They goe about as the Prophet Osee speakes to make the King glad with their lyes Their Theames and Theorems are that Kings are partakers of Gods owne Omnipotency though this be a diuine Attribute incommunicable to any Creature That iustice can be no Rule or Medium whereby to giue God or the King his right As if right were not grounded vpon iustice as the Rule of it Take away Iustice and where is Right Or as if the seruice which we performe to God were not bounded vpon Gods Lawes which are holy Iust and good Yea God neither commands nor accepts any other seruice at our hands but such as his Law prescribes And thus our seruice becomes iust and reasonable Yet with such like glosings they thinke that Principibus placuisse viris non vltima taus est Great Potentates thus to applaud They reckon it no little laud. Nor doe they blush not onely to preach these things to the face of the Court but dare also publish in Print this their shame to the open view of the world not without great dishonour both to God and the King Now the Lord Iesus deliuer our good and gracious Ioshua from these Achans that his sweet disposition may not be inchanted with their Syren-songs Herein the ioynt courage and zeale of you the Elders of Israel is required Take away these Achans from the King and his throne shall be established in righteousnesse Many other branches of the Achan-faction there are whom your wisdomes can more easily find out But the master-peece of your wisdome is to find out if any such Monster be to be found in Rerum natura where the maine Root and Head of all these branches and members lurketh That must be digged and stockt vp else if it be but pruned it will but sprout the thicker If they goe on thus Gods fearefull iudgements must needs fall heauy vpon this Land If we be luke-warme and haue no courage for the truth the Lord will spue vs out of his mouth But God forbid that base cowardise should suffer Gods Truth Religion King Crowne Kingdome Church euery mothers sonne of vs to be by a packe of traiterous Achans and so many worthies in Israel descended of the magnanimous bloud of the heroicke true-bred English to looke on with their thumbs vnder their girdles betraid into the pawes of the Beast cheated nosewiped euen to their face that the whole state as one man may take vp that saying in the Poet Prudens sciens viuus vidensque pereo And that I say by traiterous Achans For whosoeuer are traitors to Gods Truth and the Religion established whereon the Kings Throne is firmely established whether they be direct Traitors to the State I leaue to your wisedomes to iudge but this I dare boldly affirme Traitours they are by necessary consequence betraying vs into our enemies hands by making God our Enemy as too many disastrous instances haue proued and as Achans instance in this Booke will plainly show In the name of God therefore O ye noble worthies of Israel quit your selues like men God hath now put a precious opportunity into your hands The Lord strengthen you to lay fast hold vpon it and so to husband it that the issue may be to his glory to the preseruation of our royall Ioshua and you his loyall Counsel and of all the Israel of God Not to importune your wisedomes further vnlesse for pardon of my importunity wherein yet your noble propensity will not easily brooke to be importuned to pardon errors of zeale and true affection I will onely craue leaue for conclusion to apply S. Aug. prayer in the siege of Hippo. Noueritis me hoc tempore nostrae calamitatis Deum rogare ve aut hanc ciuitatem ab hostibus circundatam liberare dignetur aut si aliud ei videtur suos seruos ad praeferendam suam voluntatem fortes faciat aut certè vt me de hoc saculo ad se accipiat Which I English thus My prayer to God in this time of Israels calamity is that either it would please him to deliuer and free this