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A83947	Englands alarm to vvar against the Beast: by command from heaven, and his Israels example upon earth, comming-in to rescue David, out of the hands of a cruell Lord, and a bloudy Edomite: upon the same ground from Scripture and reason, Israel had then, and Christians now, to resist the prince ruling in the aire, and with the kings of the earth. In 3. sections: wherein, I. The history of Sauls war against David is so related ... that it relates ... to the three last yeeres affaires ... II. And to the bloudy execution of the Edomite in this war against the Parliament in Ireland and Lngland [sic] ever since. III. Here is also excellent reason given, why the tribes came not in sooner ... Also, to confirme the hearts and hands of the godly in their warfare ...		1643 (1643)	Wing E2941; Thomason E56_15; ESTC R20696	26,569	31

extreame violences actings of an evill Spirit Israel withstood then and no body else in the world but as the body was acted by this evill Spirit And this is Israels Case now I meane all true Christians in the world And such is their practise according to Israels example in all Ages by allowance and command also of all the Laws in Heaven and Earth I repeat it again Vpon the same ground from Scripture and Reason All true Christians now are engaged as Israel then To help the Church against the mighty To come-in now with shield and buckler To oppose and resist with all their might Not their King no This resistance has an affi●●ce a full agreement rather with duty and loyalty nor the Papists nor the Athiests neither but that evill Spirit in both The actings and notorious violences thereof and of a private and perverse will acted thereby which has done all the mischiefe done in the world since the beginning of the same and will do all the hurt there it can while the world stands All true Christians now will maintaine a Resistance against the Actings as aforesaid of this will which like the tongue is a world of iniquity b defileth the whole body setteth on fire the course of Jam. 3. 5 6. nature and is set on fire of Hell i. e. of that evill Spirit whose Mansion-house is Hell but now he is the great Peripatetick of the world walking to and fro therein and by the help of mans will a willing servant to him does all the violences insolencies and wrongs our eyes have seen or our eares have heard have been done in both Kingdomes Thie evill Spirit this Will call it what you will if it be not the Devill yet it Acts his Commands This evill Spirit all true Christians will oppose and resist now Nay they have solemnly protested before the Lord That this evill and uncleane Spirit shall not rule over them he shall not be king in their world they will break his bands and cast away his cords they will oppose and resist him to the death and no Body else in the world but as the body is acted and effectually wrought in and upon by this evill Spirit and if so acted they will resist him or them what ever Bodies they be though Kings and Princes and Nobles of the Earth for upon the same ground from Scripture and Reason will they make this resistance by which they stand charged to obey God and to resist the Devill And if you finde any other resistance maintained now by men or books then against the actings and notorious violences of mans private will acted by that evill Spirit so powerfull upon Saul and working as effectually in the Edomite I meane him or them who say of our Jerusalem now Rase it rase it eaven with the ground If I say any other resistance is maintained in those books then onely onely against that Power which Commands in the Ruler not by God but against Him then let those books be served as the King served the Rowle be first cut it then burnt it onely read the books first c which the King did not do whereas c Jer. 36. 23. which is verily thought had he read the Rowle thorow out first he had not burnt it afterward I will name the chiefe of these books here That Answer to Doctor Fearn and the fuller Answer That of Anti-Turkisme Cavalierisme is too gentile a word for they are the same with the Turks more bruitish though Turks as one writeth are in the lowest degree of men next to bruit Beasts in the shape of Men. And the same Authours Vindication of the same Book against a Bishop in name who hath in that Vindication not onely given the Bishop a bone to pick but choaked him therewith for he has made the Bishop and his fellows speechlesse for ever in point of Reply thereunto Not so onely he hath burnt this note of infamy upon their foreheads gain-savers of the Truth Nothing for it but all they can against it more visible there then is the bone in the throat which the Anatomists too Rabinically do call Pomum Adam Adams Apple And let Scripture and Reason be served so to being first read thorow and that full Letter which has so cleared a just Cause that the Answerer hath not found with all his search yet he did his utmost with all his skill strength wrath malice and what the Devill could help-him into because he found the Devill his Father there a most notorious lyer yet he found not one word of sense to reply unto that Letter But yet let this and that and the other have the same execution aone upon them as aforesaid and as was done upon that abominable and cursed Pamphlet for we must not call it a Book giving liberty to riot and dance upon the Lords Day let those Books be burnt by the hand of the common hangman in all the Cities and Townes thorow the whole Kingdome for so such Papers should be served which give such liberty to sport and play away the Lords Day or a liberty to Subjects to resist their King But if th●se Books I will call them Books having for their Patrons Truth and Reason and such onely are worthy the name of Books d perswade obedience to Rulers submission to that power God d Libri 〈◊〉 nomi●e dignandi in vericatis tan●um rationis clientelam s●dare debent Ver. de Aug. l. 1 has set over them and resistance onely against that evill Spirit the great Monarch of the world King of the bottomlesse Pit working mightily now and effectually in the Rulers of the world and in their sworne servants Israels enemies the Edomites there if a resistance onely of that power in the Rulers not for God but against Him giving full Commission to Athiests and bloudy Papists to do as the Edomite did against Nob and as Saul would have done against Keilah if so allow the Books read what they say and heare them out it is Scripture and Reason and be stubborne and bruitish no more but obey Shew thy selfe a man who wilt never oppose so reasonable a charge as this Obey thy Soveraigne Lord Resist the Devill and thy owne will the Devils right hand in the world Grant so much we are agreed and altogether to fight against the Devill and this perverse will as long as there is a Spirit of life within us and a drop of quick bloud at our heart All this is commended to thee and charged upon thee before God the Father His Son Jesus Christ His Elect Angels and Men. Therefore do not dare to refuse nor gain say such a sacred Truth so firmly grounded upon sacred Scripture and Reason both Scripture specially now opening it selfe unto thee wherein thou mayest with one cast of the Eye Read and Remember David and all his Afflictions The Church and all her enemies Their deadly persecutions contrivances and complottings how to do her mischiefe The contrivances

the oppressed go free We will say this onely This was marvellous in our eyes The B. The wise man hath given a double observation upon it and it shal suffice here The righteousnes of the upright shall deliver them but transgressours Pr. 11 6 8. shall be taken in their owne naughtinesse The righteous is delivered out of trouble and the wicked commeth in his stead As he put the wicked downe so at the same time he exalted precious A. men and honourable indeed he set them in high places This was marvellous also in our eyes And we judge not what B. the Councels were and the intentions of the heart in setting-up those so precious men and truly honourable though in the multitude of such Councllours there is safety and to such Councellours Pro. 11. 14. 12. 20. there is joy But we praise God That the snare is broke What snare A great snare the snare of the world the faire offers thereof its Pompe and Glory that snare is broken They were tempted saith the Heb. 11. 37. Spirit with the Glory of the world that 's certaine If stoning could not serve the turne nor sawing asunder neither tempt them with the glory of the world see what that will do It is not possible to withstand that temptation without an Almighty assistance How have the mighty fallen here Alas the humble know full fell The world knowes no other but his owne those that love the world and his glory and are content to live and die with it closest to the heart If the world do conferre any glory which is to guild gold with copper upon the precious and truly honourable in the world it is because they should fall downe and serve the world and blaspheme their God which they will rather die then do though they should be stoned sawne asunder or slaine with the sword for they looke to be exalted in due time and to obtaine a better Resurrection Therefore they will not be servants to men mens lusts not they They are firmly resolved though they might be promoted to great honours and have a house full of silver and gold yet they will not pleasure man and grieve their God His good Subjects of Scotland Rebels some moneths before and A so written upon every Post and Pillar are stiled and enacted Brethren loyall and faithfull Subjects to God and their King The breach was made up and a day of Remembrance commanded and all this by his Majesties command never such an Act of Grace We acknowledge it and blessed be His glorious Name who B made up the breach wide as the Sea caused war to usher-in peace gave his people honey out of that devourer delivered his good people there and here from all the expectation of the enemy from the oppression of his hand and sword of his mouth We praise His glorious Majestie for all this And we do not question how upright the Kings heart stood in that matter because he calls his good people of England Rebels and Traitours now for doing their duty and much lesse in shew and indeed against him then the Scots did and yet they did nothing but what they had warrant to do from the law of Nature and Reason and their Book the Kings law-Law-Book too His Majesty put down the two Courts as infamous over the Christian A world as ever was or is the Spanish Inquisition the Popes truest Purgatory for these Courts were turned against the Righteous and with such violence and extremity that it was justly accounted the greatest tyranny and feverest kinde of persecution under heaven Whence it came to passe that those Courts stank before David and all Israel There the estates of men were consumed their consciences wracked their persons abased and abused worse then Davids fervants yea more cruelly then will a Mastiffe-Dog touse a poore sheep or lug a swine So and worse then so were the servants of the Lord toused crapped and lugged by the eares In these places they said unto the soule of the Righteous Bow downe that we may go over and he laid his body as the ground and as the street to them that went over g Isa 51. There they gathered themselves together against the soule of the Righteous and condemned the innocent bloud I say the innocent he was the But and the Mark that they bended to he that served God and feared an oath he that lived in all good conscience h Act. 23. he was smitten on the mouth and because he did so even because he was upright in he●●t when the vilest Priests such as made the Offering of the Lord to be abhorted when such as they were purged there Not as the King of Babylon purged those two base persons in the fire i Jer. 29. 22. but purged after the manner of the Court which was to cleare them whom God and His Word condemned These Courts his Majestie hath put downe he has taken those yokes from off the neck He has so and we thank His glorious Majesty for this His transcendent grace and favour to His good people evermore Who intends B. them good and will have good done unto them what ever mans intentions were then or would have done since It is cleare enough That the Kings intentions seduced by evill Counsels were not to disburden his people not to take off their yoke but to make it yet heavier and more to establish the foot of Pride Nor do we judge of the heart now or of the thoughts transactions or discussions of the minde then within his inward closet and privy chamber there we do not judge of these secret talkings and parleys of his minde any farther then as lawfully we may and ought to judge of them now being cast into a faire mould and as his Majestie has given them a true stamp and shape ever since His Majestie has passed an Act against the Bishops Voting in Parliament and more then that too touching that matter And this was A. a very lovely Act indeed Indeed it was and as equitable as ever was any Act in the world B. for enquire what Bishops did there All the mischiefe they could against the LORD CHRIST and His hidden ones Therefore a most equitable Act. We againe and againe thank His glorious Majestie Whose over-ruling hand did all this The King did not do it with a cleare intent thereby to bring glory to God and reliefe to his oppressed people groaning under those Task-masters for his Majestie has made a full Declaration of his minde that way and his people understand it very well Let the Parliament have their will in this also let them take his Bishops said his wicked Councell out of the Court and let them be taken with his Majesties favour and Act of Grace that way But the hand of the Philistines said Saul The Army of the North shall come-up said the Kings evill Councell and over-power the Parliament and undo