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The three kingdomes case: or, Their sad calamities, together with their causes and cure. Laid down in a sermon preached at a publique fast at Kingston upon Hull. With some very remarkable passages of providence worthy of generall observation. /
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Shawe, John, 1608-1672.
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Wing S3030; Thomason E330_1; ESTC R200707
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14 15. 2 Chro. 22. 1. 1 King 12. 1 c. much more in any other Kingdoms the institution of government is of God but the constitution of this or that particular government is from men Thirdly if any Nation be governed by Kings yet what line or family shall be the Kings or chiefe governours there this is from man or according as the people first made their compact gave their binding consent and choice Marriage is Gods Ordinance but whether this woman shall have this man to be her head is by her own choice and consent God hath not said thou such a one be thou King of Spain c. Fourthly suppose this line or family King of this or that Nation yet whether he shall be King for yeers or for life or to him and his heirs or to him and his heirs males for ever this is Jure humane a humane Ordinance 1 Pet. 2. 13. according as that Nation first made their bargain agreement c. Fifthly what priviledges Prerogatives such a King shall have what liberties immunities that people under him shall have this is Jure humano according as they have and do make the bargaine according to the fundamentall constitutions agreements and laws of that Land for France Spain Denmark Hungary c. are not all bound by any word of God to have just the same liberties laws prerogatives c. but according as themselves agree so they be not against the generall rules in Scripture so that I herein concur with the Lord Digby that our case is not so much to be resolved by Divinity but law and properly to be determined by those who are Judges of what is or is not law what are or are not the fundamentall constitutions of our government Now to the case in England the King was never made or esteemed Judge of Law men used not to goe to the King to know what is Law if he said this or that to be Law it was but his own opinion neither are our Lawyers or inferiour Courts the ultimate Judges but the last Judge from which there is no appeal with us is the supream Court of Parliament now no Court of the Kingdom is null or the acts of it void because the Kings person is not there or his mind against it This supream Judicatory affirming and declaring to me that by the fundamentall constitutions and constant agreements and laws of this land we may defend our laws liberties lives estates c. by arms and that now is this case and necessity thereof I beleeve it and have no further to goe for resolution in this case The objection of conquest is fond and frivolous an unjust conquest without just title meerly because another is stronger gives a man no right to my purse without my consent some way much lesse to a Kingdome should the Turk or Spaniard unjustly make wars upon our King Charles and conquer him have they a just right therefore to his Kingdom But secondly I conceive a man may very much see the hand of God in these wars going along with the Parliament if we consider first the beginning of them and that first when we were very low when by reason of flatterers c. many were banished and terrified so as it was thought no man durst lift up his head Zach. 1. 21. yet thousands appeared presently secondly when it was thought that by idlenesse and long disuse we were grown so effeminate rusty and unfit for war yet have we found men not bred but made as gallant souldiers on the sudden as any in the world thirdly when we were embroiled in a war with our brethren of Scotland yet some of both Nations delivered like brands out of the fire for this work Zach. 3. 2. Secondly if we consider the growth of them first God hath wrought upon mens spirits and that is above mans work Haggai 1. 14. God touched mens hearts Ezra 1. 1. 1 Sam. 10. 26. and hath fitted men like Bezaleel and Aholiab Exod. 31. beyond their naturall temper for this work of weak made strong of dull made quick see Judg. 6. 1 6. a strong potent enemy ver 5. yet a poor Leader a thrasher Gideon mean person mean family mean furniture weapons c. prevailed Thirdly consider how God hath befooled the strongest wits and subtillest deepest plots in this businesse how little mens deepe plots have done in this work but God hath carried on-things beyond the wit of man 1 Cor. 1. 19. Isa 44. 29. had those reaching wits many a time taken a quite contrary course how much in probability had we been endangered Fourthly we have gone most forward by going backward gained most by our losses like that plot Josh 8. 20. 22. at our losse of Albertan Bristol Leicoster c. how did our seeming friends turn and were discovered and when we were weakest we did most in most great victories we almost quite lost all ere we conquered as Keinton Newbery Hessam-More Naseby c. at Atherton we first won then lost all Fifthly our enemies have helped and furthered us much in this work how came the Bishops to be shut out of the House of Lords Delinquents from the House of Commons but by their own deeds trecherous persons and plots discovered the enemies victories and plots knit the Houses firmlier together when any breach and won them a peg higher see Daniels three childrens and Josephs enemies raised them this is Digiâ—â— Dei. Sixthly Religions purity the plots and filth of popery more discovered tell me of any war in all the world Grecians Romans c. that ever looked at the power and purity of Religion so much as this Seventhly the work is done not by might or by power but Gods way by Gods spirit Zech. 4. 6. like Jericho's wase the way that Babybon must down Revel 14. 6 7 8. and Antichrist fall 2 Thes 2. 8. Ezra 5. 1 2. Object But Antichrist seems to befar from his fall and going down Answ Consider if as great things and as unlikely have not been done in England within these few yeers he that should have told thee but six yeers agoe that we should have an indissoluble Parliament save by its own power that it should The Lord is gone out besore us Iudg. 4. 14. last above five yeers together that there should be never a Monopoly or Bishop in England that the Book of Common-prayer and twenty such things should be removed would you have beleeved them may not we say God hath done wonders that we looked not for Isa 64. 3. Bâ—â—d 15. 11. and who knowes but God may say thou shalt see greater things 〈◊〉 these John 5. 20. then may we change our praises as they Jer. 16. 14. Secondly when Antichrist goes down he will goe down suddenly like his Master Luke 10. 17. like Pharaoh Human Belshazzar unexpectedly see Revel 18. 8 10 17 19 21. like a great mil-stone thrown down violently Eightly God hath done much already he hath already made
which was taken at Gainsborough as it was bringing to them and some bouses being on fire by the enemies Granadoes the Town was forced to entertaine a parley with the Earl who after some shamefull repulse and losse assured them under his hand that upon laying down their Arms they should have their estates lives and liberties safe but as soon as be entred fined imprisoned plundered many and as it seems had a speciall intent to ruine the Minister of that place aforesaid yet first that Minister went through the midst of the Town then so throng'd undiscerned by any secondly he hid himself in a vault of a bouse not inhabited after he heard of the enemies base unfaithfulnesse and cruelty which house the enemy pulling downe the Works about the Towne came into and kept as their main guard night and day and lay close by him which thing he neither did nor could suspect before-band thirdly the enemy proclaimed him traitor by a cryer throughout the Town yea and all others traitors also who knowing of him brought him not in to them within 24. hours in the aforesaid bouse the souldiers seeking him most diligently thrust their swords betwixt the Loards frequently yet neither found nor hurt him fourthly at last they looked up to a vault above their heads which lay visibly open to view by the space of three yards and more where himself and his man lay indeed and swore that he was there whereupon they instantly ran up their stairs which they kept broke open the door entring to the vault which they saw and where he was found it lockt and the key in the door on the in-side sought him five severall times the great windowes all open round about be and his man lying on their sides could have taken hold on them yet never found either of them no cause but that Jer. 36. 26 fifthly he having layen there on the stones most part of three days and nights viz. from Thursday May 4. 1643. when the Town was taken till Saturday evening May 6. could not stir scarce cough or spet left be should be heard and no friend meat drink or relief could come at him the enemy keeping the Town that house and stairs to the vault be resolved that night rather then starve to goe down and yeeld himself to their cruell mercies for be might hear them swear his death with many dammees presently that very afternoon they went away be cannot to this day learn any reason why for they came thither again the next day and staid there constantly long after as if they had meant as indeed the good and wise God did to give him just a fit time and space to get safe away for neither before nor after could be get away thence nor longer stay here sixthly when he was come down the stairs from the vault though the enemy be found removed yet were the doors lock but the enemy had caused a Carpenter to pull up two boards of the floor to seek for him in a hollow place underneath and left them unnailed down again through which space as if they had ment to have made him away forth be got out seventhly when he came forth Acts 12. 7 10. by that hollow aforesaid he came through the midst of the Town again to his house undiscerned and as he was stepping into the Hall not knowing now who lived there or in any other house there were seven Cavaliers billeted having formerly plundered him sufficiently amongst whom he was just stepping had not a friend of his pulled him by the shoulders into another Room next the Hall eighthly yet durst he not carry there but got to a vault in another house and lay upon an earthern floor the remainder of three weeks in the midst among them yet never got cold nor was the least sick no not so much as usually before ninthly after this he got safe to Manchester after some cumbers is safely returned to his nativeCountry for all which he entreats his friendly neighbours and readers that praises may be returned to the only wise God and sole and lively confidence put in him for ever and ever Which passages Christian Reader together with the ensuing notes bad I not been importuned to publish till I was in Elishah's case 2 Kin. 2. 17. nor thou nor I had had this trouble however if God may have glory his Cause any furtherance or any of his people profit by them I have all my aime and rest The unworthiest of the least of Gods mercies J. S. Hull Novemb. 17. 1645. The three Kingdomes CASE with their CAVSES and CVRE OR A SERMON Preached at Kingston upon HVLL ISA. 42. 24 25. Who gave Iacob for a spoile and Israel to the Robbers Did not the Lord he against whom we have sinned for they would not walk in his wayes neither were they obedient unto his Law Ver. 25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his Anger and the strength of battell and it hath set him on fire round about yet he knew it not and it burned him yet he laid it not to heart I Need not right Honourable and beloved to use any other motive to bespeak your attentions then the words immediately foregoing my Text verse 23. Who among you will give eare unto this who will hearken and beare for the time to come Only give me leave for the cleering of the words to acquaint you and that very briefly first with the Prophet secondly the time when thirdly persons to whom he prophesied fourthly the substance of his prophesie Divines use to cast the sixteen Prophets whose prophesies are recorded in the old Testament into three ranks first some prophesied before the Jewes seventy yeers captivity in Babilon as Jonah Hosea Isaiah and some others Secondly some of them gave cordials in the time of the captivity as Ezâ—â—iel and Daniel Thirdly others quickned them after the captivity and their returne as Haggai Zechariah Malachi Amongst these our Prophet is of the first ranke yet though his prophesie be ranked in the first place it s not probable that he was the first of them in time that prophesied but rather Jonab who prophesied before or at least in the beginning of the raigne of Jeroboam the second 2 King 14. 25 whereas Hosea though you grant him to be a Preacher seventy yeers began but in the latter end of his raigne Hos 1. 1. so in the new Testament its thought by the History in the Acts of the Apostles that not the Epistle to the Romans though placed the first but that to the Thessalonians was first writ also not the book of Malachi but Nehemiah was the last book in order of time and story in the old Testament This Prophet Isaiah was nobly borne by both births of nature and grace being of the royall blood both of Heaven and earth let no man think himselfe too good by reason of his birth or estate to be Gods Prophet see David Solomon Isaiah