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A79831	Emanuel, or, God with us. Wherein is set forth Englands late great victory over the Scots armie, in a battle at Dunbar, Septemb. 3. 1650. And by many particulars of Gods acting and appearing then for us, it is certaine (and so much is clearly proved) that our armies marching into Scotland, and the wars undertaken and prosecuted against that nation, to be upon grounds of justice and necessity, as the Parliament of England hath declared. Also here is shewed, how grosly the Covenant is abus'd, and what an idoll it is now made. With the fraud and falshood of the Scots, and their kings hypocrisie and dissimulation. Moreover such objections are answered, as seeme to have any thing in them, against the point here asserted. / By John Canne. The first part, published by authority.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1650 (1650)	Wing C439; Thomason E614_11; ESTC R206534	45,110	52

the works of God and his Administrations sought out of all that have pleasure therein to be of no effect and to teach men so to doe when and as they please I have read of Antonius when he angled some dived under water put fishes upon his hook the which he cast up at his pleasure one after another hee that would learn to wrest the Scripture needs not seeke any further Counsel then here for if he cast in his hooke where these Divers are hee may be sure they will fit him with fish to the purpose a subtle device and trick whereby to mock God and destroy his owne soule 5. Sometime the event or successe of a thing is so far from being Null or standing as as a Cipher as the equity and truth of the Cause is thereby confirmed and no other way Put a staffe in the water and it will seeme crooked not that it is so but we cannot see it right for the water Even so a Cause howsoever right and just yet through the cunning of men by the water of their calumniation and slander it may seem otherwise and by many otherwise believed As on the contrary a filthy dunghill may be covered with snow a viper hid under a rose an a 2 Sam. 15.8.11 an unrighteous Cause so coloured and cloak'd with such titles of Truth piety Religion Gods worship c. as some deceiv'd thereby may think the same to be just and good When Jannes and Jambres two Aegyptian Sorcerers withstood Moses and five hundred false Prophets of Baal contended with Elias Here was Cause against Cause Plea against Plea as it is now between us and the Scots But how was the truth here discovered and made to appeare and those satisfied or convinced which were concern'd therein Truly by the Event or Suc●●sse that is he Lord making them Conquerours and giving them the victory who had the just and rightfull Cause That ●aul by his calumniations lyes flatteries and other deceitfull practises had so clouded David's Cause as many thought that his carriage dealing toward his Father in law was not good and that Saul had some reason and ground for what he did so much is very cleare by many passages and expressions of David in the Psalms But the Successe and Event cleared David and justified his Cause as how to wit by the many wonderfull and seasonable deliverances which David had by the Lords mighty appearing and working salvation for him with an high hand On the contrary is not destruction to the wicked Job 31.3 and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity that Divine Justice that followed Saul all along in life and death was such an Event as did prove with a witnesse what for a man he was and how un●● righteously he had dealt with David It is true and I know it to be so that the Parliament of Englands Cause in reference to the publique Enemies of this Common-wealth by what name or title soever hath beene proved sufficiently to be a Just Cause even th● Cause of GOD both by the law of God of Nature and Nations As for instance * See a booke Intituled the golden Rule or Justice advanced The putting to death the late KING the laying aside the House of LORDS the Constitution of England a COMMON-WEALTH the present Parliament a true REPRESENTATIVE and Supreame Authority of the Nation The marching of our Army into Scotland upon grounds of Justice and Necessity All these things have been proved over and over neverthelesse some envying the good we have because it came not to us by them Others perceiving that their private profits and interests must goe downe and lye in the dust if publique Good be set up and prosper hereupon they consult together and are Confederates and what can be done by fraud or falshood or any way they seeke to attempt Yea such are the depths of Satan and mystery of iniquity now working to deceive every where and every one as that the just and righteous Cause of the Parliament is questioned by some denyed by others and all this through the deceit and craft of such men who either are discontented because others under God did the good work and not they or who finde themselves now shut out from the * Act 10.25 〈…〉 know th●● by this 〈◊〉 we have 〈◊〉 wealth A 〈◊〉 reasō●●●●e●ore 〈◊〉 should 〈…〉 ●ccupation g●infull trade formerly they had and unwarranble ways to deceive and 〈◊〉 the people in soule purse and person But the Lord whose wayes and judgements are all ●●●●teous he I say who justifies the righteous and condemns 〈◊〉 wicked seeing them to cast such a cloud over his Cause and to make it contemptible before men by aspe●●ng 〈◊〉 with Treason Vsurpation Oppression Fraud c. comes forth in behalfe of it and as hee did for Moses against the Magicians for Elias against Baals Prophets and for David against Saul so doth hee for us or rather for his great name gives such such glorious Successes and most remarkable Events to this Cause every where that unlesse men did wilfully shut their eyes or made themselves blind through malice pride covetousnesse c. they might see * Quid faciun video nec me ignorantia veri de●ipiet sed amor as clearly as they doe the sunne shining at noone day to be a RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD CAUSE the which the Lord hath doth and will still defend Object 2. The Israelites in two Battles were overcome by the Benjamites but they had a good Cause the which the others had not Therefore Successes or Events in Warre prove nothing in respect of the Cause whether it be just or unjust Answ 1. Some mens tongues are like a mill that is loose hung keepes a mighty crackling but grinds no corne This example of the Benjamites I heare is much talked of and as David said of Goliah's sword there is none like that So some say there is none to this it cannot be answered But how farre this is from that rule simpliciter ad simpliciter inconsistent to the matter they bring it for and to what they apply it will appeare by putting it into forme for thus it must be if it be any thing If GOD sometimes for reasons known to himselfe suffer wicked men to prosper in a bad Cause as to have a Victory once or twice being fewer in number then their Enemies It will necessarily follow that what soever assistance he gives a people in Battle what Victory and Deliverance soever they have in what manner or way soever he appeares for them and against their Enemies Nothing by the Successe or Event can be gathered concerning the justice of the Cause on whose side it is A simple Reader without helpe of Schoole-learning may easily see the vanity and absurdity of such reasoning Suppose I would argue thus there is not any light that shewes a distinction or difference betweene day and night and to prove this assertion I

2.25 11.25 I will put the dread of thee and the feare of thee upon Nations who shall heare report of thee and shall tremble h Jos 2.9 Your terrour is fallen upon us that all the Inhabitants of the land faint because of you i Jos 5.1 Their hearts melted neither was their spirit in them any more because of the children of Israel Thus k Job 17.8 the innocent shall stirre himselfe up against the hypocrite and howsoever behind their backs they shall be called a Sectarian Army and Anti-christs souldiers yet when they come face to face they are a dread and a terror and a great feare unto them and no marvail mark the reason l Ps 14.5 for God is in the congregation of the righteous and breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder and the Chariot he burneth with fire No marvail they throw away their Arms and flie Horse and Foot when God striketh their hearts with inward stinging terrours this was signified by the m Exo. 23.20 Deut. 7.20 Josh 24.12 hornets n Deut. 32.25 The sword without and terrour within shall destroy As a Theif flies before the pursuer and dares not ●ight or look back knowing what he hath done and how his condition is so men being conscious to the falshood and injustice of their Cause have no courage in Battle but through the horrour and dread of a guilty Conscience with sorrow and shame flye before their enemies 4. Feare and faintnesse is upon them because now they begin to consider the great things which the Lord hath done for their enemies What remarkable deliverances and victories they have formerly had how hee hath evermore blest the labours of their hands and made them successefull and prosperous wheresoever they come This coming to their mind with thoughts of Gods revenging hand formerly upon them forth i●deceit and hypocrisie in acting the same thing which now they doe it convinceth them that the others have a rightful cause they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haters of God and fighters against God and Christ ‖ Jer. 33.9 When the nations of the earth shall heare all the good that I doe ●nto thee they shall feare and tremble for all the goodnesse and for all the prosperity that I procure unto thee Saul seeing the Lord was with David o 1 Sam. 18.28 29. he was the more affraid of him howsoever some men make no profitable and good use in beholding Gods mighty Actings for his people neverthelesse affraid they are of such with whom they see Gods presence and appearance thus to be As the Lord said of Noah and his sons p Gen. 9.2 the feare of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth so there fals and lies a dread and fear upon these men although as Saul did David they hate them and are enemies to them continually 5. And in a word they are affraid q Psal 65.8 at Gods tokens what desolations he hath made in the earth Who knows the power of thine anger whilst they consider what others have suffered for hyporisie falshood cruelty and other misdemeanors they cannot but quake and tremble to think how the like wrath is powring out now upon them yea greater deeper heavier being for hypocrisie and prophanenesse of life far worse and viler than many Nations whom the Lord hath scattered and destroyed for such sins r Psal 66.5 Come and see the works of God he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men ſ Isa 42.18 Heare ye deafe and looke ye blind that ye may see Again on the other hand if they are the people and it be the cause which the Lord loves and likes and wil defend he will in Battle put courage and strength into them t Lev. 26.6 None shall make them affraid u Psal 112.8 their heart is established and they shall not be affraid untill they see their desire upon their enemies And no marvell for x Isa 12.2 the Lord JEHOVAH is their strength y Deut. 7.21 a mighty and terrible God among them a Psal 74.12 working salvation in the mids of the earth As one set on a high rock or standing upon a sure and invincible Tower may looke and laugh at all his enemies below not caring what they can do possibly against him how fiercely and furiously soever they assault him so they who have God for their rock and tower though they b Psal 23.4 walk in the valley of the shadow of death though their enemies are two to one yea ten to one and have all the conveniencies accommodations and advantages that their hearts can wish yet they need feare no evill for he c Psal 118.7 that takes their part with them that helps them wil let them see their desire upon them that hate them d Isa 28.29 This also commeth from THE LORD OF HOST which is wonderfull in Counsell and excellent in working 9. If by the return of prayer we may learn any thing of the mind of God in this likewise we have a full and cleare testimony given us that the Lord loved us and approved our Cause This thing his Excellency hath well observed * In his letter to the Ministers in Edenburgh Castle Did not you saith hee solemnly appeale and pray did not we so and shall we after all these our prayers fastings teares expectations and solemn Appeals call these bare Events The Lord pitty you Some men are like little children who cannot read unlesse it be in their owne Booke what gracious Answers and speciall returns of prayer the Lord vouchsafes unto others here they can see nothing of God nothing of his power goodnesse justice and faithfulnesse nothing of his justifying and owning a righteous Cause and his just displeasure against lying and falshood It is only a bare Event which they behold and nothing else to such grosse darkenesse of heart are they given up and delivered over It was a law among the Assyrians that if any did fall sick he should ask counsell of those that had been visited with the like sicknesse by what meanes and way they were recovered If you ask of d Exo. 17.11 Moses e Psal 56.9 David f 2 Chron. 14. Asa g 2 Chron. 20. Jehosaphat h 2 King 19. Hezekiah when they fought against their Enemies who were more in number and mightier then they how out of weaknesse were made strong waxed valiant in fight subdued Kingdoms and turned to flight the Armies of the Aliens They would say The Lord i 1 Chr. 5.20 helped them and delivered the enemies into their hands because they made their supplications and prayers unto him When God purposeth to bestow any speciall favour upon his People he moves their hearts before hand to pray for it How the Lord prepared the heart even filled the souls of many thousand pretious people with the Spirit of Supplication

to be in vaine it is said f Numb 24.25 Balaam rose up and went and returned to his place and Balak also went his way doubtless as convinc'd that the Lord was so with Israel as they should not prosper in that way and course which they had taken up against him Will the Enemies of this Common-wealth be worse and more blind then they What blinder then Balak and Balaam It seems they are for howsoever they have gone as far in essayes and trialls and found no better successe yet have they not the understanding the others had that is to give over and cease as they did and goe every one to his owne home Balak brought Balaam up to the high places of Baal so hath the Enemies designe been * Namely by the late King and his wife who made it their Master-piece and ground-worke to have in the first place the Priests of Rome and England for their asistants Of her it may be said as Livia gravis in Remp. mater Tac. An. l. 1. brought unto the House of Baal The Priests of Roome have built Altars offered Sacrifices ‖ In the Popish Synagogues beyond Sea the late King was every where prayed for that he might prevaile against the Parliament and called upon their Gods their He Saints and She Saints for aid and assistance and the Parliament of England by them hath beene cursed with Bell Booke and Candle But there was no voyce nor any that answered The Lord who g Psal 20.2 sendeth his people help not from the high places of Baal but from his Sanctuary and supporteth them out of Sion turned that curse into a blessing unto us Besides whatsoever the Baalimites could otherwise doe as the Pope Cardinals Jesuites Monks Fryars with the English Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Cannons the rest of that Viperous brood either by their counsells Policies * There have bin many great Collections among the Papists as voluntary gifts in all Popish Countreys for to furnish the late King with monies in his war against the Parliament besides the great sums he had from them other wayes Purses or what way else they have contributed from time to time all the furtherance and help they could But as a wet Sack wherewith a naked man is covered is so far from arming him against the cold that it doth increase his shivering So this Enemies Designe hereby was so far from being holpen or effected as this prov'd a means the Lords good hand so ordering it of its greater fall and ruine Truly in vaine is Salvation hoped for from the Hills and from the multitude of Mountaines truely in the Lord our God is the Salvation of Israel Isa 3.23 2. As Balak brought Balaam h Num. 32.14 into the Field of Zophim that is of the * So is the word by the Learned Interpreted Spies or Scowt-watches So the Enemies great cause or designe hath been here likewise witnesse the Popish prelatical and Malignant party who have watcht all opportunities to raise Hurliburleys and Commotion both in England and Ireland and where ever they have spied any advantage or imagined the least help of successe multitudes have made themselves ready to engage against the Parliament What i Isa 29.20 watching there hath beene for iniquity k Psal 37.32 to slay the righteous pretended to be for the Protestant Religion Priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subjects now for the Covenant and reformation it is well knowne by what the blood-thirsty Irish and desperate English Cavaleers have often attempted but he that sits in Heaven laughed them to scorne so as their taking Counsells together their Associations conspiracies and insurrections in City and Countrey was to them no otherwise then a Quagmire or Irish-bog the more they stir'd the deeper they sanke and faster they were l Isa 47.11 Mischiefe did fall upon them and they were not able to put it off and suddain desolation which they did not know Our Army m Psal 18.42 Beating them small as the dust before the wind casting them out as the dirt in the street 3. As Balak when he saw he could not attaine his end by carrying Balaam unto the two former places he brings him then n Num. 23.28 unto the top of Peor to o Deut. 3 2● Beth-Peor the House or Temple of his God the Kirk in which his Idoll was the enemies designe their great cause after they have p Ezek. 9.5 wearied themselves to commit iniquity and with their lyes at length is brought to the holy place where under colour of Religion and reformation it may be the more strengthened and better carried forth But as Solomon sayth q Ezek. 24 1● The Sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind As the Lord here saw * Si mulata aequitasnon est aequitas sed ini qua duplex quia iniquitas est simulatio Aug. Super. Ps 63. more dissimulation Hypocrisie falshood then on the high places of Baal or Field of Zaphim so doth the power of his anger the more appeare here the Lord will shew himselfe that he hath not pleasure in wickednesse is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity And howsoever perhaps they might flatter themselves and think He would hide his face and never see it or say How doth he know Can he judge through the dark Clouds Neverthelesse he did see their falshood and jugling how cunningly soever covered and hath left them as Lots Wife to be a Pillar of Salt a memorable example unto posterity not to provoke the Almighty and terrible God in such sort for as Eliphaz sayth in Job The Congregations of Hypocrites shall be desolate My flesh trembleth for feare of thee ‖ Job 15.43 and r Pro. 21.27 I am afraid of thy Judgements Two things I find more acted at Beth-Peor First Balaams wicked Doctrine who Counnselled Balak to lay a Stumbling-block before the Children of Israel whereby they might be occasioned to rebell against the Lord and so destroyed 2 Balaks putting off his Prophet without any reward when he saw he had received no profit by him and that all his juggling and Hocus-Pocus helpt him not O Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdome thou hast made them all What was that Declaration which the Scots lately counselled their King to set forth but * It carries the look face of their Kirk Balaams Doctrine a stumbling block a snare a pit For what was the maine drift and scope thereof but rebellion against God and man namely to have the English rise up in Armes against the Magistrate that so they might be cut off I say themselves their Families Wives and Children utterly undone and then the Scots to come in for our Gued or Goods As for the other particular their King perceiving now that he cannot carry on his designe by their Wiles wherewith they thought to have beguiled