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A02457	A sermon needfull for theese [sic] times wherein is shewed, the insolencies of Naash King of Ammon, against the men of Iabesh Gilead, and the succors of Saule, and his people sent for their reliefe. Preached at Paules Crosse the 14 of Feb. 1590. by R.H. fellow of the New Colledge in Oxford.	Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621.	1591 (1591)	STC 12589; ESTC S118991	25,030	54

A SERMON NEEDFVLL FOR THEESE TIMES WHEREIN IS SHEWED THE INSOLENCIES OF NAASH KING OF AMMON against the men of Iabesh Gilead and the succors of Saule and his people sent for their reliefe Preached at Paules Crosse the 14 of Feb. 1590. by R. H. fellow of the New Colledge in Oxford Iud. 5.23 Curse ye Meroz sayeth the Angel of the Lorde and in cursing curse the inhabitantes thereof because they came not to helpe the Lorde to helpe the Lorde against the mighty AT OXFORD Printed by IOSEPH BARNES Printer to the Vniuersitie 1591. TO THE NO LESSE VERTVOVS THEN HONOrable Sir HENRY NORREIS Knight Lorde Norreis Barron OF RICOT ENCREASE OF HONOR WITH ALL grace and all felicity * ⁎ * THERE is none soe weake sighted right Honorable but nowe by long experiēce they may see the deep and vnchangeable hatred of the popish faction conceaved against our dread soveraigne as the party most principal and others the embracers professors of gods truth The which hath so depraved poysoned many their hartes that it hath not only removed from them all loyalty to their prince loue to their countrie but also hath carried thē so far against the streame of al goodnes and sence of nature that they haue by sundrie meanes and sundry persons attempted to doe violence vpon her sacred maiesty and farther haue sought so far as in them laye to moue rebellions in the lande and with their owne ruines and ruinns of their families to worke the overthrowe of this their countrie vnsufferable slavery vnto a forrē enimy Whose wicked malice although god of his goodnes hath hitherto detected and blowne abroad to their own shame and great confusion yet there cause hath been of late more specially commended vndertaken by the greate pation of the holy league who vnder a shew and couler of religion and of yeelding succours vnto there cause doth affect the soverainty and Empire not only of thē of this our countrie but of al other kingdomes here in the west Wherefore it standeth all good people vpon which loue their liberty would not that a stranger should reape that they haue sowen to giue eare vnto the calles of their superiors by whose providence vnder god they haue bin hitherto kept and stil may be continued in wealth liberty For if the counsel of their rulers shal not fit their restles vncōtēted humors but they wil needes hearken either to the sinister persuasion of some evil disposed or to the vnprovident miserablenesse of their al coveting natures they shall not only thrust from them that good which their governours woulde procure but by sparing of a little put them selues in daunger of leesing more For if which god forbid the enemie shoulde be suffered to make our neighbour countries the shops and center of his warres and without impeachement to prepare his navyes and armies as before and with fier and sworde to enter and make some smal ●●…y in this our countrie although hee bee manfully beaten backe and forced to retire nay flye without all order yet the havockes made by them together with the spoiles of lose persons and of others not so well affected amongst our selues woulde multiply the charges we haue hitherto beene at beside the dishonour of our countrie hurre of the people and infinite dammage of many our brethren vpon whomsoever it shal light All which as it sufficeth here for to remember so for the better instruction of the people in this pointe I commende this small treatise vnto their reading And whereas Right Honorable youre godly desires haue alwaies been for the welfare of your country and aduauncement of gods truth and you haue of your loynes many worthy children set a part and marked of god to such an ende I thought good both in respect of the matter and my manifold duety to commend this treatise to your Honors fauor and protection Of which as I nothing doubt so I shal not cease to commend you and yours to the gracious guidance blessing and protection of God From new College the 27 of March Your Honors in all duty ROGER HACKEY A SERMON PREACHED AT Paules Crosse ALTHOVGH these dayes of much contention prophanes doe minister iust occasion to speake of the several duties of each particular estate yet in a common wo vniversal calamity which hath beene threatned practised is stil continued against our nation it standeth in wisedome to looke rather to the roote then to the branches to the welfare safety of the whole then the cure remedy of some particular part For since this if you consider is the scope of all their counsels to take from vs not onely our well being but our being even church and kingdome and to bring all into a miserable thral dome both of body and soule let vs beware least while we gape after the shadow we lese not the substance the shadow to least whilst we would raise a tower to mount vp to heaven we set not vp a Babel the confusion of al. The which I speake not to rubbe and fret the sores of any which mourne in Sion for the sins of there people and would haue Ierusalem builded as a city that is at vnity in it selfe But to advise our overheddy and hasty spirites ether for a while to rebate the edge of their il tempered fury or els to turn their keene and wel sharpned humours against a knowen and most bloudy enimy which will none of our Bishops nor yet our pastors nōe of our religion nor yet our discipline none of our protestantes nor yet our puritanes but which to the griefe of vs all and especially of such in whose harts god hath placed the sēce of better thinges would set vp the abomination of desolation in our tēples againe would bring Ridly Hooper Bishops and pastors men though now variyng againe to be fired and burned at a stake In regarde therefore of this most cruell enemy loue of gods church and tender of this our natiue country I haue chosen this scripture as the fittest for me to speake of and you to heare God graunt that we may al follow it as may be to his glory and our countries good The text is taken out of the first booke of Samuel the eleventh Chapter beginning at the fift verse And Saul saide What aileth this people that they weep and they shewed vnto him the wordes of the men of Iabesh then the spirit of the lord came on Saul whē he hard those words and he was exceeding angry he tooke a yoke of oxen cut them in peeces sent them into al the coasts of Israel by the handes of messengers saying Whosoeuer commeth not after Saul and a●…ter Samuel so shal his oxen be served and the feare of the Lord came vpon the people and they came forth as one man IN the opening of which text we are to cōsider first the occasion why the people

work of envy and of trouble liked of none but the distressed sort but go through in the power of god whose iudgement you execute and if thou be an inferiour magistrate prefer their plaints to thy superiour and say with Hester to Assuerns How can I suffer and see the evil that is come vnto my people how can I suffer and see the trouble of my kindred yea although thou maist make thy profit w t the peoples hurt yet defy that profit that is gotten with their teares gain that is accompanied with their curse And although with David thou long to drinck the water of the wel of Bethel to encrease in wealth and leaue a kingdome to thy posterity yet when thou shalt consider that this water is gotten by the ieopardy of mens liues thy riches by the spoile of the needy oppression of thy brethren powre it forth do not drinke but say with that kingly Prophet be it far from me that I should drinck the price of bloud And let that be the croune and fulnes of your glory wherein dying Pericles did most of all reioice I haue not clothed my selfe with the teares of the people there is none for me hath woorne a mourning weede This if thou refuse how canst thou here with Saul iustly saie what aileth the people that they weep when it is thou that for thy gaine dost wrest teares frō their eies sighes from their harts and forcest them in the bitternes of their soule to curse thee and wish that thou wert dead And if al this can not moue yet come and learne yee Christians of a heathen ye captaines of a captaine ye rulers of a ruler of the people worthy Camillus captain of the Romaines who when hee sawe the citty of the Veians which he had surprised flaming with fier wept over the city and lifting his handes vp to heaven saide If it be thy pleasure ô god blesse our affaires but if thou purpose euil to the city of Rome and to our nation ô spare them and let al their evils ende in my selfe Even so and with such affection should our princes and rulers speake O lord if it be thy pleasure blesse our affaires but if thou purpose evill to this city and to our nation O spare them and lette all their evilles ende in our selues But alasse be it spokē with their patience and in all reverence vnto so greate estates it is not thus with the rulers of our age they doe not saie What aileth the people that they weepe neither doe they seeke to yeelde comforte to their heavy harts but like hard harted nurces they suffer them to crie till they be weary And when they cry hush hush would haue them still yet then with their stripes doe they occasion newe teares And although they bee not so evill as was Caligula to wish one head to the people that at one stroke he might cutte it of nor soe vaine as was Nero to seeke their sportes in the firing of Rome their pleasures in the spoile of the countrie yet they canne not say with Samuell a ruler of Israell Whose ox haue I takē Or whose asse haue I taken or whome haue I done wrong to or whome haue I hurt or of whose handes haue I receaued bribe And I wil restore it vnto him againe lest happily the people shew their wronges and their hurtes call for there oxen and there asses their sundry giftes and there be no power in the maiestrate to restore When the people of Israell had made vnto themselues a golden calfe turned the glory of god into the Image of a beast that eateth hay the Lord said vnto Moses let me alone this is a stifnecked people I will consume them at once I wil make of thee a mighty natiō but Moses said pardō their sin or if thou wilt not blot me out of the book which thou hast writtē Now if for the sin of the people god should threaten to root out the memory of a nation from vnder heauē would not many rulers be glad of this so that of there bowels god would raise a mighty nation would they refuse gods offer as Moses doth here pray for the people and wish to be raised out of the book of life if god should not pardon the trespasse of the people and yet the rulers should be as Moses in preferring the good of the people before the good of their seede their liues and safety should be vile in their eies in regarde of the good and safety of the whole For doubtles if the people weepe there be noe Saul to pitty but the rulers speake vnto them as did Pharaoh to the Iewes at what time they moued and complained their greefes Ye are to idle go and worke there shal be no straw givē you yet you shal deliver the whole tale of brick As Mardochay said to Esther God may otherwise sēd comfort deliveraunce vnto his people like as here he did vnto these Iewes and this over rough and cruell dealing may be sometime in cause of the peoples revolt for not to speak of the presedēts of others either lately in our neighboure coūtries shewen or storied in the bookes of ancient recorde if Rehoboā had mildly answered the people after the coūsell of the auncient they had continued his servantes forever but when he followed the headines of the young and threatned to make the grievos yoake of his father more greevos to whip thē with scourges whom his father chastised with roddes al Israel saw they were not regarded in a fury they brake away and saide What portion haue we in David we haue no inheritaunce in the sō of Ishai to your tentes O Israel Now see to thine house O David So they revolted from Rehoboam and made Ieroboam their king Now whether this even by the contrary to shewe the happinesse of this our English nation which hath a Saul that harkeneth to their cries which preventes often the occasion of their teares and is most desirous at the first notice to remooue the cause of all their sorrowe Wherefore long maie England haue part in her and she in them as maie bee to the encrease of her glorie and farther welfare of this her realme But yet if her vnder rulers and governours to whome these thinges shoulde bee better known do aske with Saul what aileth the people that they weep or with Artaxerxes of Nehemiah why is thy countenance sad and why art thou of an heavy cheare seing thou art not sick sure this is nothing but sorrow of hart We may answere with Nehemiah in that place ô ye rulers liue for ever why should not our countenaunce be sad our heartes heavy since we may not safelye speake the abuses that wee knowe or if wee doe yet wee shall not see them remedied For if we may speake of thinges knowen and which are in every eye let Saul