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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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