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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93052	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. /	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1646 (1646)	Wing S3030; Thomason E330_1; ESTC R200707	29,664	42

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 Ez●●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