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A45536	Prossō kai opissō a sermon eqvally pointing forvvard & backward, as it was deliver'd in the Vniversity Church of Saint Maries in Cambridge / by P.H., B. of Divinity, and sometime fellow of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge, in his forenoone course before that universitie, upon the 22 day of November, in the yeare 1640, being the beginning of this present parliament.	P. H.; Hardres, Peter.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1647 (1647)	Wing H702; ESTC R38787	23,179	42

They i. e. Korah of the Tribe of Levi and Dathan Abiram and On of the Tribe of Ruben v. 1. and 250 Princes of the assembly Famous in the Congregation and men of Renowne vers. 2. Materiale peccati express'd by an unlawfull assembly se ipsos cōgregarūt And they gather'd themselves together Formale peccati that which doth specificate the sinne of Rebellion notified in the Parties against whom they were gather'd together and that was contra Mosen A●ronem the Supreme Prince and Chief Priest Capitulatio The incapitulation or Treatie after they were gather'd together had made their partie good and strong then and not till then they begin to capitulate and treat dixerunt eis And they said unto them Gravaminum Remonstratio in their treatie here 's a Remonstrance or Declaration of their grievances Moses was too high in State and Aaron in the Church there must be no supreme Prince nor chiefe Priest but 't is a paritie both in Church and State which they seem to require and therefore they breake out first with an exclamation Nimium arrogatis Ye take too much upon you Secondly with an expostulation Quare elevamini Wherefore doe you lift up your selves above c. Gravaminum Ratio That they may not seeme to be mad without reason here are the pretended reasons or grounds of these their grievances sufficient in their opinion to justifie an Insurrection And indeed if true the strongest Motives that can be for they are cunningly drawne from Religion and Gods Honour for they can prove from Gods owne Words that all the Congregation was holy every one of them and therefore there must be no Aaron no chiefe Priest Secondly 'T was apparent that the Lord was among them and therefore it was a derogation from his Honour to have a Co-adjutor in Government and so their must be no Moses no supreme Prince Reasons very specious and persuasive But sevently and lastly If ye would know that which the Logicians call Causam {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the true Primary Internall impulsive Cause of all this Tumult and Rebellion ye must not looke for it here in my Text in the publique Remonstrations and Declarations of the Rebells themselves for that is usually kept secret and close from the peoples eyes amongst the chiefe of the Faction and is either disclosed by the Notorietie of the fact when they have attained their ends and purposes or else by the diligent search and enquiry of some honest Historians of those times and the true Primary Impulsive Cause of this Rebellion is discovered by Moses to be Pride and Ambition The beginning of all sinne Korah was but an inferiour Levite and he aspired to the Priest-hood as Moses plainly told him v. 10. Seemeth it a small thing unto you that God brought thee neere to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee but seeke ye the Priest-hood also For which cause both thou and all thy company are gather'd together against the Lord So that the true Cause of Korah's rebellion was ambition he aspir'd to the Priesthood and Aaron stood in his way and therefore his chiefe aime was against Aaron Dathan and Abiram though they were Princes of the Assembly yet they were inferiour to Moses and that was it troubled them Secundi gradus erant impatientes they could not brooke any superiour as they plainly told Moses v. 13. Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a good land that floweth with milke and hony to kill us in the wildernesse except thou make thy selfe altogether a Prince over us So that Ambition too was the true cause of their rebellion they aspir'd to Supremacy and Moses stood in their way and therefore their chiefe aime was against Moses So that whatsoever colour or pretext they make in their publike Remonstrances or Declarations be it Religion or Conscience or care of the Common good the true cause and ground of their rebellion was Pride and Ambition Korah was ambitious of the highest place in the Church Dathan and Abiram in the State and therefore they were gather'd together against Moses and against Aaron and all this worthy of beliefe upon the credit of Moses a faithfull Historian and also an Inspired Pen-man of holy Scripture And so here is you see delineated and drawn a perfect Modell of Rebellion and Rebellions of afterges if they have added any thing they are but some quaint tricks and devices to adorne and set forth the severall parts of this Fabrick this still for forme and fashion standing a compleat and perfect Patterne And so I proceed to the first part of my Text Rebelles The Rebels They Korah Dathan Abiram and On of the Tribe of Ruben and 250 Princes of the Assembly Famous in the Congregation and men of renowne In whom there are three things observable that make this Rebellion dangerous The first is Combinatio Levita Ruben The Levite and the Rubenite joyned Secondly Eminentia Principes coetus Princes of the Assembly Thirdly Popularitas homines celebres Famous in the Congregation and men of renowne 1. Combinatio Korah of the Tribe of Levi and Dathan Abiram and On of the Tribe of Ruben And though none but Korah be named of that Tribe as being the principall Head and one that had his particular aimes and ends yet 't is evident that more of the inferiour sort of the Levites were gotten in to participate of this Rebellion because Moses in the 10 v. speakes in the plurall number to Korah and the rest of his brethren the sons of Levi Seeke ye the Priest-hood also Now the Levites either because they were Gods lot portion to doe the service of the Tabernacle and so were not numbred amongst the rest of the children of Israel by Moses or because God was their lot and portion and therefore they had no inheritance in the division of the land of Canaan for one or both of these reasons the Levites may very well be called by the name of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Clergy or lot of the Lord so that they joyning with the Rubenites it seemes that both Clergy and Laity were combin'd together in this Rebellion and this conjunction gives a strong incouragement and countenance to the action for the Levite or Clergy alone would have wanted power and strength the Laity or Rubenite alone could not have had so fair a color and cloake of Religion to cover their Rebellious practices but both joyn'd together make a strong faction and a faire shew and the action appeares more glorious in the world when there is such a combination between the two maine parts of the state and therefore Adonijah when he exalted himselfe saying I will be King when as Solomon was designed before both by God his father David for that Regall Office he took this course He combin'd himselfe with the Priest and

who is his and who is Holy i. e. in office and function as the next words plainly declare and who ought to approach near unto him i. e. as a Priest to offer Sacrifices burne Incense and performe other Sacerdotall Functions And indeed the Lord shew'd it with a vengeance by the dismall destruction of these unhallowed Rebels and so you see how these Rebels here most prophanely pervert and abuse Gods sacred word because all the Congregation were Holy as being separated from all other people by the choice of Almighty God to keep his Commandements and Ordinances therefore by this aequivocating tricke and shift they would have set up this whole Congregation to stand in competition with Aaron for the Priestly office and so have thrust him out of that eminent place in the Church to which God had called him And by another Religious tricke not unlike this they give an heave at Moses their Prince and Governour for the Lord was amongst them therefore there must be no Moses pretending here the honour and glory of God for therein lies the force of their argument The Lord was amongst them by day in a cloud by night in a pillar of fire and at other times in glorious appearances upon speciall occasions and therefore it was a derogation from the honour of Almighty God that such an inferiour as Moses should take upon him and exercise authority when the King of Heaven and Earth was present and here most impudently they abuse God's honour to cover their unworthy and base practises for they could not be ignorant that God himselfe had imposed this office of Government and Superioritie upon Moses and that with great reluctancy on his part and had seene it confirm'd to him by many signes miracles and wonders In AEgypt at the red Sea and in the Wildernesse usque ad stuporem naturae and what though God were present amongst them as he is every where and can command the whole world solo Nutu yet 't is very well knowne that it seemed good to the wisedome of Almighty God to governe this inferiour world by second causes so that as he disposes and orders the vegetative Natures as Herbes and Plants and other Fruits of the Earth by the notions and influences of the Heavens and Elements and the animall or sensible creatures by the power and wisedome of man so he orders and governes Humane Societies by Kings and Princes whom he cals Nutritios and therfore it being God's Ordinance and pleasure it could be no derogation from his honour or glory that Moses was lifted up above the Congregation of the Lord for had it beene praejudiciall to his honour the wisedome of God could have disposed otherwise of the Government of this world but yet Religion and God's honour were glorious shewes to dazle the peoples eyes that they might not pierce into the depth of their ambitious designes and therefore they cryed out All the Congregation are holy and the Lord is among them and so no Moses no Aaron And see here the corrupt nature of Rebellion There is nothing so Holy nothing so Sacred nothing so Pure but 't is prophaned polluted and defil'd by her abminations Religion that sacred bond tying God and man together is made an instrument by Rebellion to undoe all Humane Societies and the fairest vertue in mans soule is made a Maske to hide the deformities of the foulest Sin When ambition swells or discontent breakes out or fury rages then Religion must be used as decayed faces doe Fucus and Cerus for the basest offices to cozen and delude the world And those who before like the unjust Judge Neither feared God nor regarded man can now fawne upon those whom before in their pride they scorn'd and to advance their owne ambitious ends force themselves against their owne nature and disposition to seeme Religious Nay and make shift to wrap out a place of Scripture too as the Devill did to our Saviour but most miserably wrested and abus'd to serve their owne lusts as we must obey God rather than man Whatsoever this or that particular man or this or that particular Congregation shall conceive and interpret to be the Word of God though this Conception and Interpretation be against the authoriz'd doctrine and discipline of the present Church and the Consent and Practise of the ancient and Primitive Church yet this must be obeyed as the Word of God and that too with rising up and rebelling against their Soveraigne contrary to the expresse Word of God himselfe but let them take heed they doe not venture too far least they be numbred in the list of that unlearned and unstable company of whose doome S. Peter speakes that wrest Saint Pauls Epistles as they doe also the other Scriptures unto their owne destruction The Practice of these Rebells here shew this devilish device to be a great deale more ancient then S. Peters time for they could produce a place of Scripture and Gods honour too for the maintaining of their Rebellious actions when ambition was the true Cause and Ground of their Rebellion And that 's the 7th Part. Korah was ambitious of the highest place in the Church Dathan and Abiram in the State and therefore they were gather'd together Korah it seemes in place eminency was next to Aaron and his sons as being Prince and head of the Kohathides whose office was to beare the Sanctuary a charge of greatest Honour and Note among the Levites so that he could not endure to see his Cousin Aaron enter into the glorious Sanctuary whil'st he stood without or that Aaron and his sonnes should cover the Sanctuary and all the Vessells thereof and he must not so much as see when the holy things were cover'd or touch any holy thing lest he dye this was that discontented him and therefore his aime was against Aaron Dathan and Abiram were Princes and Heads of the Rubenites who came of the Elder-house even of Ruben the eldest son of Iacob they could not endure to be over-topt by the yonger-house by Moses Aaron that descended from Levi the younger sonne of Iacob this was that they stomack't and therefore though their chiefe aime was against Moses yet perhaps Aaron's eminency was an eye-sore to them they could not endure to see the Miter and the Scepter in the younger-house and therefore they are gather'd together against Moses and Aaron And indeed all the world may perceive and so might this whole Congregation too had not they beene most miserably blinded and besotted by the weaknesse and sillinesse of these mens Reasons that their owne ambitious hopes and not the peoples Good was their maine drift and end for can any man with reason thinke or imagine that all the Congregation should have beene Aaron's and Priests because they were all Holy or that they should all have bin Governours Princes and Rulers and do what they lift because the Lord was amongst them This were a mad conceit to