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A28627	Core redivivus in a sermon preached at Christ-Church Tabernacle in London upon Sunday, September 9, 1683, being a day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Sacred Majesties person and government from the late treasonable rebellion and fanatick conspiracy / by William Bolton ...	Bolton, William, 1650 or 51-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3535; ESTC R23230	14,627	36

an Absolute freedom with Liberty and Property Words I must confess not expressed but sufficiently implyed in this Chapter as will appear to any who seriously read the same They are made to believe that they shall have a Power in sacred Matters as should both authorize and justifie their approaches to the Holy Altar without the intervention of Priest or Prelate The People being gulled by such Arts as these the Leaders boldly shew themselves against Moses and Aaron and impudently tell them to their faces vers 3. of this Chapter You take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation are Holy even every one of them and the Lord is among them Wherefore then lift ye up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord At the hearing of this Moses falls upon his face vers 4. and tells them that on the morrow the Lord would shew who were his and then gently rebukes these Sons of Levi the true Fathers of our Presbyterians who scorn to acknowledge any Jurisdiction above their own vers 9. Seemeth it but a small thing to you that the God of Israel hath seperated you from the Congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the Service of the Tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the Congregation to Minister unto them and he hath brought thee near to him and all thy Brethren the Sons of Levi and seek ye the Priest-hood also for which cause both thou and all thy Company are gathered together against the Lord and what is Aaron that ye Murmur against him As if he should have said It is not Aaron that hath thrust himself into or invaded this Office for he was consecrated unto it by God himself After such a gentle Rebuke he condescends to send a Messenger unto them to call Dathan and Abiram who vers 12. impudently return they will not come unto him and not only so but with most upbraiding terms and severest Sarcasms vers 13 14. endeavoured to expose him to the shame and contumely of the People Is it a small thing say they that thou hast brought us up out of a Land that floweth with Milk and Honey to kill us in the Wilderness except thou makest thy self altogether a Prince over us Moreover thou hast not brought us up into a Land that floweth with Milk and Honey or given us Inheritance of Fields and Vineyards wilt thou put out the Eyes of these Men we will not come up Moses though the meekest of men yet as the following Verse tells us was wroth and appeals unto the Lord as a Witness of his Integrity hear himself speaking I have not taken one Ass from them neither have I hurt one of them Thus Beloved you have an Account of their Conspiracy now be pleased to take a view of the end of these wicked Men see whether they are not consumed in their Sins Their Sin was great so likewise was their Punishment too and that all men might be fright'ned and terrified from their levelling Principles from opposing their lawful Magistrate and promoting a Party between the High-Priest and Levite or between the Bishop and Priest now for I cannot but take the latter in the Christian Church to answer the former in the Jewish vers 31. We read That the Ground clave asunder that was under them and the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their Houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah all their Goods they and all that appertained unto them went down alive into the Pit and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the Congregation And so I come to my second Proposition viz. 2. That all Rebellion of what kind soever is not only unlawful but destructive likewise to Traytors and that in both Worlds 1. It is unlawful but I shall only speak two or three Words of this as supposing it a Subject that hath been often handled especially at this time by more learned men I shall only say this That to oppose our lawful Magistrates is against the Sense and Practice of Christ's Church in all Ages even under the severest Persecutions I say in all Ages even under the severest Persecutions of Heathen Emperours nay under Julian the Apostate for never never were the Primitive Fathers brought in and wrack'd to patronise Rebellion till these last Years calculated without doubt for the Meridian of this Conspiracy though how much the Fathers were wronged the Confutation of what hath been alledged hath sufficiently declared But then 2. Rebellion is not only unlawful but destructive likewise to Traytors in both Worlds Give me leave to dwell somewhat long upon this Particular I say then Treason is pernicious and destructive to Traytors Good Christians If we shall reflect upon the judicial Proceedings of God Almighty in this kind you will find him so jealous of his own as not to suffer in his Deputy's Honour and therefore by a secret and irresistible Power he hath still countermanded the deepest projects of T raytors he hath split their Councils and struck their most refined Policies with Frustration and a Curse Histories both sacred and profane are full of Instances of this nature You have heard how Korah Dathan and Abiram amongst the Jews suffered both in themselves and Accomplices for their Mutiny against Moses But because people are more won by Examples than any other way of Discourse I shall mention several out of the Sacred Bible and our English Annals 1. Out of the Bible Let Absolom steal the Hearts of Israel from David both his King and Father let ten of the twelve Tribes of Israel acknowledge and proclaim him King in Hebron let him be back'd with all the Policy of Achitophel let the distressed David fly from his Royal Seat and let his ungrateful and rebellious Son possess Jerusalem let a Tent be spread upon the top of the House and Absolom go in unto his Fathers Concubines in the sight of all Israel so that all the Conspirators may know that he never expected to be reconciled to his Father Let Achitopbel give Absolom advice to pursue David and his Followers who were weary and faint and in no likelihood of escaping had not God been on his side when wicked men thus rose up against him A very formidable Conspiracy this you will say but behold the Issue of it the Council of Achitophel is turned into folly insomuch that he is forced to lay violent hands upon himself and though the too indulgent Father gives command to the Army to spare this his unnatural Son yet rather than Absolom shall prosper in his Treason his ●wn beloved Hair shall serve for an Halter to execute him you may read the whole Conspiracy at your leasure in Sam. 2. from Chap. 15. to the 19. Let Sheba the Son of Bichri make aparty in Israel against David let him secure himself in the strong City of Abel a Woman shall perswade his own followers to cut off his Head and present it unto Joab