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cause_n	aaron_n	land_n	stretch_v	79	3	11.7662	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28659	A doore of hope, also holy and loyall activity two treatises delivered in severall sermons, in Excester / by Iohn Bond ...; Doore of hope	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1641 (1641)	Wing B3569; ESTC R23253	104,423	165

Aaron Exod. 8. v. 6. stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streames over the rivers and over the ponds and cause frogs to come up upon the Land of Egypt ver 7. And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt 2. These Frogs I conceive may fitly nay must be paralleld in the multitudes of Fryars and Priests amongst us croking and crawling up like their Frogs into houses and bed-chambers ver 2. They shall come up into thine house and into thy bed-chamber and upon thy bed and into the house of thy servants and upon thy people and into thine Ovens and into thy kneeding troughs And have not these croking crawlers of late especially come up from all the foure Seas or channells of this Island have they not in a sence almost covered the Land going like the Divell in the earth too and fro in the Nation Job 1. v. 7. and walking up and downe in it Nay have they not gone openly for a long time in the streetes of the Metropolis of this Kingdome like the shamelesse Harlot in the Proverbs A woman of whorish attire and subtill of heart Pro. 7. v. 10 11 12. she is lowd and stubborne her feet abide not her house Now is she without now in the streets and lyeth in waite at every corner And the Reason or ground of her boldnesse followeth For that the goodman is not at home ver 19 20. he is gone a long iourney c. So Parliaments are long in comming and when they came they made but little stay Yea once more have not these Frogs walked in those streetes more securely by farre and freer from Messengers then those Conscientious painefull Ministers which have scrupled some Ceremonyes in their owne natures indifferent Bretheren I appeale to your owne ingenuity and knowledge touching the multitudes of those Frogs 3. But now concerning their Removall blessed be the God of truth there hath beene already some order taken by Proclamation for their expulsion and they are deveted to banishment The good Lord finish this work that it may be done to them that was to those Frogs in Aegypt Saith Moses The frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people they shall remaine in the river only The third and fourth plagues being Lice and Flies I shall joyne together As they are joyned Psal 105. v. 31. He spake and there came diverse sorts of flies and lice in all their coasts Of the latter sort the plague of Lice see Exod. 8. v. 16 17. And the Lord said unto Moses say unto Aaron stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the Land that it may become Lice throughout all the Land of Egypt And they did so for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth and it became lice in man and in beast all the dust of the land throughout all the land of Egypt Of the former viz. Swarmes of Flies see Exod. 8. v. 21 24. Behold I will send swarmes of slies upon thee and upon thy servants and upon thy people and into thy houses and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarmes of flies c. Calvin reads Examen and indeed both sorts of them are baggage vermine alike The English Paralell of these may be all our Proiectors and Monopôlists in the secular State and in the Ecclesiasticall all those Vexatious hang-byes and exacting underlings of that Court of Commissioners suppressed by the late Statute as insufferable oppressors All these Civill and Spirituall wickednesses ô how did they of late plague the soules bodyes and goods of the whole Kingdome The Paralell betwixt them and these Aegyptian vermine doth hold in diverse respects as First in respect of their Eduction or Generation the Lice were begetten out of the dust Exo. 8. v. 16. Stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may become lice throughout all the land c. And were not these unlawfull Proiectors and Monopôlists for the generall Animalia ex putridâ materiâ solis calore c. obscure heads and vile persons raised out of the dust and this made that opression so much the more intollerable for there is no oppressor to a begger if once he can get on horse-back to oppresse Nihil deterius est imperante servo Nay 't is Scripture Prov. 28. v. 3. A poore man that oppresseth the poore is like a sweeping raine which leaveth no food What cruelty mentioned in the Gospell was like his which ought more then he was worth He takes his fellow by the throat Mat. 18 v. 28 29 30. would have no pitty on him but cast him into prison c. Secondly the likenesse holds in regard of their Multitudes Exod. 8.17 21. It became lice in man and in beast all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt And againe I will send swarmes of flyes upon thee and upon thy servants and upon thy people and into thy houses and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarmes of flies and also the ground whereon they are The Margent saith A mixture of noysome beasts Brethren and did not our case fall pat with theirs in this what corner what condition yea what commodity almost in the land was not pestered with those Proiectors and their emissaryes Oh the Alphabet of Monopôlyes which we might here reckon up yea rather an Alphabeticall Index there being diverse particulars belonging to one letter and so in severall letters of the foure and twenty What shall I say our meats our drinks our cloathings our extraordinaryes our necessaryes were all annoyed by these lice and flies Nay one thing more as in Egypt Exod. 8. v. 21. ver 24. the ground also was full of them and the land was corrupted by reason of the swarmes of flies So 't is observeable with us that those illegall taxes projected by some did destroy the very Land I meane they reached beyond houses and shops even to husbandry and to the beasts of the field And now see the removall of all these in a very blessed degree 1. How many Monopolies were cast downe by those first Proclamations and all the rest saving Justice a labour are tottered after of their own accord 2. Ship-mony is damn'd as they call it by one Act of Parliament 3. And vexatious Knight-hood by another 4. Besides that against stannery Incroachments and for the certainty of Forrests which though divers I doe put them together 5. And finally least the Hidras heads should spring again for prevention of a returne or relapse behold that great and gracious Statute of a Trienniall Parliament together with another for continuance of this present of which more hereafter Is 107.8 O that men would therfore praise the Lord fir his goodnesse and for his wonderfull