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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

not to war with Counsell for then we should have raged in cold bloud and upon mature deliberation But we have now escaped both these and all the war is concluded in a Parliamentary peace Brethren Exod. 14. v. 13. here let us stand still awhile and see the salvation of God let us even loose our selves in an unparallel'd wonder Call to mind all your readings in Scripture in Civill Histories new and old Greeke Latine English were all these particulars ever read or heard to concurre in one businesse since the day that God created man upon the earth I say all these particulars First that ever any Nation living in the same continent under the same Monarch and Religion with a Sister Nation was by that Sister I meane generally and publiquely preached against prayed against proclaimed disclaimed exclaimed against throughout all their Churches And that Secondly this Sister Nation was with an Army in the field skirmished withall even to bloud-shed in the bowels of her Sister Kingdome And yet Thirdly now marke the wonder that this people so called and used as traitors should anon bestiled and enacted Our Brethren by a Parliament and that their faithfulnesse and constant loyalty should be commanded by the King and supreame Court of the Kingdome to be proclaimed in the same places and by the same men which before proclaimed them the worst of enemies and all this shut up in a day of publicke thanksgiving 4. Nay and to make the wonder overflow in a word the greatest sticklers in this Commotion those which like Zedekiah the sonne of Chenaanah 1 King 22.11 did make themselves hornes to push most at these supposed Syrians they are caught by their owne hornes Gen. 22. v. 13. like Abrahams ramme in the thicket and are now like to be sacrificed in stead of Isaack I meane in in stead of the innocent party Let me conclude this wonder with those words of the Prophet Isaiah Isa 64. v 3. taken in our sence When thou didst terrible things O Lord which we looked not for thou camest downe the mountaines flowed downe at thy presence ver 4. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the eare neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee which doth so for him that waiteth for him And was not this a great Removall But I am too narrow all this while in staying so long upon one though a great particular There are many many many evils removed from us Brethren I have thought with my selfe in this point upon the plagues of Egypt they were exceeding great you know and very many but what if we can paralell them all in both respects in those evils which are already in whole or in a great part removed from us Give me leave to enter upon a Collation or Comparison many of them I am sure doe fall in properly My method in every particular of the Collation shall be this 1. To set downe the Egyptian Plague 2. The English Paralel 3. The Parliamentary Removall But before hand take this my just Apology concerning this Collation In the following enumeration of Grievances and in all other like passages of these Treatises mine onely end and purpose is to magnifie the Lords mercy our Soveraignes goodnesse and the Parliaments noble service in freeing the Kingdome from these evils The fault and guilt doth rost wholly upon the Proiectors Procurers and Executioners and that offence is so much the more hainous in them because they have misinformed so gracious a Soveraigne and have abused those grants to the oppression of the Subiects which his Maiesty did vouchsafe under the notion of publicke benefits and did apprehend as commodities to his people and therefore I conclude mine Apology with some of those words of King Solomon to Shimei 1 King 2 cap. v. 44 45. Therefore the Lord shall returne their wickednesse upon their owne heads and King Charles shall be blessed and the Throne of his Father shall be established before the Lord for ever And in this sence I proceed to the Paralell 1. The first plague in Egypt was the turning of their waters into bloud Aaron did lift up his red and smote the waters that were in the river in the sight of Pharaoh Exod. 7. v. 20. and in the sight of his servants and all the waters that were in the river were turned into bloud And the fish that was in the river died ver 22. and the river stuncke and the Aegyptians could not drinke of the water of the river and there was blood throughout all the Land of Aegypt Now what are the waters of a Kingdome Quest I find in Scripture two sorts of them which are eminent Answ 1. Eze 47. v. 1.2 c. There are the waters of the Sanctuary which are the Ministry and preaching of the word these are the Ecclesiasticall waters And alas how were those turned into blood throughout the Land Instead of cleansing which is one use of waters they did defile and pollute For Popery Arminianisme Antisabbatarianisme c. they were the rising Doctrines generally vented in your golden Pulpits And instead of refreshing and quickning too for that 's another use of waters they did in many places grieve the hearts of the righteous How common a practice was it to preach downe preaching and to jostle out praying with prayers When poore soules asked or came to the Church for bread Mat. 7. v. 9. lo a stone was given unto them nay cast at their heads if they asked for fish ver 10. the waters were turned into blood the fish was dead and instead thereof too many Ministers gave them a Scorpion like unnaturall spirituall parents as they were Thus were the spirituall waters turned 2. There are Civill waters of Judgement in a Kingdome too Amos 5. v. 24. Let iudgement runne downe as waters and righteousnesse as a mighty streame Amos 6. v. 12. But alas againe how were these also turned into gall and hemlock yea into blood in diverse cases and places the potion it selfe became a poyson unto many for those very waters of our Lawes which were enacted to purge away the wicked like drosse and to refresh and releeve all loyall subjects these streames like Jordan were driven backward Psal 114. v. 3. upon the free holy loyall spirits of the Kingdome and our owne Ordinances were turned upon us This was ours Paralell to the first of Aegypts Plagues 3. But now behold the Removeall of this already in some comfortable measure Pure doctrine is againe let loose yea truth insteed of falling in the streets now lifteth up her voyce in the places of concourse and equity can also enter Unsound doctrines are suspended and extra-judiciall opinions are now judged themselves Reddita Roma sibi est England doth once more at present enjoy her English protestanisme and priviledges The second Aegyptian plague was the Frogs And the Lord spake unto Moses say unto