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A79856	A two-fold shaking of the earth: or, an exposition on Heb. 12.26, 27 Wherein is shewed, the first shaking of the earth, seems to be meant the putting down of the late King and bishops: the later shaking, a change of the present government. And reasons given for both. Also how, and in what manner this later earth-shaking may be according to scripture-prophesie: namely, by that earth-quake, Rev. 11.13 which is likewise opened. Lastly, here are many reasons given, why it may be hoped that this present parliament will prove to be that earth-quake (or at least begin the work) whereby the good old cause will be revived, the just rights of the people restored, and the nation setled upon a lasting and durable foundation of truth and righteousness. By John Canne.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1659 (1659)	Wing C443AB; ESTC R223834	46,560	139

Henry Drummond ●lbury Park SURREY A two-fold Shaking Of the EARTH OR An Exposition on Heb. 12.26 27. Wherein is shewed The FIRST SHAKING OF THE EARTH seems to be meant the putting down of the late King and Bishops the later Shaking a change of the present Government And Reasons given for both ALSO How and in what manner this later Earth-Shaking may be according to SCRIPTURE-PROPHESIE Namely by that Earth-quake Rev. 11.13 which is likewise opened Lastly Here are many Reasons given why it may be HOPED that this PRESENT PARLIAMENT will prove to be that EARTH-QUAKE or at least begin the work whereby the GOOD OLD CAUSE will be revived the just Rights of the People restored and the Nation setled upon a lasting and durable Foundation of Truth and Righteousness BY JOHN CANNE Printed for L. Chapman at the Crown in Popes-head Ally 1659. To the Reader Reader THou must be a stranger in our Israel if thou hast not heard of a people call'd Commonwealths-men and Fifth-Monarchy-men and what grievous things are laid to their charge Now I care not who thou art that shalt read this brief Apology for them if thou be not like him who said He would not be convinc'd though he were convinced The great accusation raised up and spread all the Nation over against these men is That they allow not Magi●●●ates neither would they have the people be un-under Laws and Government I think I may confidently say The Devil who is the father of lyars never brought forth a greater untruth nor had less whereby to palliate and hide his falshood then in this particular For not only do these men approve of Laws Magistrates and Government but there are none in the Nation that do more desire pray for and press after uncorrupt Magistrates good Laws and a righteous Government then they But this is true and the Court-party knows it they are not for Tyrants neither to have an Arbitrary power exercised over the lives Liberties and Consciences of the people but would have the undoubted Rights and Priviledges of the Nation setled upon a lasting and durable foundation of truth and righteousness they would have no violence or oppression done to any man but all men as men enjoy their Birth-right yea and if it were possible to deliver the whole Creation from that bondage and groaning under which it lies into the glorious liberty of the children of God Rom. 8.20 21 22. If a man dislike the standing of weeds in a garden doth it follow he is against the sowing and planting it with herbs and flowers Reader open thine eyes and look up like a man here thou hast the Case truly stated these Commonwealths-men and Fifth-Monarchy-men are not well pleased that the English Garden or Commonwealth should be overspread with the vines of Sodom and the sowr grapes of Gomorrha Isa 1.10 That persons of corrupt interest should impose at their pleasure heavy yokes upon the necks of the free-men of England That the proud are called happy and they that work wickedness are set up That judgment is turned away backward and justice stands afar off That truth is fallen in the streets and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey That such weeds and trash should be in the GARDEN they do dislike it this is true they both speak against it and mourn for it But will any man of reason or sense therfore conclude they are against all Magistracie and Government but rather thus they would have these hurtful weeds pluckt up by the roots that righteous things might be planted in the room of them The next thing that I shall speak a little to is to give the Reader some Reasons of publishing this Treatise 1. After some seeking of God and searching the Scriptures this I humbly conceive that the Lord will begin to revive his Good Old Cause again by the Representatives of the people As he honoured and blest the long Parliament with a good progress in the work of Reformation so I think he will make yet further use of Parliaments for the publick good of the Nation I shall not be absolute what will be done at this time but I have great hope something will be done for the restoration of the Civil Liberties of the people A wise General will hearken to the advice of a mean Souldier I desire no more but what is here set down for publick good may be considered 2. It is a special work of Parliaments to consider the grievances of the people and to be most severe so Parliaments were wont to be against such men who through the greatness of their power and place take occasion to oppress and wrong people the more In this regard I have thought it my duty publickly to declare what injustice and hard measure we have had as to be banished imprisoned cast out of our callings and livelihood but never knew any Reason or Cause why they dealt so cruelly with us It is said of Herod And he sent and beheaded John in prison Mat. 14. after such a manner have our New masters used us sent their Souldiers to our houses pluckt us out of doors thrown us into prison but never told us for what nor brought us to any Tryal It is possible these things may meet with some Parliament-men if it do I shall humbly propound this Whether in point of Law and Conscience those publick oppressions whereof we complain should not be examined and if found true Whether such men be fit to have the chief rule of the Nation any longer Major General Overtons Case will speak loud enough to this Parliament what New Masters are lately started up 3. Howsoever hitherto the sons of Zeruiah have been too hard for us and not only so but of such imperious and high spirits as Pope-like no man might say to them Sir Why do you so There is some hope now a possibility at least that a Parliament may give them a check true it is there hath not been for some late yeers a door open for the oppressed to bring in their complaints against such persons as did them the most wrong So that the publick sore hath run'd still because there was not a coming upto the Cure But it 's hoped this will be a free Parliament out of which di●ributive Justice will flow to the great refreshing of the oppressed every where it is to no purpose to cleanse the pipes and leave the fountain dirty to sweep down the cobwebs and leave the spider to make more Never had the long Parliament wrought that Reformation in England and restored the Peoples Liberties in that measure they did had they not fallen upon the SPRING-HEAD and caught the SPIDERS 4. To wipe off that common scandal which by Apostates is cast upon us i. e. that it is only our frowardness and discontents that make us complain otherwise we have nothing against them nor any harm done us Micah thought it a very strange thing in the Danites when they had

Authority is a meer private person 2. That no obedience is due to an untitled or illegal Power 3. That the sword is peculiar to a Magistrate lawfully called and not else 4. That to the being of a Magistrate is required a lawful calling 5. To the making of a Supreme Magistrate is to go the Vote and consent of the people I do not mention this Voice to asperse it in the least neither do I think they who stood with the Parliament against the King had a bad Cause nor do I condemn any man for the Publick Testimony which he bore against the exorbitancie and arbitrary actions of the late King yet this I may say and none will be offended at it but the guilty 1. It cannot be justified in any man to call that rayling and speaking evil of dignities in another which being done by himself was then according to Scripture Law and Conscience Neither 2. can I judge it otherwise then a fault for any man to write against Tyranny and preach it down in reference to the King and afterward in another allow and justifie the like Tyranny yea greater by many degrees But 3. And this indeed I most mislike viz. that such men whose Voice never ceased against the King and Bishops till their places were no more should be the forwardest to have that Tyranny up again and exercised over the Bodies goods and Consciences of the people for which the King and Bishops were removed Now for the next particular i. e. our Grounds and Reasons why by yet once more the second shaking is meant the shaking of this present State-Apostacie I shall only touch one thing which lies in our way and so hasten to it As under the word Earth in the first shaking not only Kingly-Government is signified but the Hierarchy also called Earth not only because it was interwoven with the other but ascended out of the EARTH was meerly carnal and earthly and had nothing of Heaven in it So I take the matter here Though this State-Apostacie have something in it that pretends to Religion as the business of the Tryers yet this coms under the word Earth so that Heaven afterward said to be shaken is another thing in which the Tryers are not concerned What was said before concerning the Bishops that their Government was earthly carnal c. is as true in the other It is a plant not of Gods planting yet in one thing the Prelates were to be commended to the shame of these men for that party would many times publickly undertake the justification of their calling and would quote Fathers Councils Scripture for what they did but this later earth as it seems by their silence dares not put any thing forth for their justification They know they have no Fathers Councils Presidents or Scripture to warrant their unsanctified place and standing And in John there is a good Reason why these Tryers come not forth to the light For every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved or discovered as hath the Margin Joh. 3.20 Concerning the second shaking of the Earth for of Heaven I shall speak nothing now here I will follow the former order 1. Prove that the present State-Apostacie shall be shaken And 2. in this shaking Scripture-Prophesle fulfilled and particularly Heb. 12. First If the Rights Liberties and Priviledges of the people shall again be restored and the work of Reformation go forward to a good settlement of the Nation then necessarily must this later Earth be shaken for as darkness vanisheth when light breaks forth so all falshood and treacherous designs of men must end and perish when truth and righteousness take place when the Lords time came that Joash should be brought out of the Temple and set upon the Throne it could not be otherwise but Athaliah and her confederates must suffer deeply And this is the reason why some endeavor what they can to uphold unrighteousness and all manner of oppression and cannot endure to hear of good Laws and honest things but hate such persons as would advance them They tremble like Felix to think of righteousness and that there should be such a thing as men call a FREE-PARLIAMENT and not under the power of the sword And no marvel for being conscious to what they have done they cannot but expect to be rewarded according to their works But let these know notwithstanding all their crafty counsel and joyning hand in hand the good old Cause which was in the Nation shall rise and prosper but they shall fall and perish Associate your selves O ye people and ye shall be broken in peeces Take counsel together and it shall come to nought Speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us Isa 8.9 10. I was speaking just now of Joash ●ethinks in him we have something ●at resembles our good old Cause A●aliah doubtless thought she had de●royed all the seed Royall of the house of ●udah and there was none left to have ●unished her murder and Treason But ●he was deceived and found it other●ise It is sure enough some thought ●ey had utterly destroyed the Common-●ealth when they made one man Chief Magistrate but these workers of ini●uity will know ere long it was a lie ●nd they wrought a deceitful work ●or the Commonwealth though an In●ant was hid as Joash in the Temple What if you say By the Temple is ●eant the hearts of all the good peo●le in the Nation Again though A●haliah cried Treason Treason when ●oash was brought forth yet it was no ●reason in the people to set up their ●awful King and put her to death for 〈◊〉 bloodie Traytor So if the Representatives of the people shall punish Tray●ors and Crown the Commonwealth with her just liberties and freedom there will b● no Treason in 〈◊〉 though hypocrites an● Apostates cry Treason Treason Object There is no question if 〈◊〉 Commonwealth be established with th● Rights and Liberties of the people but the Thing now up must and will be sha●ken But how doth it appear that th● good old Cause like Joash will b● brought forth and crown'd with righ●teousness and truth If you prove no● this you say nothing Answ It is very true and I grant it therefore to prove it these Argument and grounds I give 1. This Bitter root shall certainly be pluckt up when those things are done for which the only wise God suffered it to rise And no doubt among many other ends he had it was 1. To discover a multitude of rotte● hearts whose hypocrisie before lay hid either under a form of godliness or a● pretended zeal against the Tyranny and Idolatry of the King and Bishops and to have Church and State reformed and having made their folly manifest to all men to lead them forth with the ●orkers of iniquity 2. That a Scripture-Prophesie might ●e fulfilled namely the coming in of ●he second Apostacie foretold in 2 Tim. 3.1

three Nations who knows but this Earth-quake will raze the foundation of our new Nobility reach the Tryers Lawyers Sessers Addressers Excise-men Custome-house-men Corporations c. in a word all the devouring vermine in the Land such as have taken away mens goods contrary to Law Isa 33.1 2. To shew when the Lord will raise up instruments against this Apostacie they shall prevail notwithstanding all Ahitophels and Machiavels in spight of Hell and all powers of darkness It is an Earth-quake Stand now with thine inchantments and with the multitude of thy sorceries wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth if so be thou shalt be able to profit if so be thou mayest prevail Let now the Astrologers the Star-gazers the Monthly-Prognosticators stand up aad save thee from these things that shall come upon thee Isa 47.12 13. 3. It may denote the cause of the shaking that this State-Apostacie is removed it is that oppression and tyranny may cease and all people have their rights Now howsoever this be a good work and ought to be done yet it riseth no higher then Earth and therefore fitly called an Earth-quake 4. That the infamous memory of this last Apostacie and the happy downfall of it may continue to all future Generations Such desolations and ruines as formerly were made by Earth-quakes we find them recorded in Histories both Divine and Humane Amos 1.1 Zech. 14.5 to the end that such things might not be forgotten It is true many National Earth-quakes hath this Island suffered viz. by the Romans Saxons Danes Normans c. Besides several Earth-quakes among our selves by Parliaments and Civil Wars Nevertheless I am very confident that the memory of none of them will so long last as the rembrance of this present Apostacie and that SEASONABLE GOOD-EARTH-QUAKE which not only shaked it but swallowed it up My Reason is because the honour of Gods great Name the Cause of Religion and the interest of Christ and his people have more suffered by this present Apostacie in four or five yeers then ever they suffered under the Romans Saxons Danes Normans put them all together and all their time too Some report the prints of Pharaohs Charriot-wheels did remain in the sand of the shore at the Red-Sea and was to be seen many hundred yeers after I shall not stand to the truth of that but this is a truth and I shall abide by it That the print of this Apostacie is so deep in Church and Common-wealth made by self-seeking covetousness hypocrisie Covenant-breaking treachery c. that it will remain to be seen many ages hereafter 5. To shew that the Apostacie was such a BURDEN as the Earth could no longer bear it but must needs quake under it and so shake it out The land is defiled therefore do I visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land it self vomiteth out her inhabitants Lev. 18.25 The earth is utterly broken down the Earth is clean dissolved the Earth is removed exceedingly The Earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage The transgression of it shall be heavy upon it and it shall fall and not rise again Isa 24.19 20. 6. To answer an ancient Type in the old Testament For in the Rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram was clearly shadowed out the last Apostacie Amongst many other parallels which might be noted take these few 1. That Rebellion was made a little after the Lord had given a wonderful deliverance to his Church and when they should have passed over Jordan to the Promised Land 2. The occasion of it was ambition and love of pre-eminence in some persons not contented with that form of Government which the Lord a little before had appointed 3. Howsoever the Action was wicked no less then high Treason yet the chief Authors of it are said to be famous in the Congregation and men of renown 4. That this Apostacie might the more effectually be carried on the Liberty and Freedom of the people was pretended and that Moses and Aaron had taken too much upon them 5. Howsoever few at first had a hand in this Rebellion by the Hebrew Text it seems to be only Korah yet thorow the hypocrisie and falshood of these few many afterwards were ensnared 6. The Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up An Earth-quake indeed yet a just reward for such Rebellion and Treason Reader The Sentence is left to thee only be honest did not this Apostacie rise assoon as the Lord had delivered us out of the hands of our Enemies and when in duty and Conscience we should have gone forward in his work And was it not through the base pride of some men to have all power in their own hands that the Government of the Nation was changed from a Commonwealth which the Lord had own'd and blest to a THING which we cannot tell what it is Again though by three Acts of Parliament it was made Treason to promote any person to be King or Chief Magistrate of England or Ireland without consent of Parliament Yet this was done But by whom Men famous in the Congregation and of great renown And that they might the more prevail in their Rebellion was not Liberty promised and taking off the grievances of the People Is not this very true likewise that this State-Apostacie was first set on foot by a few some say seven or eight but more probably it was but one yet afterwards Multitudes multitudes fell into the sin and snare In conclusion then wherein agrees not the Anti-type with the Type but that the Earth-quake is not executed upon the later Rebellion Consider of it take advice and speak your minds Judg. 19.30 Quest It is said in the Text The tenth part of the City fell and in the Earth-quake were slain of men seven thousand c. What is meant by it Answ 1. As there are two Apostacies foretold in Scripture so I find two Cities mentioned in the Revelation First the GREAT CITY signifying the whole Dominion and jurisdiction of the Papal Beast that is all States and Policies Civil and Religious under the See of Rome and acknowledging the Pope Head of the Church And note when ever this Kingdom or State is meant by the word City it is always exprest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That great City Rev. 11.8 18.8 and 16.19 and 17.18 and 18.10 16 18 19. and 21.10 By which we are to understand the first Apostacie As for the second Apostacie is called a City likewise but the word GREAT is left out and there is great Reason for it For 1. This later Apostacie shall not be so large as the former in spreading it self over all peoples and Nations and Tongues All the world wondred after the first Beast Neither 2. shall the later Apostacie have that honour and homage done to it as had the former For the Kings of the Earth shall give their Kingdoms unto the first Beast Rev. 17.17 3. The first Apostacie is

will not be mockt by them but one day stop their mouth with a witness For conclusion If the Lord were pleased to kill us he would not have shewed us all these things Judg. 13.23 We may be confident never would he have drawn out so many heart-groans from his people much less so much bloud from them even heart-blood willingly sacrificed in the high places of the field for the good old Cause had he not intended to crown it with glory and honour in the end 5. And here is a fit place to remind the Reader as the Lord eminently appeared with us in the time of the long Parliament so on the contrary since this OTHER THING came up how visibly and sensibly hath he shewed his signal displeasure against us for our base backsliding laying a curse as it were upon all publick affairs almost as he did on the fig-tree that nothing should prosper which they took in hand I shall not speak of that Golgotha in Hispaniola the field of English skulls and blood nor the many millions of Treasure wasted meerly to satisfie the lusts and will of some men nor what shame and dishonour the Nation lies under being some yeers past a terrour to all Enemies about us Let us come to consider the present condition of the Nation Ask the Souldiers what their Arrears are Then enquire among the Seamen how many months pay is due to them and while you are there cast an eye upon the Navy and see in what a pickle that is and whether there be any provision to set out a Fleet either offensive or defenfive Add unto all this the extream poverty of the people as having neither trade nor mony It is probable there will be in the next sitting some that were Members of the Long Parliament these men do know in what a rising and flourishing condition the Commonwealth was when they were dissolv'd But how are they like to find it now as a poor sheep full of worms the worms are fat and lusty but the sheep lean languishing and ready to perish So they shall see now and not a few persons that are grown fat and full by devouring the flesh of the Commonwealth I mean her Laws Liberties Rights and Priviledges but for the Commonwealth so maugre and lean as it cannot be long liv'd if the Lord raise not up some good shepherds to look after it A man that hath spent much time and labour and been at great cost in a work and no sooner hath done it to his liking but should see it presently broken before his eyes would not this extreamly grieve him such as sate in the Long Parliament and stood faithful to the good Cause do well know before Monarchy was shaken and a Common-wealth established they had hard work and it cost the Nation not a little blood and treasure for such men therefore to see all that they did broken to peeces before their eyes methinks it should much affect them What else they should do I leave it to themselves or rather to divine Providence For God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the Gods Psa 82.1 Saul a little before his end fell into such streights as he knew not what to do I know who have formerly pretended necessity when there was none but now it s fallen upon them to the full for had it not been NECESSITY this Assembly had never been call'd what the issue will be a little time will shew The Scripture saith The wicked is snared in the work of his own hand Psal 9.16 It is very observable that the Lord meets with oppressours and deceitful men one of these two ways that is either they shall take the better way for his people or the worse way for themselves When Herod charged the Wise men to bring him word where the yong child was Mat. 2. here he shewed himself not a subtle serpent not wise in his generation for to have had his bloody design done indeed he should have gone himself or sent some of his guard to have done it But in this way God blinded him and kept it from him that he might take a better way for Christ's preservation So Jezebel had she sent some of her Priests with Souldiers to Elias when she sent only a messenger to tell him what she would do by to morrow that had been a sure way to have dispatched him presently but God would not suffer her to take that way she must chuse another way and a better way for the Prophets life Again Tyrants many times chuse the worse way for themselves thus it was with Pharaoh at the Red Sea he had two ways to chuse either to return the way he came which indeed was the better way or to go forward and follow Israel into the great waters but he will into the Sea now in this he appeared more blind and hardned then before for he might well think the Lord had not made a way thorow the Sea for him but rather had laid a snare for him and his Host I am now waiting to see what will be the carriage of such men who have betrayed their country they have methinks like Pharaoh two ways the one is to RETURN or PUBLICK REPENTANCE that is make a free and ingenuous confession of their former treason oppression Covenant-breaking c. and to give up all their pretended Authority and Power into the hands of the Peoples Representatives Doubtless of the two ways this is the better the other is Pharaoh-like to go forward though they cannot but think that this Great Assembly like the Red-Sea will save the Rights Liberties and good Laws of the Nation and drown Arbitrary Power oppression treason c. If the Power and Majesty of English Parliaments which have been be seriously heeded it would not seem altogether improper to liken them at least some which have been the best and most glorious to the Red-Sea For many proud Pharaohs with their Hosts have been swallowed up in Englands Parliaments Had not I seen so many unworthy Addresses I should not have thought there had been so much base English blood in the Nation men of such mercenary low servile and slavish Spirits so far from following the steps of their Ancestours in standing up for the Freedom and just Liberties of their Country as they have attempted to maintain a private interest against the power of the people and Priviledges of Parliament But it is well that there is a Publick Attestation against them of many thousands Religious and well disposed people who say We testifie and declare against the late flattering Addresses which have been contrived and carried on by interested persons as tending to the preventing the Assembling of a Parliament as also anticipating if not concluding their sence and judgment when assembled And having in them a tendencie to the dividing of the people and consequently raysing a new war if God do not wonderfully prevent Attestat Novemb. 20. 1658. Before I end

to continue 1260 years but the later not above three yeers and an half till the Lord doth begin to strike it with a Consumption So that the word GREAT seems to be left out here to distinguish between the two Cities or two Apostacies and this in the Text is to be understood of the later State-Apostacie Moreover we have some light here how to understand that place Rev. 11.8 where it is said of the witnesses their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great City it is well observed by many that the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. a broad or spatious place doth not signifie any place Market-place or broad place within the walls of the great City but it is without the great City as no part of the building Hence we may conclude two things 1. The two Witnesses are not slain in their Testimony by any Civil Powers that hold the Pope Head of the Church neither lie their dead bodies in any Country formally subject to the See of Rome For their slaying and lying dead must be without the walls of the great City Indeed the blood of the Martyrs will be charged upon the first Apostacie but the slaying of the witnesses upon the second Apostacie Therefore let Church-Members and Church-Officers and other Professors of Religion look to it For to speak soberly and in the fear of God this is my opinion and I think grounded upon Scripture and practice The blood of the witnesses will be required at their hands for never had the bottomless Beast murdred so blessed a Cause and so glorious a Testimony for Christ and his Kingdom as was in this Nation had they stood faithful to the good old Cause 2. Though the Power by which the witnesses are slain is not from the great City yet it is for it that is it doth more strengthen and support the great whore then any State or Government properly the whores Where lies now the stop that the Lords work goes not forward to remove oppressions and heavie burdens and to establish righteousness among men Not in Rome Spain Germany France the stop is neerer home remove this Apostacie and you shall soon see the good Cause reviv'd again and the hearts of all good people reviv'd with it 2. Whereas it is said The tenth part of the City fell and the remnant gave glory to God this cannot be meant of the great City for that sinks every whit like a great milstone to the bottom of the Sea Besides I do not read of any giving glory to God in the great City when her plagues are upon her But contrary it is expresly said they repented not to give glory to God but blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores Rev. 16.9 11. Now the Reason is because the Lord will bring his people out of the great City Babylon as he did Lot from Sodom before he burns her to ashes I will not say among that huge heap of chaff there will be no corn yet I think if any of Gods elect shall perish as to the outward man in that common destruction they will be very few yea in those few no repenting and giving glory to God visibly will appear Rev. 18.4 Jer. 51.6 But the Case here is otherwise for howsoever the whole Apostacie will fall yet in the Earth-quake all will not be slain that are found in the Apostacie When Absalom made that unnatural Rebellion against his father it is said two hundred followed him in the simplicitie of their hearts and knew not any thing 2 Sam. 15.11 that is they were ignorant of the wicked plot he had in hand namely under pretence of devotion and conscience to destroy his own father and make himself king or Chief Magistrate No doubt many two hundreds thousands I may say through the dissimulation and lying of their Leaders and Teachers have fallen in with the Apostacie simply and ignorantly knew nothing of their design that is how under a cloke of Religion and the safety of the godly party the mother Commonwealth was to be murthered and an Absalom-like interest to be set up Therefore by the Remnant here I understand these ignorant and simple ones not the OLD SERPENT the seducers and ringleaders who thought they had done their Country and themselves good service when they sought to destroy the lives and Liberties of the people 3. Whereas it is said In the Earthquake was slain of men 7000. the Greek hath names of men meaning men of note renown famous Gen. 6.4 contrary hereto is men without Name Job 30.8 alluding to the Rebellion of Korah c. Num. 16.2 two things seem to be held forth 1. This Earth-quake that is the Representatives of the people shall be men of courage and of publick spirits such as shall have Lion-like hearts fear no mans face nor respect any mans person but will cut down Cedars assoon as shrubs if there be cause for it Indeed no people in the world formerly have been more honoured then the English for men of resolution and of high and noble spirits in standing up for their freedom and Rights against intrusion and usurpation of all sorts and sizes But How is the faithful City become an harlot it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixt with water Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeves every one loveth gifts and follow after reward they judge not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widdow come unto them Isa 1.21 22 23. Oh! that it should be said ICHABOD The glory is departed from England For have not men of late shewed themselves to be of low base and servile spirits in preferring their own particular interest before the publick good of the Nation And in stead of contending for our Birth-right which but a little before was recovered with the Blood and Treasure of the Nation to give it up or rather sold it Esau-like for a mess of Pottage But God will raise up a better Generation of men and why may not we hope it is now who will recover the Glory of the English nation again by exalting truth and righteousness among us 2. By names of men is not meant the old names of note renown and famous in the days of the King and Bishops for they concern not the later Apostacie but the new names that is Lords Knights Esquires c. of the last edition Those who were poor the other day and have made their families great by hypocrisie and lies and betraying their Country must expect to fall by this Earth-quake For the number seven thousand it is probable before the Earth-quake be done not fewer will be shaken for it must go round the Nation and follow the Apostacie from end to end And I hope the appearance of it will be suddenly we are waiting for it and praying for it So come Lord Jesus Amen Amen Reasons Why it may be