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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

2 3 c. the which Apostacie to me is as clear to be now in this Nation as the Sun that shines at noon-day But of this more by and by 3. To make proof of the faith love and obedience of his little flock and in very deed as the Tryals and Temptati●ns of the Lords witnesses have been these four or five yeers many ways very great So they have shewed much faithfulness to the Lord and to his Son and Zion that they have chosen bonds banishments close imprisonment and loss of trade and livelihood rather then with base time-servers and merce-mary flatters to betray the Liberties Laws and Rights of the Nation for filthy lucre sake If a maid that she might be such a mans wife should refuse a great estate and live very poorly with him would not this argue she married him for LOVE and nothing else How many are there to my know ledge would they have broken the● Vows Oaths and Ingagements an● joyned with others to build agai● what before they had destroyed the● might have had what honour prefe●ment or place they would But the● would rather be imprisoned and ba●nished and suffer with joy the spoi●ing of their goods then turn Judasse● for a few pence But what love an● affection have these persons in thi● shewed to the good old Cause and th● just Rights of their Country 4. That Hypocrites having gotte● by the present Apostacie fat pasture might the sooner fill up the measur● of their wickedness and so be prepare for the day of slaughter As the Lor● will have the harvest and vintage rip● before he cuts them down so there i● nothing will sooner ripen corrupt me● then greatness honour riches c. Swi● will not fatten faster by acorns then will a● hypocrite by Court-preferment Now Reader consider as the Lord had thes● and other such ends for which he suffered this root of bitterness to be among us so having had his END what is now to be expected but a sudden plucking of it up Then 2. What is it that hath occasioned prophane persons to blaspheme the holy name of God more then the late destroying of that good work of Reformation begun in the Nation What saith the Scoffer at it This man began to build but was not able to finish it Luk. 14.30 It is not man now but God the living God that is derided and laugh'd at he began to build c. he made a fair beginning saith the MOCKING-APOSTATE to have had a Commonwealth he seem'd as if he would have made a righteous Nation and the people no more under the lust and will of men But some were too hard for him and out-witted him and undid all that he had done before with the infinite expence of Blood and Treasure But know thou Atheist Jehovah is more jealous of his glory and great Name then to give it to another Though he have kept silence and thou thoughtest that he was altogether such an one as thy self yet know he will arise for his Name-sake For so is his promise I will sanctifie my great Name which was prophaned among the Gentiles which ye have prophaned in the midst of them Ezek. 36.23 But never will the name of God be recovered in this Nation to the stopping of the mouths of Apostateblasphemers until that blessed work of breaking Tyranny and Idolatry begun in the Long Parliament be on foot again I say once more as a truth which I hope the Lord will enable me if call'd to it to seal with my blood That the precious Name of God prophaned in this Nation by Apostate Professors will not be sanctified till the good old Cause be revived the Freedom and just Liberties of the people restored a Commonwealth setled upon right principles of truth and righteousness and those who have been the cause of the late horrible revolt brought forth to Justice 3. Such are the wounds in the Body of this Nation and the grievances and Breaches so many and great as I am perswaded all the State-Physitians I speak not of Mountebanks and Quacksalvers will perceive when they shall come to the Cause and Cure there is no healing of the whole without cutting a part off and what that part is they will soon see The Prophet Ezekiel speaking of the false Prophets of his time saith One built up a wall and lo others daubed it with untempered mortar Ezek. 13.10 He alludes unto a foolish builder who coming to a wall with his tools sees it is so rent and torn as it cannot stand but must be all pluckt down and a new wall rais'din the place of it nevertheless he only plaisters it over and so seeks to cover the fault but not to mend it Who should be builders if not the Representatives of the people And therefore if the wall before them which others built be so weak sandy and tottering that it must be shaken ought they not to beware of dawbing it with untempered mortar and the rather because the Lord wants not labourers but if one company of men prove unfaithful that is will be dawbing a rotten wall when they should cast it down he will DISSOLVE THEM with more shame and dishonour then any Protector could put upon them and call such to the State-work as shall be more faithful and well rewarded for it Say unto them which dawb with untempered mortar that it shall fall there shall be an overflowing showr and ye O great hail-stones shall fall and a stormy wind shall renit Lo when the wall is fallen shall it not be said unto you Where is the dawbing wherewith ye have dawbed it Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon them that have dawbed it with untempered mortar and will say unto you The wall is no more neither they that dawbed it Ezek. 13.11 12 15. 4. It may rationally satisfie all unbyassed persons that Gods actings and appearances were formerly such for the interest of Christ and his people as it cannot possibly be that he should leave it afterward What! was the King taken off his Posterity laid aside the Bishops and their Government put down for this end that there should rise up in their places a Generation of men more corrupt then they were Indeed if we will give credit to the blasphemous speeches published to the world by Apostates it should be so that is all the victories and deliverances which the Lord gave unto his people in the time of the Long Parliament was for them that is for their particular interest They blush not to tell us in print as may be gathered from their words plain enough that Gods helping us in our several streights was to keep up the Lawyers in their corruption Priests in their oppression the Magistrates in persecution the Tryers in their beastly invention and the old Malignant to take his revenge on honest men for their former good service to God and their Country But I shall leave these mockers to him that

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

hoped that the present Parliament will begin the Earth-quake or Second Shaking of the Earth FRom the late experience we have had of some mens unfaithfulness and falshood and seriously weighing what a pitiful choice some have made this could not but altogether discourage me of Hope were not my eyes upon the Mighty Creator and so better bottom'd then to put confidence in man What my Reasons are I shall here set down and so leave it to the Readers judgment Whether from such grounds there may not be Hope of reviving the Good old Cause by this Parliament Reas 1. The Lord taking away that HEAD-STOP lately from us seems to speak much good in it to all Lovers of Righteousness in the Nation Arise and take the young child and his mother and go into the land of Israel for they are dead which sought the young childs life Mat. 2.20 What otherwise was the Lord voice in that Signal Providence but a● if he should say to the Representatives of the People Arise take the Mother Commonwealth and her young child i. e. her Rights Priviledges c. and go into London i. e. let things be setled and established as before for they are dead which sought to devour Mother and Child so that there is no fear in returning to the good old work and Cause again Thou brakest the heads of Leviathan in peeces gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness Psal 74.14 The meaning is Gods revenging hand upon Pharaoh was to nourish and strengthen Israel afterward as to beleeve the Lord would not have done that great thing for them had he not meant to bring them to the Promised Land Truly that Stroak to me hath been meat in the wilderness and I cannot but think as it was the Lords doing so it was done that the three Nations might the sooner enjoy their just Rights again It is the opinion of many that in Saul and David as to their Kingdoms is shadowed out two States to be in the last days when Saul was dead the great Block in Davids way it is said Abner the son of Ner Captain of Sauls host took Ishbosheth the son of Saul and made him King 2 Sam. 2.8 9. Note three things in this business 1. What Abner did herein was contrary to his light for he knew well enough that God had appointed anoother man to reign only his relation to the house of Saul for he was Sauls unkle and his own base interest made him do what he did against knowledge and conscience 2 Sam. 3.17 18. 2. It appears by the Text that this Ishbosheth which is by interpretation A MAN OF SHAME and his end proved so was a fellow of a low fearful and weak spirit not like his father Saul neither for valour nor policie meerly set to serve a Court-interest and that a company of corrupt men might serve themselves upon him as not liking David and his way for they knew David was a man more honest and conscientious then to suffer such locusts caterpillars to spoil devour the Commonwealth 2 Sam. 3.11 3. Not only in the end is this mock-King left of his RAISERS but hath his head taken off by two of his own Captains a just reward for him and for all such who will take upon them the power and Government of Nations against the manifest appointment of God What may be in the application time will shew In the mean time take notice if the time be come That the Kingdoms of this world are to be the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ Rev. 11.15 and that righteousness is to be exalted in the Nations then none of the House of Saul shall long reign but the House of David will grow stronger and stronger and carry it in spight of all opposition Reas 2. Methinks it cannot be but there is a wheel in the wheel and the Lords hand moving to the shaking the Earth the second time in that I see of late a spirit of prayer and supplication poured out upon many choice Christians whereby they are enabled to wrestle with the Lord in prayer day and night for the publick good of the Nation more earnestly then they did before I have observed for these four or five yeers that it hath not been upon the hearts of the faithful to expect any good from Parliaments and therefore most of their praying hath been and no doubt by the Holy Spirit led thereto that the Lord would blast them and break them to peeces that the stout-hearted might be spoiled and none of the men of might find their hands But I find it otherwise now for the Lord of late hath put it upon their hearts with much weight to be dayly groaning at the throne of Grace that all those who like good Nehemiah Come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel and to repair the breaches of the Commonwealth may through God do valiantly No doubt honest Hushai prospered the better when he sought to frustrate the wicked counsel of Ahitophel that he had Davids prayers for him and with him And David said O Lord I pray thee turn the counsel of Ahitophel to foolishness 2 Sam. 15.31 Let such know who are our Hushai's at this time and seek to break the designs of Ahitophels and all such as would keep up a corrupt interest against the publick good of the Commonwealth there are many tears and prayers poured out for them And I am confident they will experience the fruit and benefit of them all along upon their endeavours for the righteous Cause Reas 3. I have the more ground of hope considering some persons now sitting were not only Members of the long Parliament and sought to extirpate things that stood in the way of a thorow Reformation but have not since warped and deflected from their former righteous principles Now how can such good Patriots of their Countrey but remember the days of old and the wonderful works of the Lord how visibly and powerfully his presence was with them when they contested against the Court party and how he delivered them from the Lion and the Bear King and Bishops and so have it with much assurance upon their hearts that he will help them still whilst they open their mouth for the dumb and plead the cause of the poor and needy If a man see Beasts in his field devouring the corn which himself had sown he cannot suffer it but will drive them out It may be said in a good sence it was the old Parliament that sowed this Commonwealth with much good seed in order to the freedom safety and welfare of the Nation I hope therefore such men will stand up again in the good old way and seek to repair those grievous breaches which have been made since by a company of corrupt and deceitful men Should such a man as I flee Neh. 6.11 When Nehemiah upon his return to Jerusalem saw what great evil had been done in his absence