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A89518	Vox turturis vel columba alba albionis=The voice of the turtle, or, Englands white dove in the deluge of division, the second time sent forth from Gods Arke, to prsent a peace-offering upon the altar of Jehovah Shalom. Humbly proposing that divine direction, which the God of Peace hath revealed in his word of truth, for determining differences by an holy ordinance of his owne institution, wherein himselfe is the sole judge, ... Shewing how by this divine way of Gods judgement, not onely the great differences here in church and state depending, may speedily and happily be determined with glory to God, honour to the King, and happinesse to the kingdomes, but also all the greatest controversies, both civill and sacred throughout Christendome may be composed, the effusion of blood prevented, many prophecies conducing to an universall peace fulfilled, the happy use of this holy ordinance made knowne, and the name of God thereby manifested, ... even among heathens. / Per E. M. Arm. Christi servorum minimo minorem.	Marbury, Edward, 1581-ca. 1655.	1647 (1647)	Wing M570; Thomason E518_4; ESTC R206163	81,199	64

didst cause thy judgements to be heard from heaven Surely the wrath of man shall turne to thy praise the remainder of their rage shalt thou restrain Awake A●●se put on thy strength O Albion put on thy garments of beauty O Br●ttain trust in God alone by Abrahams example Isa 51. Heare ye that follow righteousnesse looke unto the rocks whence yet are hewen c. hearken unto me for a law shall proceed from me and I will bring forth my judgement for alight of the people v. 4. My righteousnesse is neer I will judge the people the Isles shall wait for me and trust unto me Arise O England be bright O Brittain for thy light is come the glory of the Lord is come Awake as in the ancient dayes as in the generations of old remember and revive that ancient ordinance of the Lords owne institution directed for composing of contentions Remember and bee ashamed bring t●againe to mind O ye R unagates remember the former things of old Isa 35.8.9 Ier. 31.9 Via Divina non devia non Diabolica sicut illa Sauguinolenta Zach. 4.6.7 the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Isa 60.1 Awake awake and stand up O Jerusalem which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out There is none to guide thee among all the sons whom thou hast brought forth neither is there any that taketh thee by the hand of all the sous that thou hast brought up These things are come unto thee destruction desolation and the sword therefore heare this now thou afflicted Thus saith the Lord the Lord and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling c. Isa 5.1.17 18. c. What have I here saith the Lord that my people is taken away for nought and they that rule over them cause them to howle and lament Therefore my people shall know my Name behold therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speaks behold is is I. How beautifull upon the mountaines are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that saith unto Sion thy God reigneth Isa 52.5.6.7 That giveth to the Lord his due glory by committing their cause and casting their burthen upon the Lord and leaving the determination of their differences to his divine judgement by that holy way that he hath prescribed in his holy Word rather then the destructive way of the bloody Sword if the Lord will please to arise and have mercy upon Sion The Prophet Zachary will shew you how non in ex●rcitu c. Not by army nor by strength but by my Spirit saith the Lord and they shall bring forth the principall stone with shouting and crying Grace grace unto it That the Ministers doe admonish the people humbly to wait on God in his holy ordinance implore his aid for our reconciliation and rest and rely on his saving sentence he will give a perfect lott and just judgement whereby we shall be delivered from the heaviest of his temporall judgements the Sword The consideration of Gods greatnesse may humble the haughty and hardened hearts of the people The meditation of his mercy may mollifie their malicious and bloody minds to be more tender-hearted one towards another being children of one Father and brethren in Christ Jesus following the precept and pattern of our Saviour Be ye mercifull as your heavenly Fathen is mercifull so their Fast will be more religious their preaching more profitable and their prayer more acceptable whilest they forsake their courses of cruelty and follow the way of love truth peace and unity O this wor unity is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the onely word of comfort that can make us happy Albion can have no hope of recovery till she heare of the sweet names of Peace and Unity which of an Albion she is like to become an Acheldama of an Eden Garden a gastly Golgatha cruelty and division cry her down exinanite exinanite down with her down with her even to the ground cry the bloody brood of cursed Cain and have drawn the line of vanity of cruelty over her God is pleased in mercy to reveale and revive this holy way of reconciliation whereby to recover restore and raise her up again Ier. 29.11 vid. Isa 46.13 and 49.7 8 9 adfinem Their speech bewrayeth them as they say to Peur to be of Ashdod or Egipt that bring into the Church of Christ the way of the Sword to be of the bloody brood of cruell Cain or cursed Corah who preach and teach that the foundation of the Church of Christ Christs church not to be built in or by bloud who is the Prince of Peace should be layd in the blood of the members of his body that pretend or intend to settle and reforme the Christian Religion by the slaughter of Christians the true faithfull servants and Saints of God in whose sight their death is right deare and pretious These new Builders like those of the old world to get them a name upon earth make brick of their own devising and build them a Babel a Tower that they hope may reach up to heaven yet when they have all done they shall have but brick for stone and slime for morter and the end will be confusion So too too many in these times to get them a name and opinion of being more holy then other men touch me not I am of purer mold then thou art to make themselves greater and raise themselves higher make brick of their owne pretended purity seeming sanctity and forme of godlinesse endevouring by cruelty and policy to build them a Tower a Babel of power and supreme Authority that shall gaine them the kingdome of Heaven and kingdomes on Earth and when they have all done it is but the brick and stime of mortall corruption and haughty ambition and vaine frustrated imagination And they can prognosticate to themselves no fairer end then Babels was confusion in conclusion Dissentions are workes of darknesse wrought by the prince of darknesse the Divell Let us cast away the works of darknesse and put on the armour of light Rom. 13.12 1 Cor. 1.10.11.16 thence comes warre And if needs there must be warre and that war be Gods and concerning his cause as 't is or hath been professed in such a warre 't is fit to use such wayes and weapons such rules and orders as the onely wise and invincible Generall the Lord of Hosts directeth and prescribeth In such an holy warre The noble Army of Martyrs the chiefest servants of God alwayes used holy Armes divine Artillery arma ocelefiae they put on the armour of God their loynes girded with verity their feet shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace they had on the brest-plate of righteousnesse but above all they tooke the shield of

be heard were assigned by Lot as they drew Beans or Acorns with the letters upon them that belonged to those Courts each of which persons so allotted received a rod from the Cryer with the name of the Court written on it or of the same colour that the letter was over the Court-gate and then went with that and his Bean or Acorn unto that Court that had the letter on the one of the same colour with the other and was there admitted for a Judge Besides these ordinary Judges there were certain Arbitrators or umpires by Lot assigned for deciding of lighter matters which matters were divided among them by Lot Their Clearks also of the Pleas with ten Treasurers taken out of the best rank ten Comptrollers or Auditors ten Surveyors or Scavengers ten Wardens of the Ports ten Clerks of the Market one Register ten of Sheriffs and Bayliffs ten Sacrists for superstitious services And if any one presumed to come to Court or Councell not being designed by Lot a penalty was laid upon him In Sparta the Competitors for any office were sometime in order by lot admitted to passe the suffrages of the assembly At Syracusa in Cicily Cican Verr. 4. Joves priest out of three chosen by Voyces out of three Families was designed yearly by Lot At Rome the Vestall Nuns were elected by lot Attic. l. 1. c. 12. The two hundred Gentry of Rome divided into tens cast Lots for governing the State in course among themselves after Romulus his death each ten their fifty daies and each of the ten his five c. till all had taken their turnes which Custome expired at Na●●a's Election The two Consuls so often as any extraordinary businesse fell out that was to be done by them and could not conveniently be done but by one of them as the Dedication of a Temple the nomination of a Dictator or Soveraign Generall the keeping of Courts for creation of some new Officers c. used by lot to decide whether of them should have the honour of it and in time of War they cast lots also which should go ●o the wars and which stay at home And being both together in the same service with equall authority they did sometime in the execution thereof by Lot daily take their turnes The Pretors parted the Government of the City between themselves by lot And by lot the Questors or Treasurers charge was assigned unto them out of which Questors the Tribunes were sometime designed by lott and out of the Tribunes were allotted certaine persons for forraigne Plantations In warlike employments Consuls Praetors had their legions and armies by this course alotted them Also such Tribes as should afford Souldiers for service and such persons of each tribe as should serve were assigned by lot And hence it fell out that M. Curius when a sudden Muster was made in his Consulship none of the younger sort appeared cast lots upon all Tribes and citing him which was first drawn of that Tribe that come next to hand confiscated his goods and sold him to be a slave Doubts in choice of Ediles or Surveyors where divers Competitors had an equall number of voyces were decided by Lot which of them should hold And in their Assemblies for election of Officers the Lot determined which Companies or hundreds should be demanded their suffrages the first and give the leading voices Severall Pleas were ordinarily parted among them by lot some to have and try Causes of treason some of murder some of extortion and the like and the the Judges tooke assistants to them which they elected by lott as they themselves were by lot appointed for the hearing of such Causes as were allotted to them Plin. sec Epist 3. lib 9. In Vintage time Senators were made choice of by Lot to attend the Court in the abscence of the rest by the appointment of Augustus Dion Cass lib. 55. Augustus by Lot set apart a certain number of Senators to consult with at convenient times for preparation of Causes to be heard in the Court afterward or rather to dispatch businesses by without the Court yet so as the whole Court might seem to have some hand in them he did likewise assay by Lot to reform the Senat he first parted the City into certain Regions and Wards and then appointed the yearly Officers to share them amongst them and to undertake the charge thereof By lot he enjoyned two of those that had been Pretors formerly to be elected yearly for the custody of the common Treasury In Tiberius his reigne there were certaine persons assigned by lot to cleare the Lawes in some cases then questionable Vespasian assigned persons for redresse of wrongs done during the civill wars and to rid the Courts of multiplicity of suits which intermission of Justice had cloyed them with Taeit. hist l. 4. Suet. Vesp c. 10. Certain persons were assigned by Lot to mitigate harsh Lawes Claud. c. 23. Legates or Lievtenants were sometime designed by lot in which case the use of Lotrery sometimes being questioned Tacit. hist l. 4. Cic. ad Attic. Epist 17. Liv. hist lib. 43. cic Verr. 1. though it were by some opposed yet the major part went with it● and would have it still retained as a soveraigne preservative against ambition and corruption and a singular remedy for the preventing both of injury and envy in which regard they esteemed it as a kind of divine Ordinance where it was carried without fraud and covine as it ought Panorm ad 5. de sorti leg Neither is the practice of civill Lottery unusuall in Italy even at this day for in Venice the mirrour of Policy and supposed modell of Plate's Platform the Gentry at twenty yeares of age come to the Generall Councell by Lot but otherwise not till twenty five yeares of age Contaren l. 1. Gat. of Lots p. 58. by the ordinary course in Election of whom every fourth of December they that seek it having made proof of their Gentry have their names all cast into one pot and brought to the Duke before whom stands another pot with as many balls in it wherof a fifth part is gilt and all the rest silver only the Duke draws out of the one each mans name and a ball out of the other which if it prove a golden one he is thereupon admitted if a silver one only he stayeth at least a yeare longer When their Duke the chiefe Magistrate hath his designation there is Lottery upon Lottery and Voycing in a prolix and intricate manner interchangeably mixed together the one with the other the place being voyd either by deposition or decease all their Gentry of thirty yeares of age or upward and none under assemble and come in order as they sit Lotts first being cast which side of them shall come in first to the Lot-pot having as many balls in it as there be of them in number whereof thirty only be gilt there a child draweth for