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A27250 An alarum to London, or, The famous London's blowing up by Londoners sounded, not to fire their buildings, but to quench their burnings : in a letter to Major Generall Browne. Beech, William. 1650 (1650) Wing B1679A; ESTC R14294 16,737 22

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for say the old ones see his Coat if it be not so a bloody torn party coloured Coate look on it The New Tribes are as if they were spit out of the old ones mouthes O what a bloody party-coloured Coat doe they hold forth and show to the world The wild beasts did doe it but who were those wild beasts They poore harmel●sse creatures did not teare nor besmeare the coat with blood no not they See thy sonnes Coat it should seeme Ioseph was Iacobs sonne but not their brother I pray note how wicked men will shift off their sins with their relation to Ioseph The coat was Iosephs Thy sonnes Coat the party-coloured Coate was Iosephs the bloody coate was Iosephs Ioseph was Iacobs sonne but now hee shall bee none of their brother they had made a match and were sworre brothers to the wild beasts they could not then be Iosephs brethren too untill the ward and some feares and frights had purged them of some grosse malignity O how impudently doe the ill affected Tribes of this age shift off their GREAT TRESPASSE from themselves what blood they poure upon Iosephs coat How boldly doe they hold it forth and tell it how shamelessely doe they object the Party-colourednesse of it and the sadde hap thereof to Iacob and Ioseph The Parliament and the Common-wealth of England Crnelty and Injustice and errors and irreligion and Blasphemy and Prophanesse and Divisions and sects all that is bad that is theirs See thy sonnes coate Sir Snatchings you know are the sudden catching away of things unexpectedly Men thinke themselves wronged when they bee thus dealt with Such a snatcher is Providence onely it can alwayes justifie what it doth in that kind which we can doe but seldome We are offended that things are thus snatched away from us Sir In these sadde Conflicts amongst Reubenites I find and have observed a threefold Provision made by the wisdome of God First for it selfe next for Ioseph then for the friends of Ioseph 1 For it selfe The Wisdome of God will provide that Instruments shall have their due Truth and justice call for it but men must waite the dayes of payment Neither Men nor Angells nor Devills shall take away that which is Gods namely his Honour and Reputation in the world That 's one Provision If Reuben had beene the only instrument to deliver backe young Ioseph to old Iacob O what a man Reuben had beene How Great for Courage how wise for Counsell That hand which is most seene carries away all the Honour Saul hath slaine his Thousands and David his Ten thousands but it should seem God stood by and did nothing O what Gallant men had Browne and Waller and Essex and others beene cryed up to bee if they had done all the worke what had they done at Abbington what at Newbury what at Winchester what at Glocester what in the West What great feates they had done every where this had beene the talke Sir Whither you will or no people will argue thus And mans way of reasoning is very destructive to the Glory and wayes of God If Instruments stand in the peoples light so that they cannot behold his exceeding great Glory let the men bee never so precious they shall bee laid aside for a time God himselfe will bury Moses with his owne hand rather then the people shall set the man up in his place Moses was honoured with the conduct of Gods people through the red sea as farre as the Wildernesse and there hee is put out of Commission and shall goe no further Ioshua shall bee their Captaine Generall in their March to Canaan You your selfe and other worthy Commanders were honored to go before English Israel from Egypt through a red sea as far as the Wildernesse and are you offended that the Wisdome of God hath taken away your Commission and buried your honour for a little time Sir It was come to this passe that your Honour must be buried or Gods your Wise dome or his your Treaties or his Counsells and would you have his fall and yours stand his go down and yours go up Downs with that spirit I pray you or else it will sinke you as low as any place God hath to put you in Are you Angry that hee makes no further use of you when all men know you have been so and so so for Courage and so for trust c. Why that 's the reason that Providence takes you off It is policy to take men off when they begin to be so popular When ment are great God is little London is populous and popularity is a great temptation to bi asse men it is infinitely against the height of his spirit to overcome a world by a world or by many in the world God is upon a designe that people will not beleeve With 2 or 3 hee wil turne the world upside-downe Hee hath done so and he will doe so That 's the first Provision And then next Provision must be made for Ioseph too Our of Egypt have I called my Son The Truth of God is ingaged to bring Joseph out of Egypt He shall not for ever dwell among Egyptians Ioseph shall be advanced to a Commonwealth Sineon shall not kill him Judah shall not sell him God will ceize upon his goods where ever he finde them and it shall goe freely from him againe for the nourishment and preservation of Israelites and for Interpretation to the Egyptians too And now Sir to come as near as I am able unto you can it be do you think that the good Providence should make no provision for the friends of Joseph What not for Reuben not for friendly Reuben not for the Elder brother not for the best brother what not for valiant Reuben that withstood nine for the cause of Joseph Yes Sir care is taken for Reuben by crossing Reuben and there is made for him too a gracious provision of good by a carefull prevision of evill Sir it is a work of Providence admire it and stoop to it Ah Reuben Englands true hearted Reuben It is well for thee and for all of thy division that the Treaty at the Pit tooke not It was well that Joseph was taken out though to thy discontent Deare Reuben It would have grieved thee to have found thy brothers carcasse in the Pit and they selfe thrown there to beare him company for a Round-head Were not thy brothers in Commission of Array against Joseph and against all the friends of Ioseph Sir Treaties neare a Pit where men be divided and doe mistake one another as in a place of darknesse are dangerous especially such Treaties as are managed with such disadvantages of nine against one of nine against one did I say of ninety against one I dare say if you take in all the Confederacy and such as wish well to our il Treaties of cunning men against well minded men of united men in evill against divided men about that which is good of bloody men