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cause_n	great_a	know_v	see_v	5,670	5	3.0830	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85517	The grand catastrophe, or The change of government: being a vvord about the last turn of these times written in a letter to a friend, as an essay, either to give, or to receive satisfaction in the dispute of the last change. By one who takes leave to stile himself Johannes Cornubiensis.	Cornubiensis, Johannes.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1488; Thomason E726_12; ESTC R206800	14,042	17

THE Grand Catastrophe OR THE Change of Government BEING A VVord about the last turn of these Times WRITTEN In a Letter to a Friend as an Essay either to give or to receive Satisfaction in the Dispute of the last CHANGE By one who takes leave to stile himself Johannes Cornubiensis .. PSAL. 75.7 God is Judge Hee putteth down one and setteth up another PROV 29.2 When the Righteous are in authority the people rejoyce but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn LONDON Printed by R. I. and are to bee sold at the Crown in Popes-head-Alley 1654. The Grand Catastrophe or the change of Government being a word about the last turne of these times THat saying of the Psalmist hath of late times oft been in my thoughts even that Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the mighty waters and thy footsteps are not known Psal 77.19 For if ever there were an Age since Israels advance out of Aepypt when God once and againe made his path in the waters litterally at Jordan and had his way through the Sea even the red Sea and through the whole of that miraculous providence was as a ship in the sea whose way and footsteps are unknown If ever I say since that age God hath so acted again the second time to bring up his people from an Aegypt sure it hath been in this which we have seen And indeed the works of God in the midst of us have been so parallel unto those past providences as that I have often said they have been but another edition of them with some inlargements Our way out of Bondage and through the Wildernesse hath been so like that scarce can there be mentioned any particular act then which as Isaiahs phrase is hath not its mate now What God hath done for the by-past time there is scarce any so great a stranger in Israel but can tell but what God is doing or will doe is that which poseth the greatest Teachers in Israel and I had almost said we see not our signes there is no more any Prophet neither is there among us any that knoweth how long That great signe of the concurring desires and prayers and counsels of the godly which was wont never to faile us is now eclipsed by those sad divided aimes and sub-divided thoughts which cause breaking and bleeding of heart every where and how long it wil be ere the envie of Ephraim the major or ten parts of Professors and the envie of Judah the minor or two parts of them shal depart and each shal not vexe or vary one from another who can tell yet certaine the time shal come when it shal be but in the interim to see through these clouds to be able to heare the voyce of the Father in the midst of the confused noyse of his Children is the great desire and indeavour of my soule And that I might pump up the deeper and fuller discoveries of longer heads and hearts then my owne I will adventure humbly to cast in a dish of water out of my little cisterne-thus I have for some yeares eyed that place of Isa 1. 23 24 25 26. as a Prophesie which is yet to receive its accomplishment And much hath been as I humbly judge done in the midst of us as to the minatory or threatning part of it whether God be not about to enter at least upon the more positive mercy of it I would a little inquire and let that ver 26. be the basis of the inquiry the words are thus I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Councellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousnesse the faithfull city From this Prophesie I would speake the words of truth with sobernesse and oh that the sons of truth and sobernesse others I desire not to deal withall would give me an answer that if I erre I might see it for verily I am unwilling my errour should abide with me teach me and I wil hold my tongue and cause me to understand wherein I have erred But yet heare me of your goodnesse yee Judges and Princes of reason while in a few words I acquaint yee with my thoughts about this Scripture in reference to these times First I have thought that God clearly intimates a resolve as it were upon the debate to change the forme of Government from what it was now corrupted by Kings and Princes unto what it was better when administred in the dayes of the Judges and Elders or as it is here phrased Counsellours Kings and Princes of a Monarchical principle and power were not ab initio i. e. not from the beginning amongst his people they were indeed at last but not at first Now tel me for I desire to learn if the context of these words joyned with the words themselves speake not as if God would raise up an expectation of such a change as in which he would remove Kings and Princes whom he cals rebellious and companions of Theeves as his enemies and adversaries as those which had made the faithful City Israels Common-wealth an Harlot and which that it might become againe the city of righteousnesse should be blessed with its first Government of Judges and Counsellours After all Dispute and Comment which yet I have had the advantage to heare and read upon that 1 Sam. 8. it appeares clearly that at the first and in the beginning God did dis-approve of the change of Government from Judges to Kings and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there spoke of was to terrifie his people from their desire it being directly opposite to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The manner of Kingly Government was and hath been experienced to be no more like Gods then the violent tyranical advice of Reboboams young Counsellours unto the grave and moderate Counsel which the ancient men gave who were indeed the wiser and advised better then young Lads did yet still it hath been the manner of Monarchy to act after the young mens Councel and not according to the councel of the aged As thereby shewing it selfe to be not the government of the beginning nor that which was at first But God speaking here of reducing the state of things to that prime patterne doth to me at least clearly intimate this change of Government which we have had some experience of and which others shal in time finde for we are but as the first ripe fruit to that Harvest wherein the sickle of Providence shal be put into the Kingdomes of men to accomplish this Prophecie of Gods cutting downe Monarchs his Adversaries and making way for restoring of his Judges as at first and his Counsellours as at the beginning Secondly may it not then be thought to be not to say impious but very impolitique and imprudent in any people or person to dote upon and admire that which the great God of all the World is resolved to pull downe Certainly it 's the Creatures folly to resist