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A76326	More sulphure for Basing: or, God will fearfully annoy and make quick riddance of his implacable enemies, surely, sorely, suddenly. Shewed in a sermon at the siege of Basing on the last Lords day, Sept. 21. 1645. Together, with a word of advice, full of love and affection to the Club-men of Hampshire. / By William Beech minister of the Army there, elect: min: of O. in the county of Suffolke. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Sept. 26. 1645.	Beech, William.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1680; Thomason E304_3; ESTC R200304	30,148	36

MORE SULPHURE FOR BASING OR God will fearfully annoy and make quick riddance of his implacable Enemies surely sorely suddenly Shewed in a Sermon at the Siege of BASING On the last Lords day Sept. 21. 1645. Together with a word of advice full of love and affection to the Club-men of Hampshire By William Beech Minister of the Army there elect Min of O. in the County of Suffolke Imprimatur Ja. Cranford Sept. 26. 1645. REV. 14.11 And the smoke of their torment shall ascend evermore and they shall have no rest day nor night which worship the beast and his image London printed for Iohn Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley 1645. TO THE WORSHIPFULL Mr. NICHOLAS LOVE A Member of the Committe of Parliament for Hampshire SIR IT doth not a little rejoyce me that I see you have beene so firme and resolute for the Country of your Birth Birth-right Worthily therefore hath the State of the Land entrusted you amongst other singular Worthies with the Affaires of that County You were pleased to call me from another invitation and halfe-engagement to this service and I did the more readily imbrace it not onely because I saw personages of such honour and worth in jeopardy but also for that intire and yerning affection I beare to my Countrey-men many of whom I heard were lost as well as others in the general fog of Ignorance and Popish dilusions Sir were I able to do much this way it must be yours and Hampshier's yours by right of inheritance as you are your Fathers Heire and the Countrey 's for the first motion of life I had in that sweet aire I doe and shall ever acknowledge the little All I have such as it is the Foundation thereof was freely laid by your reverend Father in Winton Colledge Doctor Love the Learned and most Orthodox Warden that it hath received no better growth and thrives no more all this while you may remember the Stock whereon my hopes had beene grafted five yeeres died before Autumne I have two words more to say the one is touching that County that it will be famous and sounding unto posterity for two things viz. for Honourable Burgesses and Renouned Champions that stood all together save one strange one that was lost to defend it and secondly for two faithlesse Garrisons and unworthy Catalines that laboured as much to destroy it The other is concerning my selfe Malice hath dogged me these two yeeres the Lord knowes causelesly by sea and land and hath bespattered me exceedingly and many are taken up and affected with Halifax Law Sir I pray be you an indulgent father to this weakling and Patron too to bestride it from too many injuries I see Envy already grinning at it it will bite too and teare and invenome and corrupt if you be not watchfull If you vouchsafe the Office of a Patron and foster it you may live to see it grow stronger and abler to doe you and the Countrey service The porch is large I need no more Let Charity or Ingenuity but turne the leafe and your eyes will see streames of my purest affections gliding through the Army there through the Country through your owne grounds through the whole Land Be pleased but to reflect on your servants and my mean but honest parentage and you will remember be able to confirm others that I did derive draw such principles if possible from the brests of a deare mother deceased But I crave pardon I am Sir From my Quarters at Basing Sept. 22. 1645 Your humble Servant William Beech A Sermon Preached at the Siege of BASING PSAL. 83.9 Doe unto them as to the Midianites as to Sisera as to Jabin at the ●rooke of Kison THe words are an amplification of Davids prayer vers 1. wherein he humbly desires God not to be still while the Enemies are so busie that he would not keepe silence while the Adversaries roare and make a tumult that he would not hold his peace and lye downe while these vant themselves so proudly and lift up the head He strengthens his humble requests with very strong and prevailing Arguments The first he drawes from God himselfe and his glory which must needs suffer if the Enemie might prevaile and therefore he doth wisely interest him in the cause and quarrell in hand Lo Thine Enemes O Lord and they that hate thee Joshua useth this kind of Argument chap. 7.9 And what wilt thou doe for thy great name and so Moses A second he drawes from Gods people They are thy people O Lord thy hidden ones The third he insinuates is from a due apprehension of the Enemie and in them Their 1. Pride Their 2. Hatred Their 3. Crueltie Their 4. Cunning. Their 5. Multitude First Their Pride they have lift up the head Secondly Their hatred and conspiracie against God They hate thee they are confederate against thee thine Enemies those are the expressions Thirdly Their Crueltie against the people of God Gods darling Israel malicious purposes bloodie resolves They have said come and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance Fourthly Their cunning and craft They have taken craftie counsell together Cogita●●runt unanimiter they have made a league entred into vow and covenant as sometimes Pauls conspirators Acts 23.12 Fifthly Their multitude They and They and Thine Enemies and the tabernacles of Edom the Ismaelites the Moabites and the Hagarens c. By all which enerveticall Arguments he labours to endeare God unto his Church and people that he would so arise that they with all their purposes machinations and conspiracies may be scattered that he would so roare and utter his voice that all those cruell beasts of the forrest might tremble and be dismaid that 's meant by vers 1. Keepe not still silence or let not silence be to thee hold not thy peace be not still That is Arise O Lord and shew thy selfe in thy peoples behalfe manifest thy power thy wisedome and thy goodnesse thy power in sustaining and upholding thy weake people and in over-mastring thine and their Enemies thy wisedome in counter-plotting and over-reaching them in their devices they are digging pits O Lord but doe thou dig below them doe thou undermine them thy goodnesse in protecting them from the intended destruction and depopulation of thine inheritance that they may not be cut off and cease to be a Nation let it not be Lord that the memorie and posteritie of Israel be rooted out So then if you take the words simply and literally as an imprecation without any respect had to the spirit of prophesie by which David here speakes they are an amplification as I said of his first suit and doe reflect upon those motives by which he had enforced his humble petition ver 2.3.4.5 as if he had said O Lord we have heard of thee in times of old how graciously thou hast dealt with our fathers even in their greatest

murthered souls crying under the Altar How long Lord how long holy and true wilt thou not judge and be revenged of our blood c. Art thou in a dead sleep that thou hearest not the screeches of man woman child massacred and murthered the pitifull crying out of gasping Ireland O mother England help brother Juda why brother Levi brother Zebulon brother Nepthali all or some pity us c. Brethren how can you heare the name of Ireland and not be filled with indignation of England and not be moved to compassion I but 't is pity there should be any more blood shed Object there hath been too much already T is true indeed too much innocent blood Ans but speake in good earnest wilt thou agree unto it that these shall escape away with our blood shall it digest with these Canibals wilt thou have Gods Law of none effect wilt thou have the Statute repealed Whosoever sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed or wilt thou have this prophesie frustrate or if man should prove accessary to his owne ruine will God put it up thinkest thou And ah poore Hampshire deceived people deluded Countreymen for whom my spirit is in bitternesse and my bowels yerne for that first breathing of ayre I had amongst you and once happy Hampshire Bona si sua norint Agricolae if they knew their happinesse and how canst thou endure a snake in thy bowels a limbe of that cruell beast of Rome and be silent and sleepe nay two Garrisons of Countrey-destroyers and not resolve against them and not contribute your clubs towards the rooting of them out But you will say Object Alasse poore men they serpents surely we see no such venemous quality in them no such hurt by them besides are they not some of them of our kindred of our Countrey nay of our Religon Answ True indeed there are some of our owne there unhappy wretches for whom my soule shall mourne in secret And is this your spite O ye Tygers of Rome first to blind them then to butcher them first to destroy their soules then their bodies monstrous cruelty And because you could not undoe us by your Spanish Armado's nor your Powder-plots nor yet presently root us out by your Irish rebellions thus to divide us then to destroy us so to enchant a poore people that they should direct their Swords against their owne breasts to further your bloody designes to make way for your tyranny and another Mary-martyrdome Well God knowes what may be the upshot yet this we are certaine of that when God hath sufficiently scourged this Nation by your serpentine rod as he did of old his owne Israel by the Assyrians he will cast away that rod in indignation and burne it and receive his people graciously This is a Riddle to you and when we have drunke the top of this bitter cup the lees and dregs shall be for your share and we shall be all made friends for your utter ruine and destruction How truely may England say of this your conveyance and hidden treachery as Jacob did sometimes of the fact of Simeon and Levi Gen. 49.7 Cursed be their wrath for it was fierce and their rage for it was cruell Cursed be this device of all inventions cursed be this cruelty of all butcheries How much cause have this Island out of bitternesse of soule to take up the speech of those Jewes that were held long in Babylonish captivity Psal 137.9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children and dasheth them against the stones No Nation hath more cause to performe this duty then this and I would have it inferiour to no Nation in acts of mercy But I was almost swallowed up between compassion and indignation I returne againe to the Objection They have no sting they do no harm are of our own people Why what a besotted generation have we Is it not true the nearer the worse What said David in the like case Had it been an open enemy that had done me this dishonour peradventure I might have hid my self from him but it was thou my companion and my guide we tooke sweet councell together and walked to the house of God as friends Church-Papists Church-Friends are the deadliest Enemies when Enemies their wounds are secret and sure did not Judas betray his Master with a kisse And what course took Joab with Amasa Estnè pax mi frater and then murders him And are not these two Garrisons Members of Rome Is not Basing a limb of Babylon And have they not to friend the Monsters of cruelty I need not name them They are the Roman Catholike Subjects in Ireland May it not be truly said of them they have Jacobs voice but Esau's hands The words of Saints but the works of Satan And are we so senslesse to expect Grapes of thornes or figs of thistles The simple credulity and foolish pity of that Countrey-man in the Fables comes to mind and falls pat to our purpose This well-meaning poore man seeing an Adder in the field Frigore prope enecatum almost dead with cold as ours with fear alas poor creature quoth he and brings it home in his bosome applies it to the fire fosters it with the warmth thereof The subtill creature no sooner recollects his spirits againe but with all his venemous activity annoyes the whole house affrights the family and so unpeoples the place De te narratur fabula England Hampshire Thou hast a long time fostered a serpentine Generation in thy bosome thou hast given thy daughters to them and hast taken theirs to thee And all this while they have been visibly quiet though every moment since the last plot visibly under-ground-workers because they have been frozen with some feares The Lawes made against Papists had somewhat abated the open activity of their spirits especially in this land but you shoud have seene what a few more warming victories would have done did you not observe to what height they were ascended Did not a few long wasted Protestants in the Oxford Junto make it a mungrell Parliament Yes it did for all the Apologie and so it was kindly accepted at France Doe ye not thinke these tame harmlesse friends of ours would not for your warming contributions have lovingly contributed each man his number of faggots to make Smithfield hisse againe with the flesh of those who would not be so base as to prostitute their pure Religion to be defiled nor yet subjugate their free-born necks to slaverie Object I but it seemes the streames of learning run that way the Doctors and great Schollers are of another opinion And for our parts say others we are not Booke-learned And by whom should we be taught if not by these I hope they be understanding men c. Answ Yee erre not knowing the Scriptures Observe the current of Scripture and you shall finde that Christ was little beholding to the high Priests and read the Chronicles of England and you will see how

to fight Gods battells 1 Knowledge of the Cause and quarrell in hand the conscience must be informed of the equity of it as namely that it is for God and the Cities and People of God and for our wives our sons and daughters our houses c. and this will make men as bold as Lions to trample death c. 2 There must be a casting and a rolling of our selves and our proceedings of the businesse on God with an assurance that not a haire shall fall from our heads without his providence 3 A serious acknowledgement that the issues of Warre are from God as the battell is his so is the honour also his he gives and he takes and it is all one with him to save with many or with few Now here stands one maine difference between Morall and Theologicall Magnanimity and Courage that must have some proportionable number and strength of men to ground the enterprize or undertaking but this puts men you would thinke upon strange hazzards and absurdities sets David upon Goliah sets Luther upon Rome sets weaknesse upon strength And thus you shall find that in Religion the worke of God was never set forward with the greatest number They are too many for mee to deliver them into thy hands saith God to Gideon Iudges 7.2 The profession of godlinesse had alwaies fewest in number yet no enemy was able to stand against them The Apostles of Christ were few in number and the weapons of their warfare were not carnall but mighty through God casting down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted above the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ And in this respect how truly may those worthy Champions and Patriots of this County use Pauls words to Timothy 2 Tim. 4.16 17. At my first answering no man assisted me but all forsooke me I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge notwithstanding the Lord assisted me strengthened me Wel then let their courage and constancy be for our imitation and let us write after this copie of theirs But before we passe to another instruction will ye see the picture of a Dastard it was faint-hearted Ahab 1 Kin. 20.4 when Benhadad King of Aram sent Messengers to him at the siege of Samaria with this message Thy silver and thy gold is mine also thy women and thy faire children are mine very poorly he yeelded at the first Summons would have given up all my Lord the King according to thy saying I am thine and all that I have Labour for courage that 's the first Instruction 2 Get and use honest craft the Enemie is subtill he serves a cunning master Therefore out v●e him too in point of policie 'T is commendable Christ commands it Be wise as Serpents Yea and he blames those of his owne that are not so The children of this world are wiser in their generation then the children of light And you shall find that anciently the most godly warres were mannaged with stratagems subtiltie and policie The Commanders of Gods holiest Wars did lay snares and ambushments for the Enemie to circumvent him God commands this Jos 8.2 Thou shalt do unto As and her King as thou didst unto Iericho and her King c. lay an ambushment for the City behind it Will ye have examples for this too Abraham intending to recover his nephew Lot out of their hands that had taken him captive did not fight with him in a pitcht field and display his Ensigne in the open day but politikely divided his company and smote it by night When David asked counsell of the Lord whether he should go against the Philistines Thou shalt not go up but turn about behind thee and come upon them over against the Mulberie trees and when thou hearest the noise of one going in the Mulberie trees then remove for then shall the Lord go out before thee to smite the Host of the Philistins so that it is lawfull nay it is required of us that we be wise and politike to hide our purposes from our enemies to make show of one thing and do another True it is we must keep promise with our enemies though they faulter and prove base and trecherous to us we must not promise to save them and then destroy them we must not agree to receive them to protection and afterwards work their confusion That 's the second Instruction you must have martiall craft and cunning 3 And chiefly Be religious Religion doth not make men cowards but is rather very friendly and assistant unto true valour Religion informs the conscience that the cause undertaken is just and honourable this puts life and vigour into mens spirits and resolutions Religion takes us off from self-confidence and from leaning on the broken staffe of the bruised reed of Egypt Esa 36.6 and to hang on God for all we want it will teach us to be Evangelicall enemies to shew mercie unto such as fall into our hands and Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtain mercy Mat. 5. I say it will make us depend on God and the more dependent we are that way the better still it is with us and the better it fares with our Armies but when we grow independent and relie on the arme of flesh that presently withers and failes us and therefore saith brave Jehosaphat 2 Chron. 20.20 Heare ye O Judah and ye inhabitants of Ierusalem put your trust in the Lord your God and ye shall be established believe his Prophets and ye shall prosper and so Ver. 12. see how he casts himself upon God We have no might against this great multitude but our eys are upon thee Thus Religion will teach us to pray well and say well and so it will teach us to do well too The old saying is Inter Arma silent Leges when war is proclaimed the Trumpet sounds and the Drum beats all Lawes for the most part keep silence and equity is buried Religion for ought we can discern is the least of mens thoughts The Souldier thinks he may do what he list he thinks rapine uncleannesse drunkennesse swearing and all that is bad Law but let him know God gives better precepts Deut. 23.10 11. When thou goest forth with an host against an enemy then keep thee from every wicked thing not commit every wicked thing as it is with most If any be unclean c. where Moses tels us plainly that when we take up armes we may not give our selves over to a lawlesse liberty to commit any sin I pray do not think that you may live as you list nor run into all outrage more now then at other times let that be the brand of the enemy and of those that fight for Antichrist liberty and lewdnesse let it not be named in our camp but seeing the quarrell we have undertaken is Gods let us be as becometh Gods souldiers Take heed I say once more that by your lewdnesse and intolerable impieties you do not turn God in the front of the enemy against you think then how terrible your overthrow must needs be What shall I say Lord saith Ioshua when Israel turneth their back upon their enemy Ios 7.8 10. Israel hath sinned saith God neither will I be with you any more except ye destroy the wicked from among you Was it not the cursed miscarriage of Officers and Souldiers that brought a curse upon our former Armies I am sure it did help well on our miseries Did not pillaging Achan bring a curse upon the whole Camp Did not the ill example of these persons bring an odium upon the Cause especially in the ignorant who knew not how to discerne between the equity of a Cause and the iniquity of the Instruments did it not make them think ill of the just and honourable proceedings of the Parliament how justly may those honourable and grave Senators take up that complaint against some of you as somtimes Iacob did against the act of Simeon and Levi Gen. 34.30 Yee have troubled me to make me stinke amongst the inhabitants of the Land and I being few in number they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me And have not many of this Army too done what they were able for all their good pay to destroy the Parliament though their faces have been this way and their hands haply have wrought for them yet did not the works go backwards and that now it goes forward no thanks to many of them so while those are weeping these are laughing whilst those are mourning these are rejoycing while those were fasting these were feasting and whilst many of them were fainting on their beds with tired out-spirits in the publike these were stretching themselves on beds of ivory of Delights and Venerie and to this day while the people of God are at Church I speak it with grief I would I could say but few of ours were tipling and drunk in ale-houses and other houses of dis-order Is this to help on the destruction of Gods Enemies or is it to bring ruine upon our selves and the Kingdome I will now here propound unto you two Patternes for your imitation worth your notice and then I will hold you no longer and it shall be to crosse that old Proverbiall Hexameter Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur The one is Captaine Cornelius commended for his Religion Act. 10.1 2. and the other is the Centurion commended for his Faith Mat. 8.10 and so liberavi animam meam I have commended unto you no other orders and instructions but what you have in the pure word of God FINIS