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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

upon the Prophecie and advice of Azariah assembled and gathered togther all Iudah and Benjamin and the stranger out of Ephraim Manasseh and Simeon to Ierusalem in the third month the 15th year of his raign and they sacrificed and entred into a Covenant to seeke the Lord God with all their heart and with all their soule that whosoever would not seeke the Lord should be put to death small or great man or woman and they sware unto the Lord and all Israel rejoyced at the oath for they had sworne with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire and hee was found of them and the Lord gave them rest round about And there was no more war unto the thirty fift yeare of the reigne of Asa Whence may be concluded how much so holy a Covenant conduceth to the peace of a divided Kingdome Let this be like that Covenant Num. 18.19 a Covenant of salt sure stable incorruptible Cautions in this Covenant to beware of mentall resurvations malevolent thoughts and murmurings remembring still in whose presence they stand the presence of that Lord who understandeth their thoughts before they are conceived in their minds who is omniscient omnipotent omnipresent we cannot deceive we cannot resist we cannot evade nor escepe his punishments his judgements his revenging hand We ought with David to acknowledge that Righteous art thou Psal 119.137 Jer. 50.5 O Lord and just are thy judgements And in Psal 119.126 I have sworn and will perform that I will keep thy righteous judgements Jer. 50.5 Come let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant Now I purpose to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel that he may turne away his wrath from us 1 Cor. 29.10 11. Is 59.21 As for me this is my covenant with them saith the Lord c. Esay 61.8 If we shall covenant with God with submission to obey his judgements then the Lord will keep his Covenant with us for remission of our sins release of our miseries and shewing abundance of mercies Hosea 2.18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them c. and I will breake the bow and the sword and the battell out of the earth and I will make them to lie down safely Isa 2.4 Job 5 23. Mic. 4.2 3 4 5. and Hos 2.18 You and performe unto the Lord your God let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared Psal 76.11 3 That on the third day or time on which the Lotts are to be cast the Sacred act from which we are to expect the declaration of Gods divine will for resolving of ou● doubts and dissolving and determining our dangerous and deadly differences the holy duties of praying preaching and praising God as on the two former dayes were prescribed be also now performed That the Min sters in a more speciall manner stir up the people to a most serious and hearty consideration as of the greatnesse so of the goodnesse of God as of the incomprehensible glory so of his incomparable mercy as of the infallible justice of God so of his infinite piety and pitty towards his people giving them to understand that as Almighty God vouchsafeth his testifying presence in an oath so his Majesty is pleased to vouchsafe his determining presence in a more immediate manner in this divine way of his own institution We read not of divine Lotts used by any of Gods servants but in case of greatest consequence and alwayes with most religious reverence exhort the people as David in 95. Psal v. 6. Come let us worship and fall downe c. In the election of Matthias by Lott the Apostles form of proceeding is a perfect president Act. 1.15 The Election is begun with wholsome exhortation Surgens Petrus in n●sdio Fratrum dixit c. Peter stood up in the midst of the Disciples took a text preached and perswaded the conveniency nay necessity of a new election by lot to make up the number of the twelve Secondly the election proceedeth with devout Prayer and p●●●● supplication the persons and lotts being provided v. 24. And they prayed 〈◊〉 sayd c. Thirdly the election was determined by divine revelation v. 26. B●vecidit sors super Matthiam The lott fell on Mutthias which was as Aret. saith Divinae vocis instar splendor quidam divinus as Dionys Per quens oftende batur M●●thiam in apostolatum esse assumendum He is the Rock his work is perfect for all his waies judgement a God of truth and without iniquity just and right is he Deut. 32.4 He whose dwelling is in the highest heavens whom the heaven of heavens is not able to containe will bow the heavens and deigne to come downe not in thunder and lightning as in the giving of the Law with terrour and astonishment to the people but with mercy and comfort sun-shine of favour beames of affection after these terrible stormes of tempestuous troubles will be intreated to dignifie his owne divine ordinance with his gracious presence will humble himselfe so as from the height of his Majesty to behold the depth of our misery descend to weake wormes of the earth and by this divine way of his owne direction and institution decide our distractive differences and determine our deadly dissentions and so deliver us from imminent nay almost inevitable ruine and confusion He that is the King of Kings Rex terrorum terrorum Regum The primitive of principalities He from whom all dominion is derived that standeth in the Congregation of the mighty and judgeth among the Gods He at whose presence the Mountaines of the mighty leap like Rams and the Jesser hills of the haughty skip like Lambs The boysterous waves of waters fled and and the swelling Seas fell backward at whose lookes the earth trembleth and if hee touch the mountaines they sm●●ke The Great Creator of heaven and earth will vouchsafe to take the judgement of an earthly cause into his heavenly hands Ps 104.32 with righteousnesse will he judge the world and the people and their matters with equity They know not neither will they understand that they walke on in darknesse who delight in division and desire the Sword for their arbiter umpire or judge All the foundations of the Land are dissolved and disordered it must be the Lord Gods worke to establish the Pillers thereof The Lord is known by executing judgement arise therefore O God and judge thou the earth for thou shalt inherite all Nations Psal 82.8 I will heart what God will speake for he will speake peace unto his people c. he maketh warres to cease in all the earth Psal 76. In Judah is God known c. In Salem is his tabernacle there brake he the arrowes of the bow the shield the sword and the battell Thou art more bright and puissant than the mountaines of prey The stout-hearted 〈◊〉 spoiled and none of the mighty men have found their hands Thou

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