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A86696	Væ-Euge-Tuba. Or, The vvo-joy-trumpet, sounding the third and greatest woe to the Antichristian world, but the first and last joy to the church of the saints upon Christs exaltation over the kingdomes of the world. Unfolded in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, at their late solemne fast, May 26. 1647. / By G. Hughes Minister of the Gospell in Plymouth. Published by order of the House.	Hughes, George, 1603-1667.	1647 (1647)	Wing H3310; Thomason E389_9; ESTC R201523	30,609	48

father lived These are evills intolerable in the sates of morall Pagans much more inconsistent with that Kingdome where the Lord rules Will ye be pleased this day to be humbled for these abominations and put out the power which Christ hath given you to cleanse the Land from these and such like abominations We shall then hope our Lord will not refuse to owne us but otherwise that he should deale with the Land as with an whorish woman Ezech. 23.25 c. slit her nose and strip her naked and spit in her face and give her to death is all that can be expected No more of this generall State my labour is saved by the mornings worke I should rather crave leave to discharge the dutie of a faithfull Minister of Christ unto you being now called I look upon you as a State and chiefe Power of Christ in this Kingdome so far as you the Lord and he rules in you so much cause have his people to rejoyce and so farre as any defection appeares from that Law-giver so much VVoe is pronounced upon you and upon the Land The saddest Omen is when in Head and Rulers Christ Kings it not I am not come with Criminations upon out Truely VVorthies the searcher of hearts knowes I desire nothing but true Honour from God upon you and that must bee by his ruling in you and your ruling by and for him Onely deviations from this proclaime woe and it will be faithfulnesse to let you heare the generall voices of the Land about you to vindicate your Honour where it is causelesely stained and to be humbled for any defection from Christ in the state appearing 1. It s lamentable with a stat● when foolish childish wicked and ungodly Steeres-men sit at the Helm to sway it As wise a King and States-man as the generations of men knew by the wisedome of God gave these dictates Woe to thee ô Land Eccles. 10.16 17. when thy King is a child and thy Princes eate in the morning Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles and thy Princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkennesse See the Woe and Weale of States Happy Land whose King is innobled by God and Princes made gracious and taught by him even to the use of meate and drinke there our Lord hath the Kingdome and his Christ But woe to that State where a King a childe a foole shall reigne an enemy to the Lord and Princes lustfull gluttonous drunken and lascivious such as must have a breakfast every morning in sinne shall steere by their Counsailes Christ is no Law-giver there This is woefull Prov. 19 2. The people must mourns when the wicked beareth rule They say there are such among you if I may speak in usuall termes Impious childish cock-pit Counsellors If so such are bad Trustees for Lawes Liberties and Religion A Roman or Spartan-State would provide against some of those and not hazzard Kingdomes in the hands of fooles much more should that State which is Christian I know yee are not Electors but the Scumme of People lend such unto you and will spoyle all your boilings unlesse you take it off It is a voice of feare among them that love you and pray for you in the West and other parts that such as could not overcome you by the Sword labour to doe it by Votes even by sending such as will Vote God from among you Ever Honoured Worthies see if it bee so let the sight of one root of bitternesse among you humble you And now shew forth Christ ruling in you Methinks its possible for a Christian Parliament by a Law to purge prevent such profane Paganish leaven and to honour Christs Kingdome so much as to make grosse sinne uncapable of a Membership among you Surely if that be allowed our Lord rules not and this is woefull 2. It 's lamentable with a Kingdomes where the faces of the poore are grinded Isa 3.14 15 and the cause of the Fatherlesse Winddow and Friendlesse slighted and not heard The Lord in his Christ gives better Lawes and will require them Isa 1.17 Deut 10.18 Judge for the Fatherlesse plead for the VVidow God doth this himselfe therefore will have his Vice-gerents doe like to him It is a fame that yee are profuse in giving to the full sonle while the hungry and friendlesse which have spent and been spoyled of all for the cause of God in your hands are some of them ready to perish for bread See after this our Lord will not doe so let not this Honoured and beloved be mistaken neither I nor any honest heart can grutch the due rewards of noble-deserving spirits in these times My heart is towards the Governours that offered themselves willingly to the worke of God my thoughts I am perswaded are the same with all those worthy souls who desire to concurre with God Let the hungry bee fed and naked cloathed and fatherlesse sustained and widow comforted and well deserving men not unrewarded Otherwise there will abide a woe 3. It 's lamentable with a Kingdome where judgement by Bribery or otherwise becomes vendible and justice is bought and sold So Jeremiah thought so Micah preached The head judge for reward c. Jer. 5.31 Mic. 3.11 12. Deut. 10.17 therefore shall Zion be plowed as a field Our Lord takes no reward in Judgement neither must the Steward 's that act for him such as doe he curseth The voice of people is there is such a fault among you I confesse it is incredible to mee that such a Judge as a Parliament consisting of so many heads can bee the subject of such corruption and I am confident the body is free in judging But it is replyed though the judgement at last come free yet motions many times cost men deare I cannot charge it upon any and I wish that they who complaine would testifie to the faces of the guilty at your owne Barre I am confident the just hands among you would be against such a man to thrust him out of your Assembly But yet renowned Patriots look into this matter And to confute the world every one of you that desire to act for God in your administrations take the just complaints of the poor and oppressed communicate to your body and prosecute righteous causes freely as your owne This will be a Character of the Lord upon the Throne The neglect will prove a deviation from Christ and breed so much woe 4. It 's lamentable for that State where Justice is delayed Our Lord ownes not this His command is to the house of David Jer 21.12 execute judgement in the morning now that will passe away quickly therefore justice must speedily be done It is a tryed truth in ages A just sentence delayed hath more oppressed then an unrighteous dispatch could have done They that hang about your doores and such as have waited long for sentence enemies and friends say

no more selfe-power nor ordinance-power than the Prince God makes the Word effectuall and so he hath done the Sword upon a Manasseh-spirit 3. The Rod for the fooles back is Gods ordinance Prov. 19.29 as well as the Word to the obedient eare who so denyeth either sinneth against that light of nature Rom. 2.12 whereby the Gentiles were condemned But Christ did not make use of them Obj. nor his Apostles at the laying of the foundation of the Gospell the Kingdomes of the world were then against him how should they be helpefull now I returne thus 1. Sol. Our Lord made use of them before that time and owned these Kings and Kingdomes by whom his name was exalted Psal 18.1 c. and no where hath be since rejected his owne ordinance 2. At that time of Christs comming in the flesh God by his Prophets had fore-told the state of enmitie which the great Roman Monarchy and all the Kingdomes of the earth with him should expresse against his Some therefore no marvell he made no use of them at that time for it was one time given to the Devill to rule in them Act. 41 27 22. and to provoke them to crucifie the Lord of glory which Gods counsell determined to be done but with more righteous and gracious thoughts than they intended 3. That was not the time wherein God had appointed to take to himselfe his great power and to raigne but now the time is come that he hath taken Kingdomes to rule in and by them and make his lawes their lawes 4. In that very time of Christ and his Apostles would I but require this ought not the Casers and Nero himselfe to have advanced the Lord and his Christ and have used their power to bring their subjects in obedience to him and to have ruled by his truth Shall not God laugh them to scome and they perish in his wrath because they did not I believe they will have no advocate for them If so then let Christians argue de jure what Rulers ought to have done then not de facte what they did and if it were the Magistrates dutie then to rule men to God in Christ it is no lesse now And sinfull practice is no good president against Divine right 3. If this Trumpet sound the greatest Woe upon all Kingdomes under the Devill and Antichrist and the greatest Joy to the Kingdomes under God and Christ this is rightly inferred Corol. 3. The best Crisis or judgement of Kingdome Weale or Woe it by the Lord that swayeth over them If Satan if Antichrist if wicked Lords cursed is that State If God if Christ if holy Princes and Governours blessed is that Kingdome O the wickednesse of Machiavillian O the folly of humane policy Germany hath its interest and Spaine and France and England theirs one in alies another in treasures another in hearts of Subjects c. And suppose all these kept at any time or possible to be kept have they secured any Kingdome or can they that it shall not perish at the breath of Gods mouth How hath God befo●led the counsells of the wisest Politicians in all ages and yet are we seeking for Kingdomes safetie and glory within the creatures Spheare To have one Lord in Christ our King were a prospering and securing wisedome beyond all under the Saline Did ever a Kingdome keeping its Imerost in God perish Obedience to the Lord and his Christ in all his discoveries is the laving-interest of any Common-Wealth Psal 144.15 Sapores King of Persia to constintius the Emperor Isay 14.12 Obad. v. 4. O blessed are the people whose God is the Lord What though Monarchs of the Earth write themselves Brothers of the Sunue and of the Moone fellow of the Starres yet heare what the most high saith O Lucifer sonne of the morning how art thou cut downe And though thou set thy nest among the Starres thence will I bring thee down What can a mount to the Starres helpe poore creatures when the breath of the Lord bloweth them downe againe One true interest in out Lord and his Christ would prosper and perpetuate a Kingdome and honour Princes above the Satrres of such would the most high say Yee are Gods and Sounes of the must high Psal 82.6 of such Kingdomes no end should be but of perfection Let us then judge of our Wealth by how much we are the Lords and of our Woe by so much as we are not his or refuse him These are the Corolaties 2. Use 2. If this Trumpet sound forth joy onely to the holy people and the Kingdomes that are our Lords and so farre indeed as they are the Lords the wofull sound of it must concerne the Kingdomes which are not his and all Polities so far as they are not Christs so that well may a lamentation be taken up by them and for them Is there not cause when Christ owne's not State nor States him It 's true that in the execution of all the dreadfull Woes upon the Romish Babel when the Kings and Merchants of the earth are bemoaning her desolations Saints are called to rejoyce over her Revel 18.20 Rejoyce over her thou Heaven and ye Holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you on her But when Immanuels Land shall in any part break Christs yoke resist their Lord provoke him to displeasure and themselves to wasting who can refraine from teares It calls a dead Grand-mother out of her grave to weepe Jer. 31.15 Rachel was heard weeping in Jeremiahs time and would not be comforted Why For her children once owned by God had sinned and were not Jadah was Immanuels Land and upon like grounds England may if this State will not suffer the Lord to King it over them Isay 8.18 as they once refosed an Assyrian Lord a dreadfull Oppressor the Rod of Gods anger may have commission to passe thorow and goe over and stretch his wings to the breadth of our Land This will be grievous when the iron Scepter of wicked Tyrants shall teach us how sweet the Government of Christ was which wee have despised Symptoms of this wofull sound are the graduall declinations of a people or State from the Lords Rule That the people have gone a Whoring from God by spirituall and corporall uncleannesse and the little cause of Englands rejoycing in it By M. T. Case on Hos 9.1 ye have heard sufficiently declared in the morning for our humiliation I confesse I hould have wondred at such severe prophesying against this kind of filthinesse what the reason of it might be but that I see so many characters of uncleane hearts visible on their bodies and have beene certainly informed of most abominable Incests in severall parts of the Kingdome and especially in the Countie of Kent not farre remote Sir A. ● complained of it where the sonne hath married his Fathers wife and as is beleeved she was with child by him while his