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A49126	The original of war, or, The causes of rebellion a sermon preached in the castle of Exon on the 15th of January, 1683, before the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Exon, and other His Majesties justices of the peace for the county of Devon / by Tho. Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2978; ESTC R3712	28,102	44

or with Cain they apprehend their sins greater than can be forgiven or that God delivered them up to the furies of their guilty Consciences and hath sentenced them to those Chains of impenitence and darkness to the judgment of the last day it is to me the most certain and sad Omen that God hath yet fuller vials of wrath to be poured out on such men at least if not on the whole Nation against whom his hand is not yet withdrawn but his arm is stretched out still We have a day of Humiliation appointed for the barbarous Parricide of our Royal Martyr and we have had a day of Thanksgiving for the miraculous Deliverance of our present Soveraign which you have this day religiously commemorated But while some mourn and make the first a day of Lamentation for the Anointed of the Lord who was taken in the pits of deceitful and bloud-thirsty men others applaud that execrable Fact and nourish their hearts as in a day of slaughter or such a Sacrifice wherewith God was well pleased And when the second is a day of Joy and Gladness to see Jerusalem in Peace and Prosperity and the King and his Crown flourish others mourn that their Babel is fallen if while some bless God that hath preserved the King and his People others curse the King and People whom God hath preserved and while these are perswading to peace they make them ready for War what can a People so divided expect but to be destroyed Another cause of War is the Amor habendi the immoderate desire of having things that are superfluous and unlawful whether power pleasures or possessions For when men can set no bounds to their Lusts they consider not whether the end be necessary or the means lawful but they must have the Rem quocunque modo rem And so S. Paul 1 Tim. 6.9 They that will be rich fall into a snare and temptations and many foolish and hurtful lusts that drown men in perdition and they that are greedy of gain will not stick to take away the life of the owners thereof This our Apostle observes when he joyns the desire of having with killing And our Saviour makes this the reason of the Jews killing the heir that the inheritance might be theirs Thus Solomon brings in ungodly men conspiring together Prov. 1.13 We shall find all precious substance we shall fill our houses with spoil and then Come let us lay wait for bloud let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause This Lust warreth first in our own members Prov. 15.27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house disquieteth himself and his desire of having is not quenched but with the bloud of those from whom he takes Thus Ahab was sick at the heart for Naboth's Vineyard and nothing could cure him but Jezabel's Receipt of killing and taking possession Yet this was to be gilded over with a shew of Religion a solemn Fast must be proclaimed and Naboth accused of blaspheming God and the King That our Wars and Fightings were begun for the satisfaction of such covetous Lusts the same method of killing and taking possession plainly demonstrate The Royal Martyr shortly after his Coronation in Scotland makes a Revocation of such Lands as were taken from the Crown in his Fathers Minority Also some Noblemen and others called Lords of the Erection or Impropriators who had ingrossed almost all the Tythes of the Nation allowing the Ministers an inconsiderable Pittance or Stipend and these Lay-patrons so oppressed the Country that no man durst to take home his nine parts until the Impropriators had set out their tenth by means whereof the generality had their dependance on these Lords against whom the King received frequent Petitions from the Gentry and their Farmers as also the Ministers complaining of this Oppression Whereupon his Majesty grants a Commission of Surrendry of Superiority and Tythes in which some of the interessed Lords were made Commissioners and so fairly and equally was it executed that the Lords received a competent satisfaction and the Ministers Gentry and Commons being freed from that Vassalage thankfully acknowledged the benefit But the Lords perceiving they should lose the dependance of the People suggested that this was done in favour of Episcopacy and to the prejudice of Religion and taking advantage of some other Accidents they begin to associate and enter into a Covenant for defence of their Religion and hence came those Wars and Fightings For the success of the Scots against their Bishops stirred up the like lusts in some Members of our Nation who under the like pretence of Religion and clamours of Popery and Idolatry armed themselves to commit Sacriledge and as soon as they had power to kill and take possession and with such ample Dividends of Church and Crown-lands did those Reformers gratifie the lusts that warred in their several members that they proved a Snare not to themselves onely but to their Posterity who applaud their Fathers doings and though they proved sowre Grapes unto them yet their childrens teeth and appetites are set on edge to devour things that are holy And so just do they still think their Title to those Lands that they think it lawful to vindicate it by a second Rebellion And hence come wars and fightings c. The last cause of War which I shall mention is the want of a due consideration of the Mischief and evil Consequences of War that Pandora's Box whence all manner of Plagues do issue pestilential Fevers bloudy Fluxes Famines Conflagrations of Towns and Cities demolishing of Castles and Temples devastation of whole Countries and introducing of Atheism and Barbarity of all which this Nation hath had sad experience which made the Orator to say Quem discordiae quem Caedes Civium quem bellum civile delectat eum ex finibus humanae naturae exterminandum puto Phil. 13. They who delight to live in a state of War are not fit to live in any state of Mankind Some among us have heard to what great honour the Dregs of the Nation have been advanced how Coblers have been translated to Colonels and Clowns to Counsellors of State how Bankrupts have become Bankers and Apprentices Preachers and the Saint-like Souldiers have had the honour to bind Kings in Chains and Nobles in Fetters of iron and hence it is that such as are in debt and distress such as dissent from the established Worship and like Corah and his Confederates think themselves more fit than Moses and Aaron aspire to the Magistracy and Ministry by Rebellion and Bloudshed But these silly men consider not who it is that by the Chains of these Lusts is leading them Captive to Death and Damnation they think not what Dogs-heads they may prove as Hazael did who had as good a conceit of himself as they to slay their brethren with the sword and set on fire the strong holds of Israel to dash their children and rip up the women with child 2 Kings 8.13 Nor

of Heaven which are infinite always protect our Religious and Gracious KING his Dearest BROTHER and every Branc of that ROYAL FAMILY and may all the Treasonable Conspiracies of those Rebellious Schischmaticks be always thus happily prevented That the continued Care of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of DEVON for the Safety of His Majesties Sacred Person the preservation of the Publick Peace and advancement of true Religion may be fuller known and have a better Effect I do hereby Order and Require all the CLERGY of my Diocess within the County of Devon deliberately to publish this Order the next Sunday after it shall be tendred to them THO. EXON Hugo Vaughan Cler. Pacis Com praed My LORD GENTLEMEN YOu have taken the right measure for securing our Peace and rendring unto Caesar the things that are Caesars by rendring unto God the things that are Gods in the first place We all owe it to your Piety R. R. Father who have loved our Nation and built us another Synagogue which with all thankfulness we acknowledge and may it ever re-remain a House of Prayer for those ends to which you have designed and reconsecrated it by your presence and Devotion When I saw the Heads of our County following the Guide of their Souls and like Moses and Aaron on the Mount stretching out their hands with their hearts unto God in Prayer it seemed to me a good Omen of Success and Victory against those Amalekites that are still conspiring against us in the Vallies For such as you who make it your business to serve God and the King are the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof In you we may see Righteousness and Peace embracing and kissing each other and may they never prosper that attempt to put them or you asunder And now I beseech you R. R. Father and worthy Gentlemen suffer a word of Exhortation which is that you would bend your united Force against that Profaneness and Debauchery which as it is an effect of our former Divisions and War so it will be the cause of new Confusions and drawing down the Wrath of God on the Land For if such men of Belial as are still fighting against God blaspheming his Holy Name by accursed Oaths and damnable Imprecations that own no other Deity but the Lusts of their upper nether bellies and sacrifice more of their time and Estates to Bacchus and Venus than to their God and Saviour and Leviathan like sport themselves n the waters of the Sanctuary scoffing at all things that are Sacred and think themselves so great that no man durst put a hook in their nostrils or reprove them though never so friendly and in the Name of God be permitted to riot it in the day-time we may expect an approaching night of as much blackness and darkness as violent storms and tempests as hitherto God be thanked hath past over our heads And because Tipling and Brothel-houses and the Nurseries of these mischievous vices where men sacrifice more of their time and Estates to their ungodly Lusts than to their God and Saviour let those Nests and Receptacles of unclean Locusts and devouring Caterpillars which do even cover the Land and though they have the faces of men yet under them they carry the hearts of beasts and the stings of fiery Serpents be suppressed I know there may be some Silver-smiths that will plead for these Shrines of the great Goddess Diana which bring no small gain to the Crafts-men But certainly if the time and Treasure which is spent and spilt by these Debaucheries in Idleness and upon their Lusts were employed in their dayly Labours and honest Callings the King would have a far greater as well as a better Revenue and Aid than from all those Augean Stables These are those Devils Chappels which in many places he set up for himself at the very entrance into God's House where his Chaplains daily attend his Service but especially on those Holy-days which are set apart for God's Worship and from hence there are as many Oaths and Imprecations for Vengeance and Damnation sent up against Heaven as there are Prayers and Supplications for Pardon and Salvation in the Churches of God And how great Provocations these are to our Holy God your own experience of the great and dayly trouble occasioned by such Riots may inform you for from hence proceed Thefts Whoredoms Bastardies Brauls and Quarrels which are prosecuted by expensive and ruining Law-suits maiming of Limbs and shedding of innocent Bloud These are the Sanctuaries of Vagabonds and Robbers the Hospitals of incurable Fools and Madmen where men are besotted bereaved of reason and strength and made uncapable of any good Employment The very Pesthouses of the Nation where Diseases are propagated and Infirmities intailed on succeeding Generations By these Circean Cups men are transformed into beasts and by their looks and their language you may know them for Vix hominem sonant These were the Apollyons that destroyed the late Kings Armies his Forts and Garrisons and reduced him to more straights than the Armies of his Adversaries who when they should be fighting against the Kings Enemies were fighting against God and discharging Vollies of Oaths against Heaven when they should have been praying for mercy and forgiveness from thence These hardned the hearts of the Kings Enemies and alienated the affections of his Subjects as if the Cause could not be good that was defended by such Instruments for they brought an evil Report on a righteous Cause as if their Prince were like that Party or Gallio like cared for none of those things It was doubtless by and for the wickedness of these men that so good a Prince and so just a Cause was overthrown and if we still do wickedly though as yet we have no visible Enemies the Mouth of the Lord which is able to do it hath said Ye shall be destroyed both you and your King Wherefore I beseech you who have Power and Authority from God and the King vigorously and unanimously to endeavour the Suppression of those Seminaries of sin and uncleanness which provoke God and bring the Government into Contempt and then we may hope that God will still suppress our Enemies and establish us on the sure Foundations of Peace and Righteousness which is and shall be the hearty Prayer of Exon Jan. 21. 1683. My Lord and Gentlemen Your most humble and hearty Servant for God his Church and the King THO. LONG St. JAMES 4.1 From whence come wars and fightings among you come they not hence even from your lusts which war in your members BEing to speak to so solemn an Audience I could not think of a more seasonable and proper Subject than to commend unto you especially R. R. Father in God and worthy Gentlemen who are in Commission for the PEACE and Enquiry into the Causes of WAR And the Text seems to be a Writ of Enquiry From whence come wars In the due execution whereof