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A66817	Hermes theologus, or, A divine Mercurie dispatcht with a grave message of new descants upon old records no lesse delightfull in the best sense, then truly usefull for these times / by Theoph. Wodenote ...	Wodenote, Theophilus, d. 1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3242; ESTC R38728	47,955	188

men for their speciall pattern in these times Nay more then this how are the very Artiticles of Gods holy Religion i● self here setled slighted and cast aside by them 〈◊〉 wholly insufficient for our faith to build upon How have many of those men who were bound in speciall to defend the same in regard of their office and calling their frequent Oaths and Protestation to that purpose been the Instruments to alter the 〈◊〉 the waged Balaams to blast and disesteeme them And how have they hereby confirmed the slanders of our Romish adversaries against us who have often said that we had no Church no Established Doctrine no foundation for our Profession How are these hereby raised in their hopes to see a restoration of their Babell in the downfall of our Jerusalme O that those who call themselves the Assembly of Divines by their grosse Apostacy from their first faith and love have been the chief meanes of working all these mischiefes would but read over and lay to heart seriously those passages which they shall find to this purpose in a late Book intituled Englands complaint for the sin of Rebellion written by that constant Brother and faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ M. Lionell Gatford whom most of them well know to be a man of most approved integrity But here 's not all yet not the Articles of our Religion only but the protector of them the Annointed of the Lord himself is in like manner cast aside How hath he been contemn'd of late nay how hath the Majesty and Authority of God been vi●●●●d in him together with those Scriptures which command our Honour and Obedience How hath His sacred Person been railed upon slandred and reviled How hath He been persecuted hunted tormented for His Conscience sake How hath he been robbed deprived of all his Revenues his Comforts and his Freedom for His love and affections to the Church of God because He was the Head chief Member of it there was too much of Truth as there was of bitterness in that speech which since His Majesty was in bondage I heard uttered from the Pulpit by a Fryer in France who railing against the Protestants of that Kingdome for denying the Pope to be Head of the Church who sayes he would they have the head thereof the King perhaps even like their Brethren in England who first made their King the Head of their Church and now they make Him their Slave Nay more yet with the Kings Person and Authority His graces also are the object of their scorne and hate His magnanimity His patience His care to keep His conscience undefiled yea the maine study and work of these pretenders to conscience these bawlers for Liberty of Conscience hath been for a long time vastare conscientiam Regis to violate the Conscience of their Soveraign and to breake the peace thereof And what dogged spightfulnesse have they discover'd of late against the pitifulnesse of spirit that is in Him How faine would they be torturing and murdering of Him for His tendernesse of heart towards the miseries of His people its well knowne to all the world and to themselves too who began these wicked Wars and at whose doore the guilt of bloodlies yet because the good King seeing them wholy of the Pharisees stampe abhorring to practice the lesson that Christ taught of denying themselves and confessing their sin and yet being desirous to purchase His peoples peace is content for their security of His pardon that He will not bring them to a triall by Law for their past demerits but remit them wholly to the hand of God to connive even at their throwing their dirt in His face what vile Doctrines and cursed Uses do their Pamphleteers and their Pulpiteers raise from thence and presse upon the people why that God hath now resolved the great doubt hath heard his peoples prayers in charging the guilt of blood upon the Kings soule and brought Him to acknowledge that He hath been the cause of all which hath been shed and therefore it belongs to the people now to see unto it that Justice be done upon Him and upon His friends for it Was ever such horrid wickednesse heard of such transcendent villany in mortall creatures would not the Devil himselfe blush to appear in their shapes may we not looke for some strange judgement like that of the earths opening to swallow them up had Davids people when he to have them spared had cryed out t is I that have sinned spake of calling him to account for the losse of 70000 men they had shewne lesse impudence then these have done Nay the malitious Jews though they crucified Christ because he was a King yet were not so super-superlatively vile as to consult his death because he was content in their stead and for their safety to be accounted as a sinner Assuredly therfore these men have out-gone all before them for aske now of the daies that are past since the time that God created man upon the earth aske from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath ever been such bloody spunges as these shew themselves to be such monsters of nature amongst men O the basenesse the impiety the wormewood and the gall of their spirits if ever the Title of Rex diabolorum was rightly applyable to the King of this land 't is since the viperine birth of these miscreants And that such only as themselves are might be continued if possible in the Nation there is a speciall course taken that knowledge and good manners might not abound in those that come after for the Universities are metamorphised and purged too as well as the Church of learned and good men Thistles are there set instead of Wheat and Cockle instead of Barly Yea all Orders and degrees amongst men if some may have their will must be abolished presently and confusion planted in all places as 't is already in a great measure Kings and Princes Nobles and persons of Honour must be but as the meane people which God indeed may justly permit in respect of some for those contempts and miseries which even they have help'd to bring upon his Church sure these things are a lamentation and ought to be for a lamentation Never was there so foolish and so mad a Nation under the Sun as we have proved our selves to the derision of all about us the ruine and decay of our Ancient glory our outward Happinesse and of our soules for ever O therefore I say againe that mine head were full of water and that mine eyes were fountaines of teares to bewaile these things O that the people of this Land especially they that are got Highest would but consider what they have done and yet at last before all is lost set some period to their owne doings O that those men of wealth and place who advanced at first their whole might to lay levell this famous Church to take from it all Honours orders and

have lessened their offences It might have been prayed for them Father forgive them for they know not what they do g Luke 23 34. But surely knowing both the Laws of God and man against them and pretending that they fought for the property of the Subject therefore now they are left without excuse therefore now they have no cloake for their sins ô if ever their consciences be awakened how can such audacious presumption but fill their hearts with the sharper grief and their faces with the greater shame LXXIX THere were that would needs perswade Alexander that he was no mortall man but an immortall God but when at the seige of a City no small wound was given him by an arrow so that he saw the blood streaming from it where are they now saith he that said I was a God h Musc in Psal 82. A great fame was heretofore spread abroad of some of our new Donatists that they were most just men such as feared God and eschewed evill yea if not Gods in the likenesse of men as the men of Lystra thought of Paul and Barnabas i Act. 14.11 yet the most holy children of the most high God but now since they have been so desperately wounded by Sathan and stirred up to all mischievous cruelty now since they have shewed themselves so bloody and deceiptfull men now since they have shed the Saints blood like water round about Jerusalem k Psal 79.3 besides their being defiled with many other ill-favoured corruptions where are now their followers their admirers their applauders that so boasted up and downe of their truth and peace and mercy where are they that thought them so humble so religious so shining with all heavenly vertues LXXX SAladine a Turkish Emperour he that first of that Nation Conquered Jerusalem l l 11 86. lying at the point of death after many glorious Victories commanded that a white sheete should be borne before him to his grave upon the point of a speare with this Proclamation These are the rich spoiles which Saladine carrieth away with him of all his triumphs and Victories of all the realme and riches he had now nothing is left but this Why should we so much desire other mens goods and seeke to get them by hooke or by crooke why should we devour houses even widowes houses why should we encroach upon other mens fields and seeke unlawfully to joyne land to land calling the lands after our own names m Psa 49.11 entailing them upon childrens children to make as the Lawyers speak a perpetuity when at last if we could conquer never so much we must come to the pit with Saladine and carry nothing away with us but a shrouding mantle LXXXI IT was sound direction that Silla gave that the common enemy should first be put out of power before the Citizens were put in suite We should first earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints o Iude 3. and not give place to damnable doctrine though it should cost living and life we should first with all our indeavours seeke to suppresse all Schismaticks Hereticks Rebels Church-robbers Mahumetans Atheists and other enemies of our Churh and State the which make a land to languish sooner then forraine foes and we fall out and fight with or plunder and oppresse for what cause we know not our selves our fellow-Protestants faithfull Christians loyall Subjects and harmelesse neighbours we persecute Saints and pursue our brethren all our fraies are against our friends and not against our foes we supplant one another who should support one another O that these home-bred contentions and controversies might at length cease and be blowne away with a breath of mercy in Christ ô that there might be a perpetuall holy league between all the true members of our Church that so all our Armies and forces pikes and pens wits and wils might be readily combined against our common adversaries LXXXII THe Lacedemonians in their publick feasts used to foxe some of their Elots a kind of servants not much differing from slaves that by their loathsome inundations and uncouth deformities their rude and beastly behaviour their children might the better discerne what a filthy vice drunkennesse was and from thence grow into an horrour and detestation of that sin p Plat. in his Apotheg We may not I know for any respects though to stave off others from insurrection either occasion or allow one Rebell Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him q Levit. 19.17 But ô if we might lawfully do it yet in these times we need not such unruly cattell are now grown both innumerable and intollerable Their mischiefs are gone out into all the Land and their abominations unto all our neighbour Countries Neither we nor our fathers have known such horrid fruits of resisting Soveraigne power as our children have now seen ô that they may ever retaine such an eager abomination of all such Atheisticall enormities as to hate even the least thought tending thereunto LXXXIII I Find it related by Herodotus how Cyrus intending to Conquer Scythia came to a great broad River which hindred his journey whereupon he bethought himself of this policy to cut it and divide it into many parts and sluces and so made it passable for all his Army The like policy hath the Divel now used amongst us bringing his power of darkeness to invade and over-run us and finding his passage stopped by the flowing streames of love and concord he hath put in practice to seperate and divide us into many parts and factions we are become like rivelets not joyned together but every man running his owne way so that the Divel may now ford us and fashion us and turne us as he please My bowels my bowels I am pained at my very heart my heart maketh a noise in me I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard ô my soul the sound of the Trumpet the alarum of wars Destruction upon destruction is cryed for the whole land is spoyled suddenly are my tents spoiled and my curtaines in a moment How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of the Trumpet r Ier. 4.19 20 21. LXXXIV PAulus AEmilius having put away his wife Papinia without any cause as it seemed to others stretched forth his foot and said You see a new and neat shooe but where this shooe wringeth me not you but I alone know meaning that there were many secret jars happening between the married which others could not possibly perceive ſ Plut. in vit P. AEmil The most wicked men the greatest enemies to God and his Gospel may be so jocund and merry and shew such magnanimity in their faces that none can imagine by any outward circumstance but that they are truely cheerfull and couragious in their hearts and yet in the middest of all their meriments and