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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

are as deaf to sober counsels and arguments for peace and unity as the very Adders and as ready as so many Swine to turn on them and rent them who cast those Pearls before them It is said that few men dye without a Feaver and as certain it is that there was not one of those who were Executed for the late horrid Conspiracy whom the prejudices which fermented their spirits from their Childhood did not swell and make sower and animate them to those desperate designs which brought them to those untimely ends Thus that degenerate Gentleman Mr. SIDNEY had no other Apology for himself than that he had been managed from his youth in that OLD CAUSE which was begun in Treason and carryed on with confused noise and garments rolled in blood And another as unfortunate as himself had those principles of the lawfulness of Resistance in case of Religion infused to him by false Teachers from his youth which were the venemous ingredients to his death The Author of the Life of Julian had it seems confirmed him in the belief of what Dr Manton had long before instructed him in who on this very Text raiseth the Question Whether Religion may be defended by Arms to which among other things he answereth That sometime the outward exercise of Religion and Worship may be established and secured by Laws and among other priviledges and rights the liberty of pure worship may be one which being invaded by violence may be defended by Arms The Estates of a Kingdom may maintain their Religion against the tyranny and malice of the Prince And on these prejudices dyed the whole Colledge of the late Conspirators whose blood may be required at their hands that corrupted their hearts with such blood-guilty principles For from hence come wars and fightings among us 2. Next to the lusts of Pride and vain-glory St. James doth arraign those of envy and malice as the cause of wars for he tells us That the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy v. 5. and where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil thing Jam. 3.16 And if there be bitter zeal or envyings and strife among us that it proceeds from the devil who was a murtherer from the beginning and is restless till he draw others under the same condemnation with himself for the envious man is felo de se he seeds on his own blood and bowels and leaves no bowels of pity for any that he thinks in a better condition than himself 't is this that is the rottenness of the bones Prov. 14.30 This slayeth those silly ones that entertain it Job 5.2 and none is able to stand before it Prov. 27.4 And next to Envy followeth Murder Rom. 1.29 Gal. 5.21 The first Murder in the world was committed through Envy against a Brother Wherefore did Cain slay Abel but through envy his own works being evil and his Brothers righteous Acts 7.9 the Patriarchs moved with envy sold Joseph to Egypt As soon as they understood he was to be preferred above them they could not speak peaceably to him Gen. 37.4 because his Father loved him more than them and v. 20. they conspire against him Come let us slay him and cast him into a pit It was for Envy that the chief Priests and people of the Jews delivered our Saviour Matth. 27.18 and pursued him with outcries Crucifie him Crucifie him and let his blood be upon us and our Children by which impiety they shewed themselves to be the children of them that had slain the Prophets and filled up the measure of their iniquities and drew down on themselves and the whole Nation all those Judgments of which I have told you when God visited on them all the righteous blood that had been shed from the blood of Abel to the blood of Christ himself which brought them to a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 utter desolation which Josephus their Country-man calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Judgment worthy of God The shedding of blood though of his own and Gods enemies so displeased the Lord that he would not permit David to build him a Temple that work was reserved for a peaceable Solomon and if any mans hands be defiled with blood though he make never so many prayers he will not hear till he have cleansed his heart and washed his hands in innocency and not till then may he have access to Gods Altar The blood-guiltiness of a few draweth down the wrath of God on a whole Nation There was a Famine on Israel three years together in the time of David and when he inquired the cause of it it was revealed to be for Saul and for his bloudy house that slew the Gibeonites 2 Sam. 21.1 And if the bloud of the Gibeonites was avenged not onely sevenfold on the house of Saul by hanging up seven of his Sons but upon all Israel by three years famine we may justly impute the consuming Pestilence and Fires that have been among us to the shedding of much more innocent bloud And we may justly fear that the inquisition for that bloud is not yet ended for bloud defileth the land and it cannot be cleansed but by the bloud of them that shed it unless it be prevented by a deep and timely repentance and the avenging it on our selves by a hearty sorrow by a serious mortification of those lusts that provoked us thereunto and a thorow reformation and amendment of our sinful ways and doings except we cry mightily to God for pardon and the bloud of Christ which speaketh better things than that of Abel be joyned with our Cries and Tears Without shedding of more bloud there will be no remission for the cry of innocent bloud is not to be silenced by any earthly thing but will enter into the ears of the Lord of Sabboth with an Vsque quo Domine How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our bloud on them that dwell on the earth Revel 6.10 And when we see Rebellion to be like the sin of witchcraft which seldom or never admits repentance when not one of the old Regicides or new Conspirators though they confessed the fact for which they died professed any Regret or Repentance for it which yet in the Case of Christ Judas and Pontius Pilate did and every common Murtherer is wont to do when there are still so many among us that approve of those horrid Impieties of their Forefathers and onely want Opportunities to act over the same Tragedies again when men are ready to cast Fire-brands Arrows and Death and think it a Sport when God infatuates a People and delivers them up to such strong delusions and fascinations that not all the Oracles of God nor all the Examples of Divine Vengeance and Humane Justice can awaken them and reduce them to a sounder mind neither if one should arise from the dead will they repent And whether it be that God hath given up such Offenders to a reprobate mind