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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02527	Contemplations vpon the principal passages of the holie historie. The third volume: in three bookes. By I. Hall, Doctor of Diuinitie; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 3	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1615 (1615)	STC 12654; ESTC S103660	101,087	468

to him but they faint in the way We may call long enough if we cry not to him The same hand that raised vp Eglon against Israel raised vp also Ehud for Israel against Eglon When that Tyrant hath reuenged God of his people God will reuenge his people of him It is no priuiledge to be an instrument of Gods vengeance by euil meanes Though Eglon were an Vsurper yet had Ehud beene a Traytor if God had not sent him it is onelie in the power of him that makes Kings when they are once settled to depose them It is no more possible for our moderne butchers of Princes to show they are imployed by God then to escape the reuenge of GOD in offering to doe this violence not being imployed VVhat a strange choice dooth God make of an Executioner A man shut of his right hand either he had but one hand or vsed but one and that the worse and more vnready Who would not haue thought both hands too little for such a worke or if either might haue been spared how much rather the left GOD seeth not as man seeth It is the ordinary wont of the Almightie to make choice of the vnlik eliest meanes The instruments of God must not bee measured by their own power or aptitude but by the will of the Agent Tho Ehud had no hands he that imployed him had enabled him to this slaughter In humane things it is good to looke to the meanes in diuine to the worker No meanes are to be contemned that God will vse no meanes to be trusted that man will vse without him It is good to be suspicious where is least show of danger and most appearance of fauour This left-handed man comes with a present in his hand but a dagger vnder his skirt The Tyrant besides seruice lookt for gifts and now receiues death in his bribe Neither God nor men doe alwaies giue where they loue How oft dooth God giue extraordinary illumination power of miracles besides wealth and honor where he hates So doe men too oft accompanie their curses with presents either least an enemy should hurt vs or that wee may hurt them The intention is the fauour in gifts and not the substance Ehuds faith supplies the want of his hand Where GOD intends success he lifts vp the hart with resolutions of courage contempt of danger What indifferent beholder of this proiect would not haue condemned it as vnlikely to speed To see a maimed man goe alone to a great King in the midst of all his troupes to single him out from all witnesses to set vpon him with one hand in his owne Parlor where his Courtiers might haue heard the least exclamation and haue comne in if not to the rescue yet to the reuenge Euery circumstance is full of improbabilities Faith euermore ouerlookes the difficulties of the way bends her eyes onely to the certainty of the end In this intestine slaughter of our tyrannicall corruptions when we cast our eyes vpon our selues we might well despaire Alas what can our left-hands doe against these spirituall wickednesses But when wee see who hath both commaunded and vndertaken to prosper these holy designes how can wee misdoubt the success I can doe all things throgh him that strengthens me When Ehud hath obtained the conuenient secrecie both of the weapon place now with a confident forhead he approaches the Tyrant and salutes him vvith a true and awfull preface to so important an act I haue a message to thee from God Euen Ehuds poynard was Gods message not onely the vocall admonitions but also the reall iudgements of God are his errands to the world Hee speakes to vs in raine waters in sicknesses famine in vnseasonable times inundations These are the secondary messages of God if we will not hear the first we must heare these to our cost I cannot but wonder at the deuout reuerence of this Heathen Prince Hee sate in his Chaire of State The vnweildinesse of his fat body was such that he could not rise with readiness and ease yet no sooner doth he heare newes of a message from God but hee rises vp from his Throne reuerently attends the tenor therof Though hee had no Superior to controle him yet hee cannot abide to bee vnmannerly in the businesse of GOD. This man was an Idolater a Tyrant yet what outward respects doth he giue to the true God Externall ceremonies of pietie and complements of deuotion may well be found with falshood in religion They are a good shadow of truth where it is but where it is not they are the very body of hypocrisie Hee that had risen vp in Armes against Gods people and the true worship of God now rises vp in reuerence to his Name GOD would haue liked well to haue had less of his curtesie more of his obedience He lookt to haue heard the message with his eares and he feeles it in his guttes So sharp a message that it pierced the body let out the soule through that vncleane passage neither did it admit of any aunswer but silence and death In that part had hee offended by pampering it and making it his God and now his bane findes the same way with his sinne This one hard and cold morsell which hee cannot digest payes for all those gluttonous delicates whereof he had formerly surfeted It is the manner of God to take fearefull reuenges of the professed enemies of his Church It is a maruell that neither any noise in his dying nor the fall of so gross a body called-in some of his attendants But that GOD which hath intended to bring about any designe disposes of all circumstances to his owne purpose If Ehud had not come forth with a calme and settled countenaunce and shut the doores after him all his proiect had been in the dust What had it been better that the King of Moab was slaine if Israel had neither had a messenger to informe nor a Captain to guide them Now hee departs peaceably blowes a trumpet in Mount Ephraim gathers Israel and falls vpon the body of Moab as well as hee had done vpon the head and procures freedome to his people Hee that would vndertake great enterprises had need of wisdome and courage wisedome to contriue and courage to execute wisedome to guide his courage courage to second his wisedome both which if they meet with a good cause cannot but succeed Iael and Sisera IT is no wonder if they vvho ere foure-score dayes after the Law deliuered fell to Idolatry alone now after foure-score yeeres since the Law restored fell to Idolatry among the Canaanites Peace could in a shorter time work ●ooseness in any people and if for●ie yeeres after Othniels deliue●ance they relapsed what marvell is it that in twise fortie after E●ud they thus miscaried VVhat ●re they the better to haue killed Eglon the King of Moab if the Idolatry of Moab haue killed them The sinne of Moab shal be