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A44452	Murmurers reproved A sermon preached at St. Vedas [sic], alias Foster-Lane, on Feb. 24. 1688/9. By Marmaduke Hopkins rector there.	Hopkins, Marmaduke, d. 1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing H2750A; ESTC R216423	9,174	36

dealt thus with us to carry us forth out of Egypt Is not this the word which we did tell thee in Egypt Let us alone to serve the Egyptians for it had been better for us to serve the Eyptians than that we should die in this Wilderness Here God gave them a further proof of his Power and Goodness dividing the Red Sea for them to pass through as on dry Ground bringing the Waters upon their Enemies and drowning them in the midst thereof But they soon murmured again for the bitterness of the Waters Exod. 15.24 Exod. 16. then for want of Bread. Then they loathed the Heavenly Mannah the Food of Angels and murmured for want of Flesh Numb 11.4 5. They murmured again at the Report which ten of the Spies made of the extraordinary strength of Canaan and the prodigious Stature of the Inhabitants And they proceeded so far as to despair of ever entring into possession of the Land which God had promised and sworn to give them and said one to another Let us make us a Captain and let us return into Egypt Numb 14. 1 2 3 4. To which some think the Apostle does particularly refer in the words of my Text But others do with greater probability refer them to the History of the 16th Chapter of the same Book When God had punished the Pride and Ambition of Corah and Abiram by a new and most astonishing Judgment all the Congregation murmured against Moses as if he and his Brother had been the cause of it and they said to them Ye have killed the People of the Lord. In every one of these Murmurs were many great Sins involved As 1. Forgetfulness of the Works of God of the Miracles of Bounty and Mercy he had performed on their behalf 2. Distrust of the Presence and Power of God notwithstanding what they saw with their own Eyes They said Is God amongst us or not tho they saw him constantly conducting and sheltering them by a Glorious Cloud And they said Can the Lord furnish a Table in the Wilderness tho they had seen him give them Drink out of the flinty Rock 3. Disbelief of the Truth of God. They gave greater credit to the Report of the Ten Spies than to the Promise and Oath of God which was a most high Provocation of his Anger They believed Man who is Vanity and a Lie before God who is True and Faithful and cannot deny himself 4. An undervaluing and contempt of the Benefits they enjoyed tho they were the greatest that Man is capable of the Knowledg of God and his Will Fellowship and Communion with him The Apostle in the 2d and 3d Verses of this Chapter out of which my Text is taken says That they did all eat the same spiritual Meat and drink of the same spiritual Drink that we do They drank of Christ Yet had they no sense of the great Goodness and Bounty of God towards them but upon every occasion were for returning into the Bondage of Egypt 5. The basest Ingratitude towards Moses who chose rather to suffer Affliction with them that he might conduct them towards the promised Canaan than to enjoy the Pleasures of Pharaoh's Court. We have seen their Sin let us now see their Punishment They were destroyed says the Apostle of the Destroyer The Name whereby that Angel is called who slew the First-born of Egypt Exod. 12.23 And the signification of Asmodaeus the Name of that Angel who killed the Husbands of Sarah the Daughter of Raguel Tobit 3.8 as we read in the Apocryphal Book of Tobit It is true Moses does not say expresly That the Israelites who perished for their murmuring fell by the stroak of an Angel. Historians do not always exactly set down every particular Circumstance attending the Fact whereof they give the Relation but from the things expressed leave the Reader to conclude concerning those they pass over in silence Yet Moses does relate Numb 16.35 That there came out a Fire from the Lord and consumed Two hundred and fifty Men that offered Incense meaning by the Fire a destroying Angel appearing in the form of Fire to devour those Murmurers For so the Psalmist instructs us Psal 104.4 That God makes his Angels Winds and his Ministers a flame of Fire and they appear sometimes in Winds sometimes in flames of Fire as is most suitable to the Design they are sent upon and the Execution they are commissionated to do When Moses says of the Ten Spies that they died of the Plague before the Lord he seems to mean that it was by a stroke of the Angel of the Lord as many of the Israelites died afterwards for the Sin of David in numbring the People 70000 Men 1 Kings 24.17 18. for though none else perceived that Plague to come from the Hand of the Angel yet David himself saw the Angel by the Threshing-Floor of Araunah the Jebusite Herod perish'd by the stroke of an Angel. Acts 12.29 And although Josephus the Jew who has written of his Death did not understand so much yet St. Luke who was enlightned by the Divine Spirit has assured us it was so Acts 12.23 From whence we learn that such Actions or Performances as are extraordinary and above the usual Course are done by the Ministery of Angels though we have no perception of them This is it the Apostle teaches us concerning the Judgment on the Israelites for their Murmurings they were executed by the Hand of an Angel whom he calls the Destroyer from that Passage of Moses already quoted Exod. 12. and from the common belief of the Jews The greatness of the Punishment shews how highly God is provoked by this Sin of Murmuring Therefore 3ly Let us consider the Warning we should take thereby Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmured God has deliver'd us as well as the ancient Israelites out of Bondage and brought us of this Nation as well as them out of Egyptian Servitude Egypt is the Name whereby St. John calls the Papal Empire Revel 11.8 The Bodies of the two Witnesses he foretells should lie in the Streets of the great City which spiritually is Sodom and Egypt The Old and New Testament disallowed and rejected as some understand it where also our Lord was crucified in his Members the Professors of true Christianity The Papal Empire is called Egypt upon a three-fold account 1. Of its Tyranny 2. Of its Pride 3. Of its Bloodshedding 1. Of its Tyranny Egypt according to the Letter grievously oppress'd the People of God and the City spiritually called Egypt exercises a grievous Tyranny over the Spirits and Souls of Men the Roman Church requires of Men a blind Obedience and an implicit Faith that they believe what is taught them without examining or enquiring though the Command of the spiritual Superior be unreasonable yet the Inferior they teach is bound to obey And if the Church affirms that to be Black which our own Eyes judg to be White we

ought to say it is Black. God the great Sovereign of the World does not treat Men thus He calls upon them to consider commands them to search examine try and prove all things and the Bereans are expresly commended for searching the Scriptures daily whether the things which the Apostles who were Persons divinely inspired taught were so 2. The Papal Empire is called Egypt upon the account of it's Pride Who is the Lord said Pharaoh the King of Egypt according to the Letter that I should let Israel go I know not the Lord c. And the Popes are told That they can do all things that they may do what they list that none may say unto the Pope Domine cur sic facis That they may dispense against the Law of Moses against the Apostle against the Old and New Testament against the Law of Nature and may declare * Bellarm. l. 4. c. 5. de summo Pontifice Just to be Unjust and Unjust to be Just † Deus numen Majestas Divina Christus Leo de Tribu Judae Servator Sionis Lapis angularis c. He has all Power in Heaven and Earth C.L. S. L. 10. They are called God the Vicegerent of God the Vicar of Jesus Christ Vice-God They exalt themselves above all that is called God above all the Kings of the Earth above all the Saints canonizing them at their pleasure above the Eucharist which they expresly call God ‖ C. à L. Adde Sacerdotem c. Heb. every Priest in the Mass is after a sort greater than Christ above the Scriptures wherein God speaks unto them 3. The Papal Empire is call'd Egypt upon the account of shedding of Blood or destroying of Lives In Egypt according to the Letter it was ordered that all the Males of the Israelites should be drown'd in the River Nile so soon as they were born And in the City spiritually called Egypt our Lord Jesus Christ has been crucified in his Members Not to mention the Execution done upon John Hus and Jerome of Prague by Order of the Council of Constance here in England in one Reign which was but little above Five Years there were almost Four hundred Persons destroyed by Imprisonments Torments Famine and Fire besides such as were secretly murdered in Prisons Of the Number now mention'd there were above Twenty who had Authority or Office in the Church of Women above Sixty of Children also a great Number Of the Women some were great with Child One is particularly recorded out of whose Body the Child being by the violence of the Fire expelled alive was by a barbarity far exceeding that of the ancient Egyptians thrown into the Fire again Upon this three-fold account the Papal Empire is called Egypt out of which God has long since delivered us of this Nation And when we were in danger to be carried back into Egypt by the wicked Counsels of Roman Priests God made a way for us to escape and raised us up a mighty Deliverer a glorious Prince excelling in Wisdom and Goodness who rescued us without conversion of our Waters into Blood and in a manner without effusion of Blood. All the Circumstances attending our Deliverance do plainly shew the Hand of God in it They are too many to be mention'd here Who should interpose to preserve us from being carried back into Babylon so Rome is also called upon the account of the Idolatries she is guilty of in six Kinds as you have formerly heard from me but he who had called us out of Babylon saying Revel 18.4 Come out of her my People that ye be not partakers of her Sins and that ye receive not of her Plagues But we were in no danger of this some will reply for we could not be carried back without our own consent True but then it is highly incredible that God who sent his Son to save not to destroy Mens Lives should expect that a whole Nation living under the protection of Just Laws of Laws made on purpose to secure their Persons and Estates in the open profession and publick exercise of their Holy Religion should as one Man submit their Body to the Flames Our Circum-cumstances were very different from those of the Primitive Christians the Laws of their Country were against them the Laws of Ours were for us Their Religion was condemned by the Laws Ours was establish'd by them The 11th Chap. of the Book of the Revelations contains a Prediction of this last and great Persecution of the Protestant or Christian Religion but it is expressed in such words as not to reach this Kingdom of Ours as that excellent Person Monsieur Jurieux observed in his Book called L' accomplishment des Prophecies o'u la Deliverance Prochaine de l' Eglise Tom. 2. pag. 151. where he also makes mention of the Prophecy of Bishop Vsher which in his Judgment is not to be understood according to the Letter It seems then that God did from the beginning intend to disappoint the wicked Counsels and Contrivances of the Roman Clergy Which he has accordingly done and thereby has continued to us the greatest and most excellent Blessings while others are under a thick and black Darkness we have Light in our Habitations even the Light of God's Holy Word we are fed with the Celestial Manna the true Bread from Heaven We lose nothing by rejecting the Doctrine of Transubstantiation which the Apostle overthrows calling the Food of the Eucharist Spiritual Meat Vers 3. of this Chapter out of which the Text is taken we are admitted to drink of the Spiritual Rock Christ Jesus a Priviledg which is denied to them of the Roman Communion so that they are by their own Guides excluded from having Fellowship with Christ in his Death There are also other great Blessings continued to us as the Benefit of our Laws and Liberties Now therefore let us not murmur and complain as if we would make us a Captain that should bring us back into Egypt Admit that many of our Fore-fathers who died in the Communion of the Roman Church were saved may we therefore without any hazard of our Salvation return thither Such reasoning condemns the Generation of God's Children Abraham might have been saved had he died in Chaldea yet after that God had once brought him out of that place of Idolatrous Worship he would not return thither but chose rather to suffer any hardships It was Matter of Conscience to him not to return If we would approve our selves the Children of Abraham we must do the Works of Abraham Moses his Fore-fathers who died in Egypt might be saved yet when Moses by the good Providence of God had once escap'd out of Egypt he chose rather to suffer Affliction with the People of God than by continuing there to enjoy Ease and Pleasure Our Fore-fathers who died in the Roman Communion might be saved but God having called us out of it it is Matter of Conscience to us not to return into it Let