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A08430
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A comfort against the Spaniard
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Nun, Thomas, 1556 or 7-1599.
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from your enemies And this of Sisera his adherents Barack is the other partie * Iud. 4.10 10000. marched vnder his banner but who reuenged his quarrel From heauen they fought the starres in their courses fought against Sisera These were dumbe creatures yet such as Iehouah vseth to destroy his enemies At his commaundment the waters a Gen. 7.23 destroied the olde world fire from heauen c Gen. 19.24.25 Sodome and Gomorrath e Exod. 9.24.25 haile and * Exod 10 14 15. grashoppers the fruites and beasts of Egypt the red a Exod 14.28 Sea Pharao and all his host c Iosu 10 11. hay lestones more of Iosuas enemies then did all Iosuas armie the Lord of hostes is his name The hostes of heauen and earth are alwaies ready prest for his armies Had the Spaniard learned this lesson he would haue trembled to haue giuen the name of God to his Nauie for onely Iehouah is inuincible The Centurion sheweth by his answere how well he beleeued it I am not worthie * Mat 8.8 saith hee to our Sauiour that thou shouldest come vnder my roofe only speak the word and my seruant shall be healed for I haue souldiours vnder me I say to one come and he commeth and to another goe and he goeth As if he should say health and consequently all other creatures are so ready to goe come at thy word as are my souldiers at my cōmandement But to leaue this point and to come to the euent of the battell which thus followeth They got not the mony they desired The riuer Kishon swept them away the riuer of their meetings the riuer Kishon Ther were the horsehoofes battered with the swift fleeing of their valiants And was it any maruaile though Sisera his army was thus foyled who euer resisted God preuailed Daniels prophane kingdomes could not yet was Babel among people as a a Dan. ◠4 Lyon among beasts The Medes Persians ruled ouer 127. nations Alexander in sixe yeares well nigh ouerran the whole world and the kingdome erected by his Captaines was a fearefull and ougly c Ester 1.1 beast with ten hornes These in Nebuchadnezars eyes were as a goodly image whose head was of gold breast arms of siluer belly of brasse and feete of yron yet for resisting God abusing his people in short time the Lord so powned them to a Dan. 2.34 pouder that at his comming in the flesh scarcely a remnant remained of them And as for Rome howsoeuer by Gods close prouidence it may remaine for a time for the holines of Pilats vicar to abide in yet seeing she hath c Mat 27.26 killed the Lord banished Iohn cōtinually e Reuel 17.6 18 24 shed the bloud of Gods saints her damnatiō is decreed she is that a Numb 24 24 Chittim that must in the ende perish In Iohns daies shee was called the c Reuel 17.18 great Cittie and rule ouer the Kings of the earth had she But that great Cittie shall e Reuel 16.19 drinke of the wine of the cup of Gods furie * Reuel 16.21 haile like talents shall fall vpon it the whore shall a Reuel 18.8 come to destruction her c Reuel 18.15 Marchants may bewaile her but none shal be able to helpe her But to returne to Sisera he had e Iud. 4.3 900. yron Chariots his Ladies were assured that he could not loose the victorie how therefore doe they comfort his mother concerning his long tarrying Haue they not gotten doe they not diuide the spoile a maid yea two maides to euery one Sisera hath a pray of diuers colours a pray of diuers colours of nedle worke of diuers colours of nedle worke on both sides for the necks of the spoylers But the a Pro. 10.28 fooles their hope quickly perished for Sisera is now dead the armie fled and drowned c Iere. 6 1◠they said peace peace but sudaine destruction came vpon them And this for the former part of my text The other is Meroz curse Iaels blessing The cause of her curse thus followeth Curse ye Meroz saith the Angel of Iehouah curse ye the inhabitants therof because they came not to helpe Iehoua to helpe Iehouah against the mightie Meroz durst not venter a limme to get libertie she was situated so nigh the battel and so faint hearted that wel she might be some towne in Isaschar the only tribe which Deborah * Iud. 5.16 vpraideth of asselike sluggishnes and which father Iacob a Gen. 49.14 foretolde should bee an Asse couched vnder two burdens She onely regarded her commodities so shee kept them Sisera or Iehouah whome she serued she cared not Luke warme c Reuel 3 14. Laodicea was much like her in behauiour and almost the like punishment had shee for shee e Reue. 3.16 was spewed out of the Lords mouth and Meroz is here accursed from his mouth And this of Meroz curse Mels blessing thus followeth Let Iael the wife of Cheber the Leuite be blessed aboue women aboue women dwelling in the tents let her bee blessed He asked water she gaue him Milke she brought forth Creame in a lordly dish she put her lift hand to the nayle and her right hand to the workemans hammer and she smote Sisera she tooke away the head and battered and brused his temples Betweene her feete he bowed himselfe he fell and where he bowed himselfe there he fell depriued of his life Before wee come to Iaels blessing a word must bee spoken of her Country and exploit she was neither Israelite nor Canaanite but a Kenite a Iud. 4.4.11 descended from * Exod 3.1 Iethro king of Median Moses father in law the Kenite Lot and Iethro shewed the like obedience the one a Gen. 14.4 left his fathers house to goe with Abraham the other c Mat 11 5 left a kingdome to goe with Moses and almost the like reward founde they for Ruth the daughter of Lot was the Lords mother c and Iael the daughter of Iethro * Iud. 4.17 killed the Lords enemie But why should Iael therefore be blessed was hee not in league with her Did not hee * flie to her house for succour The league was but ciuill and priuate But now a a Iud. 4. publike cause is in hand the Lords battel in fighting she was to prefer the cause of religion before her couenant with Sisera Her blessing was the very same that Gabriel c Luk 1 28. bestowed vpon Mary for bearing the Lord this onely excepted that Mary is blessed among women but Iael aboue women I will not now dispute whose was the greast blessing but this I am sure of that they were both saued by belieuing and not by these workes howsoeuer they had a prerogatiue aboue women for them For this is a sealed truth that wee are saued by e Ephe. 2.8 9. faith and not by