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A50843	Samaritanism reviv'd, a sermon preached at the parish church of Great Yarmouth, upon the ninth of September being the day appointed for a solemn thanksgiving for the discovery of the late horrid plot, against His Majesty's person and government / by Luke Milbourne.	Milbourne, Luke, 1649-1720.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2037; ESTC R7778	45,022	57

Oaths viz. That the swearer is neither bound to the meaning of him that exacts the Oath nor to his own meaning who takes the Oath but to the reality of the thing sworn as it shall be afterwards at any time explicated by the Competent Judge which Position once granted Annals of King Charles p. 726. it 's impossible for any one to know what he swears to in the most Solemn Oath he takes So unfit are these Persons to be admitted to build with us the Church of God Yet the Dissenters of all Sorts plead their Agreement with us in Religion 'T is often urged by their Agents that their Religion is the same in Substance with ours they receive our Articles own our Doctrines receive Gods Word c. And Colledge the late Protestant Martyr as he is esteem'd by some expresses himself very like the Samaritans in the Text I have been a Lover of the Church of England Tryal of Coll. p. 79. says he and of all the Fundamental Points of Doctrine believ'd in it I own the same God the same Saviour the same Faith the same Gospel But Pleas of this Nature would not serve turn Our Soveraign and the Fathers of our Church could not in prudence admit of such Petitions for Peace as were indeed the loud Alarms to War nor receive those whose hands had been so deep in the Blood of the late Wars to joyn in the Restoring Gods Holy Worship without such an Abjuration of their former Errors as might give the World some reasonable satisfaction which they knew not how to submit to They foresaw their Fanatick Design well enough and that all the World might see it too since our Soveraigns Miraculous Restauration themselves have laid it open enough They have since that Time made it their Business to instil the foremention'd Principles into the Minds of Men and have added others of the same dangerous Nature No Popery no Slavery has been the Common Cry they acting therein like those Subtile Villains who when they have kill'd a Man themselves are the most busie to find out the Murderers Numberless have the Pamphlets Invective against the establish'd Government both in Church and State been The King his Council the Clergy have been continually expos'd to the hatred and scorn of the People and some have ventur'd boldly to charge their Representatives in Parliament to turn all things Vpside-down Vox Pat●iae Addresses to the new chosen Members Colledges Tryal p. 82. Nor have Seditious Satyrs against the present Government sufficed but the late Horrid Rebellion has been justified Plots and Conspiracies for a new Rebellion form'd Presently after the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty before things were sully settled Tong Phillips Stubs Hind Sallers Gibbs all Men pretending to tender Consciences were executed at Tyburn Dec. 22. 62. for no meaner a Design than Cutting off Root and Branch Kings Queens Dukes Bishops all were to go one way That there should be no Running beyond Sea or Parle is there but a Total Destruction of Kings Lords Bishops and Gentry the Plot when effected to be Charged upon the Papists and the People to be excited to rise in Arms under pretence of a Popish Massacre See the Tryals printed 1662. Narr p. last Tryal p. 12. and that by means of a Seditious Letter design'd to be dispers'd in the Country the Copy of which was then produc'd in Court and 't is remarkable that all Interests Fifth-Monarchy-Men Fighting Quakers Anabaptists Independents were easily agreed in this Glorious Attempt and the Grime was confest by them all at the Place of Execution But the Godly Party were not so to be frighted the Year following they were plotting again in the Northern Parts to carry on the same Work their Brethren had fail'd in before of which Treasonable Plot his Majesty tells the two Houses That it was of a large Extent and very near Execution Kings Speech March 21. 1663. 4. had not He by Gods Goodness come to the Knowledge of the principal Contrivers and so secured them from doing their intended Mischief But still the Evil Spirit was not quite laid in the year 1666 the several Parties ventured once more upon a Plot to murther his Majesty Overthrow the Government surprize the Tower kill the Lord General and to Fire the City of London which Plot was to have been executed September the 3d of that year Mony was distributed to the Conspirators and a Council of the Heads settled at London for the management of Affairs for which Hellish Plot Rathbone Saunders Tucker Flint Evans Myles London Gazet Apr. 26. 1666. Wescot and Cole were Arraign'd Condemn'd and Executed And though so many suffer'd one part of the Plot was unhappily effected in that dreadful Conflagration wherein the great Metropolis of the Kingdom was laid in Ashes This disappointed the Devil of Sedition flew into Scotland where in the same Year the Old Covenanters broke out into a Rebellion at Pentland Hills Ravill red p. 3. but were soon happily disperss'd by his Majesties Forces soon after James Mitchel a Covenanting Minister attempted the Assassination of Dr. Sharp the most Reverend Archbishop of St. Andrews and in the attempt mortally wounded the Bishop of Orkney p. 33. for which Fact confest and prov'd he was deservedly Executed Jan. 18. 1677. But the poor Archbishop escap'd not so implacable Fanaticism pursued till he was effectually Murder'd by some of the Crew with the most inexpressible Barbarity May 3. 1679. The same Month a new Rebellion under the Banner of the Covenant broke out at Bothwell Bridge where their Powers were crusht once again from which blow God grant they may never more recover But all these Ill successes have not yet it seems so ram'd our numerous Sectaries and their Favourers but that Religious Treason has once more made its Entry among us The King himself the Duke the great Officers of State the Loyal Magistrates of the City of London all doom'd to Slaughter and the Government both in Church and State to Ruine I may use the Words of his MAJESTY's Declaration in the case Kings Declar. p. ● It 's hard to imagine how men of so different Interests and Opinions could joyn in any Enterprize but it is certain they readily concurr'd in the Resolution of taking Arms to destroy the Government even before they had agreed what to set up in the place of it But the Samaritans in the Text would serve for a Pattern who though Idolaters of very different kinds could all agree in the design to ruine the restor'd Jews Now if we reflect upon those desires of admittance to publick Preaching in the Church of England which being rejected produced these violent effects though they more basely than the Samaritans Courted the meanest of the of the People endeavouring to inveigle them into their Party yet if we remember that the Fathers of our Church had liv'd in a long Banishment from their Charges or under the

of Israel said unto them You have nothing to do with us to build an House unto our God but we our selves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel as King Cyrus the King of Persia hath commanded us The Chiefs knew very well the Fallacy of that Assertion of theirs they knew they fear'd the God of Israel but not as themselves did The Jews were commanded not to intermingle themselves with any of their Neighbours for fear of Idolatry much more were they to avoid complying in Worship They had the Form of theirs prescribed by God himself which could no way admit of those Errors the Priests of an Idolatrous Kingdom had introduced The Samaritans might fear the same God and offer Sacrifices to him but so long as they did it not according to the Order prescribed and follow'd by the whole Jewish Nation as Vnited in one Ecclesiastical Body so long they were not to be receiv'd as Partuers in so Sacred a Work as the Building Gods Temple was For if Intermarrying with Idolaters was of dangerous Consequence Deut. 7.3 4 5 6. Deut. 12.29 30. Exod. 34.12 16. no doubt but Communion with them in the most solemn parts of Divine Worship which was the thing the Samaritans aim'd at would be much more pernicious so that in rejecting this offer of theirs they exactly follow'd Gods Law and withal exprest a punctual and due Submission to the Decree of their then Lawful Prince We are to build it together say they according to the Command of Cyrus King of Persia Ver. 3. You have no Commission to joyn with us the Predecessors of the Samaritans had no Hand in raising the former Temple they were not of the Seed of Jacob and therefore had no right to build a Temple to the God of Israel Cyrus had chosen these Exiles to perform what God had commanded Ezr. 1.3 4 and it became not those who were Subjects to the same Prince to Cross his Design or to stretch his Commands beyond their first Intention It was then acknowledged by the Jews to be their own proper Work and they had the Prophets of God to excite them to diligence in that Work Ezr. 6.14 and they were to build together united among themselves with one Heart and with one Mind if they resolv'd to admit of no Fellow Vndertakers their own whole Strength was but little enough to perform so vast a Work a few of the other Tribes had joyn'd themselves with those of Judah and Benjamin such as set their Hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel 2 Chron. 11.13 16. and those were but few the whole remnant of the twelve Tribes but inconsiderable to what they had been heretofore and their Enemies ready to take all Advantages against them Upon which account as also to shew their Gratitude to that Prince who had restor'd them to their Native Country and their Zeal for the Glory of that God who as he had punish'd them for their Sins so had told them before by his Prophets of this Happy Change upon their sincere Repentance it was incumbent upon them altogether as one Man to begin and to carry on this Work of God and so the Adversaries themselves might be convinced That the Temple of the True God might be built according to Command without their Help 5. In the Text we are to observe the Behaviour of the Samaritans upon the Answer given them They weakned the Hands of the People of Judah Ver. 4 5. they troubled them in building and hired Councellors against them They weakned their Hands by endeavouring to create Jealousies and Suspicions one of another among them they were newly recovered out of a Miserable Captivity and the present Openness and Defencelesness of their Condition made every Idle Rumour terrible to them One while they try to entrap the Governour Neh. 6.2 then they charge the Jews with a Design of Rebellion Ver. 6.10 and hire Prophets to discourage the People in the Work but as the last Effect of their Malice they write their Letter to the Persian King Fur. 4.9.21 23. to inform him of the danger of the Jews fortifying themselves and so procure a Stop to be put to their further Procedure Where observe further the Policy of these Adversaries of Judah and Benjamin They ow'd Revenge to the Jews for refusing their Help to build the Temple the Building of which they resolve to Hinder But in their Letter to Artaxerxes they take no notice of that lest perhaps Cyrus his late Decree being found their Design should have been defeated but they complain of former Rebellions and they fear they would be renew'd if the Jews had leave to build their City Walls and here the Persian Records might pinch them And by this Art they gain'd their End they having a General Command Ezr. 4.21 22. to see that no Damage might grow to the King took it in the largest sense and caus'd the building of the Temple as well as the re-edifying their City to cease and thus the Poor Builders who had so lately felt the Smart of a severe Captivity were afraid of opposing their Malicious Neighbours lest an Ill Interpretation should have been made of it To make their Malice the more Effectual they hired Councellors against the Jews such subtile Persons who knew all the Tricks and Quirks of Law and so could fright the poor Jews into a Belief that they incurr'd great Penalties when indeed they had broken no Laws and these could point to the Jews Enemies the most certain and secure ways of taking Advantage against this poor Helpless People or the Councellors they hired might be such great Persons as attended the King of Persia whom they as a wealthy sort of People Brib'd largely to assist them with their Interest at Court while the Jews who had no Stock to carry on such Designs went by the worst And to this we in some measure may attribute the Success of the Letter to Artaxerxes for had the Jews retain'd a Friend at Court who could have put the King in mind of his Father Decree in Favour of them and the reason of that Decree that it was in Obedience to the Commands of the Most High God 't is very probable the Penners of that Mischievous Epistle had lost their labours And so much may serve for Explication of the Text. The Text being thus explain'd the Observations I shall reduce from it are these That every Deliverance from great and general Calamities ought to be celebrated with a Restauration of Gods Obs 1 ● Publick Ancient and Solemn Worship There can be no end put to Publick Calamities but by the Hand of God we may seek for remedies elsewhere but to no purpose to him therefore the first of our Praises ought to be return'd It was here the Jews work no sooner were they resettled in the Land of their Fathers but they apply themselves to build again the Temple of God that had