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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62373	A sermon preached in the Church of Putney in the County of Surrey upon the 24th of April, 1681, His majesty's declaration being read that day by Edward Sclater ...	Sclater, Edward, 1623-1699?	1681 (1681)	Wing S912; ESTC R16222	18,453	31

A SERMON Preached in the CHURCH of PVTNEY IN THE COUNTY of SVRREY Upon the 24th of April 1681. HIS Majesty's Declaration Being Read that day By EDWARD SCLATER M. A. Minister there From all Sedition Privy Conspiracy and Rebellion Good Lord deliver us LONDON Printed for R. Horne at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1681. PSALM 106.16 They envied Moses in the Camp and Aaron the Saint of the Lord. 'T IS a strange powerfull charm their Rhetorick works by who undertake to perswade a People there are Distempers in their Government they never want Multitudes of credulous Auditors who as in the Affairs of the Body Natural they lend their Ears to those Mountebanks who make glorious promises of curing either their Diseases or their Fears so in the Body Politick they as easily follow the sly allurements of those who promise to make the yoke of Government more easie and pleasant These Undertakers shall not fail to gain all those to be their Proselytes who think their Native Liberty is imposed upon and unjustly restrain'd by whatsoever Positive Laws and Constitutions and may be able to apprehend those defects whereunto every Government is subject for none can be absolutely without on this side Heaven but cannot judge of or discern those lets and impediments those insuperable difficulties and invincible oppositions with which even the best of Governments is visited These are easily perswaded to take Physick from any hand either such as their ill chosen Physicians having cheated them into the belief they are Diseased tell them is proper for the cure or if they cannot work this belief in them prescribe for the prevention One way or other the less discerning multitude become their Patients either to cure their Imaginary Diseases or their Infused Jealousies Absolom is thronged with attentive Proselytes in the Gate whilst David is almost solitary and alone upon the Seat of Judgment His Insinuations whose especial business it was slily to publish the Defects of his Royal Father there is no man deputed of the King to hear thee 2 Sam. 15.3 and to hide those infinite impediments and difficulties that were the invincible causes of whatsoever the People suffered if they suffered any thing at all His Insinuations I say of his Royal Father's neglect in doing Justice and glorious promises of what he would do if he were made a Judge in Israel together with his flattering Kisses and treacherously courteous Deportment and Affability have a most miraculous power and operation upon the easie and unstable Multitude David their King chosen by God and anointed by Samuel with God's Holy Oyl and therefore his Majesty cannot be less then Sacred is forc'd to flie from Jerusalem and desert his Royal Palace because of their Rebellious Tumults and Threatnings And Absolom the fair spoken Hypocrite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stole away says our English makes his own proper goods says the Septuagint the Heart of the Men of Israel vers 6. In which expression of theirs 't is easie to discern these three things First That his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his making of them his own or stealing of them supposes they were the Proper Goods of another man and 't is God that gives all Propriety So that Absolom's stealing them away was a Rebellion as well against God who was the fountain of that Propriety as against his King in whom it was so settled Secondly That Absolom's treacherous heart had so powerfull an Instrument of his Tongue as to steal away almost the whole People for the Septuagint express it by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Singular number the Heart of the Men of Israel Lastly That the Hearts of Men towards their David the Anointed of the Lord should be all cemented together by Loyalty and Allegeance that they should become as one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Heart of the Men of Israel Offences will come says our Saviour but woe be to him through whom they do come This Heart has several times been divided and God has often shew'd his infinite Displeasure and burning Indignation against them by whose hands or tongues this Division has been made Had Zimri peace who slew his Master Had Absolom who rebelled against his Royal Father and stole away the Heart of the People from him Had Corah Dathan and Abiram the persons in my Text had they peace who envied Moses in the Camp and Aaron the Saint of the Lord No you know they had not Zimri burns himself to death 1 King 16.18 God burns the Remnant the Complices of Corah Dathan and Abiram by a miraculous Fire from Heaven Numb 16. Absolom is hanged in an Oak 2 Sam. 18. Sad and direfull Judgments all and therefore it should seem the Crime was heynous For to divide the Heart of the People from their Moses or their David what is it but to divide the Heart of the People from their God for they have not rejected Thee says God but they have rejected Me that I should not reign over them 1 Sam. 8.7 For what is a Moses or a David nay a Saul or a Cyrus or a Nebuchadnezzar but the Breath of our Nostrils that God has breathed into his People the Anointed of the Lord Lam. 4.20 And is not this the reason why Solomon joyns God and the King together and makes them as it were the one object of his Peoples Fear Prov. 24.21 and a greater then Solomon Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are Gods ' Matth. 22.11 The Holy Spirit of God the Spirit of Peace has made them both the one object of our Obedience and must not that Hand or Tongue be highly impious that shall divide those whom the whole Blessed Trinity have thus signally united and made one No marvel if he who has set his King upon his Holy Hill of Sion not onely have them in Derision but break them with a Rod of Iron and dash them in pieces like a Potter's Vessel Psal 2.4.9 But Rebellion were not as the sin of Witchcraft if those who engage in it were not bewitcht by it if it would suffer them without a mist before their Eyes to behold the goodly work they are going about For if this mist take away from their sight the Fear of the King so it does the Fear of God too so says Xenophon if the subjects were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 true Servants of God and not Hypocrites calling themselves Saints and the Godly and making onely a specious shew of Godliness if they did not deny the power of it they would give the King his Honour seeing they are in so close a conjunction Fear God and Honour the King 1 Pet. 2.17 Samuel you see has rankt this sin of Disobedience in its due order 1 Sam. 15.22 and given it its right name it works powerfully as by charms and spells and the instance in my Text will give it its best Description They envied Moses also in the Camp and