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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72253	Three sermons vpon some portions of the former lessons appointed for certaine Sabbaths The first containing, a displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine vvorldlings. Preached at Tanridge in Surrey the first of February 1597. The two latter describing the dangers of discontentment and disobedience. Preached the one at Tanridge and the other at Crowhurst in Iuly then next following. By Simon Harwarde.	Harward, Simon, fl. 1572-1614.	1599 (1599)	STC 12923.5; ESTC S124981	53,720	158

steps of their father If a m● haue but a small familie he shall yet be ab●sed by some What then must wee think of those higher powers who haue so ma● vnder officers in so infinite places de●uing their authoritie from them Salom● when hee commaunded Ioab to bee put death for those wilfull murders which h● had before committed saith that he did thē Patre suo Dauide inscio His father Dauid not knowing of it So herein Samuel his children and in all ages vnder Christian Princes many thinges are done by inferiour Magistrates which come not to the knowledge of superiour powers and whereof no fault is to be imputed to them seeing the offences proceede not of want of good and holsome lawes but for that there is not due obedience yeelded vnto them The thirde cause why they so greedily gape for alteration was because they distrusted in the power and prouidence of God They thought that the weakenesse of aged Samuel was not sufficient to deliuer them from the oppression of Nachash the Ammonite The punishment which God layde vpon their distrustfull forefathers might haue been a sufficient warning to them to haue shewed them the greeuousnesse and horror of this sinne When Moses had sent of euery Tribe one to view the land of Canaan amongst whom were Iosua of the tribe of Ephraim and Caleb of the tribe of Iuda at their returne many of them gaue great reportes of the power and strength of the Canaanites that they were mightie men like Giants and the sonnes of Enachim and that the Israelites were but as Grashoppers in respect of them The people began by and by to murmure dispayre and to prepare a returne into Aegypt Iosua and Caleb did what they could to encourage the people bidding them not to feare for say they they are but bread for vs the Shield is departed from them the Lord is on our side But the Israelites were so farre from receiuing comfort that they cried out one to an other to fling stones agaynst their comforters This distrusting minde did so highly displease God that they were cut off and destroyed with many feareful plagues so that of aboue sixe hundred thousande of them there came but two into the land of Promise The Lord had let that people see by sundry ensamples that there is no power so small but that hee is able sufficiently to strengthen it against the enemies of his trueth Abraham hauing but three hundred and eighteene men ouerthrewe the power of fiue Kings Samson with a lawe bone slew a thousand Sisera the captaine of the hoste of Iabin king of Canaan was of great strength he had .900 charets of yron yet was he slaine at the last by the hands of a silly woman And to Samuel though he were old yet y e Lord gaue him power to his dying day to subdue and keepe vnder the haughty Philistines By this cōtinual experience of y e power of God they might haue euidently seene that there is no strength so feeble but God can plentifully inable it for the fighting of the Lordes battayles and thereupon they should haue gathered courage and comfort not with such wretchlesse vnthankfulnesse started backe from the lyuing God What a most ingratefull part was this when Samuel had so long time propounded vnto them the heauenly trueth of God and for the space of aboue .xxvii. yeeres as a most carefull Magistrate defended them from all inuasions oppressions now in olde age to forsake him as weery of his gouernment to desire a King to be placed ouer them These Israelites do deale with Samuel as afterward the subiectes of Dauid did with their king at the time of the rebellion of Absolom Dauid had then reigned .xxx. yeeres therefore was about lx yeeres of age for he was about .xxx. yeeres olde at the death of Saul How his people did cary them selues in Absoloms conspiracie he declareth him selfe in his .3 Psalme wherein he complaineth that in that his time of neede he found many so to become his enemies that in most despitefull maner they obiected vnto him that there was no helpe for him in his God But these vnfaythful Subiectes were like vnto the Swallowes which cary with vs in the Spring and Sommer but in the colde of Winter doe wholly forsake vs they were like the Doues which sit vpon the house in fayre weather but if once a storme do come they are presently gone or rather they were like that currish kind of lazy Dogges that will fawne vpon their maisters by the fiers side but if they see him goe abrode in foule weather they are content to let him goe a sone or like vnto cursed Vipers seeing that as much as in them lyed they sought to rent the bowels of him of whom next vnder God they had their beeing their strength wealth and whatsoeuer they possessed The sinne of many in these our dayes is by manie degrees more haynous and detestable then was the offence of the Israelites in the dayes either of Dauid or of Samuel They desired an exchange of their gouernour but yet they desired to haue a King erected out of the middest of their brethren according to the law in Deutronomie Out of thy brethren shalt thou appoynt thy selfe a King thou mayst not set ouer thee a stranger which is not thy brother How greeuously then do they offende which desire to haue brought in vpon their Prince a forraine power y e power of a Priest of Rome How horrible is their sinne if there be any such monster in nature that do gape for the inuasion of a forreine Prince to weaken or abrogate that authoritie which right and blood and the law hath placed ouer them What measure we should looke for of Strangers the dealinges of the Spaniards in the Low-countries may be a sufficient warning vnto vs. Their Nobles haue been murdered their auncient inhabitants spoyled or dryuen to flie their natiue soyle Their famous and flourishyng Cities so oppressed and dispeopled that the grasse doth grow in those streetes which haue bin heretofore by wealthy Citizens and Marchants so notably frequented and replenished Naples may likewise serue for instruction herein where when the Spaniards preuayled they were presently most miserably plagued with many new taxes tributes whereof before they neuer had mention No man could haue a sire but he must first pay sixe shyllinges for the chimney none permitted to eate sundry kindes of meates but first he must fine for them none to kill a Fowle but first sticke vp a fether to giue warning for the Impost so that the farmer of the Butcherie Poultrie receiued dayly the summe of three hundred Duckets None fared the better because he bare the name of a Catholick Religion was not the thing which the hungry Souldiers respected Protestant or Papist if he were rich and had a sleece all was one The Israelites found