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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29567	Achitophel befool'd a sermon preached November V, 1678 at St. Sepulchres / by Aaron Baker ...	Baker, Aaron, b. 1651 or 2.	1678 (1678)	Wing B478; ESTC R5235	15,256	39

141.2 A Sacrifice wherewith he is well-pleased Of that force that it a Jam. 5.17 18. opens and shuts Heaven has Command over the Sun b Josh 10.12 and Moon to make them stand still at Noon-day allayes the fury of the c Numb 11.2 Fire and the raging of the d Exod. 14.15 Sea Cures the e Acts 28.8 Body of Diseases and the f Job 42.8 10. Soul of Sin In a word that conquers g 1 Kings 17.20 21 22. Death and the h Mat. 17.21 Devil and in a manner if I may speak it with Modesty even i Exod. 32.10 God himself Let me alone saith he to Moses as if he could not do what he was about untill Moses ceas'd Praying But this is a trite Subject we meet with it often and therefore I pursue it not at present but proceed from the Means Prayer to the Form or Tenor of this Prayer or if you will to the Object of it the thing which David prays for which is next in order and craves your Patience yet a little longer O Lord I pray thee turn the Counsel of Achitophel into foolishmess The same God who makes Wise the Godly doth infatuate the Wicked Thou O Lord Psal 119.98 saith David hast made me wiser than mine Enemies That David was wise yea wiser than his Enemies he acknowledges to be God's doing Thou through thy Commandments through the Light of thy Word hast done it On the other side it is Gods work too to infatuate and befool the Ungodly such as conspire against his Church and Anointed As Absalom and Achitophel did in this Scripture and as the Popish Traitors whose Wickedness we commemorate this day with that Mark of Shame and brand of Infamy which is due unto them The summe of David's Prayer is here in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word imports a befooling an infatuating a bereaving of Understanding and Judgment or as 't is in our English Translation a turning into Foolishness God is that God of whom Job saith he makes the Judges Fools Job 12.17 and leads away the Counsellors spoyled so we render it In the Latine it is adducit Consiliarios in stultum finem makes Judges Fools and brings Counsellors to a foolish end The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is spoyled not only of Goods but of Reason and Understanding Thus it is translated Psal Verse 5. 76. The stout-hearted are spoyled or robbed which must not be understood so much of Goods as of Reason and Judgment of Courage and Animosity So here the Counsellors spoyled is as much as to say they are befooled He is that God that as Isaiah speaks Isa 19.3 destroyeth the Counsels of Egypt that challengeth all the Policy of men and bids defiance to it Verses 11 12. Where are thy wise men saith he to Pharaoh Who makes the Counsellors of Pharaoh brutish and the Princes of Zoan Fools Isa 44.25 Lastly he that God that maketh Diviners mad turneth Wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish and to whom the Wisdom of the World is Foolishness 1 Cor. 3.19 This was the summ of David's Prayer against that Wicked and Unnatural Conspiracy which at that Time was on foot against him Lord turn the Counsel of Achitophel into Foolishness A short Ejaculation the words few but so Powerful and Effectual with God that by them was overthrown all the Policy of Achitophel and his Complotters risen up in Rebellion against God's Anointed I shall shut up all in a brief Application wherein because I would not be too forward in speaking to this present Plot 'till it be fully discovered which we should all wish and earnestly pray to God for give me leave to draw before you a Parallel between the Defeating of Achitophel's Treason of old and those Popish Traitors in King James's days our Deliverance from whom we Commemorate yearly this day And first This may acquaint us with the variety of God's Methods and the many ways he hath to defeat and disappoint the Wicked who like Gebal and Ammon and Amalek knot themselves together against his Church and Anointed as those Papists did about Seventy three years since and do now again at this Time Who Wise than Achitophel whose Counsel for Authority you heard was held as the Oracle of God Yet let all the Achitophels Machiavels Judasses and Julians of the World let them all I say combine and joyn in weaving the most subtle and Artificial Web of Treason God is able to unravel it and take it asunder thred by thred that every Eye may look through the Folly of their Ungodly Designs I cannot tell you all the Means that God hath to turn the Counsel of Traitors into Foolishness for who can set bounds to the Infinite and Incomprehensible Wisdom of God Let it suffice that I point to some few notable ways observable by us by which God hath and doth still turn the Counsel of Wicked Rebels such as rose up against David at this Time into Foolishness The Means especially are Five First God turns their Counsel into Foolishness by Countermining and opposing their Counsels by weak and Improbable Means So he countermin'd Achitophel by Hushai 2 Sam. 17. a man not of that deep reach or Excellency that Achitophel was a man that had not that Estimation or Opinion yet his Counsel must be inclin'd unto and Achitophel's rejected How could Achitophel but think himself besotted and befooled scorned and neglected when the Counsel of an Upstart and Novice is preferr'd before his In the like manner God befooled Pharaoh and his Host by Unlikely Means Against all his Horses and Chariots he sent Armies of Frogs and Flies Exod. 8.2 21. So all the Policy of the Gentiles in upholding their Idol-Gods all their Learning and Wisdom he silenced and confounded by the Foolishness of Preaching 1 Cor. 1.21 as God is pleased to call it And so in this Powder-plot A small unlikely Means the sending of an obscure Letter which was hard to be construed befool'd all their Wisdom Traitors in all Ages have been betrayed by their own Folly That 's the first way how God turns the Counsels of Achitophel into Foolishness by Weak and Unlikely Means Secondly Job 5.13 By taking them in their own Craftiness God makes the Policy of all Wicked Machiavels a Snare to entangle their own Nets Chap. 20 4● In the First of Kings we read of Benhadad King of Syria that he came up against Samaria and besieged it but God who called him Vir retis mei made him fall a Prey into the hands of Israel So was it with Achitophel he that would have taken his Sovereign was himself taken in his own Halter The common End of all Traitors their own Policies trip up their own heels A third way How God turns the Counsel of the Wicked into Foolishness is by Dividing them in their own Aims and Designs by raising Jealousies among