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A sermon preached in Oxon: the 5. of November. 1607. By John Kinge Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Christ Church, and Vicechancellor of the Vniversity
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King, John, 1559?-1621.
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through his death he might euacuate abolish him that had power of death to weet the deuil ◠Col. 14. it is most amplie described 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word of desolation he hath razed out the hande writing against vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a phrase of desolatiō tooke it awaie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fastened it to his crosse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And hath spoiled vnharnessed principallities and powers and made a shew of them openlie and triumphed ouer them vpon his crosse Al are tearmes of desolation so that now the Prince of this world is cast out and the children that were appointed of death gehēna singe a songe of thāsgiuing O death where is thy sting O hel where is thy victorie This is the great and wonderful worke of desolation aboue al others appertaineth to soules as wel as bodies and to our deliuerances both from first and seconde death our redemptiō from spiritual wickednesses rather then corporal from our immortal foes and endlesse calamities Dauid is content to insist in one of the workes of God but of temporal and corporal desolation that is the ending of warre He causeth warrs to cease vnto the ends of the earth That he proueth by sufficient induction a recitall of instruments and weapons of warre He breaketh the bow and cutteth the speare c. As whē the Philistins tooke the Smithes out of Israel they could not fight No smithes noe armour noe armour noe warre Warre of it selfe is opus de solationis a worke of desolation havock wast ruin it turneth a land in solitudinē into a desert an habitatiō for foxes wild beasts Let it bee sowed with the seed both of man and beast as a field with wheate warre wil consume it eate it out Bellum si naturā spectes mininè bonum rather in vicinity to the name mos bellurum fitter for beasts then men As for men iustum quibus necessarium never iust but when they cannot avoide it nor euer to be waged by a christian but obseruinge St. Austins rule Esto bellando pacificus though thy hand be bloody thy hart must be peaceable Pacem habere debet volūtas bellum necessitas You see the instruments nāed in my text are not mattocks spades tools of husbandrie or manuarie crafts but instruments of murther and spoile the bow to doe mischeife eminùs a far of the speare cominùs neare at hād the chariots especiallie ferrati falcati shod and prepared with iron whinged like birds with their siths and hooks on both sides to mow downe al that they mett with they rage in the streets their burning is like lamps their shooting like lightning 2. Nahum Now in the heate and height of these desolations when an enimie of a feirce lookes and truculent hart who neither reuerenceth the person of the aged nor pittieth the sucking babe dasheth the infants against the stones in the streets and rippeth vp the woemen with child as the booke of God describeth him one whose breath is slaughter and destruction whose nūber is as the locusts hiding the face of the earth able to deuoure a countrie as an oxe licketh vp grasse all whose purposes and designes are Downe with thē downe with them let vs cut them of from beeing a people and roote out their name al whose promises to himselfe Thy siluer and gold is mine thy woemen and faire children be mine and if anie be denied the Gods doe so vnto me and more too if the dust of thy land bee enough for my people euerie mā to take an hādful whose threatnings rest not in men but their insolencies blasphemies ascend against God himselfe Let not thy God deceaue thee in whom thou trustest you knowe whose word it was and it is thought by the learned that that victorie gaue occasion to the writing of this Psalme thinke with your selues how strange and prodigious a thing it is by the vnexpected help of this Lord alone often by vnprobable meanes somtimes by the hande of the weaker sexe al this intended desolation to bee desolated disapointed defeated al their warlike prouision dissolued their companies and troupes scattered discomfited the eater himselfe to be made meate the spoiler to be spoiled for not onlie bridles to be put into their lipps and hooks into their nostrels to turne them backe to their home but their swords and spears to be turned each mans into his fellowes bowels till they become drunck with their owne bloud as with new wine Manie such wonderful works of desolation hath the Lord wrought vpon Pharao and his host when they sunck like stones to the bottome of the sea vpon Iabin and Sisera and al the Kings and people of Canaan vpō Zenacherib Rab saketh which is thought to be the storie here aimed at where Iudah hunge downe his head and couered his face for shame and rent his clothes and there was nothing left vnto thē but Domine inclina aurē audi aperioculos vide O Lord bow downe thine eare and heare open thy eie and consider saue vs out of the hands of our enimies O how memorable renowned is it to al posterity that in that exigent of theirs by an angel of the Lord an invisible hand there should be slaine in one night an hundred fowrescore and fiue thousand when the morning arose they were al found to be dead corpses Octoge simus octauus mirabilis annus for as strange a deliuerie from as prowde an enimie with as vnquenchable furie and a most inuincible navie they bare the ensignes of victorie as others of Castor and Pollux vpon their ships brought with thē instruments of slaughter and torture against our bodies and swallowed a plentiful hope of ouer-running desolating the whole Kingdome But they that wēt downe at that time into the sea with shipps ipsi viderūt opera Domini mirabilia prodigia solitudines eius in profundo They saw wee al knowe O that men would therfore praise the Lord for his goodnes and declare his wonderful workes before the sonnes of men That our childrens children to the last point and period of anie generation within this Island maie be able to saie O God wee haue hard with our eares our fathers and grandfathers haue declared vnto vs that noble worke of deliuerance which thou wroughtest for them in forepassed times Hauing sufficiently proued demonstrated evicted the matter in question and stopt the mouthes of all gainesaiers vt iustificetur in sermonibus at length hee falleth to aduising or rather by a prosopopaeia bringeth in God perswading in his owne person Bee still and knowe Before when they were absent and not come then was it venite videte come see now they are present vacate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stande stil or sit downe as Mary did take leasure make not hast to depart from it Before it was videte to