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A28224	Two sermons the first shewing the mischiefs of anarchy, the second the mischiefs of sedition, and both of them the mischiefs and treasons of conventicles : preached at the assizes held for the county of Suffolk, ann. 1682/3 : and published at the request of Tho. Waldegrave, Esq. ... / by Nath. Bisbie ...; Mischiefs of anarchy	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1684 (1684)	Wing B2984; ESTC R3888	38,700	75

surviving Elders which came into the land with Joshua as others say under the Sanedrim or Senate of Elders as they were at first established by Moses and afterwards renewed by the people The other part under Othniel their Judge to whom though usually the whole forty years be ascribed yet it is certain that many of them were pass'd and gone afore ever he took the office of a Judge upon him ch 3.8 and it is no less certain that the abuse done to the Levites Concubine which is one of the last recited Villanies committed in those days was acted in the time of Phineas the High Priest ch 20.28 who came into that office upon the death of Eleazar about the death of Joshua and continued in it as Chronologers compute all the years ascribed to Othniel dying with or about the same time as Othniel did However in those days there was no King Elders there were as you have heard of the Tribes and every Elder as some conceive governing his own Tribe There were moreover the Elders of the Sanedrim superintending and governing the whole Nation of the Israelites Nay as for part of those days there was a Judge among them and yet great oppression frequent disorders and all occasioned by the want of a King Which shews That neither Aristocracy nor Democracy the Rule of the Nobles nor the Rule of the People be it by themselves or their Representatives was able of it self or indeed capable to secure them from confusion impiety oppression And therefore you shall find them endeavouring and upon all occasions labouring after a King calling first to Gideon Do thou King us ch 8.22 afterwards to Samuel to make them a King 1 Sam. 8.5 And its observable that the nearer they approached to this kind of government the better they were but if at any time the Judge dy'd who was instead of a King or the government came to be devolv'd upon their Sanedrim all things presently went to confusion and they reinforc'd to chuse them a new Judge And thus it is recorded of them in general ch 2.18 19. That when the Lord raised them up Judges the Lord was with the Judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies but if the Judge dy'd then it came to pass that they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers had done And in particular thus it was when Othniel dy'd ch 3.12 thus when Ehud dy'd ch 4.1 thus when Deborah dy'd ch 6.1 thus when Gideon dy'd ch 8.33 and thus and almost always thus to the end of the whole government of the Judges which argues that the nearer the advance is made to Kingship the nearer people get to Order and good Government and the further any stand off still the worse and every day worse for when there was not so much as a Judge among them they fell not only into sin but into slavery So it hapned in the Interregnum between Joshua and Othniel they were oppressed by Cushan eight years ch 3.8 by Eglon upon the death of Othniel eighteen years ch 3.14 by Jabin upon the death of Ehud twenty years ch 4.2 by Midian upon the death of Deborah seven years ch 6.1 by Ammon upon the death of Jair eighteen years ch 10.8 by the Philistines upon the death of Abdon forty years ch 13.1 In all an hundred and eleven years slavery enough if people would be taught any thing to convince them of the necessity of a King and Kingly government as likewise of the defects imperfections calamities of all other rule though it be that of a Senate or a Sanedrim 2. A King supposeth a power Soveraign One of a Supreme and indefeisable authority Superiour to all to the very Senate and Sanedrim To whom the appeal must lye and from whom the final and decretory Sentence must come accountable to none but to God who is the King of Kings and the last Judge of men though in Conscience oblig'd to do no evil himself nor to suffer others to do it as knowing that he must one day account to the God who first made him a man and then gave him his authority A person I say of superiour and uncontrollable authority for otherwise he is not Supreme and no better than one of the Judges of the land for the Judge was the Leader the Prime and Principal of the rest had the chief honour and conduct but always subservient to and controllable by the Sanedrim which bred mighty delays huge inconveniencies many and lasting confusions whereupon being wearied and tired out by the defects of that kind of government they say to Samuel Give us a King and to Gideon Be thou a King a Soveraign to us who by an inherent supercommanding authority may in times of necessity and danger not only silence the Faction of Tribes but the heat of Senators for they also may be faulty as in the case of Korah where no less than two hundred and fifty Princes of the Assembly rose up against Moses Num. 16.2 Nay probably this was the reason why they said to Samuel Give us a King like other Nations 1 Sam. 8.5 not as if they were desirous to be tyrannized over or made slaves as other nations too too often were that 's a thing they were resolved to venture rather than endure the known mischiefs and barbarisms that the jealousies delays factions of the Demagogues and men of renown in the Sanedrim used to expose them unto And what if the Prince should be personally wanton by nature cruel upon experience covetous designing seeking his own and his family concerns and thereupon pervert justice take illegal occasions to oppress and revenge Nay what if Naboth's Vineyard be to be had or the Vessels of the Temple to be rifled or religion it self to be altered If these doings are so criminal so outrageous so formidable when confined to one what will they be when they are the espoused Sentiments of many nay made their interests and acted in all the corners and quarters of the land Put the case as bad as you can and what if this be the manner of the King as Samuel tells the people 1 Sam. 8.11 That he will take your sons and appoint them for himself for his chariots and his horsemen and set them to ear his corn and to make his instruments of war and what if he take your fields your vineyards and your oliveyards and give them to his officers and Servants This is the worst that the very worst of them will do But put the case that this be done yet if there be a Decemviri as at Rome if thirty Tyrants as at Athens if two hundred and fifty as in the Assembly of the Israelites These may all and every one of them be as bad as lascivious as covetous as oppressive as designing as that One and so the Tyranny oppression impiety be much greater and more spreading but not so easily cur'd nor so well endur'd I am apt to think that if our

do or can harden themselves unless they be their fathers own sons in principles as in blood I know not may perhaps pity but I am afraid never reform And yet verily there is a generation of men in the world who need none of this repentance who have been neither enemies to their King nor opposers of their Priests who in the heat of the mutiny have been neither Schismaticks with Korah nor Rebels with Dathan but fidi Achates trusty and Loyal Subjects good old Barzillai's who are feign God knows to be content with their olim meminisse their wounds and scars and dy'd garments from Bozrah the services they have done and the sufferings they have undergone yea and others who following their fathers steps have fought with beasts at Ephesus ventur'd at the dens of Lyons stood the shock of Schismatical envy and Democratical fury and whenever the records be search'd I wish their names and their merits may not be overlook'd But and if this be that Dathan and Abiram or if these be the sons of that Dathan and Abiram whose names are to be branded to all posterity for their Schismatical rebellious doings what ought to be done to those that have been thus faithful and loyal valiant and serviceable ever striving against the strivers and as need requir'd resisting the resisters unto blood Verily Silver and Gold I have none but what I have give I heartily unto you may the blessing therefore of Aaron and of his rod fall upon you and follow you may the King of Jeshurun whose Champions and worthies you have been with his oyl and his fatness reward you and when the day of account comes may you never be found Rebels to your God more than you have been unto your King Remark we 3. That Sedition and Rebellion are two such sins that will destroy the whole fabrick of Government though never so well rear'd and run it eftsoon into confusion and slavery if not timely and carefully prevented They 'l divide the house and if the house be divided truth it self will tell us that it cannot stand Humanity will turn into cruelty nature and friendship into Faction and fury to kill one another will be called valour to disobey the King accounted loyalty plain robbery and oppression the best of zeal and Religion the Sword the bloody heedless devouring Sword the only Lord Chief Justice of the Land We shall soon see an overthrow of all order and Law a confusion in our duties both to God and man and a Kingdom which for its pleasure may be a Paradise for its Light a Goshen for its plenty a Canaan chang'd into a Chaos a worser Chaos than that which the world came out of for a word put an end to that God spake and the world was made Psalm 38.9 nay God divided the light from the darkness and he called the light day and the darkness he called night and the Evening and the Morning were the first Day Gen. 1.5 But if these take place Evening and Morning will be both alike we may know their beginning but never their ending darkness and horror of darkness till we our selves if we be not careful fall thereby into the pit of darkness Wherefore let me perswade you you who are this day to number the people and to view the several inheritances among us that there be no Mutineer nor Rebel in our Tribes or families To be careful and jealous in that your enquiry that none such pass your Tribunal much less go off from you with Ceremony and Complement too customary a thing with some as if you were lovers of their Nation and would build them Synagogues It is not their being an holy Congregation that will make them when they are Seditious Holy neither will your punishing them be a slaying the people of the Lord. We live you see in an age full of Sedition and Conspiracy where neither our Moses can well keep his Crown upon his head nor our Aaron his Ephod upon his breast the Seditious Levite on one hand the Rebellious Reubenite on the other are so industriously concern'd in the undermining and supplanting them both that if heaven interpose not to defend the one and to root out the other both Moses and Aaron Priesthood and Government must sink and fall together Wherefore to your respective Stations and Charge and know 1. That Dathans Conspiracy is still on foot in the land alive and alive like to be The Cause saith one of our late Regicides lies in the bosom of Christ and as sure as Christ arose the Cause will rise again I believe saith another of them no less Prophet than the former that at long running there is not a man that fears the Lord will have any reason to be sorrowful for engaging in the Cause for though the Lord hath been pleased to let it be as it were the Sun-setting for a night yet it will certainly arise next Morning very gloriously again Neither was it for ought that I cand find ever thorowly brow-beaten or hiss'd off the stage These saith the publishers of their death all dy'd in the Faith Saints who through Faith of the Gospel have entered into rest Nay who of the Company of them especially if they were famous either in the Assembly or in the Congregation ever went unto their graves from that day to this without an Herse full of Scripture Scutcheons and Religious Labels The memory of the Just is blessed precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints enough to give credit to the worst of Causes and to draw all the Saints of the land after them And yet with horror be it spoken some of them have had their bowels burnt alive and went down into the earth like Dathan others of them liv'd and dy'd in the company of Korah and never repented them of their sins though stained with the blood of the best of Kings and the devoutest of Prelates Shall I re-mind you of what one of the Korathites still living hath said of himself That he hath often searched into his heart whether he did lawfully engage in the late War against the King or did well to encourage so many thousands to it and that he cannot as yet see that he was mistaken in the Cause neither dares he repent of it nor forbear to do the same if it were to do again And yet this man lives and repents him not nay hath his Company with him still to whom he preaches Sedition as of old and with whom thousands of the Dathanites and Abiramites of the land do Confederate whereby you may see the stubbornness and hopes of the Faction and how the good Old Cause will go on if God by his judgments and the Magistrate by his care and severity prevent it not Awake and know 2. That the Cause not only lives but there are multitudes in the Land ready fixt and prepar'd to carry it on dissatisfied Reubenites who for their own or their fathers sins