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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83990	Englands remedy of a deadly malady: the vvise-womans saving the city Abel, by delivering the head of Sheba, who was a traitor to the common-wealth of Israel. Which serveth as a pattern, whereby the City of London may be saved, by the wise endeavours of the citizens thereof, like this wise-womans, (which are upon divine record both for our learning and imitation) even by delivering up to law & justice, the traitors to the common-wealth of England. ...		1647 (1647)	Wing E3028; Thomason E397_20; ESTC R201676	19,353	23

their destruction though they were their brethren and that for their wicked obstinacy in that hainous sin without any repentance or godly sorrow so that of five and twenty thousand mighty and valourous men onely six hundred escaped to tell newes And if for want and refusall of doing justice in such a particular case the ten Tribes rose up and destroyed almost a whole Tribe and that by the Commandement of God himself seeing those who were guiltless took part with the guilty and so the whole lump leavened alike then how is a whole Kingdome engaged to take revenge of any part thereof which doth labour and maintaine notorious Traytors and malicious Enemies to the Common-wealth when justice is demanded of them For as God hateth all wickednesse injustice tyranny and oppression amongst particular or private men so how much more doth he hate treason and treachery against a whole Nation or Common-wealth But howsoever whether they either forbeare or doe their endeavour though hand joyne in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished such grievous designes doe never go scot-free but are revenged of God or his instruments without speedy repentance to prevent such deserved judgements and no Nation in the world can shew more famous examples in this kind then England it being so often attempted to be betrayed both by strangers and others but still preserved of God to his everlasting praise Insomuch that a famous man said of England Regnum Angliae Polydor. Virgil. Regnum Dei the Kingdome of England is Gods Kingdome for none taketh any true of reall care of preserving it but God only One word by the way the Author of this Dictaum living in England did well observe what a carelesse wicked and selfe-betraying State it hath ever been consisting of a mixt people gathered out of severall Nations and therefore he attributed to God alone the many and miraculous deliverances of this sinfull Nation as we have far greater cause now then he had then to acknowledge in all these seven yeares Occurrences especially by the miscarriage of that bloody Petition which should have been delivered by thrice forty thousand armed men for which the wars began the deliverance at Edge-hill Newbery Brainford when we should have been absolutely betrayed had not God onely been on our side and shewed himselfe to be the Lord of hosts and God of battells in so mightily rescuing and delivering us out of the jawes and clawes of all our mighty and strong enemies who were ready and bent at all those occasions to devoure and swallow us up from being a people any more But to adhere to our intended purpose this wise-woman taketh courage and speaketh to Ioab Was not this a wonder that there was never a wise man in this City But God who oftentimes saveth both by weake instruments and despised meanes was pleased to make this woman the instrument of thus using the meanes in saving a besieged city in Israel from all the power and forces of a great King even as he made that poor wise man spoken of by Salomon Eccles 9. the instrument of delivering another City who therefore declared that wisdome was better then weapons of warre and yet no man regarded much lesse rewarded that poore wise man As Abigail the wife of Nabal was a happy instrument to pacifie the fury of King David and all his followers against her husband for his churllishnesse 1 Sam. 25. so was this woman to asswage the fury of Ioab the chief Captain of all his forces here against this city and it pleased God so to blesse the means which those two women used that both the King and Ioab hearkened to their good counsell and were contented to depart in peace without offering injury or violence to any So that it is good not to sleight the wholsome advice of an inferiour more then an equall or a superiour If Naaman the Syrian had despised the good counsell of his own wise servant and not washed himselfe in Jordan 2 King 5.19 according to the direction of the Prophet rather then in the rivers of Damascus he might have returned home and died in his leprosie yea and besides he had not been so well confirmed and perswaded in his faith against his former ignorance and impiety which he confessed upon his cleansing and thankfull returning to the Prophet who cured him If King Ahab had not hated Micaiah and prejudged his wise and good counsell 1 King 22. against his going up to Ramoth-Gilead he had not lost his life and kingdome but he following the wicked advice of false Prophets who stirred him up to make a new warre was one cause both of his owne and his posterities ruine As false Prophets are known by many other bitter fruits so chiefly by these two speciall marks First they are alwayes eager and thirsty after blood both like their father the Devill that murderer from the beginning and that Whore mentioned in the Revelation And next they are no wise so hot for just peace as for unjust warre Was not Jerusalems destruction the more deserved because they hearkened to false Prophets that spake lies in the name of the Lord and despised the true Prophet Ieremiah who spake as the Lord immediately directed him And did not that zealous King Iosiah himselfe after all his matchlesse reformation receive a mortall wound for going out inconsiderately to battell against Pharoah Neho king of Egypt as is likely without advice either of God 2 Chron. ● 34 35. or Ieremiah the Prophet yea and distrusting that Pharoah came not forth against him but his enemies the Assyrians and though his intention was just and good even to defend his own Land yet for this his trespasse of temerity and rashnesse he was punished with temporall death but being so worthy a King there was more mourning and greater lamentation for him then any King that ever was in the world Oh for such a good King as Josiah and such a grave Parliament as the Elders of Judah and Jerusalem were in his daies then we should have a blessed and glorious Reformation not only in word and shew but in deed and substance to some purpose But to proceed this woman is not like too many now adaies who claime unjust titles for she well deserveth her title to be called wise because she is so indeed in that she thus loveth a just peace and hateth an unjust warre which is the main end and scope of her parle with Joab and is she is very excellent in the pacifying of Joabs furie by forcible arguments so is she no lesse active and resolute in perswading the people of the City by sound reasons to yeeld to her just desires both for their own safety and that which is their bound duty even to deliver the head of Sheba that Traytor who so troubled the Common-wealth of Israel And therefore as God blessed her as a peace-maker in prevailing with Joab so also with the people for they