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A65490	Englands face in Israels glasse, or, The sinnes, mercies, judgements of both nations delivered in eight sermons upon Psalme 106, 19, 20 &c. : also, Gospel-sacrifice, in two sermons on Hebr. 13 / by Thomas Westfield.	Westfield, Thomas, 1573-1644.; T. S.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1416; ESTC R24612	107,991	268

worship men like themselves Some four-footed beasts Some creeping things of the earth That same Dagon that you read of in the Scripture had the head of a man but the lower parts of it were like a fish Not to tire you with reckoning up particular vanities in this kind heare what the Apostle saith of the Gentiles Because when they knew God they glorified him not as God but were unthankfull their foolish heart being filled with darknesse when they professed themselves wise men they became fooles Fooles how They turned and marke that phrase it is the same that is here the glory of the incorruptible God to the Image and similitude of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things and changed the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator saith the Apostle who is blessed for ever Rom. 1.21 A Question may be made here why this people since they will needs worship God under a forme would choose this forme why a calfe why a young bullock It is agreed upon by all hands old and new Writers that they all learned this kinde of service in Egypt Egypt was the mother of Idolatry so Jeremie calls it Though all people under heaven had corrupted their waies yet no people had more corrupted their waies in this kinde then Egypt quis nescit qualia demens Aegyptus who knowes not what base abominations what dung-hill gods the Egyptians worship They worshipped a deitie under the forme of a Crocodile Another deitie under the forme of Ichneumon a rat of Nilus Another under the forme of Ibis and they had more dung-hill gods then these their onions and leeks in their gardens O sanctus c. The heathen could scoffe at this foolery that they should have deities growing in their gardens But of all the gods they worshipped the greatest their great god was Apis or Serapis they worshipped him under the similitude or form of a young Bullocke pyed Bull a pyed Oxe black with such and such white spots upon him Would you know from whence Let mee trouble you a while Apis a King or another country in a famine relieved Egypt Alexandria especially when hee was dead they made him a god and decreed divine honour to be given him then they must worship him under a forme They think of the benefit they had by Apis they had their corne by the tillage of the ground by the labour of the Oxe and they will worship this great god of theirs under the form of a pyed Oxe a young pyed Bullock This people had seen this Idolatrous service in Egypt and now they did not more long after Egyptian food then after this Egyptian god I pray marke what Saint Stephen saith of this people Acts 7.39 In their hearts quoth hee they turned againe into Egypt Saying Make us a calfe make us gods to goe before us In their hearts they turned into Egypt when they required of Aaron such a worship as this The thing I observe from it is this Observ It is an easie matter for men to be drawn to the practice of that Idolatry that they have been accustomed to see practised in those places that they have a long time lived in Hee that would take heed of Idolatry let him take heed of Egypt the very aire of Egypt as I may so say is infectious in this kind See here they had seen the worship of a young bullocke in Egypt and they must have a bullock I pray remember Jeroboam the sonne of Nebat that made Israel to sinne How did hee make them sinne Hee set up two calves they set up one hee set up two one at Dan another at Bethel Where did hee learne that had hee been in Egypt too yes he lived in Egypt some space hee fled thither for feare of Solomon For when hee perceived that Solomon sought his life hee went and dwelt with Shishak King of Egypt and was with him saith the Text till the death of Solomon 1 Kings 11.40 I say hee that would take heed of Idolatry let him take heed how hee lives in Egypt The locall seat of Antichrist and what seat can that be but Rome is called in the Revelations by three names It is called Egypt Rev. 11.8 It is called Sodome in the same verse It is called Babylon in many places of the Revelations It is called Babylon in regard of her crueltie It is called Sodome in regard of her filthinesse and Egypt in regard of her Idolatry It is a hard matter for a man to live in Egypt and not to taste and savour somewhat of the Idolatry of Egypt Wee had sometime in England a proverb about going to Rome They said A man that went the first time to Rome he went to see a wicked man there Hee that went the second time to Rome went to be acquainted with that wicked man there Hee that went the third time brought him home with him How many have wee seen and it is pitie to see so many of our Nobilitie and Gentry to goe to those Egyptian parts and returne home againe but few of them bring home the same manners the same Religion nor the same soules they carried out with them Isaac had bestowed the blessing upon Jacob his younger son you know the story Gen. 27. But when Isaac sent his sonne Jacob to Padan-Aram though hee had blessed him before the Scripture saith hee blessed him againe Gen. 28. If ever Parents had need to blesse their children they had need to blesse them and blesse them againe when they send them to travell to those forraine parts Can a man be in a mill where much corne is ground and have no badge of it upon his clothes Can liquor be tunned up in a mustie vessell and not taste of the cask Can a man live in Ethiopia and his face not be discoloured Marke in verse 35. of this Psalme I have now in hand It is said there The people were mingled among the heathen and what came of it They learned their workes It is a hard matter for a man to be much conversant with Idolaters and not learn Idolatry It is a hard matter for a man to be much conversant with common drunkards and not learn to drink It is a hard matter for a man to be a common companion with them that sit in the seat of the scornfull and not to learn to scoffe It is a hard matter for a man to live among blasphemers and swearers and not learn to sweare O Wo is me saith David that I am constrained to dwell at Meshek Brethren if by any meanes by prayer or all holy endeavours you can keep your selves from the wo of living at Meshek among Idolaters labour to doe it it is a miserable condition to live among idolatrous or wicked persons But if divine providence shall necessarily cast you upon Meshek and Egypt if it stand with the good will and pleasure of God and there be no

two they encourage them and say it is no more but arise come let us possesse it They were full of faith Caleb his name signifies hearty a hearty man full of courage Come quoth hee let us goe up and possesse it the land is worth our labour The other ten spies white liver'd men they tell another tale they begin with a commendation of the land It could not be denied it was a good land a land that flowed with milk and hony as God told them that was very true But commonly when a man will deprave when he will calumniate hee begins his calumniation with a commendation and hee comes in with a But As when wee commend a man O hee is a good man a very good man a good neighbour but and then he goes on Like as wee reade of Naaman the Assyrian a great man an honourable man a mighty man at armes one that had done great acts but hee was a leper Even as the Papists they commend the Scripture O it is an excellent booke the booke of Scripture It was written by the Spirit of God holy Pen-men of holy matters in a holy stile to an holy end O it is a good booke but it is a hard booke it is difficult there are great mysteries in it it is impossible for Lay-men to attaine to it it is good to keep them from it Ignorance is the mother of devotion Even thus doe the spies It is a good land O a very good land it flowes with milk and hony there wants nothing you can desire you see the fruit of it but it is hard coming to it there is great difficulty I tell you it is impossible to come to it Why what was the matter First of all the men wee found in the land were the sons of Anak Gyants men of mighty stature their height was as the height of Cedars and their strength as the strength of Oakes as the Prophet speakes of the Amorites A mighty people they are Gyants wee are but like grashoppers in their sight they took us as grashoppers they may tread us downe at their pleasure And then againe these men dwell in cities and these cities are walled yea and to make it the more terrible they are walled up to heaven thus they say in Deuteronomy chap. 1. Their Cities are walled up to heaven there is no scaling of them Then besides say they it is such a land as devoures the Inhabitants of it it eates out the Inhabitants How is that It is hard to say their meaning Some think thus there were pestilentiall vapours there that caused the pestilence among them that they died upon heapes Some think they were at civill wars one among another Or peradventure it will eat out the heart of the husband man in the tillage of it with strong labour they must toyle and work hard if they will have their living Somewhat it was but they bring an ill name an ill report upon the land as the Scripture saith Never seeke to get this land it is impossible the men are so great and the wals are so high and it is such a land as eates out the Inhabitants The people they heare this and first they fall to their old weeping as they did before for meat for flesh they fell a weeping all that night there was nothing but weeping to heare this Well the next day they fall to murmuring in their tents If they had wept for their sin of infidelity it had beene well but in their mourning they fall a murmuring First against God for when God promised to give them this land out of his love Because I loved your Fathers therefore I gave you the land the people turne it the other way No God did it out of his hatred thus they say in Deut. God hated us therefore hee brought us out of Egypt to kill us here Then they fall a murmuring against Moses What were it not better to have died in Egypt Were there no graves in Egypt Were it not better to die in the wildernes then to go in and die there They wish to die for feare of death they wish themselves dead for feare they should die Then they goe a little further they will forsooth chuse a new Captaine and goe back into Egypt they will not goe into the pleasant land they will chose an Elect one and back they will goe and they will not goe in there Mases and Aaron fall upon their faces and entreat them and Caleb and Josua encourage them this land may be gotten the Lord delivered us from the Amalekites and he will deliver us from the Amorites the Lord hath slaine the Egyptians and cannot hee slay the Anakims No by no meanes they tooke up stones and would have stoned Caleb and Josua had not the glory of God appeared upon the Tabernacle God knowes what they would have done Upon that they stayed then they knew Gods displeasure then God swears of all these people that came out of the land of Egypt and there were six hundred thousand men that were twenty yeares old and upward not one man of them should enter into the land of Promise they shall all of them since they wish they might die in the wildernesse they shall die every one of them and hee commands them to goe back againe hee carries them to the red-sea hee makes them wander thirty eight yeares and an halfe more in the wildernesse and in that time all that generation was worne out Hee gave it to their seed but not one man of them did come into the land of Promise but those two Caleb and Josua Now you may see what the meaning of my Text is They despised the pleasant land When they heard they could not have it without some blood-shed they will none of it They despised the pleasant land and would not beleeve his Word The spies told them one thing that they could not get it and God said they should have it they tooke mans word rather then Gods They would not beleeve his word Then marke how my Text goes on then they murmured in their tents First they murmured against God It is out of his hatred that hee doth it Then against Moses Why have you brought us to die here Then last of all they utterly refuse to goe to this land But as it is in the story when they saw that God had sworn that not a man of them should come in then all in haste they would goe God bids them goe and then they say No. Then hee saith See you goe not for if you doe surely you shall be made a spoyle to them yet for all that they would go and they were made a spoyle to their enemies a number of them fell by the sword Now I have told you this whole history you shall the better observe out of these words such points as they shall naturally afford to us I begin first with the first sin their despising of the pleasant land They