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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79831	Emanuel, or, God with us. Wherein is set forth Englands late great victory over the Scots armie, in a battle at Dunbar, Septemb. 3. 1650. And by many particulars of Gods acting and appearing then for us, it is certaine (and so much is clearly proved) that our armies marching into Scotland, and the wars undertaken and prosecuted against that nation, to be upon grounds of justice and necessity, as the Parliament of England hath declared. Also here is shewed, how grosly the Covenant is abus'd, and what an idoll it is now made. With the fraud and falshood of the Scots, and their kings hypocrisie and dissimulation. Moreover such objections are answered, as seeme to have any thing in them, against the point here asserted. / By John Canne. The first part, published by authority.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1650 (1650)	Wing C439; Thomason E614_11; ESTC R206534	45,110	52

Cause of a people when he seasonably delivers them from an insolēt proud Enemy from f Psal 75.4 vain-glorious fools Holelim Mad-boasting fools vainly promising themselves Victory brea●hing out threatnings Thus the Aegyptians triumph g Exod. 15.9 The enemy said I will pursue I will over come I will divide the spoile my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword mine hand shall destr●y them Behold how they flattered them selves in their own eyes h Hab. 3.14 rejoycing to devour the poore in secret But whilst they were imagining a victory and dividing the prey i Judg. 5.30 the Lord stirred up himselfe and awaked to Israels judgment even unto his Cause and therein not only got himself a great name but it is recorded as one k Neh. 9.10 of his signes and wonders shewed upon Pharaoh a special deliverance and that which carries the stamp and character of a divine providence and mercy towards his Church and People No lesse insulted Benhadad he will not be satisfied with l 1 King 20.5 Ahabs silver and his gold and his wives and his children m Vers 6. But he will send his servants and they shall search his house the houses of his servants and it shall be that whatsoever is pleasant in his eyes they shall take it away Besides he takes his gods to witnesse n Vers 10. If the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow him Here I may say with the Prophet o Psal 52.1 Why boastest thou thy selfe in mischiefe O thou mighty man How God destroyed the Army of that blood-boasting Tyrant and cloath'd him with shame the History shews and with all in that the Lord did so it did evid●●●ly appeare that Israel had the better Cause Other instances of the like kind might be produced but we come now to the application Touching the insolency of the Scots how proud and puft up they were with an imaginary victory it is almost incredible They reproached us with that condition the Parliaments Army was in when it made its hard conditions with the King in Cornwall this jestingly they cal●d Essex his Pound demanded of our men to yeeld up our Train Carriages and Fire-arms They had disposed of us and of their businesse in sufficient wrath and revenge towards our persons and had swallowed●p the poore Interest of England believing that our Army lay at their mercy and that they would suddenly with their new King at the head of their Army march up to London without any opposition or interruption David Lesley then Generall in the field boasted he would have our whole Armie dead or alive by seve● a clock the next morning Neither were the Ministers lesse insolent and presumptuous then the rest for as Pharaoh said of the children of Israel they are intangled in the land the wildernesse hath shut them in so these conceiving us to be in a trap * Tantaene aenimis caelestibus irae Virg. Eneid l. 1. perswaded their Commanders to draw up their Army between us and home that none might escape or drive us into the Sea and so drown us It seems the Scots would have been like the Fig-tree to which Christ went for fruit and found none no Quarter no Mercy no Deliverance to be expected from them It was the honour of the N●mon●ines that they would make peace with Mancius a Roman Captain when they might have had the killing of the whole Army to a man But the Scots although not Conquerours but in conceit will swallow up our whole Army not spare a man neither is there any one to deliver them out of their hands But p Exo. 18.11 in the thing wherin they dealt proudly the Lord was above them So that what David prayed for when his ememies insulted was a mercy here bestowed upon our Army q Psal 35.26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoyce at my hurt let them be cloathed with shame and dishonour that magnifie themselves against me And in this the Lord hath not left himself without witnesse in reference to the Justice of our Cause by giving us so wonderful a victory and deliverance I shall conclude with this admonition to the Scots and their Adherents r Psal 75. l 5. I said to the vain-glorious fools be not vain-gloriously foolish and to the wicked lift not up the horn Lift not up your horn on high speak not with a stiffe neck 2. It argues Gods owning a people and their Cause when he ſ Psal 136.23 remembers them in a low estate app●ars for them when humane helps and hopes in a manner faile and gives them victory over an Enemy strong t Judg. 3.29 lasty and men of valour In the Book of Judges Samuel Kings Chronicles the people of God sometimes have been so low as they have not u 2 Chron. 20.12 known what to doe x Deut. 32.36 their power gone their Generall y 2 Sam. 21.15 fainted a 1 Sam. 30.10 half of their Army so feeble sore broken as not able to march In a word they have been reduced to such streights as if they had the sentence of death in themselves Now Gods appearing for them at such a time and giving them the victory in such a case not only shewed that it was the work of his own hands but as if upon the Actings and Appearances of the Lord it had been written in broad and vi●ble Characters THIS IS GODS CAUSE How weake and low the condition of our Army was thus it is related We being thus humbled by the hand of God and the menaces of mercilesse men Our Forces lessened our bodies enfeebled with fluxes our strength wasted with watchings want of drinke wet and cold being our continuall companions much impaired our strength and courage and made above 2000. men altogether uselesse which were sent away at severall times to Berwick His Excellency and his Officers finding their unfitnesse for further delay and being in and under such streights and distresses resolved by day breake to breake through this Israelitish condition Mans extreamity is Gods opportunity when we are b Psal 107.28 29. at our wits end then maketh he the storm a calm and bringeth us to our desired haven And it is an usual thing with God thus to manifest his power in our weaknesse and by unworthy and unlikely instruments contemptible in the eyes of men to bring great things to passe to confound the things which are great and mighty that it may appear c Eccl. 9.11 The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong and therefore d Jer. 9.23 the mighty man should not glory in his might but his glorying should be in the holy one of Israel Again the Lord very often puts off the time of our deliverance till we are at a lost and in the lowest and weakest condition that