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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94134	The hands of God: or King Davids choice, vvherein are proved: 1. That the least of evills is to be chosen. 2. That war is the worst of evills. 3. That the relation betwixt the king and subject, is the nearest of all relations. 4. That rebells are the worst of men. / As is was delivered in a sermon, By T.S. D.D.	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1647 (1647)	Wing S6216; Thomason E441_28; ESTC R204941	18,903	31

them learned and loyall good and great men in this And next to the hands of God let me fall into the hands of a Parliament so long as it remaines intire and each party preserve their owne priviledges without entrenching one upon another and not suffering a prevailing faction to encroach upon the Prerogatives of Royalty upon the liberties of Loyalty upon the essence of Episcopacy for then the people must expect no Religion in the Church but what the prevayling Lords and Commons shall prescribe them no liberty in the State no property in their Estates but what the mercy of their Fellow-subjects will allow them Hee is no true English man that honours not that feares not a true Parliament for the happinesse of peace is the perpetuall fruit of it but such a Parliament that crumbles it selfe into Conventicles where a small Committee shall have power to make rich men Delinquents and loyall men Malignants and learned men both for my part I neither feare nor honour for the plague of perpetuall Warre is commonly the reward of it and my prayer is A perpetuo bello perpetuo Parliamento libera regem Carolum subditos ejus Domine Let us fall into the hands of God and not into the hands of men for E malis maximum Warre is the greatest of evils It is my 2a 2ae aad my second Resolve 2a 2ae E malis maximum and thus I undertake it Peace is the greatest of blessings and therfore War is the greatest of evils peace is the greatest of blessings positively and comparatively First Positively it is the greatest of blessings for it was the last legacy Christ bequeathed his Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Saint Basil calls it his farewell gift a gift including all he had given before or promised after his departure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a gift dropt from an higher world then this we breath in Joh. 14.26 sayes Saint Chrysostome Peace I leave With you my Peace I give unto you Peace hee gave knowledge he promised his Church Peace hee gave before knowledge he promised after his Ascension The holy Ghost whom the father will send in my name Joh. 14.27 he shall teach you all things Our blessed Master therein telling us peace must have the precedence and first place in our hearts The best order certainely on earth because the onely order observed in Heaven The first place there is given to the Angels of Peace or Love which are called Cherubim the next to the Angels of Light or Knowledge which are called Seraphim But oh the Enthusiasts of our age as if they never meant to come thither they doe most confusedly invert the order for they will first have light or knowledge and that of Revelation then Peace or love and this to none but them of their faction neither so crosse are they to Christ that though he doe yet they doe not account peace the greatest blessing positively Secondly the greatest yet it is and that secondly comparatively too I will but run it over my Wife is a blessing but without peace in danger of a Rape my Childe is a blessing but without peace in danger of a Pyke my Wealth is a blessing but without peace in danger of a Plunder my Liberty is a blessing but without peace in danger of a Reformation my King the best of blessings without peace is in danger of a Rebellion and to be mistaken for an evill Counsellor That we may enjoy our Wives our Children our wealth our Liberty our Religion our King my prayer is Give peace in our time O Lord and let us fall into thy hands And because peace is the greatest of blessings therefore Warre is the greatest of evills the greatest essentially and the greatest effectually the Devill is the Author of it and destruction is the end of it God feldome suffers it but for the greatest sinnes Sacriledge and Rebellion The Israelites never knew the misery of Warre untill they had provoked God by their inventions Josh 7.11 12. 2 Sam. 15.21 and Achans Sacriledge and Absolons Rebellion were not the least of those Inventions nor the lowest of those provocations onely Jeroboams altering Religion 1 Reg. 12 31. and extirpating the high Priesthood which was the Jewes Episcopacy and in their roome instituting the basest and lowest of the people for a Presbytery was higher The best way therefore as I conceive for the Lords and Gentlemen of this Kingdome to remove this Warre is to give God and Caesar their owne the Church her Patrimony that is Gods due and execution of Justice upon the Rebells that is the Kings due And as Warre is the greatest evill in respect of the Author so also in respect of the End for it seldome ends but in ruine and desolation The Philistims warre put an end to Sauls life and Kingdome 1 Sam. 31.5 2. Reg. 10.7 2. Reg. 17.23 Jehues Warre swept away Achab and his posterity The Syrians Warre set a period upon Samaria The Romans Warre gave a date to Jerusalem It was Warre that writ the sad character Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit and as he reckoned up all evill men in Ingratum so it may truely be said of Warre Si bellum dixeris omnia dixeris for it is attended by spoyle and robbery which never leaves pilfering untill it hath squez'd out that abundance which the spunge of peace hath suck't up Would yon see a short and small Map of Warres misery in a word take it thus Imagine you see your Wives and Daughters ravished your Infants tossed upon Pykes or dashed against the stones your dead Parents dragged out of their quiet graves your goodliest Cityes on a flaming fire your houses plundered your bodies dismembred your Lawes subverted your Religion prophaned your Churches defiled and nothing to be heard or seene but weeping and wayling with mournfull lamentation one crying out Nulla salus bello another Heu miseri qui bella gerunt and tell mee then yea tell me now if it bee not high time to say and pray Let us not fall into the hands of men but let us fall into thy hands O God The reason follows Pars 3. which is my third part For with the Lord is mercy or The mercies of the Lord are great reade which you please With the Lord is mercy First sometimes Promethean mercies Jona 3.4 to prevent a threatned danger so in the case of Niniveh their danger was threatned and themselves summoned to destruction within forty dayes but who can tell whether God will have mercy if wee repent and wee perish not They did repent and God was mercifull and they did not perish And here were Miserationes bowells of mercy yearning as a Father doth for his childes past miscarriages and keeping him from misery Secondly sometimes Epimethean mercies to deliver out of an emminent and present danger so in the case of Jerusalem 2. Reg. 19.35 the Assyrians besieged them and intended