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A45251	The rebels text opened, and their solemn appeal answered being a sermon preach'd in the parish church of Up-Lime, on the thanksgiving-day for our wonderful deliverance from the late horrid rebellion, being Sunday, July 26. 1685 / by Charles Hutton ...	Hutton, Charles, b. 1652 or 3.	1686 (1686)	Wing H3840; ESTC R8588	18,102	34

body was interr'd by Him in some obscure and unknown grave lest the giddy multitude that so often murmur'd against him whilst alive should now he was dead repent of their former insolent behaviour and to compensate for it worship his ashes and adore his very dust after this I say he that was before his Partner and now his Successour Joshua having finisht his Conquest of the Holy Land and divided it among the nine Tribes and half pursuant to the instructions of his dying Predecessour dismisses the two other Tribes and half giving them their deserved praise and commendation and seasonable advice to serve the great God who had prosper'd their Arms and given them rest from all their Enemies and withal full power and commission to return and dwell in their wisht for chosen and promised possession Joshua 22.1 2 c. Now in their journey homeward these two Tribes and half as they passed by the borders of Jordan set up a great Altar there not one destin'd for Sacrifice or Oblation but an Altar of remembrance to succeeding Ages that they acknowledged and ador'd the same God which Israel did and had as much right as they to come and worship at Shiloh the place where Gods honour dwelt and where his Service was most solemnly perform'd ver 9 10. but this made so great a noise that it alarm'd their Brethren the Children of Israel and caused them to think of revenging this innovation by sacrificing them on it who first built this Altar for a new Altar they thought bespoke a new Religion and all those Schismaticks and Separatists that had a hand in it and therefore they are for reducing them to order and conformity by outward compulsion and force and to this end resolve to make War upon them ver 11 12 c. but before they proceed to this extremity which is commonly or ought to be the last and never used but in case of necessity they sent selected Messengers from every Tribe to demand the reason of this proceeding and why they had erected an Altar as it were in defiance to that at Shiloh if they were prejudiced against their Country because it had not the visible Symbols of God's special Presence in it as Canaan had they were content these two Tribes and a half should come and dwell among them although they themselves were straitned by it ver 19. Notwithstanding if the land of your possession be unclean then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the Lord wherein the Lord's Tabernacle dwelleth and take possession among us but rebel not against the Lord nor rebel against us in building you an Altar besides the Altar of the Lord. They would endure any inconveniency rather than suffer a Schism or Separation to happen among them Now to this heavy Charge the Reubenites Gadites and half Tribe of Manasseh plead Not guilty and solemnly protest before God who searcheth the hearts That they had no other design in rearing this Altar than the making it a Memorial for Posterity to understand that they were Worshippers of the same God and ought to partake of the same Ecclesiastical Priviledges that their Brethren enjoyed that dwelt in the Holy Land This was the true account of themselves and their Proceedings and if their incensed Brethren would not believe it nor any thing satisfie their boiling rage but their utter extirpation all that they had left and was lawful for them to do was to invoke the God of Heaven who is the great Protector of the innocent to defend them from their Brethrens undeserved wrath or at least so far to mitigate and appease it that they might be delivered from the dire effects thereof The Lord God of gods c. In the Words I shall consider these three Parts I. A publick Declaration of the Sovereign Power and Majesty of God That he is Omniscient and Omnipresent the supreme Lord Governour and Judge of the whole World The Lord God of gods c. II. A Solemn Appeal to this supreme Lord Governour and Judge for the Equity of their Proceedings they desire help and deliverance from him upon these and no other terms That they were not in Rebellion or Transgression against the Lord The Lord God of gods he knows c. III. A Supposition That if they were Rebels the Lord would not save them If it be in rebellion or if in transgression against the Lord save us not this day I begin with the First viz. I. A publick Declaration of the Sovereign Power and Majesty of God That he is Omniscient and Omnipresent the supreme Lord Governour and Judge of the whole World The Lord God of gods c. All the Power and Majesty of Kings and Princes of the high and mighty Men of the Earth are but so many Streams and Rivulets that flow from this universal and inexhaustible Spring they are but so many Beams and Rays darted from this Almighty Sun the Father of Lights with whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning James 1.17 All the Knowledge and Wisdom of the subtilest Politicians the profoundest Divines the acutest Philosophers and the learnedest Councellours are but so many Particles of that infinite and boundless understanding of that eternal and ubiquitary Soul if I may so style the Divine Essence from whence these intelligent and discerning Faculties proceed And though for their Knowledge and Wisdom as well as Power and Majesty Men may be said to be Gods and Kings and Princes are so called in Holy Scripture Psal 82.6 yet this acknowledgment must be made by us and all Creatures which was here openly declared by the two Tribes and half and unanimously assented to by all the rest That there is one Sovereign Lord The Lord God of gods c. he knows absolutely and independently and not by Comparison or derivation He knows intuitively and not by the help of Reason or Discourse not by the assistance of Premisses or Conclusion But this Divine Knowledge is too wonderful for us it is so high we cannot attain unto it Psal 139.6 We may admire and adore and we ought to do so but we can never comprehend it however the contemplation and adoration of this and all the other Attributes of God as it is our business here on Earth so 't will be part of our happiness in Heaven where we shall know as we are known where Faith will be consummate in Vision and we shall see face to face But in the interim we may make this good Use of God's Omniscience and Omnipresence to restrain our selves and others by it from open or secret sins 1. In vain O Hypocrite dost thou seek darkness and solitude to conceal thy vice and cover thy impiety unless thou couldst go where the Almighty sees not hide thy self where his knowledge cannot reach and fly from thine own Soul thou canst not be conceal'd from the All-seeing Eye of God The Lord God of gods he knows He knows what thou dost in thy Closet