Papisto-Mastix OR DEBORAHS Prayer against Gods Enemies Judg. 5.31 Explicated and Applyed In the Cathedrall of Saint Peter in Exon November the fift 1641. By WILLIAM SCLATER Batchelar in Divinity Prebend of that Church Psal 68.1 Let God arise and let his Enemies be scattered Let them also that hate him flie before him c. LONDON Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne for Daniel Frere and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the red-Bull in little-Britaine 1642. TO The truly Noble and eminent Example of the best worth Mr. HENRY MURRAY Esquire one of the Groomes of his M ties Bedchamber The Happines of both Worlds Noble Sir AFTER much agitation of thoughts where in these dismembred times this poore piece of my worthlesse endeavours might best find shelter at length it was directed as Noah's Dove unto the Arke to seeke your Patronage as in whose breast so many lines of piety drawne from a large circumference meet as in the proper Center as who have by a sacred kinde of Chymistry extracted the best spirits and quintessence of the choicest vertues which vertues like some rich Carbuncles that shine best in varied lights are by so much more glorious and full of lustre by how much the predominant and most enchanting vices of this vile age can no way damp or sully them nor doth it indeed a little glad me to see that early sanctity which dyed you to my known experience in grayne in the woull of your youth now you have been woven in the loomes of Time into more yeeres still to keep its colour Besides this it is your excellence nor can it be consisted that though some other Courtiers have sometime been knowne like some fair coloured silkes by too much ayring to have lost their glosse yet your retiring Holinesse which is the Diamond set in the Ring of your merited commendations hath preserved you still as a Sic tibi cum fluctus subterlabere sicanos Doris amara suam non intermisceat undam Vargil Eclog. 10. Alpheus gliding silently under the brackish Doris untainted and unst yned by the worst of times and which I cannot but add your rare kill in Arts and various literature is that which doth enamell and embellish all the rest so that whilest the tottering of the times hath rocked many asleep in secure vanity the very mention of your name like a box of spikenard broken hath filled us with a sweet perfume and the savour thereof drawne me thus farre to shrowd this naked issue of my thoughts under the wings of your favour some few cast feathers whereof may so ympe and fledge it that it shall adventure with more alacrit to fly abroad Daigne then Honored Sir being a knowne Patron of goodnes to bestow a looke upon this importunate suitor and to spread your protection over it and him who as b Ruffinus in Symbol Apost inter opera Cypriant initio Ruffinus apologized for the edition of his Comment on the Apostles Creed cannot chiefly in so great insufficiency but know Non esse absque periculo multorum judiciis ingenium tenue exile committere how full of jeopardy it is in so slender a schallop to adventure on the deepes of so many greater judgements or as S. c S Hierom. in proaem ad Obad. Hierome said unto Pammachius of some things written in the beat of his youth Infans sum nec dum scribere nosco nunc ut nihil aliud profecerim saltem Socra icum illud habeo Scio quod nescio But sith I was willing to let you â—ee on this occasion how much I value your Patronage Let it be your Noblenesse to stoup to the entertainment of this bearty Testimoniall of my respects and wiâ—hall to cast some few strictures of favour upon him the thirst of whose ambition could not be quenched till be had declared himselfe to be Your true honourer devoted to doe you service WILLIAM SCLATER Febr 7. 1641. DEBORAH'S Prayer against GODS Enemies explaned and applyed JUDG 5.31 So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord but let them that love him be as the sunne when be goeth forth in his might And the land had rest forty years THE Text is the close of good Deborah and Barak The occasion of the words their Epinicion or Triumphall Song sung by them in Prayer unto the Lord who had now victoriously made bare his own arme in granting by their though but impotent hands a mighty deliverance from the potent forces of Johin King of Canaan in the shamefull discomfiting of Sisera his chiefe Captaine and by the watery bosome of the river Kishon that ancient river the river Kishon sweeping his numerous Army as so many grassehoppers from the Earth It was I say the close of their song upon that occasion and may now seasonably be resumed into our mouths â—his day which as of old the daies of Purim that in the time of Mordecai and Queen Ester were turned unto the Jewes from sorrow to joy and from mourning into good daies Est 9.22.26 we justly solemnize and make festivall For as then to quench the thirst of a cruell ambition rivers full of blood streaming from the gashed veynes of innumerable Innocents were designed to be cut out through the very flesh and throats of Gods peculiar people so was there as up n this day a Tophet ordained and prepared for us and for our King it was to borrow the expression of the Prophet Is 30.33 mad deep and large the pile thereof was fire and much wood only the breath of the Lord which had tofore blowne upon the cursed project of that Luciferian Haman would not as a stream of brimstone enkindle it so that that very mischievous devise which they indeed to speak with the a Psal 21.11 Psalmist imagined and intended against us but were not able to perform was then returned on their own pates and as the story tells us of Mixentius who was first drown'd himselfe from that bridge of mouldring leaking boates from which he hoped the Christian Emperour Constantine should have miscarried Loe in the very b Psal 9.15 16. same net was their own foot taken Who doubts but as of old the too-unwary Benjimites looking back behinde them to their Citty Gibeab Jud. 20.40 those cruell Pioners meant to feed tâ—eir eyes with the joyfull spectacle of those flames which with a pillar of smoak ascended up to Heaven from our great Metropolis yea to surfet on the goodly prospect of those mangled carkasses of Heretiques who as that Angel of Manoah Judg. 13.20 in the flame of the altar were by a cracke of Hellish thunder mounted up to Heaven afore the Resurrection and preferred thither as some new companions to Elias in a c 2 King 2.11 fiery Chariot But as Deborah observed in an Irony of the impatience of the braving mother of Sisera that looked before the victory out at a window to view the pompe of his approach Judg. 5.28 saying Why is his Chariot
brewing of death tunned up for the destruction of the three Estates of this whole Kingdome an example beyond all examples of ages past and for the hainousnesse thereof hardly credible in the generation to come For now by a crack or hellish thunder were King and Prince and Peers and the whole representative Body of the Commons expected to use the Prophets expression Isa 9.18 to mount up like the lifting up of smoake in which there could be imagined no mercy unlesse so totall and so bigge a destruction had in the suddennes the reof found a kinde of mercy I read in the l Florus l. 2. c. 6. Romane story of a great massacre of the Romane Nobility at Canna but an obscure village of Apulia to the groaning of the State for so fatall a losse but this was in open hostility young Hannibal no way brooking an opposition Our m Verslegan c. 5. p. 130. out of William of Malmbsbury own Chronicles likewise mention an overthrow of three hundred of the British Nobility slain at once upon Salisbury plains by the treacherous devise of the Saxons whose King Hengistus comming without thoughts of Peace though he pretended it to meet Vortiger King of the Britains at the same time and giving them their watchword which was this Nem eowr seaxes take you Seaxes a kinde of crocked Knife from which some think the Saxons took their name at the banquet there appointed slew the Nobility and imprisoned their King But this was likewise in the times of Civill discords and intestine Wars But for miscreants in the time of peace to make themselves ready for warre and to pile up a whole Kingdome into one corner as one faggot to be consumed in one flame at once Oh treason unheard of Oh act imparallel'd Oh Lucifer out-devil'd surely as the n Florus l. 2. c. 4. Historian saith of the Gauls of Insubria under the Alps Animi illis ferarum erant their o Psal 5 6. inward parts were very violent and fierce as the wilde beasts of the forest or as p Maginns Ceograph indescrip Galliae Maginus of the Gauis in generall Ignea illis mens Their mind and heart like to the mountain Aetna boyled with the fire of malice as if it had feamed out flakes of Hell ere they came into it And well may we here resume that which was said of Simeon and Levi Gen. 49.5 6 7. these Romish Impostors are brethren in iniquity instruments of cruelty are in their habitations in their anger they slew a man cursed be their anger for it was cruell Divide them O Lord divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel or rather out of our Israel Oh that the Lord would remove but even this one Plague from us And thus have I made an end of my parallel between the Aegyptian judgements and the Impostures of Papistry By all which laid together we may cauly discover what a plaguy Religion that of Popery is or rather indeed that their faith is nought but faction nor their Religion but Rebellion and murthering of Kings c. If any man then longs within himselfe to get a Souls infection let him but joyn issue with these doctrines and practises he shall be sure to be sped even as surely as those ships that pretended to saile to Ophir for gold were split in sunder q 1 King 22 48. at Ezion-Geber and miscarried And thus farre of the Enemies from whose deadly conspiracy we were freed this day The next head of our application was the manner of our deliverance How to which we may joyn the time When also it was And the story or relation thereof sheweth us it to have been in the very height of danger and by a very weak and improbable means the danger was at the very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and perfection so that from a match ready fired we received a matchlesse deliverance Cum duplicantur lateres venit Moses is the Hebrew Proverb God sent not a deliverer to Israel in Aegypt till their bricks were doubled mans extremity is Gods opportunity when the time of trouble is most needfull then especially is the Lord a very r Psal 46.1 present helpe even as he was upon this day when there wanted nothing but the very act of execution to our certain ruine Nor had Gods glory been so much magnified had not the danger been so farre heightened And for the manner of it it was onely by the delivery of a * By. Carleton Letter written in a darke expression and delivered with not over much care or regard by a Page or Lacquay crossing the street to the Lord Monteagle Which letter being presented to that Prince who had more than an Eagles perspicacity yea though perched on a mount to spy out the treason the Lord to give that King the honour of so strange a discovery though he could have done it by other means now laid it open by his wise conjectures So are the wicked ſ 2 Sam. 15.31 17.14 Rom. 1.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 befooled often in the ripenes of their deepest projects and defeated in the maturity of their proudest and their vastest hopes For as the Barbarians seing a Viper actually fastened upon Saint Paul's hand expected each moment his t Act. 28.6 Ver. 5. falling down dead even suddenly yet he only with one shaking of his hand disappointed their thoughts even so easily can yea did that God u Act. 27.23 whose we are and whom we serve blast the hopes of this daies most infernall and diabolicall Treason And lastly for the author of the deliverance we must needs take up that of the Psalmist and say Psal 124.1 2 c. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side now may Israel yea England say if if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us Then they had swallowed us up quicke when their wrath was kindled against us But loe great deliverance he hath given unto his King and hath shewen mercy to his Anoynted unto our David and unto his seed for evermore Psal 18.50 Behold our soule is escaped as a bird out of a * Psal 124.6 7. snare of the fowlers the snare is broken and we are escaped and blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth O sing * Psal 47.6 7. prayses unto our God sing prayses sing prayses unto our King sing prayses for God is the King of all the Earth sing yee praises with understanding See also Psal 118.24 27 8 29. Psal 10◠8 15 21 31. Beloved Christians leam say to you on this occasion as Moses sometime unto Israel Deut. 29.10 11 c. Yee sland this day all of you before the Lord your God your litle ones your wives and whatsoever is nearest or dearest unto you as yet your y Psal 144.12 13 14 15. Sons grow up in their youth and your
so long in comming Why tarry the wheels of his Chariots have they not sped have they not divided the prey to every man a Damosell or two to Sisera a prey of divers colours a prey of divers colours of needle worke of divers colours of needle worke on both sides meete for the neckes of them that take the spoile Alas alas Fond Atheists what Castles of crazy hopes had they now set up in the ayre What silly Nimrods were these to build up Towers of expectation that cannot but being against God prove d Gen. 11.5 9. Babels and their sure confusion besotted Hamans mounting up gibbets no lesse than fifty cubits high to break their e Ester 7.9 10. own necks Behold Sisera that great terror of Israel who brought so many hundred thousands into the field had ere this vain brag of theirs quit his Chariot and betaken him to his heels and those heels posted him to the Tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite and at her feet he bowed he fell he lay down at the feet of a woman a weak instrument he bowed he fell where he bowed there he fell down dead Loe there lay this proud wormes-meat sprawling with his head fastened to the ground as if it had been now listning what was become of the Soule against the hammer of a feeble woman was this guilded pot-sheard of the earth not crackt but broken In short he who was pleased to stile himselfe the mighty f Psal 24.6 God of Jacob that God of Israel who neither g Psal 121.4 slumbered nor slept in the dangers of his chosen h Psal 135.4 treasure this Lord of Hoasts sitting above in Heaven i Psal 2.4 laughed all his enemies to scorn and when their hopes like â—o the sins of the Amorite were ripe and k Gen. 15.16 full the Lord he had them in derision and by the hands of the weaker sex levelled the magnificence of a daring Champion with the dust Then Jael saith the Text Judg 4.21 Hebers wife tooke a nayle of the tent an took an hammer in her hand and went softly unto him and smote the nayle into his temples and fastened it into the ground for he was fast asleep and weary See here no â—ne circumstance about his overthrow is left â—ut So he died And even so saith good Deborah the Prophâ—tesse in my Text So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord but let them that leve him be as the sunne when he goeth forth in his might And thus have yee seen the occasion of these words in which as to my observation they occurre wee have two principall parts commended to our notice The division I. An Imprecation upon Gods Enemies So let all thine enemies perish O Lord. II. An Apprecation or an obtestation of good upon his friends But let them that love him be as the sunne c. In the former we have these particulars 1. The person implyed thus praying against Gods enemies Deborah a Prophetesse verse the first 2. The person unto whom she directs her Prayer The Lord. 3. The forme of her imprecation Let. 4. The title she gives those against whom she prayes God Enemies 5. The universality or extent of her devotion all thine enemies 6. The matter of her Imprecation Let them all perish 7. The manner after which she desires they may all perish So. So let all thine enemies perish O Lord. In the second Generall her Apprecation of good we have I. The Peripâ—rasis of those she prayeth for such as love the Lord. II. The Assimilation or resemblance whereto she suits their happinesse he sunne and to that sunne going forth and going forth in his might These are the parts and heads of my discourse of as many of them in their cue order as the time shall allow and first by way of explication and then of Application by Gods assistance and the wonted favour of your Christian patience THE first particular is the person that here makes this Imprecation upon Gods enemies Part. I. and she is Deborah a Prophetesse and a Mother in Israel Judg. 4.4 and 5.7 A circumstance remarkeable if we meditate the deplored estate of the Church in those times which as we finde by the story were most forlorn and desperate For nothing but Anarchy and Tumult now prevailed And indeed in the whole face of that age nought but botches and blains and ulcers could be discovered which so universally became contagious that all degrees of men were tainted and the issue of them proved so dangerous that from that one people then is made good that Maxime in Policy It s better to live where nothing hen where all things are lawfull for now were those dayes Judg. 21. â— in which there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eye And what was that which was then so right in their own eyes Read but the story you shall dye your cheekes in graine and blush Then it seemed right in the eyes of Micah to make himselfe Gods or puppets of his own and to keep a Levite to adore them within his own private walls Judg. 17. And if this seemed right to Micah why not also unto others ita quot l B. Andrews p. 52. inter opera posthuma concion Lat. in psal 144.10 familiae tot Idolorum portenta nova so that there were not more families then new monsters of Idolatry Then it seemed right in the eyes of the Danites not onely to pilfer from the private closets of Micah but to depopulate and waste whole Cities as they did Laish Judg. 18. Then the shamelesse ravishments of women as of the Levites Concubine seemed right in the eyes of the men of Gibeah Ju. 19. The story abounds with particulars all shewing the state of those dayes to be most loathsome and rufull Lo yet and see even in those loose and forlorne times there was a Deborah found out in Israel a grave and godly matrone fit to make a Prophetesse even Deborah the wife of Lapidoth My note from hence is this Observ That in the barrenest times of the Church the Lord hath ever had some to feare him and to stand up for his Truth And this hath been found true Proofe in the experience of all ages In the old World when a Deluge of iniquity foregoing that of water had overflowen the earth and all flesh had corrupted his way Gen. 6.12 yet even then God saw a righteous Noah before him and that emphatically even in so vile a generation Gen. 7.1 In the very Court of Pharaoh that peerles prodigy of impenitence and obduration there was found a fervant who feared the word of the Lord Exod. 9.20 so likewise even in Nero's houshold there was a Church Phil. 4.22 .. After this when Idolatry had like Naamans Leprosie overspread the whole body of the Church yet even then God had left him seven thousand in Israel whose knees never
the very thought of God Psal 10.4 and cannot endure his presence either in the p D. Sel. exposit on Rom. 1.30 p. 159. Heart by his Spirit or in the Congregation by his Word nor in his comming to Judgement nor lastly to the Death any of the friends of God or of such as love him Therefore the adversaries of Gods people are called the haters of God himselfe Psal 81.14 15. Which sense soever you take it in if they be Gods Enemies they shall be all as q Job 21.18 stuble before a r Heb. 12.29 consuming fire and the Lord to ease himselfe of his adversaries whose iniquity he cannot ſ Hab. 1.13 see and like shall set them as a t Lam. 3.12 13. Butt and spend the arrowes of his sore displeasure upon them they shall be sure to perish AND so I passe on unto my fift particular Part. 5 6. which is the matter of Deborabs Imprecation Let thine Enemies perish O Lord To which part I will adde also that other of the Extent of her devotion Let all thine Enemies perish By perishing is not here meant the utter annihilation of their eternall absolute being the very Essence of the Soule carryeth u Matth. 10.28 immortality in it but only of their well-being or rather of their confusion before the present world because it is said of Jabin and Sisera that when they perished at Endor they became as dung for the earth Psal 83.9 So that our note from hence will be this viz. To shew us the affectionate desires of the Saints for the Universall overthrow and extirpation of the wicked enemies of God Obser and of his Church Let them all perish O Lord. As it was sayd of Israel going out of Goshen that they left not somuch as an * Exod. 10.26 hoofe behinde them so is it earnestly wished by the Saints that not so much as one Agag or one x 1 Sam. 15.3 Amalekite might be spared no nor if the Lord were pleased so to dispose it one y Josh 15.63 23.13 Proose Jebusite left as a Relique in Canaan To this purpose he who long experimented the usances of such enemies hath expressed himself Psal 104.35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth Consumpti id est simul sumpti and let the wicked be no more and Psal 10.15 Breake thou the arme of the wicked and the evill man seek out his wickednesse till thou finde none Oh that some z Isa 14.23 besome of destruction from the Lord would sweep them cleane off the Land and that all the a Matth. 3.12 Chaffe and b Matth. 13.25 Tares might if possible at once be bound up together in bundles and cast into flames c Luk. 3.17 unquenchable O my God saith the zealous Prophet make them like a d Psal 83.13 wheele strike them with some Vertiginous spirit of giddinesse let them be vexed even as a thing that is raw restlessely unexpressibly never leave rowling and winding of themselves till they have utterly undone themselves and be cloathed with their own f Psal 109.29 confusion as with a mantle c. Nor may we marvaile at this zeale sith whilest these Jebusites doe stay among us Reason they are but as g Josh 23.13 thorns in our eyes yea the onely h Zech. 3.1 Satans which stand at the very right hand of our Joshua's to resist or to disturbe them in their most fervent services and devotions These the onely Achans who i Josh 7.25 trouble our Israel and as Jebu said to Jehoram What k 2 King 9.22 peace can be expected with any assurance in any Nation where the Whoredomes or Witchcrafts whether Temporall or l Rev. 17.5 Spirituall of but one Jezabel are endured It is said here in the close of this Text That the Land had rest forty years but note the occasion and it is very observable Judg. 4.16 All the Hoste of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword and there was not a Man left in relation unto which for the procuring of Peace for after times the good Prophetesse in likelihood here prayed for a totall eradication saying So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord. Your selves with due Cautions Vse may make the application I have spoken unto m 1 Cor. 10.15 wise men who can judge I doubt not what I say AND so I come to the seventh and last particular in the Text which is the manner Part. VII after which she desires that all these Enemies of the Lord may perish Sic pereant so which Monosyllable So I have reserved to handle in the last place because it will best usher in my intended application of the whole and is indeed as that Wine made by Christ at the Marriage feast in Cana of Galilee kept as the n Josh 2.10 best till last So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord. How or which way would she have them perish Perhaps we may resolve this So as o Ribera ad Amos 4.12 Ribera from Saint Hierom doth that so or thus in the Prophet Amos 4.12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel Thus How or in what manner R. Non nominat mala ut omnia timeant Hee names no one particular evill that so they might stand in aw and be afrayd of every evill of punishment p Sueton. lib. 1. sect 65. Suetonius telleth us that it was the very policy of Julius Caesar never to foreacquaint his Souldiers of any set time of removall or onset Scilicet ut paratum intentum momentis omnibus quo velle subito educeret That he ever have him in readinesse for the suddainest march nor was his way of animation and encouragement by extenuating or denying the danger of the Enemy but he deemed it fitter to raise up thoughts of valour by an aggravation of the contrary forces and as the story shews us did not seldome this way Hyperbolically Rhetoricate I know you can apply But whether that be intended in this text I will not peremptorily say But certainly my deare Brethren it s a most usefull meditation and very availeable to prevent obstinate security in dangerous times to consider the variety of Plagues that the Lord hath up in store for the children of disobedience to which end I thinke it is that the Lord is pleased to set before our eyes so large a Catalogue of Curses Deut. 28. Give me leave a little to enlarge upon this subject I shall ground my enlargement on that of the Stoique q Epictetus in enchiridio Epictetus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is as I interpret it according to diversity of apprehension of good or evill so are mens mindes diversly affected and there are evils grievous to some that seem good to others for example tell a valiant Souldier of Warre approaching you speake to his heart for then he thrives But
Head and for the whole representative Body of this Kingdome even as Sisera in this story we now treate of was met with in a part of that yron in the strength of which he had so much vaunted himselfe Neque enim lex justior ulla est Quam necis artifices arte perire suâ Lastly So that is whilest he was fast asleep Ju. 4.21 even in the height of his most reposed rest and security for even in the very midst of tumult the very jaws of death this carnall heathen found a time to sleep Quem Deus perdere vult stultum facit whom God intendeth to destroy he first infatuates when Sodom was to be destroyed the men of the City were some of them smitten with blindnes so that they could not foresee their own now most imminent ruine compare Judg. 18.27 And not to be tedious the infernall traytors of this day y Gen. 19.11 as Dr. Carleton relates it were securely sitting and warming themselves by a fire even as wicked Jehoiakim Jer. 36.22 when the very threatenings of the Law of God were against him sate before the fire without feare when a sparkle of that same fire flew out and lighting upon some two pound waight of powder that lay nigh them miserably deformed and spoiled them neer the place of their surprizall And it is a most irrevocable truth my beloved Christians that the Lord never suffereth his Enemies to go z Hoe tene nec crimen quenquam in pectore gestare qui non idem Nemesin in tergo Lipsius l. 2. c. 13. deConstant unrevenged one way or by some means or other sometimes he takes them off in the very beginning of their lewd projects and crusheth the Cockatrice in he Egge sometimes in the very a In Scelere sceleris supplicium est â—â—aetanea sceleripoena c. vid. Duplessis c. 12. de verit relig Christ p. 198 c. vol. 8. act as Absalom Belshazzar Herod sometimes the punishment as thunder doth lightening followeth instantly upon the very heels of their sinne as upon b Act. 5.5 10. Ananta and Sapphira and sometimes not till a long time after as upon that old Judge who was with his age waxen old also in wickednesse which was at last brought to light ver 52. of the History of Susanna see to the same purpose c Luk. 11.50 Matth. 23.35 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith d Plato de repub Plato In summe cannot God blast the corn in the blade in the harvest in the Barn in the very mouthes of the wicked But if they bee treasonable attempts against the Lords Anoynted if e 2 Sam. 18.9 Absolom f 2 Sam. 17 23 Achitophel who proved their own executioners g 2 King 9.31 Zimri the h 2 Chron. 35.25 servants of Ammon and the rest of the same rabble if any of these prospered then may a like Traytor hope for immunity from vengeance yea what i Sueton. lib. 1. sect 89. Saeton reporteth of such as stab'd King Julius Cesar is generally true of all such Nequisquam suâ morte defunctus est No one of them died a naturall death or went down to his grave in k 1 King 2.6.9 Peace And the reason why a l Gen. 4.15 seven-fold vengeance was threatned more upon him that should kill Cain then was upon Cain himselfe though a bloody Fratricide is given by some to be this viz. because Cain was a Prince and being eldest Sonne to Adam was Heire apparent to the Crown of the whol world Our owne stories and experience may convince us herein How m Psal 105.15 tender the Lord is of Royall dignity how much he thinketh his n Zech. 2.8 own Majesty interested in the injuries attempted or done to his Vice gerents and such as carry semblance of his authority upon earth the vengeances have been sundry of them fearefull even to astonishment Wherefore Gods charge is so peremptory Psal 105.15 Touch not mine anoynted that is Tactu qualitativo with the least intention of annoyance and as David said to Abishai who would have smitten Saul a o Hos 13.11 wicked King 1 Sam. 26.9 Destroy him not for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anoynted and be guilt lesse I say as Saint p S. Ambros de Naboth Jezraelit cap. 11. Ambrose when he closeth the story of Abab and Jezabels fearefull end Fuge ergò Dives bujusmodi exitum sed fugies hujusmodi exitum si fugeris hujusmodi flagitium Let all men tremble at the fearefull ends of wicked men chiefely of traytors for the brand of the King of Kings is set upon such but such ends yee shall avoyd if yee carefully fly from such like abominations Now to summe up the whol of this particular So let all thine Enemies perish that is in the height of their vain-glorious ostentation by weake means So that is in so shamefull a sort as dastard flying before their pursuers So in being entrapped in their own snares and nets and lastly so in the middâ—st of their deadly security when they are as insensible of ruine as of sinne Even so saith good Deborah here So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord. And thus have I gone over all the particulars of this my first generall and with them I perceive I have filled up the houre But because as St. Austin said of the feast of Pentecost Gaudet produci haec solennitas This solemnity would bee extended and as the silkworm stretcheth forth her selfe before she spins her finest threads be drawn-out to a length I could even wish with Joshua that the Sunne would q Josh 10.12 stand still awhile that we might the longer rejoyce in this our gladsome festivall which so much angreth our Romish Proselytes and maketh them because we will never have done with this day to r Psal 112.10 gnash their teeth upon us with meagre envy This Å¿ Psal 118.24 This is the day that the Lord hath made let us rejoyce and bee glad therein And that we may the better doe it give me now leave as Elisha sometimes did upon the Shunamites dead sonne to t 2 King 4.34 stretch my Application upon each member of this Text I may perhaps raise up your attentions to some new life and vigour and shew your that this Scripture is as fit and consonant to this daies occasion and solemnity as was to Casars coine the u Matth. 22 20. image of Caesar Whether we consider the Enemies from whom or the manner how or the author of whom this our great deliverance came And as I remember Saint Gregory Nanianzen prologues his first Steliteutique against Julian the Apostate so will I this my ensuing speech 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Let all the Nations of the earth give eare let all ages both this present and that to come listen yea remember if not this speech yet the hints of
daughters are as the polished corners of the Temple your garners are full affording all manner of store your sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in your streets your Oxen are strong to labour there is no breaking in nor going out nor is there any complayning in your streets happy is that people that is in such a case yea happy is that people whose God is the Lord. But now doe but faigne a little to your selves if the Lord had not beenon our side but had delivered us all over to the mercilesse cruelty of the Enemy and suffered us to lye down under the bondage and slavery of Antichrist Then instead of this blessed liberty of the Gospell and of the pure worship of God and of those happy opportunities we now under so godly and Peerlesse a Prince enjoy we might have been plundred in grosse Superstition and Idolatry have been worshippin of Images cringing to Crosses adoring of Crucifixes blattering to a Saint rumbling of our Beads wandring in some Pilgrimage all overrun with the rank weeds of z Col. 2.23 wil-wership angring our God of jealousie and irritating the just wrath of Heaven or else all dragg'd unto racks or stakes or dungeons to fire and faggot or other exquisite tortures the proper badges of that Romish Antichrist that man of sinne whereas that true Religion and Wifedome that is from above is first pure then a Jam. 3.17 Peaceable so farre from bloodines as it is from Popery But thanks be unto the Lord for his b 2 Cor. 9.15 unspeakable Gift He hath rescued us from the c Col. 1.13 power of a more than Aegyptian because a spirituall darknesse yea more than so he hath broken the d Psal 13.7 teeth of that e 2 Thess 2.3 Son of perdition himselfe and f Jud. 6. chayned up his power And as we have found out the beginning of his rise so we hope to see the end of his finall downfall About the year g Juel Apol p. 29 vol. 16. six hundred and thirteen shortly after the death of Saint Gregory the great indeed but humble Bishop who endeavoured to quell the h Vide Bullinger ad Apoc. 9. insolency of John the Prelate of Constantinople for aspiring to the title Of i See Epist of S. Gregory the great to Mauricius the Emperor added to the hist of Trent Concil p. 829 830. universall Bishop and directly styling him The forerunner of Antichrist who should dare to assume it unto himself Yet Boniface the third moved nothing herewith obtained of wicked Phocas who by the murthering of his Lord Mauricius had got into the Empire that the Church of Rome might be called and taken for the chiefe and head of all Churches and himself to be sty led the Universall Bishop of the World And in this thus ambitious Boniface had Antichrist his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the entrance upon his height After that through many cruelties and tyrannies his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or perfection was in Gregory the seventh commonly called Hildebrand k By. Downam Diatrib de Antichrist contr Leon. Lessium who first of all the rest about the year 1073. subjected the Diadem to the Miter exalting himselfe above all that is called God 2 Thess 2.4 That is above all Magistrates both supream and subordinate l Otho Frisingensis lib. 9. c. 35. who by reason of the resemblance in Majesty being Gods Vicegerents in authority upon Earth are called m Exod. 22 28. Gods 1 Cor. 88.5 though Essentially they are no Gods And by the devise of the holy n See M. Fuller his Hist of the holy Warre elegantly penn'd Warre at Hierusalem lurching the Patrimony of deluded Princes whom he had perswaded to beare arms in that cause in their absence to Saint Peters chaire he advanced himself at length to so great an height that his head grew giddy and so that o Rev. 9.1 Stellam hanc omnes fere Neoterici interpretantur de Romano Vontisice ut Joachimus Abbas Bulling Gyffard Dent. c. starre fell down from Heaven to the earth And ever since in the later times hath this Antichrist had his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the remission of his vigour and his declination And now how should every zealous soule who clearly and without dissembling wisheth well to the Peace of this our Zion take up that of Edom in the day of Hierusalem and cry p Psal 137.7 down with him down with him even to the ground Loe this great q Rev. 17.1 whore of Papacy is cast upon her bed of r Psal 41.3 languishing and is sick we hope to death so that she shall never be able more to rise up nor with the Å¿ Revel 17.2 Wine of her spirituall filthy fornications to entoxicate the nations of the earth so long so rufully already made drunken by her yea the Lord Christ shall consume the t 2 Thess 2.3 man of sinn with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightnes of his comming 2 Thess 2.8 yea even so u Revel 22.20 come Lord Jesus come quickly And doe unto him and unto all his complices as unto the Midianites as to * Psal 83.9 10. Sisera as to Jabin at the brook of Kishon which perished at Endor they became as dung for the earth c. Yea let God arise and let his x Psal 68.1 2 c. Enemies be scattered let them also that hate him fly before him as smoake is driven away so drive them away as wax melteth before the fire so let the wicked perish at the presence of God but let the righteous be glad let them rejoyce before God yea let them exceedingly rejoyce let them sing unto God sing praises unto his Name and extoll him that rideth upon the Heavens by his Name J A H and rejoyce before him It is time to end suffer a word of exhortation and I have done I shall begin it in the words of Ezra cap. 9.13 14. Seeing that thou our God hast given us such a deliverance as this as this so eminâ—nt so miraculous so when we were high o destruction and the very mouth of ruine gaped and was open to devoure us should we again break thy Commandements and joyn with the people of these abominations wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping Ah my brethren let us be awakned from our deadly security from our sinfull unthankfulnes favours bestowed raise up an expectation of obedience and of a godly conversation Mic. 6.8 As therefore the Heathens had their three Graces as inseparable sisters he one to give the benefit the other to receive it and the third to return it and they painted them alwaies young to the end a benefit might be ever fresh in their remembrances y Heb. 13.22 so let us never z Psal 137.5 forget this favour of all favours this day bestowed upon this Land and Kingdome Let us give up our selves our soules and bodies all that we are or have as a solemn reall a Rom. 12.1 Sacrifice to the b Psal 18.46 God of our salvation who hath done so c 1 Sam. 12.24 great things for our soules This this alone is the way to continue his mercy and loving kindnes unto us and our d Deut. 4.40 posterity for evermore which God grant for the sake of the Son of his love Jesus Christ the righteous To whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all praise and glory world without end Amen FINIS ERRATA Reader faults escaped in the Presse and seemingly perverting the sense are thus to be corrected before thou read Page 1 liâ— 4. for prayer read praise l. 11. ibid. for bosome r. besome p. 5 l. 9. for he r. the p. 7. for neer r. never p. 10. l. 7. for nigher r higher p. 11. l. 26. for God r. Gods p. 17. l. 15. r. El-schaddal and l. 28. ib r. thresh p. 20 l 20. r. Matth. 5.18 p. 24. l. 29. for opposite r. apposite p. 30. l. 16. r. vellet and after He in the same line supply might p. 31. l. 6. r. creezy p. 32. l. 34. 〈◊〉 yet r. yea p. 37. l. 22. for Warwick r. Worcester p. 48. l. 7. for grea r. grate p. 49 l. 12 for never r. neither p 46. l. 7. for eve r. every p. 50. l. 32. for known r. tongue p. 52. l. 27. for their r. thine