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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55099	The plotters doom wherein the wicked plots, plotters, and their confederates are detected and sentenced by the Holy Scriptures : in a late sermon upon the hellish plots which have been discovered in these nations, and may be an answer to Mr. H's late sermon upon Curse ye Meroz / by a sincere Protestant and true son of the church.	Palmer, Samuel, d. 1724.	1680 (1680)	Wing P251; ESTC R602	32,970	40

plowed as a field and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forrest Good Father what monstrous wretches are these that for their sakes Zion should be plowed Jerusalem laid waste and the mountain of the Lords house made as a forrest What! all the beauty safety and glory of the Church and House of God totally destroyed and turned into a desolate Wilderness and all this for the sake and sins of some kind of men Good Lord wh●● prodigious wretches must these be that provoke the most merciful God for their sakes to deal thus strangely severe with his Church Why read the foregoing verse and you 'l find in the very front and first rank of these men if it be lawful to call them men they are such as judg for reward and truly I did well to put in that If for the Prophet Zephaniah in his 3d Chap. and 3d vers is so far from calling them men that he calls them Evening wolves which are the most hungry curst and ravenous after their prey of any Creature whatsoever so that take a man that judgeth for reward and nothing can stop him Not Religion not Reputation not King not Country nor Church nor State no considerations of Publick nor of private weal can stop his career 'T is a Beast of such a greedy canine insatiate appetite that he runs over all runs upon all runs down all And if you should come from this Word of God and say this sin will lay our Jerusalem in heaps they will but laugh at you and clap you up in Gaol Let our Jerusalem lye in heaps as long as it will and our Church be made a Wilderness if it will what care they so they can but get gain But we trust the Lord that hath had that mercy for the King and that mercy for his Protesant people to deliver them thus miraculously from the Papists hands will perfect and compleat his own Salvation and deliver us from such Evening-wolves also and according to his gracious Promise will bless us with Magistrates as at the first and counsellors as at the beginning Isa 1.26 The fourth and last Improvement of this truth That the wicked are Plotters the only Plotters that the world hath in it is of comfort to the just For if it be so that the word of truth doth determine that the wicked are the only Plotters that the world hath in it then do you be comforted in the midst of all the calumnies that are cast upon you You have great reason to take this comfort to your selves for you see the Lord himself hath determined the point on your side the wicked clamor and make a mighty noise in the world as if you were the only Plotters and disturbers thereof but you see the righteous holy Lord hath by his Heavenly Word determined the matter past all controversie for ever for you and says positively that 't is the wicked the wicked persons and they only that are the Plotters and disturbers of the World bear then their reproach with comfort for they do no more by you in this than they have done by the righteous in all ages what if you hear so eminent and righteous a soul as King David complaining that they laid to his charge things that he knew not as you see he doth Psal 35.11 Can you count it much that they will lay such things to your charge If you read the story of just and upright Job you will see that sober men and his intimate friends drew up an unjust charge against him and will you wonder the wicked enemies do the same against you You have a marvellous remarkable instance of this kind in Jer. 37. the series of it lyeth thus The Caldeans besieged Jerusalem but hearing that Pharoah King of Egypt was come forth with an Army they raised the siege The Prophet Jeremiah assured them from the Lord That for all they had raised their siege yet the Caldeans would return and take the city though he would make use of the present opportunity to leave Jerusalem and go dwell in the Country Now as he was executing this honest and innocent intent in the very Gate as he was going out he met with one of the huffing hectoring Captains of the City who took him and brought him back and charged him that he was running away to the enemy and though Jeremiah told him 't was false and that he was not going out with any such intent yet this roaring wretch would not let him go but brought him back to the Princes who the Text tells you were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison vers 15. and in the next Chapter they are eager to put him to death For the Princes came unto the King and said We beseech thee let this man be put to death for he weakens the hands of the men of war in the city and the hands of all the people in speaking such words unto them For this man seeks not the welfare of this people but their hurt vers 4. This was a horrible charge and yet this holy Prophet spake not one word to them nor the people neither but what he had from the mouth of the Lord so in they thrust him into a lothsome and dirty dungeon that he might die there as undoubtedly he had done had it not been for a poor Ethiopian that mediated for him and took him out from thence For the King was such a slave to those wicked Courtiers that carried all before them that he durst not interpose on the behalf of this innocent and eminent Prophet as you may read in the fifth verse Nay to such an abject nature and beneath a Prince was the spirit of this King sunk by the conduct of this cursed crew that adventuring to speak privately with Jeremiah he was so afraid lest these damned youths should hear of their Conference that he chargeth the Prophet in the 24th verse That no man should know of the words that had passed between them Well then if so great a Prophet as Jeremiah could not escape the reproach of wicked men from being charged as an enemy to nay a sugitive from the King and as one that sought not the welfare but the hurt of the people be comforted and know that you have nothing but what hath been the common lot and portion of all the people of God in the reproaches and imputations that they cast upon you Nor is the Old Testament only full of examples and instances of this kind but the New Testament likewise For the holy Apostle had the same measure of rage and reproach from these wicked Plotters as well of this kind as all others as the Prophets had In Acts 16. you find St. Paul and Silas going to prayer met a Damsel possessed with a Spirit of divination which brought her Masters much gain by southsaying this wench followed Paul and Silas crying These men are the