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A33474	Vox corvi, or, The voice of a raven that thrice spoke these words distinctly, Look into Colossians the 3d and 15th : the text it self look'd into and opened in a sermon preached at Wigmore in the county of Hereford : to which is added serious addresses to the people of this kingdome, shewing the use we ought to make of this voice from heaven / by Alex. Clogie.	Clogie, Alexander, 1614-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing C4724; ESTC R26607	70,214	178

nor to make him ashamed that he had parted so suddenly from him without his Knowledge and Consent Therefore they entred into Covenant together of perpetual amity and parted in Peace and Love and were never injurious to one another no more than Esau was to Jacob that fled from him for fear of his Life yet was at meeting embraced by him with high Expressions of Love and they buried their aged Father Isaac in Peace Gen. 35. 29. Set your Hearts saith Moses unto all the words which I testifie among you this day and he gives this reason for it in the words following For it is not a vain thing for you because it is your Life and through this thing ye shall prolong your days Deut. 32. 46 47. O that thou hadst hearkned to my Commandments saith the Lord by the Prophet Isaiah then had thy Peace been as a River and thy Righteousness as the Waves of the Sea thy Seed also had been as the Sand and the ofspring of thy Bowe● like the Gravel thereof his Name shoul● not have been cut off nor destroyed from ●●fore me Isa 48. 18 19. But if we 〈◊〉 go on to make the Precepts of God of none effect by their unlucky Neighbourhood with the Precepts of Men The Book of God will be unawares snatch'd out of your Hands as the Ark of God was from the Shoulders of Hophni and Phinehas by the Philistines 1 Sam. 4. 11. and a black Book put into our Hands written within and without Lamentation and Mourning and Woe Ezek. 2. 10. For thus saith the Lord enter not into the House of Mourning neither go to lament nor bemoan them for I have taken away my Peace from this People saith the Lord even loving kindness and Mercies Jer. 16. 5. from which Judgment the Lord deliver us that we may enter iuto Peace and rest in our Beds every one walking in his Uprightness Isa 57. 2. Now for a particular Application of his Doctrin to all Relations and Orders of Men High and Low Rich and Poor c. 1. To Magistrates and Subjects IF the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of Rulers then they will seek the Glory of God and the Peace and Good of their Subjects above all Earthly things to the fulfilling of that Evangelical Promise of Isaiah And Kings shall be thy Nursing Fathers and their Queens thy Nursing Mothers Isa 49. 23. The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to me He that ruleth over Men must be just ruling in the fear of God is the Instruction that the Man after God's own Heart received immediately from God touching his Ruling and Governing the People of God And an excellent President we have from Theodosius Junior the Emperor recorded by Socrates l. 7. 22 who tells us that when in a severe Winter that did threaten and portend a great scarcity of Victual the Year ensuing it being not very plentiful at that time he gave way to the Peoples desire of the usual Games and Shews that were acted in the Circe which when it was full of People and Spectators there fell suddenly a most vehement Tempest upon them Then the Emperor plainly declared I set it down as Socrates relates it how he was affected towards God his People for by his Heralds he made Proclamation among the People saying Is it not much better for us to leave these vain Shews and Sports and with one Mouth all of us to pray to God to preserve us safe from this horrible Storm that is falling upon us Scarely were these words uttered when all the People with unanimous Consent and Alacrity began to pray to God then the whole City saith he in that respect was turned into a Temple the Emperor himself walking as a private Person began the Psalms of Praise neither indeed did his Hope fail him saith Socrates for immediately there was a great Calm and Screnity and by the Bountifulness of God there was great Plenty of all Provision the next year At another time also as he sate beholding the Shews he received a Message that one John that tyrannously had Invaded the Western Empire was miraculously overthrown and slain by his Forces As soon as he had read the Letter he said go too if ye please let us leave these Toys and go to Church and offer Prayers and Thanks to God who hath slain the Tyrant as it were with his own Hand he and all the People went immediately thro' the middle of the Hippodrome to the Temple of God and spent the whole day in Psalms and Praises to God Socrat. l. 7. 25. Sozomen tells us that the Subjects looking upon the good Examples that Arcadius and Honorius the Emperors and Sons of Theodosius set before them the Pagans were the more easily Converted to Christianity and the Hercticks joyned to the Catholick Church Soz. l. 8. 1. When such Kings come to be sick and dye they may say with Hezekiah Remember Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in Truth and with a perfect Heart and have done that which was good in thy sight Isa 38. 3. and they shall hear Euge. 2. If the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of the Subjects they will not curse the ruler of God's people Exod. 22. 28 they will not curse the King no not in their Thoughts for a Bird of the Air will carry the Voice and that which hath Wings shall utter the Matter saith King Solomon Eccles 10. 20. They will esteem their good King worth Ten Thousand of themselves as the Israelites told David their King when they would not suffer his Royal Person to be hazarded amongst them in the Battle against Absalom 2 Sam. 18. 3. They will esteem it the highest Wickedness to stretch out their Hand against the Lord 's Anointed 1 Sam. 26. 9. as David speaks when he had Saul his greatest Enemy at his Mercy they will account him The Breath of our Nostrils Lam. 4. 20. love honour and obey him in all things just and honest as the Roman Legions said to Jovinian that chose him to succeed Julian the Apostate in the Empire who said unto the Electors I will not rule over you for I am a Christian and you are Pagans and Idolaters the Apostate had corrupted them Do thou rule over us said they and we will be all Christians Regis ad exemplum is an old and true saying There is therefore great necessity to pray for such as be Rulers that they may be Subordinate to God and have Grace to their Power Pity to others that God may cloath their Enemies with shame but on himself shall his Crown flourish as God promised to David Psal 132. 18. that they may give God a fair Account of their Stewardship at the great Day in observing and practising what he hath commanded 2. To Ministers and People IF the Peace of God rule in the Hearts of the Ministers of the Gospel of Peace unless the things that belong to their Peace

she that is your Enemy may see it and shame may cover her Mic. 7. 10. That she may be removed that nothing of her be left amo 〈…〉 of her Idolatry and Superstition 〈…〉 your selves in array against Fren 〈…〉 abylon round about all ye that tred the bow shoot at her spare no Arrows for she hath sinned against the Lord saith the Prophet Jer. 50. 14. Some rubbish that escaped our first Reformers was left in the fall of so ancient and great a Building which remains yet untaken away but incumbers the Ground which in the Prayers that we are commanded to use in our Monthly Fasts run thus namely in the Prayer for the High Court of Parliament That all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be established among us from all Generations Now another Foundation of Peace and Happiness can no Man lay than Christ and his Word We need not send to Rome nor any where else for any thing that concerns Religion The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart saith the Apostle Rom. 10. 8. and we are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone Eph. 2. 20. In the Prayer for the reformed Churches Purge all thy Churches from their Dreggs and make them meet for a glorious Deliverance that all the World may see that Salvation belongs to our God In the last Prayer Give us Grace Lord seriously to lay to heart the great dangers we are in by our unhappy Divisions take away all hatred and prejudice and whatsoever may hinder us from Godly Union and Concord that as these is but one Body and one Spirit and one Hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all so we may henceforth be all of one Heart and of one Soul united in one Holy Body of Truth and Peace of Faith and Charity and may with one Mind and one Mouth glorifie thee O God through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The like Expressions are in the Prayer for the whole State of Christ's Church Militant here on Earth Let us deal plainly with God and our own Consciences and those to whom these Prayers are recommended unless we think to please God and Men with a few fair words of Devotion when our Heart is far from him and the performance of these things we pray for as the East is from the West Be not deceived saith the Apostle God will not be mocked Gal. 6. 6. however we may deceive Men with words smoother than butter but war is in the heart with words softer than oyl yet are they drawn swords Psal 55. 21. Is not this a casting of God's words behind us and taking his name in vain That lays us open to that surprizing expression of our Lord ex ore tuo est have ye not reason to fear the Lords Censure of the Elders of Israel that came and sate before Ezekiel in Babylon concerning whom the word of the Lord came unto him saying Son of man these men have set up their Idols in their hearts and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face should I be enquired of at all by them Exek 14. 3. And that of the Prophet Jeremiah that from the Prophets of Jerusalem hypocrisie is gone out into all the land Jer. 23. 15. If we build continually by our practice that which wont seem to destroy so solemnly by our Prayer what do we make of our selves in the Eyes of the World but Transgressors Gal. 2. 18. Children in whom is no faith Deut. 32. 20. What then are these Dreggs we desire God to deliver us from Are they not the remainder of our natural Corruption and the sin which doth so easily beset us within and of Popery without that have been a snare to us and removed our Souls far from Peace that we may be delivered from them as well as other reformed Churches Again What are these great dangers that we are in by our unhappy Division for the laying of which seriously to Heart we beg God's Grace Are they about matters of no value that in the ballance of the Sanctuary have Tekel written on them as being altogether higher than Vanity Are we like the Man lying in a ditch praying Lord have mercy upon me and yet will not stir Hand nor Foot to help himself out If we will not prevent these dangers when we know what the late attempt to remove the occasion of them cost these Nations that were sore afflicted and sorely tossed with the tempest of a long bloody War and not fully comforted to this day Again Take away all Hatred and Prejudice and whatsoever else may hinder us from Godly Union and Concord And we will part with nothing by our good Will that may please many good people and can never tend to the real damage of any but add more fuel still to the old hatred and prejudice until that be taken out of the way by which the offence cometh that may kindle a fire that will never be quenched and feed a worm that shall never die Mar. 9. 46. from which Judgment the Lord deliver us Lastly All the terms of Union of Peace and Love in Heaven and Earth are mustred up together one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God c. many Vanities that we may with one Mouth and one Mind glorifie God c. Here a Man would think If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort in love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels or mercies if any truth in men Phil. 2. 1. that we are resolved now to fill the Evangelical Prophecy of Zephany to serve the Lord with a pure lip and with one shoulder Zeph. 3. 9. with Uniformity of Doctrine Worship and Discipline that there may be one Lord and his name one according to that of the Prophet Zach. 14. 9. Lord put this heart in those that have commanded us to put up those sweet words to God in truth and simplicity of Heart Amen That we may not be said to have a form of godliness 2 Tim. 3. 5. is an outward delineation of piety of peace and unity denying the power and practise of it as the Apostle speaks or as Jeremiah They have healed the hurt of the Daughter of the my people slighted saying peace peace when there was no peace Jer. 6. 14. and those that are required to make their Addresses to God in these words say Hast thou utterly rejected Judah hath thy soul loathed Zion why hast thou smitten us and there is no healing for us we looked for peace and there is no good and for a time of healing and behold trouble Jer. 14. 19. Then said I ah Lord God surely thou hast greatly deceivid this people and Jerusalem saying ye shall have peace whereas the sword reacheth unto

5. 20. whom we preach warning to every Man and teaching every Man in all wisdom that we present every Man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1. 28. 2. And for their Works sake And we beseech you Brethren to know them which labour among you And to esteem them very highly for their works sake and be at peace among your selves saith the Apostle to the Thessalonians 1 Thes 5. 12 13. upon which account the Apostle says to the Galatians They received him as an Angel of God even as Christ Jesus and he bears them Record that if it had been possible they would have pluckt out their Eyes and have given them to him Gal. 4. 14 15. 3. And for their own sake These Men are the Servants of the most high God which shew unto us the way of Salvation saith the Pithoness by divine Inspiration Act. 16. 17. They must not hate them and persecute them for speaking the truth of God unto them Am I therefore become your Enemy saith the Apostle because I tell you the truth Gal. 4. 16. As Ahab to his shame professeth concerning Micaiah by whom we enquire of the Lord but I hate him for he doth not Prophesie good concerning me but evil 1 Kin. 22. 8. he received the just reward of his hatred by a shot at RamoahGilead the Jews hated Jeremiah the Prophet but to thei● Destruction Jer. 38. 4. And thus they dealt with our Lord that spake as never Man spake unto them and did what never Man did among them both him and his Followers to their dispersion as at this day for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thess 2. 16. He that seeketh my Life seeketh thy Life saith David to Abiathar that fled from Saul's Massacre of the Priests of the Lord and their Town of Nob but with me thou shalt be in safety 1 Sam. 22. 23. Good Obadiah hid an Hundred Prophets of the Lord by fifty in a Cave and fed them with Bread and Water 1 Kin. 18. 13. from Jez●bel's Cruelty as Rabab the Cauponess as the Caldee Paraphrase styles her hid the Spies from the King of Jerico ' s rage When the Minister shall say at the great day to the Judge of the Quick and Dead Loe I and the Children that God hath gave me Heb. 2. 13. And the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them and they have received them Those that thou gavest me I have ●ept and none of them is lost saith our Saviour Joh. 17. 8 12. The Apostle tells the Thessalonians For what is our Hope or Joy or Crown of Rejoycing Are not even ye in the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming 1 Thes 2. 19 20. 3. To Husband and Wife IF the Peace of God rule in the Heart of Husband and Wife which is the first and dearest Relation in the World and the root of all others unto which they are called in one Body that they should no more be two but one Flesh Gen. 2. 24. Then the Husband will not deal treacherously against the Wife of his youth Mal. 2. 15. that is his Companion and Wife of his Covenant that is Bone of his Bones and Flesh of his Flesh as the first Man speaks but nourish and cherish it as the Lord the Church Eph. 5. 29. as the Apostle speaks of the second Man that is the Lord from Heaven Comfort her as Elkanah did Hannah in her Affliction Hannah why weepest thou and why eatest thou not Am not I better to thee than ten Sons 1 Sam. 1. 8. Not give an occasion of Speech against her to bring up an evil Name upon her that she deserves not Deut. 22. 14. He will rejoyce with the Wife of his youth she shall be to him as a loving H●nd and as a pleasant Roe her Breasts will satisfie him at all times he will be always ravished with her love Prov. 5. 18 19. and never be bitter against her Col. 3. 19. but dwell with her according to knowledge giving Honour to the Wife as the weaker Vessel and as being Heirs together of the Grace of Life that their Prayers be not hindred 1 Pet. 3. 7. He will observe with Joseph the Embrace of a strange Woman whose Mouth is smoother thdn Oyl but the end more bitter than Wormwood sharper than a two-edged Sword her Feet go down to Death her steps take hold on Hell Prov. 5. 3 4 5. Her House saith he is the way to Hell going down to the Chambers of Death Pro. 7. 27 who so pleaseth God shall escape from her but the Sinner shall be taken by her Eccles 7. 26. Live joyfully with the Wife saith he again or enjoy Life whom thou lovest all the days of thy Life of thy Vanity which he hath given thee under the Sun for that is thy Portion in this Life and in thy Labour which thou takest under the Sun saith Solomon that injoyneth Cohabitation Eccles 9. 9. 2. If the Peace of God rule in the Heart of the Wife that was taken out of the Side of her Husband Gen. 2. 21. then she will be as careful to preserve his Life as Michal was that when her Father Saul sent to kill him Lo Michal let David down thro' a Window and he went and fled and escaped 1 Sam. 19. 11 〈◊〉 and she laid a Teraphim in his Be● She will never forsake the guide of her y●uth nor forget the Covenant of her God Prov. 2. 17. that she solemnly entred into in the day of his Espousals in the day of the Gladness of his Heart She will prove another Lucretia so famous among the Romans for Vertue and Hatred of Baseness that when she suffered Violence that she could not resist stabb'd her self to the Heart which indignity occasioned a great change in their Government or rather like the vertuous Woman whose Price is far above Rubies the Heart of her Husband doth safely trust in her Prov. 31. 10 11. because she hath set him as a Seal upon her Heart as a Seal upon her Arm her love to him being as strong as Death Cant. 8. 6. which she will more readily choose to undergo than go aside to Uncleanness with any instead of her Husband upon whom the Spirit of Jealousie shall never come which is cruel as the Grave the Coals thereof are Coals of Fire which hath a most vehement flame the Tryal and Punishment whereof whether just or unjust is most severe as of any Sin whatsoever Numb 5. 21 22. Jealousie saith Solomon is the rage of a Man therefore he will not spare in the day of Vengeanc● he will not regard any Ransom neither will he rest content though thou givest many gifts the Husband will accept of no Ransom to save the Adulterer Prov. 6. 34 35. Her Husband is known in the Gates not by base Scoffs and Nick-names when he sitteth among the Elders of the Land Prov. 31. 23. but by his Wives Godliness and Vertue she will do him Good and not