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enemy_n	david_n	death_n	saul_n	1,009	5	9.4042	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08614	Iacobs troublesome iourney to Bethel conteining a briefe exposition, or excellent treatise of the four first verses of the 33. chapter of Genesis: Set foorth by Iohn Overton, Maister of Arts.; Jacobs troublesome journey to Bethel.	Overton, John, Master of Arts.	1586 (1586)	STC 18924; ESTC S104948	39,762	92

Noblemen and Gentlemen many learned and godly Preachers many zealous of all vocations God bee praised The godly being ioyned together in amity the wicked cannot hurt them and vertuous Lawiers Merchants Farmors and others the which if they would throughly agree togither and helpe one another in their vocations and callings all Esaus Canonists Traditionaries other had persons of ech degree would soone either be reformed or driuen away allothed and oppressed should be at liberberty superstitious A Egypt would bee religious Iuda the ruinous walles of the Church would glister with the Law and the Gospel Iacob and his familie should haue a free and quiet trauell to Bethel the people of God woulde bee brought againe from Ephraim to Beersaba from vice and error to the vertue and trueth of the Lorde God of our fathers the Aposiles of Christ and his blessed Martyrs But alas the postes of Christian concord The postes of Christian concord defaced and amity be digged vp the rayles broken and the pales carried away So that poore Iacob and his family are in great daunger Esau commeth against them with 400 men So that it is not for Matth. 6. 22. naught that Christ saith The light of the body is the eie then it is not hard to discerne by the strangenes of our steps the blindnes of eurcies For if our eies were Hippocrites say they Ioue the lord and hate their brother single I meane if wee were not hippocrits we wold not say we loued the lord pet hate our brother Neither would wee fil the mouths of our enemies with laughter with this woful dissipation in which we are diuided against our selues The death of Saul and Ionathas was 1. Reg. 31. 5. 2. Reg. 1. 20. Dauid his sorrowful song for Saul and Ionathas the ioie of the vncircumcised Philistines Wherefore Dauid sang sorowfully Tel it not in Gath nor publish it in the streets of Ascalon least the Daughters of the Philistines reioice least the Daughters of these vncircumcised triumph And what shal we say Is it not nough that we haue changed the couenant of our God The enemies of christ laugh his gospel to scorne 1. Cor 3. 3. Saint Paul rebuketh the Corinthians for dissenuons Mark 3. 24. vulesse wee make the enemies of Christs crosse to laugh his gospel to skorn Saint Paul when he hard of contentions among the Corinthians asked them earnestlie thereupon Are yee not carnal and it is vehemently to be feared seing that eur controuersies haue passed the bands of charity least we also be carnal And it must bee true that Christ saieth Omne regnum in se diuisum desolabitur Euery gouernment diuided within it selfe shal be ouerthrown Iacob and Esau run together and meet one another louingly But we with al the rancor of our vnquiet hearts which boile ouer to the offence of many run a silder one sort giueth no place to the trueth another Our abuses declared raiseth slanders to strengthen the wrestes of discord to our shames we may speak it the peace of the church is broken Iacob Esau embrace one another but we disgrace one another reioising in their How we backbite one another transgression ouer whom we haue power to insult Iacob Esau kisse one an other but we kick one another They weepe one vpon anothers neck but one of vs scorn another behind his back And now I pray you tel me Is this the fruit of christianity Is this the meed of 28. yeers labor to make the sun a witnes against vs by suffering The Sunne a witnes against our wickednes Eph. 4. 26. Gal. 5. 15. Enme causeth vs to be consumed one of another Mat. 6. 12. How we do abuse the lords praier it to goe down vpon our wrath Let vs take heede being warned of the holy ghost lest while we bite one another we be cōsumed one of another If we seek not to haue peace with all men as much as in vs lieth our daily praier is that gods vēgeāce may light vpō vs seeing that forgiuenes of sins we craue of the lord is according to the proportiō of the forgiuenes which we extend to thē that haue offended vs. If therefore wee haue any bowels of compassion in vs if there bee any spark of charity raked vp in the ymbers of any Phi. 2. 1. religion towards God any loialty towards his church or any christian sobriety temperance or lowlines in our selues let vs now crie truce let vs meet togither in charity let vs embrace togither in godly We must now cry truce and be in loue and charitie with al men vnity let vs meete together in true penitency Let vs all as one man returne to the lord that he may turne to vs remember our wickednes no longer The lord in the treasures of his rich We must pray for al magistrates mercy make the day star to shine bright in the barts of the magistrats shape the harts of the people to al godly obediēce that Iacobs wrongs may be righted the tyranny of Esau may bee suppressed that the family of Iacob may be discreetly disposed We must pray for the concord vnity of the church that his christian courage may not be abated that his deuotion humility may be sound perfect that his godly attonemēt may be accomplished So that a christian concord being wrought in al sincerity and simplicity of Gods eternal tesTament we al as many as purpose to lift vp pure hāds without wrath or douting may one with another run with patience to the eternall throne of grace through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A PRAYER AGAINST the enimies of the Church of Christ vnder the borowed name or speach of IACOB O Eternal God and most mightie shephcard of Israell which commandest Iacob thy Ge. 31. 3. seruant to return out of Mesopotamia to Bethel the land of his fathers and to his kindred promising to be with him and that hee should preuaile Ge. 32. 8. with men the which thy commaundement he obeing diddest according to that thy promise cause him to preuaile with Esau his Brother who came against him with foure hūndred men thinking to haue ouerrunne him his family But thou hauing the keies of all hearts to open and shut at thy pleasure doest miraculously and as it were by impossibilities make the stonie hart of the most cruell to become a heart of flesh and the wicked to do thy wil we therfore thy seruants O thou god of Bethel do lift vp our eies to the throne of thy maiesty with an holy feare faithful harts most humbly beseeching thee to look down with thy merciful eies vpon Iacob we mean thy Church that that excommunicat Antichristian Reuc 9. 10. 11. Esau we mean the pope that foule dragon Abaddon with his locustes Traditionaries Symonistes and domb dogs and al idle hierlings which are careles of thy family may be rooted out of thy vineyeard who go about and practise by all possible means to deface and hinder the proceedings of Iacob of thy faithfull seruant our gratious Quene Elizabeth whom thou hast sette to gouern and raigne ouer vs to set forth maintain the preaching of the gospel of thy son Christ Iesus to place in the roumes of Godlie Pastours dumb dogs Traditionaries Esai 56. 20. and idle hirelings which shall seek to fil their bellies not caring to feede the beloued flock of thy son Christ whom he hath so deerely redeemed with his own precious blood also to break in sunder the vnity and concord of thy catholick church and this common wealth which the godlie learned compare to a defece about which there be postes pales and railes that so long as they be fastened the one to the other so long they keep in out all things accordingsly but if any of them be pulled away or broken down the rest are more easier to bee ouerthrown So that the wild boar Psal 70. 13. of the wood and beasts of the fielde maie haue their waie to root it vp and eat the grapes of the vineyeard Power out therefore O omnipotet god vpon thine elect that as members of one bodie whereof christ is the head we may professe 1. Cor. 3. one true faith and religion agreeable to thy most holy words hauing pityiful harts towards poorlacob yea to our own soules we maie also with Iacobs humilitie simplicity and vprightnes of spirits rack our powers to the highest pin for the aduancement of the glory of god To whom bee all honor and praise both now and euer Amen