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A92853	Haman's vanity, or, A sermon displaying the birthlesse issues of church-destroying adversaries. Preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne thanksgiving, being on June 15. 1643. By Obadiah Sedgwick, Batchelor in Divinity, and Pastor of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that House.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing S2374; Thomason E56_6; ESTC R16869	19,380	39

gained both these not by an ingenuous relation but only by a forged calumny and by a taking-accusation of the Jewes foure things he surmiseth against them First that they were an infamous people There is A charges against the Iewes saith he in chap. 3. 8. a certaine scattered and dispersed people as if they had beene a company only of poore wandring shifting and shuffling vagabonds Secondly that they were an humorous people their Lawes are diverse from all people an odde people and such who loved to be singular Thirdly that they were a factious and rebellious people Neither keepe they the Kings Lawes They must see Scripture or Law or else no obedience from them Fourthly they were a dangerous people It is not for the Kings profit to suffer them as long as these live you must not think to taxe and get what you please And hereupon his modest request is That therefore they might be all destroyed no more then that and no lesse Ahasuerus without any judiciall enquiry and hearing the parties thus accused suddenly credits this Courtiers report and gratifies him in his suit For the effectuall dispatch whereof there issues forth a Commission under his Seale being first drawne by one or both his Secretaries and directed to the Lievtenants and Governours and Rulers of every Province to destroy to kill and to cause to perish all the Iewes young and old little children and women in one day and to take the spoile of them for a prey as C●ap 3. ●er 12. 13. you may expresly read in the third Chapter the twelfth and thirteenth verses How Haman and his complotters blesse themselves and rejoyce that their designe got on thus prosperously and even long for the day when all must be put in execution you may easily imagine And indeed the day drew very neare But then O take notice of the wheele which turnes every wheele of the first mover that disposeth of every motion the never-failing God interposeth himselfe discovers disturbs disappoints all this destructive plot formed against the Jewes in the City Shushan and other Provinces The Summe of all is this contemned Mordecai is advanced Esthers request for her selfe and people is accepted the plotting enemy is discountenanced and hanged and the whole designe is quite altered For in the twelfth month on the thirteenth day of the same when the Kings command and his decree drew neare to be put in execution in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to have power over them it was turned to the contrary that the Iewes had rule over them that hated them Which words containe in them three passages First the maturity of a bloody designe The day for the decree to be put in execution drew neare Secondly the confidence of blood-sucking adversaries In the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to have power over them Thirdly the contradiction of all this by a good God Though it was turned to the contrary that the Iewes had rule over them that hated them I could out of all these parts take occasion to discourse of many excellent points as first the depth of that implacable enmity which lies and swels in the hearts of wicked men against the Church of God Secondly the studious activity of that malice and hatred as not to be satisfied and extinguished without the bloud and ruine of Gods people Thirdly the severall wayes and degrees of divine permission in giving scope to the wickedly active and acting principles in the adversaries of his Church with the true reason thereof and how much divine wisedome unspottednesse justice and Soveraignty appears in such a permission Fourthly the three fatall plague-tokens if I may so call them of unsuccessefulnesse and imminent ruine to the Adversaries of Gods people namely first Bloudinesse of intention secondly Nearnesse of execution thirdly Boldnesse of expectation But I must have respect to you and the work of this day and therefore I shall only touch at two other propositions which are these First That God can and will make unsuccessefull the bloodiest contrivances and the hopefullest confidence of his Church-destroying adversaries Secondly That he can and will make them As successelesse in respect of his Church So reflexively pernicious in respect of its adversaries I begin with the first of these Namely That God Doct. 1 can and will make unsuccessefull the bloudiest contrivances and the hopefullest confidences of his Church-destroying adversaries You may in rhe text read a decree for the killing of the Iewes and the nearnesse of time for the executing of it and the enemies confident hopes and yet Gods Soveraigne defeating and frustrating of all Three t●●ngs premised Before I confirm this truth give me leave to premise three particulars First That there is a difference to be made twixt the Molestation of a Chuuch and the Desolation of a Church The adversaries may be windes to tosse this Arke but they shall never be Rocks to split it What Luther confidently spake of himself Impellere 〈◊〉 118. possunt sed in totum prosternere non possunt Crudeliter me tractare possunt sed non extirpare Dentes nudare sed non devorare Occidere me possunt sed in totum me perdere non possunt Or what we maintain against the Papists and Arminians concerning Habituall Faith that same may as truly be affirmed of the Church Militant the proper subject of faith Premi potest suppremi non potest shee may be oppressed but she shall never be suppressed concutipotest excuti non potest shee may be shaken but shee cannot be shivered We are troubled saith the Apostle on every side yet 2 Cor. 4. 8 9. not distressed we are perplexed but not in despaire persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but not destroyed As St. Hierom once spake to his freind Scias hominem Christo deditum mori posse vinci non posse a Christian may die but he cannot be overcome So the Church may often be disturbed but it shall never be destroyed Secondly You must distinguish twixt probability and twixt infallibility of destruction the Church of God may fall into such an eclipse into such an hour of temptation that not only in the insulting fancies of the enemies but also in all the commentaries of humane Reason it may not only seem but really be in the very way nay upon the very brink of destruction it may as David once did walk in the shadow of death destruction may be as near to it as the shadow is to the body so near that with Peter she may cry out Master Save us or else we perish But yet eventuall and infallible destruction shall not befall it God will step in and prevent that You may read in one of the Psalmes that the Church was as near to destruction as a lamb sticking between the Psal 124. 6 7. teeth of a lion was near to be devoured and yet God took the prey out of the teeth and as near to destruction as

Haman's Vanity OR A SERMON Displaying the birthlesse Issues of Church-destroying Adversaries Preached to The Honourable House of COMMONS At their late solemne Thanksgiving being on June 15. 1643. BY OBADIAH SEDGWICK Batchelor in Divinity and Pastor of Coggeshall in Essex Published by Order of that House PSAL. 2. 1. Why doe the Heathen rage and the p●ople imagine a vaine thing London printed by R. Bishop for SAMUEL GELLIBRAND at the Brazen Serpent in Pauls Church-yard 1643. To the Honourable House of COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT SIRS He trembling period of time wherein we now breath is very like that Day spoken of by the Prophet Zachary in cap. 14. v. 6. 7. In that Day the light shall not be cleare nor dark but it shall be one Day known to the Lord Not Day Nor Night With such a strange mysteriousnesse doth Divine Providence ballance the Scales of the Church and her Adversaries attempts that oftentimes the most criticall Believers stand amaz'd and unresolved For the light is not so cleare that we can infallibly foresee what God will presently doe Nor yet is it so dark that wee can peremptorily conclude God will doe no more Such a mixture such a variation there is in Gods present dispensations that we are like a Ship which is no sooner freed of one wave but is as immediately lifted up by another This one Day as that Scripture speaketh Is Not a Day i Not such a time o● perfect successe as that wee can long rejoyce and say Now there is an end of all our Feares Nor yet is it Night i such a time of palpable losse as that we need to dispaire and cry out Now there is an end of all our Hopes And verily through such Dubious Methods doth that deep and unsearchable providence wheele and drive on his own great counsels and designs perhaps for these Reasons That his minutes of vengeance might glide unexpectedly on his Adversaries And the seasons of deliverances might be most welcome to his Servanrs And the decisive events be most properly glorious to himselfe There being no other Hand of good mens preservation and of wicked mens confusion then that which to our shallow sense seemeth to neglect both In such wavering and likely-unlikely times two duties doe chiefly concerne us One is a constant respect to divine commands The other is a fixed resting on divine promises Whatsoever the Temporary events may be wee must be carefull to doe our work and then bee confident that God in due time will finish his Perhaps the Churches of Christ may suffer yet longer but they shall not thus suffer for ever For that mighty Angel which came down from Heaven in Revel 10. 1. though He was cloathed with a cloud yet He was cloathed with a Raine-bow too which ye know was Nuncius faederis Serenitatis And Right Honourable if you will once more cast your eyes on that place in Zachary peradventure you may finde as strange an Evening-time as just now you did a Day-time It shall come passe saith the Prophet there That at Evening-time it shall be light O the wonderfully superlative thoughts and acts of God! How high and contrary are his times of working to weak mans times of expecting When we are most confident of good then behold evill is upon us And when we are expecting nothing but darknesse for what is the evening but a Sepulcher prepared for the light Then behold at the evening time it shall bee light So wisely doth the great Soveraigne of the world reserve himselfe and times that yet he can and will create the light of clearest mercies even then when his Church is setting into the evening of darkest miseries All this is truth and your selves have lived to handle much of it by experience which therefore should oblige and excite every Member of your House to be more thankfull and more faithfull and more seriously Active for the lamentably Massacred Churches of England and Ireland Be confident of it that whosoever may be the enemies and whatsoever may be the hazards yet Christ and his Church will be the Conquerours Him and his Church and his cause I still commend to the utmost of your cares and service How much and how farre you are for these so much and so long God will be for you Whose eternall wings for ever shadow your persons and prosper all your pious endevours So prayes Yours and the Churches Servant OBADIAH SEDGWICK A SERMON Preached before The Honourable House OF COMMONS On the fifteenth of Iune 1643 being the day of their publike Thanksgiving ESTHER 9. VER 1. Now in the twelfth month that is the month Adar on the thirteenth day of the same When the Kings commandment drew near to be put in execution in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to have power over them though it was turned to the contrary that the Iewes had rule over them that hated them OF all people the true Church of God hath the best friends and the most enemies In the Revelation it is said to be clothed with the Sunne and to walk in white robes It carries in one hand the lamp of Truth and in the other hand the beauties of Holinesse against both which there is in wicked men a malignant and an active contrariety Which veine of opposition hath runne downe from the dayes of Cain to this very houre and hath erected its rigour in all the methods of Serpentine designes and in all the furies of Dragon-like rage and cruelties But still the great God who is the hope of Israel and the Saviour thereof in the day of trouble hath stept I●r 20. 8. downe in the nick of time either to crush that insolent fury or to defeat those artificiall plots of his and his Churches adversaries Amongst the many instances which may be given this here in the Text is as Remarkable as Any and as sutable to this dayes occasion If you please to look back to the third Chapter Chap. 3. you shall light upon one Haman an Agagite a person of ignoble originalls and of an accursed race and of as wicked a Nature He being hoised up like some excrementitious vapour into the place of great dignity and power by the sole beames and warmth of his Princes favour improves this sudden greatnesse and affection not as a cloud to refresh but only as a thunder-bolt to ruine and destroy the Church of God For he fals into serious consultation how and when to put them all to the sword hee is almost a whole yeare in ripening of this bloody and abhorred designe And now all things being ready for the birth hee presumes to play the game above board yet politiquely for considering that his owne name and strength were insufficient axes to beare and wheele on so grand a mischife hee therefore cunningly insinuates the work into the King Ahasuerus and easily interesseth him therein whereby the mischievous devise gained countenance and authority But mark how he