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A76326	More sulphure for Basing: or, God will fearfully annoy and make quick riddance of his implacable enemies, surely, sorely, suddenly. Shewed in a sermon at the siege of Basing on the last Lords day, Sept. 21. 1645. Together, with a word of advice, full of love and affection to the Club-men of Hampshire. / By William Beech minister of the Army there, elect: min: of O. in the county of Suffolke. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Sept. 26. 1645.	Beech, William.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1680; Thomason E304_3; ESTC R200304	30,148	36

sought him but his place could no where be found So Psal 92.7 When the wicked spring as the grasse and when all the workers of iniquity doe flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever And that of Paul is most consonant to the truth of this 1 Thes 5.3 For when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction commeth upon them as travaile upon a woman with child so sure it shall come 2. By weake meanes in comparison T is a generall rule with the Apostle 1 Cor. 1.27 God saith he hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confound those that are mighty and things which are not to bring to nought things that are Though all the creatures be at Gods becke and the most noble creatures must obey when he commands yet he can and doth oft make use of the baser and most contemptible creature to destroy and bring downe the pride of his enemies Thus he had an Army of wormes to destroy proud Herod to eate him up Acts 12.13 And wee reade of another army Joel 2.25 The Locust the Cankerworme the Catterpiller the Palmer worme my great Army saith God that I sent among you 3. The overthrow shall be irrecoverable like the breaking of a Potters Pot as it is Esay 30.14 And hee shall breake it like the breaking of a Potters Pot that is broken to peeces hee shall not spare so that there shal not be found in the bursting thereof asheard to take fire from the hearth or to take water out of the pit Hence it is that the ruine of Antichrist is compared to casting of a Milstone into the Sea with such violence saith the holy Ghost shall the great City Babilon be cast and shall be found no more Re. 18.21 It is so Vse that the enemies of God shall surely perish as these did in their confidence in their blood thirstinesse by weake meanes irrecoverably O then how should our soules be filled with thankes and how full ought our mouthes to be of prayse Psal 136. O give thanks to God saith David for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever O give thankes to the Lord of all Lords for his mercy endureth for ever This is almost all his Language expressed and implied in this and many other Psalmes What 's the matter David who remembred us when wee were in our low estate Vers 23.24 for his mercy endureth for c. Who redeemed us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for ever And may not the Prophets in England compose such another Psalme in the behalfe of England as this holy singer doth in the behalfe of his dearest Jsrael O give thanks c. For his mercy endureth for ever who remembred us when wee were in our low estate for his mercy endureth for ever Who Redeemed us from our enemies for his mercy c. Which remembred us at Knasby for his mercy c. Which remembred them of Pembrook shire for his mercy endureth for ever Which remembred us at Leicester for c. Which remembred us at Tanuton for c. Which redeemed them of Bristoll for c. O give thanks unto the God of all Gods for his mercy endureth for ever Annos jam revolvitur Platonicus what will you say if the Midianites be alive againe Indeed t is true their carkases are rotten The Edomites the Moabites and the Amonite are long since dead and destroyed I but yet their cruelty and oppression doth yet survive their pride and bloodthirstinesse remaine to this day the same Tragedy is still acted the Theater removed into another climat it is but Vetus fabula per novos Histriones And therefore to quicken you to this duty note these paralells 1. The old Midianites did first invade Israel intrenched upon their Rights and the Proprieties of Israel sought to drive them out of the inheritance which God gave them Did vex them thus many yeares together spoyled the fruit of their ground and did utterly impoverish them and I pray have not our new Midianites Assirians call them what you will that 's heathenish and cruell taking since to their assistance the French Philistims Welsh Egiptians Cornish Hangarims The degenerate Ismalites of the Renegado English have not these I say or most of them wrested away our lives our liberties our houses our all and have they not shed our blood like water on every side of Ireland and England too Nay have not the bloody miscreants of Ireland since assisted by the enchanted English who have since own'd the massacre and made it theirs by cessations and pardons have not these I say followed over Sea those poore exiles having left them nothing but their lives for a prey and have they not since cut more throats by authority And have they not bin rewarded with immunities and the name of Subjects And is it not therefore because they should contribute their assistance to butcher more O Brethren how have all these vermine amongst them spoiled a fruitfull Land and made the Land dark with them have not their swords touched with the magnetique stone of inhumanity to draw blood made many a wife a Widdow many a poore child fatherlesse many a woman childlesse Nay in conclusion have they not utterly ruin'd families Cities Towns Houses Have not their confederacy burnt spoild wasted Cities Villages Houses and do you not think the late baptizing of the Irish into the name of catholique Subjects was not accompanied with a crosse to England will not all these Acts of grace Cessations pardons immunities priviledges c. produce one ten thousand more Well wee grant these Midianites are very strong and numerous and inferiour to no monsters in their desires after blood 2. The old Midianites vexed Israel 20 yeares And how many yeares suppose yee hath this fatall spirit of Division beene working how long hath this intoxicating drinke of dissention and civill war beene brewing How busy have the Jesuits and Seminaries been for these many yeares to bring us to this passe And now at last unhappy day to charme the Prince from his people and these from one another miserably How truly may poore England take up that of the Psalmist Psal 129.1.2 3. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up may England now say yea many a time have they afflicted mee but they have not prevailed against me the Plowers plowed upon my back they made long their furrowes but the Righteous Lord will cut their snares asunder 3. The Midianites were very strong and numerous lying in the valley like Grashoppers for multitude secure enough nay asleepe in security for one of them dreamed And have not poore England enemies nay who hath shee to friend but God that made the Island Oh the numberlesse number of enemies all about us none but Midianites Cananites Egyptians Philistims enemies within us without us How truly may wee say of our

Church is pestred with at this day and the Land is even darke and overspread with them as Egypt was of Grashoppers Exod. 10.15 These cannot endure the yoke of the Gospell will not abide to be ruled by the Word and Discipline of Jesus Christ David complaines of some Psal 2. Let us breake their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from us Now Christ accounts those his enemies not onely such as are in tearmes of defiance against him as he that said vicisti Galilaee but such also as will not suffer him to reigne over them Luke 19.27 But those mine enemies which would not suffer me to reigne over them bring them hither and slay them They againe are Gods enemies that hinder the passage and preaching of the Word and such as seeke like Elim●● to turne away others from the faith All seeming worldly wise men are Gods enemies for the wisdome of this world is enmity against God And so are covetous wretches Gods enemies for the amity of the world is enmity against God Rom. 8.7 So are Epicures and such as mind their bellies too much Gods enemies Phil. 3.18 19. They are enemies to the crosse of Christ And so are ob●tinate perverse sinners who will not be reclaimed but not withstanding all admonition goe on still in a course of ungodlinesse they are Gods enemies too Psal 68.21 God will surely wound his enemies and the hairy Scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his ungodlinesse These and all these are Gods enemies and without repentance come within the list of this prophesied destruction but yet they are not the enemies here chiefly intended for albeit my Text includes one as well as another yet it is to be collected from this president or patterne by which the Prophet humbly beseeches God to punish the enemies of his Church that the closer enemies are here principally aymed at The cause why Moses was commanded to vex the Midianites was because they had drawne Israel to idolatry and whoredome Now although the open enemies to Christianity the Turke and Jew uncalled shall assuredly perish yet they have not drawne so many from the true Religion nor yet corrupted Gods worship so much as our closer enemies have done It may be here and there a renagadoe hath beene corrupted with Mahumetanisme or Judaisme but millions in our Land have been leavened with popish doctrine and heresies from time to time and thousands daily are by their creeping Seminaries insinuated into infected with idolatry and therefore Doe unto them as unto the Midianites as unto Sisera c. The next thing for the opening of the point is this we must make an enquiry who thes● Midianites were what was Sisera and what was Jabin what and where was this brooke of Kison this I say must nec●ssarily be unfolded because the ruine of these is made a patttrne for the destruction of Gods enemies Midianites these were of the posterity of Abraham by his concubine Keturah 1 Chron. 1.32 who being turned Idolaters drew Israel to sinne in the Wildernesse for which Moses revenged the Israelites of them by the slaughter of all their males and their five Kings and a wonderfull great spoyle But after recovering gaine and oppressing Israel in their owne Land were by Gideon and 300 men vanquished when they lay in the valley like Grashoppers for multitude Judg. 6.1 Sisera was Captaine Generall of Jabins host King of Canaan he had 900 Chariots of Iron and vexed Israel sore but by Deborah a Prophetesse and Barak a Captaine of Nepthali the Lord destroyed him and all his Host and Chariots there was not a man left and Sisera flying was killed by Jael Hebers wife who drave a naile into the temples of his head Judg. 4.2 3 4 21. Jabin was King of Canaan as is said who upon the death of his Generall Sisera was subdued and destroyed vers 23. of the said chapter Brooke of Kison Brooke or in the Bourne i. e. the vally of Kison the originall as my authour tels me signifies a valley and a river running in it which our English cals a Bourne Kison was a river at mount Carmels foot by it Sisera and the King of Canaan fought with Israel and were vanquished as I said and the Bourne Kison swept them away For the better illustration of the point in the discovery of the condition and fall of these people you shall doe well to note these particulars and the point will be cleare In the Midianites then observe 1. They did intrench upon the rights and priviledges of the Israelites they did invade their Land and sought to drive them out of that inheritance which God the great Lord of the earth had given unto them 2. They did vex poor Israel exceedingly saith the Text destroyed their Corn and other provision Iudg. 6.4 and they encamped against them and destroyed the encrease of the earth and left no sustenance for Israel neither Sheepe nor Oxe nor Asse And the children of Israel were greatly impoverished because of the Midianites 3. The time of their destruction is noted to be when they were in their greatest height they were as the Grashoppers for number they were most confident and secure 4. The meanes of their defeate is noted to have been weake and improbable Gideon and 300 men against so great a multitude and that the blowing of a Trumpet and the breaking and clashing together of fraile earthen Pitchers should so affright and annoy such a terrible host of men 5. The manner of the foyle given is not to be forgotten it was an irrecoverable destruction they were utterly routed there were of them taken prisoners and slaine Zebah and Zalmana Princes Oreb and Zeb Princes nay in fine all Midian was subdued so that they lift up the head no more Judg. 8.18 Againe in Sisera and Jabin observe three passages 1. These were in their jollity too very presumptuous they were and confident of the day They had 900 Chariots of Iron and they made no doubt of the conquest upon Israel 2. The means also of their discomfiture and most dishonourable overthrow the brave Sisera was sold into the hands of a silly woman and the King Jabin lost his life by an inconsiderable party who had likewise but a woman to be their Commander in chiefe Judg. 4.9 3. The manner of their overthrow it was a fatall and irrecoverable blow they received All the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the Sword there was not a man left Sisera himselfe sanke down at Jaels feet and lay dead and Israel prevailed against Jabin King of Canaan It will be easie to prove the truth of this Doctrine by Scripture 1. That the enemies of God shall perish as these did namely first in the height of their security and in the top of their jollity so much David notes Psalm 37.35 36. I have seen the wicked strong in great power and spreading himselfe like a green Bay-tree yet he passed by and to be was gone I