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A92083	Zimri's peace: or, The traytor's doom & downfall. Being the substance of two sermons preached at Apethorp in the county of Northampton. By John Ramsey Master of Arts, and minister of East-Rudham in the connty [sic] of Norfolk.	Ramsey, John, Minister of East Rudham.	1661 (1661)	Wing R227; Thomason E1057_10; ESTC R208079	26,510	35

private Spirits May it not be fitly applyed to them wherewith our Saviour chareth his Disciples Luke c. 9. ver 55. (y) Omnino Spiritu quodam res geritur an ex Deo sit n●scio Erasde Luther Epist illust Bilibald p. 198. You know not what manner of Spirit you are of And if it be the Spirit of God it is a Spirit of Unity and Verity a Spirit of Meeknesse and Gentlenesse a Spirit of Humimility and patience a Spirit of love and peace Let us trie the Spirits as the great Apostle Saint Iohn adviseth try we our own spirit whether it be the Spirit of God or no by these signs and Symptomes and would we keep our selves sound and whole from the common distempers and diseases of the times let us stick close to the Apostles rule 1 Thessolonians c. 4. ver 11. And that you studie to be quiet and to do your own businesse The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 importing a zealous Kind of ambition as of our cheifest and heighest honour Let us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 interpose and inter meddle only in our private and proper affairs Take we heed that we move not eccentrically out of our own Orbe and Sphere not run beyond our teder nor stray and straggle out of the compasse of our personal and particular callings Thus have you heard of the Traytors the Treason The Application by way of paralel betwixt the ●●der and the yovnger Zimri and the sad successe and issue of it And it were an easie matter to find out Zimri's match and paralel even in this Nation of ours in the forementioned Specialties but I forbear to bring the Text home to any mans person as Nathan did the parable to David Thou art the man Nor shall I need to particularise or exemplifie it seeing the bare reharsal of the text without any other comment or descant is a sufficient application It is the speech of Saint Ambrose touching Ahabs oppression and tyranny who first killed Naboth and then took possession of his Vineyard (z) Nabothi historia tempore vetus est usu quotid●a●a Ambrese De ●a●●h Jesrael c 1. Non unus Achab natus est sed quod pejus est quotidie nascitur nunquam huic saeculo moritur Even so there are more Zimri's then one We of this Kingdom have had (a) Deciles imitandis turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus Catilinam quocunque in populo videas quocunque sub axe Juv. sat 14. our Zimri as well as the people of Israel and as Saint James speaks concerning Job c. 5. v. 11. Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord. So we have heard of the most bloody and barbarous Treason of an assassinating Zimri and have seen the end of the Lord a wretched and a wofull end So let all thine enemies perish O Lord Judges c. 5. v. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Learn we from hence a threefold lesson The first is the sure doome and downfall of treason and ambitious aspiring after Soveraignty A threefold lesson which the higher it climbs The sure doom and downfall of treason the lower it falls like to that tree in the poet (b) Virgil. Aenead 4. Quantum vertice ad auras Aethereas tantum radice ad tartara tendit As it advanceth and lifts up the top and threatneth even heaven it self with the sublimes of it So it growes as much downward with the root and tends unto hell Secondly The exact justice of God upon traytors observe we Gods exact justice upon cruell Tyrants and blood thirsty Traytors in paying them home with their own coin and in retaliating a condigne and suitable punishment And herein God manifests and magnifies the equity of his proceedings Rev. c. 16. v. 5 6. And I heard the Angel of the water say Thou art righteous O Lord because thou hast judged thus For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink For they are worthy Where the Justice of God is celebrated not only in judging but in judging thus and in recompencing blood with blood (c) Neque enim lex justitior ulla est quam necis artifices arte perire sua Ovid Which forced that confession from the mouth of Adenibezek Jud. c. 1. v. 7. Threescore and ten Kings having their thumbs and great toes cut off gathered their meet under my table As I have done so the Lord hath requited me Thirdly we may from hence take notice of the infinite wisdom and over-ruling providence of God Gods infinite wisdom and over-ruling providence in defeating the plots and policies of rebellious and treacherous Zimri's in taking the wise in their own craftiness and in turning the Counsel of Ahitophel into foolishness And whereas they by cutting off the head of our late Soveraign as if they had been of the same mind with that monster Caligula who wished (d) Vtinam populus Romanus unam cerv●●em haberet Sueton. in calig p. 249. That the common wealth had but one neck intended with the same stroke to cut off the hope of sucession and Soveraignty it self yet that royal stemm and stock hath proved like unto that tree in Virgil (e) Virgil. Aenead 6. Primo avulso non deficit alter Aureus simili frondescit virga metallo Though one of the principal armes hath been lopt and chopt off by the fatal blow of the bloody axe Yet is there another golden branch that is grown up in the room of it and long may it flourish with one of the same metall There is not a rarer mirrour and miracle of divine providence then Moses and is described to the life by Saint Stephen Acts. c. 7. v. 35. This Moses whom they refused saying who made thee a Ruler and a judge The same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel which appeared to him in the bush How fitly may this be applied to the late case of the King and Kingdom That gracious and dread Soveraign whom they refused saying Let us break his bonds asunder and cast away his cords from us Nolumus hunc regnare we will not that this man should reign over us with them in the Gospel not him but Barrabas A robber and a murderer as the Jewes sometime spake of Christ The same hath God sent to be our Soveraign Lord and King by the hand of the Angel that appeared to him in the bush In the Royal Oak And maugre the might and malice of his most desperate and deadly enemies hath made good to him what he formerly affirmed of his Servant David Psal 2. v. 6. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion So that he may justly admonish his implacable and restless Enemies in the self same words wherewith Joseph bespake his unnatural brethren Gen. c. 50. v. 20. But as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it to good to bring it to pass as it is this day to save much people alive And hath not God been pleased to save much people alive by restoring him to his crown and Kingdom without the loss of any one mans life Zach. c. 4.6 or limb without the unsheathing and drawing of a sword The doxology in the quarrel Not by an army nor by power but my spirit as God once spake of the building of the second Temple by Zerobabell Now unto him that hath saved much people alive That hath saved our Soveraign from his enemies and from the hand of all that hated him and hath done exceeding abundantly for him and us above all we could ask or think to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen FINIS

profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Or what shall be give in exchange for his Soul Oh that men would sadly apply and lay to heart St. Bernard's advice and counsell to the Queen of Jerusalem (p) Qui prodest paucis diebus regnaresuper terram regno coelorum aeterno privari Bernard in Senten What doth it avail or benefit to reign for a few days on the face of the earth and from thence to be thrown into hell to be cast into utter darkness where there is nothing but weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth The second Circumstance noted in the matter of the speech is the Treason it self He slew his Master The Treason Now the rest of the Acts of Zimri and the treason that he wrought 1 Kings 16 30 That was King Elah who walked in the sins of Jeroboam as his father Baasha bad done before 1 Kings 16.13 One who drank himself drunk in the house of Azra his Stward and was slain in his drunkenness v. 9 10. And yet though a gross Idolater and a voluptuous Prince he was his lawful King and Sovereign For Dominion and Rule is not founded in any personall qualifications the piety probitie grace and goodnesse of the party but in a rightfull claim and title and in Divine Power and Providence the onely dispenser and disposer of it (q) Inde est Imperator unde et homo antequam Impetor Inde potestas illi unde Spiritus Tertul. Apol. Cujus jussu homines nascuntur hujus jussu Reges constituuntur Irenaeus lib. 5. c. 24. By me Kings reign by me Princes rule Pro. 8.15 16. So Wisdom speaks in the person of Christ the eternall wisdom of God the Father Our blessed Saviour strictly urged the payment of Caesar's Tribute money Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's Mat. 22.21 And paid it in his own person when he was necessitated to borrow it and take it up as it were at interest at the mouth of a fish Mat. 17.27 Christus it a jussit ita gessit Let every soul be subject to the higher powers Rom. 13.1 Submit your selves to the King as Supreme 1 Pet. 2.13 And yet these Caesars Higher Powers and Kings spoken of by Christ and his Apostles St. Paul and St. Peter were no other than cruel Persecutors bloudy Tyrants and Heathen Emperors Those Ravening wolves that woried the sheep of Christ and the nursing fathers of the Church both these are from God (r) Qui dedit Regnum Constantino Christiano dedit etiam Juliano Apostatae Augustin That God who set the Crown upon the head of Constantine a Christian conferred the same Empire upon Julian the Apostate saith St. Augustin As Augustin Christned his base child with the name of Adeodatus who though he was begotten in fornication yet doth he acknowledge and own him as the gift of God So may it be said of Paynim and Pagan Princes who in respect of spiritual regeneration and new birth are Bastards and no sons yet are they a Deo dati and could have no power at all as Christ told Pilate John 19.11 except it were given them from above There are two particulars that exaggerate and aggravate Zimri's Treason A double aggravation The first is the excellency of the person against whom it was committed The excelency of the person King Elah One whom God honoured with his own name I have said yee are Gods Psal 82.6 Gods by representation Gods by deputation mortall Gods his Vice-gerents and Lievtenants upon earth (ſ) Colimus Imperatorem ut hominem à Deosecundum solo Deo minorem Tertul ad Scapul Solo Deo minor dum omnibus major saith Tertullian King Elah was greater than all and onely lesse than God himself That had Supremacy and Sovereignty of power over others and none over him For to immagine and fancy a Suporior to the Supreme somewhat before the first and above the Head is not onely a contradiction in state but in common reason And though there be higher than the highest Eccles 5.8 Yet this is not man but God A second aggravation of Zimri's Treason A second aggravation The quality or kind of the Treason is the quality and kind of it It was not a bare (t) Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum Facti crimen habet Cedo si conataperegit Juv. Satyr 13. thinking evill in his mind and that is a foul fault in Solomon's Divinitie Curse not the King no not in thy thought Eccles 10.20 Nor was it onely a speaking evil of Dignities which is severely interdicted by God himself Exod. 22.18 Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the Ruler of thy people But it was the doing of evil the worst of evils (u) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Od. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 E●stath in loc the shedding of his pretious bloud How tender was David of Saul's life his professed and open enemy who even thirsted after his destruction How did his heart smite him for the cutting off Sauls skirt 1 Sam. 24.5 And when Abishai his Generall intreated and begged his leave to smite him dead with his spear he repulseth the suggestion of so horrid disloyalty not without indignation and detestation of the fact And David said to Abishai Destroy him not For who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord 's Annointed and be guiltlesse 1 Sam. 26.9 (w) Optatus contra Parmen lib. 2. Repressit cum gladio manum et dum timuit oleum servavit inimicum saith Optatus David withdrew his hand and sword at once and whilst he dreaded the oil of Sovereignty he saved the life of his deadly enemy The Primitive Christians were true and loyall subjects to their Liege Lords and Emperors those who destinated them as sheep to the slaughter and shed their bloud like water in so much that Tertullian a learned Advocate of theirs proclaimes their innocency and patience to the whole world and challengeth even to the defiance the rabble of Heathen to disprove it if they could (x) Nunquam Albiniani nec Nigriani vel Cassiani inveniri potuere Christiani Christianus nullius est Hostis ne dum Imperatoris Tertul. ad Scapul c. 2. A Christian is no mans foe much lesse his Princes and Sovereign's Christians could never be detected for Albinus and Cassius and Niger's crimes They were never known nor proved murderers They were no Zimries that slew their master From which treasonable fact of his we may inferr five Doctrinall Corolaries and Conclusions Five Corolaries First The first Corolary To abominate the bloudy tenet of the Papists learn we to abominate the desperate Doctrine and bloody Tenet of the Papists who break one of God's Commandments not the least but the greatest teach men so Mat. 5.19 And so fall under the guilt of the most fearfull sin and punishment These are not onely murderers in fact but in plea the Authors