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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79831	Emanuel, or, God with us. Wherein is set forth Englands late great victory over the Scots armie, in a battle at Dunbar, Septemb. 3. 1650. And by many particulars of Gods acting and appearing then for us, it is certaine (and so much is clearly proved) that our armies marching into Scotland, and the wars undertaken and prosecuted against that nation, to be upon grounds of justice and necessity, as the Parliament of England hath declared. Also here is shewed, how grosly the Covenant is abus'd, and what an idoll it is now made. With the fraud and falshood of the Scots, and their kings hypocrisie and dissimulation. Moreover such objections are answered, as seeme to have any thing in them, against the point here asserted. / By John Canne. The first part, published by authority.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1650 (1650)	Wing C439; Thomason E614_11; ESTC R206534	45,110	52

to be in vaine it is said f Numb 24.25 Balaam rose up and went and returned to his place and Balak also went his way doubtless as convinc'd that the Lord was so with Israel as they should not prosper in that way and course which they had taken up against him Will the Enemies of this Common-wealth be worse and more blind then they What blinder then Balak and Balaam It seems they are for howsoever they have gone as far in essayes and trialls and found no better successe yet have they not the understanding the others had that is to give over and cease as they did and goe every one to his owne home Balak brought Balaam up to the high places of Baal so hath the Enemies designe been * Namely by the late King and his wife who made it their Master-piece and ground-worke to have in the first place the Priests of Rome and England for their asistants Of her it may be said as Livia gravis in Remp. mater Tac. An. l. 1. brought unto the House of Baal The Priests of Roome have built Altars offered Sacrifices ‖ In the Popish Synagogues beyond Sea the late King was every where prayed for that he might prevaile against the Parliament and called upon their Gods their He Saints and She Saints for aid and assistance and the Parliament of England by them hath beene cursed with Bell Booke and Candle But there was no voyce nor any that answered The Lord who g Psal 20.2 sendeth his people help not from the high places of Baal but from his Sanctuary and supporteth them out of Sion turned that curse into a blessing unto us Besides whatsoever the Baalimites could otherwise doe as the Pope Cardinals Jesuites Monks Fryars with the English Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Cannons the rest of that Viperous brood either by their counsells Policies * There have bin many great Collections among the Papists as voluntary gifts in all Popish Countreys for to furnish the late King with monies in his war against the Parliament besides the great sums he had from them other wayes Purses or what way else they have contributed from time to time all the furtherance and help they could But as a wet Sack wherewith a naked man is covered is so far from arming him against the cold that it doth increase his shivering So this Enemies Designe hereby was so far from being holpen or effected as this prov'd a means the Lords good hand so ordering it of its greater fall and ruine Truly in vaine is Salvation hoped for from the Hills and from the multitude of Mountaines truely in the Lord our God is the Salvation of Israel Isa 3.23 2. As Balak brought Balaam h Num. 32.14 into the Field of Zophim that is of the * So is the word by the Learned Interpreted Spies or Scowt-watches So the Enemies great cause or designe hath been here likewise witnesse the Popish prelatical and Malignant party who have watcht all opportunities to raise Hurliburleys and Commotion both in England and Ireland and where ever they have spied any advantage or imagined the least help of successe multitudes have made themselves ready to engage against the Parliament What i Isa 29.20 watching there hath beene for iniquity k Psal 37.32 to slay the righteous pretended to be for the Protestant Religion Priviledges of Parliament and the liberty of the Subjects now for the Covenant and reformation it is well knowne by what the blood-thirsty Irish and desperate English Cavaleers have often attempted but he that sits in Heaven laughed them to scorne so as their taking Counsells together their Associations conspiracies and insurrections in City and Countrey was to them no otherwise then a Quagmire or Irish-bog the more they stir'd the deeper they sanke and faster they were l Isa 47.11 Mischiefe did fall upon them and they were not able to put it off and suddain desolation which they did not know Our Army m Psal 18.42 Beating them small as the dust before the wind casting them out as the dirt in the street 3. As Balak when he saw he could not attaine his end by carrying Balaam unto the two former places he brings him then n Num. 23.28 unto the top of Peor to o Deut. 3 2● Beth-Peor the House or Temple of his God the Kirk in which his Idoll was the enemies designe their great cause after they have p Ezek. 9.5 wearied themselves to commit iniquity and with their lyes at length is brought to the holy place where under colour of Religion and reformation it may be the more strengthened and better carried forth But as Solomon sayth q Ezek. 24 1● The Sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind As the Lord here saw * Si mulata aequitasnon est aequitas sed ini qua duplex quia iniquitas est simulatio Aug. Super. Ps 63. more dissimulation Hypocrisie falshood then on the high places of Baal or Field of Zaphim so doth the power of his anger the more appeare here the Lord will shew himselfe that he hath not pleasure in wickednesse is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity And howsoever perhaps they might flatter themselves and think He would hide his face and never see it or say How doth he know Can he judge through the dark Clouds Neverthelesse he did see their falshood and jugling how cunningly soever covered and hath left them as Lots Wife to be a Pillar of Salt a memorable example unto posterity not to provoke the Almighty and terrible God in such sort for as Eliphaz sayth in Job The Congregations of Hypocrites shall be desolate My flesh trembleth for feare of thee ‖ Job 15.43 and r Pro. 21.27 I am afraid of thy Judgements Two things I find more acted at Beth-Peor First Balaams wicked Doctrine who Counnselled Balak to lay a Stumbling-block before the Children of Israel whereby they might be occasioned to rebell against the Lord and so destroyed 2 Balaks putting off his Prophet without any reward when he saw he had received no profit by him and that all his juggling and Hocus-Pocus helpt him not O Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdome thou hast made them all What was that Declaration which the Scots lately counselled their King to set forth but * It carries the look face of their Kirk Balaams Doctrine a stumbling block a snare a pit For what was the maine drift and scope thereof but rebellion against God and man namely to have the English rise up in Armes against the Magistrate that so they might be cut off I say themselves their Families Wives and Children utterly undone and then the Scots to come in for our Gued or Goods As for the other particular their King perceiving now that he cannot carry on his designe by their Wiles wherewith they thought to have beguiled