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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45536	Prossō kai opissō a sermon eqvally pointing forvvard & backward, as it was deliver'd in the Vniversity Church of Saint Maries in Cambridge / by P.H., B. of Divinity, and sometime fellow of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge, in his forenoone course before that universitie, upon the 22 day of November, in the yeare 1640, being the beginning of this present parliament.	P. H.; Hardres, Peter.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1647 (1647)	Wing H702; ESTC R38787	23,179	42

persons and outward appearances that because their persons and lives at least in common appearance are free from those noysom sins that infect the times therefore their actions of affronting and rising up against their lawfull Soveraigne proceed from Religion and Conscience and care of the Common good No by no meanes But our surest course is to judge mens persons by their actions if their actions be unsound and irregular if they gather themselves together against their Prince and Soveraigne against Gods expresse Word and Commandement be their outward appearance never so specious and glorious we may assure our selves they neither feare God nor regard man but onely to serve their owne turnes These they in my text were famous in the Congregation and men of renowne yet they prov'd impious Rebels and came to a fearfull end 4. But were the common people spectators all this while were not they fetcht in by some trick and devise to participate of this Rebellion A head without the help of a hand may contrive but not execute the people must set to their helping hands or else the plot though never so well contriv'd cannot be efficacious and therefore to make this first part complete you shall find in the 10 vers. that Korah had gathered all the Congregation against Moses and Aaron Korah the Levite and indeed this taske is commonly impos'd upon the Levites who by their Office and Ministery if they will abuse it have a fairer way and more powerfull means to draw away the hearts of the poore people from their loyalty and obedience to their lawfull Soveraigne and therefore they are commonly sent out by the Grandees of the faction about the Congregation instead of the fire of devotion to kindle strange fire the fire of Rebellion and therefore Korah the Levite here he was imployed in this service He gathered all the Congregation c. So that now this first part is very complete the combination strong the Levite joyn'd with the Rubenite the party 's eminent Princes of the assembly their behaviour plausible famous in the Congregation and men of renowne and the people hook't in by wiles and trickes to serve the great mens turnes so that there wants but a signall or watch-word and then they are up in Armes and that belike was given for in the next place you shall find them gather'd together And that 's the second point Materiale Peccati the generall act of Rebellion exprest by an unlawfull assembly et seipsos Congregarunt and they gathered themselves together They had often murmur'd against Moses Aaron Were they pinch'd or streightn'd with any little calamity many times inflicted by Almighty God for their probation tryall Moses and Aaron were sure to be blamed If at Marah they doe but stand in want of sweet water or in the Wildernesse of Sin be pincht with hunger or by the false reports of those Spies that went to search the Land be made believe that Canaan was but a barren Soyle and the people thereof mighty and valiant Moses and Aaron must be reviled and threatned and murmur'd against when God knows they could not help it So that 't is no wonder that now they are rebelliously gather'd together against them for murmuring is a neere disposition to Rebellion when men take the libertie to complaine and chide and expostulate and murmure against their Governours urg'd many times by necessitie to some unpleasing and seeming rigorous actions 't is a bad signe and portends no good When sudden gusts of wind begin to murmur upon the Seas and the waves swell and tosse 't is a signe the storme is not farre off The children of Israel here after they had once learn'd to murmur ere long they finde the way to Rebellion are gather'd together Et Congregarunt seipsos Here begins their unruly demeanour and undutifull carriage by an illegall assembling themselves together What had they so soon forgot the Silver Trumpet which but a little before was appointed by the ordinance of Almighty God for that very use and purpose to gather the Congregation together as you may read Numb. 10.3 At the sound of two Trumpets all the assembly were to be gathered at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation and if but one Trumpet sounded then the Princes heads of thousands were to be gather'd together to Moses And the sounding of these Trumpets was by a perpetuall law appropriated to the sonnes of Aaron Now these Princes take upon them the office both of Aarons sonnes and Trumpets too and most disorderly and seditiously gather themselves together not to but against Moses and Aaron And indeed what else can be expected from such unruly assemblies when people gather themselves together without any order or direction from their lawfull Governours 't is commonly for some bad end and purpose the blasts of such winds gather'd together are for the most part violent and feareful In such assemblies are hatcht Treasons Heresies Rebellions Schismes Conspiracies and all manner of Villanie and therefore those who by their owne Historians were counted cautelous Princes in the world as Henry the seventh of England King by name knowing the dangerous consequences of these unlawfull assemblies scarce suffer'd any Parliament to passe in his time without some provision by Law against these disorderly courses of peoples gathering themselves together and it seems it is not amisse for their owne securitie as appears by these assemblers here for when they had gathered themselves together 't is not ad or circa Mosen but contra Mosen et Aaronem and that 's the third part c. But here by the way you may discover a little want of art in mannaging this part of Rebellion for they might have taken an opportunity to have beene gather'd together by the call of Moses his Trumpet and then they had begun more legally and perhaps might better have defended their actions against publick obloquies and when they were once thus fairly and orderly gather'd together their party being so potent strōg they might have chosen whether they would have bin dissolved or no at Moses his command untill they had attained their ends and purposes so that this part of Rebellion might have been somewhat corrected and amended by foresight but yet 't is no great matter for those that venture upon such enormous actions as these need not stand upon such nice points of Law for their justification and therefore we will not censure them for this over-sight but proceed to the third part Formale peccati That which doth specificate the sinne of Rebellion and distinguish it from all other sinnes notified in the parties against whom they were gather'd together and that is Contra Mosen Aaronem As there were three Adjuncts or Circumstances in the parties Rebelling which made this Rebellion in a high degree dangerous so there are three Adjuncts or Circumstances in these parties against whom they Rebelled which makes this action in a high