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A62101	A militarie sermon wherein by the vvord of God, the nature and disposition of a rebell is discovered, and the Kings true souldier described and characterized : preached at Shrewsbury, May 19. 1644, to His Majesties army there under the command of the high and most illustrious Prince Rvpert / by Edw. Symmons ...	Symmons, Edward.	1644 (1644)	Wing S6347; ESTC R13172	32,560	38

and in his method and therefore our Saviour calls those very men in another place serpents broode and generation of vipers now a viper as some write doth destroy its owne damme which gave it being and so did they their Saviour and so do all Rebells yea our Rebells indeavour the destruction of their owne Nation that bred them of their owne Soveraigne that preserved them as Nero ript the Bowels of his owne Mother that bare him so do these patria mater rip up the very bowells of their owne Countrey that gave birth and breeding to them Iohannes Aventinus tells us that Maximilian the Emperour was wont to call the King of Spaine R●x Hominum a King of men because his Subjects like men liv'd in obedience but the King of England he would call Rex Diabolorum a King of Divells because the Su●jects of this Kingdom had divers times rebelled against their Soveraign though alwaies to their owne ruine as in King Iohn Henry the third Edward the second and Richard the second's daies And I would to God that some in this Nation did not now prove themselves worse Divells then ever but alasse they do for the Religion here professed now is more opposite to this rebellious way then that which was practised in those former daies But in this we may more fully behold the malignity and vicious disposition of Rebellious spirits they are not capable of gracious or evangelicall instructions never marvaile if they who offered spight to the cleare dictates of the Gospell do rebell against the King Therefore be not a Rebell Trust not a Rebell 1. Be not a Rebell walke not in the way with them for so to doe will speak you the Devills Child and to have reached to the highest staire of villanie your Titles will be the same which Saint Peter gives to Elimas the Sorcerer Act. 13.10 Full of all Subtilty Child of the Divell Enemy of righteousnesse and perverter of the right waies of the Lord you may remember for the Honour of Rebellion that the worst Title that the evill spirit could teach King Saul in the heate of his wrath to call Ionathan by was this Thou Sonne of the perverse and Rebellious Woman 1 Sam. 20.30 2. Trust not a Rebell 't is Solomons advice Prov. 26 25. Though he speaketh faire yet believe him not for there be seven that is a multitude of abhominations in his heart they that seek Rebellion as appeares by the practice of some in our Nation doe hold that Principle of the Jesuites that they may break their word promise or oath so it be in ordine ad causam to promote their cause and what man that is wise will credit such He that hateth saies Solomon dissembleth with his lips and layeth up deceit within him so did these men of Hope when to get leave to sit as long as they pleased they promised the Reformation of Church and State the payments of the Kings debts and to make him the most glorious Prince in Christendome for how well they have kept or indeavoured to keepe their word let all men judge They make lyes their refuge and confide in them and there 's reason for it they are of their neerest kindred even their owne Brethren Children with themselves of the same Father I could shew you how all the foundation stones of their rebellious building are nothing but Lyes and so are the pillowes that uphold the same cemented they are together with a morter of craft malice and impudency but experience hath too sufficiently taught this to the whole Nation beside I should want time if I should now speake of it onely there is one thing I 'le desire you to note in all Rebells It is their nature being men that like Ahab have sold themselves to worke wickednesse to charge as he did by their lyes their owne conditions and intentions upon others thou art he that troubles Israel sayeth he to Elias when it was himself so Corah and his companions when they rebelled against Moses and Aron did charge them for taking too much upon them when it was onely themselves that did so And Satan when he tempted our first Parents to rebell did charge most wickedly upon the Lord his Soveraigne his own conditions of falshood and envy And so his Brood amongst us how directly have they trod in his steps for seducing the people to rebell against their Leige Lord they have most maliciously accused him of falshood their owne condition and of envy at the welfare and happinesse of them his Subjects and that he intended to alter religion to destroy the Liberties of Parliament and the properties of his people yea and to bring in forraigners to invade the Nation while themselves as wofull experience doth now teach us have indeavoured and in some sort eff●cted all and every one of the same things wherefore from hence I sa● learne to be so wise as not to trust a Rebell and to this purpose remember the example of our Saviour Iohn 2.24 though they speake him faire and made great professions of their good will towards him and of being his Disciples yet he would not commit himself unto them For saith the Text he knew well what was in them they were some of that Serpents brood I spake of before And secondly remember too how they our Rebells I meane will not believe the King off●ring undeserved mercy and pardon unto them although he like that Inhabitant of Heaven Psal. 15. hath kept his word with them to his owne losse do you therefore believe such unbelievers But what should be the reason of this their suspicion some will say why even this they judge of the King by themselves they thinke hee will deceive them because they have already and still thinke to deceive him what paines hath been taken and at this present is by those Councellors of Peace at Oxford to worke faith in these Infidells but to no purpose 't is true which the Psalmist saies of such men Let the Charmers charme never so wisely they will not heare for 't is mischiefe onely which they seeke after and are resolved yea have sworne and taken a Covenant to persevere in A wicked man seeketh onely Rebellion 2. Seeketh this word notes his active diligence seeking is studying and devising occasions and meanes to promote that which is aimed at quaerit tantùm he is diligent for he mindeth nothing else but this he minds alwaies the Lesson or Doctrine is this Rebellious men are exceeding industrious and diligent in their way They are alwaies plotting or acting somewhat to the furtherance Mat. 2.1 They devise iniquity in the night season upon their beds and in the day time they practice what they have devised because saith the Text they haue got power or the Militia into their hands nay sometime they are so great with Egge to act that mischiefe which they have plotted in the Evening against the righteous man that lives quietly by them that they will fetch