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A45318	The shaking of the olive-tree the remaining works of that incomparable prelate Joseph Hall D. D. late lord bishop of Norwich : with some specialties of divine providence in his life, noted by his own hand : together with his Hard measure, vvritten also by himself.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Via media.	1660 (1660)	Wing H416; ESTC R10352	355,107	501

cease again without any sensible breach it were no great matter but as there is no thunder in the cloud without an eruption of lightning so there is no Earth-quake lightly without some fearfull rupture The judgments of God never return empty handed they still bring what they were sent for Those three great executioners of God sword famine pestilence what wofull havock have they made in the World I could show you very wide breaches that these have made wheresoever they have come I could tell you out of Josephus of so many Jewes slaughtered at Hierusalem the bordering parts as you would wonder the World should yield so many men I could tell you of Eighteen hundred thousand in one Year swept away as it is said in one City Cairo with the pestilence what need I travell so far off when we have so many and miserable instances nearer home Here in England as our Florilegus or Matthew of Westminster tells us in the Year 665 there was so great a mortality that men run up by troups to the rocks and cast themselves into the Sea Do but look back and recollect those bills of death which in our two last heavy visitations astonished the presse Do but look about at both Germanies and their bordering neighbourhood and see what gaps the sword hath made in those yet bleeding territories Oh the wofull breaches that have followed these late Earth-quakes of Christendome the very examples whereof one would think should be enough to teach us both fear and thankfulnesse when the Israelites round about saw Corah and his company devoured of the Earth they run away at the cry of them and said lest the Earth swallow us up also I cannot blame them they had reason the same jawes of the Earth might have yawned wider and taken them in too So let us do Honourable and beloved yea why should not the care of our own safety prevail so far with us as to force us since we see the lamentable breaches that are made in our neighbour Nations to run away trembling from this gulf of Gods deserved judgments and shall I tell you how we may run away to purpose Run away before-hand from those sins which have drawn down these judgments on them and will otherwise do the like upon us so shall we be sure to escape the avenging hand of God who alone it is that moves the earth and makes these breaches which is the third head of our discourse Thou hast made the earth to tremble thou hast divided or broaken it Who or what ever be the means he is the author of these movings of these breaches as in nature the immediate causes of an Earth-quake are those Subterraneous heats which we mentioned yet it is God the prime cause that sets them on work in causing both them and their agency so it is in these analogical motions Men may be the immediate actors in them but he that actuates the orders over-rules these means is God to him must be ascribed these stirrings these breakings whether by a just but efficacious permission as sins or by a just immission as punishments This is Gods claime the prerogative of the King of Heaven Is there any evill in the City and I have not done it Surely none except we will detract from his omnipotence none against him none without him none but by him his infinite power justice wisdome mercy knowes when and how to scourge one to chastise a second to warne a third to humble a fourth to obdure a fifth to destroy a sixt shortly to break some and move all Oh the infinite varieties and inevitable certainties of Gods vengeance upon sinfull Nations Doth Israell walk with God they are the miraculous pr●cedent of favours to all ages and people Do they fly off in Mutinies and Idolatries God hath plagues fiery serpents mighty enemies to execute his wrath upon them Doth Solomon hold right with his God Never Kingdome so flourished in plenty and peace Is his heart turned from the Lord God of Israel straightwayes the Lord stirred up an adversary to Solomon Hadad the Edomite and after him 1 K 11.9 v. 14. the wicked Son of Nebat the Ephrathite vers 26. and which is worthy of singular observation when that rebell Jeroboam had drawn away the ten Tribes of Israel from their allegiance to the Son of Solomon and Rehoboam had gathered together an hundred and fourscore thousand men of Judah and Benjamin to fight against the revolted Israelites the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God Speak to Rehoboam and say Ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren for this thing is from me Lo who it is that moves the Earth and divides it we may look as humane wisdome teacheth us to do at the secondary caus●s and finde them guilty of the publick evils this mans illimitable ambition that mans insatiable covetousnesse the cruel oppressions of these great ones the mutinous dispositions of tho●e inferiours violence in one in another Faction but if we look not at the first mover of all these lower wheels we are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not seeing things afarr off we do but as the Dog snarle at the stones neglect the hand we are like some fond spectators that when they see the puppets acting upon the ledge think they move alone not knowing that there is an hand behind the curtain that stirs all their wires Upon the sight we do well and wisely by all politick provisions to meet with or prevent all those peccant humours which may occasion a publick distemper to curb the lawlesse insolence of some the seditious machinations of others the extortions cruelties of some the corrupt wresting of justice in others the giddinesse of some others quarrelsomenesse but when all is done if we do not make our peace with God we do nothing it is but a reckoning without our host a remedy without ease Oh then in all either our sense or fear of evils let us have our recourse to that Almighty hand which ordereth all the events of Heaven and Earth and work him by our true repentance to a gratious cessation of vengeance else what do we with all our endeavours but as that fond man who wearies himself lading out the channel with a shallow dish whiles the Spring runs full and unchecked Vain man can he possibly hope to scoppet it out so fast as it fills let him take order with the well head from whence it issues if that be filled up the channell dries alone When the Paralytick was with much labour let down through the roof to our Saviours cure what said he Son thy sins be forgiven thee Alas the poor man came not for pardon he came for cure but that great unfailing Physitian knew that he must begin here If the sins were gone he knew the palsy could not stay behind them If ever we think to be rid of judgments we must begin whence they begin He it is that can both

hither out of any doubt of my professed belief or any purpose to change it but moving a question to this Gentleman concerning the pretended miracles of the time he pleased to referr me to your self for my Answer which motion of his I was the more willing to embrace for the fame that I have heard of your learning and worth and if you can give me satisfaction herein I am ready to receive it Hereupon we setled to our places at a Table in the end of the Hall and buckled to a further discourse he fell into a poor and unperfect account of the difference of Divine miracles and Diabolicall which I modestly refuted from thence he slipt into a Cholerick invective against our Church which as he said could not yield one miracle and when I answered that in our Church we had manifest proofs of the ejection of Divells by fasting and prayer he answered that if it could be proved that ever any Divell was dispossessed in our Church he would quit his Religion Many questions were incidently traversed by us wherein I found no satisfaction given me The conference was long and vehement in the heat whereof who should come in but Father Baldwin an English Jesuite known to me as by face after I came to Brussells so much more by Fame he sate down upon a bench at the further end of the table and heard no small part of our Dissertation seeming not too well apaid that a Gentleman of his Nation for still I was spoken to in that habit by the stile of Dominatio vestra should depart from the Jesuites Colledge no better satisfied On the next morning therefore he sends the same English Physitian to my Lodging with a courteous compellation professing to take it unkindly that his Country-man should make choice of any other to conferr with then himself who desired both mine acquaintance and full satisfaction Sr. Edmund Bacon in whose hearing the message was delivered gave me secret signes of his utter unwillingness to give way to my further conferences the issue whereof since we were to pass further and beyond the bounds of that Protection might prove dangerous I returned a mannerly answer of thanks to F. Baldwin but for any further conference that it were bootless I could not hope to convert him and was resolv'd he should not alter me and therefore both of us should rest where we were Departing from Brussells we were for Namur's and Liege in the way we found the good hand of God in delivering us from the danger of free-booters and of a nightly entrance amidst a suspicious convoy into that bloody City Thence we came to the Spadane waters where I had good leasure to add a second century of Meditations to those I had published before my journey After we had spent a just time at those medicinall wells we returned to Liege and in our passage up the River Mosa I had a dangerous conflict with a Sorbonist a Prior of the Carmelites who took occasion by our kneeling at the receit of the Eucharist to perswade all the company of our acknowledgment of a Transubstantiation I satisfyed the cavill showing upon what ground this meet posture obtained with us the man grew furious upon his conviction and his vehement associates began to joyn with him in a right down railing upon our Church and Religion I told them they knew where they were for me I had taken notice of the security of their Laws inhibiting any argument held against their Religion established and therefore stood only upon my defense not casting any aspersion upon theirs but ready to maintain our own which though I performed in as fair terms as I might yet the choler of those zelots was so moved that the paleness of their changed countenances began to threaten some perillous issue had not Sir Edmund Bacon both by his eye and by his Tongue wisely taken me off I subduced my self speedily from their presence to avoid further provocation the Prior began to bewray some suspicions of my borrowed habit and told them that himself had a green Sattin suit once prepared for his travells into England so as I found it needfull for me to lye close at Namur's from whence travelling the next day towards Brussels in the company of two Italian Captains Signior Ascamo Negro and another whose name I have forgotten who enquiring into our Nation and Religion wondred to hear that we had any Baptism or Churches in England the congruity of my Latin in respect of their perfect Barbarisme drew me and the rest into their suspition so as I might overhear them muttering to each other that we were not the men we appeared straight the one of them boldly exprest his conceit and together with this charge began to inquire of our condition I told him that the Gentleman he saw before us was the Grandchild of that renowned Bacon the great Chancellour of England a man of great birth and Quality and that my self and my other companion travailed in his attendance to the Spa from the train and under the Priveledge of our late Ambassador with which just answer I stopt their Mouths Returning through Brussels we came down to Antwerp the paragon of Cities where my curiosity to see a solemn procession on St. John Baptists Day might have drawn me into danger through my willing unreverence had not the hulck of a tall Brabanter behinde whom I stood in a corner of the Street shadowed me from notice Thence down the fair river of Scheld we came to Vlushing where upon the resolution of our company to stay some hours I hasted to Middleburgh to see an ancient Collegue That visit lost me my passage ere I could return I might see our ship under sail for England the Master had with the wind altered his Purpose and called aboord with such eagerness that my Company must either away or undergo the hazard of too much loss I lookt long after them in vain and sadly returning to Middleburgh waited long for an inconvenient and tempestuous passage After some year and half it pleased God in expectedly to contrive the change of my station My means were but short at Halsted yet such as I oft professed if my then Patron would have added but one ten pounds by year which I held to be the value of my detained due I should never have removed One morning as I lay in my bed a strong motion was suddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London I arose and betook me to the way the ground that appeared of that purpose was to speak with my Patron Sir Robert Drury if by occasion of the publick Preachership of St. Edmunds Bury then offered me upon good conditions I might draw him to a willing yieldance of that parcell of my due maintenance which was kept back from my not over-deserving predecessor who hearing my er●and disswaded me from so ungainfull a change which had it been to my sensible advantage he should have readily given