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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87807	Israel and England paralelled, in a sermon preached before the honorable society of Grayes-Inne, upon Sunday in the afternoon, Aprill 16. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometimes chaplaine to a regiment of curiasiers in his Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K679; Thomason E437_1; ESTC R204676	15,730	23

all Gods workmanship and highly in favour with him at the first and yet as soone as ever he had tasted of the forbidden tree God banished this same Adam out of Paradise Moses is often stiled the servant of God but indeed he seemeth to have been more with reverence be it spoken to have been Gods familiar acquaintance for Exod. 33.11 the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend Yet as great and gracious and familiar as Moses was with God for one sin of infidelity God fell out with him as we read Numb 20. where when the people murmured for water God bid Moses but onely speak to the rock and it should give forth water But Moses thought that speaking would not do it not a word therefore but a blow two of them for failing he smote the rock twice And for this he had his doome immediately that he should not enter into the land of promise He that Prophesied against the Altar at Bethel was Gods favourite a man of God Yet forasmuch as he disobeyed the mouth of the Lord in going back to eat and drinke with the old Prophet his carkase must not come to the Sepulcher of his fathers I shall give you but one example more which is without example our Saviour himself that Lambe without spot the onely righteous person that ever lived upon the earth Though he were Gods bosome Son and had not the least sin of his owne onely took ours by imputation yet how harshly did his father handle him never was there any sorrow like unto his sorrow wherewith the Lord afflicted him in the day of his fierce anger And if these things be done in a greene tree what shall be done in the dry Luke 23.31 The righteous shall be recompenced in the earth much more the wicked and the sinner Prov. 11. ult If judgement begin at the house of God what shall the end be of those men that obey not the Gospell of God And if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear 1 Pet. 4.17 18. If an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile if this man shall be recompenced shall be punished in the earth with whom shall hypocrites have their portion that are full of deceit and fraud and under whose tongue is ungodlinesse and vanity If a perfect and upright man one that feareth God and striveth to eschew evil if this man shall be recompenced shall be punished in the earth what will become of him that hath no fear of God before his eyes but liveth as if there were no God committing all uncleannesse even with greedinesse If a man of a strict life and a tender conscience must be punished what will become of the rebellious reformers of our age whose consciences seeme to be feared with an hot iron If Jerusalem the holy City must be punished Lord what will become of London and Westminster places every whit as sinfull as Sodome or Gomorrah If God go so roughly to worke with them he knoweth oh how will he handle strangers without mittons if he execute his judgements upon Jury where he was known oh what fiery indignation will he powre out upon the heathen that have not known him and upon the Kingdomes that have not called upon his name This teacheth us to flee from sin as from the face of a Serpent considering how odious and abominable it is in the sight of God though Coniah the son of Jeboiakim King of Judah were the signet upon his right hand yet for sin God threatned to pluck him thence Jer. 22.24 The King of England will not pardon wilfull murther though his chiefest favourite should commit it The King of heaven will let no sin go unpunished no not in his favourites in his owne people And he will never connive at sin in us that threatneth here to punish it so severely in Israel You onely have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities And so I have gone through the parts of the Text a few words now of Application and I have done Truly God saith the Psalmist is loving unto Isael and truly he hath been as loving unto us he hath bestowed many private and many positive blessings on us First private many late deliverances I will Instance but in three The first was from Popish tyranny and superstition a tyranny more then Aegyptian an Antichristian tyranny The damned glutton Luk. 16. desired onely a little water for his thirst But water will not quench this thirst of Babilon the whore must have blood till she hath made her selfe starke drunk with it no blood of Beasts it must be blood of Men no blood of sinners it must be the blood of Saints and these Martyrs none of Mahomets they must be Martyrs of Jesus Rev. 17.6 Sad experience of this tyranny we had in Queen Maries daies Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo the Romish horseleach would not give us over till she had full gorged herself with our blood Or indeed it is a question whether she would ever have been fatisfied had we not been strangely delivered from her tyranny by the Queen of Queens or rather the King of Kings You o●ely have I known of all the fam●lies of the earth A second deliverance was from the Spanish Armado in the year 1588. Which Fleet had it prevailed our Thames had been named Tyber Romish superstition had invaded us once more and then by the waters of Babylon we might have sate downe and wept as often as we remembred this our Sion But God brake the ships of the sea through the East wind You only have I known of all the families of the earth A third deliverance was from that horrid Powder-treason Novemb. 5. 1605. which was carried on with so great secrecy that it made the man of sin insult Teque his ait eripe flammis who is that God that shall deliver them out of my hands But he that dwelleth in heaven laugheth the Bishop of Rome to scorne and pluck't us as it had been fire-brands out of the burning You onely have I known of all the families of the earth And as God has befriended us by his private so by his positive blessings answerable to those which he bestowed upon his Vineyard And first we may compare with Israel for a fruitfull scituation being neither under the torrid nor the frozen Zone neither burned away with parching heat nor benummed away with pinching cold but seated in a temperate climate afertile soile our folds are ful of sheep our vallies stand so thick with corne that we may laugh and sing God hath also fenced us about like the Israelites in the red sea with a wall of water the waters are as a wall unto us on our right hand and on our left But especially God hath fenced us by his protection salvation hath the Lord appointed for wals and bulwarks He