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A sermon preached at White-Hall the 5. day of November. ann. 1608. By John King Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Christ-Church in Oxon: and Vicechauncellor of the Vniversity. Published by commandement
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King, John, 1559?-1621.
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pungit His eritis tanquaÌ„dij you shal be as Gods made them like deuils Thus righteous Abell was betraied and butchered by his vnnaturall brother Egrediamur for as come brother Let vs go walke and talke togither Meane time whilest the toÌ„gue anointeth him with oile the hand murthereth him Ioab killeth not Amasa like an open foe Estne pax mifrater brother is all well was the vnsuspected traine to make way for his fatall weapon All these shot in obscuro privilie and by stealth it is the safest surest shooting Else what doth Iudas with a kisse and all haile in his mouth in the very forefront of his treason What so many wolues in sheepes clothing or Deuills froÌ„ the blacknes of darknes in the formes of Angels of light Or locusts from the bottomlesse pit with womeÌ„s faces Or Hyaena with the call of a man Or the Syren with notes of melody Or the Crocodile with teares of mourning Or the whore of Babylon with her cup of fornications golden without and sugred within that the kings of the earth may be drunke and die as it were senseles and sleeping Or finally whie doe the rankest impostors and seducers of the earth write pharmaca medicines vpon the outside of the boxe wheÌ„ they deliuer venena poisons You see what mettals the wicked are tempred ofâ—edged with cruelty backt with subtiltie They carry both the Lion the Foxe in their brests as Carbo spake of Sylla the Scylla indeed and wrecke of the Roman people In imitatioÌ„ of whom rather then of St Peter they write of Alexander the 6. that intrauit vt vulpes There is subtelty regnauit vt leo there is cruelty for he was tearmed spongia sanguinis a spunge of bloud and to make vpp the full period of all his acts and monuments mortuus vt canis he died like a dogge But against whom is this double engine prepared If they will needes shoote let them take their marke aright Let them shoote at him that shooteth at theÌ„ the great Nimrod and hunter before the Lord the devill 6. Ephes he shooteth the arrowes of temptation death let them shoote the arrowes of praiers and orisons Or let them shoote at the wicked the limms of the deuil Diluculo interficiam I will make hast saith Dauid to destroy the wicked from the earth Not so Seldome shall you see the wicked against the wicked Squama squamae coniungitur they stick too close together they symbolize to nearly in wickednesse vnlesse by an overruling hand of God and some extraordinarie iudgment somtimes they turne their swordes each into others bosome and are drunke with their owne bloud as with new wine But for the most part even for that league kindred of wickednes which they all hold be their sects and professions of wickednes neuer no different their rites and religions neuer so opposite one to the other yet Marsupium they say sit vnum omniuÌ„ nostrûm Let vs all haue one purse there is concors discordia an agreement in their disagreements an vnanimous coÌ„sent in them al to bande against the innocent CoÌ„iunctis caudis though adversis vultibus Foxes will make shift to carry firebrands in their tailes to burne the cornefields Thus Herode and Pilate notwithstanding their priuate iarres could quickly put themselues in tune to Crucifie Christ. And Scribes Pharisees Sadducees Herodians Roman souldiours Iewes and Gentiles though noÌ„ Coutuntur they conuerse not in many things yet deponamus hic inimicitias leaue their quarrels grudges at home if the cause be against the righteous Meletians and Arrians at the first were at variance betweene themselues At length in the common pursuit of the church they became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so knit togither in amity that they exchaÌ„ged names and Arrians were called Meletians Meletians Arrians Ten seueral nations 83. Psal. faciunt vnitatem contra vnitatem to vse S. Austins word make an venitie or rather a coÌ„spiracy against one people of the Lorde The reason is the wicked with the wicked agree in multis tertijs in many thirds but the wicked with the righteous except in the nature and shape of man communicateth in nothing Quoniam invtilis est nobis contrarius operibus nostris c. The righteous is wholy vnprofitable to vs and contrarie to our workes His life is of an other fashion wee cannot abide to looke vpon him 2. Sap. Let al this haue his passage They shoote and shoot Priuily and that at the vpright of heart But filij hominum quovsque How long O yee sons of men Is your malice vnexorable as the graue Deepe and bottomles as hell O sworde of the Lord cry they in the Prophet Ieremy how long will it be ere thou cease returne into thy skabberd rest and be still O yee arrowes of the wicked how loÌ„g Returne into your quiuers Not till the foundations be cast downe and not a stone staÌ„ding vpoÌ„ a stoÌ„e nor a soule breathing vpoÌ„ the earth that beareth the name of a righteous maÌ„ Truth must first be banished froÌ„ the earth righteousnesse troddeÌ„ down as mire in the streets Christ driueÌ„ out of his kingdome amoÌ„gst vs or els no peace In this case the wicked is like the beast noÌ„ numerat caÌ„not endure a seed a remnant a berry here and there in the vtmost boughes not one that professeth to know God no not one Vtinam Pop. Rom. Vnam haberet cerviceÌ„ was the wish of Caligula that the people of Rome had but one necke that at one blow he might cut it of so these of the righteous Venite disperdamus eos de gente 83. Ps. Come let vs cut them of from being a nation and let the name of Israell be no more in remembrance 137. Ps. The voice of Edom was like vnto it in the day of Ierusalem Exinanite exinanite vsque ad fundamenta in eâ Downe with it downe with it even vnto the grouÌ„d It was Pharao his pollicy for the rooting out of Israell quicquid masculini sexus all that is borne male cast it into the river And Hamans pollicy in procuring those letters of the King for the killing of the Jewes in al the prouinces of his kingdome The foundations must be cast downe The last is the cause of all this bitternes which in the righteous I finde none For what hath the righteous done The subiection or answere implied must needs be nihil iust nothing But Aristides must be banished out of Athens iustus quia iustus for no other cause but for iustice and Christians must be thrown to the Lyons Christianus quia Christianus Davids apology to Saul is wherefore doth my Lorde thus persecute his servant what haue I done Or what evill is in mine hand O Lord my God Psa. 7. if I haue done this thing c. nay if I haue not done the contrary then let mine enimie persecute my soule c.