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A79831	Emanuel, or, God with us. Wherein is set forth Englands late great victory over the Scots armie, in a battle at Dunbar, Septemb. 3. 1650. And by many particulars of Gods acting and appearing then for us, it is certaine (and so much is clearly proved) that our armies marching into Scotland, and the wars undertaken and prosecuted against that nation, to be upon grounds of justice and necessity, as the Parliament of England hath declared. Also here is shewed, how grosly the Covenant is abus'd, and what an idoll it is now made. With the fraud and falshood of the Scots, and their kings hypocrisie and dissimulation. Moreover such objections are answered, as seeme to have any thing in them, against the point here asserted. / By John Canne. The first part, published by authority.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1650 (1650)	Wing C439; Thomason E614_11; ESTC R206534	45,110	52

party when the Philistims gathered themselves against them d 1 Sam. 13.5 thirty thousand Charets and six thousand Horsmen and people as the sand which is on the Sea-shore for multitude Overthrew Zerah the Aethiopian when he came against As e 2 Chron. 14.9 with a● host of a thousand thousand and three hundred Chario●s and by a small number in comparison of his What is to be learnt hence what observation to be rais'd what use to be made of such glorious Vctories such great Actings and high Appearances of God Onely that hee is f Psa 24.8 mighty in battle g Exo. 15.3 a man of warre h Ps 77.14 a God that doth wonders Great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number What nothing else Yes surely something more i Job 5.9 namely that he owned their cause and acknowledged them to be his Souldiers and k 2 Chron. 14.12 his host whom he delivered made Conquerours with a stretched-out Arm and with great judgments the others he took for his enemies and that their Cause was naught and wicked They might see by destroying them in such a wonderful and strange manner l Ps 92.5 A brutish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this I have read of one Atabalipa King of Cusco who being perswaded by one Vincent a Fryar to become a Christian upon this reason that he should serve the God that made Heaven and Earth The Indian asked the Fryar how he knew it he having a Bible in his hand told him he had learnt it there The King takes the Book in his hand opens it smels to it and lays it to his eare and hearkens if it spake any thing but perceiving he could have no satisfaction by his feeling neither did the Book speak to him hee threw it away and laughing at the Fryar told him that his Book and he were both fools Now such there are at this day and not a few for all the world like that Heathen King because God speaks not to their dull and blind hearts in their grosse and foolish way they profit not by the works of his hands neither are his present Appearances and Givings in to his people though the same with his former dispensations all along held forth in holy Scripture observed at least not acknowledged of them and God glorified as they ought and should doe But what of all this yet m Ps 10.16 the Lord is known by the judgements which he executeth 4. I suppose it cannot be parallel'd as his * In the 4 letters betweene him and the Ministers Excellency hath well observ'd of the like solemn Appeales unto God in reference to the Justice of a Cause a Deut. 17.8 between blood and blood between plea and plea and between stroke and stroke being matters of Controversie as was done by ‖ Solemn Appeales made by both parties to Almighty God The Answer of the Parliament to the Scots Kings Declaration page 36. both parties before the War began The Scots not only took God to witnesse that they had clean hands and pure hearts were men like Nathanael in whom there is no guile but * See pag. 23. in that Answ referred the Cause between Them and Us to the unerring sentence of the highest Judge as he should appear in his providence and mighty Actings either for us or them It is true they are a people presumptuous and lavish this way as in all their Remonstrances Declarations Petitions Answers c. may be seen evermore Appealing to the great and eternall God the searcher of all hearts and taking the Lord to record upon their soules touching their integrity and clearnesse in walking But howsoever seeing now b Psal 102.19 God hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuary hath c Neh. 9.28 heard from heaven and d 2 Sam. 22.14 from heaven uttered his voyce and e Ps 76.8 caused his judgment to be heard Methinks they should feare and be still f Josh 7.19 give glory to the God of heaven and make confession to him and the rather because they know as he is a g Tit. 1.2 God that cannot lie a God that h Ps 33.5 loveth righteousnesse and judgement and i Ps 45.7 hateth wickednesse so it is k Ps 85.11 righteousnesse that hath now looked down from heaven and l 1 K. 8.32 in heaven God hath heard and done and judged his servants condemning the wicked to bring his way upon his head and justifying the righteous to give him according to his righteousnesse This Appealing unto God is like the water which was given in tryall of Jealousie m Numb 5.27 If the woman had done trespasse against her Husband the water would become bitter in her bowels her belly swel and her thigh rot But if n Vers 28. clean and not defiled shee should conceive seed and be fruitful So it is when men call upon God to judge their Cause and wil have a witnesse in Heaven and in his definitive sentence pretend to stand If they are Liers Dissemblers Hypocrites fals-hearted double-hearted c. no marvail if the Curse enter into them and that God by some visible sensible remarkable hand punish them for their great presumption and for such impudent boldnesse and because they did not o Deut. 28.58 feare this glorious and fearfull name JEHOVAH THY GOD. Again on the other hand if men appeal unto God as David did in the Cause between him and Saul p 1 Sam. 24.12 the Lord judge between me and thee and are upright before him walke in their integrity setting the Lord alwayes before them The Lord will open to them his good treasure hee will make them the head and not the taile they shall be above only and not beneath and wheresoever they goe they shall prosper Neither did the Scots rest in a bare appealing unto God as to plead the Cause between us and them but so confident they were or rather foole-presumptuous of Gods being on their side as if they had tyed him as the * Alex. Gent. Dic. l. 6. c. 4. Tyryans did their god Hercules with a golden chain to secure themselves of his residence among them And here some of their Ministers play'd their pranks telling the people yea and God too he could not be just and righteous and like himselfe unlesse he assisted them to destroy the Sectarian Army as they cal'd us to such an height of blindnesse and madnesse were they lifted up making true the proverb q Prov. 26.28 a flattering mouth worketh ruine Henry the 2. hearing Menz his Citie to be taken used this blasphemous speech I shall never quoth he love God any more that suffered a Citie so deare to me to be taken from me I am so far from wishing that any of them should be given up to such gall of bitternesse and power of darknesse as to blaspheme the God

the works of God and his Administrations sought out of all that have pleasure therein to be of no effect and to teach men so to doe when and as they please I have read of Antonius when he angled some dived under water put fishes upon his hook the which he cast up at his pleasure one after another hee that would learn to wrest the Scripture needs not seeke any further Counsel then here for if he cast in his hooke where these Divers are hee may be sure they will fit him with fish to the purpose a subtle device and trick whereby to mock God and destroy his owne soule 5. Sometime the event or successe of a thing is so far from being Null or standing as as a Cipher as the equity and truth of the Cause is thereby confirmed and no other way Put a staffe in the water and it will seeme crooked not that it is so but we cannot see it right for the water Even so a Cause howsoever right and just yet through the cunning of men by the water of their calumniation and slander it may seem otherwise and by many otherwise believed As on the contrary a filthy dunghill may be covered with snow a viper hid under a rose an a 2 Sam. 15.8.11 an unrighteous Cause so coloured and cloak'd with such titles of Truth piety Religion Gods worship c. as some deceiv'd thereby may think the same to be just and good When Jannes and Jambres two Aegyptian Sorcerers withstood Moses and five hundred false Prophets of Baal contended with Elias Here was Cause against Cause Plea against Plea as it is now between us and the Scots But how was the truth here discovered and made to appeare and those satisfied or convinced which were concern'd therein Truly by the Event or Suc●●sse that is he Lord making them Conquerours and giving them the victory who had the just and rightfull Cause That ●aul by his calumniations lyes flatteries and other deceitfull practises had so clouded David's Cause as many thought that his carriage dealing toward his Father in law was not good and that Saul had some reason and ground for what he did so much is very cleare by many passages and expressions of David in the Psalms But the Successe and Event cleared David and justified his Cause as how to wit by the many wonderfull and seasonable deliverances which David had by the Lords mighty appearing and working salvation for him with an high hand On the contrary is not destruction to the wicked Job 31.3 and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity that Divine Justice that followed Saul all along in life and death was such an Event as did prove with a witnesse what for a man he was and how un●● righteously he had dealt with David It is true and I know it to be so that the Parliament of Englands Cause in reference to the publique Enemies of this Common-wealth by what name or title soever hath beene proved sufficiently to be a Just Cause even th● Cause of GOD both by the law of God of Nature and Nations As for instance * See a booke Intituled the golden Rule or Justice advanced The putting to death the late KING the laying aside the House of LORDS the Constitution of England a COMMON-WEALTH the present Parliament a true REPRESENTATIVE and Supreame Authority of the Nation The marching of our Army into Scotland upon grounds of Justice and Necessity All these things have been proved over and over neverthelesse some envying the good we have because it came not to us by them Others perceiving that their private profits and interests must goe downe and lye in the dust if publique Good be set up and prosper hereupon they consult together and are Confederates and what can be done by fraud or falshood or any way they seeke to attempt Yea such are the depths of Satan and mystery of iniquity now working to deceive every where and every one as that the just and righteous Cause of the Parliament is questioned by some denyed by others and all this through the deceit and craft of such men who either are discontented because others under God did the good work and not they or who finde themselves now shut out from the * Act 10.25 〈…〉 know th●● by this 〈◊〉 we have 〈◊〉 wealth A 〈◊〉 reasō●●●●e●ore 〈◊〉 should 〈…〉 ●ccupation g●infull trade formerly they had and unwarranble ways to deceive and 〈◊〉 the people in soule purse and person But the Lord whose wayes and judgements are all ●●●●teous he I say who justifies the righteous and condemns 〈◊〉 wicked seeing them to cast such a cloud over his Cause and to make it contemptible before men by aspe●●ng 〈◊〉 with Treason Vsurpation Oppression Fraud c. comes forth in behalfe of it and as hee did for Moses against the Magicians for Elias against Baals Prophets and for David against Saul so doth hee for us or rather for his great name gives such such glorious Successes and most remarkable Events to this Cause every where that unlesse men did wilfully shut their eyes or made themselves blind through malice pride covetousnesse c. they might see * Quid faciun video nec me ignorantia veri de●ipiet sed amor as clearly as they doe the sunne shining at noone day to be a RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD CAUSE the which the Lord hath doth and will still defend Object 2. The Israelites in two Battles were overcome by the Benjamites but they had a good Cause the which the others had not Therefore Successes or Events in Warre prove nothing in respect of the Cause whether it be just or unjust Answ 1. Some mens tongues are like a mill that is loose hung keepes a mighty crackling but grinds no corne This example of the Benjamites I heare is much talked of and as David said of Goliah's sword there is none like that So some say there is none to this it cannot be answered But how farre this is from that rule simpliciter ad simpliciter inconsistent to the matter they bring it for and to what they apply it will appeare by putting it into forme for thus it must be if it be any thing If GOD sometimes for reasons known to himselfe suffer wicked men to prosper in a bad Cause as to have a Victory once or twice being fewer in number then their Enemies It will necessarily follow that what soever assistance he gives a people in Battle what Victory and Deliverance soever they have in what manner or way soever he appeares for them and against their Enemies Nothing by the Successe or Event can be gathered concerning the justice of the Cause on whose side it is A simple Reader without helpe of Schoole-learning may easily see the vanity and absurdity of such reasoning Suppose I would argue thus there is not any light that shewes a distinction or difference betweene day and night and to prove this assertion I

so the power and goodnesse of God may the more shine forth and the mercy it self when it comes tast the sweeter As the greater a mans hunger is the sweeter is the meat and the more relish he hath in it That this victory may appeare to be of God and not of man and what a signall Testimony the Lord hath given in this particular that the Battle and Cause was his I desire the Reader to observe that e Heb. 11.34 out of weaknesse our Army was made strong f Isa 40.29 God gave power to the faint and to them that had no might he encreased strength He that was g Zec. 12.8 feeble among them at that day was as David and David as the Angel of the Lord before them h Ezek. 21.26 The Lord exalted him that was low and abased him that was high i Job 12.21 Powred contempt upon Princes and weakned the strength of the mighty No sooner had our men powred out their complaint before God and shewed before him their trouble saying k Psal 142.6 Attend unto my cry for I am brought very low deliver me from my * Did not the Lord put his hook in their nose and his bridle in their lips there would not be greater persecutors in the world thē the Scots especially their Kirk-men persecutors for they are stronger then I. But suddenly the Lord arose like a Gyant refreshed with wine wounded the hairy scalp of his ●nemies smote them upon the cheek-bone and put them to a perpetual reproach l Psalm 97.8 Sion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgments O Lord. 3. That the Lord hath given Testimonie to the Justice of our Cause doth further appear by the great number of the enemies overthrown by a few Some report the Scots Army was thirty thousand but six thousand horse and sixteen thousand foote at least Ours to sound men were not above seven thousand and five hundred foot and three thousand and five hundred horse these with the courage which the Lord was pleased to give them in less than an hours dispute put the Enemies whole Army into confusion and it became a totall Rout our men having the chase and execution of them near * Magna ea victoria neque cruenta nobis suit Quinta ab hora diej ad noctem caesi hostes decem milia passuum cadaveribus atque armis opplevere Tac. Anal. l. 2. 8. miles their foot in a manner all taken and slain to the number of 15000. whereof a third part were computed to be killed 200. Colours and more of Horse and Foot were taken 10. Colonels 12. Lieutenant-Colonels 9. Majors 47. Captains 72. Lieutenants 80. Ensigns besides Cornets and Quarter-masters All their Train of Artillery consisting of 22. field-guns beside smaller peeces They left behind them all their Arms no lesse than 15000. their Tents Bag and Baggage Thus the Lord m Psal 68.30 rebuked the company of spear-men the multitude of the buls with the Calves of the people and so let thine enemies perish O God And that it may appear n 2 Chron. 14.13 they were destroyed before the Lord and the same God which to them was terrible a consuming fire making his arrows drunk with the blood of the slain and of the Captives to our Army was their rock their fortresse and deliverer the horn of their salvation who covered their head in the day of battle and girded them with strength Our slain hurt were not many I do not believe saith his Excellency we have lost 20. men not one Commissioned Officer slain that I can hear of save one Cornet and Major Rooksby since dead of his wounds and not many mortally wounded Was not that promise here made good even in the letter o Ps 91.7 8. A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand but at shall not come nigh thee Only with thine eyes thou shalt behold see the reward of the wicked He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou be safe I have read of a * Antigonus Generall who finding his Souldiers dismayed by the smalnesse of their company and the multitude of their enemies asked them how many quoth he do yee reckon me at who am your Commander and I eader If David were p 1 Sam. 18.3 as ten thousand of the people what is David's Lord Our Souldiers never thought as Caecina did * Tacit. An. l. 1. unam in armis salutem that their safety only consisted in their weapons they are better principled and therefore knew that Salvation belongeth to the Lord and making him their Refuge even the most High their habitation hee was with them in trouble he delivered them and honoured them his right hand and his holy arm got them the victory Heretofore when the Lord had acted and appeared for a people in this manner it was always observed by the godly wise as a sure evidence and signe of his approving their Cause as on the contrary a righteous hand of divine punishment upon the destroyed party for taking up Arms in defence of some thing unjust and sinfull either Person or Thing And indeed the promise runs so q Lev 26.2 If yee walke in my statutes and keepe my commandements and do them r Vers 7.8 Ye shall chase your Enemies and they shall fall before you by the sword and five of you shall chase a hundred an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight This promise is enlarged in ſ Ch. 23.10 Joshuah One of you shall chase a thousand * Nos quoque si legem observemus victorias consequemur So we also as Lavaret on the place shall obtain victories if we keep the law This thing afterward was notably performed in t 1 Chr. 11. Davids Worthies of whom some one u 2 Sam. 23.18 lifted up his s●ear against eight hundred and slew three hundred at one time x 1 Chron. 11.18 Three men brake through the host of the Philistims As Major-Generall Whalley's Regiment charged through the Enemies whole Army and back again with little or no losse I know there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or few nothing is unpossible with him Notwithstanding when by weaknesse he overcomes strength and power by a few many and multitudes as a Ps 11.7 the righteous Lord loves righteousnesse so this shews that he hath pleaded and maintained the righteous mans Cause That God delivered divers Kings and all their host into the hand of Israel b Ios 11.4.8 much people even as the sand that is upon the shore in multitude with horses charets and by a few totally routed the c Judg. 6.5 7.12 Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the East which lay a long encam●ped in the vallies like grashoppers Saved Israel by a very small

of Heaven because of their pains and their sores as I unfeignedly desire and my prayer to God for them so is that they may see how the Lord to whom they have again and again appealed is against them and their Cause as being come to them to judgment r Mal. 3.5 a swift witnesse against the sorcerers against the adulterers against false swearers And therefore they shall do well to ſ Deut. 17.13 heare and feare and doe no more presumptuously The Prophet David saith t Ps 77.19 Thy way is in the Sea and thy path in the great waters In a Sea-voyage there are no lanes no foot-paths no print of wheels no high Mercuries to direct the Marriners all their direction must be fetched from the Pole and Stars compared with the card and compasse and touched needle It were to be wished that some men for their owne sake and the sake of others would look lesse upon the rotten post of the Covenant the humane Kirk and the Lordly discipline and see more of Gods footsteps and goings in his sanctuary how he bows the Heavens and comes down and darknesse is under his feet when he arises how his Enemies are scattered and the wicked perish at the presence of God Are the unreasonable creatures cal'd upon u Ps 96.11 12 13. heaven and earth the sea the field and all trees of the wood to rejoyce and be glad because the Lord judgeth the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth should not man more abundantly utter the memory of his great goodnesse sing of his righteousnesse and talk of his power Now wherein is this great goodnesse righteousnesse and power of God more seen then when God hath his way in the Sea speaks from Heaven that is being appeal'd unto as the supreame Judge and call'd upon to give sentence in a Cause depending between two Nations he speaks out and gives sentence yea so x Job 37.4 thundreth with the voyce of his Excellency as our Enemies themselves being Judges they must confesse it is a Divine voyce a God speaking the righteous judgment of the most high y Ps 107 4● Who so is wise will observe those things even they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. 5. There is not a surer evidence of the Lords presence with a people and pleading their Cause then when in the way of his providence he makes the unreasonable creatures seasonably serve for their comfortable deliverance and safety When he a Dan. 6.22 stopt the Lyons mouths b Dan. 3.27 restraind the violence of the fire c Ps 114.3 Caused the sea to flie Jordan to run back What was shewed here That the Lord d Ps 109.31 stands at the right hand of the poore to save him from those that condemn his soule Again when e Nah. 1.3 the Lord hath his way in the storm When f Judg. 5.20 the stars in their courses shall fight against Sisera and g Josh 10.11 great stones from heaven shall be cast downe upon the heads of the Canaanites when the Lord visiteth h Isa 29.6 with thunder and with earth-quake and great noise with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire What is here signified That he is angry with those against whom he thus fighteth takes them for his Enemies and that they have a sinfull and unrighteous cause What a cleare Character and sign the Lord gave our Armie of owning them and us and the Cause for which they fought Our posterity after us shall have cause to remember and to blesse God for it Thus it was Vpon Saturday August 30. we marched from Muscleburgh to Heddington where by that time we had got the Van brigade of our Horse and our Foot and Train into their Quarters the Enemie was marched with that exceeding expedition that they fell upon the Reed-forlorn of our Horse put it in some disorder And indeed had like to have engaged our Reer-brigade of Horse with the whole Army had not the Lord by his providence put a cloud over the * Luna clariore paene coelo visa languescere Tac. Aon●● l. 1. Moon thereby giving us opportunitie to draw off those Horse to the rest of the Armie So his Excellency From ano●●er ‖ In a ●●●tive 〈…〉 friend Col. Overton Governour of Hull hand thus The Enemie unknown to us attended upon 〈◊〉 right wing and in the Evening drew up a strong party upon our ●●cer guard and might probably have spoiled them if not provi●●●tially prevented by the over-shadowing clouds which so eclipsed the Moone as thereby a period was put to the Enemies motion untill the Skie was cleared c. A little before day the darkenesse is greatest When our streights and troubles are at the highest then is our deliverance nearest at hand In sick persons we see it commeth to passe that they think there is no hope of life when the Physitians and standers by see certaine and undoubted signes of health When i 1 Sam. 23.24 Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them here was little hope of life what way now could a man imagine of safety to David What probability or possibility in mans understanding that he should escape yet the Lord found out a way for him and delivered him When the King of Syria sent Horses and Chariots and a great host to apprehend Elisha and they had k 2 K. 6.14 compassed the Gitie about in which he was What hope of life here what way was there in human Reason for the Prophet to escape Yet the Lord who knowes how to d●liver the godly out of temptations had a doore open for him whereby to escape When the Scots Army suddenly and unexpectedly fell upon us had many advantages Our whole Army was like to be engaged not then in a capacity or posture to fight but rather as sheep to be led to the slaughter what hope of life here who can see any way of comming out As a man upon a Rock in the Sea sees only waters round about him no land so is our present case we see nothing but either fight or flye Coacta stabile ad praelium we must fight and are forced to it even in this sad and hard condition But the Lord who hath his preventing blessings of goodnesse commanded the Moone not to give her light over-shadowed her with his thick clouds so that the Scots are here left like the Sodomites in darknesse groping for our men as they did for Lot's house whilst the Angels of the Lord put forth their hands and pulled us in under the shadow of the Almighty Thus God was seene in the Mount an act of speciall providence and sufficient to convince any Adversary that the Lord was with us and with our Cause unlesse he be like unto him who said I will not be convinced though I am convinced Indeed some men are like