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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93345	England and Scotland united, disjoyned. Or, A gentle corosive, and healing plaister, applied to two dying kingdoms: with some balsamum for wounded Ireland; humbly presented to both kingdoms, and communicated to all good subjects, that wish peace and good to the kingdoms, or to either of them. Wherein is represented, the grievances of the people, and their several murmurings. By Ethog Grimes Gent.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1648 (1648)	Wing S4034; Thomason E447_30	26,358	32

destroy your selves because the enemy could not do it consider the saying of that wise able Soldier Sir Jacob Ashley when Routed and taken near Stowe speaking to Colonel Morgan and to gallant Major Hawksworth and others Gentlemen said be you may now put up your sword for the War is done we are able to do no more by the power of an Army except you fall out among your selves this was a fair warming he was more our friend in speaking it then we to our selves in contending Know that this is the Jesuits Maxime First divide then conquer History tells us Rome by this means hath gained more Kingdoms then by the sword and this is the design at this day Now let England and Scotland say as Joab said to Abishai If the Assyrians be too strong for me then thou shalt help me but if ●…am 10. 11. the children of Ammon be too strong for thee I will come and help thee thus you have Covenanted and wo to you if you do it not Whether one or the other whilst united none can hurt you once disjoyned you are both destroyed There is yet one cause more and that is God he is the cause of all causes Let the instrument be what or who it will by which a man a family a people or Kingdom is afflicted or destroyed God is the effecient cause men nor devils can do nothing without God they are but Gods executioners of wrath and judgement for sin but the rod in Gods hand Assyria is but the rod of Gods anger Isa 10. 5. Sickness pain imprisonment loss of goods war pestilence famine and all afflictions whatsover are from God to some for chastisement by which they learn righteousness to others as judgements to punish and to destroy Is there any evil saith God Am. 3. 9 in the city and I have not done it that is evil of punishment not evil of sin God forms the light and creates darkness makes peace Isa 45. 7. Is 42 24 and creates war Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers did not the Lord he against whom we have sinned when God will punish a sinful people by the ill Government of Kings and Princes He leads away Counsellors spoiled and makes Judges Iob 12. 17 fools when Israel will be hypocrites to draw near unto God with their mouthes and remove their hearts far from him God will make the wisdom of the wise to perish and the understanding Isa 29. 14. of the prudent shall be hid When God will punish a King for oppression that King shall hearken to evil Councel and refuse the good Counsel of grave and wise men so did Rehoboam and los● ten tribes the text saith The thing was done of the Lord When 1 King 12. 18 4. God will bring the sword upon wicked Counsellors and upon a Nation together he can make void all the Counsels of Judah and Jerusalem When Israel devised mischief and gave wicked Counsel Ier. 19. 7. God turns that wickedness to effect his own purpose and by it brings a sword upon themselves and the people The Princes Ezek. 11. ver 2. 8. of Zoan became fools and the Princes of Noph were deceived that they erred in every work the text saith It was God that mingled Isa 19. 13 14. Iob. 34. 29. a perverse spirit among them When God giveth quietness saith holy Job who can make trouble and when he hideth his face who can behold him whether it be done against a nation or against a man onely When the sins of an impenitent people provoke God to bring destroying judgements upon that nation he withdraws his common restraining grace from men and leaves them to their own lusts he will punish sin with sin wicked men shall act according to their own several lusts and grow more wicked oppressing killing and reviling one another till they be like Judea and Jerusalem Vid. Josep bel Jud. lib. 6. lib. 7 destroyed one by another and at last made a spoil and a prey to the enemy When a lying spirit is put into the mouth of a Ministery as in Ahabs 400. prophets expect speedy ruine and desolations or if men and Armies will go against the word of God pronounced by the mouth of Gods messengers they are not likely to prosper but like Ahab miscarry in their confidence but to all that are godly and of upright hearts I say with the Prophet Fear Isa 45. 4. not be strong behold your God will come with vengeance even God with a recompence he will come and save you This is the time of Gods indignation he will punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth shall also disclose her bloods and shall no more cover her slain it will be but for a moment the time is appointed by God and the indignation shall be overpast Believe in the Lord 2 Chro. 20. 20. your God so shall you be established believe his Prophets so shall you prosper God now in special maner calls his people to humiliation to repentance and reformation of sin when Gods hand was upon whole Israel in the days of David he enquired the cause he knew it was for sin for God onely punisheth for sin and the Lord revealed to him that it was for Saul and his bloody house because 2 Sam. 21. 1. he slew some of the Gibeonites contrary to Covenant it was many generations before Sauls time that Joshua and the Princes of Israel had made a covenant with the Gibeonites Saul swore not to it and Joshua was forbid to make any league with them yea the Gibeonites engaged Joshua and the Princes by craft and further the people of Israel sware not unto it but after three days when their craft was discovered murmured because of the Oath not withstanding all this Joshua durst not make null that Covenant And why Least faith he wrath be upon us because See Ioshua chap. 9. 8 of the oath not so much as put one of them to death who had by craft deceived them We know when our Enemies were strong and we very weak the Kingdom of England invited the Kingdom of Scotland to our assistance they as wilingly came but desired a perfect union of both Kingdoms and to that end a Solemn League and Covenant was entred into by both and joyfully received not onely sworn unto by our Nobles Knights and Gentlemen but generally by all the people or by sinful negligence omitted the command is warrantable by Scripture Whosoever would not Covenant to seek the 2 Chro. 15. 13. Lord should be put to death whether small or great In our Covenant we swear Reformation Ecclesiastical and Personal defence of Religion against the common Enemy Reformation in Religion in Doctrine Worship Discipline c. according to Gods word and the best Reformed Churches And we have sworn every one for himself to endeavor the nearest conjunction that can be in the three

afterwards beaten and his Army scattered by the women of the City of Argos in revenge of their husbands that he had treacherously slain and after this Cleomenes kild himself with a knife It would be great happiness if England would enquire as holy David did wheter Gods hand now against us be not for our breach of Covenant though not National for I hope better but as to particular men it is manifest Consider I pray why is it that the common people of England rise up tumultuously against Authority and Priviledges of Parliament contrary to their Covenant is it not a just Judgement from God because Authority have been remiss in their Covenant and many have absolutely broken it with God therefore God suffereth a Covenant-breaking people to break Covenant with them now tumultuously risen against them in ESSEX SVRREY KENT c. that God may destroy the one by the other If it be so it concerns every man to humble himself before God renew his Covenant and in the strength of the Almighty to resolve to keep it to the death or let it be done to the persisters in breaking as to the seven Sons of Saul for if we suffer the Covenant to be broken We cannot prosper nor shall we be delivered Besides consider Ezek. 17. 15. Isa 26. 9. we are not onely reformed Nor have learned righteousness though Gods judgements are in the earth and upon our selves but are grown more impious in finning then before I will Instance in ten particulars for God which is now in controversie with us First Pride pride of the inward man or of the outward man is a sin transcendent to what it hath been witness mens and womens high conceits of themselves boastings of gifts c. Their high looks antick gestures c. Their new invented fashions rich Clothes painted and spotted Faces costly Coaches and empty Purses c. Pride we know is a sin of Sodom God hates it makes war against it He resists the proud therefore saith He Iam. 4. 6. Ier. 13. 9 2 Chro. 32. 25. will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem God saith for the pride of the women the men shall salt by the sword and mighty men in the war the pride of Hezekiahs heare caused wrath upon all Israel Secondly Covetousness This is a sin no less hateful to God then hurtful to men but never more evidently seen to rage in men then at this day Witness men in places of trust in the Common-weal see if as the Prophet saith From the least to the Ier. 6 13 greatest every one be not given to covetousness Covetousness is a sin that excludes men from the Kingdom of Heaven when they dye Eph 5. 15 Ier. 8. 10. 1 Tim. 6. 10. and covetous men are burthens to the earth while they live The love of money causeth men to erre from the faith and pierce themselves through with many sorrows Thirdly Oppression This sin and the fear of God are opposite they dwell not together in one Kingdom Thou shalt not Levit. 25. ●7 oppress but thou shalt fear thy God Where the fear of God is there is no oppression where oppression is there is no fear of God Oppressors are in Scripture set forth by nature and names of cruel Beasts Bulls Bears Wolves Dogs Kine of Bashan c. Now let me appeal to all men if there were ever more beasts of this kinde in this Kingdom Are there not sound amongst us wicked Ier. 6. 26 27 28. men that lay wait as he that setteth snares they set a traps they catch men their houses are full of deceit they are become greats and waxen rich c. Fourthly Robbery is a sin abounding in England open and secret Robberies are committed and connived at many more have been Executed for Robbing then now but never so many Robbers as now they that will crucifie Christ will set Barra●●● free there are men not onely like the men of Shechem liers in wait in the mountains but those that rob the Kingdom by a kinde of Toleration yea that rob the poor and the fatherless That turn Isa 10. 2. the needy from judgement that widows may be their prey yea they will be found to be robbers of Gods people distressed in Ireland and some will even rob God himself Mal. 3. 8. 5. Murther This is a crying sin it cryed to Heaven against us before our great afflictions came upon us and now it cryes double as much as before it call'd the Sword upon us and the Sword hath increased our guilt God stirred up the Caldeans Syrians Moabites and children of Ammon against Jeboiakim to avenge the blood that Manasseh had shed in his days the blood of Rochel and of Germany still cryes against England and the blood of Ireland will not be satisfied but blood for blood Ireland once bled by Massacre now bleeds by flattery we feed them with words but destroy them by withholding actions the contenders for Self interest and unjust Stewards in England are the slaughtermen of consumed Ireland Not to save is to kill this is not to cleanse the Land of blood but to make it more bloody we would not endure to be so dealt with 6. Excess In eating and drinking to gluttony and drunkenness it hath long been Englands sin but is now greatly aggravated by the circumstance of time God by his great scourge calls us to humiliation To fasting and to weeping but behold feasting and drinking Isa 22. 19. wine in bowls lie upon beds of ivory invent instruments of musick eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall for this cause God said He hated the excellency Amos 6. 4 5 6. Vers 8. of Jacob and abhorred his pallaces and saith Therefore will I deliver up the City and all that is therein God may as justly deal so with us and will if we reform not And lay to heart the afflictions of Joseph and relieve the objects of pity every hour before us who have lost all but they give nothing that have gained much 7. Whoredom A sin punished by death by Gods Law and the sinner shut out from heaven by Christs Gospel but in England neither punished nor excluded from the seat of Justice at this time he is counted gallant company that will whore and boast of it when he hath done remember Zimri and Cosbi that sin cost Num. 25 ● twenty four thousand lives themselves also slain for that sin by Phinehas 8. Prophanation of the Lords day A sin of which this Kingdom hath been much guilty in many parts of it and is at this day by doing the works of our calling using sports and recreations for pleasure idle speaking and omission of holy worship contrary to the precept Thou shalt not do thine own work nor speak Is● 58. 13. thine own words but shalt honor God wholly on that day But of late days men