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A12264	The dovvnefall of Shebna together with an application to the bloudie Gowrie of Scotland. As it was deliuered in two seuerall sermons of that occasion, in S. Maries Church in Oxford. And now published for a warning to all ill-affected Ogiluiests: vt quorum exitus perhorrescunt, eorum facta non imitentur. By I.S.	Singleton, Isaac, b. 1582 or 3.	1615 (1615)	STC 22574; ESTC S117442	31,246	48

was a great feaster and by his reuelling and banquetting and royall entertainment and other his more secret practises indeered the loues and affections of the Assyrians and Aegyptians but especially of the false and hollow-hearted people and naturall subiects of Ezechia vnto him in such sort as that all men stood in awe of him Howsoeuer certaine it is Tacitus hist. 1. sect 13. he was a man of speciall regard and eminencie in the common wealth For though hee were an Aegyptian borne and a meere stranger to the Iewish nation and a man who was besides those disaduantages of birth and life the one being meane base and obscure the other lewd wicked and vngodly no way likely to rise in so good and well ordered an estate as this of Iudah Yet had he by some such vertues as Tacitus mentioneth in Tigellinus Luxurie and Crueltie and such other their inseparable companions so humored the wicked King Ahaz and by his fauour wrought himselfe into such place and generall imployment in the common wealth as that Ezechiah though hee were a good and a pious Prince and without all question made choise of his seruants thereafter yet hee not onely continued Shebna in that present greatnesse whereunto Ahaz had aduanced him But seconded what Ahaz had begun and followed Shebna with many an addition and fresh supply of future fauour and preferment For whereas there are but two courses which Princes generally take with such as hold not correspondence with them either to disgrace and casheir them quite or else to winne them by conferring fauors and honors vpon them you haue many imbrace the former and Dauid himselfe though abused by a false and slandering fugitiue could hardly brooke Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 19.25 wherefore wentest not thou with me Mephibosheth Yet this good King tooke the fairest and most charitable course and heaped coales of fire vpon this wicked Shebna his head And this will euidently appeare if you will be pleased to take a view of the place which Shebna now held vnder Ezechiah and of the great accompt which this good King made of him and of his seruice For to omit all busie discourse touching his office whether he were Steward of the house as some Writers reade or as Iunius renders it praefectus praetorio one that had the ordering of the men of warre and marshall affaires or whether he were Scriba honorarius principall Secretary as the storie hath it the 2 of Kings at the 18. or 2 Kings 18. whether he were keeper of the Rolles or Master of Requests as else-where our Prophet seemes to imply Isay 36.3 Isaiah 36.3 wee may boldly rest on this that he was a prime man in that state and indeed raised to that height of honor or at least continued at that height of honor vntill he deserued the contrary as that higher hee could not goe Junius euen so high quantum potuit esse viri saith one as possibly a subiect could be capable of He was secundus à Rege the Kings right hand and as it should seeme by the description of Eliachims power and authoritie who succeeded Shebna both in place and greatnesse Isay 22.22 he had the very key of Dauid and bare such sway as that all men sought vnto him all euen from him that sate vpon the throne to him that grinded at the mill relied on him The King for aduice the people for dependance and there was no one thing done either in Church or Common wealth either at home or abroad that Shebna was not priuy too nay such accompt made Ezechiah of this one Shebna and such trust and confidence he reposed in him as that when Zenacherib threatned the ruine and destruction both of Ezechiah and Ierusalem why Shebna was a man and a chiefe man sent from Ezechiah to appease Zenacherib and diuert him from his bloudy designe In a word when I consider either the place that Shebna bare in the common wealth or the good opinion shall I say nay the strong confidence trust and repose which Ezechiah had in him mee thinks I heare Ezechiah speake vnto Shebna as Pharaoh vnto Ioseph Gen. 41.40 Thou shalt be ouer mine house and of thy word shall all my people be armed onely in the Kings throne will I be aboue thee Gen. 41.40 Mee thinkes hee no lesse respected him Ester 6.8 then Assuerus did Mordecay in the sixt of Ester at the 8 verse or Balthasar him that could interpret the dreame Dan 5.7 For Dan 5.7 Ecce as Iunius hath it Iehouah contegit to in tegumento amiciendo amicit te bellè and what possibly can you name should be done to the man whom the King would honor that was not done to Shebna Hee had honor wealth power command and which is equall nay aboue all the rest hee had the fauor and good opinion of his Soueraigne and what could the large and vaste heart of any reasonable subiect desire more But O ignominia domus Domini you would wonder to see how soone this base fellow and earthly meteor but now drawne aloft by the beames of the Princes fauour vanisht and how quickly his good seruice as Lewis the XI King of France was wont to say vtterly vndid him so that Phil. de Com. lib. 3. quem vidit veniens dies superbum Hunc vidit fugiens dies iacentem For Shebna looking vpon these blessings of God and fauors of his Prince as Swine vpon maste neuer lifting vp his heart or entertayning so much as a thankfull thought from whence they fell so exasperated God the author and doner of them that he seemeth here as sometime hee did vpon a serious view and consideration of the old world euen to repent that euer he made Shebna a man or at least so great a man and therefore he sends our Prophet here and giues him in charge without any the least delay or preadmonition whatsoeuer to lay the axe vnto the roote of the tree and smite home Goe get thee vnto this Treasurer euen vnto Shebna which is ouer the house and say But of Gods round and peremptorie dealing with Shebna I shall haue occasion to speake when I come to the punishment of his offence I am yet come no further then the qualitie of his person what he was a man who kept all other in awe a man of royall entertainment a man of prime note and eminencie a pillar of the state a patrone of the people a fauorite of the King The vse whereof may be that in the Psalmist Man being in honor hath no vnderstanding Psal 49.13 hee is like to beasts that perish Psal 49.13 especially that man that riseth from a low and meane estate none more insolent none more ingratefull none greater despisers of others magnifiers of themselues And it may serue to admonish such as rise from meane parentage birth and estate to looke vnto the rocke from whence they were hewen and in all humilitie and

length a list of Shebnaes foule sinnes and offences Shebna was an hypocrite Shebna was ambitious Shebna was ingratefull Shebna was enuious and giuen ouer to those crying sinnes of detraction supplanting slandering lying and what not but yet we haue not named the sinne of Shebna the particular capitall crime the predominant sinne of Shebna which awaked Gods iustice and prouoked him thus in all seueritie to proceed against him For all these which but now I named hypocrifie ambition ingratitude enuy why they were rather peccata hominum peccata Iudaeorum then any appropriated sinnes of Shebna they were sinnes incident to the corrupt nature of man familiar to the people of the Iewes and cannot by way of denomination be termed the sinnes of Shebna Insita est mortalibus naturâ saith he men by nature are wholy giuen to taxe and maligne vertue and goodnesse in others pari dolore aliena commoda ac proprias iniurias metiri and to take other mens benefits and blessings as much to heart as their owne proper iniuries But especially the Iewes no people no nation so giuen ouer to hypocrisie ambition ingratitude and enuy as the Iewes Besides it is worth the noting that God proceedeth after another fashion with the Princes of Iudah and the rest of the inferiour sort of people and punisheth their offences in another kinde as he that will peruse the former part of this Chapter may easily perceiue and I as easily shew you could I now stay But when he cals to minde the sinne of Shebna he bids our Prophet addresse himselfe to Shebna in particular as vnto a supereminent notorious offender aboue all the rest Goe get thee vnto this Treasurer euen vnto Shebna which is ouer the house and say It was not then his hypocrisie it was not his ambition nor yet his ingratitude no nor yet his enuie it was a sinne of a deeper die accomcompanied I grant you with all these but yet not any one of all these And that was his sinne of Treason Shebna was a Traitor patriae proditor which as one saith comes à prodendis consilijs hostibus so that Shebna as I verily thinke reuealed both arcana dominationis domus secrets of State and secrets of Court and most treacherously combined to betray Ezechiah and Ierusalem into the hands of a professed enemie and atheall miscreant Zenacherib as hoping forsooth that when once Zenacherib should be vested in the Throne of Iudah he would thinke on Shebna and make him King ouer his owne Countrey at the least And this I take to be the sinne of Shebna As for those other sinnes I make no doubt but Shebna had of a long time nourished them and God might say vnto him as it is in the Psalmist Psal 49.21 Haec fecisti tacui These things hast thou done Shebna and I held my peace But when once he committed the sinne of treason then was it high time for God who as the sonne of Siracke saith patient est etiam redditor Wisdome to come downe and visit Shebna with a rod of iron Goe get thee vnto this Treasurer euen vnto Shebna that is ouer the house and say Shebna then was a Traitor his offence Treason nay I added more a transcendent Treason For looke vpon the most hainous Treasons and bloudie assassinats in the bookes of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah and other faithfull stories in the word of God you shall finde somewhat that will lessen them and giue occasion of extenuation In all of them you shall obserue that flesh and bloud will haue some Sanctuarie to flie vnto and an indulgent obseruer will easily inuent arguments to mitigate if not quite to purge the foulenesse of each offence But Shebna his treason was so dangerous and inexcusable that it will admit of no extenuation In the second of Ester you shall reade of a dangerous treason attempted by Bigthan and Teresh Ester 2. vpon the body of an annointed King the King Assuerus where if we looke vpon the authors of the treason it was very dangerous and inexcusable for what could not these mischieuous villaines doe that were Squires of the body and had the life and being of the King in their owne custodie But yet if wee cast our eie vpon the obiect of their treason why surely it extended no farther neither had they any other obiect then the bare life only of Assuerus at the most In the third of that booke you shall finde recorded a barbarous massacre intended by Haman against the person not of one or two but euen of Mordecay and the people of Mordecay Heere now if you looke narrowly vpon the latitude of the obiect Mordecay and all the Iewes verily the crueltie of mercilesse Haman can no way be extenuated but yet if you will search a little farther and enquire after the end he proposed vnto himselfe we cannot say that the life of his liege Lord or that the welfare of the proper inhabitants of that Countrey or that the preseruation of the state wherein he liued and whereof hee was a principall member was any way put in hazard onely Mordecay and certaine Iewes dispersed vp and downe thorowout the Kings prouinces were aimed at In the second of Samuel at the 15 we haue storied a foule and vnnaturall treacherie of Absolon against his father Dauid 2. Sam. 15. where if we marke well the end he proposed vnto himselfe to wit the vsurpation of the Kingdome or the meanes he vsed for the atchieuing of this his end namely by stealing away the hearts of the people sollicitando pollicitando as Simo chargeth Crito in the Comedie feeding their fansies with affable gestures and faire promises by getting armes and militarie forces into his hands by quarrelling the execution of iustice and course of gouernment by deluding his father with a pretence of performing his vow and the more free seruing of God and a world of such like traiterous lies and deuices nothing can be said for it But yet if you will weigh the issue and euent which in probabilitie must needs haue followed you will not thinke it so hainous for the worst that can be said or feared was but the change of a Prince of the father for the sonne of an old for a new the Law should haue remained the same the Religion the same the gouernment the same and there would haue ensued little or no inuersion much lesse euersion of the state So that in all these though dangerous and inexcusable treasons and murders in themselues yet somewhat there is that a man partially affected may picke out to alleadge if not for defence yet for excuse and extenuation of them But Shebna his treason heere is like a strong poison composed of whatsoeuer was most bad in the worst of these And it was dangerous and inexcusable not onely in regard of the author as that of the Eunuches nor yet of the obiect as that of Hamans nor yet of the end and meanes