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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44523	Gods providence in the midst of confusion set out in a sermon preach'd at the Savoy, January the 30, 1681, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I / by Anthony Horneck.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2832; ESTC R13705	32,946	55

Perjury and Slain the Gibeonites And so he would not depart from his anger against the Jews because of the Sins of Manasseh 2 Kings 23. 26. where with he had provoked him to anger For Kingdoms are Bodies Politick whereof Princes are the Heads and if either Head or Body be put to streights and inconveniencies the design of Providence is fulfilled which is resolved when heinous Offences are committed in the whole one principal part should smart for the boldness that the other may take warning and though that which suffers may not be so guilty as the other yet as they sympathize together so it s seldom seen but that they do contract something or participate of one anothers Corruptions and consequently justly share in one anothers Sufferings And where the Prince suffers for the People though it 's confest the Providence is more astonishing and surprizing yet it is more Godlike and Majestick and an imitation of the Death of Jesus who consented to die for the People that the whole Nation might not be undone God never punishes a Nation as a Nation but only in this present Life for indeed that relation extends no farther when People in the next come to be judged before the great Tribunal they are not judged as a Nation but as single Persons for every one shall give an account of himself to God and therefore if God Chastises a Nation as a Nation it is only in this World and if in such Chastisements either the generality or some Principal Members suffer it s enough to answer the design of the Divine Equity which is to let the Nation see his displeasure against the cursed thing that is in the midst of them so that in this case the Almighty uses a kind of Decimation he being too pitiful and too great a lover of Humane Societies to destroy every individual especially in Ample Commonwealths wherein are more than Sixscore thousand Persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left Jon. 4. 11. But 2. As in all these Disorders and Confusions there are some who though notoriously guilty yet escape and are not so much as singed by that devouring Fire nay prosper and thrive best in such Combustions so Providence lets them go free to convince Men of Reason that there is another World where their insolence and unrighteousness shall be punished with a witness Psal. 50. 21 22 23. God gives Men a taste of his Justice here that they may not think in their hearts there is no God and yet but a taste that they may not imagine that what he doth here is all he intends to do Some Judgments he is obliged to send down now to let the World see there is a God that judges in the Earth and yet he sends not all he means to send to teach them there are far more dreadful ones to come Some careless and debauched Men he lashes here to hint to us that there is an All-seeing Eye and yet others he lets alone to assure us that there is a future and Everlasting Vengeance There is not a greater Argument of another Life than Gods being silent now and not Executing Judgement against an Evil Work speedily especially where the Crimes threaten Omnipotence and Men attempt to mingle Heaven and Earth together dare be Giants in Transgression and make Gods Patience an encouragement to their Irreligion for God being a Righteous Governour cannot but be just and since he awakes not to Vengeance here he will certainly pay the Sinner home with interest hereafter When Frederick the Emperor heard of a Nobleman in his Dominions who had run through all the Fallacious Labyrinths of Sin tasted of all its Luxuries lived the life of a Beast or of a Devil rather had spared no Woman in his lust and no Man in his anger had been Drunk and Intemperate to a prodigy yet had never had any Cross or Sickness and at last Died softly and quietly without pain or trouble with Age more than with Sickness being then above Fourscore The Intelligent Prince smote upon his Breast and said Either there is no God or after this comes a Life of Reward and Vengeance concluding peremptorily That this Man having escaped Gods Rods and Axes here must necessarily be Tormented hereafter So that Prosperous Villains are Gods Witnesses that Men do not cease to be when they Die and carry Marks about them of Gods future Vengeance God in suffering them to thrive confirmes what he hath said in his Word and their Flourishing Condition here is an item that when this Life is ended they shall be destroy'd forever which is a Truth so important and which the World is so highly concerned to know that it is in a manner necessary Impiety should be prosperous here that their strength should be firm and there should be no Bands in their Death that they should not be in trouble as other Men nor plagued like other Men that their Eyes should stand out with fatness and that they should have more than their hearts can wish since it is an infallible Argument that God hath appointed a day wherein he will render Tribulation and Anguish to every Soul that doth evil to the Jew first and also to the Gentile Rom. 2. 9. 3. Such Disorders come to convince Men that true Happiness is not to be had in this Valley of Tears but must be sought in Heaven To this end the greatest Glories in the VVorld are subject to decay and Scepters and Diademes are suffered to tumble down to shew there is a greater felicity to be gotten elsewhere To this end the greatest Calm is suffered to die into a Storm and Halcyon days into threatning VVaves and Billows to assure us the Prophet was in the right when he cryed Arise and depart for here is not your rest Mic. 2. 10. To this end Gilimer the Vandal was overcome and led in Triumph through the Streets of Constantinople To this end Andronicus from an Emperor is made a Slave and infamously dragged through Common-shores and Kennels To this end the Great Vitellius hath Dirt thrown in his Face and is haled to the Market-place to be Executed To this end the Mighty Croesus is like to fall a Sacrifice to Flames and the Sturdy Bajazet is imprisoned in a Cage King Boleslaus made a Skullion and Dionysius forced to turn Schoolmaster To this end Valerianus is Flead by the Persian Souldiers and Salted as if he had been Bacon To this end John the Twenty third though a Pope is at last constrained to eat his own Clothes and to feed upon the Flesh of his own Arms for hunger To this end Adonibezeck after the Conquest of Seventy Kings hath the extremities of his Hands and Feet cut off and all to teach Men that these outward Gaudes are vanity of vanities all is vanity And indeed the aforesaid Gilimer was so sensible of this that being after long but fruitless Resistance necessitated to yield himself to the Enemy sent to his Conqueror

the Peoples Loyalty and then made advantage of their Perfidiousness Who made Religion a Stalking-horse to invade the Throne and when he had possessed himself of it was more lawless than the Person whom he pretended to expel for being so Who forced his way to Greatness through a thousand lives and knowing no means to arrive to it but injustice in the highest degree cut down all the Trees that stopt his Prospect who made the Bible subservient to his Sword and held it in one Hand that he might only do greater Execution with the other who under a pretence of Liberty made the Nation a greater Slave to him than they are in Turky and while he gave out that he would set them free bound them but the faster in their Shackles who to reform the Church pulled it down to the Ground and while he made Purity the Watch-word brought in darkness greater than the Aegyptian for he taught Men a new Religion how they might be Devout and yet Rob and Steal and commit Sacriledge without fear or Remorse of Conscience who in the worst sence became all things to all Men to make them all his Prey and complied with several Parties to make them all his Devoted Vassals who could weep to deplore the Misfortunes of the Time while he was the chief Instrument to bring them in and cry out against Monarchy while nothing less was the Object of his Ambition who waved the Title of a King meerly because he saw it was not safe and seemed Humble thereby the better to compass his dangerous Designs and Purposes Who to stop the Clamours of the People did them right thereby to wrong his Prince the better and to make his Murther Legal caused him to be condemned by a Law of his own making who first promoted the Parliaments Independency of the King and then made himself Independent of their Power who first gulled the simpler Party into an opinion of his sanctity and when he had done so wallow'd securely in the shades of the greatest Villany who made himself great by daring to do that which Heathens would have trembled at and so his Glory might be set on the Pillars of Fame was content to make Lucifer both his Instrument and General Thus lived the proud Vsurper but what is more died in his Bed lamented by the Crew that had served him in his Sins disposed of three Kingdoms to his Son who wanted besides Right his Fathers Cunning and Personal Qualifications yet he saw his Successor applauded and fawned upon by Men that were then in Power and had the satisfaction to behold a Man of his own Line in a probability to carry on his own Usurped Authority which was all that a dying Tyrant could desire and greater felicity a Man could not possibly aim at that believed no other Life or if he did could not expect a share in its Happiness yet with his Death his Hellish Laurels did not wither for his Funeral was Royal as if it had not been enough to have lived a King except he died so too and the pomp of his Interrment such as attracted the Eyes of the most curious Spectators Nay as after the Storm is past there remains some agitation of the Waves so the Agents of Foreign Princes that had dreaded this Neptunes Trident while alive retained some awe of his Power after Death which was the reason that with their forced presence they graced his affected Funeral An Accident uncommon and exceeding rare and if Asaph seeing the Prosperity of private wicked Men his Feet had almost slipp'd and he very near sunk into a slight Opinion and low thoughts of Gods Providence what would he have said had he seen Impiety thus publickly honoured not only in Life but in Death as if Heaven had applauded the Heroick Sin and loved to bestow Rewards on Men not only for their great Attempts in Vertue but for daring to be more than ordinarily Profane and Impious But as great as these Disorders are or seem to be they are no blemish of Providence nor doth that Golden Chain look the less lovely because all the Links are not distinctly seen by Men whose Eyes by staring upon Sensual Objects as People that look much on Snow have contracted a vicious dimness And so much will appear from what we shall propose in the second General viz. 2. Why God suffers such Disorders and Confusions to happen in Commonwealths or Kingdoms 1. God doth it to punish a Nation or People for their Sin When the Sins of a People are come to a fatal pitch and the measure grown full it 's time for God by sending such Disorders to lash the generality into better Manners not that God doth instigate them to these Disorders but it 's just with him to withdraw his restraining Grace and not to hinder their wicked Inclinations And when the Prop that upholds the House is Charity and that Charity is abused if the Prop be removed and the House fall it 's to make the Inhabitant sensible of his ingratitude When Pride and Idleness and fulness of Bread and its usual Concomitants Wantonness and Luxury come once to Rage and Reign God justly takes away the Partition that kept the Fire and Tinder asunder and then no marvel if being committed and let loose to fall one upon the other they cause a Combustion which is not easily quenched When the Body is grown Pletharick and the Humours abound the Wise Physician breaths a Vein and though the ignorant Spectator thinks he is going to let out Life yet it 's only to preserve the whole from perishing God sometimes afflicts a good King for his wicked Peoples sake so he permitted the Excellent Josiah to be Slain because though himself was one of the best of Men yet his Subjects were Hypocritical to a high degree and while they seemed to comply with the King in the true Worship of God continued Idolaters in their Hearts So God suffered the Martyr of the day to fall because the Nation that lived under his Shadow were grown extravagant in their Manners And that you may not wonder how God comes to punish the Innocent and let the Guilty go free I must answer That the Innocent though seemingly Afflicted yet lose nothing by the Adversity but only Anticipate Heaven and exchange their Temporal for an Everlasting Bliss a few years sooner while the Sinners though seemingly prosperous suffer signally in the loss of their great Representative for hereupon they must necessarily fall into confusion and while they send sometime to the Vine and sometime to the Fig-tree to Reign over them and know not where to fix they at last inconsiderately yet by Gods wise Permission fix upon the Bramble for their Prince whence Fire comes forth and either Disperses or Consumes the giddy Multitude Sometimes God punishes the People for their Irreligious Princes sake as he sent a Famine on the Land in the days of David 2 Sam. 21. 1. because King Saul had committed