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A92083	Zimri's peace: or, The traytor's doom & downfall. Being the substance of two sermons preached at Apethorp in the county of Northampton. By John Ramsey Master of Arts, and minister of East-Rudham in the connty [sic] of Norfolk.	Ramsey, John, Minister of East Rudham.	1661 (1661)	Wing R227; Thomason E1057_10; ESTC R208079	26,510	35

God's will that are written and sealed up in that clasped book of life and shall not be opened till the latter day Vbi quicquid nos nunc latet manifestum erit saith St. Austin When the reason shall be apert and evident Why this man is Elect another Reprobate Why one dies as an Embryo in the womb and tomb of his mother another in his infancy a third in his youth and a fourth in his old age Why the son of the Adultresse is babtized and the child of the chast and loyall spouse departs this life without baptism Why one man lives poor and needy another rich and wealthy (d) Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato Ille crucem pretium sceleris tulit hic Diadema Juv. Satyr 13. Why one man is advanced to the Throne another cast down to the Dungeon and dunghill Why Zimri in the text slew his Master and reigned in his stead A fourth Corolary that may be drawn from hence A fourth Corolary God sweetly abuses mans sins to his owne righteous end 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nyssen this That God oft times most sweetly abuses the wickednesse of wicked men to his own most holy will and purposes This work of Divine providence Gregory Nyssen fitly termes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the abuse of evil For what is abuti to abuse a thing but to use it contrary to the nature and condition of it Which if it be good such an use is an abusive use If evil such an use thereof is an usefull and commendable abuse As when a Grammarian makes a rule of Anomala's A Rhetoritian a figure of a solaecism A Logitian a true use of fallacies A Musitian an harmony of discord and a Phisitian an wholsome treacle confected of deadly poyson Thus doth God abuse the sins of men to the manifestation of his own glory of his wisdom and justice both in one Like unto an expert and cunning workman that frames a very artificiall and curious piece out of knotty and crosse grain'd materialls and that with dull and blunt tools Or like unto a prudent or able Generall that contrives an Engine of a desperate Stratagem to the utter ruine and overthrow of an Enemy that was the first inventor and devisor of it It is very observable concerning Jeroboam's sin how God punished it from time to time both in the first Authors and Fautors and Abettors of it who as he made Israel to sin so he made all his posterity and succession to suffer and smart for it For Nadab the son of Jeroboam walked in the way of his Father and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin And Baasha conspired against him smote all the house of Jeroboam and left him not any that breathed 1 Kings 15.27 29. Baasha and Elah did the like and trode in the footsteps of Jeroboam's and Nadab's sin And Zimri here in the Text slew all the house of Baasha and left him none of his Kinsfolks nor of his friends 5. A fifth Corolary Politick wickednesse and state sins seldom goe long unpunished 1 Kings 16.10 11. The fift and last Corolarie that may be inferred from Zimri's Treason is this That politick wickedness state sins mysteries of iniquity for there are such mysteries not onely in doctrine but practise and in the state as well as in the Church very rarely go (e) Rarò ante cedentem scelesinm deseruit pede paena claudo Horat. lib. 3. carm Od 2. unpunished Jeroboam was no sooner set down upon his Throne and scarce warm in his new gotten Kingdom who distrusting the validity of his Tenour and Title and fearing the defection and falling away of the Ten Tribes by their going up to Jerusalem to worship year by year who in all probability would fetch their King where they had their God But He devises this politick Engine this mysterious piece of Idolatry by setting up two Golden Calves the one in Bethel the other in Dan. And that under a specious and plausible pratence of the peoples Ease saving them the roilsome labour of a tedious journey It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem Behold thy Gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt That was Jeroboams insinuating and inveigling complement with the people 1 Kings c. 12. v. 27 28 29. But what was the successe and issue of it How did it speed and thrive with him Were not these Golden Calves of Jeroboam which he made use of as props and butteresses to support and uphold his Kingdom a ready means to ruinate and pull it down The Spirit of God assures the truth of it in expresse terms And this thing became Sin to Jeroboam and his house even to (f) Dies hora mementum sufficit evertendis dominationibus quae adamantinis radicibus videbantur esse fundata Isaac Causab Epist cut it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth Passe we from Jeroboam to King Jehu who was passionately zealous for the Lord of hosts destroyed Baal out of Israel and did unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in Gods Heart 2 Kings c. 10.28 30. And yet neverthelesse he is marked with a black coal and branded to all posterity verse the 29. Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin Jehu departed not from after them to wit the Golden Calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan. For the Lyons of Gold supported the Throne of Solomon but the Calves of Gold the throne of Jeroboam and his Successours This was a State sin in Jehu intentionally and purposely committed to amortise and rivett him the surer in his Kingdom not considering or believing in the mean time That God who built his throne without hands could uphold it without any such studs or shores or being any way beholding to Idolatry And Jehu who would needs piece out Gods providence with his carnal policy was like a foolish Gamester as is well observed by one (*) The Holy Stat. p. 392. who having all the game in his own hand steals a needlesse card to assure himself of winning the stake and so out of greedinesse looseth all And albeit God for his zealous resolution and impartiality of execution intailed the Crown unto his sons and Grandchildren unto the fourth Generation Yet these Golden calves of Jeroboams direction were as the suing out of a fine and recovery which did quite void it and cut it off The toleration of divers and different religions in the same State and Kingdom is a politick kind of Idolatry and may not unfitly be paralell'd with those Golden Calves A Golden Sin or at least of a double guilt With fair and spetious pretences very plansible and pleasing to all sides and interests every way powerful to disseminate and disperse it self to gain strength and to make a faction and a party in the variety of professions And yet neverthelesse this (g)

Fautors Patrons Proctors of it Who stiffly defend and maintain it as necessary lawfull meritorious of a plenary pardon of sin and which is more than so of the highest degree of happinesse (y) Non licet Regem tolerare Haereticum Bellarm. lib. 3. de Rom. pontif c. 7. Praecipimus singulis subditis ne Elizabethae obedire audeant Bulla Pii quinti adversus Elizab. It is not lawfull to tollerate a King that is an Heretick They are the words of Cardinall Bellarmin that great Champion of Rome We will and command that from henceforth none of Queen Elizabeth's Subjects shall presume to obey her It is the tenor of the Bull of Pope Pius the fifth against Queen Elizabeth And that blasphemous Letter of Cardinall Como to Parrie that welsh Assassinate is never to be forgotten Who after a tedious conflict of doubtfull thoughts being at last resolutely determined to dispatch the Queen he impiously acknowledges and owns it as an heroicall motion kindled in his heart by the holy Spirit wisheth him not in any case to quench the holy fire within his brest and assures him of Heaven for the recompence of reward What is this but to make God the Author of sin Wherewith they most impudently calumniate the Doctrine of the Protestants Surely the Heathen shall rise in judgement against the men of this generation and shall condemn it Well fare honest Papinian who was a better Christian than they who being charged upon his Allgiance to undertake the Apologie of the Emperor Caracalla in the case of fratricide the butchering of his brother Geta could by no means nor menaces be perswaded to it But put it off with this return (z) Idioque vir immortali gloria dignus securi percussus est quod Cauram injustam defendere noluisset Ael Spartian in vit Caracal Non tam facile esse parricidium excusare quam patrare That it was not so easy a matter to excuse parricide as to committ it The Traytor Zimri in the text slew King Elah that was all he did not argue nor plead for it no way justifie and maintain it much lesse boast and glory of it But as for our Romish Zimries the Jesuits they are as much before him in that diabolicall art and Doctrine of King-killing as they come after him in time Yea they are a note above Elah who fell by the Sword of Zimri And as the Apostle speaks of the abominable wickedness of the Gentiles Rom. 1.32 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Schol. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They do not onely do the same but have pleasure or applaud those that do them A second Corollary or Cocnlusion deducible from Zimri's fact may be this The second Corolary Wicked men have a just title to earthly blessings That wicked and ungodly men such as Elah was have a just right and title to these outward blessings I say not barely that they have a spirituall right in the Court of Conscience and in the sight of God who out of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the general and common love which he bares to men as his creatures Makes his Sun to rise on the evill and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust Mat. 5.45 God collates and confers them as a free gift of his meer bounty and goodnesse and what is so bestowed is usually accounted and reckoned as our own For if Dominion be founded not in grace but in Divine providence And there is no Power but of God Rom. 13.1 Then wicked Rulers must needs have a good right to that power and Authority wherewith God in his generall providence doth instake and invest them But I shall onely touch and not handle that thornie question touching their spiritual title And yet doubtlesse they have a civil right in the Courts of Justice among men founded in Inheritance Purchase or Conquest and that confirmed by praescription of a long continued possession and injoyment and cannot be disseised nor deprived of it without a violent violation of order and government in lawfully established Polities and Commonwealths And so King Elah though an usurping Tyrant if not in his first enterance into the Kingdom which descended upon him as the next Heir but in the after administration and exercise of his power yet he might have a rightfull claim and title (b) This may serveto reconcile the seeming repugnancy of those Texts of Scripture I gave them a King in mine anger Hos 13.11 which is meant of Gods providential will They have set up Kings but not by me Hos 8.4 which is spoken of his will of approbation Reigning by Gods permissive and providentiall dispensation at the least though not the will of his approbation and good pleasure Otherwise it had been no robbery nor Treason in Zimri to dispoil and dethrone him to shoulder and justle him not onely out of Empire but life A third Conclusion that may be collected from Zimri's fact is this The third Corolary Outward successe is no good evidence and assurance of a just plea and title That outward prosperity and successe is no sure and sound argument of a just and equitable cause I say no sure and sound yet a very plausible and prevailing argument that winneth and gains much upon the the vulgar sort giddy and shallow people who wanting the depth of judgement to search into the causes and dive to the bottom forthwith conclude in a precipitate and headlong manner That to be lawfull which is lucky and holy what from experimented successe they find to be happy And now we call the proud happy Yea they that work wickednesse are set up and they that tempt God are even delivered Mal. c 3. v. 15. (c) Prosperum ac foeliae scelus virtusvocatur Seneca Herc. fur Honesta quaedam Scelera successus sacit Sen. Hippoi Happy villany is cloathed in Scarlet and Christened with the name of vertue And hence it was that the Sicilian Tyrant and arch Church Robber Dionisius having pillaged the Temple of Apollo at Delphos and forth with sayling into his Countrey with a prosperous gale of wind he laught in his sleeve and let fall that dry frump and jeer See how the Gods love Sacriledge Wene successe a concluding argument it might very well be pleaded by Cutters and High way men The Tabernacles of Robbers prosper and they that provoke God are secure into whose hand God brings abundantly Job c. 12. v. 6. An argument that might be produced by those of Zimri's gang Rebels and Traitors whereof holy Jeremiah complains very pathetically Jer. c. 12. v. 1. Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper Wherefore are they all happy that deal very treacherously And if we inquire and search after the cause why the course of this world is carried on in a tumultuary huddle and in a confused and disordered manner Perhaps this is in the number of those misterious Counsells and purposes of