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A62101	A militarie sermon wherein by the vvord of God, the nature and disposition of a rebell is discovered, and the Kings true souldier described and characterized : preached at Shrewsbury, May 19. 1644, to His Majesties army there under the command of the high and most illustrious Prince Rvpert / by Edw. Symmons ...	Symmons, Edward.	1644 (1644)	Wing S6347; ESTC R13172	32,560	38

sakes when they preached it and would look upon their examples more for their imitation then upon the word it selfe for their direction God as a punishment on such people hath suffred those whom they so admired to be the instruments to lead them into those of misery and errour that others might learne by their harmes afterward to love men for the words sake and to trust more unto that then unto them But in short I would have you all consider but two things out of Scripture which must bee the rule to judge both men and their waies by 1. Consider that grace and peace or truth and peace goe alway together in holy Writ and what God hath joyned together there is alwayes joyned in every truly honest heart therefore if you see men that do not know or will not own the way of peace to walk therein you may well conclude that they are surely out of the paths of truth 2. Consider what S. Iames saies of sinfull and heavenly wisdome the former he saies is earthly sensuall divellish and the fruits of it are envy strife confusion and every evill worke but the other that which is from above is pure peaceable gentle easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and hypocrisie yea the fruit of it is righteousnesse and peace and hereupon do you but judge in your own consciences whether the course which those admired Ministers take doth savour more of that earthly and diabolicall or of this divine and heavenly wisdome And last of all remember that 't is some comfort to men who have indiscreetly thrust themselves into a mierie way to have many companions in the same that so part of the blame and shame might be on them which els would lie wholly on their own heads you have heard the Fable of the Fox who having lost his own taile perswaded other Foxes to cut off their tailes too faire p●etences indeed he used but his true end was that his own deformity might be lesse noted suppose those Ministers to be as that Fox and your selves may make the Application and this shall serve to answer that objection Let the use of the point therefore be to work an hatred in you of rebellion by any means do not countenance the devils worke whatever wrongs or injuries are offered to you by either side walk not in the way with these evill men malum pati malum non est malum facere malum est 't is no sin to suffer but to rebell is the highest evill and will be found to be malum sibi in the end the ruine of the Rebell indeed some read this Text thus Rebellis quaerit malum suum a Rebell seeks his own destruction for when a man is once in he can scarce return or leave off till he be destroyed as the present example of their Brethren of Scotland doth sufficiently declare they began to set foot in t●is sinfull way some three or foure years ago and to all honest mens thinking upon their pardon and the pacification and the receipt of so much money they might have been qui●t according to their oath and duty and stirred no more to the molestation of their gracious and mercifull King but we see they are returned to their former vomit Rebellion as was said before is called witch-craft and another reason beside that already alledged is because if a man be once intangled in its charmes he can hardly get free or loose againe 't is no small mercy of God to those men that are come out from them who were once of them O let such offer unto God immortall praises And thus have you seen from the former part of the verse the enemie discovered I come now to describe the Kings true Souldier nay the Text also describes him by his Office by his Commission and by his imployment 1. By his Office he is Nuncius a Messenger or Angelus so some read it and an Angell is a Messenger of God and so is he being an executioner of Justice to punish evill and that shall be the lesson The Executioners of Iustice are the Messengers of God God is King of all the world and as by his providence and mercy he preserves the innocent so by his Angels both good and bad he doth inflict punishment upon the wicked the Devills are his bad Angels to execute his Justice upon the damned and so perhaps shall the Rebels themselves be to lay his vengeance upon some of you who are wicked and ungodly men for though you be on the right side yet God may suffer your persons to fall by the hands of those men for your own sins he usually sets one wicked man to punish another But the good Angels also are executioners of Gods justice at some times it was a good Angell that smote the Host of Sennacherib and so was that which smote Herod with wormes Act. 12. so in like sort good men are somtimes imployed as instruments of justice to punish the wicked the Prince or Magistrate is the Angell or Minister of God and carries the sword for the punishment of evill doers and so are all they who being imployed by him doe neither abuse themselves nor their Authority of which number are all honest martiall men sent by the King Gods Vicegerent David and his men being authorized by Saul against the Philistines were said to fight Gods battels I must be brief for the time runs wherefore let the use of this consideration be to perswade you all who are men of war to walk worthy the honour which God hath put upon you you are his Messengers to execute his will I beseech you remember that he is an holy God and holinesse becomes all his servants you 'l think we Ministers who are Gods Messengers in another kind should much dishonour him our Master if we should not live holy lives but should drink and sweare and commit evill why be pleased to remember that your selves are Messengers to the same Master and holinesse is comely in the camp and is required thereto as well as in the Church read at your leisure in Deut. 23. from Vers. 9. to the 15. Nay believe it Gentlemen and Souldiers your practice of vice and sin will both dishonour God and your selves in that service wherein you are imployed the maine Argument which the Enemies have to keep the people in rebellion in is their Declarations to them of the wicked and deboist lives of the Cavaliers O say they do you think such wretched swearers such vicious livers as the Cavaliers be are of Gods sending will they maintain Christian Religion that shew so little of it in their carriages thus they argue Indeed I know they vent many of their own fiction and also that they inlarge the faults of some upon all wherein they deale most unjustly with us and should we but deal so with them they would as well they might exclaime much upon us Because one

and in his method and therefore our Saviour calls those very men in another place serpents broode and generation of vipers now a viper as some write doth destroy its owne damme which gave it being and so did they their Saviour and so do all Rebells yea our Rebells indeavour the destruction of their owne Nation that bred them of their owne Soveraigne that preserved them as Nero ript the Bowels of his owne Mother that bare him so do these patria mater rip up the very bowells of their owne Countrey that gave birth and breeding to them Iohannes Aventinus tells us that Maximilian the Emperour was wont to call the King of Spaine R●x Hominum a King of men because his Subjects like men liv'd in obedience but the King of England he would call Rex Diabolorum a King of Divells because the Su●jects of this Kingdom had divers times rebelled against their Soveraign though alwaies to their owne ruine as in King Iohn Henry the third Edward the second and Richard the second's daies And I would to God that some in this Nation did not now prove themselves worse Divells then ever but alasse they do for the Religion here professed now is more opposite to this rebellious way then that which was practised in those former daies But in this we may more fully behold the malignity and vicious disposition of Rebellious spirits they are not capable of gracious or evangelicall instructions never marvaile if they who offered spight to the cleare dictates of the Gospell do rebell against the King Therefore be not a Rebell Trust not a Rebell 1. Be not a Rebell walke not in the way with them for so to doe will speak you the Devills Child and to have reached to the highest staire of villanie your Titles will be the same which Saint Peter gives to Elimas the Sorcerer Act. 13.10 Full of all Subtilty Child of the Divell Enemy of righteousnesse and perverter of the right waies of the Lord you may remember for the Honour of Rebellion that the worst Title that the evill spirit could teach King Saul in the heate of his wrath to call Ionathan by was this Thou Sonne of the perverse and Rebellious Woman 1 Sam. 20.30 2. Trust not a Rebell 't is Solomons advice Prov. 26 25. Though he speaketh faire yet believe him not for there be seven that is a multitude of abhominations in his heart they that seek Rebellion as appeares by the practice of some in our Nation doe hold that Principle of the Jesuites that they may break their word promise or oath so it be in ordine ad causam to promote their cause and what man that is wise will credit such He that hateth saies Solomon dissembleth with his lips and layeth up deceit within him so did these men of Hope when to get leave to sit as long as they pleased they promised the Reformation of Church and State the payments of the Kings debts and to make him the most glorious Prince in Christendome for how well they have kept or indeavoured to keepe their word let all men judge They make lyes their refuge and confide in them and there 's reason for it they are of their neerest kindred even their owne Brethren Children with themselves of the same Father I could shew you how all the foundation stones of their rebellious building are nothing but Lyes and so are the pillowes that uphold the same cemented they are together with a morter of craft malice and impudency but experience hath too sufficiently taught this to the whole Nation beside I should want time if I should now speake of it onely there is one thing I 'le desire you to note in all Rebells It is their nature being men that like Ahab have sold themselves to worke wickednesse to charge as he did by their lyes their owne conditions and intentions upon others thou art he that troubles Israel sayeth he to Elias when it was himself so Corah and his companions when they rebelled against Moses and Aron did charge them for taking too much upon them when it was onely themselves that did so And Satan when he tempted our first Parents to rebell did charge most wickedly upon the Lord his Soveraigne his own conditions of falshood and envy And so his Brood amongst us how directly have they trod in his steps for seducing the people to rebell against their Leige Lord they have most maliciously accused him of falshood their owne condition and of envy at the welfare and happinesse of them his Subjects and that he intended to alter religion to destroy the Liberties of Parliament and the properties of his people yea and to bring in forraigners to invade the Nation while themselves as wofull experience doth now teach us have indeavoured and in some sort eff●cted all and every one of the same things wherefore from hence I sa● learne to be so wise as not to trust a Rebell and to this purpose remember the example of our Saviour Iohn 2.24 though they speake him faire and made great professions of their good will towards him and of being his Disciples yet he would not commit himself unto them For saith the Text he knew well what was in them they were some of that Serpents brood I spake of before And secondly remember too how they our Rebells I meane will not believe the King off●ring undeserved mercy and pardon unto them although he like that Inhabitant of Heaven Psal. 15. hath kept his word with them to his owne losse do you therefore believe such unbelievers But what should be the reason of this their suspicion some will say why even this they judge of the King by themselves they thinke hee will deceive them because they have already and still thinke to deceive him what paines hath been taken and at this present is by those Councellors of Peace at Oxford to worke faith in these Infidells but to no purpose 't is true which the Psalmist saies of such men Let the Charmers charme never so wisely they will not heare for 't is mischiefe onely which they seeke after and are resolved yea have sworne and taken a Covenant to persevere in A wicked man seeketh onely Rebellion 2. Seeketh this word notes his active diligence seeking is studying and devising occasions and meanes to promote that which is aimed at quaerit tantùm he is diligent for he mindeth nothing else but this he minds alwaies the Lesson or Doctrine is this Rebellious men are exceeding industrious and diligent in their way They are alwaies plotting or acting somewhat to the furtherance Mat. 2.1 They devise iniquity in the night season upon their beds and in the day time they practice what they have devised because saith the Text they haue got power or the Militia into their hands nay sometime they are so great with Egge to act that mischiefe which they have plotted in the Evening against the righteous man that lives quietly by them that they will fetch