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A90065	A sermon, tending to set forth the right vse of the disasters that befall our armies. Preached before the honourable houses of Parliament, at a fast specially set apart upon occasion of that which befell the army in the west. In Margarets Westminster, Sept. 12. Anno 1644. / By Matthew Newcomen, Minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing N913; Thomason E16_1; ESTC R18134	39,055	48

us The Lord so humble every one of us by the mighty working of his owne blessed Spirit that he may please to take notice of his own worke in us as he did here in Joshua and say Arise wherefore liest thou upon thy face I have done with That which God tooke notice of in Joshua But before I passe to That which God gave notice of to Joshua Let me entreat you to take notice of something in God from God taking notice of something in Joshua and that is Gods tender and gratious regard to a humbled mourning heart No sooner doth Joshua here humble himselfe but God presently takes notice of him speakes comfortably to him Joshua Get thee up wherefore liest thou upon thy face Lord what is man that thou art thus mindfull of him that no sooner can a poore sinner in humblenesse of soule cast himselfe to the earth but the great God reacheth his hand from Heaven to raise him up againe Lord what is man that thou shouldest thus magnifie him and set thine heart upon him If the glorious Majestie of our God abase himselfe to behold the things that are done in Heaven Psal 113.6 ô then what a Condescension is it in our God to behold a Man a worme abased upon earth But Joshua was no ordinary man Joshua was a Saint a Friend a Son of God A man of such rare and matchlesse Piety as in all the thousands of Israel nay in all the world there was scarce such another man But One that we reade of if One in his Dayes that was to be compared to him No wonder if when such a man be humbled God takes notice of him But will God regard the Humiliations of other Men Men that are not of such rare and extraordinary holinesse when they are humbled will God take notice of them I will give you but two instances more to consider of for the proofe and illustration of this point and judge by them My first Instance is of Rehoboam who certainly was none of the best men nay as farre as we can take his Character by all that Scripture speakes of him first and last he was a very bad man For it is said of him in the 2 Chron. 12.1 that he forsooke the Law of the Lord he and all Israel with him And if you would know what was the degree and measure of their wickednesse how farre he and his people had forsaken the Law of the Lord looke in 1 Kings 14.22 23 24. and reade what their wickednesse was And Judah did evill in the sight of the Lord and they provoked him to jealousie with their sinnes which they had committed above all that their fathers had done For they also built them high places and images and groves on every high hill and under every greene tree And there were also Sodomites in the land and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the Children of Israel These sinnes within a very few yeares after Rehoboams comming to the Crowne had made them ripe for the judgement of the sword for so 2 Chron. 12.2 In the fifth yeere of Rehoboam King of Judah Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem because they had transgressed against the Lord. The terrour of this invasion is such as Rehoboam and his Princes cannot but humble themselves Whereupon the Princes of Israel and the King humbled themselves and they said The Lord is righteous ver 6. Now doth the Lord despise their Humiliations because they had been an idolatrous uncleane wretched people No reade and wonder at the goodnesse of our God towards humbled sinners ver 7. And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves so then God tooke notice of this even in these the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah saying They have humbled themselves therefore I will not destroy them but I will give them some deliverance and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak And because God would have us take good notice of this his respect unto their Humiliations the holy Ghost mentions it againe in the 12. verse And when he humbled himselfe the wrath of the Lord turned away from him that he would not destroy him altogether and also in Judah things went well God did not only deliver him out of his present danger but prospered all the affaires of his Kingdome in his hand and yet certainly he even after this his Humiliation none of the best men as we may collect from that Censure which after this the Lord leaves of him ver 14. And he did evill because he prepared not his heart to seeke the Lord. My next Instance shall be of a Man who was so farre from having any thing of Piety at all in him that he was a man of the most transcendent Impiety that ever any almost was King Ahab is the man Doe but remember what the holy Ghost saith of him It is said 1 Kings 16.30 That Ahab did evill in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him and ver 33. he did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger then all the Kings of Israel that were before him and in 1 Kings 21.25 But there was none like to Ahab c. None of all that went before him or came after him like to him in wickednesse There were twenty Kings in Israel from the time that the ten Tribes revolted from the house of David to the time that God removed them out of his sight Of these twenty Kings there was onely One good Jehu And yet his Integritie may be doubted too But the other nineteen were all wicked and yet not One among them all to be compared to Ahab But there was none like unto Ahab An Oppressour he was and a murtherer and an idolater and a persecuter of that holy Truth which God had plentifully revealed to him by his Prophets and powerfully confirmed to him by miracles and mercifully sought to endeare to him by many gratious deliverances There were not such Prophets in Israel in any Kings dayes as were in his Nor such miracles wrought as in his Nor had any King more glorious Victories and Deliverances and Providences manifested towards him then he had and therefore in all likelihood he was an obstinate sinner and as some thinke very neere the sin against the holy Ghost This is that King Ahab against whom God by his servant Elijah thunders dreadfull things 1 Kings 21.20 21 22 23 24. The very hearing whereof something breakes the pride of his heart ver 27. And it came to passe that when Ahab heard those words he rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went softly But will God regard it cares God for Ahab Truly we should have been ready to thinke that if such a wretch as Ahab should not onely have rent his clothes but have rent his flesh his heart should he

made with mee and now have violated without cause If thou be a God as they say thou art shew thy power and powre out thy wrath upon this perjured people Dictum factum God did justice upon the Appeale of an Enemy a Turke who in his very appeale spake Blasphemy yet God will doe him Iustice presently the battel turnes and it prooved a very bloody fatall day to the Christian Army the King and many of their chiefe Commanders slaine the whole army routed a great part of that Country lost nothing the cause of all this more then breach of Covenant The Violation of the Covenant of God is such a sinne as will bring disaster upon any Army under Heaven Now to apply this to our selves I am sure you have not forgotten for it is not yet a full yeare since you did with your hands lifted up to the most high even in this place Sweare a SOLEMNE LEAGUE AND COVENANT in a most solemne and religious manner I may say to you as Ioshua did unto the people when they had renewed their Covenant with God Ioshua 24.27 Behold these stones are a witnesse unto you that you have made a Solemne Covenant with God as ever people made Sure you have not forgotten it I am sure God hath not God remembreth it God hath remembred it in mercy all this yeare hitherto and now God seemes to begin to remember it in Iudgement Me thinkes this stroake of God upon us so neere that time Twelve-moneth wherein we tooke the Covenant seemes to speake as if God intended once a yeare to require an account of this Covenant at the hand of England ô that we could call our selves to account this day The Iewes have a proverbe Non est paena super Israelem in qua non sit unci● vituli There is no punishment upon Israel in which there is not one ounce of the Golden Calfe meaning thus That was such a transgression as it is in Gods remembrance every time he plagues them and hath some influence into every calamity that falls upon them In like manner we may say Non est poena super Angliam in qua non sit uncia Foederis We fall under no punishment but there is an ounce of our Covenant in it I beseech you please to review a little some of the chiefe Articles of that Covenant and see how we have observed it In the first we engage our selves sincerely really and constantly to endeavour the Reformation of Religion in England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the Patterne of the best Reformed Churches A blessed and glorious worke which as it hath the first place in our Covenant so challengeth and deserveth the first and chiefe in our hearts But what hath been done in this great work since the Covenant was taken It is that God and man enquire after What hath the Assembly done what hath the Parliament done in the Reformation of Religion When will some Order be setled for the Worship of God When will the Government of the Church be established according to the Word of God I feare God takes it very grievously that since we have made a Covenāt for Reformation we have spent now a year done so litle in it We have covenanted in like manner without respect of Persons to endeavour the Extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Schisme Prophannesse and what ever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godlinesse And blessed be God for the extirpation of Popery Prelacie and Superstition much hath bin done But I know not by what unhappinesse it is but so it is that this last yeare since we all covenanted to endeavour to our utmost without respect of Persons to endeavour the extirpation of Heresie and Schisme Heresie and Schisme have encreased upon us more then ever We are grown beyond Arminianisme Brownisme Anabaptisme we are come I meane many among us to down-right Libertinisme There are two opinions which if encouraged they are encouraged if connived at will open a door to Turcisme Iudaisme Atheisme Polytheisme any monster of opinion The one is That every man is to be left to the Liberty of his own Religion an opinion contended for by the bloudy tenets John Baptist Liberty of Cōscience and the like Pamphlets An opinion most pernicious and destructive as to the souls of men so to the Common-weale of the Kingdome Gerhard 〈◊〉 com de Magistratu § 199. Libertas illa quidlibet credendi saith Gerhard nihil aliud est quam libertas errandi c. That Liberty of beleeving what men will or of holding what faith they please is no other then a Liberty of erring and of erring in a matter that concernes the Eternall Salvation of the Soule wherein to erre cannot but be most dangerous and destructive and therefore saith he as it cannot be safe for sheep to be left alone to wander in mountaines and deserts and graze in what pastures they please Lest they fall upon some unwholesome herb or become a prey to the Wolfe And as it cannot be safe to leave a Ship to it selfe to be driven by the windes and waves without any guide or Steerage lest it dash it selfe against the Rockes So it cannot be safe for Magistrates to leave people to a Liberty of being of what Faith and what Religion they please Lest being carried away from the true Faith and Religion they become a prey to destruction Nor is any thing almost more destructive to a State or Common-weale Praecipuum Concordiae vinculum est Religionis similitudo de cultibus Divinis Consensio Likenesse of Religion and agreement in the Worship of God is the strongest Bond of Concord Bucholc in Chronol Nor is there any thing that doth more unite the Mindes of men then the same opinions of God and Communion in sacred things On the contrary Diversity of Religion dis-joynts and distracts the minds of men and is the Seminary of perpetuall hatreds jealousies seditions warres if any thing in the world be and in a little time either a Schisme in the State begets a Schisme in the Church or a Schisme in the Church begets a Schisme in the State That is either Religion and the Church is prejudiced by Civill Contentions or Church controversies and disputes about opinions breake out into cruell warres Quod à nobis avertat Deus Men will at last take up swords and speares in stead of Pens and defend by Armes what they cannot doe by Arguments Nor doe we want Examples that tell us that Bella sacra are managed with more enraged mindes then common warres are Gualth in Luc. cap. 10. For as another saith Constat nulla esse atrociora odia c. It is apparent that no hatred is so cruell no dissention so bitter as that which ariseth from difference in Religion For such is the Power of Religion that it possesseth the whole man and if once it