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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45251	The rebels text opened, and their solemn appeal answered being a sermon preach'd in the parish church of Up-Lime, on the thanksgiving-day for our wonderful deliverance from the late horrid rebellion, being Sunday, July 26. 1685 / by Charles Hutton ...	Hutton, Charles, b. 1652 or 3.	1686 (1686)	Wing H3840; ESTC R8588	18,102	34

THE REBELS TEXT OPENED AND THEIR Solemn Appeal ANSWERED Being a SERMON Preach'd in the Parish Church of Up-Lime on the Thanksgiving-Day for our Wonderful Deliverance from the late Horrid Rebellion Being Sunday July 26. 1685. By CHARLES HVTTON A. M. and Rector of the said Parish Accipe nunc Danaûm insidias crimine ab uno Disce omnes Virg. Aen. 2. LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Sign of the Bishop's Head in S. Paul's Church-yard 1686. To the Right Worshipful Sir John Cotton of Botheraux Castle in Cornwal Knight and one of His Majestie 's Justices of the Peace for that County SIR THIS Sermon you were pleas'd to desire a Copy of and others since commanded me to Print it I have now gratified both and run the risque of publick censures which yet I expect from none but the dissenting and rebellious Party and those I as much despise as they do Government If it be a crime to Preach up Loyalty to God and the King in an age wherein there are such numerous and daring Rebels to both I must confess my self guilty of it but shall not ask pardon of them till they beg theirs from God and repent of this great sin which like Witches to whom they are compared 't is doubtful whether they will ever do However to leave such among us without excuse this Sermon with some little alterations has already visited other Churches and Counties besides my own and is now like to visit more that if possible the Antidote may be as diffusive as the Poison yet how to expel it quite whether by making new Laws or rather reviving the old and putting them in a vigorous execution is humbly submitted to the wisdom of the present Parliament from whose united Heads and Hearts and Hands we now hope for and almost promise our selves a perfect Cure And I am confident you will not be wanting in your Sphere to contribute what you can towards it you who stood so firm to the Church and Crown amidst those black and dismal storms that formerly clouded and eclipsed both and have ever since even when things ran high again in favour of Rebellion and once more threatned ruine to our antient English Monarchy and Episcopacy preserv'd your Integrity and Loyalty intire which therefore together with your Charity and Hospitality Vertues that are natural to your Family without doubt you will carry with you to your Grave as those will carry you farther even to the regions of Bliss and Immortality where that you may late and safely arrive is the hearty Prayer of SIR Your most humble Servant and obliged Kinsman Charles Hutton FromVp-Lime October 24. 1685. JOSHUA xxii 22. The Lord God of gods the Lord God of gods he knows and Israel be shall know if it be in rebellion or if in transgression against the Lord save us not this day IT is the unhappy Fate of the Holy Scriptures to be abused into a kind of publick Armory whence the several contending Parties of the Christian World fetch Weapons to arme themselves and fight each other no Sect is so profligate no not that which perverts Faith into Faction and Religion into Rebellion but has recourse to the Sacred Bible to palliate and justifie their impious actions Neither is this some new thing not heard of in former Ages since we find it practis'd above sixteen hundred years ago by the grand Impostor of the World He would fain have perswaded the Blessed Jesus to have thrown himself headlong from the lofty Temple on presumption the good Angels would miraculously interpose and prevent all danger in his Fall And this he prov'd our Saviour might lawfully do from a distorted Passage of David's Psalms Psal 91.11 12. And Satan has always had and still has his Agents and Emissaries that use the same Devilish Policy This they were at in Forty two and God knows play'd it then with too great success And though some of those are long since dead and gone to their own place yet as if there were a transmigration of Souls and they did live again in their present Successors the same evil Spirit is conjur'd up again and appears in Samuel's Mantle there being men found in our days who though in open and actual Rebellion against God and the King and involv'd in all those crimes that horrid Sin includes had nevertheless the impudence to appeal to Heaven for the justice of their Arms and to challenge God to decide for them in the Day of Battel And this plainly appears by a Clause in their late bloudy and blasphemous Declaration in the Close of which those very words I just now repeated as near as I can remember them are inserted and it is further confirmed by their insisting on this very Text as I am credibly informed the Day before the Battel Now since this their solemn Appeal has been answer'd from Heaven in a most solemn and stupendious manner and God has decided against them to their intire Defeat and total Overthrow I know no place of Scripture fitter to be insisted on at this time partly to confirm some of you in your unshaken Loyalty and to convince others that waver'd in it and partly to clear the Text from those corrupt Glosses false Doctrines and fallacious Inferences which Rebel and Army Preachers have raised from it And that I may do this effectually I shall give you the real Occasion natural Division and genuine Application of the Words First For the real occasion of these words and that was this Moses the Servant of the Lord and Ruler of his People Israel after he had conducted them safe from Egypt to the borders of Canaan and cut his passage thither through continual Miracles Victories and Successes being conscious to himself of his great Age and warn'd from Heaven of his approaching Fate by Gods command adopts Joshua into the Copartnership of his royal Government that it might sit more easie on his shoulders when he came to bear it all which he must do after his death Num. 27.20 and withal among many other excellent instructions how to govern that stubborn and rebellious people he gives him some relating to the division of the promised Land among the several Tribes willing him to observe this method in making it The Reubenites Gadites and half Tribe of Manasseh should take up their habitation in Gilead and Bashan and other adjacent Countries which lay on this side Jordan because they had been very importunate to fix their abode there and for their good services he had granted it but 't was on this condition that they continued to assist their Brethren the Children of Israel in conquering the Land of Canaan and when that was done and that Land divided between the other nine Tribes and half these two Tribes and half might return and dwell in the Countries which themselves first chose Num. 32.29 30 c. accordingly after Moses had resigned his meek and righteous Soul unto God and his reverend and aged