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A87807	Israel and England paralelled, in a sermon preached before the honorable society of Grayes-Inne, upon Sunday in the afternoon, Aprill 16. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometimes chaplaine to a regiment of curiasiers in his Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K679; Thomason E437_1; ESTC R204676	15,730	23

ISRAEL AND ENGLAND Paralelled In a Sermon preached before the honorable society of Grayes-Inne upon Sunday in the afternoon Aprill 16. 1648. By PAUL KNELL Master in Arts of Clare-Hall in Cambridge Sometimes Chaplaine to a Regiment of Curiasiers in his Majesties Army LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1648. To all those that are friends to Peace and to King CHARLES SIRS THough Rebels seem to have so much Law and Logick that none but argumentum Bacillinum Club-law will ever non-plus them yet as the Pulpit and Presse have both helped to heighten this Rebellion so it is fit they should both endeavour the de-throning of it I know that Apologies are as much in use as Printing but let no such complements henceforth come to the presse seeing such leane unpolished notions as these have been perswaded thither And indeed should truth loyalty have no better Advocates then my selfe Heresie and Rebellion might well hope to bee perpetuall But I know there are many thousands ready to make up my defects and truly that tongue deserveth to be cut out that hand to bee cut off that will not now bee lifted up in His Majesties behalf whose captivitie every loyall subject should account his owne remembring him that is in bonds as bound with him no friend of his having any hope of liberty till Hee can lead him to it and heavens hasten that happy day This is the bounden daily prayer of Your friend and servant P. K. AMOS 3.2 You only have I knowne of all the families of the earth therefore J will punish you for all your iniquities THe first verse plainly sheweth us who are meant here in the second even the children of Israel and the whole family that came out of Egypt Neither are these last words to bee counted a tautalogie for after the revolting of the ten tribes from the house of David Israel was one Kingdome Iudah was another wee 'l goe no farther back to cleare it then the title of this prophecy which runneth thus The words of Amos which he saw concerning Israel that is Israel and Iudah in the dayes of Uzziah King of Judah and in the dayes of Jeroboam the sonne of Ioash King of Israel Now though but ten tribes were revolted from David yet all twelve tribes were revolted from God the children of Israel and the whole family that came out of Egypt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Caesar once said to Brutus will Gods children of Israel and Iudah be such rebells ingratum si dixeris c. so an heathen could conclude that ingratitude was the abstract and abridgement of all sinne as if it had been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the great offence And even unreasonable creatures will not be guilty of unthankfulnes the oxe knoweth his owner he will not gore him and you remember the gratitude of that Roman Lion in the story Nay to goe one step lower non ingratus ager that which hath not so much as sense is not unthankfull the earth doth not entomb or alway keep the seed close prisoner but most thankfully returneth it to the sower with increase Yet the land of Israel proved a barren common whereon nothing but weeds nothing but unthankefullnesse would grow whereas the inhabitants should not so much as have rendred evill for evill they continually rewarded God evill for good he did not faster multiply his benefits upon them then they did their transgressions and rebellions against him And shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soule be avenged on such a nation as this Yes seeing faire meanes will worke no good on them I will trie what foule will doe forasmuch as they have forsaken me and not walked in my judgements having broken my Statutes and not kept my commandements I will therefore visit their offences with the rod and their sins with scourges You only have I knowne of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquityes In which words any one will say there are two generall parts Cōmemoratio beneficii the rehearsing of a former benefit You only have I known of all the families of the earth and Comminatio suplicii the threatning of a future judgement Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities And of these with all the brevicy and plainnes that I can But before I come to handle the parts in their order it will not be amisse to premise some brief explication of the words First then you only have I knowne I thought that God had been ommniscient till now but the Text seemeth to deny it in Jury is God knowne and God knoweth none but Jury You only have I knowne of all the families of the earth But we must observe that this word Know hath divers acceptions in holy Scripture I shall instance but in three First to know is to behold to overlook or to discerne Thus God knoweth the whole world and all that there in is he knoweth all the foules upon the mountains and the wild beasts of the field are in his sight there is not a word in our tongue nor a thought in our heart but he knoweth it altogether and before we knew it before we either spake or thought it Secondly to know is to give approbation and to allow of Thus the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous that is he approveth of it Psal 1. ult As for the ungodly such as are the reformers of our age it is not so with them our Saviours word to these will be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I never knew you that is I never liked your doings Luke 13.27 Thirdly and lastly to Know is to blesse to pitty or shew mercy to And the phrase seemeth to be borrowed from a custome among men who seldome shew any kindnesse but to persons that they know Ig●●ti nulla cupid● a stranger can scarce get any thing but ill words Davids servants were strangers to Nabal and therefore the churle would give them nothing Shall I take my bread saith he and my water and my flesh and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be 1. Sam. 25.11 No few or none will relieve any but only such as are well knowne to them And to this custome God seemeth to allude here in our text You onely have I Knowne that is I have blessed you only on you have I multiplyed my favours and loving kindnesses on you only or at least chiefly of all the families of the earth And in this sense is the word knowne used Psal 31.7 I wil be glad and rejoyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble et cognovisti and hast knowne my soule in adversities thou hast known that is thou hast pittied thou hast had compassion on my soul Cognoscere est miserari so Agellius expoundeth the place And Solomon hath a passage that may be referred to this purpose Pro. 12.10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beasts Novit justus so it is in

all Gods workmanship and highly in favour with him at the first and yet as soone as ever he had tasted of the forbidden tree God banished this same Adam out of Paradise Moses is often stiled the servant of God but indeed he seemeth to have been more with reverence be it spoken to have been Gods familiar acquaintance for Exod. 33.11 the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend Yet as great and gracious and familiar as Moses was with God for one sin of infidelity God fell out with him as we read Numb 20. where when the people murmured for water God bid Moses but onely speak to the rock and it should give forth water But Moses thought that speaking would not do it not a word therefore but a blow two of them for failing he smote the rock twice And for this he had his doome immediately that he should not enter into the land of promise He that Prophesied against the Altar at Bethel was Gods favourite a man of God Yet forasmuch as he disobeyed the mouth of the Lord in going back to eat and drinke with the old Prophet his carkase must not come to the Sepulcher of his fathers I shall give you but one example more which is without example our Saviour himself that Lambe without spot the onely righteous person that ever lived upon the earth Though he were Gods bosome Son and had not the least sin of his owne onely took ours by imputation yet how harshly did his father handle him never was there any sorrow like unto his sorrow wherewith the Lord afflicted him in the day of his fierce anger And if these things be done in a greene tree what shall be done in the dry Luke 23.31 The righteous shall be recompenced in the earth much more the wicked and the sinner Prov. 11. ult If judgement begin at the house of God what shall the end be of those men that obey not the Gospell of God And if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear 1 Pet. 4.17 18. If an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile if this man shall be recompenced shall be punished in the earth with whom shall hypocrites have their portion that are full of deceit and fraud and under whose tongue is ungodlinesse and vanity If a perfect and upright man one that feareth God and striveth to eschew evil if this man shall be recompenced shall be punished in the earth what will become of him that hath no fear of God before his eyes but liveth as if there were no God committing all uncleannesse even with greedinesse If a man of a strict life and a tender conscience must be punished what will become of the rebellious reformers of our age whose consciences seeme to be feared with an hot iron If Jerusalem the holy City must be punished Lord what will become of London and Westminster places every whit as sinfull as Sodome or Gomorrah If God go so roughly to worke with them he knoweth oh how will he handle strangers without mittons if he execute his judgements upon Jury where he was known oh what fiery indignation will he powre out upon the heathen that have not known him and upon the Kingdomes that have not called upon his name This teacheth us to flee from sin as from the face of a Serpent considering how odious and abominable it is in the sight of God though Coniah the son of Jeboiakim King of Judah were the signet upon his right hand yet for sin God threatned to pluck him thence Jer. 22.24 The King of England will not pardon wilfull murther though his chiefest favourite should commit it The King of heaven will let no sin go unpunished no not in his favourites in his owne people And he will never connive at sin in us that threatneth here to punish it so severely in Israel You onely have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities And so I have gone through the parts of the Text a few words now of Application and I have done Truly God saith the Psalmist is loving unto Isael and truly he hath been as loving unto us he hath bestowed many private and many positive blessings on us First private many late deliverances I will Instance but in three The first was from Popish tyranny and superstition a tyranny more then Aegyptian an Antichristian tyranny The damned glutton Luk. 16. desired onely a little water for his thirst But water will not quench this thirst of Babilon the whore must have blood till she hath made her selfe starke drunk with it no blood of Beasts it must be blood of Men no blood of sinners it must be the blood of Saints and these Martyrs none of Mahomets they must be Martyrs of Jesus Rev. 17.6 Sad experience of this tyranny we had in Queen Maries daies Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo the Romish horseleach would not give us over till she had full gorged herself with our blood Or indeed it is a question whether she would ever have been fatisfied had we not been strangely delivered from her tyranny by the Queen of Queens or rather the King of Kings You o●ely have I known of all the fam●lies of the earth A second deliverance was from the Spanish Armado in the year 1588. Which Fleet had it prevailed our Thames had been named Tyber Romish superstition had invaded us once more and then by the waters of Babylon we might have sate downe and wept as often as we remembred this our Sion But God brake the ships of the sea through the East wind You only have I known of all the families of the earth A third deliverance was from that horrid Powder-treason Novemb. 5. 1605. which was carried on with so great secrecy that it made the man of sin insult Teque his ait eripe flammis who is that God that shall deliver them out of my hands But he that dwelleth in heaven laugheth the Bishop of Rome to scorne and pluck't us as it had been fire-brands out of the burning You onely have I known of all the families of the earth And as God has befriended us by his private so by his positive blessings answerable to those which he bestowed upon his Vineyard And first we may compare with Israel for a fruitfull scituation being neither under the torrid nor the frozen Zone neither burned away with parching heat nor benummed away with pinching cold but seated in a temperate climate afertile soile our folds are ful of sheep our vallies stand so thick with corne that we may laugh and sing God hath also fenced us about like the Israelites in the red sea with a wall of water the waters are as a wall unto us on our right hand and on our left But especially God hath fenced us by his protection salvation hath the Lord appointed for wals and bulwarks He