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A49126	The original of war, or, The causes of rebellion a sermon preached in the castle of Exon on the 15th of January, 1683, before the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Exon, and other His Majesties justices of the peace for the county of Devon / by Tho. Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2978; ESTC R3712	28,102	44

matter of fact if the Wars of any Nation under Heaven can parallel those of the Jews ours do and in some respects considering that we are Christians have outdone them For have not we as obstinately resisted and fought against the God of Heaven though he have placed us in a fruitful Land and fed us with Manna Have not we still murmured and tempted him requiring meat for our lusts Have we not refused all those means and overtures of salvation which the Son of God hath offered us and do we not still refuse to do the things belonging to our peace Yea with the filthy Gadarens we have even forced him to depart out of our coast and preferred our Swine before our Saviour We have made our great Lord to serve under our basest lusts We have ridicul'd him by false Prophets and false Christs saying Behold he is in the desert fields or in the secret chambers when he taught openly in the Temple We have falsly accused him as an enemy to Caesar and Patron of Rebellion and so have crucified afresh to our selves the Son of God and put him to open shame which if the Jews had known as we profess to know him they would not have done 1 Cor. 2.8 for had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory These were the grand causes of the final destruction of the Jewish Nation and these provocations had brought us so nigh to utter confusion that nothing but a Miracle of Mercy could prevent us from falling into it It is therefore high time to search out those Sacrilegious Achans and disobedient Jonahs that have raised such Storms and Wars among us and we shall find them within our own breasts even those lusts that war in our members for our Saviour hath assured us that from within out of the heart of man proceed evil thoughts first and then murders yea those very thougts are accounted as murther by our Saviour and if there be bitter envying and strife in our hearts our Apostle tells us that notwithstanding our pretences to Wisdom and Holiness we are earthly sensual and devilish Jam. 3.15 To make this Enquiry more plain I shall onely premise That in a Church and State so well established as ours are where we have all things necessary to Salvation in the one all things necessary to preserve our Liberty and Property in the other all desirable Peace and Plenty for our Persons and Families it must be our lusting after evil things that causeth wicked men to disquiet themselves and others Of which this may serve as a Demonstration that they who would put us into a state of War and Confusion having no present or real grievances to amuse the people withal do raise up their old Goblins of fears and jealousies of Popery and Tyranny But as it is a folly to trouble our selves with what may be when it is more probable that it may not be so it is the character of a wicked man to fear where no fear is and a great degree of madness to fall on our own Swords when we are pursued onely by our own Shadows And the experience which we our selves have had as well as the Jewish Nation may convince us that those very persons that frighted both them and us with a Venient Romani The Romans will come and take away our place and Nation and change our Laws and Religion were those very men that did what they suggested the Romans would do 'T is our Saviour's advice that we take no thoughts for the morrow i. e. that we be not too sollicitous about future events which are not in our power but carefully do the duties of the present day and be content with such things as we have and commit our selves to him in well-doing for God hath said he will never leave nor forsake such But if after Gods redeeming of us out of all our troubles by an Almighty hand we shall return again to our old follies and ungodly lusts against his express Precepts and Threats we may in vain expect that God should work another Miracle for us that have made so little improvement of the former I shall therefore proceed with my Evidence that it is only from our lusts that war in our members whence wars and fightings come among us For first we are not under the power of a Heathen or Forreign Prince that rules us by armed Legions as the Romans did the Jews that we should attempt by wars and fightings to shake off that Iron yoke God himself hath ruled us by such a Succession of Pious and peaceable Princes ever since the Marian days as the whole world cannot parallel and to raise tumults and wars to alter such a Succession is to take the power out of Gods hands who ruleth in the Kingdoms of the earth and appointeth over them whomsoever he will Dan. 5.21 And that dear experience of disputing the Succession by the Sword between the Houses of York and Lancaster between whom were fought Seventeen pitcht Battles in which perished Eight Kings and Princes Forty Dukes Marquesses and Earls Two hundred thousand of the people besides Barons and Gentlemen and the Treasure and Devastions not to be valued should forever affright us from the like attempts lest we be found to fight against God as well as against one another 2. Nor is there any pretence of a Superior or co-ordinate power that may rival the Crown the King being acknowledged the only Supreme Potentate c he beareth the Sword by Gods Commission and by the Law of the Land hath the disposing of the Militia to him belongs the jus belli pacis nor Pope nor Prelate Presbyter or People or their Representatives have any share in the Supremacy And yet on such Paradoxes have some men grounded the late Wars Prove saith one that the King was the only Supreme and I will yield my neck to the block I think neither the Neck nor Head of that man was far from the Block that presumed to vent such a Treasonable position 3. Nor can any complaint of Tyranny or oppression justifie a War among us no Nation under Heaven enjoying more Liberty and Property Temporal or Spiritual Priviledges than we Although if we did suffer under some miscarriages in Government some passions and excesses in our Governours neither Scripture nor Reason will warrant any resistance and experience the Mistress of Fools may instruct us that the remedy would be worse than the disease and that they who by fears and jealousies of Arbitrary Government and promises of liberty and redress of grievances steal the hearts of the people from their Prince as Absolon did do prove their greatest Oppressors There have been but few Tyrants under whom their peaceable Subjects have not been much happier than under a state of Anarchy and Confusion More innocent blood was shed more Estates confiscate more Temples Castles and Houses ruined more Orphans and Widows made in one year during our Civil Wars than in all