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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

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

the most reformed Church in the woorld by their prophanenesse and Atheisme and the most flourishing Common-wealth in Christendome by their cruelties and combustions They have digged and searched into all the practices of Hell and Rome for policies into the conspiracies and conditions of Catiline Sylla and Sejanus they have looked into all the actions of Nero and Herod into the Schooles of Machiavel and the Jesuites for tricks and devises to further their designes I durst undertake to evidence somewhat of all these in their doings Yea so diligent and industrious have they been that they have acted Satans part in rebelling themselves and seducing others Cains part in slaying and murdering their brethren Chams part in mocking their Father their common Father they have acted Achitophels part in devising destruction unto their Soveraigne Absolom and Sheba's part in lifting up the hand against him Doegs part in slandering and murdering the Priests of God they have acted Ieroboams part in their endeavours to rent the Kingdome from the house of David in their defiling the worship and service of God and in their setting up to be Priests the lowest and basest of the people they have acted Rabshakehs part in railing against the Lords Annointed in the hearing of his Subjects even on purpose to stirre them up to rebell against him and Iudas his part in betraying their Master at least in betraying that trust which he reposed in them Well friends I say but this doe you consider seriously of these things and then judge in your secret thoughts whether the Kings enemies those men of Westminster be not exceeding diligent and industrious Rebels And so I come to the third thing in their discription Their ungodly work Rebellion An evill man seeketh Rebellion for Rebellion some read jurgia quarrels some read contradictiones or contentiones indeed all these tend unto rebellion some read mischiefe or evill for evils and mischiefs only are proper to procreate and uphold rebellion and therefore you may observe in story that rebellious men have alwayes heretofore as well as now allowed of all evills Sects and heresies have pulled up the pales of all Lawes have cried up Liberty and permitted all kind of vill●ny and wickednesse as meanes most sutable to further rebellion the lesson shall be this Rebellion is a worke of mischief●e Nay 't is mischiefe it self wickednesse in the abstract the highest wickednesse I have call●d it * elsewhere and not untruly the sinke of all villany and the puddle of all sinne 't is the breach of all Lawes and relations both towards God and man pride prophanenesse perjury envy wrath malice theft murder cruelty rapine spoile oppression irreliligion and unnaturallnesse are all concentred in Rebellion yea all sins by all names that sins can be named and by all meanes that sins can bee committed do follow rebellion and are to be found among that disordered and disobedient sort of people I wish that experience did not teach that Rebellion were the ruine of Re●igion Church and Commonwealth of states families and men 't is contrary to God in every notion Hee is the God of grace peace and order but Rebellion is diametrically opposite to all these it resists grace it murders peace and destroies order I wish if it were Gods will there were need for me to prove all these unto you but alas alas your owne eyes and eares are my witnesses in this thing and shall serve for proofes of this Doctrine And it must of necessity be so that rebellion is a worke of mischief for 't is the work onely of mischievous and evill men yea of such as have climed up to the very top of wickednesse and saies our Saviour can a man expect grapes of thornes and siggs of thistles any thing but extreme evill from persons extremely wicked tantùm malus quaerit rebellionem onely such men are plotters of Rebellion saies the Text no good man will willingly have so much as a finger in it No you 'l say why we are told that all the good men be on their side whom you call the Rebells and the best Preachers whose Doctrines and lives have been most unblameable yea our selves know many honest and good men who are ingaged in that way and we are told also that none but Papists swearers drunkards and uncleane livers are on the Kings sid● and we see God helpe many of this sort with our owne eyes wherefore either those you account Rebells are not such or else your Doctrine is not true To this I Answer 1. Those I call Rebells are truly such for rebellion as was said before is a resisting the Authority and a violent opposing the will and person of the lawfull Governour and none can deny but these doe resist the Authority and violently oppose the will and person of the King which is the lawfull Governour therefore they are truly called and counted Rebells 2. I answer concerning those wicked on this side we will not deny but we have of them too many and as they are our shame I wish also they were more our sorrow the Lord give them all hearts and grace to amend their conditions that they may cease at length to discredit a religious King and a righteous Caus. 3. For those known good men who are ingaged on the Enemies side I Answer according to my former distinction facere malum is one thing and quaerere malum is another good men through deception may be assisters in but they are not the contrivers of this black Rebellion 4. For those eminent Preachers whose diligence in their callings and commendable lives have so bewitched people as to thinke well of this rebellious way for their sakes because they walke in it I answer I 'le not deny their good gifts but this I 'le say that gifts and grace doe not alway bed together Satan hath more abilities and gifts then any man Nor doe I deny their restraining graces but doe confesse that many of their lives like those of the Pharisees in the Gospell that loved the praise of men were outwardly very commendable before this Rebellion did begin But you must know that Satans tricke hath alwai●● been when he hath endeavoured or done most mischiefe to the Church of God to appeare in the shape of an Angell of light to worke by the persons of such well reputed men He that could make use of Peters tongue to tempt our Saviour when Christ bad that great Apostle get thee behind me Satan no doubt but he can and will and doth make use of the tongues and examples of these men to deceive the common people Samuel from the Lord saies that Rebellion is as the sinne of Witch-craft that is 't is exceeding apt to entice and bewitch people to it self by those specious and religious shewes which the fomenters of it shall make unto the World Or perhaps because people did too much adore the abilities of those men would heare the word onely for their