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A71286 A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ... Walker, George, 1581?-1651. 1645 (1645) Wing W364; ESTC R6426 39,735 52

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testimonies we have also most pregnant examples In the Book of Judges chap. 9. we read that Abimelech the son of Gideon by a Concubine being assisted by a band of wicked Counsellors who were prevalent and leading men in Shechem and by the helpe of vaine and light persons which he hired to be his followers with money which they gave him did usurpe the Kingdome after the death of his father and slue his seventy brethren who had more right to reigne than hee and what a curse and plague by so doing they proved to him themselves and to their City and Countrey the event shewed for he was the Bramble in his Brother Iothams Parable and they the trees which anoynted him to be King over them and by an evill spirit which God sent between him and them they became Traytors to him and he destroyed their chiefe City slue the inhabitants beat down the walls and sowed salt in it to make it a cursed place and pursuing the rest of the people who betooke themselves for refuge to a strong Tower he had his skull broken by a stone which a woman cast upon his head and lest it should be said that a woman slue him he caused his Armour-bearer to thrust him through with his sword and so he dyed desperately and Iothams parable was verified in him and his Band of wicked Counsellors and abettors they proved to be a most pernicious and destroying plague to him and a curse to their City State and Countrey and a fire came out from him to devoure them as in that Chapter is shewed at large In the same book Chapter 20. we read that the banding together of wicked Counsellours and men of Belial in Gibeah the chief City of Benjamin proved destructive to the whole Tribe and no small plague to all Israel who lost above forty thousand men in a bloudy Civill war which by Gods Law they were bound to make and pursue against them for putting away abhominations and destroying cursed Malefactors out of Israel Those unjust Iudges and wicked Counsellors patrons of filthy abomination refused to deliver up to justice the sonnes of Belial who had most villanously abus●d the Levites wife unto death and by their authority stirred up all the Children of Benjamin to take up armes against all their brethren of the other Tribes who were commanded to execute justice in such cases under paine of a curse and to cut off such abhominable sinners though with great dammage and bloud-shed on their own side But in the end this proved an heavy curse to the whole Tribe which in that unjust cause which they maintained by the sword was cut off and utterly destroyed except onely five hundred men who escaped by flight unto the Rock of Rimmon and the wildernesse Saul also the first anoynted King over all Israel when God had rejected him for his disobedience gathered to himselfe a Band of wicked Counsellors corrupt Officers and Iudges and other instruments of his violence and of his cruelty to persecute David and such as favoured his righteous Cause as Doeg and others of whom the beginning of this Psalme speaks And mention is also made of them 1 Sam. 22. By them he was stirred up to pursue David his chiefe Champion against the uncircumcised Philistims the common enemies of Israel to drive him out of his Land So that for want of his helpe he was in his great straits and feares drawne to consult with the devill by the witch of Endor to the destruction of himselfe and of those his wicked followers by whose Counsells he was led For with them all his valiant Sonnes were slaine in Battaile the army of Israel routed and smitten and he himselfe so hotly pursued that he had no hope to escape and in bitternesse of anguish hee fell desperately upon his owne Sword and dyed a selfe-murtherer 1 Sam. 31. and so this wicked Band proved a curse to him and themselves and a plague to all Israel It was a Band of wicked Counsellors among whom Achitophel was president which animated Absalom to become a Traytor to King David his owne Father and to raise up in Rebellion all Israel against him which as it was an heavy plague to David and a curse to his family and Kingdome so especially to themselves for Achitophel the president hanged himselfe and the rest with Absalom were destroyed in Battaile and miserably perished The like misery did Rehoboams Band of heady Counsellours and ill-affected followers proud young men bring upon him and his Kingdome for being led and ruled by their Counsell his Kingdome was wofully rent ten Tribes forsooke him and great calamity fell upon him and upon Ierusalem the royall City which was by this rent left naked of defence and Sheshak King of Egypt robbed it and tooke away all the Treasures which Solomon left in the house of the Lord and in the Kings house all the Shield of Gold which he had made 1 Kings 12. and 2 Chron. 12. Likewise the Princes and flattering Counsellours of Ioash King of Iudah who conspired together and were authors to draw the King to Idolatry and to persecute to death the Prophet who was the sonne of that renouned Priest Jehoiadah by whom he himselfe had been saved alive nourished and set up in the Throne of the Kingdome they were most pernicious they brought a curse on the King his family and Kingdome and on themselves for they were destroyed by the small Bands of the Syrians which God for their sinnes raised up to cut them off and their great Host and the spoyle of them was sent to Damascus and the King himselfe being left by the enemies in sore diseases was slain by his owne servants and this was the plague and curse which his wicked Counsellors by whom hee was led brought on him and themselves 2 Chron. 24. we read also in the Prophesie of Ieremiah that King Zedekiah was altogether led and rul●d by a Band of wicked Counsellors Princes Priests and false Prophets which at length over-awed him when they had brought him into great straits Jer. 38.24 25. These were the men who persecuted Ieremiah for prophecying to them from God laid wait to catch him in his words smote him put him in the stocks and caused the King to cast him into the Dungeon What cursed men these were and what dreadfull vengeance and wrath of God followed them and their families the Prophet sheweth Ierem. 18.21 and 20.11 12. viz. That their children shall be delivered up to the sword their wives shall be widdows and a cry shall be heard from their houses Gods vengeance shall be seene on them and their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten What a plague and curse they were to the King to his sons and to his City and Kingdome the same Prophet testifieth They made him and his people reassume their dismissed Bond-servants and break the Covenant of God Ier. 34 11. Yea and the Oath of God which he made to the