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A83990	Englands remedy of a deadly malady: the vvise-womans saving the city Abel, by delivering the head of Sheba, who was a traitor to the common-wealth of Israel. Which serveth as a pattern, whereby the City of London may be saved, by the wise endeavours of the citizens thereof, like this wise-womans, (which are upon divine record both for our learning and imitation) even by delivering up to law & justice, the traitors to the common-wealth of England. ...		1647 (1647)	Wing E3028; Thomason E397_20; ESTC R201676	19,353	23

Englands Remedy of a deadly Malady The VVise-womans SAVING THE CITY ABEL BY Delivering the head of SHEBA who was a Traitor to the Common-wealth of Israel Which serveth as a pattern whereby the City of London may be saved by the wise endeavours of the Citizens therof like this Wise-womans which are upon divine record both for our learning and imitation even by delivering up to Law justice the Traitors to the Common-wealth of England Otherwise if they under the colour of defending themselves Parliament or City do any longer shelter such wicked men as vipers in their bosomes or take up armes against our renowned Army or any having their commission for such a just reasonable and lawfull demand will they not manifest to the world that they themselves are not onely Traitors to the Common-wealth both in partaking with the wicked and condemning the just but are guilty of whatsoever bloudshed ruine or desolation may possibly come upon them and their posterity And the malady consisteth in the Parliaments injustice of all sorts self-interests and grinding the faces of the poore such as their illegall sentences unjust imprisonments burning by the common Hang-man the just Petitions of all the free Commons Liberties detaining the hire of the labourers not duly regarding widdowes fatherlesse nor maimed Souldiers variable Votes forced Covenants and time-serving Ordinances even to justifie the wicked and condemn the just and so to make all free-borne English People the worst of slaves after they are brought low by all sorts of oppressions and delusions under severall notions and have both done all their best endeavours and payed all beyond their powers Printed in the Yeere 1647. THE WISE-WOMANS saving the City Abel by delivering the head of SHEBA 2 Sam. 20 16 c. who was a Traytor to the Kingdome of Israel Which serveth as a patterne whereby the city of London may be saved by the wise endeavours of the Citizens thereof like this Wise-womans who is upon divine record both for our learning and imitation even by delivering up to Law and Justice the Traitors to the Common-wealth of England Otherwise if they under the colour of defending themselves Parliament or City do any longer shelter such wicked men as vipers in their bosomes or take up armes against our renowned Army or any others having their Commission for such a just reasonable and lawfull demand will they not manifest to the whole world that they themselves are not onely Traitors also to the Common-wealth both in partaking with the wicked and condemning the just but are guilty of whatsoever blood-shed ruine or desolation may possibly come upon them and their posterity Jonah 1.15 Prov. 28.28 14.34 11.10 So they tooke up Jonah and cast him into the sea and the sea ceased from her raging When the wicked rise men hide themselves but when they perish the righteous increase Justice exalteth a nation but sin is a shame to any people In the prosperity of the righteous the city rejoyceth and when the wicked perish there is joy SO soon as the Kingdome of Israel was delivered from Absolons treason there arose another Rebell against King David whose name was Sheba who tooke occasion from the emulation and hot contention which was between the ten Tribes 2 Sam. 2● concerning the bringing back of the King to Jerusalem even to blow the bellowes and kindle the fire of division between them whiles the coles were hot and to proclaime with sound of Trumpet in the name of all the ten Tribes We have no part in David neither have we inheritance in the Sonne of Jesse to your Tents O Israel So that by the instigation of this one wicked man there was a great division made between many thousands of Brethren and Friends who discended all of one stock even a revolt of the ten Tribes and so a rent of Davids Kingdome As this Sheba being here described by his brethren and kindred to be the son of Bichri and of Benjamins Tribe as King Saul was so was he of Saul spightfull disposition still retaining the bitter taste of the old caske of Sauls Court which is also noted of Shimei by his reviling of David when he was driven away by Absolon both which old Courtiers had not yet layed aside their old grudge against David and the State of his Kingdome The vigilancy and activity of this treacherous Sheba is thus noted that when he seeth David at the weakest then he taketh most advantage in the pursuance of his designe to be strongest draweth the ten Tribes into his faction and betaketh himselfe to Abel a strong and walled City whereof Joab the chiefe Captain of Davids host having intelligence he presently layeth siege to the City destroyeth and casteth downe the walls thereof being as it seems provoked thereunto by the Citizens standing out against the siege in a wrong cause even in defence of the Ttraytor Sheba under colour of defending their City Whereas Joab it appeares had no quarrell at all to the City it being a branch of the King his Masters Kingdome but onely as it was an obstruction to hinder his pursuit against one Rebell and his faction in the City who had thus highly offended the King so that there is a distinction here to be made between the Citie it selfe and the traiterous faction of conspirators which were sheltered therein whereof this Sheba was the head Upon this fierce assault by Joab thus provoked in his zeale for the weale of the Kingdome and for avoiding of further strife and division it pleaseth God in his tender compassion of the City to move a woman of the City to cry from the wal to Joabs Souldiers that Joab would come near and speake with her by this her desiring a parle and the event thereof she is called as she truly deserveth a wise woman because she taketh the wisest and best course to preserve the City as doth appeare also by the effect Whereas if she had not by her wisdome broken off both the folly of the Citizens and the furie of the Adversaries it might have possibly been turned to ashes and by that meanes many thousands therein who knew not the right hand from the left as well as others of greater age might have been brought to great miserie if not speedy destruction So that to stand out in defence and maintenance of Traytors and Enemies to the common weale under the specious pretence of defending a City and not render them up to justice upon just and lawfull demand is enough to provoke both God and man to punish the whole City for so many wicked and traiterous Sheba's as be sheltered therein We read of this very Tribe of Benjamin formerly Judg. 19.20 21. Chap. that for their unjustly maintaining and not justly punishing that horrid fact of those sons of Belial amongst them who abused the Levites Concubine to death all the other Tribes of Irael rose up in armes as one man and revenged it upon them to