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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

This truth doth more stownd the Rebells and more puzzell them then any one that I know and therefore to perswade their followers that themselves can give a right Commission they are faine to deny the King to be the Supreme Magistrate cleane contrary to the testimony of Scripture 1 Pet. 2.13 where the King is called the Supreme and like him who chose himself Pope they are so bold as to say the Supreme Authority is seated in themselves which is such a transcendent fancy that all the Traitors in the world that I read of durst never vent it till these sate But being driven to so great a streight that they must of necessity either yield their warre to be unlawfull for want of a right Commission or else thus exalt themselves above him that is called God this second course being the more Antichristian and furthest from the practice of self-deniall they have made choi●e of But let them fancy what they please indeed and in truth were they never so honest men for life and conversation and were the Cavaliers never so vile or so abhominable yet the warre on their side is utterly unlawfull for want of a right Commission they are not sent or authorized hereunto by the King they are therefore no other then ranke murderers of all those they kill and destroy and all the blood shed by them is no other then innocent blood As God saies of rebellious Edom who without any authority or command from God did joine with the Caldeans against the people of Israell unto whom as being Subjects they ought to have lived in obedience Ioel 3.19 that they had shed innocent blood in the Land Though Israels blood was guilty blood in respect of the Lord against whom they had sinned and in respect of the Caldeans too whom God imployed as his instruments to punish them yet in respect of the Edomites that had no Commission to go about any such businesse it was innocent blood and as shedders of innocent blood they are threatned to be punished Edom shall become as a desolate Wildernesse for that very thing saies that Text This may serve to stirre up you who are rightly authorized to be couragious in the Execution of your charge all the incouragement which the Rebells your Enemies have against you and against the King is from the evill lives of some of you who are the Kings Souldiers but you have to animate you against them in their way not onely their ill lives but also their ill Cause and their lacke of a lawfull Warrant And most especially of all you have the Justice of your own Cause the lawfullnesse of your owne call and to these I may adde the goodnesse of your King 1. Your Cause is to defend him whom God hath exalted to keepe the King in the Throne wherein God hath set him against those that would remove him from it 't is to maintaine Religion the Lawes and Dignity of your Nation and to suppresse Rebellion that Child of Hell that Parent and Nurse of all Mischiefe 2. Your Call 't is lawfull from the Prince himself the Supreme Magistrate under God in his Dominion who alone as Austine contra Faustum speakes hath power to wage Warre and to authorize them that are Agents in the same whereas those whom you do oppose as their cause lacks honesty so do they themselves lacke a Warrant to maintaine it and having no Call they cannot upon any good ground look for Gods blessing 3. The goodnesse of your King A Prince of that untainted life of that religious disposition that 't is the greatest vexation the Rebels have that they cannot fasten guilt upon him but onely because themselves have belied him and here Solomon is so much their friend as to speake a reason for them Prov. 26.28 A lying tongue hateth him that is afflicted by it Nay let me adde for your incouragement as you are Christians your King is a man that lives by Faith He doth oft acknowledge in his pious expressions what ever yet hath been done for him by yours or others hands to be a fruit of divine favour and from what he hath tasted he is still confident according to Gods promise of divine assistance I may speake of him as Ambrose of S. Austine with a little variation of the words impossibilè est Principem tantae fidei ac pietatis perire 't is impossible but a Prince of such faith and piety should at last prevaile over all his enemies And so I come to the last particular of all in your description and that is your imployment to inflict sharpe punishment upon rebellious men noted in the word Crudelis or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a Messenger without bewells so call'd from the severity he shall use against the Enemy Hee shall be inexorable and not abate one jot of the punishment that he is commanded to inflict By this Cruell Messenger some Interpreters understand Satan or some other instrument of wrath who without all compassion shall undoubtedly in the end plague rebellious men some hereby understand the conscience of a Rebell which like a Cruell Messenger shall meet him at every turne and scourge and lash him and oh that this Messenger were but once awakened and set upon our Rebells that their Consciences did but storme them some interpret the words thus He that rebells against a loving and kind Governour shall fall into the hands of one that is severe who like a cruell Messenger of God shall throughly pay him for his disobedience or some will have it thus the same Prince that formerly used him with humanity and like a Lambe shall put on the disposition of a Lion and deale with him according to his deserts we read in Scripture of the wrath of a Lambe or of the Lambe Christ Jesus himselfe who shall turne a Lyon and say those mine enemies that would not I should reigne over them bring them and slay them before me Patientia laesa fit furor Patience abused turnes into wrath But interpret or read the words how we will the sence is this Rebellious men shall be grievously punished a sharpe punishment remaineth for the workers of this Iniquity or to the seekers of Rebellion The Lesson shall bee in these words Severe punishment is the assured portion of Rebellious men I could evidence and affirme this truth many waies as 1. By the exemplarie punishment of Rebells in all ages I could tell you how the earth swallowed up Corah Dathan and Abiram who rebelled against Moses and Aron together with their Wives Children and Substance a typicall Lesson no doubt it was to teach all after Ages that utter extirpation is the due portion allotted of God unto such men I could tell you how an halter catched Achitophell and a tree Absolom how Shebae's head was severed from his body and how Bigtan and Teresh suffred death for having an ill purpose against the King and how that punishment of theirs is recorded in Scripture as

my land for the land bestowed by my providence upon such men unto their owne possession as a prey unto themselves with the joy of their hearts and with despightfull mindes 3. Observe that God in punishing wicked Rebells doth observe the law of retaliation as 't is lawfull for the King Gods Vicegerent to do in cases of like nature because they were men of bloud therefore they shall meet with bloud because thou hast not hated bloud saith the Lord even bloud shall pursue thee and againe I will even do to thee according to thine anger and envy unto them as if he had said I will enable them whom thou didst hate and envy and whose Lands and revenues thou didst covet to deale so with thee as thou in the dispightfulnesse of thine heart didst purpose and resolve to deale with them And indeed you may observe by the way that though God doth not usually imploy his owne people as instruments of wrath to punish but rather of mercy to comfort yet he imploied Israel in speciall to punish Edom see Ezek. 25.12 14. Because Edom hath dealt against the house of Iudah unbidden and hath taken vengeance for some conceived wrongs and hath greatly offended and revenged himself upon them whereas being their brethren and superious they should rather if wronged by them have referred the same to God therefore saies the Lord I will stretch out my hand against Edom. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury and they shall know my vengeance saith the Lord God and the reasons of this are 1. Because 't is according to the course of ordinary Providence to punish Rebellious Subjects by their owne Princes against whom they do rebell 2. Because 't is according to ordinary Justice that they who injuriously encroach upon other mens rights should forfeit their owne as a punishment for their injustice to these very persons qui invadunt aliena merentur perdere sua and therefore 't is said by Obediah that the house of Iacob shall be a fire and the House of Ioseph a flame and the House of Esau for Stubble and they shall kindle in them and devoure them yea they shall possesse their possessions even the mount of Esau and Saviours shall come out of mount Sion to judge the mount of Esau The application of these things I leave to your selves 4. There is one thing more that I would have you observe from that place before quoted Ezek. 35. the last words where God tells Edom that he will make himself known amongst Israel by his judgements upon him I will make my self knowne among them when I have judged thee for indeed God was not knowne or acknowledged before as he ought to have been among them the Israelites were growne a most deboish'd prophane impudent and ungodly people the major part of them which made the Lord give them up to be punished by the Chaldeans but by his giving into his Israels hands the rebellious bloody treacherous Edomites who had no call nor cause to warre upon them or to joine with the Chaldeans against them the Lord did meane so to gaine upon their hearts and spirits that they should learne thereby to know him truly and for after times to serve him better then ever they had done before in humility and holinesse And truly friends I have an hope that when the great and mighty God shall have subdued under your power these Edomites our Enemies who are so full of spight and so thirsty after blood and shall have brought on their heads what themselves did purpose against others you will all gaine more knowledge of God and serve feare honour and obey him in holinesse and righteousnesse more then ever you yet did in all your lives the Lord sanctifie the observance of his judgements so unto you that you may And thus have you seen the certainty and in part the severity of the Judgement which shall be executed upon Rebells evidenced Now if you demand the Reason why the God of mercie and bowels should be so severe I answer 't is no such severity in God to beat men with their owne rods to do to them according as they determined to do to others beside 't is but equity and justice to proportionate punishment in weight and measure according to the height or weight of sin But there is no such sin as Rebellion this is ingens supremum scelus the most huge and highest sin and therefore doth merit the sharpest and surest punishment Rebellion is a sinne that strikes at Gods owne self at the face of Majestie there is no such expresse Image of God in the world as a King is every Christian is the Image of Christ as man every Minister of the Gospell is or ought to be the Image of Christ as Mediator but a King is the Image of Christ as God and to rebell against a King is to strike at the face of Christ as God which was more then they that crucified him durst dare to do for had they knowne saies the great Apostle they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory therefore no marvaile if a cruell messenger be sent against a Rebell if severe and sharpe punishment be the proper portion of such men Perhaps now you expect that by way of use I should stir you up to be cruell But noble Gentlemen and Souldiers If I should do so I should forget my self to be a Minister of the Prince of mercie and to be a Subject of a most mercifull King whose meeke and gentle Spirit as we all honour and admire so should we strive to imitate And I blesse God for it I could never yet speake that language of Kill Slay and Destroy which the Ministers of the Rebells side are so skilfull in I durst never excite men to fight up to the back in blood the spirit of the Gospell is no bloody spirit we saies the Apostle speaking of himself and all true Ministers have the mind of Christ which endeavoured the salvation not destruction of men wherefore I beseech you give mee leave as the Minister of Jesus Christ for your souls good to propound a few such particulars to your consideration and remembrance as shall tend both to your present honour and to your everlasting peace I am confident through the strength and goodnesse of God that these rebellious enemies of the King whom you oppose notwithstanding their height of pride and their studie to be auke crosse perverse and peevish and to vex the spirit of a mild and gracious King not withstanding their multitude of Armes and men and their diligence in their way shall ere long if your sinfull and unsutable carriages do not hinder be brought to beg their lives at your hands and at that time I pray remember 1. That though it be true Gallantry and noblenesse of spirit to bee fierce and contagious