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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67899	Six sermons preached by ... Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum.; Sermons. Selections	Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.	1679 (1679)	Wing W831; ESTC R5947	121,746	478

his vengeance upon their enemies they wrought a trein of mighty signs and wonders in the land of Egypt for their deliverance And all Israel saw the great works which the Lord did upon Pharaoh and his host and they sang with Moses that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He hath triumphed gloriously the horse his rider hath he thrown into the Sea for ●e brought forth his people with joy because he had a favour for them 3. He was not their maker and their redeemer only but their establisher he perfected deliverance and followed them with all things perteining unto life and godliness He was their conductor in the wilderness in the day time he led them with a cloud and all the night with a pillar of fire He was their Protector As an Eagle flutters over her young ones and spreads abroad her wings so he stretched out his everlasting arms for their defence he suffered no man to do them wrong and drove out the nations before them He was their provider of meat drink and cloathes he smote the stony rock and the waters flowed he gave them Quails and Manna from Heaven so that they did eat Angels food he led them 40 years in the wilderness in all that space their cloaths did not wax old upon them nor their shooes upon their feet And lastly he was their establisher formed them into a Church and State and dictated to them laws for their perpetual establishment he gave testimonies unto Jacob and appointed a law in Israel a law written by the finger of God delivered by the mediation of Angels He set before them life and death he confirmed the Covenant made to their fathers he entred into a Covenant with themselves he spake to them sundry wayes and divers manners and finally to take away all pretences of ignorance or infidelity he appeared often to their fathers by the name of El-shaddai to Moses by his name Iehovah to themselves he came down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai he often filled the Tabernacle with his glory and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people These are some few instances of Gods dealing with this people Now for their requital the Scripture tell us their behaviour toward Moses and Aaron the instruments and toward God himself the Author of all their mercies of their deliverance Many a time they murmured against Moses and Aaron in Egypt and in the wilderness before they were out of Egypt they quarreled at Moses for attempting their deliverance within three days after their triumphal song they murmured at Marach about six weeks after the whole congregation murmured again and wished that they had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt they murmured at their very Manna and cried out in remembrance of the fish that they did eat in Egypt the Cucumers and the Melons the Leeks and the Onions and the Garlick When the spies returned from Canaan they made a down right mutiny they said one to another Let us make us a Captain and let us return into Egypt They sided with Corah Dathan and Abiram in their rebellion and after the earth had opened and swallowed them up they still owned the rebels and adhered to the good old cause on the morrow all the congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron saying Ye have killed the people of the Lord still persisting in an opinion that they were Patriots and godly men But what do we speak of Moses or of oblique and consequential actings against God the Scripture tells us of their stupidity and infidelity they understood not his wonders in Egypt How long saith God will it be ere they believe me for all the signs which I have wrought among them neither signs among them nor signs upon them could cause them to believe He smote them for their unbelief and for all this they sinned still and believed not for all his wondrous works It tells of their forgetfulness they forgot God their Saviour which had done so great things for them they soon forgot his works and his wonders of their falseness and treachery their heart was not set aright their spirit was not stedfast when he slew them they would seek him for a while but they did but flatter him with their lips and dissemble with their double hearts It tells of their base idolatry they changed their glory for the similitude of a calf yea they offered their sons and daughters unto devils of their pride and scornfulness they despised the pleasant land they were a provoking generation a stubborn and rebellious nation How often did they provoke God in the wilderness and grieve him in the desart Many a time did he deliver them but they provoked him with their Counsels He divided the Sea for their passage and clove the rocks for their sustenance and covered them with a Cloud for their protection and they sinned yet the more They tempted him they spoke against him they provoked him at the sea even at the red Sea they turned back and tempted God and limited the holy one of Israel In one word they were a rebellious house a stiff-necked people they kept not the Covenant which themselves had made they would none of his precepts they despised his promises and his threatnings their neck had an Iron sinew and they had a brow of brass This was their behaviour even then when Gods miracles were fresh and Moses was still among them And God foresaw that after his decease they would provoke him yet more This was that requital which stirred and inflamed the spirit of Moses and quickned him to that abrupt Expostulation the first general part of the text whereof I have hitherto been giving an account Do ye thus requite the Lord You have seen some part of Israels ingratitude it follows that we consider the Turpitude and the Imprudence of this ingratitude which gave occasion for the censure here passed upon them O foolish people and unwise And first of the Turpitude of their ingratitude whereby it will appear that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now to set forth the unworthiness of their ingratitude against God in all the aggravations of it it is a task too heavy for me nay even for Angels and Moses when he was inspired and in the height of his rapture did not attempt it but making a chasme and drawing a veil over that part insinuates it to be unexpressible I shall not therefore offer at impossibilities but follow the method which the Scriptures have provided for us in like cases It is the manner of the Scriptures in things concerning God which are incomprehensible to bait the mind and train it on by exercising it in the Analogy of things familiar The love of God to his chosen people i● incomprehensible to give us therefore a little notion of it the

fighting men above twenty years old besides the Tribe of Levi yet he would not lead them into the promised Land without Pharaoh's positive and express consent to their departure 2. As for the Prophets in the third Chapter of Daniel we find three of Gods Children put to the trial the fiery trial of this Doctrine by Nebuchadnezzar an Idolater and a Tyrant acting highly under both those Capacities together They were cast into the fiery Furnace because they would not worship the Golden Image which he had set up And in the sixth we find Daniel thrown into the Lions Den only for praying to the God of Israel Let us consider their Behaviour did they resist or mutiny or labour to alienate or discontent or by denouncing threats or terrours to discourage Subjects from Obedience How had they been instructed by their Prophets Ieremy 2 Chron. xxxvi 13. had taught them that Zedekiah had turned from the Lord God of Israel in rebelling against Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear by God and that they ought to seek the peace of the City whither they were carried Captives and to pray unto the Lord for it Jer. xxix 7. And therefore the three Children in the third of Daniel only refer themselves to God for deliverance and Daniel in the midst of the Lions Den prays heartily for Darius O King live for ever Dan. vi 21. 3. In the next place let us consider the case of Christ and his Apostles and see whether any such Tenet may be collected from their Doctrine or Practice their Speeches or their Actions As for what concerns our Lord Christ I have had the Honour formerly in this place more at large to vindicate him from such aspersions He paid Tribute at the expence of a Miracle Mat. xvii 27. He submitted himself to all the Powers that were over him to the Sanhedrim and their Delegates to Herod to Pontius Pilate he submitted himself to death by an unjust sentence even to the bitter and accursed death upon the Cross Philip. ii 8. This was his Practise as for his Doctrine He taught men to render to Caesar the things that were Caesars Mat. xxii 21. He acknowledged Pilate's power to be from above John xix 11. He rebuked Peter for smiting with the Sword and told him that those that take the Sword shall perish by the Sword Mat. xxvi 52. He taught his Disciples to pray for them which should persecute them Mat. v. 44. And the utmost permission which he gave them was when they were persecuted in one City to flee unto another Matth x. 23. 4. As for the Apostles They taught men to obey them that have the rule over them Hebr. xiii 17. To submit themselves to every Ordinance of man 1 Pet. ii 13. To do all things without murmuring or disputing Philip. ii 14. To pray for Kings and all that are in Authority 1 Tim. ii 2. Saint Peter hath told us that such as despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities are in an especial manner reserved to Iudgment 1 Pet. ii 9 10. and Saint Paul in my Text that they shall receive damnation This Doctrine they Sealed with their blood Saint Peter according to Ecclesiastical Tradition was crucified and Saint Paul beheaded Iames the Son of Zobedeus slain with the Sword c. Now as for the Powers to which all these Instructions and Behaviours did refer they were for Idolatry and Tyranny and Persecution Humani generis portenta If it be objected That all these submitted because they were not able to resist the Answer upon Christian Principles might be That He which restrained the Flames and stopped the mouths of Lions could have given his Servants power to resist that Christ could have prayed his Father who would have given him more than twelve Legions of Angels for his relief that the Apostles who wrought mighty signs and wonders could have rescued themselves had it not rather pleased the great Ordainer of Powers by their submission to ratifie and establish the Doctrine of Obedience 5. But the belief and practise of the Primitive Christians will satisfie this Objection even to common Sense and Reason The Instances in this kind are infinite where Christians abounding in numbers being in Arms and abundantly able to make resistance have chosen with the expence of their lives to yield obedience to Idolaters persecuting them for their Religion I shall name but two Examples Tertullian tells the Emperour that his Cities Islands Castles Councils Armies Regiments and Companies the Palace the Senate the Courts of Judicature were filled with Christians and yet they submitted to persecution And we read that the Thebean Legion consisted of six thousand six hundred sixty and six persons every man Christian when they submitted to the Decimation of Maximinian for Religion I shall say no more to the first Pretence II. Now the second is like unto it alike prejudical to Government alike false and scandalous to Religion An House or Kingdom divided cannot stand and God is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace and that especially in Religion If none have this power to order matters of Religion there must be Confusion if any other beside the Supreme Magistrate there will be Division The inevitable Inconveniences of the exemption of religious Things and religious Persons from the power of the Magistrate are abundantly set forth by such as would improve them to the disadvantage of Religion And indeed to go about to deny or to diminish the dismal Consequences of such Pretences were to endeavour to put out the eyes of all the men of Reason and Experience in the world My present Duty is to enquire what relation these Pretences have to the Principles of Christianity and that First As to religious Causes Secondly As to Ecclesiastical Persons Thirdly As to holy or gifted Brethren as they style themselves Now in order to a resolution in these Enquiries I shall as a Lemma humbly propose one Observation It is this That whereas there are two things whereon all Political administration doth depend 1. Concerning the Rights and Bounds and regulation of Sovereign Powers 2. Concerning the Duties and Obedience of Subjects we find both Christ and the Apostles frequently labouring to settle in the Consciences of men that part which concerns Obedience but no where restraining or limiting or particularly regulating the Office of Sovereign Powers but leaving them to those general Rules which concern the Account and Duty of all men in their several stations and to the terms whereupon the Providence of God was wont to settle the Princes and Governours of the World Let the rights of Caesar be what they will in reference to Tribute or other matters Christ will not determine them This he will those things which belong to Caesar according to Jus Gentium must be rendered to him He doth not examine Pilate's power in case of Blasphemy or Treason but acknowledges it and submits He falls not upon sifting or examining the