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A62380	Papisto-Mastix, or, Deborah's prayer against God's enemies Judg. 5, 31. explicated and applyed : in the Cathedrall of Saint Peter in Exon, November the fift, 1641 / by William Sclater ...	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing S919; Wing P311_CANCELLED; ESTC R15926	46,487	70

Papisto-Mastix OR DEBORAHS Prayer against Gods Enemies Judg. 5.31 Explicated and Applyed In the Cathedrall of Saint Peter in Exon November the fift 1641. By WILLIAM SCLATER Batchelar in Divinity Prebend of that Church Psal 68.1 Let God arise and let his Enemies be scattered Let them also that hate him flie before him c. LONDON Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne for Daniel Frere and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the red-Bull in little-Britaine 1642. TO The truly Noble and eminent Example of the best worth Mr. HENRY MURRAY Esquire one of the Groomes of his M ties Bedchamber The Happines of both Worlds Noble Sir AFTER much agitation of thoughts where in these dismembred times this poore piece of my worthlesse endeavours might best find shelter at length it was directed as Noah's Dove unto the Arke to seeke your Patronage as in whose breast so many lines of piety drawne from a large circumference meet as in the proper Center as who have by a sacred kinde of Chymistry extracted the best spirits and quintessence of the choicest vertues which vertues like some rich Carbuncles that shine best in varied lights are by so much more glorious and full of lustre by how much the predominant and most enchanting vices of this vile age can no way damp or sully them nor doth it indeed a little glad me to see that early sanctity which dyed you to my known experience in grayne in the woull of your youth now you have been woven in the loomes of Time into more yeeres still to keep its colour Besides this it is your excellence nor can it be consisted that though some other Courtiers have sometime been knowne like some fair coloured silkes by too much ayring to have lost their glosse yet your retiring Holinesse which is the Diamond set in the Ring of your merited commendations hath preserved you still as a Sic tibi cum fluctus subterlabere sicanos Doris amara suam non intermisceat undam Vargil Eclog. 10. Alpheus gliding silently under the brackish Doris untainted and unst yned by the worst of times and which I cannot but add your rare kill in Arts and various literature is that which doth enamell and embellish all the rest so that whilest the tottering of the times hath rocked many asleep in secure vanity the very mention of your name like a box of spikenard broken hath filled us with a sweet perfume and the savour thereof drawne me thus farre to shrowd this naked issue of my thoughts under the wings of your favour some few cast feathers whereof may so ympe and fledge it that it shall adventure with more alacrit to fly abroad Daigne then Honored Sir being a knowne Patron of goodnes to bestow a looke upon this importunate suitor and to spread your protection over it and him who as b Ruffinus in Symbol Apost inter opera Cypriant initio Ruffinus apologized for the edition of his Comment on the Apostles Creed cannot chiefly in so great insufficiency but know Non esse absque periculo multorum judiciis ingenium tenue exile committere how full of jeopardy it is in so slender a schallop to adventure on the deepes of so many greater judgements or as S. c S Hierom. in proaem ad Obad. Hierome said unto Pammachius of some things written in the beat of his youth Infans sum nec dum scribere nosco nunc ut nihil aliud profecerim saltem Socra icum illud habeo Scio quod nescio But sith I was willing to let you ●ee on this occasion how much I value your Patronage Let it be your Noblenesse to stoup to the entertainment of this bearty Testimoniall of my respects and wi●hall to cast some few strictures of favour upon him the thirst of whose ambition could not be quenched till be had declared himselfe to be Your true honourer devoted to doe you service WILLIAM SCLATER Febr 7. 1641. DEBORAH'S Prayer against GODS Enemies explaned and applyed JUDG 5.31 So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord but let them that love him be as the sunne when be goeth forth in his might And the land had rest forty years THE Text is the close of good Deborah and Barak The occasion of the words their Epinicion or Triumphall Song sung by them in Prayer unto the Lord who had now victoriously made bare his own arme in granting by their though but impotent hands a mighty deliverance from the potent forces of Johin King of Canaan in the shamefull discomfiting of Sisera his chiefe Captaine and by the watery bosome of the river Kishon that ancient river the river Kishon sweeping his numerous Army as so many grassehoppers from the Earth It was I say the close of their song upon that occasion and may now seasonably be resumed into our mouths ●his day which as of old the daies of Purim that in the time of Mordecai and Queen Ester were turned unto the Jewes from sorrow to joy and from mourning into good daies Est 9.22.26 we justly solemnize and make festivall For as then to quench the thirst of a cruell ambition rivers full of blood streaming from the gashed veynes of innumerable Innocents were designed to be cut out through the very flesh and throats of Gods peculiar people so was there as up n this day a Tophet ordained and prepared for us and for our King it was to borrow the expression of the Prophet Is 30.33 mad deep and large the pile thereof was fire and much wood only the breath of the Lord which had tofore blowne upon the cursed project of that Luciferian Haman would not as a stream of brimstone enkindle it so that that very mischievous devise which they indeed to speak with the a Psal 21.11 Psalmist imagined and intended against us but were not able to perform was then returned on their own pates and as the story tells us of Mixentius who was first drown'd himselfe from that bridge of mouldring leaking boates from which he hoped the Christian Emperour Constantine should have miscarried Loe in the very b Psal 9.15 16. same net was their own foot taken Who doubts but as of old the too-unwary Benjimites looking back behinde them to their Citty Gibeab Jud. 20.40 those cruell Pioners meant to feed t●eir eyes with the joyfull spectacle of those flames which with a pillar of smoak ascended up to Heaven from our great Metropolis yea to surfet on the goodly prospect of those mangled carkasses of Heretiques who as that Angel of Manoah Judg. 13.20 in the flame of the altar were by a cracke of Hellish thunder mounted up to Heaven afore the Resurrection and preferred thither as some new companions to Elias in a c 2 King 2.11 fiery Chariot But as Deborah observed in an Irony of the impatience of the braving mother of Sisera that looked before the victory out at a window to view the pompe of his approach Judg. 5.28 saying Why is his Chariot

the very thought of God Psal 10.4 and cannot endure his presence either in the p D. Sel. exposit on Rom. 1.30 p. 159. Heart by his Spirit or in the Congregation by his Word nor in his comming to Judgement nor lastly to the Death any of the friends of God or of such as love him Therefore the adversaries of Gods people are called the haters of God himselfe Psal 81.14 15. Which sense soever you take it in if they be Gods Enemies they shall be all as q Job 21.18 stuble before a r Heb. 12.29 consuming fire and the Lord to ease himselfe of his adversaries whose iniquity he cannot ſ Hab. 1.13 see and like shall set them as a t Lam. 3.12 13. Butt and spend the arrowes of his sore displeasure upon them they shall be sure to perish AND so I passe on unto my fift particular Part. 5 6. which is the matter of Deborabs Imprecation Let thine Enemies perish O Lord To which part I will adde also that other of the Extent of her devotion Let all thine Enemies perish By perishing is not here meant the utter annihilation of their eternall absolute being the very Essence of the Soule carryeth u Matth. 10.28 immortality in it but only of their well-being or rather of their confusion before the present world because it is said of Jabin and Sisera that when they perished at Endor they became as dung for the earth Psal 83.9 So that our note from hence will be this viz. To shew us the affectionate desires of the Saints for the Universall overthrow and extirpation of the wicked enemies of God Obser and of his Church Let them all perish O Lord. As it was sayd of Israel going out of Goshen that they left not somuch as an * Exod. 10.26 hoofe behinde them so is it earnestly wished by the Saints that not so much as one Agag or one x 1 Sam. 15.3 Amalekite might be spared no nor if the Lord were pleased so to dispose it one y Josh 15.63 23.13 Proose Jebusite left as a Relique in Canaan To this purpose he who long experimented the usances of such enemies hath expressed himself Psal 104.35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth Consumpti id est simul sumpti and let the wicked be no more and Psal 10.15 Breake thou the arme of the wicked and the evill man seek out his wickednesse till thou finde none Oh that some z Isa 14.23 besome of destruction from the Lord would sweep them cleane off the Land and that all the a Matth. 3.12 Chaffe and b Matth. 13.25 Tares might if possible at once be bound up together in bundles and cast into flames c Luk. 3.17 unquenchable O my God saith the zealous Prophet make them like a d Psal 83.13 wheele strike them with some Vertiginous spirit of giddinesse let them be vexed even as a thing that is raw restlessely unexpressibly never leave rowling and winding of themselves till they have utterly undone themselves and be cloathed with their own f Psal 109.29 confusion as with a mantle c. Nor may we marvaile at this zeale sith whilest these Jebusites doe stay among us Reason they are but as g Josh 23.13 thorns in our eyes yea the onely h Zech. 3.1 Satans which stand at the very right hand of our Joshua's to resist or to disturbe them in their most fervent services and devotions These the onely Achans who i Josh 7.25 trouble our Israel and as Jebu said to Jehoram What k 2 King 9.22 peace can be expected with any assurance in any Nation where the Whoredomes or Witchcrafts whether Temporall or l Rev. 17.5 Spirituall of but one Jezabel are endured It is said here in the close of this Text That the Land had rest forty years but note the occasion and it is very observable Judg. 4.16 All the Hoste of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword and there was not a Man left in relation unto which for the procuring of Peace for after times the good Prophetesse in likelihood here prayed for a totall eradication saying So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord. Your selves with due Cautions Vse may make the application I have spoken unto m 1 Cor. 10.15 wise men who can judge I doubt not what I say AND so I come to the seventh and last particular in the Text which is the manner Part. VII after which she desires that all these Enemies of the Lord may perish Sic pereant so which Monosyllable So I have reserved to handle in the last place because it will best usher in my intended application of the whole and is indeed as that Wine made by Christ at the Marriage feast in Cana of Galilee kept as the n Josh 2.10 best till last So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord. How or which way would she have them perish Perhaps we may resolve this So as o Ribera ad Amos 4.12 Ribera from Saint Hierom doth that so or thus in the Prophet Amos 4.12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel Thus How or in what manner R. Non nominat mala ut omnia timeant Hee names no one particular evill that so they might stand in aw and be afrayd of every evill of punishment p Sueton. lib. 1. sect 65. Suetonius telleth us that it was the very policy of Julius Caesar never to foreacquaint his Souldiers of any set time of removall or onset Scilicet ut paratum intentum momentis omnibus quo velle subito educeret That he ever have him in readinesse for the suddainest march nor was his way of animation and encouragement by extenuating or denying the danger of the Enemy but he deemed it fitter to raise up thoughts of valour by an aggravation of the contrary forces and as the story shews us did not seldome this way Hyperbolically Rhetoricate I know you can apply But whether that be intended in this text I will not peremptorily say But certainly my deare Brethren it s a most usefull meditation and very availeable to prevent obstinate security in dangerous times to consider the variety of Plagues that the Lord hath up in store for the children of disobedience to which end I thinke it is that the Lord is pleased to set before our eyes so large a Catalogue of Curses Deut. 28. Give me leave a little to enlarge upon this subject I shall ground my enlargement on that of the Stoique q Epictetus in enchiridio Epictetus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is as I interpret it according to diversity of apprehension of good or evill so are mens mindes diversly affected and there are evils grievous to some that seem good to others for example tell a valiant Souldier of Warre approaching you speake to his heart for then he thrives But