Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	appear_v	rod_n	199	3	9.8665	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86216	A changling no company for lovers of loyaltie, or The subjects lesson in poynt of sacred submission to, and humble complyance with God and the King; wherein confusion is reduced to order, misery to mercy; reproach and shame to freedom and honour.	W. H.	1660 (1660)	Wing H150; Thomason E1021_4; ESTC R208372	35,158	56

upon the affirmative none saith lesse to more purpose then a late peice call'd Killing no murther If reason alone were predominant the man seems unanswerable but with Christians what is not of Faith is sin and for our parts our doctrine allowes no such practise neither the Church reformed of Christ For him that writ it may he live to recant it and those that did abet and countenance it some late active men know what I meane let them take heed that the same destruction leveld at another light not upon themselves and that they fall not into the same net that was spred for another God hath sometimes by an extraordinary hand taken vengeance as Phineas upon Zamri and Cozby Samuel upon Agag and Johoiada upon Athaliah yet are none of these warrantable for our example these being the extraordinary actings of Gods justice not allowable in the common course of his providence No positive command there is and pittie indeed that there should be seeing vertue it selfe is often by the envious blasted as vicious and wholesome severitie is by some branded for Tyranny But let Kings and the Great ones of the earth know this that if they be not accountable to men yet God by man often takes vengeance nor is it much comfort for a malefactor to have his executioners company to another world Let Princes imploy faithfull and godly Counsellors grave and experienc'd and above all let them beg of God to guide them with his Counsell and then doubtlesse he will bring them to glory Least any mistaking what hath been sayd should condemne the generation of the just and conclude all Princes to have been tyrannicall that have dyed by sudden or violent death I have thought it convenient to enter this Caution against it God is ever just but often unsearchable he doth not ever by externall mercies or punishments put a difference betwixt those that feare God and those that feare him not Where Justice is apparant it is good to say little but when the matter is secret it is best to be silent The same God takes away by the same stroke an evill King for the evills committed and a good King from the evills to come Now to the second sort of seditious persons which despise Government such Wildings and Medlers as the last perillous times must bring forth Lovers of themselves Covetous c. Covenant-breakers false accusers Traytors heady high-minded c. 2 Tim. 3.2 3 4. Their destruction also cometh suddenly To begin with Abimeleck that shrub of Honour fitter ●o make a fire of then a King who attended by a Company of light and vaine fellowes ready for hire to side with any partie or doe any thing that he shall command Lords it over the lives and fortunnes of his brethren The men of Sychem accommodate him with a little money none so imperious as a mounted beggar and then who but Abimeleck till God sent an evill Spirit could it be worse then that of pride covetousnesse and murther that possessed him before to effect what was determined and a fire from Abimeleck devoured the men of Sichem and a fire from them devoured Abimelech Treacherous factious though they hold together for a time yet usually they dissipate and destory one another So must thy enemies perish O Lord. The next is Achitophel a wise Counsellour whoreadvice was like the Oracle of God as long as pietie towards God and loyaltie towards his Soveraigne are joyned together in him but convinced of his folly and confounded by reason of his treachery He thinks it safer to goe on the greater politician the worse convert though to the ruine of him and his for ever then to make an honorable retreat He sets all in order but himselfe and to save the Law and the executioner a labour he hangs thimselfe His sin not being prosperous had he proved penitent he might with Shimei others have procured his pardon But of all rebellions that is the worst that hates to be reformed and refuseth to returne yet seeing it was so ill it is well it was no worse he hang'd alone and had no other Company Though the question was askt by one of the worst of women Had Zimri peace who slew his Master 2 Kings 9.31 Yet the best of men must acknowledge that he had neither peace nor prosperous successe in that horrid treason What his treason was the 1 Kings 16.10 will tell you and what conclusion it had you may see in the 18 verse He burnt himselfe and the Kings house with fire Fires of that nature kindled by treason and increas'd by covetousnesse and ambition usually succeed accordingly and consumes as well the Traytor as the object of the Treason Jehu seems to sleight the president but for all his confidence commission a few years did convince his heires and successors of the infallibilitie of it when God himself did avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu It is neither honour nor advantage to be Gods ax especially when the ax boasts it self against him that hews with it Gods rods are usually made of combustible matter as appears when the time of correction and visitation is over It was Aarons rod the rod of peace that was laid up in the Sanctuary before the Lord the rods of Jannes and Jambres that withstood Moses were devoured by it though by inchantments turned into formidable Serpents Peace must prosper and will prevail when the authors of confusions and delusions shall perish The office of a hangman was never sued for by an ingenuous spirit nor have I heard of any that liv'd with credit or died with comfort The Justice of God is often executed upon the persons and families of Princes but far be it from a pious soul to strive to be the executioner or once to boast of or rejoyce in such execution I have examined the Scripture which is my rule and ought to be every christians and I do not find one that ever lift up his hand in this nature against his master that ever had the peace of a good conscience to gratifie him in or reall comfort to crown such actions Would you find the vipers nest of nation and kingdome-destroying-tenents as Idolatry Schism Heresie you may find them nourished in the skirts of such as have shakt off both piety and loyalty and though none boast more of upright hearts then they yet few but give a better account of them in their conversations It is sad to observe that the deposers of Tyrants have exceeded the deposed in tyranny oppression and who did more advance the honour of Baal then he who but a little before had offered so many of his Priests as a solemn sacrifice to his fury but contemplations and experiences of this nature are endlesse To conclude this part of our discourse What became of Absolom we have shewed already The fatall farewell of Corah and his companions is well known What popular tumult ever produced good or did not

as he that blessed God that he was born a vassall to the Crown of England Barrabas was committed for sedition and murther Those two are not easily seperated Yet oh the misery of popular tumults how easily are they moved to put to death the holy one and the just and to require a murtherer to be given unto them Seditions against Princes and government established are not very many in Scripture yet some we read of as that of insinuating Absalom who saved the executioner a labour and was hang'd in a halter of his own spinning That of Sheba the Son of Bieri whose head soon after ransomed the whole body of his Army both against David The best Princes have many times the worst subjects their pliable natures are easiest abused and turbulent spirits having as the man in the fable by some concessions gain'd a handle for his ax in requitall cut down the Tree But of all seditions in holy writ that which the Apostle calls The gainsaying of Corah seems to be take it in all parts and under all considerations the most dangerous and desperate Numb 16. The Ring-leader is Corah an eminent person in the Tribe of Levi with whom Dathan and Abiram two of the sons of Ruben who gain into their confederacy two hundred and fifty men Captains of the assembly famous men in the congregation and men of renowne these gather together against Moses and Aaron and in plain terms tell them That they take too much upon them all the congregation is holy yea every one of them why then should they seeing the Lord was amongst them lift up themselves above the congregation of the Lord. Was not this recorded in sacred writ I could scarcely receive it for a truth being a faction made up of pretended religion and intended ambition Specious pretences countenanced by men famous both in Church and state so coloured and covered over with dissembled sanctity that even Moses and Aaron the King and the Priest must suffer in their reputation and honour and in the Vulgar account passe for Tyrannicall and Antichristian But true it is for truth it self hath recorded it and in as much as it is written for our learning We may learn from it First That innocence it selfe is no guard against impudent and slanderous tongues Moses though the meekest of men must passe for a Tyrant if seditious souls will dare to say others will be ready to believe it though there be no cause for it Secondly Moses and Aaron the Magistrate and the Minister are equally levelled by factions and as instituted at first by God to comfort and support one another as Saul and Jonathan lovely in their lives so in their deaths they are not seperated Thirdly That blasphemy hypocrisie and counterfeit holinesse ever ushers in sedition and rebellion All the Congregation is holy every one and the Lord is with us c. Fourthly That the grand abetters and maintainers of faction are not only bred but often eminent in Church and State Their enemies being usually those of their own houshold I shall descant no longer on this seditious subject may those that reade it consider what hath been said and the Lord give us grace to prevent that woe which is threatned against them that followed the wayes of Cain who slew righteous Abel and are lead away like Balaam with the wages of deceit ready to doe any thing for money and have perished in the gainsaying of Corah Jude v. 11. And this leads me by the hand from the Doctrine the word of Command My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with the seditious to the Reason a word of terrour for their destruction shall come suddenly and who knows how speedy may be the ruine of them both What Daniel sayd of the Dreame let me say of this for the certainty of it it is doubled first by way of assertion secondly of expostulation of these in order In the assertion observe first The judgement threatned Destruction When Separation and Confusion is the worke what fitter wages then ruine and destruction Is not destruction to the wicked and strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie Job 31.3 Is it not Gods solemne protestation Ezek. 35.6 As I live saith the Lord I will prepare thee unto blood and blood shall pursue thee except thou hate blood blood shall pursue thee Are not the threatnings of this nature many Is not the vision plaine Though it tarry for an appointed time yet he that shall come will come Have not the children of affliction comforted themselves with these meditations in their worst conditions It is Davids Counsell Psal 55.22 Cast thy burthen upon the Lord and he shall nourish thee and will not suffer the Righteous to fall for ever But for the implacable enemies and treacherous friends of his Church such as maintaine crueltie and strife in the Citie such as lay their hands upon those that be at peace and breake the Covenant Whose words are softer then butter but warre is in their hearts whose expressions are smooth as oyle yet are they swords Such God will bring downe into the pit of destruction bloody and deceitfull men shall not live out halfe their dayes v. 23. But this is not all not onely a destruction but theirs is threatned observe Secondly A destruction appropriated as it were to the nature of the Crime seasonable to the time and sutable to the occasion in the punishment God writes the sin and in the penaltie proclaimes Lo this is the Man and this was his Fault Adonibezecks confession may be their superscription As I have done so God hath rewarded me Judg. 1.7 They either suffer with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as we call them either God casts them into the same pit that they have digged for others or into another like it either he hangs them with Hamman upon the same gallowes or makes another very like it There is ever some conformitie either of the subject or some remarkable Circumstance of time or place Their destruction is mighty bitter strange great deadly compar'd to illustrated by and often joyn'd with hell it selfe Briefly it may be said of the seditious what is recorded of Corah his companions The Lord creates a new thing in the earth they are not visited as others are neither doe they die the death of other men God usually pleads the Cause of his servants before the sons of men bringing without any desire or endeavour of theirs the mischievous designs of their enemies upon their own heads and their violent dealings upon their own pates Which leads me to a Third Observation It comes unexpected uncontriv'd No secret plots are needfull to contrive that which God hath design'd publiquely to bring about in the sight of Heaven and before the Sun Mans device cannot further but may at least seemingly obstruct Gods resolution It comes many wayes how often is the Candle of the wicked put out and their