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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66945	A plot to disseize God of his right defeated, and the contrivers punished discovered in a sermon preached in the Cathedral of S. Paul, on the 15th of September, 1661, before the Right Honorable Sir Richard Browne, Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor of the city of London / by Tho. Wood ...	Wood, Thomas, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3411; ESTC R9249	18,398	28

A PLOT To Disseize GOD of his RIGHT DEFEATED AND The CONTRIVERS Punished DISCOVERED IN A SERMON Preached in the Cathedral of S. Paul on the 15th of September 1661. Before the Right Honorable Sir RICHARD BROWNE Knight and Baronet Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON By THO. WOOD M. A. LONDON Printed by W. Godbid for R. Thrale at the Cross Keys at S. Paul's Gate entring into Cheapside M. DC LXI To the Right Worshipful The LADY LENNARD of West-Wickham in Kent and The LADY HARFLETE of S. Stephens neer Canterbury Grace and Happiness MADAMS I Have observed in you both which was partly a reason of joyning you together in this Dedication a constant respect in the worst Times towards the Old Clergy when the firmament of our Church was sadly and totally over-cast with Black Clouds of Novellisme and Heresie even then your Aspects were benigne and gracious and rais'd the drooping spirits of the Orthodox Professors round about you I bless you for it and God for you who is faithful and will most certainly put it to your account at the general Day of Retribution Particularly I the meanest in the Lords Vineyard and save for my sufferings hardly considerable have in reference to my Calling receiv'd many Civilities from you and must profess that as I always honour'd you both more for your goodness than your greatness so I conceiv'd my self oblig'd in gratitude to a publick acknowledgment and wanting other means have presum'd upon this way Madams let it meet I beseech you with a favourable interpretation 'T is a small Peice and was the fruit of my younger Studies If the Style be somewhat Lofty 't was like my Thoughts when I compos'd it Age and the Calamities of the Nation in which I had a share have since broken and humbled mee And 't is impossible without the wonder of a Miracle I should be made whole rais'd but by Dissolution Madams I commend it to you onely as a Remembrancer being able to add little to your Accomplishments in matters of Information It hath been preach'd in Three several great Assemblies and upon the request of some Friends is such as it is sent abroad into the world I fear not much but 't will indure the test and meet with the same good liking in the Reading which it had the happiness to do in the respective Deliveries of it It must needs pass the more currant with all that know your Ladyships if you deign to stamp it with your acceptance and approbations I pray for you and your Right Worshipful Bedfellows I rest MADAMS Your hearty Honorer and Servant in Christ Jesus THO. WOOD. 1 Kings 1. 7. And he took Counsel of Joab the son of Zerviah and of Abiathar the Priest and they helped forward of Adonijah My Design in the choice of this Scripture is to discover to this Honourable Corporation and others of this great Assembly A Plot. Not an imaginary one such as for ends of State you have had heretofore many obtruded upon you but a real Plot. A Plot tending to no less then the Disseizing of the Lord Paramount of Heaven and Earth God Almighty of his right withall if the time will allow it to manifest the Power of the same God in the Defeatment of it and his Justice in the deserved punishment upon the Delinquente I have not long since in a neighbour Assembly entred upon this Argument and by some that are somewhat prevailing with me am desired to finish it here The opening of the Story must not be omitted for 't is that which must give Light to every piece of the ensuing Discourse Several points will appear very intricate and dark in their Derivation without this I desire to make my way plain before me and rather to run the hazzard of censure for somewhat a large repetition then for Obscurity IN This Chapter we have two Brethren Competitors scuffling hard which shall mount the first Chariot in Israel Either had read his thoughts such a lofty Lecture that like those great Roman Cortivals they can indure nor Superior nor Equal A Kingdome is the prize they run for they strain the harder as knowing he that loseth loseth something of Natures Priviledge and must fall so much beneath a Brother as upon Humour or State-occasion to be reckon'd for no other then a Subject a Servant That which awakes them into action and puts life into their Resolutions is the hourly expectation and Likelyhood of the long and last Sleep of their Father in Death David though a King and so a God by his Office yet by nature he was a man and so like the rest of Mankind must dye His able Shoulders had for a good space of time undergone their share in the Burden of Government as a subordinate Assistant during the Reign of his Predecessor Saul and for nere Forty years he had steer'd the Affairs of State in chief so that now he was far gone into the second Infancy of his Life and could not continue long as having at least one foot on the Threshold of the House appointed for all Living This makes these two Brethren whom it only concern'd the one by nature the other by promise to bethink them early of their Interests And because in such a weighty affair bare right by the secret judgement of God and neglect of due afforded means for its supportation doth sometimes miscarry they underprop and fortifie it with the association of such Friends whose Power and Authority in the State might almost without the justice of any Title give credit and countenance to an adventurous Undertaker Adonijah is the first that steps up the Stage to act his part and he comes bravely on with Chariots and Horse and 50. Men to run before him Vers 5. We may take a measure of him in the 6. Verse and that from three material Circumstances his Education Personage and Birth all me-thinks after a sort prophecy and forespeak what he intended and seems to point him out not to a meaner Fortune then a Kingdome First The King his Fathers Affection towards him was not to be doubted of when David was a Man and his Son a Child he never displeased him and 't was not likely he would now go about to crosse him when himself was become Child and his Son Man He lov'd him but too well as we have a Say His continual indulgent cockering Carriage toward him we find noted in the Text and in probability not only as a peice of the Fathers Infirmity but of the Sons Incouragement too Something there was in it or else the Holy Ghost would never have left it upon record that his Father would not displease him from his Childhood to say Why hast thou done so Secondly Nature had plaid the Prodigal with him and conferred on him much of her Bounty for his Body He was a goodly man to look upon saith the Text and if we 'l credit the Conceits of some Philosophers the parts of his Soul must