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Englands third alarm to vvarre stirring up the whole land as one man to help the Lord, and His servant David, all the faithfull in the world, against most bloudy adversaries mighty hunters before the Lord : in which
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those few prevailed for the evill was from themselves the accursed thing is in Israels Camp There is a deep matter in it said Iob A root of wickednesse it must be discovered and rooted out before The LORD will take off His hand Who gave Iacob for aspoile and Israel to the robbers Did not The LORD Isa 42.24 He against Whom we have sinned For they would not walke in His wayes neither be obedient to His law Verse 25. Therefore He hath poured upon him the fury of His anger and the strength of battell The anger of the LORD is kindled against His people and He hath stretched forth His hand against them and their carcasses were torne in the midst of the streets Then the LORD was pacified towards His people was He not No for all this His anger is not turned away but His hand is stretched out still The Syrians before and the Philistines behinde and they shall devoute Israel with open mouth Now The LORD is pacified No not yet For all this His anger is not turned away but His hand is stretched out still And the very same reason now as then For the people tâ—rneth not unto Him That smiteth them neither doe they seeke The LORD of bosts Therefore His hand is stretched out still It is repeated againe and againe to assure us if we proceed in our sinning before The LORD He will proceed in punishing before all Israel and before the Sunne till we repent of our sins He will not repent of His sore plagues He will proceed to smite till our uncircumcised hearts be humbled till we can accept of our punishment and say from an ingenuous and humble spirit The LORD is righteous in all that He has done against us Till this be we shall finde it will be thus His anger is not turned away but His hand is stretched out still I will punish you seven times more for your sinnes and I will breake the pride of your power Levit. 26.18 i. e. If you will walk contrary to Me I will walk contrary to you And now consider we with all our hearts how contrary we have walked We thinke the wrath that lyes upon the land is sore and heavy and indeed it is so But consider we was it a light provocation to prophane The LORDS day to mar the beauty of it more then any other day The Bishops gave command for that you will say That is true Therefore the land has spewed them forth You shall heare more of their rough hand and bloudy designes But never any more of their unrighteous decrees and grievousnesse Be the Nations never so angry they shall never prevaile to bring in Bishops againe But the people were content to have it so to have The LORDS Day so prophaned to have such a scorne put upon it And therefore if we be trod-upon all the land over as mire in the streets And if the land should now lye-fallow and keep her Sabbaths we must acquit The LORD and say Hee is righteous But I will not reckon up particular sins for they are infinite We are conluded Great and marvellous are Thy workes LORD GOD ALMIGHTY just and true are Thy wayes Thou King of Saints for Thy judgements are made manifest Rev. 15.3 2. The LORD makes His Adversaries successefull gives them power over His people to put forth all their wrath against them as at this day I say all their wrath never was there such a wrath boiled to such a height of rage as now it is at this day for it is agâ—iâ—â—â— David and his men put forth by Davids King and his men which will be a scorching wrath and it shall be put forth to the utmost extent because under specious shewes and formall pretences to maintaine our Lawes by lawlesse men our Liberties by companies of Robbers our Religion by Papists the bloudiest men that are or ever were in the world haters of GOD and the power of godlinesse This will be a bloudy persecution the roughest hand will be put forth now that ever was put forth against the Church for it is put forth against David and his men as was said by Davids King and his men for Reasons so specious and formall in some mens eyes as aforesaid Never any Popes were greater oppressors then those that had the most specious names Pope Godly Pius Pope Harmlesse Innocent Pope Civill Vrban these were wicked Popes yet not more wicked then they who have a form and specious pretences They will make a people free by oppressing their Lawes and them under the foot of pride c. and their King glorious so they say by making him a Lord over a conquered Nation Vnum aliqueâ— voluptate ac deliciis flâ—ere gementibus undique ac lament antibus aliiâ— hoc non est Regni sed carceris esse custodem Th. Aâ—â— Vâ—â—p and that sayes Sir Thomas Moore is not to be a King over men but a Taylor over Captives To be a Keeper of a prison and not chiefe Guardian in a Kingdome Yet the LORD may suffer these men or rather beasts in the shape of men to goe-on to the length of their chaine and to prosper so as it may be said The Tabernacles of Robbers prosper and they that provoke GOD are secure into whose hand the LORD bringeth abundantly GOD is righteous so we are resolved But why is it so For excellent Reason That their Adversaries may fill up their measure apace and heighten their destruction which will be in all His peoples sight as lifted-up even to the Skies Their rage reacheth to heaven so shall their judgment also Secondly GOD useth the wicked as Scullions to try His people and to purge and to make them white so perfecting His praise and His Churches salvation to make His people MEET for deliverance as we shall heare by and by GOD does not suffer this viperous generation to run at large laxis habenis as a best with reines on nâ—ck that they might satisfie their lusts upon His people though so they do and GOD suffers it to be done but that is not Gods end this God intends The purifying the purging the humbling of His servants that their lusts may be subdued the lusts of the Eye of the world and Pride of life This is Gods end the very purpose of His heart to make a people meet for deliverance when this is done the Rod shall be cast into the fire the tabernacles of the Robbers shall be destroyed and they sent to their owne place We wait and God waits We have waited three yeares God has waited eighty yeareâ— we wait for deliverance GOD waits for glory in waiting to shew mercy we shall have our waitings in good time when His people shall be truly humbled for then they shall see their desire upon their enemies and give GOD the glory of all His worke even of His strange workâ— for Thirdly When His people are meet for deliverance they shall be delivered
consisted in suffering rather then in obeying rather in bearing from the hand what the Power inflicted Magistratibus ex animo deferendus honor etiam Tyrannis Ans then in doing what the Power commanded This is true for there is an obedience in suffering and so no resisting of the power for he that suffers from the hand of the Ruler for what his conscience will not suffer him to doe he doth not resist but obeyes the Ruler And yet we must note That there is a wide difference betwixt giving obedience to that the Heathen Emperours commanded by their Lawes and obedience to that which Kings now command against Law Christians then did take-up the burden of their Ruler with a bended knee as the Lord Verub expresseth it and as I may interpret it i. e. They made their body bow unto it not their conscience They suffered for that they could not obey as the three Worthies in Daniel who yeelded-up their bodies â—o the dispose of their King and so The LORD Whom they served kept their bodies untouched by the fire who would keepe their consciences free from polution It is otherwise with Christians now They are called to liberty To obey their King ruling by Law The â—igher Power which GOD has set over them and which the King cannot commit to an Edomites hand If he dâ—es it ought to be resisted for it is a terrour to the good not to evill workes Cleane contrary to tâ—at a Minister of GOD should be And whereas it is said We must give honour to Magistrates though Tyrants we grant as much for it hath beene and is the manner of all the children of GOD so to do David did so witnesse his words and humble deportment before Saul But David did not give his throat to Saul though Saul was King and David a private man yet he read no Law nor could see Reason for that but all Law and Reason against it There is one argument more from the example of the Jewes if not shrinking-up their hands into their sleeves after the Persian manner yet bowing their hands behinde them in homâ—ge to their Emperours person and commands Philo relates the story in his Ambassie to Cajus as followes Caligula would set-up his Image in the Temple of Jerusalem that Abomination in that Sacred Place So he would do And for that end Petronius was sent unto them to assure them That Caligula their Emperour would have it so and for that purpose an Army of foot and horse was in a readinesse to shoulder-in the Image if by faire meanes he prevailed not The Jewes with their wives and children met the Emperours Ambassadour stand before him as children before their parents with their Armes bent behinde them assuring the Ambassadour by that reverentiall posture of their bodies That as they were not so mad as to withstand their Lord so they were not so mindlesse of their duty to GOD as to suffer that abomination to be brought into their Temple unlesse over the heads of themselves their wives and children trampled upon all the way thither as the myre in the streets And so they quitted themselves say they of themselves like men in hese two great points In preserving entire the service of their GOD And the bâ—nd of allegeance to their Prince This is the very posture of good Subjects Ob. to carry their hands bent behinde them while they suffer the Rebels to ride over their heads And that is the objection from hence I confesse this Story speakes as fully to Doctor Fearnes purpose Ans as any we have read yet will it not satisfie his tender conscience nor any understanding man For he must heare Reason A wise man will not show his teeth that cannot bite his offer that way may cause all his teeth to be struck out I will shrinke my hands up into my sleeves or turne them behinde me if I am not able to use my hands Againe If the Jewes at that time would expose themselves wives and children to the lust of one domineering Lord That is no rule for Christians so to doe Nay it was no rule for the Christians after them So we will answer practice with practice For they being oppressed by the hand of an Heathen Emperour Lucinius sought helpe from a Christian Emperour who gave them aid and thereby they oppressed him that oppressed them Though yet it makes a wide difference to live under them whose will is their law and will doe what they list And under him who is under a power which must rule him and his commands Whereof bâ—fore The case is cleared without controversie the King is not the higher Power Yet before we conclude let us heare how the Heathen have resolved this matter Whose is the power The Kings Who has the power over the King The Law Then the Law is the higher power sayes Plutarch in his Moralls But me thinkes Aristotles words are yet more notable he sayes He that will have the Law to be the higher power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Polit. lib. 3. sub finem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 obliquos agit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid sets GOD uppermost and the Law next to Him But he that will have man to be the higher power sayes a Beast may be it A Beast Yes so sayes Aristotle and his Reason must be this though I finde it not in the place for it is sufficient that he sayes a Beast Man may be carried by his sensuall part then he walks like a Beast and acts like a Beast his Reason and Judgment may be steeped as was said in his affections Lust may sway him Anger too and turne him from the rule of Law and Reason both yes that it may the best men living and all the while the man is so carried he acts like a Beast Therefore we must not place the higher power in him What is the higher power then The Law What is the Law It is as the minde of the Law-giver Senate or Councell should be void of all sensuall Desire and Appetite I expresse it as well as I can I would it were expressed better and better thought upon for truely it is very excellent I conclude then that is the higher power that can doe me no Wrong but all the Right that can be because it is void of all manner of Malignity from selfe seâ—fe-seeking or selfe-pleasing Then it is a Truth as cleare as the Sun-beame That the King is not the higher power he is a Man and may doe and does much wrong for there is a Malignity in man even in the best of men and will be there so long as selfe is in him I am now to make further discovery of this malignant spirit in Saul persecuting of David so we proceed in the Story where we shall read that which may be a great disheartning to Israel now while they looke downward upon number and strength of men But if they looke upward setting their faces