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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85979	The ruine of the authors and fomentors of civill vvarres. As it was deliver'd in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons in Margarets-Church Westminster, Sept. 24. being the monethly fast day, set apart for publick humiliation. / By Sam: Gibson, pastor of Burleigh in Rutland; now minister of Gods Word at Margarets Westminster, pro tempore; and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Gibson, Samuel.	1645 (1645)	Wing G671; Thomason E302_27; ESTC R200286	23,567	42

against all sects and sectaries faithfull to Christ and firme to the Parliament And it is your honour and may be your comfort Honourable Senators that the hearts and prayers of such men are for you and that yee have the prayers of the best affected in Scotland also and in all Reformed Churches Such as were for David are for you such worthies as are like to Amasa when the Spirit came upon him Commanders in chief eminent for valour and piety fidelitie and humility desiring that all glory may be given unto God in our dayes of thankesgiving and that they may be forgotten pitie it is that such Noble Patriots that fight for their Countrey should want any incouragement that the Kingdome can give them Honourable Gentlemen discourage not the godly party quench not any degree of their zeale for you by suffering any Officers in Commission under you to favour Malignants and to oppresse your friends by neglect of widows that are brought to that sad condition having lost their husbands in the Parliaments service by rejecting just and lamentable complaints or by sending away sad Petitioners crying one after another The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me saith Job and I made the widowes heart to sing for joy Fasts do well but I will have mercy and not sacrifice saith the Lord And to do judgement and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice Yee all stand in need of mercy practise mercy that yee may find mercy in that day and this day and all the dayes of your lives If yee do well shall yee not be accepted if yee do evill sin lieth at the dore at the Parliament dore as well as other mens dores for ought I know To returne to our adversaries that are Protestants with what comfort can they help the ungodly and such as seek the extirpation of the Protestant Religion in all the three Kingdomes The Pope is much beholding to them they do as he would have them all the Priests and Jesuites and Papists in England are beholding to them they do as they would have them the Irish cut-throats are beholding unto them they doe as they would have them when they fight against Protestants and against the most zealous Protestants but their Countrey is little beholding to them and the Church of God hath little cause to thanke them or the Lord Jesus the Head of the Church for any service they have done to him towards the advancing of his Kingdome But many will say they stand for the Common Prayer Book and they will fight for that as long as they can stand on their legges A resolution fitter for the vulgar Welch than for understanding Englishmen for that book was never of Gods making and no wise man will venture his life and shed his bloud for any book made by man were it never so good for he can look for no reward of God for it therefore though some that be wise may talke for it yet it is folly to fight for it But it hath been often said Take away the Common Prayer Book take away our Religion Nay our Religion is in the Bible there is our God and our Christ and our faith our Creed in all points The whole Bible was St Pauls beliefe there are the Psalmes of David and his prayers and the Lords Prayer and other prayers by which wee may learne to pray we have still the Lords songs the songs of Sion sung by many with grace in their hearts making melody to the Lord though without Organs there we have all the Commandements though they be not read so often as they have been but when they were ordinarily read were they better kept Were the second the seventh the fourth better kept then in Westminster then they are now Sure I hope as some other Commandements so the Sabbath is much better kept now Our Court-Prelates made the King Lord of the Sabbath and themselves Lords of mis-rule Compelling Parents and Masters and Ministers and Magistrates to suffer their sons and daughters and servants of both sexes to play and sport and dance if they had a mind to it and to prophane a great part of the day Here was trenching upon Gods Prerogative God must stand to their courtesie how much of the day he must have had it not been for the Parliament wee had lost a Commandement They that were for the book of sports would not indure the name Sabbath As for the Sacraments yee have them still reverently perform'd without the book and that is the old way that which they call the new way is the old way for two hundred yeares after Christ they had no set forme of prayer they buried without the book and baptized and administred the Lords Supper and prayd and gave thankes without it so as the alterations are for the better and none have just cause to clamor against them much lesse to fight Though there be lesse painting there is more light though there be lesse ceremony there is more substance though there be lesse superstition there is more Religion though there be lesse piping there is more preaching though there be lesse of man there is more of God and of Christ and of the Spirit therefore be patient and content Beloved it is Davids Religion that we contend for Davids Lord even the Lord Jesus the Son of David that he may have his throne amongst us and rule by the Scepter of his Word wee are for Christ and Sion they are for Antichrist and Babylon that are against us therefore side not with them but rather help the Lord against the mightie And let those that are about his Majestie if they love him perswade him to quit the sword and to hearken to Propositions for Peace and to returne to his Parliament and sit there in royall Majestie with his Peeres as he hath done There was a good Motto written over the gates at Yorke at King James his first entrance into that Citie Suavis victoria amor populi the sweet victory is the love of the people to win that then come and welcome the sooner the better If a King will come like a King with royall attendance he will be receiv'd with all love and joy and honour will be done unto him by all sorts but if they perswade him to come like an Enemy with martiall attendance with wicked company skilfull and ready to plunder and to destroy so as good people must stand to their mercy that have no mercy other Cities will answer as one did in that case Wee will rather live Souldiers than die slaves Pray for his Majestie that his heart may be turned the right way for his own good and the Publick Let those that have mis-led him and animated him to proceed in this war beware lest evill pursue them till they perish Let the young Germane Princes beware who have rewarded evill for good unto this Nation Let all

when it is said his good counsell the meaning is not that it was so morally but respectively it was wise counsell and conduced to his ends and Absaloms and it had been good for Absalom to have followed that counsell When he saith evill he meaneth destructive evill in the Greek they read {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} all evils and so much briefly for the sense of the words for the present From the connexion of these words with the former wee may learne that there is nothing in man independent neither his judgement nor his affections but there is a secret divine operative power that overruleth all sorts of men and turneth their minds this way and that way as God seeth good to turne them in mercy or in judgement to themselves or others Here are two Counsellors the one against the other and at the first Ahithophels counsell was liked and after Hushai had spoken it was disliked and rejected and Hushai's counsell was preferd before for the Lord c. A place parallel to this wee have 1 King 12. 15. there are two sorts of Counsellors one old and the other young and Rehoboam hearkned not to the old men but to the young and by that meanes lost ten parts of his Kingdome and the Lord said it was of him The way of man is not in himself saith the Prophet Jeremy neither is it in man to walk and to direct his steps not the way of his feete as theirs that say they will goe to such a Citie and get gain and never ask God leave he teacheth them to say if the Lord will c. nor the way of his tongue the preparation of the heart is in man but the answer of the tongue is of the Lord Which may be seene in Balaam who intended to curse the Lords people but being over-ruled blest them nor the way of his heart which may be seene in Ezra and Artaxerxes God put it into his heart to beautifie the house of the Lord The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water he turneth it whither soever he will the reason is because as God alone made all the world so he will be absolute Master over all and so rule and overrule that it shall not be in the power of men or Devils to crosse him in any thing but his will shall be done and not theirs and his counsell shall stand at all times maugre all their presumption But here a question will be about sin and error whether this do not make God the author of that I answer no he is not the Author but the Ordinator or he that ordereth sin and that alwayes in a righteous way he constraineth none to doe evill but restraineth many he withheld Ahimelech that he should not sin against him and he keepeth back his servants from presumptuous sins he restrain'd Josephs brethren when they would have kild him and restrain'd Satan when he would have kild Job and having suffered evill to be done he draweth good out of evill and often turneth even the sins of men to his own glory and to the good of his Church and children it is said that Josephs brethren sold him but that God sent him into Aegypt they thought evill against him he meant it for good to save them and much people alive Here was a gracious ordinating of an ungracious act When the Sabaeans and Chaldaeans plundred Job he attributeth it to God and saith The Lord hath taken away now they did it with a felonious intent and the Devill in malice against Job set them on work but God with no ill meaning to him but to prove the integritie of his servant when it was questioned by Satan and to exercise his patience for a time and to do him good at his latter end and therefore as he said so may and ought we to say in such a case Blessed be the Name of the Lord When Absalom went in to his Fathers Concubines that was done which God said to David he would doe and as it was the punishment of sin it was just with God to doe that which he did David was right serv'd when he was punished in the same kinde wherein he had trespassed against another as it had rationem peccati the nature of sin it was Absaloms for he knew the Commandements the fifth and the sixth and the seventh and he had no countermand therefore he did wickedly and the worse because he did it with a wicked mind to make himself abhorred of his Father and past reconciliation the Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his works even in the way of punishing one sin with another as he is magnus in minimo great in the least work so he is bonus in possimo good in the worst act that is done in judgement upon the sons of men For the use of this point first it serveth for the confutation of some errors I will name but two first of those that deny the divine providence as if God minded not the things below these erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power and wisdome of God they abundantly declare that there is nothing so high that is above it nor any thing so low that is beneath it that great Creator thinketh it not below his divine Majesty to move all things as he doth and it is a vaine thing to thinke that it is any trouble to him as it would be to men as he created all things without any servile labour or any labour onely by his Word so he upholdeth all things by the word of his power and being an universall Spirit and omnipotent it is as easie to him to rule all the world as one man and to dispose of all things as it was to create them and by the same wisdome that he did the one he doth the other The other error touching free will tendeth to lift up nature and the vain heart of man as if it were in the power of men to repent and beleeve and speake and doe as they see good pro libero arbitrie whereas Paul may plant and Apollo water but it is God that giveth the increase this is the work of God saith Christ that yee beleeve the thought is the least part of the worke and yet the Apostle saith that wee are not sufficient of our selves to think and God giveth both the well and the deed Therefore in the next place this maketh for our humiliation to keep us from pride of any thing in us and from presuming of any power in our selves to doe any thing wee know not what to pray nor what to think nor what to judge but are apt to mistake and mis-Judge and to be misled Simon Magus was willing to be accounted some great man but a better man said I am nothing he that thinketh he