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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44327	New-Englands sence, of Old-England and Jrelands sorrowes a sermon preached upon a day of generall humiliation in the churches of New-England : in the behalfe of Old-England and Jrelands sad condition / by William Hooke ...	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2623; ESTC R10758	17,779	37

is the ruine of Antichrist for he could never have beene if the Covenant had beene kept his Babel can never be built where men keep close to God and one another Vse First this sheweth us the wonderfull goodnesse of God in foure particulars which should melt our hearts this day First in uniting the Honourable Nation of the Scots by Covenant against the Prelates in their late defence against their Tyranny Which how powerfull and successefull it was we may easily see not onely by the carriage and issue of things on their parts but also by the continuall attempts of the Prelates to have devided them Secondly In the firme brotherly Union of England and Scotland as it were of Joab and Abishai and that too by such an occasion as the Prelates hoped should have engaged them in blood the one against the other like Manasseh against Ephraim or as if Ioab and Abishai should cut one anothers throats Thirdly In uniting both houses of Parliament they having to do with such Ammonites and Syrians It is such a knot that the very Sword of Alexander we hope shall not easily cut asunder A Kingdome united into one body will endure a mighty shock Men standing single are soone jusled downe most difficult when they are all imbodied into one Fourthly In uniting the hearts of all the Churches in this Land to one another and all of them this day to our deare Countrey in opposing the common Advers●ry F●r what hath England said to us of late If the Papi●…s Prelats and Atheis●s be too strong for us th●n you shall help us and if at any time the enemy be too strong for you wee will help you O let us all enter into Covenant with England to live and dye against these Ammonites and Syrians Secondly If so necessary bee a Covenant of mutuall assistance against a common Enemy such a one as we heare of how much more had the Israel of God need to enter into Covenant with the Lord of Hosts in opposing such an Adversary What is a Politicke to a Religious Covenant When the Israelites fled and fell before the men of Ai the Lord gives the reason of it unto Ioshua Iosh 7.11 Israel hath finned and they have transgressed my Covenant which I commanded them for they have taken of the accursed thing c. Where by the way you may see how neerely this Covenant uniteth that what one doth which the rest might with circumspection have prevented is imputed to them all The Lord will never have need to say to England or to us If the Malignant party with their Cavaliers be too strong for mee then shall you help me but we shall have need so to say to him and therefore wee had need see that we be in covenant with him And where a people are in Covenant with God and cleave onely to him having cast away whatsoever is displeasing to him hee enters himselfe presently the Generall of all their forces leades their Armies and fights their Battails And then who can bee against us For one shall chase a thousand and ten ten thousand because their Rock will not fell them nor the Lord shut them up And so much for the Covenant of mutuall assistance We are now come to Ioabs words of Encouragement wherein we have First an Exhortation Secondly a Resignation An exhortation to be Valiant in fighting the Lords Battels and a Resignation of their wills into the Lords hands First of the Exhortation Be of good courage and let us play the men for our people for the Cities of our God And here we may observe the grounds of their encouragement viz. They were to fight for all that they had or were God and their Countrey Church and State soules and bodies their owne and others Observations When Religion and Policie Church and Common-wealth lye at stake Gods people had need to encourage themselves and one another Therefore we shall finde that when the people of God were to go to battell against his enemies both the Lords the Priests and the Officers did All give them encouragement Deut. 20.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. The place is pregnant to this purpose and worthy our reading Excellent are the words of Nehemiah to this point Neh. 4.14 He said to the Nobles and Rulers and the rest of the people Bee not afraid of your Enemies remember the Lord which is great and terrible and fight for your Brethren your Sonnes and your Daughters your Wives and your Houses They were to fight for the Lord whose cause was then in hand and for the Common-wealth and each mans private interesses therefore saith he Be not afraid of your Enemies Vse First this sheweth us how direct a way it hath pleased the Lord herein to guide both Houses of Parliament to walke in viz. A way of undaunted courage and resolution as if they should say to one another as once those Trojans The onely way to safety to the Conquered is to turne desperate Some may thinke they transgresse their limits No for how can they take lesse courage to themselves who being beset behind and before with Syrians and Ammonites are to bestirre themselves for their people and the Cities of their God God and England and every Shire and Citie in England doe this day cry out unto them saying Bee strong and of a good courage be not afraid neither be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you whithersoever you goe Therefore let us not onely have high thoughts of them and such as are alwayes Honourable but magnifie the Lord who hath put such resolutions into them Secondly let these words of Joab sound in our eares this day Be of good courage and let us play the men for our people and for the Cities of our God Beloved I cannot but look upon the Churches in this Land this day as upon so many severall Regiments or bands of Souldiers lying in ambush here under the fearn and brushet of the Wildernes like the lyers in wait beside Gibeah against the wretched rebellious Benjamites I know wee are little dreamt of at this time in any part of Christendome our weapons being as invisible to the eye of flesh as our persons are to all the world So much the better we shall fight this day with the greater safety to our selves and danger to our enemies among whom I am confident in the Lord thousands shall fall and never know who hurt them We arrogate nothing to our selves for if the weapons of our warfare are mighty it is not through us but through God But if the Israel of God would have thought of a way of quickest discomfiture to the adversary what course could they have taken better then to have divided their Forces and to have sent some to lye in wait in the wildernesse to come upon the backs of Gods Enemies with deadly Fastings and Prayer murtherers that will kill point blanke from one end of the world to the other Here then is our