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A28224	Two sermons the first shewing the mischiefs of anarchy, the second the mischiefs of sedition, and both of them the mischiefs and treasons of conventicles : preached at the assizes held for the county of Suffolk, ann. 1682/3 : and published at the request of Tho. Waldegrave, Esq. ... / by Nath. Bisbie ...; Mischiefs of anarchy	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1684 (1684)	Wing B2984; ESTC R3888	38,700	75

war a great deal of Bloudshed Firing of Cities insufferable depopulation of all that comes to hand ch 21. there is Spiriting of Women enforced and unlawful marriages enough for the charge of a Judge or the Inquest of a Jury and all this for want of a Judge to punish and restrain them But these are matters of daily infliction it is Micah and his house that is most apt to escape and be pitied And hence you may observe how forward the Israelites were to blame yea to revenge the outrage committed on the Levite's Concubine The like say they was never seen in Israel nay they were for the excision of a whole Tribe to expiate it But as for this Micah and his house no man said a word against it but passed it over as if it had not been an evil in Israel though as injurious to God and as prejudicial to Society as any other evil of the land can be and indeed is the motive why I would have you so earnestly to fix your eye upon it Nay I am prone to think that though you should rout the whole Confederacy besides yet if you let this escape with a Touch me not for I am holier than thou there will never be want of work for the Judges nor the worst of their Executioners as long as the world endures I confess their is another sort of men among us not altogether of Micah's house but of Micah's principles and acquaintance perfidious false-hearted Conformists Men that can gorge themselves upon the fat of the Altar and yet for a fuller meal let out their barns to a Conventicle and their Vicarages to the Preachers of them that can with the Apostate Apostle take the Sop the maintenance of the Church from the hands of Christ and yet at the same time have it in their hearts to betray him known by their Lisping to be Ephramites Men that have the lingua and holy dialect of Israel but withal an accent a Sibboleth and twang of their own who BLOOD-like take to themselves the Priests habit but upon no other design nor for no other end than to steal away the Crown Innocent Church-men in shew but downright Pensioners to the Faction dealing through their Traiterous practices and deceitful behaviour with the poor Church their Mother as the Priest did ch 19. by his abused Concubine hew her to pieces limb from limb bone from bone and then send them to all the Tribes the several parties and factions of the land to make Protestants of them This is also an evil in the Land and if not looked after and restrained how right soever it be in some mens eyes they 'l soon fill Micah's house with their neighbourhood and in a little while more turn Priests themselves unto him I might be as long winded in the cause as one of Micah's Priests but my time and your business forbids However You are called hither to see what Evil is done in the Land be perswaded therefore I pray you neither to be Ignoramus's nor Gallio's in the case a like resolv'd not to see or not to care for these things Not as if I would have you to deal by those Ephramites of the Mountain as Herod did by the Baptist of the Wilderness cut off their heads to oblige every idle dancing daughter much less to think that no atonement nor settlement is to be made without the fore-skins of all the Philistins of the Land This looks too much like a Presbyterian root and branch or what is much the same an Independent Wallinfordian Massacre A debate so horrid and barbarous that it made the very Atheist who records the story to quake and tremble A little severity and rigor Juridically apply'd is enough and most becoming the gentleness the Candor the Ingenuity of the Church of England whose Mercies are not Cruel whose Hands are not Bloody whose neither Principles nor Temper ever lead further than to Conquest or to Peace always hating to hew Agag to pieces or to destroy the Amalekites as the Israelites were forc'd to do till not one of them be left alive never aiming at more than to Humble or to make Tributary to provide that her Adversaries be modest or tractable Obedient or submissive which indeed is the End and design both of Government and Law and without doubt to blindfold the one or to cramp the other when open and notorious malefactors are concern'd instead of righting you 'l injure us and instead of keeping us in Peace Love and Unity as the Law and the Makers thereof design you 'l expose us to all the malice and peevishness of a perverse and froward generation To day made Execrable and to morrow a Victime now Condemned and anon Executed every way expos'd to insolence and humor to parties and factions to violence and oppression and in short to whatsoever seemeth right to them that are resolv'd to do wrong I have but one word more and that is to provoke you to a constancy in this your care That you may not do as some are observ'd and said to do by the Venemous creatures of the Land where they live set a day to destroy them and rid their land of them which they observe with the greatest strictness and severity imaginable searching all their holes destroying all their nests and harbors and sparing neither young nor old but if once that day be over they suffer them ever after freely to encrease and breed nay to abide under their very thresholds and to crawl into their chambers never after minding nor concerning themselves with them till the year be out and the day again return upon them Sirs it is not the time of an Assize a day when you are instigated by a Sermon or a charge that will destroy this sort of Vermin or rid our land of their breed it must be your daily Vigilance and care otherwise afore the next return the Nation will be as full and as much over-run with them as ever it was and the brood as numerous as viperous and as difficult to Master as now it is And thus have I shewn you That when there is no King in Israel nor no Subordinate Magistrate there or they neither willing nor ready to punish the Offenders in Israel every one will do everything and all will come to confusion Wherefore from those days wherein such evil is done from the Evil that is done in those days and from the Curse and Plague of having no King at all or none under him to punish Offenders in Israel let all those who wish well to Sion to the Church and the State there say Now and ever good Lord deliver us To whom Father Son and Holy Ghost Three persons One God be ascribed all honour glory power and dominion now and for ever Amen KORAH And His COMPANY PROVED To be the Seminary and Seed-plot OF SEDITION and REBELLION IN A SERMONOn Numb xxvi 9. Preached at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmunds for the County of Suffolk

do or can harden themselves unless they be their fathers own sons in principles as in blood I know not may perhaps pity but I am afraid never reform And yet verily there is a generation of men in the world who need none of this repentance who have been neither enemies to their King nor opposers of their Priests who in the heat of the mutiny have been neither Schismaticks with Korah nor Rebels with Dathan but fidi Achates trusty and Loyal Subjects good old Barzillai's who are feign God knows to be content with their olim meminisse their wounds and scars and dy'd garments from Bozrah the services they have done and the sufferings they have undergone yea and others who following their fathers steps have fought with beasts at Ephesus ventur'd at the dens of Lyons stood the shock of Schismatical envy and Democratical fury and whenever the records be search'd I wish their names and their merits may not be overlook'd But and if this be that Dathan and Abiram or if these be the sons of that Dathan and Abiram whose names are to be branded to all posterity for their Schismatical rebellious doings what ought to be done to those that have been thus faithful and loyal valiant and serviceable ever striving against the strivers and as need requir'd resisting the resisters unto blood Verily Silver and Gold I have none but what I have give I heartily unto you may the blessing therefore of Aaron and of his rod fall upon you and follow you may the King of Jeshurun whose Champions and worthies you have been with his oyl and his fatness reward you and when the day of account comes may you never be found Rebels to your God more than you have been unto your King Remark we 3. That Sedition and Rebellion are two such sins that will destroy the whole fabrick of Government though never so well rear'd and run it eftsoon into confusion and slavery if not timely and carefully prevented They 'l divide the house and if the house be divided truth it self will tell us that it cannot stand Humanity will turn into cruelty nature and friendship into Faction and fury to kill one another will be called valour to disobey the King accounted loyalty plain robbery and oppression the best of zeal and Religion the Sword the bloody heedless devouring Sword the only Lord Chief Justice of the Land We shall soon see an overthrow of all order and Law a confusion in our duties both to God and man and a Kingdom which for its pleasure may be a Paradise for its Light a Goshen for its plenty a Canaan chang'd into a Chaos a worser Chaos than that which the world came out of for a word put an end to that God spake and the world was made Psalm 38.9 nay God divided the light from the darkness and he called the light day and the darkness he called night and the Evening and the Morning were the first Day Gen. 1.5 But if these take place Evening and Morning will be both alike we may know their beginning but never their ending darkness and horror of darkness till we our selves if we be not careful fall thereby into the pit of darkness Wherefore let me perswade you you who are this day to number the people and to view the several inheritances among us that there be no Mutineer nor Rebel in our Tribes or families To be careful and jealous in that your enquiry that none such pass your Tribunal much less go off from you with Ceremony and Complement too customary a thing with some as if you were lovers of their Nation and would build them Synagogues It is not their being an holy Congregation that will make them when they are Seditious Holy neither will your punishing them be a slaying the people of the Lord. We live you see in an age full of Sedition and Conspiracy where neither our Moses can well keep his Crown upon his head nor our Aaron his Ephod upon his breast the Seditious Levite on one hand the Rebellious Reubenite on the other are so industriously concern'd in the undermining and supplanting them both that if heaven interpose not to defend the one and to root out the other both Moses and Aaron Priesthood and Government must sink and fall together Wherefore to your respective Stations and Charge and know 1. That Dathans Conspiracy is still on foot in the land alive and alive like to be The Cause saith one of our late Regicides lies in the bosom of Christ and as sure as Christ arose the Cause will rise again I believe saith another of them no less Prophet than the former that at long running there is not a man that fears the Lord will have any reason to be sorrowful for engaging in the Cause for though the Lord hath been pleased to let it be as it were the Sun-setting for a night yet it will certainly arise next Morning very gloriously again Neither was it for ought that I cand find ever thorowly brow-beaten or hiss'd off the stage These saith the publishers of their death all dy'd in the Faith Saints who through Faith of the Gospel have entered into rest Nay who of the Company of them especially if they were famous either in the Assembly or in the Congregation ever went unto their graves from that day to this without an Herse full of Scripture Scutcheons and Religious Labels The memory of the Just is blessed precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints enough to give credit to the worst of Causes and to draw all the Saints of the land after them And yet with horror be it spoken some of them have had their bowels burnt alive and went down into the earth like Dathan others of them liv'd and dy'd in the company of Korah and never repented them of their sins though stained with the blood of the best of Kings and the devoutest of Prelates Shall I re-mind you of what one of the Korathites still living hath said of himself That he hath often searched into his heart whether he did lawfully engage in the late War against the King or did well to encourage so many thousands to it and that he cannot as yet see that he was mistaken in the Cause neither dares he repent of it nor forbear to do the same if it were to do again And yet this man lives and repents him not nay hath his Company with him still to whom he preaches Sedition as of old and with whom thousands of the Dathanites and Abiramites of the land do Confederate whereby you may see the stubbornness and hopes of the Faction and how the good Old Cause will go on if God by his judgments and the Magistrate by his care and severity prevent it not Awake and know 2. That the Cause not only lives but there are multitudes in the Land ready fixt and prepar'd to carry it on dissatisfied Reubenites who for their own or their fathers sins

stark naught in themselves and in the eyes of God so bad that as at that time there was no King in Israel so if there had been no God in Heaven they could not have been much worse And let but men I mean the generality of men the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the rude and ungovernable Multitude once arrive at that which they call Liberty and Freedom to do what pleaseth them and what seemeth good in their eyes and the Land within as few Days perhaps as it was with Noahs flood will be overrun with an Inundation and Deluge of Impiety Injustice Villany We shall be nothing but Teagues and Toryes Banditti and enleagued Borderers no Society or Company of Men but an Herd of Wolves and of Bears a Band and Fraternity of Schismatical Furies Atheistical Debochees Bloody and inhumane Cannibals Legion will be the Name the Prince of the Air the General and the House divided against it self our Rendezvouze and Castle And if our eyes be our own we may take the truth of what is offered from the Jews before us they were all for that which was right in their own eyes and what was that but to make themselves Idols and to Consecrate their own Priests to spoil Houses of their Goods and Women of their Chastity to cut poor innocent mens Throats and to depopulate as well as deflower a Nation Israel no longer but a Bethaven and a Babel a Stage of wickedness and a Theatre of Confusion The Landskip whereof cannot be over-pleasing to the Spectator and yet to do right unto my Text it will be requisite to make a further enquiry 1. Into the nature of the Disorders 2. Into the number of the Offenders 1. Into the Nature of the Disorders all Monstrous Horrid Prodigious There were no such deeds done or seen from the day that the Children of Israel came up out of the Land of Egypt unto those Days Chap. 19.30 Put all the provocations that had any where happened in the Wilderness together add to them the many prevarications that had been acted in the time of Joshua and no such Crimes none so lewdly vile had ever all that while been perpetrated as in those days when there was no King in Israel Would you have a Catalogue of them Then hear O Heavens and be astonished O Earth Schism and Idolatry those cursed abominations begin them Sacriledge and Theft follow then marches Whoredom Rape Adultery after these Murder Bloodshed Civil War then Parents kill their Children and Children their Parents one part of the Land riseth up against the other Tribe setteth against Tribe City against City all embroiled and eagerly concerned to undo destroy and root out each other Such lewdness in Israel and so generally so warmly pursu'd as you may see in this and the ensuing Chapters to the end of the Interregnum that Hell it self with all her black inhabitants in so short a time could not well be supposed to have outdone them Sine Rege sine Lege sine Fide without King without Law without Religion Loth I am to make England the after-scene or to run a parallel of her disorders with those of Israels for though in our late Anarchy we were as bad as any as the Jews themselves even in those days when there was no King nay as in those days when they Crucified and Murdered their King yet Cham was accursed for exposing his Parents nakedness and I had rather you should make the Jews your spectacle and from them and their miscarriages learn to be more Loyal and henceforth to love a King your King the better But to make up the measure of their iniquity we must consider 2. The Number of the Offenders Every man did that which was right in his own eyes Some no question there were who had not bowed their knee to Baal that even in those days did and would do what was right in Gods eyes and not in their own and were as good as others could then be bad But as for the generality of the land they were utterly corrupted Ephraim Dan Manasseh Ephraim in the midst Dan and the men of Gibeah in the two ends thereof so that this every man is expressive of the greatest part for not only the more loose and profane but the more precise and religious too were thus wickedly given not only thieving Dan and adulterous Gibeah but devout Micah the young man his Priest the old Saint his mother every one of these did what was right in their own eyes which brings on my Text three times in this and the ensuing Chapters set down but in this first and upon occasion of this Micah's self-instituted Place and Worship for The man Micah had an house of Gods and made an Ephod and Teraphim and consecrated one of his Sons who became his Priest Where we have the whole of his iniquity displayed and if we will but take in what was said of him in the preceding verse that he had before this a Graven and a Molten Image by him for the said House which according to Grotius was an Altar with other the Utensils thereunto belonging we have then all the prime and chief furniture of the Tabernacle that was by God himself appointed for the Service thereof and yet it was an evil 1. That he had an house of Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word is altogether Plural but used mostly Singular an house of God a Bethel a separate place of his own setting up Aediculam sive capellam as some interpret it a Chappel of ease a Religious place of his own distinct and separate from that of publick assignation at Shiloh whereunto all were bound to resort Neither can this interpretation be quarrelled provided you will but consider that place in the Twelfth Chapter of Deuteronomy which is the first place if I be not mistaken wherein this phrase of Every mans doing right in his own eyes is used You shall not do after the things which we do here this day every man what is right in his own eyes that is worship where and in what place you please as hitherto hath been done in the Wilderness but when you go over Jordan and dwell in the Land which the Lord your God shall give you to inherit then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there thither shall you go So that Micah's House and Micah's Separation was one of those Evils that then pestered the Land Nay for the palliation of this Evil and to make the Service therein performed look more innocent and more like the Service of the Tabernacle 2. He made him an Ephod Now an Ephod was a Sacerdotal Garment proper for the Tabernacle and the use of the High Priest never to be used but in Divine Worship and at the most solemn services of the Tabernacle A Garment designed by Micah that the Priest of his House might every way be clad like one of Gods Priests and