propriety is in Gods * Acts 1. Hands we may quickly be too hasty there While we have time let us be doing good we cannot be to hasty at that point for that is our duty but to set God a doing at our time there is hastinesse We may nay we must lift up a prayer for that Remnant David and all his helpers thorowout all the Christian world with and in the Parliament vvith and in the Assembly for the Heads of the Tribes there for all the precious the Creame and Crown of the Kingdom We must strive in prayer for them and endeavour vvith our Estates and lives c. vve know vvhat follows and must do it else we do not as vve stand bound to do our worke and duty to lift-up the Hand against Amalekâ— both on the Mount and in the Valley But having done so we have done our duty we may rejoyce in the Lord and expresse it as Luther did singing the 46 Psalme Surely this being granted That we have done our Duty we can stand still calme and quiet in Spirit embracing the promise a farre off and magnifying Gods Salvation to be made manifest in His Time and no hastinesse now being assured that all Gods vvorks as they have been so shall they be gloriously beautifull Why because as they have been done so they shall be done in season His time not ours therefore in season We cannot but know how seasonably He worketh for His people how beautifull His Footsteps and Comings in for their help have been ever are and shall be evermore The Lord will come-in as he alwayes has done so seasonably That His people shall say O the Power of God how admirable O the Understanding of God how unsearchable O the Goodnesse Mercy Love and Kindnesse of God to His people how rich how aboundant all these I cannot expresse it The Point is this whereat we Anchor our spirits God does all things well because in His own time the fittest season We have a parallell for it vvhereby to exemplifie this Thence I digressed thither I returne now to take a fuller view of this seasonablenesse * Mâ—…d câ—s kindnesse was remâ—mbred in the fittest time so the kindenesse of Englands Queen 〈◊〉 9 4. In the Night of our destractions The Day of Jacobs troubles none like it when all were designed to destruction when the foot of pride set so hard on the neck of the Righteous Then the kindnesse of England must be remembred When Englands King deals I will say but hardly vvith his good people then the kindenesse of Englands Queen must be remembred even then Surely The Lord does all things in the fittest time the best season and O the sweet simpathy of the Scottish Nation Brethren indeed they are made for adversity Truly they have the minde of Christ Persecute My people thou persecutest Me that was the minde of Christ Persecute England The Gospellers there you persecute us there is the minde of the Scots Truely they are more sensible of our paine than we who smart from the Scorpion and they will assemble themselves knit themselves together with us into one Body to destroy this Legion of that they may no longer sting in Gods Holy Mountaine We have Vowed to stand-up against this Generation of Vipers till they are so subdued that they shall no longer Sting or be as grieving Thornes or vexing Briars to the Church and people of God Amen V. V. A. But now you have associated your selves and are knit together as you say the wicked are solden together as thorns so ye as one man now you are so knit together are you able for this work B. Yes that we are able through Him there is no doubt of it in Whom we can do all things vve have done our duty that vve have done touching this matter The rest vve leave to God and vvill tell him of his Promise anon A. Why but they you call Rebels are as many every day nay more than before and as lively they are as strong as formerly they were and more firmly united B. Well vvhat then Therefore the Rebels shall not be purged forth that do's not follow though it is not the vvork of a day nor an yeer neither That vvork is doing but vve must not make haste vve have a promise for it and vve can live upon that and give God thanks God can do greater things The Church never Questions His Power He can take away the iniquity of the Land in one day vvith the same speed He can take away the Rebels as He did the Northerne Army send forth His vvinde Zech. 3. 9. blow them away in one night He can do so but it is not his manner so to do He vvill hold his people in expectation and it is good for them they should be so held If there vvere not sore trials and long vvaitings vvhere vvere Faiths mastery there must be a distance between the Promise and performance that the Saints may learn to salute to kisse the Promise afar off and be glad too vvith exceeding joy as at the sweetest embracement Heb 11 13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A. Salute and embrace afar off how can that be B. Very vvell and it must be so The Antipasses Gods faithfull Witnesses the Martyrs could embrace and kisse a Fagot so near at hand that presently it set them all on a flame so near it vvas O vvonderfull Yes for it is granted They did embrace and kisse the Fagot But so they had not done if they had not seen the Promise afar off and embraced it I will be with thee in the fire it shall not burn thee and in the vvater it shall Esay 43 2. not drown thee for thy Head is above I pray you observe it Gods people see and embrace the promise afar off and can vvait vvith patience till it come They are a vvaiting people God has vvaited upon them they must vvait upon Him so exercising their patience yea every Grace O blessed be His Name If He do's not deliver His people now He will sustaine them now If He suffers Rebels amongst them this is also sanctified unto His servants for the overcoming the Rebellions and casting out that Rebell Selfe in their own hearts All administrations of Mercies all distributions of sorrows all for the Churches good all shall tend to the advantage of the Soule That shall prosper by all and if the Soule that excellent thing far above the excellency of the Sunne when he shines in his full strength if the Soule prospers all prospers for the Soul is all And all The Lord do's or suffers to be done has a direct tendency to this great end That His Church or People may prosper as their Soules prosper Gods way is alwayes straight and Mans crooked motions shall tend directly to His end the purging and whitening of His Church and making them meet for Dan. 11. 35 Glory When that end is attained Then you shall
THREE KINGDOMS MADE ONE By entring COVENANT with one GOD wherein we have these Remarkables worthy all observation I. What it is to Covenant with God II. How hardly his People are drawn into it III. How The Lord has suffered His Adversaries from time to time To Buffit His People thereinto IV. The height of this Covenant above former Covenants and Reasons why Clear Demonstrations also to shew I. The necessity of this League and Covenant whereunto there are grave Objections made and Answered II. The Legality and Equity of this Covenant for the Casting out of Archbishops and Bishops with their Curates Service and all together And Answer made to all that can be reasonably objected against their Casting forth III. The Exemplarynesse of this Covenanting way It is according to the foot steps of all the Godly as all the truely Noble in the World have gone in before us IV. The Seasonablenesse of it and therein the Power Wisedome and Goodnesse of God All wonderfully admirable V. The Sweetnesse of the Promise touching this matter The purging out of the Rebels and how saluted a farre off If Rebels continue longer in the Land if more Rebels come plundering into the Land Then there is excellent Reason why it must be so and abundance of Comfort for the Church of God and no cause of fear VI. The force efficacy and vertue of Covenanting with God It never failed the Church It never shall fail the Church unto the Worlds end VII One Objection there is but it is cleared and Gods Interest in the businesse is so cleared too That He must help His People That He must VIII We have Reasons and Arguments enough why He must help His glory is engaged even He Himself and so we have concluded By Ez W. Deut. 27. 17 18 19. Thou hast avouched The Lord this Day to be thy God And The Lord hath avouched thee this Day to be His peculiar People And to make thee high above all Nations which He hath made in Praise and in Name and in Honour And that thou mayest be an holy People unto The Lord thy God as He hath spoken London Printed for Christopher Meredith and are to be sold at the sign of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1643. READER I Have of late fastened my thoughts upon a great businesse The Militia of Kingdoms how To fortifie them To set them in a safe Posture for Warre By Gods good hand with me my Thoughts have issued the Means how to compasse and bring about this greatest Work none like it These are the means First Purge out the accursed Persons and Things That must needs be first But this is not done by humane strength Men have done it yet working as Instruments in Gods hand and He has been brought down to them and their Work How By Fasting Praying Preaching c. Mighty means all these to bring God down to a People but all these cannot keep God close to a People And because we are lost in generalls I have singled forth one Person To exemplifie all this To shew what exploites he has done How he has maintained his Militia by all these Means and more to be shewn in due time but more specially by This the chiefest of all Means which now follows Covenanting with God That is An Ingaging Work It Ingageth us to God and God to us This is Covenanting and most prevailing it is every way Indeed Nothing does the Work throughly but This Covenanting with The Lord. An high and mighty Work of large yea infinite capacity Therefore it must take up more roome then we would have it Considering how loth men are to fill their hands with Papers now a dayes or to be at Cost unlesse for news some of it not worth a Sparrows price though a Penny more might gain us very much and undeceive the whole World even of unbeleevers as one * The Vndeceiver I shall name the Author anone for honour sake in a Low Case If I would make a request in so low a matter I would entreat you read it has done very happily that way but there is a generation of Men that will not give twopence for knowledge They care not what the Learned say but they can read and beleeve lyes In reference to the present time and this novâ—ll Reader all for News This comes out a part and alone like a piece or a cantle broken off in the midst and therefore begins so abruptly Three Kingdoms c. I Am come now to a full point the conclusion of the businesse The entring into Covenant with God That is the period the main point indeed I will tell thee in the intrance what it is I. I. The great and highest worke That which will maintain the Militia of a Kingdom fully It will set it in a Posture for War or against it the strength of Battell even so safe as it shall laugh to scorn all the fury of the oppressor and aske Where is it it will make a Kingdom like a wall of brasse and render the blast of the terrible ones of no more force or account against it then is a puffe of wind against the perpetuall hils and everlasting mountains For this worke is an engaging the heart of a Kingdom altogether as one Man unto one God The I refresting Intitling Him to the Kingdome the giving up the government of it into Gods hands the willing resigning this government up and leaving of it where it is and must be when all is done upon the Lords shoulders so as it shall be now called The Lords Kingdom and the people there the Lords People the gates and barre there I mean all the fenced places all the Ammunition all the Battlements there the Lords gates the Lords Battlements Not the Kings Forts now though there shall be no diminution to Hi-Rights and Royalties His Kingly Power and Authority which God had given into his hands No diminution at all not one jot or tittle is taken thence Caesar must have his due given him enough by Gods allowance but then no more for God is God of gods and Lord of Lords the High and Supream Lord still and his Law the supream power still and this is the glory of a King on earth to be subordinate to the King of Heaven and a a willing Subject to His Law I was saying not the Kings Kingdom now nor the people properly the Kings people now nor their own nor the Forts and Battlements there all these Fortifications there not the Kings now but the Lords Kingdom now the Lords people now the Lords Battlements now It is just so for if the King will do as we shall see anon the Kingdom has done give himself unto the Lord which is the prayer of all His good and faithfull people then the King will not be his own neither but the Lords a willing Subject to Him who is King of Kings he sits King in the Lords Throne stands charged by the oath of God to
vvhich Mr Channell hath cleared to all the vvorld that This and That Persons and things vvere brought in by the meer pleasure of man against the Law vvhereon I could delate very largely too for he is deceived indeed and vvillingly so That vvill not be undeceived now ergo say I These may be cast-out by Law But I vvill not trust my Law I will grant though my indulgency that vvay vvill do the Bishops no good That the Law has appointed Bishops Lords over Dioces has setled them in the Church placed them amidst the House of Peers made them Spirituall too I cannot tell vvhat the Law of the Lord may do but sure I am The Law of the Land never did that But grant all this give them their challenge all the Rope they do deserve all the Law they do desire grant them their sayings That the Law of the Land has made them Arch Bishops and Bishops Lords and Spirituall all this truly I can scarce suffer such a thing to drop from my Pen the Rope vvas more in my thought and that is Law too But be it so for this time yet notwithstanding this large grant If Arch-Bishops and Bishops are all for mounting-up of Altars Edification of Images for maintaining Superstitions Heresies Blaspemies horrible Prophanations even of the Lords Day Then may vve finde out a Law or make a Law and swear unto it vvhen vve have done To thrust-out such abominable Parsons or give them the Rope vvithin so Trussing them up by the Necks A. Stay a little dare you avouch all this B. Yes and swear it too and more I vvill make a challenge If I do not give better Reason and Law both vvhy the Arch-Bishops and Bishops I mean a Bishop rick in the Bishops latitude should have a Rope from Earth than they can give vvhy they should have a Bishoprick from Heaven I mean If I cannot make better proof That they should have a Rope Lege Humana than they can make Proof of Tenure or holding their Bishopricks Iurc Divino Then I vvill hang for them at Tyburn or burne for them in Smithfield A. Durst you or vviser and better than you say as much as this five years ago B. No indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quidem deep silence then for it vvas the Power of Darknesse and the Bishops vvere in their Zenith the verticle point and height of their Reigne I vvill speak a little for my betters It was an Evill time the Prudent man held his peace and so he shewed his own vvisedome by his silence and doing nothing for Beholding The Lords Day Prophaned The Lord of the Day Blasphemed The Honours and Service of the Day defiled all this while he vvisely held his Peace He observed more even grievous Wolves hasting to Christs fold thence removing the Shepheards and there scattering the sheep All this while if they would let him alone he would let them alone such was his wisdom But it was his own he never learnt it of his God He bids this man who ever he is But this man was not alone a thousand with him were as silent as he was but if alone yet God bids him In my Cause and against my Enemies be as bold as a Lyon Then certainly He that so commands would as He did command the Lions mouth he shall not devour this man who is as bold as a Lion for Gods sake Truly we must not flatter our Wisers and our betters It was their fault and they are excedingly humbled for it they were too fearfull too loath to speak too forward to flatter So the Shepheards and their flocks were scattered as we heard indeed the servants of the Lord considering the terrours of the Lord the place appointed for the fearfull are very much humbled for their silence and Complyance and if they be carried down with the stream of mighty waters they can accept of their punishment whereof Augustine discourses very well and usefully in his first Book of the City of God Cap. 9. Now we return to our Law Book which tels us That our Bishops were not made Archbishops nor Lords neither by our Law-Book Though an Arch-Bishop said once in the face of a great Assembly That the Holy Ghost made him Bishop Well said for a Bishop but when he had said he had done and no man was so fool-hardy as to reply for it was in the High Commission Court and he was next to the highest there and by the Laws and Constitutions there he was made constituted and established a Bishop and maintained his standing there by the same Statute Law we know no other But grant them all the Law in the world for their being Bishops Archbishops we will not mention yet they are not more Bishops nor by a better Law Than Maacha was Queen yet when she had hoysed-up a filthy thing I know not what to call it but an Idol it was and lifted her eyes and heart unto it then was she by the Covenant and Oath the King and Peoyle had taken Put down from being Queen So it followes here and by as good Law and so I leave it and will hear now what the Man has to say why their Curats may not be extirpated or Rooted out also Truly me thinks they stand together very I mean all the Idol Shepherds in the Land handsomely in their Service-book Bishops and Curats and let them be thrown-out in Gods Name with their Service-Book too So it will be why should they not be together still Bishops and Curats for such Bishops and such Curats and such a Service-Book And out they shall be cast for certainly so contrary the Church has Prayed this long time and now the Church shall reap the fruits of her Prayers and long expectations by help of God and His Law Book the Church will cast out Arch-Bishops Bishops and Curats A. Not Curates sure they are good men standing up for the King and for Religion B. So say the Bishops too explain the termes and you have your Answer For the King What 's that Against God the High God Lord of Lords against His Christ Prince of the Kings of the Earth against Truth and Peace against every thing That has a tendency that way to the good and happynesse of the King and Kingdom For Religion now what is the meaning of that The Curate shall tell you For Religion i. e. for formes of Religion a Liturgy a Service Book for all their Religion is there We have lifted up our hands to the High God That we will throw out all these who are so contrary even as is light and darknesse to That which we have joyned hands and heart to maintain with our Estates and Lives that is Religion and cursed be all those who obstinately stand Neuters in this great Cause so neerly concerning God His King and Kingdoms A. Why are those that stand Neuters cursed men They are innocent They will anger no Party They are for the King for
hear that the Rebels are purged and sent to their own place So all is in reference to His People for the Churches good all this trouble shall greatly advance the Churches peace and quiet This Sowre shall yeeld Sweet to them Hereby the iniquity of Jacob is purged c. for this will fall in again in the seventh Section Here I Isa 27. 9. shall tell what the Lord has done towards this Promise I will purge out from you the Rebels Truly He has done so much That if we see no more done Ezek. 20. 38. yet for ever blessed be His Name for that the Lord has done Our eyes may be closed shortly and covered with dust What if it be so yet we can salute we can Kisse this Promise afarre off and say Praised be His Name for what our eyes have seen fulfilled in all the peoples sight touching this Promise I will purge out the Rebells We have seen Archbishops and Bishops laid flat on their backs as men in their graves Al but they will rise again they say Yes at the last day we say howsoever we have seen them laid flat The height of our desires was three years agoe The taking away of three Innocent Ceremonies for such a Pope there was Good Lord He would give us a full mercy we have seen three and four that is seven abominations taken away The Lord be praised for what we have seen * That which we have seen is enough to defray all our expence of Spirits Time and Purse Luther thought if he could be instrumentall for throwing out of Indulgences and Pardons those cursed things O how well appaid would he be how would he boast in his God! Would â—e so His God would use him for greater things than those The Lord broke down before his servant this Wall and that wall shewed him these and those abominations and what Luther did all the world knows The Lord loves to bestow mercies with a full hand and blessed be His Name as it is Holy * Esay 6. 3. Blessed Blessed Blessed for what He has done towards this promise and for what our eyes have seen even so Amen There are stops and pawses nay Lions and Shee-Bears Wals * What hinders and retards the businesse and Mountaines in the way we shall get over them all at the last Indeed we of the Common sort move very slowly not like men who would leap over walls and skip over Mountains and the Richer sort are nothing nimble neither very sluggish in their motions specially if they move toward their Purse the drawing or emptying of that I can easily beleeve the Covenant was penned in Scotland who well understood and mean to perform what they wrote to their eternall praise which is in the Gospell There is one expression in the Covenant nay two which we poor men cannot perform to our wills and Rich men will not understand to their Power and that retards holds-back and sluggs the motion very much We Covenant to endeavour with our Estates and Lives i. e. we will let Estates go and Lives go and all go That the Gospell may not go we will lay-out all all we have and all we are That we may maintain the Rights and Liberties of the Gospell for maintain the liberties of Christs Kingdome and God will maintaine the Liberties of our Kingdome and for the maintenance hereof Thus we Vow to do to expend our Estates and our Lives The Scottish Nation a poor people for we must remember how they were oppressed plundered persecuted four years agoe yet so they have done And verily wheresoever the Gospell shall be preached in the whole world surely there shall also this that they have done for the maintenance of the Gospell be told also for a memoriall of them such great matters they have done for the Gospell as men that know a Pearle and can estimate it Truly we poor men cannot perform here as we would but a poor mans Myte has been accepted where there is no more And happily some of us have done what we can and then it was a resolved case a thousand years ago That a poor man may be liberall when a rich man giving an hundred times more yet not unto a proportion to what God has given him shall be called a Niggard a Covetous man and now you have said the worst of him I will say but this more certainly the rich men do not understand what they have sworn and this is my reason There was an hundred thousand pounds to be collected this last moneth a great summe you will say Yes but I assure the Reader upon the knowledge I have had of this City these twenty years and of the vast expences now drawn from the rich men there this last year which the Lord returns seven fold into ther Bosoms That yet there are ten men who could and would make up this large summe and send it away I say would if they valued the Pearle in the Gosspell It is Religion it is the Gospell call it what you will it is the Pearl as they do the Pearle in the world that is their money Reader do these men understand what they swear We will with our Estates I will not adde and with our Lives If they will not part with their money now at such a needfull time not give out that I mean in a proportionable summe to what God has given them and with a reference also to the Pearle now in danger to be trod under foot by Swine If they give not now like themselves in a proportion to that which God and his Cause and all good men call from their hands if not help now with their Estates asmall proportion thereof to what God has given them to save a Kingdom then not with their lives sure though the Pearle is worthy the purchase at the highest rate for we remember That a Merchant sold all that he had and bought the Pearle Mat 13. A hard matter to perswade with Merchants in these dayes so to do from whom some of them we may more easily draw blood then their money The Scottish people have done their duty To vindicat and keep the Pearle trod-under by Swinish men they have sold all The English swear to do as much Some in Scotland Some in England will be faithfull they have counted their cost understood what they did and so have Covenanted and by help of God they will stand to it There is no more required to make a Kingdome as a Mountain of Brasse In the next placethen we will well consider what is the vertue force and efficacy of this Covenanting with God VI. VI. It is very prevayling every way It is a sure way it never failed the Church They associated themselves entered into Covenant and then all was sure King Asah King Ezekias with other are great examples here It is a safe way and it is an onely way Aske from one end of Heaven to the other what
day of Jacobs trouble who have sworn and will stand to it To maintain the Cause of the Lord as it shall require and as we read before And there are a people in England too Nobles and Princes there I mean by Princes the Messengers of the Churches and the Glory of Christ who have given up themselves to the Lord and to maintain His Cause some Nobles I say not many but some there are vvho their eternall praise have entred Covenant and will stand to it when others to their eternall dishonour enter into a Covenant to day and break out from it on the morrow stand not to it no not an houre As if they might take the Covenant of God as a Papist takes the Oath of God swear to day and forswear next day Adjure to day calling God to witnesse and perjure anone so blaspheming that Holy Holy Holy Name making the Oath of God like a Gipsies knot fast now in shew loose presently in fight We have some Nobles that do abominate this Blasphemy they enter Covenant with God to day and are more and more resolved and engaged for God and His Cause every day from hence forth and for ever I could say as much of a people too very many in Cities and Towns both a very willing people If they cannot give to the Cause they can die for it as a Martyr said if their estates be none or gon they cannot be prodigall there as the Cause commands then their lives shall go they will be prodigall of their blood and thank God He has honoured them so Who gave His blood for them And so we are where we were in a way which never failed And shall it faile the Righteous now God forbid nay God forgive us such a thought But let us look to our standing now I mean to the standing to our Covenant for that bears up the weight of the businesse This standing to it let us look to that we are now come up to God to His Tearms to His Command not more knit together amongst our selves as knit to God What now Now the Nations are angry Angry They are stark mad look ye on this side and but a little beyond Lincoln and behold how they rage there See also in the South and in Ireland What are the the thoughts of those Monsters there They think to joyn with our Monsters here Monsters Yes They are Nobles many of them True but the more monstrous if Nobles by birth Certainly if those Nobles not to mention the black Regiment those Buls of Bashan nor the Calves of the people Some call them Cavel Gentlemen I have called them Rogues twenty times with an Accent for I will call a Spade a Spade Theeves Robbers Murtherers all these by their names so let them go the vvay of Cain vvho slew his Brother I am a speaking of the Nobles vvho beat their own Mother even her that bare them that suckled them that dandled them upon her knees vvarmed them in her bosome These Nobles vvho have set their Mothers House on fire over her head and are not these Monsters for they have done yet more villany if these Nobles should see their own visage represented unto them now as it vvill be shortly in the very next History they vvould be gastred at the sight of such Monsters as the King was at the vvriting on the vvall Truly me thinks I see them now and they troubled my Spirit and Interrupted me I was saying Dan. 5. 6. The Monsters in Ireland will joyn now vvith these in England will be folden together like thorns vvill come out now against those all vvho are joyned in Covenant with their God and vvill do What vvill they do All the mischief they can They will storm the City of God as they can to their Power That is true They will do vvhat they can do all the Mischief they can But vvhat can they do for vve do not question their will These have shed blood to their Power vvith a Rage that reacheth-up to Heaven They have cursed David and his Helpers by their gods They have blasphemed The God of Heaven They have thrust the Ministers of the Lord out of their Houses or slaughtered His Servants there even All the faithfull in the Land unto vvhom their hand could reach They have gods as Jeroboam had vvhich he called honestly truly and very vvell as vve call Priests now and their gods Calves for such are their Priests Idol-Brutish-Priests Their Services such Idol-Bruitish-Services I vvill ask again vvhat can these cursed People do against a Kingdom united in its self and in Covenant vvith their God What can they do I le tell you what for the Spirit tells it me They vvill Associate and gird themselves and gird themselves all for the Battell and to Storme the Church of God that they Esay 8. 9. will do Well yes very well now hear vvhat the Lord vvill do and vvhat He will do He can do That is a Comfort What vvill He do He vvill ungird His Adversaries as often He will break them and break them and break them t is no idle repetition so often till He has broken them all to Fritters like a Potters Vessell so He vvill break them in breaking He vvill break them Breach upon Breach Briars and Thorns vvill they Array themselves for Battell against the Lord He is a Consuming fire unto them they shall be devoured every one in the Fornace vvhich their rage and fiery indignation against His people has made seven times hotter then ordinary Rebells that have lifted up the horn have spoke proudly have dared to thrust at the Righteous nay The Lord of Glory out of His Throne The Lord will thrust-sore at them He vvill make them like an Oven and their Faces like Flames He vvill purge them out But when Even now at this time we have His word for it for we are in Covenant with our God I will speak an high word and comfortable to the fearfull in heart but humbly before our God and if proud men will hearken let them hearken This is the word and our Confidence Now that we have entred into Covenant with our God To stand close to Him To His Cause To His worship Now that we have engaged our hearts to all this what now Now we have ingaged God to us God must help us We will by His Grace stand to our Covenant and appear for Him It is an high word now to amaze proud men God must appear for us and stand by us and He cannot be idle Must is not for the King you will say yes for the KING of Kings and LORD of Lords This King must help us The unjust judge did right the the Widow must not the Judge of all the world do right He must He must There are Mighty Reasons why and Arguments as strong to assure the hearts of the Faithfull That God will and must help His people now at this time you shall hear
as Thy servant did astonied Thy loving kindnesse has melted their hearts and Thy Goodnesse makes Them fear before thee and now their pursuit is more earnest after Grace then after Glory They would be sanctified thorowout in Bodies souls and spirits Surely Lord Thy servants have the affections of Children towards Thee Thou must be so to them Thou didst love Thy people being Enemies how much more being made Friends one with Thee now in Covenant Truly Lord Thou must love them now Thy people can argue the Case with Thee they have an if now If Thou shewedst such love such aboundant favour to a people when Sinners when Enemies how much rather wilt Thou be the same to them now that they are made Friends so Thou hast taught Thy people to argue with * Deut. 32. 19 Thee because it is Thy Good pleasure to be Overcome Thou say'st we are sinners no such sinners in all the world as are we we say so too and acknowledge it heartily But all this doe's but Commend thy love unto us It is but to advance Thy free Mercy towards us in and through the Lord Jesus Christ our sinnes are hightened indeed no sinnes so highly provoking as our sinnes the sinnes of Sons and Daughters c. But though we could highten them to the utmost yet not above our High and Mighty Redeemer who saveth to the utmost those that come unto Him We have multiplied Transgressions Thou has said I will abundantly multiply to * Esa 557. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We can appeal to and glory in free grace for full pardon pardon Thy people will not let their hold go from off this Argument but they will move Thee with another Our little ones Lord our Children and Sucklings a Seed of evill doers Thou say'st and we say so too But yet Thy heart was towards those in Nineveh Thou didst pitie them We Fathers do so and Mothers doe so As a Father pitieth his Children O it is an exceeding pity There is more pity in God infinitely more And we have more to say why Thou shouldest pitie our little ones They never trampled-under the Pearle They never hid their eyes from the Sabbath They never complied with Thine Enemies They never dealt treacherously with Thy Friends Truly Lord Thou must pitie them And the whole land It is Thy Land now and much people there who are Children in knowledge never had any means to make them Babes in Christ let them know they had a Prophet amongst them Give us Bishops indeed Curates indeed who can naturally care for thy people as a Father for his Children Truly Lord we do confesse a wicked heart has deceived us But this is Truth also our Guides have misguided us they were appointed as fathers spirituall fathers unto us We poor ones thought verily we might follow our Guides we might trust our fathers Ah Lord bloody Fathers have they been to us bloody fathers These were appointed Leaders to go before us They went before us and we followed and down we were tumbled all into the Ditch and there like swine we lay in the myre Good Lord pitty a poor dark ignorant people Give us good Lord Bishops indeed Curate spirituall fathers indeed Trust Thy people with such a mercy Thou knowest the hearts of the Children of men we think had we such Leaders we should walk orderly had we such a mercy let down unto us vve should be drawn up unto Thee Alas Lord what desire Can we have after that which we know not we never saw our Bishops do any thing but what we see plainly now deceived us we saw him Cringing and ducking before a Table which he called an Altar and then we observing all that thought we might call it a god he bad us indeed carry our selves circumspectly and reverently in the Church especially towards the Chancell for there was a providentiall eye over us Dr. Valentine seducer of the people in Detford which he had * with our cost painted-up in our window This was all we have seen our Bishops and Curates do before us in the place they call the Church And for that we have heard we professe in thy presence That we never heard a word of thy sacred Scripture opened unto us by them not a word touching the Things of the Lord Christ made they known to us not a word Dead preaching without the Book or clean crosse to thy Book Good Lord thrust out these and give us Pastors after thine own heart We know Lord what thou wilt say now Ye have had Bishops and Curates after your own hearts like People like Priests Sottish people brutish Priests They desiled My house and polluted my Sabbaths and you loved to have it so Truth Lord and herein we are at a stand for we cannot plead ignorance we cannot say the times of this ignorance c Acts 17 30. We have rebelled against the light and groped at mid-day as at midnight To confesse all at once We have polluted Thy Sabbaths and then all vvas polluted even Thy whole land Throughout and most just it were That Thou shouldest require this of us and dung our land throughout with our Carkasses and water it with out blood from corner to corner Just it vvere that thy plagues should abide should rest on us for we have polluted thy Rest just it were that our land should keep it Sabbaths now lye Fallow without an Inhabitant there to plow it up This were Justice But remember Lord That this horrible prophanation vvas not so much our sinne as the sinne of our Bishops and Curates Their sinne Lord who told us vve might Fiddle and Dance and Riot on Thy Day and that such man like exercises would make us fit for Warre Nay they did not only tell us so but they did force Thy servants to do all the world knows what To prescribe grievousnesse To counter-mand Thy Command and this in thine own house Truly Lord we could plead vvith Thee here We poor simple ones thought verily vve might trust our Bishops and Curats do as they did and commanded us to do their words came as Oracles to us We suspected Bishops as Lords ever but never as fathers we did not suspect That fathers they vvould give us for bread a stone for a fish a serpent Spirituall Fathers so they vvere called too vve could not imagine that Spirituall Fathers would command their children to walk as men and live as beasts Good Lord though we vvere content to have it so yet spare Thy people but spare not those Bishops and Curats who have made yea forced Thy Israel to sin and pitty the land and its Inhabitans vvho sit in darknesse and see no light vvho seek for bread now in desolate places where they are more like to meet with grievous Wolves then with bread Good Lord pitty the land a barren land Barrennesse Barrennesse as the places whereon never fell dew nor rain Truly Lord Thou must pitty Thy land Thou
as a burnt Mountain Thus it must be Lord for Thou hast said it and strong is The Lord God who judgeth Her In the mean time Thy People Lord are not afraid not a whit afraid They incourage themselves in Thee and they boast in Thy Name all the Day long I will speak a word more in the Ears of the fearfull Thy people Lord are no more afraid of these Rebels in the Land Instruments in Thy Hand then Children are afraid seeing some Instruments of Death Carbine Pistoll or Cannon in their Fathers Hand fully assured they are Their Father intends not to shoot at them not at his Children No the Father is making ready and bending these Instruments against the Faces of His and His Childrens Enemies against them He intends all this And let the fearfull attend to this and a little more Why Lord thy Church do's not lie at the mercy of Instruments whose mercies are cruell rather none at * Prov 12. 10. Plane nulla Jur. all Thy Church lyeth at the mercy of a God who is all mercy and has the Instruments all English Irish French all these Malignants in His Hands the Hands of a Father Truly Lord Thy people are assured That these Instruments in their Fathers Hands shall not kill his Children Kill They shall not hurt His Children Not hurt These Instruments in a Fathers hand must do His Children good and the more Malignant the more good It must be so Lord Instruments in a Fathers Hand must work for the good of His Children they know it and are as confident and fully assured of it as that their Father ever liveth and ever loveth His people Amen for so sayes the Faithfull and true witnesse Amen 2. The Heathen rage now they take counsell together all against Thy Sonne Thine Anointed our Lord and Christ We know thou hast taken to Thy Self Power now Thou wilt see to Thine own House Thou Sonne of David Psal 2. Thou do'st laugh now but wo to the world the men of the earth there Revel when Thou do'st Laugh for now they shall howle bitterly When Thou shalt speak unto them in Thy wrath and vex them in Thy sore Displeasure 3. Thy Name Lord Thy Glory is engaged upon it for Thy Name-sake for Thy Glory-sake Thou must do it maintain Thine own Cause The Cause Thy servants stand-up for is not theirs but the Lords Thy Cause and though Thy servants have offended Thee yet the comfort is The Cause never offended Thee Thou art as well pleased with it as with Thy Sonne yea in Him Thou lovest Thy People as Thou lovest Thy Sonne But Thy Cause Lord Thy Sonnes Cause His Churches Cause Thou must help it Thou must deliver it Thou must bring it forth to victory Thy Cause Lord Thy Glory That is engaged Were the Cause ours and no more but our selves interested in it let it sink or let it swim Thy people could not be carefull about it they would be as carelesse of it as those have been who have turned Taile upon Thy servants in the House of Parliament and dealt treacherously with Thee But but The Kingdome is Thine The Battell Thine The people Thine The Cause Thine The Glory Thine ours by free gift and so returned back with all thankfulnesse All is Thine Thou must look to Thine own Thou must do it We are not our own Thy Purchase Lord engaged to Thee Thou must help us We have done our duty blessed be Thy Name for That Grace we have Fasted we have prayed we have Covenanted taken Thee for our God we said in uprightnesse of heart Thou art our Rock our high Tower Truly Lord Thou must be our Refuge heaven is our place of Esa 45. 11. Josh 1 5. Heb. 13. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Five Ne gatives to ascertain the affirmative and to give the Church strong Consolations for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Randevouz still in life and in death whereto we must continually resort Thou must do it it is Thy Cause and Thy Glory Thy people will not let Thee alone they will give Thee no rest Thouhast bid them saying Command ye me They take Thee at Thy Word they command Thee to prosper This Cause in all the peoples sight It must bee so Lord for so Thou hast Commanded and not wee but Thou hast said it I will never never never never never leave Thee not forsake Thee Thou didst not give so full an assurance to thy servant Joshua but Thou hast said it so often and given so full an assurance to thy servants now a dayes Thou didst assure indeed Thy servant Joshua That Thou wouldest hold him fast Thou wouldest not let go Thy hold of him a Thou wouldest bear him up in Thine hand A full assurance this Yet Thou hast given a fuller assurance to Thy servants now a dayes so as they can say boldly and beleeve perfectly that Thou wilt never forsake Thy Kingdome never forsake Thy Church never forsake Thy Battell never forsake Thy Cause never forsake that matter wherein Thy Name Thy Glory is engaged In confident assurance hereof All Thy faithfull servants all the world over do stand still calme and quiet in their mindes not sad nor carefull having done their duty expecting the Salvations of the Lord and ascribing salvation to their God Praise Glory Honour and Thansgiving To Him That sitteth upon the Throne for evermore So be it Amen Postscript THat these things I have said may not seeme Parables I have singled out a single man a good Souldier of Jesus Christ by him to exemplifie all this As the Nobles have done before him in ancient dayes touching the well posturing Kingdomes so he has done in the maintaining his own Militia and posturing himselfe for he has done as aforesaid and at last entred into Covenant with his God and by help of God stands to it and so made himselfe as a Wall or Mountain of Brasse able to stand it out against all Storms and Batteries he mocketh at Famine now and laugheth at the Sword If his Adversaries threaten to Storm him he will laugh at them And if it be told him that the Rebels in Ireland will joyn with them in England for that purpose He will reply That he fears God and is not afraid of the beasts of the earth He now that will take a full sight and view of this Souldier Job 5. 22. throughout all his Ranks and Postures must haply be at three pence cost which thinking he may stick at I will onely make honourable mention of this Souldier here and of one of his exploits which makes him more renowned than were they whose conquest made them famous all over the world He has overcome himself That is a conquest indeed he has ever-powred Self-will neerest of Kin to the great troubler of the world Master of Mis-rule and Prince of Rebels which next to the Devill has and do's cause all the stirres tumults and mischief there He has overcome this
Adversary and thrown-out other accursed things I know not how many Some foyls he received and somtimes fals but he rose again and stood up the more stoutly It was somtimes dark and night in his spirit but it was alwayes day with him and light in the Lord and his fals made him rise the higher in faith humility patience Indeed this is the man who is a great part of the Kingdoms Militia the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof he has chased a thousand and put a legion to flight This he did you will say when he was lively and strong That is true but this man did the greatest exploit then when his enemy thought him under the Power of his hand Then was this Souldier strongest when that Adversary the King of terrours thought him to be weakest Sick and sick unto death Then he did not say I am sick but strong in the Lord and so his Militia is compleated now his warfare accomplished now he has marched valiantly triumphed Esay 32. 24. Iudges 5. Revel 4. 10. 11. gloriously trod down strength in His strength Who made him have dominion over the Mighty And now He is taking the Palm into his hand but his Crown he has with the Elders east down before Him That sitteth on the Throne saying Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for Thy pleasure they are and were created An end The full purpose totall intendment true use of Prince ROBER his Warrant to the Constables of Northampton-shire for the speedy Posturing their Country Signed with the Great Seal and dated the first of November 1643. This relates to the 34. Page of this Book OUT of Our Princely Care and so often protested zeal for The Defence of the True Protestant Religion The two Houses of Parliament he has abused a known figure here the Subject for th' Adjunct For the Defence of the two Houses but for The Totall destruction of the Nobilitie and Gentry therein and Their Rights and Priviledges The Liberties and Properties of the Subject we have issued forth Our Princely Warrant to command you and every one of you That instantly upon sight hereof you cause all the Inhabitants sit for Warre in your severall Towns and Villages to make their appearance before Us With Us To carry on Our Royall Designe For The Defence as aforesaid by impoverishing Cities laying wast Towns Plundering Pillaging Firing Houses Murthering the men there Ravishing Mothers there Deflouring Daughters there For the Defence as aforesaid And in case yee shall refuse to do according to Our Royall Charge In so Legall a way according to the known Laws of the Kingdoms Expect yee to suffer yee your Wives and your Maidens as aforesaid Besides the totall Plundering and Burning your Houses with what other mischiefs licenced and hungry Souldiers with their Prince that ruleth mightily with the Children of disobedience can inflict upon you Rupert Rober in Dutchland England THis Warrant was issued forth in the Forenoon and before High-Noon of the same day This valiant Prince ran His own way the way of Cain against the blood of his Brother And of Balaam against the Angels sword But no man was so mad to blunder after Him but they that were as blinde as Himself except the Avengers of blood who feeling the waight of their Office True sence of Duty and of Love to their Country having power in their hand pursued after this Murtherer as sometimes the English did after grievous Woolves which no more spared their flocks once then these Woolves spare their Sheepheards now The True Vse is at last To goar the sides of our Issachaars all the strong Asses in our Gen. 49. 14. Land who bend their necks to the yoak and crouch under the Burthens laid upon them by a strange lord To undeceive all the Christian World To summon-up every person there To stand-up in their place or as their calling may be to come-in speedily and enroll themselves for this Holy Warre against the Beast This is the Vse of this Warrant and it shall be the End FINIS
rule His people Gods people with equity and His poor Gods poor with judgement 2 Chron. 8 9. Psal 72 8 doing all still in subordination to the Supreme Law and in reference to the Law Book I was saying but I was interrupted willing to tell the Reader as shortly as I could what this Covenanting is that now we are come to the great work and busines of the time with much ado and great trouble through the heat of the day we are come up to this businesse now at the last The entering Covenant with God an endevour at least to bring three Kingdomes up unto it to engage them to be the Lords Kingdom the summe and upshot of the businesse the fruit and result of all our Fasting Praying Preaching the end and issue of all this is but to make a People a People of willingnesses a willing People to this Work of Covenanting with the Lord that they will be Psal 110. the Lords People II. II A wonderfull thing that sith this is all to enter Covenant with the Lord that we will be no more our own but His People we should be so hardly drawn to the Work so backward to it I say again a wonderfull thing O ye heavens be astonished at this the Lord has brought up Rebellious children indeed Take the sons of Belial this once for an example these sons all the world over how willing are they to make a League and Covenant with their Adversary the Devill Sin Death and Hell And Israel His people draw back will not hear the joyful sound will not enter Covenant with the Lord. O ye heavens are ye not astonished at this See again how these children of disobedience and sons of Perdition how these Associate and knit themselves together fully resolved to their power to breake the bands of the Lord and cast away his cords and then to root out His people that their name may be no more upon the earth Thus these Children do Earth earth earth hear the Word of the Lord shall not his people do as much for their God and His Cause as the wicked do for the Devill their Master and to maintain his worship and their Idols yet how hardly are the sons and daughters of God drawn to do contrary to these sons of Belial To lay their souls under Sacred bands To bind themselves with the cords of God His Lawe His Statutes His Judgements III. III. It is very remarkable and sure we will set a marke upon it by the way how the Lord has forced His People has used a kind of violence to bring up His people to this Covenanting Work The Lord suffered the Adversary to buffit His People into Covenant with Him The Lord suffered the foot of Pride to prevail very much even to a setting-under and trampling upon the heads of the Righteous as Myre in the Street Thus The Lord suffered it to be That His People might stir-up themselves Protest to serve God better and avouch Him for their God And so His People did But here was much of self in this Work self ends and self respects They groaned under grievous Task-masters The Proud man had set his right foot upon the Church and his left foot upon the Common wealth and swore he would take away their Birth-right from both Their Laws Rights Liberties 1 Pet. 1. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Inheritance of their Fathers But these outward Liberties the setting the foot upon these This pinched indeed this crushed to the heart and this was the main Inforcement with the greatest part To enter into a Protestation I say that swayed most with the most Well God heard their groans notwithstanding pittied His People and took off that head which consulted against His hidden ones and withered that hand and foot which set so hard upon the Necks of the Righteous But as is said of the King he never dies So of the Churches Adversary he is still lively and strong and a Legion he is for many there are who hate the Church here And then he was more mad with rage then the Nations were indeed angry So the Adversary and Enemy plotted and plotted Here he layed a snare and there a snare The Lord brake the snares still For He had a respect to their Protestation That His People seemed willing to avouch Him for their God And from that very day a See Thank â—ssâ—… p. 85. The Lord blessed His People made them strong to do exploits from that day But from that day the Adversary was more lively and active as was said to do mischief So they traversed this way and that way Till at last they brought about a most bloody Designe What was that To cut and slay not a few To destroy a Mother City in Israel even her Who maintains a great Family is the great House-keeper under God The great Hostesse in our Land that forgets not to entertain strangers To welcome the out-casts and abjects those that are thrown-out of Cities and Towns all over the Land as Persons or things of no worth there b 2 Cor. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb 13 1. But the world is not worthy of them These this Hostesse do's entertain she is not forgetfull This Mother City was in designe to have been destroyed even this City and with her all the faithfull there and every where that had an hand with David Indeed and indeed had the Adversary had his will they had destroyed this City and all with David all throughout the Land from corner to corner What then Then we entred into Covenant It was high time And doubtlesse the hearts of the upright were upright touching that matter But we we common People did not Covenant To search every man his own heart for the finding and casting out the accursed thing therein And those who as alwayes they have done made void the Laws of God and man We came not up fully unto that Work Nay let me take the boldnesse for to say sith I speak in the presence of God and by His grace will waigh and consider what I say and I will propose it by way of doubt or Proposition onely thus Was not that Covenanting too Selvish I mean did not the Subjects Rights and Priviledges take up too much Roomth there I will not say it did for was there not a Cause That the Worthies should do as they did Yet this I may say III. IIII. There was not that Spiritually in the businesse as God requires The Worthies all of them did not till now rise to that height of Soul touching The Lords matters in His worship The main and chief businesse did not seem to be the Cause of God Religion The Faith The great Trust of the Kingdom The maintaining the Rights and Liberties of the Gospel and then of the Church against those Usurpers That had taken these Liberties quite away pleading their Right from Heaven the while they set the Church
well as you and because of this blood shed his heart is grieved he would stop that flood-gate and hastens as fast as he can he will have Peace with all men and pursues it witnesse that Royall Act he has done in Ireland therefore what needs there preparations or Covenanting betwixt three Kingdomes B. A Royall Act and what need of Covenanting I protest I can scarce hold but I will keep within my bounds with Gods help still and say and prove The necessity holds still and holds the stronger has all lawes of heaven and earth for so holding but I will say this first A wicked Counsellour has put his Majesty upon an hard work and he has been upon it all this while how he may undeceive the people now the work is done and not till now not so perfectly done as now why now Because he has made a peace with Ireland and now England is undeceived I hope A. Good Reason and Charity to boot so to do for Ireland is quite wasted with the hurtfull sword and to give peace there argues a soul-bleeding over the desolations the sword has made there does it not B. No sure for he has made peace with those Monsters I want a word to expresse their villanies who have laid that land waste have murthered 100000. thousand souls with a rage reaching to heaven exercising such Cruelties upon the bodies of men women children and sucklings such cruelties as were never heard of or done by the Ethenick or Heathenish Rome not the like to those executions we now read of in the Tragedy of Ireland His Majestie has made a peace with them a league with them Shall it stand God has sworn by his Holinesse it shall not stand He will have warre with them who have dealt so and so with His people There is a Curse pronounced against these murtherers too which shall cleave unto them and to their children after them faster then does the Ivy to the wall because they compassed about the righteous with words of hatred and fought against him without a cause Because they remembred not to shew mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man Psal 107. 3. 16 17. This Curse of the Lord upon the enemies of the Lord it shall certainly pursue and overtake them They loved Cursing it shall come to them They delighted not in blessing it shall be farre from them And peace shall be as far from them too as far out of their reach as it is from their hearts or as is the highest starre from their lowest finger We judge not the intentions of the King heere we leave him to the Searcher of hearts who judgeth Righteously We are sure very sure we know the intentions of these murtherers their purpose is to band themselves against the Church The Church expected so much and is provided for their comming how well fortified she is we shall here anon Truly she is not carefull touching that matter But she sees the necessity of doing what she has done Of asscciating her sons and daughters kniting themselves together all as one man to stand the firmer against the Common Adversary A. You may thank your selves if the Irish do come against you You call in the Scots why should not the King call in the Irish B. I would as good reason could be given for every thing that is done as will be given for this and then we should do and walk as men Should not the people of God seek to their God and for help from the people of God to come-in to help Gods Cause And should help be sought from the Divell and his Instruments the enemies of God to help the King against God and against his good people more to this anon It is well now whatever strength comes against us let it come and if this Covenanting with God has occasioned more stirs as doubtlesse it has after the old manner blessed be His Name Whatever fals out in the world it is not Chance the Lord do's it suffers it to be so and He is The Lord He do's all things well It is the Lord let Him do what is good in His sight Here His people are They must go Gods way The way of His people our defence and protection is from the Lord it is not our care it is His with reverence be it spoken let God look to that His people are gathered together to do Him service The time was when at such a time when His people were so gathered together for that great purpose then did not the Lord suffer a Dog to move his tongue against His people none must do them hurt at that time though all lay open to invasion He did reprove Exo. 34. 24 Kings for His Churches sake Oh! the security of a people engaged upon Gods work Reader let us do our work leave God to His I will assure you we shall put it hard upon him anon What is that We shall having done our duty require of Him to maintain and protect His servants But yet before I take of my hand hence I will say this and no more That the King is liable to Gods reproofe Thou hast loved them that hate the Lord and hated them that love the Lord And now it is in my mind I will shut up this with a Story out of Tacitus how a brave Emperesse takes up her Lord Tiberius the Emperour and layes the grossest most palpable pellucide transparent hypocrisie to his charge thus it was Agrippiua comes to Tiberius to intercede with him in behalf of some of Augustus his kinred against who he had put out a very rough hand and she finds him to speak in English doing before Avgustus his Tombe as we have seen our Bishops do before the Altars bending and cringing there and performing some other devotions I know not what to the sacred memory and externall honour of Augustus that diminitive god The woman could not forbeare out shee breaks like a woman full of indignation Shame upon thee Tiberius shame upon thee what a notorious hypocrite art thou what seem to honour Augustus Non est ejusdem mactiâ—… victimus Augusti posterius â—…s injeâ—… as a god and abominate his friends and children as if they were Devils O abominable how mistaken art thou Thinkest thou to vail the eyes of the people so then thou must put out their eyes for bending with thy knee before thy god will not bear out not countenance the injustice of thy hand against Augustus children No in good faith Tiberius it will not And let me undeceive thee there for thou canst not by all this deceive the people Thou art but one person Tiberius Thou canst not truly and really act two so different parts It is not possible notwithstanding thy seeming devotions truly to honour Augustus and yet to persecute his kinred The vile Counsellours will not apply here I will yet I will make but two Suppositions and two Positions and then the use of
the Church for Church-men and Church Service as we will call it and not against the Parliament B. Yes against it for they are not with it In this very case also our Lords words are true and reach these Neuters A. But what Law have you for Neuters B. None at all Law is for an Hare they say and a Polt for a Polt Cat. The very truth is we have no Law for them at all But all the Law in Heaven and Earth is against such And if we do not throw them out The Lord will spew them out As sure as Herod was a Fox so sure this Neuter is such another man a cunning knave and a very fool too he stands holding fast a brasse-penny in his hand beholding the while the Pearl trampled-under by Swine He holds fast his own Rights and will keep his own Priviledges But for the Gospel and Gospels Rights whether kept or lost he is William Indifferent a I knew a man in Oxford called so who when his house very old and rotten was on fire and he was told of it said he was indifferent I know not where to finde this Neuter as our English Seneca to his little friend in his yonger dayes b To Mr. W L. deead 3. epist 5. he is every where and no where c. But I will rather have it observed how the Poet describes him Natat modo like one that swimes he is now on this side now on that openly for vertue secretly for vice as unequall as Priscus as like himself as Vertumnus as various as Protcus c Hor 2. ser Sal. 7. A man that has his body here and his heart with the Kings Army That gives a pound of silver to The Lord Christ thereby to keep his thousand and one hundred to maintain the Warre of Antichrist A man that standeth at an indifferency so equally poysed That a Moment turns him he is as is the time runs as does the stream stands as does a Weather Cock I could tell him now two or three stories which would make him tremble at the judgements of God upon Neuters but I forbear He will not appear for Christ his end will be destruction he must appear but Christ will not appear for him not acknowledge him then at that day As miserable a man as is in the world and as Malignant and hurtfull They that are so and appear not do the most mischief It is but Law and Reason both That these should be cast out And now to close up the Bishops Case and the Legality of the proceeding against them we will note this as follows That the proceedings against the Bishops have been all along these 3 yeers according to the clearest prints of Law and Justice that ever were observed in the world For first The Worthies un-Bishoped them thrust them down from their Thrones an honour their flatterers gave unto them without Reason the Worthies took it from them by all Reason and Law to help They took from them their Dignities Lordships temporall and spirituall rendred them as contemptible as they made themselves and endeavoured to make the Lords day And which was most observable The Church cast them out of their Prayers Indeed their praying for them still as Bishops over the Church had been an intimation of their right to raign tyrannize rather over them still and the Churches subjection to that Antichristian power But they thrust them out of their chairs and now they vow to root them out from the Land of the living If we behold this well it will appear to be a very beautifull work and the order taken therein makes it so beautifull It puts me in minde how the Romans dealt once with their Ruler that ruled them as the Bishops ruled with a Rod of Iron so proudly so contrary to Law and all good Reason That he was called Turquin the proud he dealt with his People almost as proudly as the proudest have dealt in Ireland The People honoured him while he was their King but when he rendred himself a Tyrant by his insolencies and cruelties then they would not endure they un-kinged him that was first and then lifted up their hands and vowed to root him out him and all of his name I note it to shew the Legality of the proceeding with the Bishops It reacheth higher to the Archbishops But I have done You see the Legality and equity of this Covenant touching the casting forth these Archbishops Bishops Curates and all this as clear as is the Sunne next and there I shall be short We must observe the exemplarynesse of this Covenanting way There are a Cloud of Witnesses who will give their Seal and Warrant hereunto III. Asa is a man of renown touching that matter who ever observes his steps will go on after him Never any man was more successefull then he so victorious as he he made his Kingdom a Mountain of brasse The Ethiopian came against Judah with a thousand thousand and more thought verily to storme Judah No Judah had taken a sure way To confound his Adversary They had entered Covenant with God But I prevent my self here more of this anone I might be large here but I forbear in so cleered a case The three Kingdoms entering into Covenant now have done according to the best examples as all the true Israel have done in all Ages It is a clear case as clear as the Sun I come to the next The Seasonablenesse of this Covenanting IV. Oh the Wisedome of God The Power of God Oh the goodnesse the mercy of God whose Name is wonderfull God indeed hissed for His people in the North called upon them to enter Covenant with His people in the South They readily obeyed Was that any wonder No truely For besides their own endearments and concernments paries cum proximus ardet their own vows were upon them and have lain upon their shoulders almost these fourscore yeers But let us see the power of God here we will observe His Wisedome afterwards His Power first Who makes the Wolfe to lye down with the Lamb The Calfe and the young Lyon and the fatling together and Isai 11. 6. a little childe shall lead them Wat you what Reader I pray you let us hear That as we understand how matters stood betwixt England and Scotland three yeers ago when the Bishops in both Kingdoms would have thrust each others sword into each others Bowels So also we may understand how matters stood betwixt England and Scotland three hundred yeers agone Ah Lord But we may remember it rather with praise now and rejoycing For we are Bretheren now and live as Bretheren and accursed be he with all the curses in Gods Book that goes about heartily and indeed to break the Brother-hood between Judah and Israel To sow seeds of discord betwixt these two God has joyned us together and we are Bretheren now We and here God is wonderfull who sometimes Centuries agoe were Wolves each to
other such devourers that it was a wonder say our Chronicles almost all that the Nations were so Hos 9. 12. Cruente Caedibus Tren fruitfull to bring forth so much flesh as the sword did devoure for England brought forth her children as Ephraim did to murtherers in Scotland and Scotland her children to murtherers in England so they flew one the other and fell in one day I know not how many but as the Poet expresseth it very well as the Wheat-Stubble before the Reapers North and South indeed it commands our observation The people there as opposite Homer once as are the two Poles now are made one now brought up together now to enter into Covenant whereunto and this we must take notice of in passage Scotland had engaged themselves 70 yeares agon I pray you let me tell you how that came about for our purpose is to exalt the Name of God Scotland was over powred by their Queen there and her power from France Then did That Queen whom every mouth doth blesse but that which speaks blasphemies still whom every Church has in their eye what they can see and keep of her indeed she loved the Church and the Nation Then did Queen Elizabeth send succours into Scotland which kindnesse Scotland accepted and remembred with all thankfulnesse and then engaged themselves to do the like for England as their matters should require We have seen the Arm of the Lord now I hope we can discern the wisdom of the Lord and so take altogether according to our scantling Let us observe the power of God again They that were twain as scourges nay as Scorpions each to other are now made one as one stick in Gods Hand wherewith He will beat the Hazaels of the world till he has consumed them O the power of God! And His wisdom too at such a time such a seasonable time as this is when all the Dogs in the world all the Irish English French all in the Kings Army having their hearts and hands there when all these have their mouthes wide open to devour the Church for such a Time as this God made these twain one That they might be as one Stick in His Hand To beat these Dogs for such a time as this As it was with the Scots when they were oppressed Ezek 37. 19. by their Governesse the Queen Regent and she helped from France then did help come from England seasonably as a sweet shower fals upon the mowen grasse so in such a season as above said did the Lord remember the Scots of their Engagements which they will answer now with all readinesse O the wisdome of God! I pray you let us leave Him to His own Time let us never make haste nor distrust Him for after time he will come-in seasonably to His Churches help He will do all for His Church as He did for His servant Mordecai In truth the paralell is wonderfull and exalts Gods Power and Wisdom and Glory to the worlds end The Lord remembring Mordecai in the fittest time may learn us the understanding of our own hearts and of the times and patiently to wait Gods time I shall not count it then a digression from the main purpose to stay a little upon it I will lay open my thoughts here That good men may for the wicked will not judge of their own hearts thereby find a means to make them better I thought the time long how long Lord Holy and True how long shall the treacherous man deal treacherously Shall the Sword destroy for ever In our distractions we call a week a moneth and a moneth an yeer and an yeer ever an everlasting Time so we forget prosperity and in adversity we cannot consider Thou hast said Lord Thou will purge out the Rebels Shal it not yet be So also I asked after an Association and a Covenant to assure it when shall that be if that were done all were done When wilt thou bring up the hearts of thy people To this work When shall it be that we be no longer vexed with all adversity I do not blame these desires I perswade my self these are good Yet I must examine my desires which way they tend The purging out of Rebels Rebellion is the Thing desired a warranted desire according to Gods will I hate them more then I do a Toad or a Viper for a more venemous and hatefull generation there is not in the world and which is all such whom God hates I may hate their Rebellion and as they are enemies to God them too Then the desire to be rid of them is a good desire But now if that Rebell selfe and the Rebellion in my own heart has not vexed me more or as much as all that I see in the land and if I am notas eager to have it cast out then that is my blame and this the good mans lesson Look to it how that Rebellion has troubled and vexed Thee whether more than has that which thou seest in the world That Rebellion in thy selfe grieveth thy Father and the good Spirit of thy God most of all Observe thy selfe well now whether this Rebellion grieveth thee most also whether thy desires are most intent and hearty To have this Rebellion subdued or cast out So for the other desire O! an Association that we were at a sweet agreement with our selves knit together and with our God in Covenant Indeed I did desire it as before heartily and it was a good desire But if I do not desire as much To agree with my Adversary in the way and to be at peace with my God if not there was selfe in it selfe ease and other selfe respects and I must blame my selfe for it which may teach the best man in the world as before and so in the second place for that is most pertinent here My desires are good but I heartily blame my hastinesse therein I was too hasty for I limited God as if I were wiser then God Truly I never thought so but I did as those do that are halfe of that mind who have such high thoughts of themselves I was too hasty touching the time and season of it Was I as hasty to be rid of that Rebell my own will and self and of the Rebellion which selfwill caused was I as hasty at that point for a Riddance there Certainly I was not Then must I correct my selfe there first Secondly Let us all consider this for it is pertinent indeed The Day is Gods so is the Night He created the Light He formed darknesse Time and the season in His Then let Him alone with His own let Him dispose of it and of matters to be done in it when and how it pleaseth Him Whatever He do's we must not meddle with that for it is His prerogative Royall To be Lord and master there We must not limit Him Who is infinite to our time Time and season is ours to make use of but the
is the readiest way to compleat the Militia of a Kingdome It is Answered this is the way Come up to Gods termes enter into Covenant with Him So Asa did and untill he had done that he had done nothing It is true he took away the Sodomites he threw down the Altars thrust aside their Service And what of all that Sodomites had thrust in againe Altars had been hoysed up again If he had not Covenanted against all these It is so still We must every man for his own part Covenant against the accursed thing in his own heart So also against the accursed Persons and things in the Kingdome to throw them out else Fasting do's no good nor Praying nor Preaching neither Covenanting must go together with all these else nor the Kingdom nor the Christian Souldier there can be in any safe Posture What is done to day in this Posturing work will be undone to morrow If we do not Covenant against Idol-men and Idol things and with the Lord So engaging our heart to cast them all out But do as aforesaid and the Kingdom is sure so is the Person too There is no hope but in this way mark it We have trespassed against our God sayes Sheshaniah What had they done They had taken the daughter of a strange God I know not how many strange Wives and then they had taken the readiest way in the world To stock up their Kingdom by the roots yet sayes he There is hope in Israel concerning this thing Though such a grievous Trespasse be committed and the Chiefe in the Kingdom are Chiefe in that trespasse Yet there is hope What hope Even now therefore let us Ezra 10 2. make a Covenant with our God There is the hope If any thing under the Cope of Heaven will do it That will do it What Away with the daughters of a strange God Set them packing who would thrust us from God and God from us Let us thrust them away and Covenant so to do and then we shall keep our God and close to His worship And if we keep God and close to Him at that point All is kept for God is all and he will keep us all if we keep to Him and stand to the Covenant There is the hope of Israel concerning this matter sayes good Shechaniah It is a sure way it is an only way to save a Perishing a down sinking Kingdom brought to the Pit of destruction upon which are all the Symptom's of death and for which the grave is made because it is so vile Come let us make a Covenant It is the onely hopefull way to save such a Kingdom An hopefull way say I I will say a great word and I will boast of the way but in the Lord There is more then hope There is a certainty of Successe in this Covenanting It never failed the Righteous it never shall faile unto the worlds end I know what the good man will say now heare him VII VII A This way has fayled the most Righteous King that ever had his Kingdom in this world Josiah by name it fayled him even him B. No it did not he Covenanted with his God and so kept close to his God and God to him all his dayes and at death they were not divided he that breathed after GOD all his life long breathed his soul into Gods hand at his death and so departed and is now for ever with the Lord This Covenanting with God did not deceive Josiah A. It failed his people all his whole Kingdom and that is my meaning They were carried away at last though first their King made a Covenant with his God yea and made His People stand to it B. He did indeed and it shall ever be spoken to his Praise when that Scripture is Read Josiah made a Covenant with God and caused to stand to it But if we observe it well we shall tremble for here is a But will spoyle all But Judah did not stand to it Stand to it alas no The Covenant did not faile they failed the Covenant The people dealt wickedly there The King layed an inforcement 2 Chr. 34 35. upon them hi very example was of force to pull and drag the People to enter Covenant to lay them under those sacred bands to make them stand to it but there was not an heart in them much they did in seeing such a glorious example before them but they did nothing in truth They were not a whit humbled for all the Blood that Manasseth had shed not for the Idols he had set-up they were as Idolatrous as their King Not a whit humbled were they for all their abominations theirs and their Princes not a Ier. 15 4. Pag. 121. whit therefore wrath came upon them Indeed I should be large in this point but I finde it somewhat inlarged in the Kings Chronicle whereto I will referre the Reader I will say but this here never was there such a Back-sliding people no not in our dayes never was there such a Departing from God as at that time in Judah I tell you what makes me think verily it was so read the last of the Chronicles what a declining what a fallingback was there from their God from His worship of all degrees of all estates high and low Rich and Poor To what an height of Provocations did they rise But for ought I can observe in that Chapter the Prince and People did not more wickedly in those dayes then we have done in our dayes our abominations have risen to the same height But yet I observe what I Read in Jeremy and that is thus I find more goodnesse Ier. 38. in one Ethiopian then was in all the Princes of Judah I would Intreat the Reader to mark that Chapter As our Lord sayes of the Centurion a stranger to the Common wealth of Israel I have not found so great faith no not in Israel So not so much goodnesse in all the Princes of Judah as Mat. 8. 10. in that one Ethiopian Not so much goodnesse said I there was no goodnesse in the Princes at all all nought all Rebellious and fallen off from God They did not pray to God they prayed to the King That Jeremy might be put to death Certainly Reader Certainly though we I say we for Scotland and England are one though we are a very wicked a very wretched People fallen very low parted very far from our God yet not fallen so low as Judah was at that time not so farre departed but a Covenant with our God will fetch us back again for there are many Nobles in Scotland many Princes there I find Priests called Princes there 2 Chron. 17. 7. a Psal 110 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A people of Devotions 2 Cor. 8 23. to say nothing of the Common people a very willing people a people of willingnesses a willingly offering Devoting their estates and lives now To help in the battle of the Lord and
them anon I suppose now even a good People somewhat slow of Belief touching this matter being fearfull now hearing of the breaking-in of more grievous Wolves into the Lords Vineyard I mean hearing that the Irish I should call them Brethren now but I cannot call these Children of the Devill These Enemies of Christ I cannot call these by so friendly a name I must call them and their Legion by their right Names as their Father is called Abaddon Apollyon Destroyers Murtherers all hearing that these are coming-in to joyn vvith the English I cannot call them Brethren neither Rev. 9 11 but Monsters here supposing I say that a good people are slow of Belief and too much shaken vvith fear now I vvill speak to their hearts first from the Mouth of The Lord as follows If all the good men in the House of Parliament vvere sick Men all and all the Bad there some there may be as bad as those that have run from them if all our Men of War good Men there vvere wounded men all and all the bad as bad as are the Irish and English Monsters and so bad they are if any there vvho in shew stand up for God but in vvord and heart are against him If some in our Councells for vvar in our Committees for all concernments of the Church and State vvere as false and treacherous God knowes vvhat they are as bad and rotten as some have been suspected to be If so be the Scottish Army never joyn vvith ours our hearts joyn and our prayers joyn that is as good nay better though vve think it best of all that our Armies may joyn that vve might be all as one Stick in Gods Hand to beat the dogs away vvhich so infest pester and trouble his people Amen but If not so yet as it vvill follow anon vvell for God is good to Israel still If the Irish The English Legion of Devils I had almost said if these vvere Devils indeed not Flesh but all Spirit as their father is and if This Legion vvere multiplyed by such a number as they have hairs on their head vvhat then Then vve shall all be destroyed every Mothers Childe No as sure as God lives and loves His people as sure as His Sonne is King and rules in the the vvorld amidst His enemies there so sure This Cause and all the Helpers in it shall prosper and all that the Adversary does shall helpe but to advance the prosperity thereof so sure God vvill issue-forth great good out of this great evill and sore affliction These bloody men shall be so far from hurting the Church that they shall do the Church infinite good The Adversaries thoughts are as his were and as alwayes they have been Esay 10 7. bloody devouring and destructive But Gods thoughts are all mercy and Truth all towards His people to edifie and build them up by these desolations To stablish them by these shakings To heale them by these woundings What men do wickedly God orders holily They think evill against the Church but God means it unto Good He is contriving a way now to make His Name and His Church Glorious Can this be so do the fearfull say they doubt it very much whether this Pacification in Ireland those bloody execrable there Those Outrages Insolencies those here shall turne to the Churches good Can this be Can God bring good out of this evill Can He bring Comfort out of this sorrow Glory out of this Crosse Life out of this Death Can He do it Yes indeed He can But truely we should never question His Power no nor His Good-will neither towards His people Can said I He will He will nay He must He must else he does not like a God after His manner from the beginning of the world for evermore it was thus when the Envy the Malice the Rage the wrathfull executions of the Churches Adversaries rose like a mighty Flood to the Highest-top against the Church Then presently the Lord God so ordered it That His People have had Rivers Floods Brooks of Honey and Butter streaming down towards them from whence From the love of God issuing good towards them still out of every evill even from these Floods of ungodlinesse before mentioned From the Rage Envy Hatred Malice of the Churches Adversaries have streamed down to the Church Floods of Honey and Butter The highest Comforts the strongest Consolations from out of the lowest bottome the place of Dragons whereinto the wicked have smiten the Righteous even from thence He give the Reader but one Instance here amongst many whereby to exemplifie this I conceive verily That the most envious hatefull Act that ever was offered to the Lord Christ untill this day was acted upon His Body when he hanged upon the Crosse He had shed His precious Blood four times a little before 1. In the Garden 2. When He was Crowned with Thorns 3. When He was whipt at the Post 4. And when His Arms and Legs were nailed to the Crosse which Commands our Estates and Lives for Him now He say no more Notwithstanding all this for the Lord Christs Adversaries then as now may be glutted with Blood they cannot be satisfied A Souldier then would have more Blood yet and and so with his Spear opens the Lord Christs Side and Heart together both at one thrust Ah Lord never was there such an horrid Act heard of from the beginning of time to that day untill now as it is at this day But what followed then And forthwith came there out Blood and water Look you there what the Souldiers Rage and Envy has done He has opened Joh 19 34 the Heart of Christ to all the world of Beleevers and let-out from thence streaming towards them floods of Honey and Butter from that very time to the worlds end What shall I say O the thoughts of God towards His people O the love of Christ How inexpressable there is blood to justifie water to sanctifie there is all There are the two Sacraments Seals of the Righteousnesse of Faith Rivers Floods Brooks of Honey and Butter So the Souldiers Rage wrought then so wonderfull for the Churches Comfort then when he pierced the side of Christ hanging on the Crosse Shall we doubt what will be the effect of his rage now now the Souldiers are piercing the living Body of Christ as dear to Him as the Apple of His Eye now in Glory Doubtlesse and he has an hard heart that do's not firmly beleeve it That these Souldiers now thrusting their Spears now into the sides of Christ still with the same hatred and envy as once that Souldier did do make but a passage wider open whereout to flow unto the Church floods of Honey and Butter All their Malignity shall serve but to whiten the Church first and then let in streaming into them the strongest Consolations As sure as the Lord lives this must be so These Souldiers are now with one hand filling up their measures
art making these Barren places Edens now Those dark places Goshens now Thou art about it Lord Thou must not leave the work half done We poor men can sit down and count our cost Thou hast counted it already Thou sawest all the mountains in thy way all the oposition man would make against this work Thou sawest what the Potsheards of the earth vvould do all our perverse our froward dealings Thou hast accounted all this cost and hitherto Thou hast proceeded to build us-up In Thy strengh hitherto Thy servants have marched valiantly and done exploits What Thou hast begun Thou must finish We have more to say yet If we cannot move Thee for our selves if Thou vvilt not be moved for our little ones those dear pledges of our hopes Nor for our Land because defiled with blood and Idols and we have polluted Thy Sabbaths there yet we have somthing more to say which must move Thee I. I. The Woman Lord so forced once so persecuted still against whom the mouth of the devourer is so wide open c casting-forth so great a flood This woman so gloriously cloathed nothing of earth upon her is Thy Sons Spouse Truly Lord Thou must own her Thou must give forth Thy hand unto her now in this low estate Thou must remember her Revel 12. and save her Thou must render her for her shame double for she must rejoyce in her portion therefore must she possesse the double everlasting joy shall be unto them a so Thou hast promised and so Thou must performe with thy people so also Isai 61. 7. everlasting confusion must be recompenced to Thine and her Adversaries a double destruction to them so Thy people have b Jer. 17. 18. prayed and so Thou hast commanded fill to her * Rev. 18 6 double Truly Lord all the Christian world stand now at a gaze what thou wilt do now touching this poor woman and her Concernments What will the Righteous Lord doe Truly we should not make it a question Thou must work graciously for Thy servants Thou must gloriously issue-forth all Thy Churches Concernments The Church has Thy c Isa 54 11 12 13 14 c. word for it and Thou hast commanded her to Trust unto it she do's trust and she do's expect glorious matters Truly Lord Thou must not deceive Thy peoples Trust not the expectation of all the Faithfull in the world Why Lord Thine Enemies make a Tumult now never so madd with rage as now They that hate Thee lift-up their Head and speake with a proud Lip and yet pretend to be friends with thee and to this woman and do nothing against her but for her altogether To maintaine the Lawes Rights and Priviledges of Thy Kingdom The Prince of Robbers sayes so They that are as the mountains of Prey to Thy People these Prince Ruperts Warrant annexed to the end Psal 83 1. say so they Rob and Spoil and Murther the poor and helplesse men and do yet worse to women They Vow and Swear to do yet more violences and wrong to the Power in their hands and yet To maintaine the Laws and Liberties of Thy people still Keep not Thou silence O Lord hold not Thy peace and be not still O God The poor and needy commit themselves unto Thee a Refuge from the Storm Thou must deliver the needy when they crie unto Thee the poor and them that have no helper Psal 72. 12 Thou must not sit still now Thou must rise and take To Thy Self Power Thou must right the Cause of the Fatherlesse Thou must stop the Mouth That speaketh Blasphemies Thou must dispossesse the Land of these unclean Spirits The Eyes of all thy people in the world are fastened upon thee now and are stedfast towards Thee Thou must not deceive the expectation of all the Faithfull in the world touching this woman and her concernments Truly Lord Thy servants make no question here as their Conversation is without Covetousnesse so without fear also which causeth too much carefulnesse They can boldly say The Lord is our Helper He has helped hitherto He do's help he do's save he do's deliver even now every day Thou do'st purge out the Rebellious every day if not every day Cutting-them-off from the Land of the Living then by purging them out of thy servants hearts and that is the greatest deliverance Thy servants know Lord what thy Great end is if the Rehellious in Thy peoples hearts were subdued there then there were no work for the Rebells to do now in Thy Land They must be purged-out presently even this very hour if the Rebellious in Thy servants hearts were purged-out There is the stop the mountain in the way there is That which lets the Churches Victories Thy Israels Tents are not thorowly searched then not purged Therefore the Rebels are so strong therefore they must prevaile yet longer Were thy Israels hearts truly humbled for the pollution of Thy Sabbaths O that every servant of the Lord fighting the Battels of the Lord did well consider this See Alarum second Section Cha. 5 6. and sect 3. ch 8 9. Psa 81 14 15 The servants of the Lord do not more desire the remove of the sword than they do the remove of the sins which caused the sword Isa 10 12. Jer 51. 31. 35. 36 37. Rev. 18. 18. the prophaning of Thy Day for their little or no Zeale when time was against the Prophanation of Thy Day Thy House Thy worship and service there were their Hearts truly humbled for all this To an accepting of this sore punishment though it should abide yea Rest yet lone ger upon their Backs because they have suffered the Day of Thy Rest to bâ— prophaned by a Law Were it so That Thy People were so humbled Then they know what Thou wouldst do even as Thou hast spoken long since I should soon have subdued their Enemies and turned mine Hand against their Adversaries The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves Thy Servants know full well That these Adversaries and Enemies all the Rebels in the Land are but as Instruments in Thy Hand as a Batte-Axe to Cut down the Rebellious there that will not consider their wayes and be ashamed as a Rod in Thy Hand To correct and chastise Thy Children as a Besome in Thy Hand To sweep clean the Floor of Thy Church as Scullions To cleanse whiten and purifie the Vessels appointed to honour And when this work is done this whole Work is performed upon Mount Sion and Jerusalem Then Then these Battle-Axes shall be thrown away Then these Rods and these Besomes shall be thrown-out and cast into the fire Then these Scnllions all even their Princes and all shall be sent to their own place And then shall the violences done to Sion and to her Flesh be upon Babilou for then The Lord will stretch forth His Hand upon Babylon and her helpers all and Rowle her down from the Rocks and make her