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A86504	A sermon, preached before the Right Honourable, Thomas Foote, Lord Maior, and the right worshipfull the aldermen, sheriffs, and severall companies of the City of London. Vpon the generall day of thanksgiving, October the 8. 1650. at Christ-Church, London. / By Doctor Nathanael Homes, teacher of the Church at Mary Staynings, London.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2576; Thomason E614_4; ESTC R202565	34,476	51

A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable Thomas Foote Lord Maior and the Right Worshipfull the Aldermen Sheriffs and severall Companies of the City of LONDON Vpon the Generall day of Thanksgiving October the 8. 1650. at Christ-Church London By Doctor NATHANAEL HOMES Teacher of the Church at Mary Staynings London LONDON Printed by Thomas Roycroft and are to be sold by William Raybould at the Unicorne neer the little North doore in Pauls Church-Yard 1650. To the Right honourable Thomas Foote Lord Maior of LONDON the right worshipfull the Aldermen together with the Worshipfull Company of the Grocers of the sayd City Right Honourable and highly Respected ACcording to your desires I have Printed this Sermon which for your desert much obliging me I present to you as in speciall yours Not to be accepted by all men is common to al. If some dislike my comfort and recompence is all do not you are witnesses If others be displeased with what is common to man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * they forget they are men If with the substance and its relation to the solemnity they may review and remember And the Prophetin a passion say the Learned spake incongruous Hebrew Rom. 〈◊〉 I speak against sinne not men I advance in my judgment and conscience which they so plead the very truth of God And REGARDED THAT DAY TO THE LORD as they observing it not say To the Lord they regarded it not And of common equity they owe me this freedom that I may be as zealous for mine own Nation as they are for another They have their liberty in what is essentiall to it if they please so to keep it without cost or labour Wee purchase ours next under God sought by prayer at a great rate in necessitated warrs We are not willing to disturb their injoyment whiles quietly they aquiesce there If they doe ours whence theirs doth spring they wrong themselves as wel as us 'T were happy so as to end these dividings if we did enquire into their causes Whether they be not insufficient and rather to be removed from our mindes then our mindes to bee moved by them As whether it be not want of practise of what wee professe Viz. to be Saints and love Saints because we be such and they be such Or whether it be not a supposed ty to a part of an obligation that is now non-ens or to us impossible which is much at one voluntas non fertur ad impossibilia The remainder ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD put first as the Basis of all we may still endevour to the utmost and welcome Or whether it be not an unwillingnesse to promise what all Christians do and would in foreine Nations of Turks Papists c. to submitt quietly to the present civill Government Or whether it be not an hoped content in desired future Governours and Government of which we have no good experience rather then in the present preserved and approved of God by the testimony of many glorious wonders Or whether it be not such an Interest of some men as is inconsistent with the Government of the State and is a Partition Wall between Christian Brethren Or it be not a great mistake supposing a violence hindering some Members going to sit in Councill should null the session of the rest that are the quorum contrary to the course of all inferiour Courts Or lastly it be not our Non-consideration of the Prophesies and Promises of the great change of things God is now about to make in our times and downward to the advancement of Christs Interest and Kingdome whiles we expect things to be as they were Put in vaine as this insuing Treatise hints and may perhaps be seconded in other larger Treatises if God permit The meane whiles be pleased to weigh this well and the Lord blesse it to your Honour and Worships and to all candid Men who had never seen it but for your sakes whose humble Servant in Christ Jesus is Nath Homes From my Study at Mary Staynings London Octob. 21. 1650. Psalm 149. the last Verse the later part of the Verse This honour have all his Saints Praise yee the Lord. Neerer the Hebrew thus This comely honour to or for all his gracious holy ones HALLELU-JAH THIS day and this Text I trust are well met They both intend praise They both reciprocally congratulate one another in that thing The day I doubt not welcomes the Text and the Text will surely serve the day in severall weighty considerations You see 't is in one of the Psalmes called in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tehillim PRAYSES Of which this is a singuler one The first word it speakes is Praise yee the Lord and the last breath it breaths is Praise yee the Lord Both both the first and the last is in the Hebrew HALLELU-JAH Just the praisefull language of Gods holy people throughout the Revelation Viz. HALLELU-JAH HALLELU-JAH c. and relating to OUR times and downeward to Christs restoring all things Act. 1.6 Act. 3.21 For then are Gods words fulfilled when they appeare in deeds THEN is fulfilled the Propheticall part of this Psalme namely That God will beautifie the meeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with safety as well as Salvation Vers 4. and will give a speciall honour to all his Saints or holy ones Verse of the Text WHEN Vers 6. he puts the high praises of God in their mouth or deeper 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their throats whiles a TWO-EDGED SWORD is in their HAND to execute Vers 7. vengeance on the Heathen sayes your Translation the Nations saith the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be they what peoples they will be that hate the Saints as it follows Vers 7. and to execute punishments 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the PEOPLES in the Plurall Number and Vers 8. to binde their Kings with Chaines and the Princes with Fetters of Iron and to execute the judgement that is written THEN I say so much of the propheticall part of this Psalme is fulfilled as much as that is done be it now much or more hereafter and therefore now to praise with the Holy ones in the Revelation saying HALLELU-JAH For into those times we are thus farr run as to be at least under the sixth Seale sixth Trumpet of that Seale and under the end of the fourth Vial of that Trumpet if not further namely under the beginning of the fifth Vial. For according to Revel Chap. 16. Vers 8 9 10 11. A Vial hath been poured out upon the Sun that is Sore afflictions of Warr c. upon the most splendid body for Gospell light of the Christian World as Low-countreys Germany England Wales Ireland and since that power hath been given to this Sun to scorch men that is To afflict them sorely that poured the Vial of wrath upon this Sun till in stead of repentance for afflicting the Sun they blaspheme And moreover there hath been some droppings of the fifth Viall upon

holy people shall have a better rest then ever they had onely 't is saith the Apostle a world to come as if the world did newly begin by the destruction of the old world of all the obstinate enemies against the Saints which the holy people shall subdue or destroy just as we say the old world afore the Flood And Melchizedek that is H. b. 7.3 Son the son of Noah is said to be without beginning of days and end of life because he lived many yeers in both worlds that is in the old before the slood and in the new after the flood If we cannot yet see and that were strange if we cannot that every great deliverance of the Holy people is a type of a future greater and in particular that Joshua and his holy Army were a Type of greater Victories yet to come since the Apostles to wit more general and effectual then consult with Josh 1.5 compared with Hebr. 13.5 6. In that of Ioshua the words are to Ioshua and in relation to his Wars against the Kings and Nations of Canaan There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life as I was with Moses so will I be with thee See how there also is an intimation of one mercy to be a type and pledge of another But the last words I aim at viz. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee These last words to confirm the former in the business of conquest in War to and by Ioshua are applied in Heb. 13.5 6. to all the holy people in all their wars and wants and difficulties whatsoever with a non-such or unparallell'd vehemency of speech in five Negatives in the Greek Let your conversation be without greediness after silver 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and be content c. for he hath said I will NEVER LEAVE THEE NOR FORSAKE THEE so that we may boldly say The Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me Which last words sound of help in Wars and oppositions of men as the former of all other supplies And then presently gives us an experiment how well God hath dealt with his people of godly conversation in all ages And then addes a demonstration of all namely because Christ is yesterday and to day and the same for ever viz. unchangeable to deal in the same gracious way with all his people in all ages Thus you see how in the Old Testament former victories and deliverances were types and pledges of future The same also will plainly appear in the New Testament by S. Iohn in the Revelation the peculiar Prophet and Prophesies for our times who carries on the meaning of the holy Peoples exploits in the Old Testament in all their warlike victories to be Typical and praemitial patterns and pledges of future greater things that the holy people shall do and attain in our times and downward For the manner of the Israelites lying in Camp in expeditions of War was the Ark in the middle the four and twenty Orders of their Priests and Levites round that and the whole body of the Army round them in four Brigades three Tribes to a Brigade or Post towards the four Quarters of heaven And the first Tribe of each Brigade or Squadron consisting I say of three did bear the Standard for all three And the four Standards or Colours of the four Brigades were A Lion an Ox or Calf the Face of a man and a Flying eagle as appears both by Scripture * Ezek. 1.5 6 7 8 9 c. Compare M. Mede on Rev. 4. now translated in English and Jewish Antiquities* which I cannot now stay to discuss And thus just doth S. Iohn in the Revelation bring in the holy people in the like posture conquering and praising in our times and downwards So in Level 4.8.9 10. the Throne answerable to the Ark is in the middle And the four Beasts Greek Animals that is the whole Camp of the holy people or Host of God signified by four Beasts or Animals that antiently was in the Israelites Standards or Colours rest not praising saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Mark how the praise refers to Gods Power and holiness and unchangeableness to hate the unholy and so from time to time to impower his holy people to conquer the unholy their enemies And when the four Animals the Camp of the people of God once begin their Anthem in the Chore then presently the four and twenty Elders the Godly Ministery see cause and solemnly sing or praise And when those Beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sate on the throne who liveth FOR EVER AND EVER observe still how Gods power and unchangeableness is minded the four and twenty Elders fall down before him that sate upon the Throne and worship him that liveth for ever c. You see yet still the praise hath a special eye to Gods power keeping the throne and his immutability living for ever intimating God would still be the same to his holy people and more and more to make them subdue all their enemies Which is so often repeated because 't is the main proposition of the whole book of the Revelation and designe of Christ for his people Revel 1.5 6 7 8. Studie it well Which and our particular in hand is again represented to us in Rev. 7. where the holy people the Host of the Lord of Hosts is mustered one hundred fourty and four thousand and Auxiliaries without number with palms in their hands signals of Victory praising saying Salvation to our God who sits on the Throne and to the Lamb. And all the Angels stood round about the Throne and about the ELDERS and the four Beasts c. and worshipped saying Amen blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honour and power and MIGHT be unto our God for EVER and EVER Amers Still Gods power and authority is minded And in what garb and posture do these praise Answ In the foresaid manner of four Animals representing the Camp of Gods holy people with their Ministers signified in the four and twenty Elders v. 11. If you say these places are dim for the thing urged and that light that is in them glimmers rather of spiritual wars and victories then corporal we will give you some plainer places and for the literal sence of corporal victories as well as spiritual The first place shall be in the fifth Chapter of the Revelation conveniently placed between the fourth and seventh afore alleadged the better to expound them Rev. 5.1 God is brought in on the Throne sutable to the Ark in the middle of the ●amp of Israel and to signifie his authority and power and presence with his holy people and Christ at his right hand to tell us his minde and to prevail with him for our assistance For which typified in the opening of a book the four Beasts or Animals

there is found no cause of sorrow for either of us But in the middle transactions did Israel fall in battle twice for some secret sin as they did at Ai we ever blessed be Jehovah fell not at all before the Scots Therefore the Israelites might well mourn more and have less cause of rejoycing then we But mark by the way for all the Notion of Brethren the Benjamites mourn not for the fall of the Israelites that we read of 'T is just as if now the contrary minded among us should mourn for the overthrow of the Scots because as they cry they are their Brethren but they never mourn for them few that were killed of us or for our distresses by weather or want of provision for the whole army or for the distresses and wounds of many of us as if we were not Brethren to them Benjamin will not mourn for Israel though in two battles they kill of Israel fourty thousand men Judg. 20. If Israel will they may at last mourn gratis for Benjamin and the mean while for themselves for their twice falling before Benjamin Benjamin regards it not whence I observe that if the Israelites had conquered the Benjamites at those times the Israelites would have saved their mourning and would have been glad of conquest For they are in the case immediate contraries 'T is true that afterwards that the most part of the Tribe of Benjamin were cut off and the whole Tribe even extinct the Israelites mourn But the formal consideration and precise reason would be weighed and heeded especially by men that most pretend to most reason The Israelites cannot mourn for standing up for a most righteous cause nor for Conquering the Benjamites to which God encouraged them by three severall answers bidding them go What then 'T is upon another account 1. A Tribe was cut off The distinction of Tribes being then much preserved to distinguish the comming of the Messias of the Tribe of Judah as was fore-prophesied Now this consideration of Tribes contributs nothing to our case to cause us to mourn or hinder our joy for our victory over the Socts 2. And mainly the Israelites mourned for their Rash COVENANT Which they choseing rather to break then keep they were pacified Judg. 21. But the Israelites were so farre from mourning for the slaughter of the Benjamites that now after all they send twelve thousand men against Iabesh-Gilead to destroy it and in it all both man and woman that had layn with man for that they came not up to help them to conquer Benjamin * Judg. 21. If possibly men may be convinced this would if weighed conconvince them Obj. But there was no solemn thanker for these victories against Brethren Answer Those that make this Objection can tell us if they please that extraordinary duties and daies as of Fasting and Feasting or Praying and Praising are to be taken up by the people of God e●renatâ occasionally as some extraordinary cause is offered by divine Providence So that we are not tyed to rules or example when to set such times apart but as God acts for and makes impressions upon the hearts of his people But if this answer will not serve their turnes we adde that though David blubbred for the overthrow of Absalom as we heard afore 2 Sam. 18. yet after he was not onely Convinced Chap. 19. as hath been declared but in the 22 Chap. hath a solemn psalm of praise for his deliverance from all his enemies in which Absalom must needs be included from the first opposition of Saul down to that day as the Title of the Psalm Canonical Scripture as well as the rest hath it And is twice upon record v. z. there and the 18. Psalm left for all Israel to sing and praise God But to leave disputes the truth is the greatest Core and cause of non-praising God is the corruption of mans heart if the heart be out of tune it will not praise be the cause almost what it will 1 Thess 5.18 though the Holy people are bound and obey In every thing to give thankes much more in greater mercies We have a renowned instance of both in Ezra 3. ver 10. to the end of the Chapter One could not but thinke had not the event shewed the contrary that all the Iewes would have praised God at the laying of the foundati on of their second Temple The Case of the compound of sorrow and joy at the laying of the foundation of the Temple after their return from the Babylont an Captivitie and with an heigth of joy answerable to the depth of sorrow they had been in for the ruine of the first and their long inslavement there But lo in stead thereof a many Mal-contents howle and mourn while others joy A confusion to be wondred at which will more appear and serve this day if we do but shew you barely the roots of ten remarkable observations natively growing there which transplanted by your selves into your own hearts will spring up to a great talness by a little meditation Namely That the beginnings of reformation are times of great discrimination of the complexions of mens Spirits In this Third of Ezra 10. c. upon the said occasion Iew is distinguished from Iew. They are not all of one mind some take content some discontent in and about the same thing They are all fire-brands but newly taken out of the fire some flame with joy but others quencht and hisse with teares of sorrow In such times of reforming will arise counter actings contrary transactions For the self-same thing some here sing and praise others weep with a loud voyce In the like times the afflicted endeavour to o're-top drown and swallow up the actions of the well-affected with their peremptory counter-actings the cryings of the lamenters almost overcome and confound the shoutings of the rejoycers Of those that are so ill-affected there are Ministers and ancient Professors Neither learning nor experience without the help of grace are able to act graciously and they are the men chiefly that conterpoise against the well-effected both of Ministers and Professors in the solemnity of that dayes praise For the Text is express And when the builders layd the foundation of the Temple of the Lord they set the PRIESTS in their apparell with Trumpets and the LEVITES the sonnes of Asaph with Cymhals to PRAISE the LORD after the ordinance of David King of Israel And they sang by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord because he IS GOOD FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOR EVER See with what manner of solemnity and high observation of the day the Sweetly-composed Ministers and People praise God And observe with a judicious eye what is the matter of their song and praise even part of the 136 Psal as now further fulfilled as before it was fulfilled in part in their deliverance from Egypt and their Conquests in the wilderness c. and in Canaan as before we

extoll'd by Book-polititians for Majestie and likeness to the rule of God But it hath so long degenerated into Arrogancie and Tyranny that it is now disgracing it self out of the world Democracie hath been sometimes despised where and while it hath been eclipsed by the seeming-splendor of Lord-ensnaring and people-vassal ging Royalty But what it wants in Majesty is richly made up in true Liberty and secure Safety The people loving the Governmen of the People as before described love themselves But Kings loving themselves and their Court-creatures they drained and suck'd out the life and blood and spirits of the State The Peoples misery and poverty as was their Maxime was their security to do what they list The time is now at hand to dethrone Monarchie and to raise Democracie according to our Text of the Honour to be given to the Holy-people compared with Dan. 7.27 Read it wisely The KINGDOM and DOMINION and the GREATNESSE of the Kingdom UNDER the WHOLE HEAVEN shall be given to the PEOPLE of the SAINTS You see then our Text and that of Daniel speakes fairely for a Democracie that is holy and our Times begin to ecchoe distinctly to it as we shall see more after in the Antitypicall consideration of the termes of our Doctrine and Text. 3 Word is Praise ye the Lord or as 't is in the Hebrew HALLELU-JAH which is as I may say the Heavenly prick-song of the times signified in the Revelation to our present time and downward When had we cause more to praise Jah or Jehovah then now When did he more manifest himself as such then now by that time we have reckoned up the many things of this daies memorial And the duty is like the desert It doth not onely sound of what we must do but savours of much sweetness in the doing and so a motive as well as a Command to praise For Praise is a preparation to prayer He that is not in tune to pray let him first play the praludium of praise he shall soon finde his heart before bed-ridden sick spiritually to come to his life and strength So it appeares by Davids Psalmes often For praise is a great heart-melter a Convincer of sin in regard of the unkindness of it and so an admirer of divine mercy as Jacob Lord I am lesse then the least of all thy mercies For Praise is an owning of the returnes of our prayers We know our prayers againe when we see them acted and effected and make us Eccho to God acts as David Away from me ye workers of iniquity the Lord hath heard me Psal 6 What shall I render to the Lord Psal 116 for all his benefit Therefore praise also is a quieter of discontent a composer of our spirits an allayer of the mutinies of the affections Psal 73. Psal 77. It is the intent and event of Gods deliverances and the acceptable glorifying of him Psal 50. v. 15. v. 23. And t is a great tryer of the actions that is in judgment and Conscience well done for which a Saint can cordially give praise Therefore praise we for the thing done for eyes to see cause of praise and for hearts willing to give thankes And whiles we praise we loose no time to procure at the Throne of Grace Praise is as well a potencie and prevayling to get as a pledge we have received As well a Petition as an accquittance So in the story of Iehosaphat who whiles he praised 2 Chron. 20.22 c. obtained the victory of an Army of enemies Therefore doubt not but that this daies praise shall have the fruit of Petitions Therefore to all these seven let the foot of the song be Therefore praise therefore praise c. 4 Word is Performance Psal 136.3 c. O give thankes unto the Lord of HOSTS who alone doth GREAT WONDERS for his mercy indures for ever c. Who remembred us in our LOW ESTATE for his mercy indureth for ever And REDEEMED us from our ENEMIES for his mercy indureth for ever Need I speak to this Text The day is a plain and compleat commentary 5 Word is according to his Promise Not onely great things are done for us but with the great seale of Gods truth that he heares when we do pray and doth as he speaks So that in what we have heard and seen and injoy being the issue of promises all is not done till THIS world be done Gods Promises are of an unknown worth a rich improvement and of endless incomes of Reversions Promises are like the sunne that casts its beames at first rising from East to West Yea they are like to fountainous streames the further they runne the more they are augmented till they disburded themselves into the Ocean This is a great mystery I had the first hint of it many yeeres since from learned and religious Calvin Promises have never an end of all in them till Saints attaine the perfect end of all So that as all the promises and performances of the Old Testament did first devolve themselves on the great period of Christs incarnation so next they reach to and rest upon Christs exaltation of his Kingdome on earth among his Holy-people as they are anewly promised or commented upon in the New Men may not yet say of the grand promises of the generall good of the Holy-people Now such a promise is fullfilled and now such a promise is fullfilled unless they mean fullfilled so as not yet fully fullfilled What ever is done till the full perfection of all things come is but an Epocha Intervall or Stage of the progresse of promises and their severall Gesses Promises in their effectuall movings are like the movings of the Sea the latter wave is the greater and the outwarder circle the wider We now wonder at the greatness of mercies present But he is immense that acts Now are but dawnings to the sunne hereafter rising 2 Pet. 1.19 The Holy-people are now honoured But shall be more and more So it followes in the two words behinde namely Honour and such honour with addition to ALL his Saints 6 Word is honour God will honour them whom the world all along till now have most vilified He will make them glorious before men whom as Paul faith men have made the off-scowring of all things Now it is not onely a matter of conscience towards God but of credit among men to be a Saint And shall not such praise Yea they must they do they will Rev. 5.9 c The four Beasts and the four and twenty Elders fell down before the Lamb c. And they sung a NEW song saying Thou art worthy c. for thou wast stain and hast redeemed us c out of every nation and hast made us unto our God Kings and Priests and we shall REIGN on the EARTH And I beheld and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand

and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive POWER and glory c. And every CREATURE in heaven and ON THE EARTH c. heard I saying Blessing honour glory and power c. Surely if God will honour his people by glorious performances they shall honour him with praise Psal 50. Psal 113. 7 And last word is SUCH honour namely to subdue Kings and Nobles and Nations If as 't is twice spoken and almost together Rev. 21. to wit vers 24. and v. 26. The Kings and Nations shall so love the light and glory of Ierusalem that is of the holy people to WALK in it and bring their honour and glory to it well If not they all fall before and under my Text The Holy people shall execute vengeance upon the Nations and punishments upon the people To binde their Kings with chains and their Nobles with fetters of iron THIS HONOUR HAVE ALL HIS SAINTS And for that the Saints shall praise as 't is in the Text. HALLELU-JAH Praise ye the Lord as the 19 of Revel sings concent and consort to it Hallelu-Iah Hallelu-Iah Hallelu-Iah Hallelu-Iah Hallelu-Iah Praise ye the Lord so often is the repetition in the first six verses because the Lord judgeth the whore and the beast and the false prophet and kills their army with the edge of the sword as is the close of the Chapter Then shall the Saints begin to have a Rest upon earth Satan being bound Revel 20. according to the type of the Israelites rest in Canaan after their subduing those Kings and Nations as we have a clear hint Heb. 4. touched afore To this things will come be sure of it Thus of all the seven words of the Doctrine according to the terms of the Text The Antitypicall consideration of the Doctrine and Termes of the Text. considered typically Next a word of all joyncly considered anti-typically and I have done We do blessed be God bless the Lord this day with Gospel-celebrations of singing praying preaching praising as the Iews did in this Psalm with religious musick and dancings And why praise we Because on this day in a most eminent manner and measure this text is fulfilled in our cars Bear witness and wonder Have not the Holy people had SUCH honour as to binde a King and some Nobles and to execute judgement upon them Have not the Holy people as this days mercies tell us taken Nobles prisoners of War named in our Narrative and executed vengeance upon the Nations now of the Scots as before of the Irish and English enemies to Godliness They all 't is plain now at last drave on the same designe and therefore I justly put them together this day as the sword of the Lord and of Gideon blessed be Jehovah hath put them together into the same mortall incapacitie to hurt us any more The meer name Scots pleads but little perswasive Oratorie in mine eares to put the generality of them in any higher predicament then the English or Irish enemies afore named Of these we have had sure intelliligence partly by letters and partly by them that have seen and beard the mannerof these things and partly by the carriage of their commissionministers here The High-landers are Heathens Their Common-people as they confesse are Vassals to their Lords and we know they are to great vices The best of their Ministers for the generality sweare at least petty oathes Their discipline of their Stoole of repentance and their iron hoop which they call Christs yoake put upon them that will not ascend that stool to a verbal recantation are but ridicles Their Classes are Claves keyes to shut mens mouthes that nothing may be debated out of the Scriptures beyond their stinted common roade A wofull hinderance to the increase of the light of the Gospell I will not trouble my self to set forth the treacherous and hypocriticall dealings of their Parliament with ours because our Parliament hath limb'd them out to the life in their several Declarations and Editions of the Scotish Letters and papers and our armyes swords are now convincing them whom words would never convince And these things hath God adjourned enquire the cause untill now Whiles the generality of the Parliaments were not Holy people little was done Whiles the Army in general was not so Holy a people little was won And whiles Non-Saints were the Non-such in places of Trust there was little hope of any thing to be done God you see reserved this honour to the generality of the Holy-people in all those rankes They that have eyes to see let them see least they stumble and tumble and utterly fall before they open their eyes For they that uphold the upholders of Antichrist are opposite to Christ and Christians and must therefore fall But they that uphold the present Kings of the earth uphold the upholders of Antichrist call experience to testifie therfore those that uphold such upholders must fall Call experience againe to testifie this Nor English either Bishops or Barons or Bores that took part with the late king nor after them the Irish nor last of all the Scots and Scotish and Scotified adherents do stand From the Declarations Letters and Sermons of this third and last party named partly to be seen in print the late proceedings against the King had their first maine rise Since they have changed their cause God hath changed their successe but they will not see it Therfore that of Isai 26.11 and chap. 10.6 threatens them Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the people I will send the rod of anger against an hypocriticall nation The hypocriticall Pharisees are by Christ accounted worse then Publicans and Harlots Lay all together and the result soon appeares the more the holy people in place increase and the hypocrisie of the enemies break forth to the prejudice of Christs interest Mat. 21.17 the sooner they fall before the Holy people Is it not yet possible for men to see that all that will not joyne with the Holy people of the Parliament Council Army Fleet Magistrates and Ministers fall under them and fall a maine God suffered a long time the World to domineer over the Holy people But now God no longer trusts his Holy people in the hands of the World but makes the World to trust themselves in the hands of the Holy people And the world work themselves amaine if men can see into this condition If Military men will not manifest themselves meet to guard the peace of the state Regiments of the Holy people must If the great Dons will not be fit for place of Magistrates a choice from among the Holy people must If Kings will not rule the Holy people well the Holy people shall rule them well If the Irish Nation murderously rebel and the Scotish Nation unrighteously invade neither submitting to Equity though tendred

regard to any of his Ordinances when men in them make solemn addresses to him how many failings soever there be in the men and their manner of personnance of them Yea and we all generally doe thinke so as in the matter of swearing men that have no grace for Witnesse which is an ordinance of appeal to God We acquiesce in their Testimonie Jonah Chap. 1. as being assured such men feare to sweare falsly least their implied imprecation should fall upon them And we see often wretched men that dare speake falsly dare not sweare falsly Now marke in the Story of Jonah his Sea-voyage Prayer and casting of lots are both Ordinances of solemn addresses and appeale to God The Heathen Marriners use both they cryed everie one to his God and roused up sleepy Jonah also to call upon his God and by common consent also cast lots to find who was the malefactor in the ship that caused this tempest These Prayers thus made by these Heathens and this lot so cast by the same hand are answered by a most just determination upon Jonah They all acquiesce in it as just Jonah submits and is content to be thrown into the Sea rather then the ship and all the men should perish Why should I inlarge upon that which you can easily make out your selves And what can you make lesse of it but that the Scots and We are in this worse then these Heathens if after so many dayes of Fastings and Prayers by both of us appealing to God God answering in a worke of wonder we should not own it as his Answer 4. Furthermore God is not in vain called THE LORD OF HOSTS and which is not inconsiderable to the Point in hand It was our word the day of Battle when the hand that had been lift up in Prayer was now lift up in fight to make experiment what would be the minde of God in answer to those Prayers By which Lord of Hosts in the day of our Victory against the Scots there were so many great things done above all humane Power as cannot without impietie be ascribed to any but to the Lord of Hosts I shall rehearse but some of those Particulars we had first from the Councill of State and after from the Parliament First That 22000. all fully ready for fight and afore hand with us and had all advantages of the ground did not stand against 6000. of Us. Secondly not an houre Thirdly Upon this oddes at least 4000. of the Scots slaine upon the place and in pursuit Fourthly above twice as many taken Prisoners And that fiftly when our men many of them were sickly many of them wearied with wants foul weather and some of them as I know by Letters under their hands much fainting in their spirits The Enemy much heightned afore the fight with our long retreat Sixthly Not 40. of our men killed Who would not who could not say Behold Digitus Dei here is the very Finger of God appeares in this 5. Lastly the Parliament and all their Friends have deepe impressions on their hearts in Prayer Prayse publicke Edicts c. that herein was the manifest determination of the minde of God against the unrighteousnesse of the Scots dealing with us And such impressions as are on Godly mens hearts generally and in solemne addresses to God the Searcher of the heart 1. John 5. and in publicke Professions before the whole World are not to be slieghted as nothing There is Rom. 8.16 saith the Apostle the Testimonie of a Saints owne Spirit beside the Spirit of God to be considered in his Confidence or Diffidence So that though the Scots and Scottish owne not this Divine Determination as from God but some of them if singular Testimonie faile me not in a manner ascribe it to the Devill alleadging Our Army used some inchantment to know or doe and the best of them thinke it to be matter of Faith as their letters out of Edenborough Castle intimate to beleeve this Victory was but as a Contingencie and so harden themselves I feare as Pharaoh did by means of the Enchanters c. perhaps to their further destruction as he did yet we cannot but owne it as Gods Determination and owne it with Admiration and with the more the more we thinke of it Because the contrary minded are onely afflicted in their mindes by this crosse to their vaine hopes We are delivered from our rationall feares and reall dangers to our Lives our Estates our Liberties Civill and Evangelicall For they had as appeares by the Writings in the Chancellours purse that was taken in warres brought in the accused thing And had the report of Our retreat lasted but foure dayes longer I am assured by them that know the Word had been given to England according to Levens speech at their Councell of Warre before the fight and the thousands of Scotified and Royalized in the severall Counties and Cities in England listed for this purpose whereof I am full sure had risen to welcome in the Scots with their accursed thing But now they may keepe it and without repentance perish with it O ye Parliament People Magistrates Ministers that will be owned of Christ in the glorious times approaching praise yee the Lord all your dayes And when you would meditate on our deliverance Reade Psalm 16. Judg. 5.1 Sam. 2. and the Narrative of the Act for this Day of Thankesgiving and at the end of every Period say as in Psal 136. For his mercy endures for ever And then close with the Text This honour have all his Saints Praise ye the Lord Amen FINIS This Auther hath latly Published a small Treatise intituled The mischeife of mixt Communions fully discussed Wherein all Arguments on both sides are fully handled sould by William Raybould at the Vnicorne in Pauls Church-Yard