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A71286	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing W364; ESTC R6426	39,735	52

King of Babylon when he set him up to be King and they hardned him by their evill Counsell to stand out against the word of the Lord untill God gave him and his sons City and Kingdome into the hands of the King of Babylon who slue his sonnes before his face then put out his eyes bound him in Chaines till he dyed tooke the City laid it waste burnt the Temple led the people captive and left the Land desolate as we read Ier. 39. But yet there was another Band and conspiracy of wicked Counsellors unjust Iudges persecutiong Rulers and ungodly Officers and other instruments of violence more pestilent and pernicious then all these who were such a plague and curse to their whole Nation that they brought the wrath of God on it to the utmost and on all their posterity untill this day that was the great Counsell of the Iewes in our Saviours dayes by which the publishing of the Gospell was desperately opposed the blessed Messiah persecuted and murthered his Apostles and Martyrs scourged imprisoned slaine and scattered as the History of the Gospell and of the Acts of the Apostles testifie For they by their pernicious Counsells and practises brought a totall destruction upon their whole nation people City and Temple so that a generall curse cleaves to their children and they have for 1600 yeares been a by-word a reproach and a hissing in all Nations where they are scattered These dreadful examples are so many lowd voyces proclaiming from God to our eares and witnessing to our hearts the truth propounded in this Doctrine viz. That every Band Company and Faction of wicked men consulting to doe mischiefe and practising against Gods Church and people are most pernicious and dangerous Brambles the plague and curse of Lands and Kingdomes I have been large in producing a multitude of examples because I would have you take notice that wicked Rulers and Kings mentioned in Scripture never wanted pernicious Counsellors nor Bands of cursed instruments to spur and drive them on to destruction and to bring a curse on their Kingdomes This is no new nor strange thing to be wondred at and to dismay and astonish us But that in times when Kings and Princes were Tyrants oppressors and back sliders from true Religion to Idolatry and had bands of wicked instruments and of men of violence at command God was so mercifull to his Nation and people of old as to reserve to himselfe a prevayling party and to put wisedome and courage into the great Counsell of the Kingdome to resist their violence to preserve Religion from ruine the people from oppression the Land from spoyling to oppose the bands of the wicked to scatter them and execute justice on them this we finde not in the Book of God in all the Histories from the first to the second Adam this is a mercy proper to the times of the Gospell and to those Nations and Kingdomes in which Christ ruleth by his holy Spirit and his Church is surely established by the word of God faithfully preached true religion is planted in the hearts of the people But now for the cursed Band of pernicious Counsellors and other agents of violence and iniquity which here I am to deale with That we may see most clearely what just cause all Nations and people have to hate abhorre and spue them out as enemies of all righteousnesse and peace and the plague and curse of the Lands states and kingdome in which they rise up and beare sway I will launch forth a little further to discover the depth of their malice how pestilent and mischievous they must needs be wheresoever they prevail and are countenanced and this I will doe by three reasons drawe First from their originall and chiefe author Secondly from their actions and practises Thirdly the unhappy events of their doing reason 1 First it is most certaine that all sons of Belial children of the Devill and seed of the old Serpent especially when a faction of them is banded together are most hurtful and dangerous to the Church and people of God and a plague and curse to the State in which they rule and have power For God hath put enmity between them and the elect seed of the woman Christ and his true members there can be no peace but perpetuall warre with them till their head be bruised and their power scattered which victory for the most part doth c●st Christians as it did their head Christ the bruising of their heele Gen. 3.15 What a curse the sons of Eli who are called sons of Belial 1 Sam. 2.12 did bring upon the Land of Israel and on their fathers house we may read at large chap. 2.11 and chap. 4. The Arke of God could not secure them from Gods wrathfull stroak and visiting hand And I doubt not but the covetousnesse theft and treachery of Iudas who was a Devill incarnate doe discover sufficiently what mischiefe abounds in the children of the devill Now wicked Counsellors unjust Iudges and all other ungodly men banded together to lye to seduce and to worke mischiefe in their hearts are in the Scriptures proclaimed sons of Belial children of the Devill and the seed of the old Serpent So God by Moses calls them Deut. 13.13 So David in his last words and saith That they are all of them as Thornes thrust away because they cannot bee taken with hands 2 Sam. 23.6 And our Saviour tells the Iewes banded together to oppresse hurt lye slander and persecute that they are of their Father the Devill they have their originall from Hell the devill is the chiefe author of their malice and president of their conspiracy and counsell Iohn 8.44 And St. Paul calls Elimas the Sorcerer who laboured to turne Sergius Paulus from the faith the enemy of all righteousnesse the child of the Devill full of all malice and subtilty Acts 13.10 For indeed the old Serpent the Devill inspires subtelty into men suggests wicked counsells and draws them into conspiracy in evill and the more they are banded together the more hee prevailes in them and workes more mischiefe by them and therefore their originall and the author of their Counsells demonstrates them to be such as this Doctrine teacheth The second reason is drawne from their actions and practises First of all their thoughts are against the righteous for evill reason 2 Psalme 56.5 They work mischief in their hearts verse 2. of this Psalme devise it on their beds Psal. 30.4 they glory and boast in it Psalme 52.1 they consult together to cast down the righteous from his excellency they delight in lyes blesse with their mouth but curse with their heart Psal. 62.3 4. In the balance of Iustice which they hold as Iudges in their hands and under colour and pretence of judgement they weigh out the violence of their hands that is wrongs and injuries in the earth Psalme 58.2 They plot against the righteous Psalme 37.12 They lye in wait for bloud Mich 7.2 they

words will take away as with a whirle-winde that is scatter and destroy tempestuously every one aswell the living and green as the dry and hardned That is all of every sort banded together as well the green-headed and young persecutors sharp set but not so strong to hurt as the old and dry who are hardned in malice by long custom and in power and policy are strong to doe mischief And so I have done with opening and expounding of the Text I proceed to the Doctrines which the words and phrases thereof rightly understood doe offer to us And first in that here the Band of wicked Counsellours unjust Iudges corrupt Officers and violent oppressors and persecutors of Gods Church and people is resembled to a Bramble and is by the Spirit of God which spake by David called by the name of the Dog-bramble which is the worst and most hurtfull of all Briars and Thornes which God layd as a curse upon the earth for mans sinne Gen. 3.18 Hence this Doctrine naturally ariseth That every Band Company and faction of wicked men whether evill Counsellors unjust Iudges and corrupt Officers doctrine 1 in a Church or State or wicked instruments and men of violence conspiring and working with them to doe hurt and mischiefe to Gods people and to persecute his Church is certainly most hurtfull and dangerous even a curse and plague in the Land Secondly in that all of all sorts more or lesse able to doe mischiefe doctrine 2 combined and banded together in such factions are called the Thornes or pricks of the cursed bramble Hence flowes the second Doctrine viz. That all persons in every such Band or faction working together against Gods Church and people whether they be more or lesse pernicious and able to doe mischiefe whether hypocrites working under hand or open profest persecutors they are all sharers in the same wickednesse with the worst and most malignant of that cursed crew and shall perish in the same destruction Thirdly in that it is here said of the righteous that before doctrine 3 they feele the pricks of the Bramble God will take away every one both green and dry more or lesse grievous and pricking and hurtfull to them Hence we garher a third Doctrine viz. That God is so tender and watchfull over his Church and people that he frustrates the wicked Counsells and practises of their enemies and scatters and destroyes their persecutors before they proceed and prevaile so farre as to make them feele and undergoe the evill and mischiefe which they are sharply set and cruelly bent to inflict and bring upon them Fourthly from the words which here threaten destruction to the sharpe pricks that is the enemies and persecutors of the doctrine 4 righteous that God will take away every one as with a whirlewind a fourth Doctrine ariseth which is this That when Gods Church is most dangerously beset and assaulted by the bands of enemies and persecutors of severall sorts the Lord will terribly suddenly and totally scatter and destroy them all and none shall escape Of these foure Doctrines I purpose to speak in order and to prove and apply them severally as God shall assist and time permit The first Doctrine which teacheth us That every Band and Faction of the wicked who consult conspire and worke together against the Church and people of God is most hurtfull dangerous and pernicious even the plague and curse of Lands and Kingdomes in which they are is aboundantly confirmed by Testimonies and examples which the holy Scriptures doe plentifully afford and minister to us For cleare testimonies we have all those places wherein all and every one of these wicked men banded together are called by the name as of Bryars and Thornes which are the curse of the earth so also of Serpents Scorpions Wolves Lyons Beares and other hurtfull and noysome Creatures as Mich. 7.3 the Prophet inveighing against the practises of such Counsellors Iudges Officers and other wicked persons banded together under an ungodly Prince saith They hunt every man his brother with a net that they may doe evill with both hands earnestly or cunningly the Prince requireth and the Iudge also asketh for a reward and the great man uttereth the mischiefe of his soule so they wrap it up and twist it together The best of them is a Bryar the most upright is more sharpe and pricking than an hedge of thornes or Bryars Also the Lord by the Prophet Ezekiel Chapt. 2.6 saith of such men that they are Bryers Thorns and Scorpions And thou son of man be not afraid of them or of their great words though Briars and Thornes bee with thee and thou dost dwell among Scorpions be not afraid of their words nor dismaid at their lookes though they be a rebellius house That is a Band and faction of rebellious men And in the Propheticall Song of Moses Deut. 32.32.33 It is said of such men cleaving together as Grapes in a cluster That their Vine is the Vine of Sodome and of the fields of Gomorah their Grapes are Grapes of Gall and their clusters are bitter their Wine is the poyson of Dragons and the cruell venome of Aspes And Ezech. 28.24 The Lord promising to remove the plague and curse from his Land and People saith There shall be no more a pricking Bryar nor any grievous Thorne unto them When he riddeth his Land of such grievous oppressours persecutors and such pernicious persons Likewise Isaiah●9 4 5. It is said of the men of this ranke who speake vanity trust in lyes conceive mischiefe and bring forth iniquity that they hatch Cockatrice Egges and weave the Spiders web he that eateth of their Egges dyeth and that which is crushed breaketh out into a Viper And Isa. 27 4. the Lord saith that while he keeps the Church his Vineyard of red Wine these enemies of it are Bryars and Thornes set against him in Battaile This holy Psalmist doth not onely here in this Psalme verse 4. call them deafe Adders and saith their poyson is like the poyson of a Serpent but in other Psalmes also hee calls them Dogs and Lyons as Psal. 22.16.20 21. Many Dogs are come about me the assembly of the wicked have inclosed mee and verse 21. Save me from the Lyons mouth and Psalme 57.4 though they be sons of men yet they are said to bee soule-hunting and devouring Lyons like their Father the Devill and set on fire of hell My soule is among Lyons and I lye among them that are set on fire even the sonnes of men whose teeth are Speares and Arrowes and their Tongues a sharpe sword And Psalm 140.2.3 He complaines against them and calls them men of violence gathered together to doe mischiefe who have sharpened their tongues like a Serpent and Adders poyson is under their lips And Ezech. 22.27 and Zeph. 3.3 they are called roaring Lyons and evening Wolves ravening for the prey to shed bloud to destroy soules and to get dishonest gaine Besides these with many like