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A83990	Englands remedy of a deadly malady: the vvise-womans saving the city Abel, by delivering the head of Sheba, who was a traitor to the common-wealth of Israel. Which serveth as a pattern, whereby the City of London may be saved, by the wise endeavours of the citizens thereof, like this wise-womans, (which are upon divine record both for our learning and imitation) even by delivering up to law & justice, the traitors to the common-wealth of England. ...		1647 (1647)	Wing E3028; Thomason E397_20; ESTC R201676	19,353	23

King and Kingdome with our Armies Ingagements Declarations Petitions and Remonstrances concerning Sir Thomas Fairfax's Commission in his so faithfull service to the Kingdome of England now in this our extreame necessitie they will find that hee hath a better Commission then Joab had in this his pursuit for as the one prosecuted with zeale for the weale safety and recovery of that Kingdomes Liberties against all adversaries he onely knowing the mind of the better party so with the like zeale doth our valiant Captaine prosecute for the weal safety and recovery of this Kingdomes Liberties against all adversarie powers knowing the mind of the well affected and at the earnest requests and fervent desires of many distressed and oppressed Commoners Prisoners Widdowes Fatherlesse maimed Souldiers poore and others And whereas it may be alledged that our Generall is out of his office and the Army ordered to be disbanded by the Parliament who both gave him his office them their power for the use they were at first appointed It is answered what the Parliament gave either him or them or took from him and them they neither gave the one nor tooke the other as they are an entire Corporation or State by themselves alone but as the representative Body of all the Commons of England and so in that respect but their agents and servants even as some Bishop or Minister after the example of Samuel the Prophet doth annoint a King being so ordained by the Kingdome yet it doth not follow by any good consequence that such a man meerly for his so officiating or discharging the duty of his Office is King Lord or Master of such a King so annointed by him but rather still a subject or servant to him because he is so ordained by the people as by a greater power then his owne to performe that point of duty as well as the rest belonging to his Office And upon this consideration he may neither justly say nor in any respect dare avow as Cardinall Weolsey presumptuously wrote to the Pope I and my King doe such and such things so that both the Armie and the Parliament or the Parliament and the Army which of them soever may justly at this time have the first place as the case now stands the one having the bare word and the other the sharp sword yea and the King himselfe though he were set as high as Solomon on his throne are all but the Commons of Englands Servants and they onely ordained for the weale and better being but never for the woe and worse being of the Common-wealth whereas the Common-wealth was never ordained for the better nor worse being of them in any regard but as they are servants to it or as shepheards and watch-men in keeping it in peace order and tranquility both from forraigne and intestine enemies and the other as speciall instruments both of defending them in the discharge of their offices and for that end of maintaining them in their authorities Needfull Queres to the Parliament Right honourable and truly noble at least should be like the men of Berea NOt to speak of the crying sins and great abominations whereof the Kings Parliaments Priests and People of this Nation are guilty even surpassing the sinnes of Sodome and Gomorah Tyrus and Sydon in so long injoying and yet never receiving nor obeying the glorious Gospell of Christ which if they had had as our Saviour said of Capernaum and Bethsaidah might possibly have brought forth better fruits then ever England did neither to insist of the innocent blood which cryeth from heaven against this Nation by our betraying under the colour of helping that worthy and strong City Rochell as well by cheating them of their provision in their extreame famine when they were so straightly besieged as by advancing their enemies with eight great ships to their utter ruine starving and desolation nor yet of the oceans of the guiltlesse blood spilt and treasures spent of late daies amongst our selves to small purpose yea and much thereof by your corruption carelessenesse double-dealing and other indirect and counterfeit meanes Did ever any Nation give better assistance to any Parliament then this distressed Nation have everie manner of way given unto you Was it all done to make you Lords and Knights and our selves but servants and slaves Was it to set you all in Coaches and on horse-backe and our selves but to run at your feet Was it not meerely that ye should redresse our grievances and recover our Liberties abolish wicked Lawes and establish good Lawes But have ye performed to us either one or other of these your duties Have ye not rather made the cure more grievous then the disease and the last errour worse then the first Have ye so often protested vowed sworne and declared before God and the world that you would deliver us from all oppression and tyrannie and yet are not ye your selves become greater oppressors and tyrants then ever we had Have ye not against all Law justice reason conscience and profession both done many things ye ought not and left abundance of things undone which according to the same grounds ye were bound to doe Did either Petitions Informations or Admonitions ever prevaile with you by word or writing but rather did you not hearden your hearts more and more like Pharoah Have ye not alwaies sought rather to be revenged on such as shew you your hainous sinnes then any wise except in hypocriticall Fasts to amend your faults Yea and I appease to your owne consciences Are not all these but meere shewes which now ye make to rectifie some of the innumerable things that are amisse by your owne meanes even rather for slavish and guilty feare of the Armies sword then out of any dutifull respect or true favour to the Commons of England who choosed and trusted you and whom as yee are bound ye should both serve and respect if ye made any conscience of Gods VVord A faithfull Advice to the Armie Renowned Brethren MAny of you know better then I can expresse what wise course Josuah that valiant Captaine Generall who for a long time fought the Lord of Hostes Battells in the behalfe of his peculiar people the Jewes did take when he saw the Lord shew himselfe so angry at the sins of the people though it was but of one man that he made them both fall and fly before their enemies he searcheth diligently either by lot or otherwise according to the custome of those days throughout all the twelve Tribes in which Tribe or person of the Tribe the fault was and finding it in the royall Tribe of Judah and in Achan by name through his covetousnesse which is the root of all evill did punish him according to the nature of his fault Ye have both begun and run very well hetherto yea and win one part of the prize praised be God but I pray who lets you that yee will not obey the truth but seem to be weary of

finding her reasons to be just and right ordered to cut off the head of Sheba and to cast it over the walls to Joab which accordingly was done so Joab blew the Trumpet retired from the City and every man to his Tent Thus by the meanes of those unto whom God giveth wisdome to order things aright how contemptible soever they be in the eyes of the world both good duties may be timely performed evill consequences wisely prevented yea and heavy judgements removed as we see also by the happy issue of Phineas his zeal in the execution of Zimri and Cosbi even in the very act of their hainous sin of Adultery And without the execution of justice here demanded by Joab there is no peace with Joab yea no peace with God for if he the Lord of Hosts be offended and no meanes used nor followed whereby his anger may be asswaged as he is a just God and the true owner of vengeance he must needs be revenged and hath all the creatures at his call alwaies to execute his Will as by one Angell hee smote a hundred fourscore and five thousand of Senacheribs Army in one night howsoever wicked men who he oftentimes catcheth in the very same snares which they lay for others thinketh that he hath neither number enough of instruments nor magazine great enough of judgements to catch them in the height and pursuit of their sins What a vaine question was that of Joram to Jehu Is it peace Jehu What peace answered he so long as the whoredomes of thy mother Iesabel and her witchcrafts are so many God would have justice done upon the bloody house of Ahab and upon Iesabel for Naboths blood what peace can be then till this be done So here was a wicked Sheba a Traytor to the State who with his strong faction intended the overthrow of Davids Kingdome which was a type of Christs Kingdome and likewise to nullifie the priviledges and liberties of the free-born people for his owne coverous and ambitious ends This wise woman likewise professeth her selfe to Ioab to be one of them that are peaceable and faithfull in Israel and this she doth not for her own private respects only but much more for the common-weale of Abel her City To bee peaceable is very commendable but especially in one who also is faithfull for peacablenesse hath most respect to man but faithfulnesse both to God and man to God in holding forth his truth and to man in giving good example by holy conversation that men seeing the good workes of faith which are wrought by love may glorifie God and through his grace become of the same profession And faithfulnesse also to man doth consist in the discharge of all duties especially of that trust which those who have undoubted power do commit to the charge of those whom they chuse and the other do not onely undertake but faithfully vow and promise to performe with all their power for the publike good and herein if they be either remisse corrupt or false doe they not falsifie their faith and betray that great trust by bending all their affections and imploying all their studies for their own private ends so that by this meanes they transforme themselves from being any more Trustees but become a faction of Traitors to the people who deputed them not to advance themselves as masters but the Common-wealth whereof they are servants excepting so farre as their owne share is included This faithfulnesse both to God and man finds so little favour and entertainment now adayes that it is accounted rather a vice then a vertue except onely among such as be also faithfull and well-principled and although though they who hate faithfulnesse and faithfull men doe in word and shew pretend peace yet in deed and substance they hunt after warre like to those deceitfull Prophets that bite with their teeth and cry peace but he that putteth not into thir mouthes they prepare war against him even as now their brethren those popish Priests and English tythe-mongers doe still in these sad daies of Englands misery And as this wise woman is peaceable so she is faithfull and so peaceable and so faithfull that the peace she seeketh is so just and the faith she manifesteth is so true that she permitteth neither of them to putrifie by resting at home with her selfe but so imployeth them in the works of love that they extend themselves and run like cleare rivers abroad unto others and that not to a few friends neighbours nor familiars but to the whole City where she liveth Another point of her wisdome may be observed first in the wise and sure foundation of her arguments from Gods Word and next by the judicious stating thereof by way of interrogatories or questions as the most choice and pregnant wayes to daunt the fury either of friends or adversaries and that even by giving them some hint of their own fault in their vehement pursuance of revenge otherwise as it seemeth then by due order especially when there is no other forcible nor probable means of resistance as appeareth by the story She chargeth Ioab as it seems with a breach of Gods Law where it is forbidden Deut. 20.10 11. to fight against a City untill peace be offered unto it which belike he had not done and therefore apprehending his own ignorance or negligence was touched by the truth sense and force of her words as also she thus pleadeth as if she should say howsoever others may out of their unadvisednesse make some resistance to Ioab and his Army contrary to her mind and will yet she not being able to amend nor hinder them for her own part is one of them that are peaceable and faithfull in the City yea and a mother in Israel and therefore why would hee presume or offer to destroy the inheritance of the Lord The sad apprehension of which words made such a deep impression in Ioabs heart that he very soberly and discreetly cleared himselfe by the reality and integrity of his intentions saying God forbid God forbid it me that I should devoure or destroy it the matter is not so but a man of Mount Ephraim Sheba the sonne of Bichri by name hath lift up his hand against the King even against David deliver us him onely and I will depart from the City and the woman said Behold his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall Then the woman went unto all the people with her wisdome and they cut off the head off Sheba the Sonne of Bichri and cast it to Ioab then he blew the Trumpet and they retired from the Citie every man to his Tent and Ioab returned to Jerusalem unto the King To prevent an Objection here in the wise womans speech to Joab she saith thus they spake in the old time saying they should aske of Abell and so have they continued now whether she meaneth onely the place mentioning the same by the name that those who besiege a City as