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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33474	Vox corvi, or, The voice of a raven that thrice spoke these words distinctly, Look into Colossians the 3d and 15th : the text it self look'd into and opened in a sermon preached at Wigmore in the county of Hereford : to which is added serious addresses to the people of this kingdome, shewing the use we ought to make of this voice from heaven / by Alex. Clogie.	Clogie, Alexander, 1614-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing C4724; ESTC R26607	70,214	178

the soul Now most noble Lords and Commons Since God hath endued many of you with excellent parts of learning of all sorts and Wisdom both Theorical and Practical above all the Sanedrims Synods and Anti Synods since that of Nice in which a plain Country-man in demonstration of the Spirit and Power convinced the Heathenish Phylosophers more than all the three Hundred and Eighteen Fathers that were there I hope you will in the fear of God assert the everlasting Gospel in the purity and simplicity of it and all the approved Teachers of it in allowing them a just Maintainance for their Supportation that they may be encouraged in the Law of the Lord 2 Chr. 31. 4. as Hezekiah is recorded to have done in his Reign according to that of the Apostle Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things which I take to be the Patent of the Ministers of the Gospel The gleanings of your Grapes are better than the Vintage of some Countrys where there is a competent Provision for their Ministers many able Men of yours have small allowance even for the meanest Imployments all Tyth being lock'd up in the Hands of Impropriators in many places and nothing left of the spoil but the old allowance The Nethimims that were of two sorts the Gibeonites and the Levites that were imployed to be Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water for the Alter of God t had a far more plentiful provision for themselves and their Families than many of your most painful Ministers have at this day that labour in the Word and Doctrine as the Apostle speaks 1 Tim. 5. 17. Prove me now herewith saich the Lord of hosts if I will not open you the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it Mal. 3. 10. That he may cause the blessing to rest in thine House saith the Prophet Ezekiel ch 44. v. 30. More over most noble Patriots that are called to sit on Thrones of Judgment for such a time as this where many of your Pregenitors Parents Kinsmen dear Friends fellow-Subjects and Country-men did sit above Fifty years ago that were able Men fearing God and honouring the King that were zealous for God and valiant for his truth as ye are all this day Act. 22. 3. that resisted all inevitations on Church and State even unto Blood Heb 12. 4. in themselves and others to prevent the setting up the image of Jealousie that provokes to Jealousie Ezek. 8. 3. which was like to bring the calamities of Esau upon them Jer. 49. 8. and their posterity after them that they might not be called the border of iniquity the people against whom the Lord hath Indignation for ever as the Prophet speaks Let not all the trouble seem little to you that hath come upon us our Kings on our Princes on our Priests and on our Fathers and on all the people Neh. 9. 32. since the time of King Charles the I. whose shield in that combustion was vilely cast away 2 Sam. 1. 21 as if he had not been anointed with Oyl as David laments the violent Death of Saul lest these things should be revived and advanced with a high Land that caused such alienation of affection and bitter destruction of many Persons and Families in these three Kingdoms You have like the Nobles of Israel given their evidence to the contrary Thas when Popery was issuing upon us like a mighty Stream Root and Branch in all the parts and Pendicts of it Then they had swallowed us up qu●ck when their wrath was kindled against us Then the waters of Mara of bitterness had overwhelmed us the stream of Idolatry and Superstition had gone over our Soul Psal 124. 3 4. Then like so many Moses's you stood in the breach to resist Satan and all Iniquity and to turn away God's wrath from his People occasioned by the golden Calf or as so many resolute and self-denying Levi●es of whom it is written That he said to his Father and to his Mother I have not seen them neither did he acknowledge his Brethren nor knew his own Children when a Proclamation was made by Moses through all the Camp of Israel Who is on the Lords side let him come unto me Exod. 32. 26. In all these things you have approved your selves the faithful and true Servants of God Be it spoken to the glory of God and recorded among your Archives for your honour and of your posterity for ever that you did really thus with all your high and low Court-Relations Ye have seen also that Prophecy of Isaiah actually fulfilled in the Royal Person of our King when the enemy shall come in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him Isa 59. 19. put him to flight by whom But by our King William whom God hath made to be his Standard-bearer against the Man of Sin and Son of Perdition in Honour and Obedience to him that is styled The standard-bearer among ten thousand Cant. 5. v. 10. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel that hath in love to us all set his own King over us to assist you in all things that may do most good In whatsoever things are true in whatsoever things are honest in whatsoever things are lovely in whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise that ye may think on these things with him as the Apostle exhorts Phil. 4. v. 8. What God said to David Psal 2. This is my King generally he saith it of all that be like to David for he is the same The King whose Heart is upright with God as was David's the temper whereof you may see Psal 101. and Psal 131. as touching the Administration of the Common-wealth and his own Person and Family but more excellently as in his duty to God in the whole 119th Psalm Such a King is God's King himself such may assure themselves of safety and protection from the treachery and power of their Advesaries as Psalm 144. 10. It is he that giveth salvation unto such Kings that delivered David his servant from the hurtful hurt of Saul and all his enemies as the title of the 18th Psalm bears And without flattery be it spoken if God have any such King in the World it is our King as he hath well declared even by that very Argument of Protection from such villainous Practices as were contrived against him and such eminent dangers that he exposed himself unto both by Sea and Land to them that can or will mark no other reason Certainly if Sion if Jerusalem if Israel were beholding to the Lord for giving them the honour above all other Nations to be ruled by this King we are in the same debt to whom the best King in this World hath been given by him and then given when we feared the worst of all extremities that we could imagine