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A26412
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A fannaticks mite cast into the Kings treasury being a sermon printed to the King because not preach'd before the King / by Henry Adis.
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Adis, Henry.
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1660
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Wing A581; ESTC R28080
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number the People may some say Answ. I Answer That to tell over or number the People simply so considered is not sin for then it were a sin for Joshua to number the People Josh. 8. 10. Or to number the Eleven Acts 1. 26. who were numbred For they gave forth the Lots and the Lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbred with the Eleven But to number the People so as to put Confidence in an Arm of Flesh to number the People so as to depart from the Lord this is an accursed thing for so saith the Prophet Jer. 17. 5. Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his Arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord And this I humbly conceive might be Davids sin for if we cast our eye but into 1 Chron. 20. we shall find Joab the Captain of Davids Host destroying the Country of the Children of Ammon and Rabbah and slaying three Giants in three several Overthrows of the Philistines and the Devil knoweth right well how to make his Advantages He knew that God was jealous of his Honour and if he could but work up Danid to put confidence in an Arm of flesh or to give glory to the multitude of his Armed men this was an advantage good enough against Israel this was that which would cause God to weaken his strength by taking them away and have a Controversie with them And thus God doth in Mercy to his People when they begin to put â—…fidence or set their hearts upon Creature-comforts God is then reaâ—… 〈◊〉 take them away and thus God is said to hedge up their way with Thorns Hos. 2. 6 7. And to make a Wall that they shall not find their wâ—…y and they shall follow after their Lovers but shall not overtake them they shall seek after them but not find them for saith the Pro Isai. 57. 13. The wind shall carry them away vanity shall take them We may see this Assertion farther proved in the Egyptians in those ten Plagues that came upon them for the hardness of the heart of Pharaoh their King What misery did they endure in that weeks time of the waters of the Rivers being turned into Blood Exod. 7. 20 27. What did they endure by reason of the Plagues of Froggs Lice and Flies Exod. 8. 3 17 24. in those Plagues of Murrion and Hail Exod. 9. 2 10 23. in those Plagues of Locusts and Darkness Exod. 10. 4 22. and in the Death of all their first-born both of Man and Beast Exod. 12. 29. The like we may see threatned against Israel of old by reason of the misactings of their Princes Judges Priests and Prophets Micah 3. 9. Hear I pray you saith the Prophet ye Heads of the House of Jacob and Princes of the House of Israel that abhor Judgement and pervert all Equity v. 10. That build up Zion with Blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity v. 11. The Heads thereof judge for Reward and the Priests thereof teach for Hire and the Prophets thereof Divine for Money like the Priests and Prophets of England at this day and they likewise as those of old will lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us no evil can come upon us But though they say thus What saith the Prophet Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a Field and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the Mountain of the Lords House as the high places of the Forrest So that we may see That for the mis-actings of Church-men that teach for Hire and Divine for Money Zion or the Church shall be punished yea plowed as a Field and laid waste and the Mountain of the Lords House become as the high places of the Forrest As well as for the perverting of Judgement and Equity by the Princes and Judges Jerusalem or the Kingdom shall become heaps for there will be a scattering of the Sheep for the negligence of the Shepherd yea so saith the Prophet Isa. 10. 21. For the Pastors are become brutish have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not Prosper and all their Flock shall be scattered And so saith the Lord Christ by John the Revelator speaking to the Angel or the Pastor of the Church of Ephesus Revelation 2. 5. Remember saith he from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first work or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy Candlestick oâ—…t of his place except thou Repent As if he should say Thou art the Light of the Church and the Feeder of the Flock the Church or People are the Candlestick that upholds thee and the Flock that employes thee and unless thou repent of thy deadness thy dulness thy drowsiness thy coldness thy carelesness and thy carnality I will suddenly remove thy Candlestick I will soon disperse the flock And then what will become of thee who wilt thou feed who wilt thou light Thy Talent will then be under a Bushel and not on a Candlestick to give light to those that are in the House This Assertion we may also see made good in or upon private Families That God many times punisheth a People for the misactings of their Governours whether in Church State or particular Families When Abraham was journying into Egypt with his Wife Sarah being driven thither by a Famine Gen. 12. he said unto Sarah his Wife v. 11 c. Behold now I know that thou art a fair Woman to look upon therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians shall see thee that they shall say This is his Wife and they shall kill me but they will save thee alive say I pray thee thou art my Sister that it may be well with me for thy sake that my Soul may live because of thee Whence by the way we may note First That Famine and outward distresses possibly may attend the dearest of Gods Children for we see Abraham that friend of God was driven into Egypt by reason that the Famine was grievous in the Land v. 10. And secondly That the fear of the loss of life may stand with the nature of true Faith for Abraham the Father of the Faithful said When the Egyptians shall see thee they will say this is his Wife and they will kill me therefore say thou art my Sister And Paul the Apostle a faithful Soul whose life being laid wait for was let down by the Wall in a Basket Acts 9. 25. Yea the Lord Christ himself refused to walk in Jury but walked in Galilee because the Jews sought to kill him John 7. 1. But to our Matter upon Abrahams saying that Sarah was his Sister vers. 19. and upon the Commendations of Sarah to Pharaoh by his Princes Sarah was taken into Pharaohs House and Abraham was well entreated by Pharaoh for Sarahs sake v. 15 16. Yet the Lord Plagued Pharaoh and his house with great Plagues because of Sarah Abrahams Wife v. 17. Pharaoh sins and that ignorantly too in taking Abrahams