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A66601	A seasonable question, in a sermon on Joshua 5.13 preacht on the 18th of June at Kingsnoth ... and on the 27th of July at St. Peters Cornhill, London, by Timothy Wilson ...	Wilson, Timothy, 1642-1705.	1690 (1690)	Wing W2951; ESTC R38145	11,705	37

with God and his Servants 4. From the Example of the most wise and devout Protestants whom we follow We imitate the Glorious Company of the Saints and Martyrs ever since the Reformation They all Zealously contended and some even unto death for the same Truth and Cause that we now contend against the Innovations Tyranny and Usurpations of the Pope and all his detestable Adherents Luther Melancthon Bucer Calvin Zuinglius and thousands of our Brethren beyond the Seas in Germany Switzerland Denmark Holland c. And in England the Right Reverend Bishops Cranmer Ridley Hooper and other Ministers of Christ as Mr. Rogers Mr. Bradford Mr. Philpot and many more laid down their Lives for this Truth and were Burnt at the Stake Are you for these Men or are you for their Adversaries Let no Man or true Protestant delude himself for they who Burnt our Forefathers at the Stake as Hereticks will do so to us likewise if they had as much power It is not want of will but want of power I hope all sound Protestants will be wise in this their day and know the things that belong to their Peace before they be hid from their Eyes And blessed be God the most wise Men in Church and State foresee this I am not Zealous about Opinions for the most Learned and Holy Men will differ as long as the World remains but the Truths that I speak of are such as have been Sealed with the Blood of Martyrs have been justified by the most Learned Pens and Disputes of all the Worthies of this Kingdom without interruption for above an hundred and twenty years but of late by a Cunning Ambitious and Corrupt Party we had almost been Cheated of them even of those Truths which ought to be dearer than our Lives Blessed be God who hath given a turn as one speaks and made a stop of their proceedings who were gone as far as Rome Gates in a declining way These were the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of England in its first Reformation 4. I shall consider why all good Men should be against our Adversaries 1. Because they are against the Truth 2. Because they are Oppressors 3. Because they are Enemies to Gods Glory 4. Because they are cruel to Gods people and his Saints 1. Because they are against the Truth The Adversaries of Joshua and the Children of Israel were Heathenish Idolaters as I have shewed they hated the true Worshippers of God yea they were so Barbarous as to suffer their Children to pass through the Fire to Moloch Levit. 18.21 and to prophane the Name of God Moloch was the chief and greatest Idol the God of the Ammonites Some say it was the Heathen Saturn to whom only almost among the Gods they Sacrificed Humane Victims as I find in the Author of the Synopsis Others conjecture otherwise that it was Jupiter or Priapus or Mercurius or Mars whatever it was it is no great matter it was Devil-worship and made the Heathens abhorred and punished by God 2. Because they are Oppressors God saw the Oppression of Israel wherewith the Egyptians oppressed them Exod. 3.9 and he delivered them In all their Affliction he was Afflicted and the Angel of his presence saved them God bates Oppression and will punish all that oppress his People Jer. 30.20 He reproves them that oppress the poor and crush the needy Amos 4.1 He denounces woes against them that covet Fields and take them by Violence and Houses and take them away So they oppress a Man and his House even a Man and his Heritage saith the Prophet Mic. 2.2 and God hath promised that he will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in time of trouble Psal 9.9 This is enough to make all oppressours tremble 3. Because they are Enemies to Gods Glory And God will not give his Glory to another nor his Praise to Graven Images Isa 42.8 4. Because they are cruel to Gods People and the Saints Idolaters hate the true Worshipers of God and would root them out of the Earth Their Enemies conspired that the name of Israel might be no more remembred upon Earth first the Egyptians then the Canaanites then the Babylonians would have utterly destroyed them Yea the Children of Edom said of Jerusalem Rase it rase it even to the Foundation thereof Psal 137.7 or Down with it down with it even to the Ground as one translation reads See the desolation of Jerusalem and the cruelty of their Enemies Psal 79.1 c. Thus I have finished the several things proposed for the illustration and exemplification of the Text. Let us conclude with Application The Lesson shall be of Exhortation My Brethren let us be exhorted to take part with God and his true Church against the Synagogue of Satan and his Followers The Text supposes that you must be for us or for our Adversaries Ye must be for Protestants or for Papists for the Ark or for Dagon for God or for Baal for Israelites or for Canaanites for the English or for the Irish and French Therefore do like Wise Men and Good Christians Make a Parallel and compare us and our Adversaries the Protestants and the Papists and choose that side which agrees best with Reason and Scripture the Word of God The Papists teach us to deny our senses and tell us that Bread is turned into a God tho' we see it and taste it to be Bread after the Priest hath said the words This is my Body they Worship it and then Eat it A piece of service that the very Heathens abhorred to Eat the God whom they Worship They teach us to Worship Images and pray to Saints deceased and a multitude of Fopperies of which I make no question you have often heard On the other side the Protestants own all these Sense Reason Revelation to have evidence in their own Sphere not renouncing their Senses nor their Reason tho' they have Faith in God and believe all Divine Revelations Solon as I have read would have all Neuters in a Common-wealth branded with perpetual Infamy and the reason is Neutrality neither helps a Friend nor hinders an Enemy And it was an heinous Crime in the Church of Laodicea to be neither Hot nor Cold but Luke warm for which God threatens to Spew them out of his Mouth Rev. 3.16 In short either the Protestant Religion which we profess against the Papists is the Truth or not If it be the Truth then the Scripture says Buy the Truth and sell it not Prov. 23.23 We cannot give too dear for these Truths The Holy Ghost complains none pleadeth for the Truth Isa 59.4 The Scriptures command us to love the Truth and Peace Zech. 8.19 In order Truth is first And Saint Jude v. 3. exhorts us earnestly to contend for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints But especially we abhor 1. The Popish Idolatry 2. Their breach of Promise 3. Their Persecution and Cruelty As for their Idolatry in Worshiping their Consecrated Host

knew what was our own We had a standing Army in time of peace without consent and against the Petition of Parliament to over-awe us Our Bishops were some Suspended and some Imprisoned and our most Learned Doctors and most Zealous Preachers against Popish Innovations and Arbitrary Power were censured and discountenanced We had an Illegal Declaration to be read in Churches imposed on the whole Clergy Our Nobility and Gentry were closeted and threatened and almost all our Corporations new modelled and changed in order to gain a Parliament that should promote the ruin of us and our Religion Every Man that departed from evil made himself a prey Superstition Oppression Cruelty prevailed throughout the Land The whole Kingdom was filled with Complaints and Sighs and Groans by reason of their cruel Bondage the Vilest Men were exalted and Men of Fidelity to God and their Countrey and Loyalty to the King and Kingdom and Religion by Law Established Spirits of Honesty Spirits of Courage were cast out as filth yea Dissenters and the poor deluded Sectaries were bribed with a pretended Liberty of Conscience to help to ruin us first and themselves afterwards Now when we knew no means of help but lay down under our Burden and were as a Kingdom devoted to misery then did the Lord appear in a glorious manner and beyond all our expectations sent the Prince of Orange now our Gracious Soveraign our Deliverer from Popish Tyranny wherefore I say that we are most ungrateful if we do not stand by him with our Lives and Fortunes There was a great and long plotted design whereby Popery should have been re-advanced Gods saving Truth been suppressed his Worship substantially corrupted and utterly destroyed and it was a work of a large Extent as that which concerns all other Reformed Churches whose happiness or misery will be involved in ours Yea Ages to come will have Reason either to bless or curse this Generation as we shall follow or neglect this present opportunity so then if we be asked a Reason of our joining with K. William in this Resolution here are Reasons clear Reasons easie to the weakest understandings yea open to every Mans sense Who among us hath not felt these Reasons To use the words of a grave Divine in the like case And as these Reasons are so plain that the most illiterate and vulgar understanding may conceive them so they are so weighty and cogent that the most subtile and sublime understanding cannot but be subdued to them unless because they are such Masters of Reason they have resolved to obey none And yet where Conscience is yet indeed unsatisfied we should rather pity than impose and labour to perswade rather than violently to obtrude But as for others as St. Paul says O foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth Gal. 3.1 so I may say O foolish Englishmen who hath bewitched you that when you may have your Religion your Laws and your Liberties secured you Plot and Conspire or at least wish well to the French Enemy 2. From the Cause it self We stand up for our Religion the true Worship and Service of God which is Established by Law and is our Birthright and greatest Happiness We stand up for our Laws Liberties and Properties which have all been dispensed with by Covetous and Ambitious Spirits and Men not fearing God nor loving the welfare of their Native Country And we were in danger to be ruined and our Posterity after us by corrupt Judges who loved Bribes more than Judgment and the wages of Unrighteousness more than Truth 3. From God himself We trust that it is Gods Cause and that God is on our side And if God be for us who can be against us It was a notable Speech as I have read that Josephus reports Herod made to his Souldiers it came from the Mouth of a Herod but it well beseems the Mouth of a most godly Christian Captain Some may say saith he our Cause is just but we are few and weak but where Truth and Justice is there is God and where God is there wants neither multitude nor fortitude I hope all good Men will have their Eyes opened and heartily join with us God was with Joshua and his Hosts and I trust that he will continue to be with our Protestant King and his Armies The Angel or Christ himself as some Expositors think it was tells Joshua As Captain or Prince of the Host of the Lord am I now come ver 14. Moses says Deut. 20.3 that the Priests ought to encourage the people and ver 4. he saith The Lord your God is he that goes with you to Fight for you against your Enemies to save you And in God more especially let us consider these three things 1. His Wisdom 2. His Power 3. His Promise 1. His Wisdom whereby God foresees what is best He hath many ways to help his Servants in their fears of which they are ignorant The Lord is Great in Counsel and Mighty in Working saith the Prophet Jer. 32.19 He can turn the Enemies Counsel into Foolishness and defeat them as he did Achitophel's He can Counter plot their Plots and make their Devices of none effect When Pharaoh dealt subtilly God was above him 2. His Power whereby he is able to effect what is best All things are possible to him His Eyes are ever towards the Righteous and he shews himself strong in the behalf of them that fear him He can weaken their Power abate their Pride defeat their Policies and turn their Prosperity into Misery He had power to drown the old wicked World when the Earth was corrupt and full of violence He Rained down Fire and Brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah to refine those impure places and rescued Righteous Lot from that overthrow He drowned Pharaoh and his Host in the Red Sea 3. His Promise If we obey his voice he will be an Enemy to our Enemies and an Adversary to our Adversaries Exod. 23.22 and Levit. 26.3 c. If you walk in my Statutes and keep my Commandments and do them among other Blessings this is promised I will give peace in the Land and ye shall lye down and none shall make you afraid and ye shall Chase your Enemies and they shall fall before you by the Sword and I will walk among you and will be your God and ye shall be my People God promised Abraham and consequently all that do the works of Abraham I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee Gen. 12.3 Gods Eye is on his Israel the false Prophet Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousness and would have cursed Israel to gain the promotions of the King of Moab was forced to acknowledge this Truth God had blessed them and he could not reverse it Numb 23.20 and ver 23. Surely there is no Inchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against Israel Here is enough to change all Mens Hearts to join