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A81992	Seismos megas. Or Heaven & earth shaken. A treatise shewing how kings, princes, and their governments are turned and changed by Jesus Christ as [brace] King of Kings, and King of Saints. / By John Davis, M.A. sometime lecturer at Christ Church in London, and now pastour of a congregation in Dover.	Davis, John, pastor of a congregation in Dover.	1655 (1655)	Wing D422; Thomason E1601_2	153,991	331

flattery is it both of dead and living to count their memory blessed who were so crooked and cursed in their courses 3. Judge not of men or causes to be good by the greatnesse of them that own them and follow them When Christ was in the world Joh. 7. 48. the question was Have any of the Rulers or Pharisees believed on him any of your great wise men No I warrant you they know better they are more wise then so v. 49. but this people this poor people giddy people nay cursed people that know not the Law Luke 23. 35. The Rulers derided him and Luke 24. 20. Our chiefe Preists and Rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and to be crucified You must not make the great ones of the earth your example for then you will follow wickednesse 4. Undeceive your selves about the true value of earthly powers The Trappings of power are not so good as we count for because power it selfe may be so soon and grossly abused Grace grace is most desirable which is proper and active to correct these abuses and cannot serve to these wicked inversions 5. Lastly is it any undue inference that seeing Kings have abused their power to call upon those who take their places on them to be circumspect very circumspect what hath been may be again what hath been abused may be abused Mistake me not I am far from bespattering those whom I am bound to honour surely Gods great deliverances and his peoples blood are fresh upon their hearts and will raise up a redoubled consideration in them how to honour God and serve their present generation in the management of publick affairs CHAP. XIII Proceeds to the sixth Pos which shews That abuse of power tends to the breaking of power which is apparent 1. When those in power indulge their lazinesse 2. VVhen they take no account of under-Officers 3. VVhen they rule by will 4. VVhen they look not after exc●●ution of good Laws 5. But are unjust And 6. Sinfully conformable to neighbour Princes 7. Vndue enterposal in the things of God And 8. Persecute those who are good Vses GOvernments you heard were apt to change yea to change from good to bad and from bad to worse and that brings in a breach Sin and sorrow are inseparable companions if sin goe before sorrow will follow after To be clothed with power is an honour but to abuse power is a sin and such a sin as will make way for ruine desolation and destruction Hence your sixth Position The sins of Princes whereby they abuse power carry a tendency with them to breake their power All their power is from Christ and all sin is against him and surely he will never maintaine his own power in a way against himselfe As Princes have power over other men so they sin in that power they sin as they are men and they sin as they are men in place as Princes Now their Princely sins are those that break their Princely power as thus 1. Indulging of a lazie spirit tends to break their power They gladly accept of the honour revenues and observance of their places but transferre the care to others Corona curarum nidus A Crown is a nest of cares they love the Crown but will not undertake the care They are too nice and delicate they must not misse their meals their naps their sports no not for a publick good No wonder then if God cause that to passe from them which they so put away from themselves and make that over to others in the honour which they long before made over to them in the worke and service 2. When Princes take no account of their Ministers it tends to break power I know its impossible Princes should performe all their duties in their own person They have much lieth upon themselves and they have more to transferre to others Its a wasting sin to put off what is inherent in themselves and t is no lesse to transferre to others and take no account of them They must have their Ministers that 's granted but their Ministers must be accounted with or else all will fall It keeps them in due awe and order to think they must to an audit give account of their stewardship Places and justice will be bought and sold publick treasures exhausted publick negotiations slighted and what care they when they know they shall be let alone How unworthily may men betray their trust dishonour their Prince and wrong the Nation yea do it boldly when they know they shall goe unexamined and so unpunished Princes devest themselves of their highest power by this neglect and its jus● they should fall short of the reverence they exp●ct in the hearts of those who are under them 3. When will is Law then down goes rule Non debet Princeps dominari sed Ratio The Prince that is the Prince in his will should not beare sway but Reason Government hath no such enemy as self-willednesse never do Princes lose so much of their power as when they exalt their will against Law they think they gain but then they lose most 4. Neglect of looking after the execution of good Laws much infeebles their power Kings should be living laws Reges vivae leges their carriage so regular as to command imitation and their care great to see good laws executed Execution makes good Laws alive and good Laws well executed makes Kings live for their power is advanced in their execution and neglect herein is fatal and ruinous to them 5. Injustice tumbles down Chairs of State Prove 16. 12. The Throne is established by righteousnesse but Mic. 7. 3. It s doing evil with both hands when the Prince asketh and the Judge asketh for a reward When that is acted which we read of 1 Sam. 8. 14. when the oppressed cry and are not eased when might overcomes right it s a woful victory and such an one as they shall have no cause to triumph in for Christ will cause them to vomit up all their sweet morsels and to repent of their unjust dealings 6. Sinful conformity to neighbour Nations doth no good It displeased God and his servant Samuel when the people cryed out Make us a King 1 Sam. 8. 6. and the great argument was they would be like other Nations So verse 6. Give us a King to judge us and verse 5. Make us a King to judge us like all the Nations When we conforme to their pride their fashions their excesse their wantonnesse will not this undermine us 7. Undue interposal in the things of God will pull down the powers of men God hath reserved it for his own wisdome power and holinesse to give the Law of his worship His teare is not to be taught by the precepts of men or made good by their powers The patterne of the Tabernacle and Temple is to be fetched from God alone we are not tyed to waite for mens

riches and honour Say not your enemies are many mighty crafty and malicious and you are few and weake and how shall your tranquillity be Remember Christ hath this power to change their strength into weaknesse and your weaknesse into strength Lastly let it exhort you to these four things 1. Consider Christ in all changes on the creatures and this will make natural Philosophy to become spiritual Are there Ecclipses of the Sun blazing Stars Meteors unusual Winds and Stormes Haile Snow Thunder and Lightning Then let your souls mount up in thoughts and feare of Christ while Astrologers are vexing their mindes with strained applications of these things here you are taught whether to refer them Remember Christ in the dry years we have had in the unusual high Tydes and such like Occurences 2. Feare before Christ more then men when they are angry you are troubled when they frowne you feare and is there not more cause to feare him that over-rules the constellations turnes about the winds Jer. 5. 22. Fear you not me saith the Lord and will ye not tremble at my person who have placed the sand for the bound of the Sea 3. Advance your faith to a great expectation and the expectation of great things A little faith will not suffice when God speaks and workes we must be strong in faith if we will give glory to God not considering the carnal reasons examples customes and experiences which may be produced and pressed but to goe on in our perswasion that God which hath made Heaven and Earth will compleat his work for his own and his Sons glory 4. Surely Christ is to be exalted in praise that can worke about turnes in natural things to be subservient unto spiritual Signes in heaven and earth have an aspect to the performance of promises and fulfilling of prophesies and we should be heavenly and spiritual Mathematicians and Astrologers to take the true motion and dimension of these things to the elevation of his Name and our hearts to his praise CHAP. VI. Shewes the change and the ministration of Angels in these Turnes Thus First Christ is head of Angels 2. They must serve his Saints 3. They serve in destruction of their enemies 4. They must have apparent honour for this service 5. They are in the visions and so in the execution 6. They have Kingdome-worke 7. They and Saints are joyned together 8. They are used in the last which are the best dispensations 9. Christ must have his Angels as well as the Dragon Use of Instruction and Exhortation Concerning Heaven and Earth taken properly you heard in the former Chapter Look on heaven and earth now as spoken by a figure setting down the thing containing for the thing contained and so heaven containing the Angels is put for the Angels contained in heaven but then the question will be How are these Heavens shaken or plainly thus How are these Angels in Heaven said to be changed Angels are called Heavens because they dwell there Caeli quia caelicol● Heavens because the inhabitants of heaven thus Job 15. 15. The Heavens are not cleane in his sight that is the Angels of heaven are not cleane Not that they have any sin to pollute them but weighing them with him who is the holy holy holy One they can beare no weight Ne ipsi quidem caeli mundi sunt cum ipso collati quantumvis a terrenis istis faecibus immunes Beza The heavens although free from earthly dregs are not cleare compared with him His eyes are more pure then to behold any iniquity his holinesse is himselfe and so unmeasurable The Angels though holy yet is their holinesse by measure their holinesse is limited they are but creatures though holy and heavenly creatures and compared with that infinite One they are said not to be cleane Job 4. 18. Behold he put no trust in his servants and his Angels he charged with folly Nullo modo conferenda est illorum justitia cum justitia Dei quae modis omnibus infinita est Their righteousnesse is no way to be compared with his which is altogether infinite and this it may be is hinted in those latter words In his sight They are cleane indeed in our sight and we can finde no impurity in them but not so in his sight Mat. 6. 20. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven that is by the Angels in heaven Now how these heavens these Angels may be said to be shaken is the great Question We speake here of good Angels whom we look on as confirmed in their state by Christ and how then are they shaken Philip Melanchthon who was called Germaniae Luscinia Germanies Nightingale referring this prophesie of Haggai to Christ his comming in the flesh saith Movit coelos quia Deus assumpsit humanam Naturam He shooke the heavens because God assumed humane nature and there is a certain truth in that although the wordes carry more in them It was a great shake of Heaven when Christ who was higher then the heavens took our nature on him Carthusian referrs it to the appearance of Angels at the birth of Christ Movet coelos quando cives coelestes apparuerunt hominibus concinnentes Wh●n the Multitude of the heavenly hosts appeared p●aysing God and saying Glory to God in 〈◊〉 highest Luke 2. 13 14. Others refer it to the great admiration that even the Angels were in at the preaching of the Gospel 1 Pet. 1. 12. which things namely the things o th● G●●pel the Angels desire to look into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from a word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incurvo me ut 〈◊〉 which signifies I bow down my selfe that I may see arguing an a●dency of affection and the undergoing as it were some difficulty to obtain a Vision They admired and looked and ●he more they looked the more they admired like those that could not satisfie themselves in what they liked and looked after Now when God reveales New things to Angels then in some regard they receive a change for they then know that which they knew not before and in that reception of new Revelations may truly be said to be under some mutation or change And who knowes but God may reveale new things to them concerning the great workes which he is about to doe in the World Angels know some things and much more then we but not all they know not so much but they may know more Angels may grow in knowledge as well as men and all growth is a change a change from a l●sse quantity to a greater Angels are Gods servants and his speaking to them is his illigh●ning of them to know his will and knowing to do it Christ is said to shake the Angels in regard of that new employment he puts them to It is true Angels have a perfection et quod perf●ctum est non recipit mutationem in p●jus saith Drusius

make faire to instruct you in both but lead you aright in neither The Word the Gospel the Word of truth will give you the knowledge of God and your selves which they and the Stars can never do T is true they maintaine their way in a kinde of majesty with great sounding strange words As the Luminary of the time the Sun angular posited in this or that house the Moon in this or that Sextile to Mercury Lord of his ascendant and such like termes But how weake is it to be carried away with words and sad to be worded into wickednesse Above all give me leave to warne you of casting your own Nativities or the Nativities of others or suffering others to cast them for you And here take notice of these sixe things First 1. They must know the moment in which you were borne and who can readily tell them that I am sure you your selves cannot remember it and truely I think your mother and the good women then present were so busie about you and her that they did not tell the clocke but suppose some heard it stricke it may be the clocke was wrong set might goe an hour too fast or too slow How will or can you know the direct time and the heavens change in a moment what worke can you make of it 2. They make an Image of the Heaven in a Table and the houses for the Stars but what if these houses and tables are creatures of their own braine and never of Gods making what sorry creatures will they prove and the workings upon them as sorry as they The twelve Houses are made of the feigned Signes of a supposed Zodiacke Now what worke can you make of things feigned and supposed May we not conclude safely that what is wrought upon such suppositions is little better then something feigned or supposed 3. They undertake to shew you what houses the Stars were in when you were borne as what house Jupiter Sol and Venus were in which they account the best Planets Saturne and Mars the worst Mercury and Luna varying according to the places they reside in and such like stuffe That there be places and motions of the Stars I question not but as for these Houses and the Stars being at such a moment in this house or at another moment in that house I doe more then suppose He shall not be damned that believes no such matter 4. They pretend to tell you who reigned when you entered into the world It is more then ever they can prove that there is such a Monarchical virtue and order in the Stars that is that this or that particular Star hath its virtue and influence apart from other Stars that it rules and hath power which the other Stars have not and puts forth this power in a way of rule without them and distinct from them And it would be as hard to give a reason why the constellation at the time of the birth must be calculated and not as well the constellation at the time of the conception or while it was an Embrio I confesse I am altogether in the darke and I thinke you have not much light with you so much as to shew me why you should not calculate Conceptions as well as Nativities or the state of a childe in the wombe as well as the birth of it 5. They pretend to tell you in what degree and with what aspect the other Planets did temper or inflame You must blame my ignorance if I apprehend it very hard to understand the particular influence of the Stars much more the degrees of that influence I know not how to understand one Star regent and another subservient my faith tells me they worke together and at once in common according to that nature and motion that God hath given to them 6. But to pretend to read from them from the Heavens Houses Planets Aspects Influences and the like what is decreed concerning you as that the Stars incline a man to atcheive great preferment declare a fit capacity to this or that thing promise a smatterring of it discover whether a man shall attaine the thing desired or the like This I say is to me unlikely and ungodly which that it may appeare to you weigh the arguments before alledged What although they tell you of good things I beseech you abuse not your faith to believe them It will be your happinesse if God bestow such and such good things on you but you shall never come the more to enjoy them because of the Stars or their Predictions and you doe but abuse them and abuse your selves and your blessings to take them up from their hand Suppose they tell you of something crosse and darkely spoken let not that affright you let me speak to you as our Saviour to his disciples Joh. 14. 1. You believe in God believe also in Christ Men or their messages you are not obliged to believe nor will it ever be charged on you as a sin of infidelity to give no assent to these their Astrological Predictions FINIS Natura hominis Novitatis avida Pos 1. Pos 2. Pos 3. Pos 4. Pos 5. Pos 6. Pos 7. Pos 8. Pos 9. Pos 10. Pos 11. Pos 12. Psal 111. 2. v. 3. v. 4. The occasion v. 5. v. 6. v. 7. 8. Heb. 11. 1. Heb. 11. 27 The scope Mic. 6. 9. Mat. 4. 8. Jam. 5. 16. Rev. 3. 14. Isa 1. 3. 2 Sam. 23. 15 16. Dan. 9. 2. Prop. 1. Prophesies 〈…〉 ed in way of a promise Isa 9. 6. Mat. 1. 22. Isa 9. 2. Prop 2. N. T. Promises are set out it O. T. language Rev. 11. 1. Rev. 21. 3. Rev. 14. 8. Heb. 4. 2. Prop. 3. Pro and Proph. to betaken in the largest senser Gen. 32. 9 13. Psal 119. 96. Prop. 4. They have divers degrees of fulfilling Hos 11. 1. Mat. 2. 15. Jer. 31. 15. Mat. 2. 17. Isa 53. 4. Mat. 8. 17. Psal 78. 2. Math. 13. 35. Zach. 11. 12. Math. 27. 9 Psal 22. 18. Joh. 19. 23. Isa 61. 1. Luke 4. 21 Psal 41. 9. Joh. 13. 14. Isa 53. 1. Joh. 12. 38. Master Tempest Wood. Mat. 2. 17. Acts 2. 16. Prop. 5. Under one expression they comprehend a whole series Rom. 9. 7. Rev. 16. 1. Prop. 6. They correspond with former glorious workings Hag. 2. 5. Rev. 11. 6. Mic. 7. 15. Prop. 7. Inflicting of judgements subordinate to Promises Isa 10. 12. Prop. 8. Christ coming is the time of fulfilling pro. proph The 〈◊〉 eight Proposals give light to Hag. 2. 6. 7. Exod. 19. 18. The coherence Saith what 1. To speak Gen. 20. 5. 2. To prophesie Gen. 41. 54. Said aforehand 3. To meditate ● Sam 21. 16. 4. To command Jonah 2. 11. 5. To promise Obser 1. Obser 2. Shaking what Obs 1. Obs 2. Obs 3. Obs 4. Obs 5. Terra pedibus annima●●●m teritur Obser 1. Obser 2. Obser 3. Doctr. The Lord in changes