the seduced followers of the Scribes Pharisees and Presbyters cryed for Justice Justice Crucifie him Crucifie him yet seeing all the rest of the honest people that had well observed his meekness and his sweet carriage amongst them and had received so much justice and so many favours from this good King did exceedingly love him and said He did all things weâ—l and were ready to venture their lives for him the Priests and Presbyters durst not venture to delay his execution till that day were past lest they should attempt to rescue him and so to save his life on that day So you see the subtilty of the crafty foxes and the greediness of these Bloody-hounds to take away the life of their good King and to hinder al others to preserve his life Reason 2 2. They would not have him to suffer on their Feast day lest they should be defiled John 18.28 a most damnable hypocrisie that stumble at a straw and leap over a block that fear to be defiled on their Holy day and yet fear not the shedding of innocent blood the blood of their King and of the Son of God on any other day Just like our hypocritical Saints that cannot endure to misie the hearing of two Sermons on the Lords day and care not to deceive and destroy 200. of their neighbours if they can do it upon any other day And therefore these holy Saints are none of Gods Saints but do belong to that Angel of darkness The great hypocrisie of these holy murderers that can so finely transform himself as these men do into an Angel of Light And so you see how speedily they executed their King and the main Reasons why they did so And this speedy execution of his death doth exceedingly aggravate the heynousness of the action for after they had him in their hands their feet were swift to shed his blood and they ended all proceedings in few dayes their unsatiable thirst for blood can never suffer these Blood-bounds to rest until their thirst be quenched But you will say He was almost four years amongst them after he was Baptized A Question and began to dresse his Vineyard and to sway the Scepter of his Dominion if they were so greedy of his extirpation Why stayed they all this while before they executed their intention I answer Not because they wanted will but by reason of some remora's The Answer for three Reasons Luke 22.2 that hindered their desires and they were especially these three 1. The love of the people who for his justice innocency and fair carriage towards all men and the great good he did to many men did for many years exceedingly love him and apologise for him until these subtile Foxes by their Remonstrances and Aspersions had wrought this unstable multitude that understood nothing right to a jealous and a causeless suspition of this Just King and a wicked compliance with these unjust murderers 2. The want of fit opportunity made that they could not so safely do it until the people at the Passeover were drawn up to the Metropolis Hierusalem where by the Law they were to convene at this Feast and whereby you may see how their subtilty made way for their villany 3. The factions and oppositions that were among themselves and especially betwixt their chief Commanders Pilate the Roman Commander and Herod the head-Ruler of the Jews stayed their purposes till these differences were composed and these two great Opponents made great Friends and this assoon as ever done they presently do what they intended and never rest till all be finished 5. When they had thus devilishly condemned 5 The Attendants that followed Christ to the place of execution Math. 27.33 So was King Charles beheaded in the High-way where they used to bait Bears Bulls and thus speedily resolved to kill their King I pray you mark the place where they carried him to be executedâ—â— and that place where they would have him to be executed I told you before was Golgotha that is to say A place of a skull the most infamous place about Hierusalem where their Malefactors were hanged and their bones were scattered and gnawn of Dogs A fit place think you for a King to end his life And then 6. Consider the attendants that accompanied this great King to this despicable place of Execution and we shall find them to be Either 1. His friends Or 2. His foes And 1. Of his friends I find but very few that durst be seen to follow him 1 How few of his friends Joh. 19.26 Chap. 18.15 not any man that I find recorded but only one and that was the Disciple that our Saviour loved and that Disciple was known unto the High Priest and therefore the bolder to follow him whom he loved The rest I presume loved him well but they saw the malice of his persecutors was so great not only against their King but also against all those that loved him How cruel the enemies of Christ were to all that loved him that if they were seen to follow him or heard to speak a word in his behalf they had presently been taken for Malignants and most severely punished as most haynous Delinquents And therefore all the rest of his Apostles and Disciples and all others that loved him were so mightily terrified that they durst neither be heard nor seen So cruel were these Subjects even unto their King Some Women indeed that loved him well were permitted to be present at his death their Sex was their only warrant but these Women and the rest that knew him were fain to stand afar off and durst not come near him and it seems they durst not speak one word either of him or to him but smote their breasts and returned Luke 23.48 But 2. For his foes we read of enough that followed him 2 How many of his foes a guard of Souldiers for fear he should be rescued and the Rulers that derided him and the foolish people that were the flatterers of those lewd Leaders saying He saved others let him save himself if he be Christ the Son of God Luc. 23.25 and some no doubt were present that betrayed him Such villany and impudence had covered the foreheads of these monsters of men yet one of these bloody Souldiers that were the chief actors in the execution of this King received here the benefit of this Kings prayer and was inlightened by his Spirit to say Math. 27.54 Truly this was the Son of God But for the Priests and Presbyters the Scribes and Rulers of the people they could bring him to his death and mocked him upon the Cross when humanity should have rather taught them to pity him than to scoffe at him not one of them notwithstanding all the wonders that were then shewed as the rising of many that were dead the rending of the vail of the Temple and the great Earth quake that immediately followed his death had the grace
to confesse their sins and to bewail his death Nay they were so far from returning or repenting them of their wickedness that their hearts being hardned harder than Pharaoh's heart they still proceed in malice and because any eulogy of him they thought obloquy unto themselves and his praise to be their shame they neither permitted him a Funeral Sermon nor provided a Tomb for his burial and therefore in all likelihood he had goue without one had not providence according to Prophesie provided him a Sepulcher from an honourable Counsellour which had lodged this King while he was alive in his heart and now being dead he layes him in his own Grave But it may be said That as S. Peter saith Ob. Pilate and the children of Israel did but what the hand and counsel of God bad determined before to be done and therefore this their proceeding against their King being but a lowly submission or a dutiful execution of Gods providence it cannot be so offensive unto God I answer Sol. 1 1. That Gods counsel was secret and unknown unto them and they had no revelation nor commandment from God to do it therefore they are inexcusable for doing it 2. Though S. Peter saith God had determined this to be done yet he doth not say that God determined to do it by them and in that manner and for that cause as they did it Therefore though the counsel of God for the doing of it had been revealed unto them yet this can be no excuse unthem unless God had commanded them to be the actors of it 3. Though they had known Gods mind and that his mind was that they should be the actors of this Tragedy yet Gods end being salus populi the salvation of all faithful people and their end being to satisfie their own malice and ambition to get the inheritance of the Church and the Kingdom to themselves the counsel of God to do it cannot justifie them in their wicked deeds And therefore all these things rightly weighed it will appear that Gods counsel was most just in it self and most gracious for us and their proceeding most unjust without warrant without authority and will be found at the last Day with all other like proceedings without excuse and themselves to be most malicious murderers of their King And now as Apelles or Timantes having drawn the sad and mournful countenance of the Mourners for Iphigenia to the uttermost height of his skill when he came to expresse the same in Agamemnon her father because his art could go no higher than he had gone and that it could not reach to express her fathers grief he was fain to draw a vail over Agamemnon's face and to leave it to the consideration of the beholders to conceive how infinite must be the sorrow of her dear father that so dearly loved her So I having painted out the horrible vileness of the murderers of their Just King to the uttermost of mine art and not able to shew half the damnability thereof I must put a Curtain before my Tablet and leave it to your thoughts to consider if you can imagine that it is possible for any Orator to expresse the unutterable and incomprehensible damnability of this Fact and the execrable villany of those Traytors that have murdered their own just King And now 3. 3 Part. Who were the murderers of this just King For the murderers that have killed their Just King I am to shew you who these Traytors and murderers were and we find in this Chapter and the precedent Chapter that they were the people and the Elders of the people the Scribes and the Priests and the whole multitude and the Evangelist adds the Pharisees the Sadduces the Lawyers and the Rulers of the people A strange and a wonderful thing that so many of several Sects of several Degrees and several dispositions should notwithstanding conspire together to put to death their own just and lawful King But you have heard of the Treason and Murder and the cruel handling of this King and you have seen and do know how our own King hath been likewise used and all this we can it may be patiently hear but when Nathan tells David Thou art the man and when I tell these Jews de quibus narratur fabula These and these were the men that did it and were the Actors in this wicked Tragedy or if I should name the Actors of the other Tragedy that our English Jews acted against their own King I know not how they would wring and bite and kick against me Yet howsoever I will as briefly as I can go over them all that the Scripture speaks of that when you find or see any of the Actors of the other later Tragedy and Regicides like these Murderers of their King you may dislike them and specially beware of them And 1. Because the Pharisees were most powerfull and most numerous 1 The Pharisees like our zealous seduced and hypocritical Saints I will begin with them that first began to quarrell with their King and you must know that they were but of yesterday a new-sprung Sect not so much as once mentioned in all the Old Testament but as soon as ever he peeps out of his shell he runs away like the Lapwing out of his nest and separates himself from the Church i.e. the Congregation of his neigbours Why the Pharisees separate themselves from all others for which cause he is termed Pharisaeus quasi segregatus and the reason of his separation is because he thinks all others prophane carnall and worldly and himself with the rest of his Sect to be the only holy Saints and servants of God And indeed we find that they exceeded all the common sort of men in five speciall things as 1. In Tything 2. In Fasting 3. In Praying and Preaching Their Religion 4. In a fair Language 5. In sanctifying the Sabbath For 1. For tythes they will not omit Mint and Cummin nor any of the least things untythed 2. For Fasting they must do it twice in every week 3. For Praying they used it often and made long prayers Matth. 6.23 and openly not caring who did see them but rather defirous that all men should take notice how devout they were in their prayers and so they were for the preaching the word of God and they were most diligent to hear Sermons insomuch that rather then they would be without the word preached Matth. 3 they will go to hear John the Baptist 4. For their fair language Christ himself tells us that they being evill yet speak good things and so when they came to intrap him Matth. 12.24 Their diffimuâ— lation they began with fair words and say Master and so in all their carriages when they meant to play the devill they spake like Saints as when they laboured what they could to be the death of Christ yet they come unto him as if they were his greatest friend and tell him
upon the Pamphlets lying on every Stationer's stall 3. The next sort of men that betrayed and killed their King 3 Rulers of the people were not so much a Sect of seduced Zelots as a companie of great Rulers Rulers of the people saith the Text or as they are termed in their rebellion against Moses Princes of the Assemblie famous in the Congregation men of Renown Numb 6.2 and these were either the heads of severall families as our Lords and Nobilities are or else such as in their several countries or cities by their wealth or authority had gained power over the people to like or dislike what they pleased as our Knights of the Shire or Burgesses for the Parliament are and these were very deep in setting forward the Treason and Murder of their King 4. The Sadduces were another Sect among the Jews of pestilent doctrine 4 The Sadduces denying all Scripture that made against them and denying the immortalitie of the soul and the resurrection of the dead like Cromwels Atheistical Commanders and all punishment for sins after death therefore being more wicked in their tenets then the Pharisees and absurder then the Scribes it is very like they were more active in the death of their King then the rest of the forementioned Murderers 5. 5 Lawyers like the Chair-men of the long Parliament There were some comprised under some of the former Sects that are termed by the Evangelists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lawyers which as Christ saith sate in Moses Chaire and so were Chair-men because of some excellent parts that were thought to be in them beyond the ordinary sort of men and these men saith our Saviour have taken away the key of knowledge i.e. the Law and instead thereof they taught the traditions of men which traditions S. Luke 1.52 Matth. 15.3 Ephes 2.15 Paul calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we may properly term Ordinances as our English Translation renders it and by these new-devised Ordinances of these Chairâ—men they quite spoyled and frustrated the good old Law both of God and Man 6. The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we translate Elders or 6 The Presbyans as the word properly sounds Presbâ—ters had a mighty share in the blood of their King and S. Luke saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 7 The Priests Matth. 27.1 Mark how the Prâ—sbyters are not only called the Elders but the Elders of the people because the common people only magnifie them and they only endevour to please the people the Presbyterie were the first that came against him 7. The Priests joyned with these Presbyters to kill their King for so the Evangelist saith that when the morning was come all the chief Priests and Elders of the people took counsell against Jesus so put him to death and as then the Jewish Elders and Priests conspired together against their King so we find now the Presbyters or Preaching-Elders and Romish Priests though their faces are averse and seem to look divers wayes yet like Sampsons Foxes they are tyed together by the tayls and both are Anti-Kings enemies unto Monarchy and do like Mars his Priests called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scatter the fire of Sedition and Rebellion amongst the people and Sheba-like blow their Trumpets in all places even in their Pulpits to stirre up the discontented people to take Armes against their King though he be Christ himself And therefore if any King would be free from Rebellion he must banish these Priests and Presbyters from his Dominions 8. 8 The whole Paâ—liament of the Jews conspired together to put Christ their King to death Mar. 15.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nemine contradicente Esay 1.4 S. Mark saith that these Priests held a Consultation with the Presbyters or Elders and Scribes and the whole Councill and bound Jesus and carried him away and delivered him to Pilate so here is the whole Parliament of the Jews against their King who had they not been Jews had never done it but these had formerly forsaken God and therefore no wonder that they do now betray their King yet it might be wondered that this Councill consistings of Heterogeniall parts severall Sects as Pharisees and Sadduces Scribes and Herodians Priests and Presbyters whereof most of them differed in many things and hated each other very much even as much as Papist and Puritane Calvinist and Lutheran do amongst us yet they can deponere inimicitias lay aside all differences and conspire together to betray to death their Lord and King and our Saviour himself tels us how Videlicet when they saw the Heir they said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 within themselves i. e. by their wicked thoughts and then they said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 among themselves i. e. by consultation and publishing their intention one to another Come i. e. by combination and making a firm League and Covenant with an indissolveable oath that although we be of sundry sects and different opinions among our selves yet after we have made this Covenant we need not suspect one another but we may confide in the Covenanters and assure our selves of fidelity to assist one another to the uttermost ut occidamus even to kill him that his Kingdom and his Vineyard both Church and Common-wealth may be our own and thus saevis inter se convenit Vrsis these cruell Bears and savage Beasts do consult and agree together to put to death the Lords Anointed Therefore this Counsell worse then the worst of the Popish counsels may rightly be termed a Devillish counsell Psal 1.1 even the counsell of the ungodly the way of sinners and the seat of the scornfull when as Jacob saith of his sons Simeon and Levi The instruments of cruelty are in their habitations and their swords are the weapons of violence and therefore O my soul come not thou into their secret and let not mine honor be united unto their assembly But let thy thoughts abhor all their actions For in their anger they slew a man and through envy they murdered the best of men and their own King even Jesus Christ and therefore cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruell and for their malice let all such murderers be divided in Jacob and scattered in Israel and let due vengeance be speedily rendered to all such abominable Traytors 9. 9 Flattering Courtiers We read of another Faction that had their fingers in this Treason i. e. the Herodians who were a company of flattering Courtiers and alwaies followed the over-ruling party And these were subtile Foxes that made use of Policy without honesty and therefore Christ that knew them well enough Mar. 8.15 and I would to God King Charls had known his Courtiers also adviseth us to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Herodians i. e. the leaven not of bread but of the doctrine and practices when as their Doctrines are contagious and infectious and their practices
man Si quoties peccant homines sua fulmina mittat Jupiter c. which I may well render in the words of the Prophet If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it Or as the Apostles demand Who then can be saved But the Lord beareth long and forgiveth much iniquities transgression and sin Upon what condition God forgiveth our sins Math. 6.14 15. and yet he forgiveth nothing but upon this condition that we ask forgiveness of our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us for if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you but if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses As you may see it plainly exemplified and shewed in the Parable of the unmerciful Steward And every Talent is 375. l. for when his Lord forgave him a thousand Talents and he would not forgive his fellow-servant a hundred pence his Lord was wroth and delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all that was due unto him Math. 18.34 So that he which remitteth not the offences done unto him must never hope to have his offences remitted unto him by God saith our Saviour Christ Verse 35. And what then shall we do shall we be like James and John that when the Samaritans would not receive their Master would presently have called for fire out of Heaven to have destroyed them all Or shall we be like their Master that when the Jews like so many Cannibals were about him to â—ear him and to crucifie him and to lay such loads of abuses and indignities upon him as the like were never laid on any other man yet was he so far from being incensed against them that although the least breath of his mouth could in an instant have blown them all to be destroyed yet his only revenge was Luke 22.34 Father forgive them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for they know not what they do And his servant S. Stephen imitating him when he was stoned to death desired none other revenge but kneeling down Act. 7.60 cryed with a loud voice Lord lay not this sin to their charge And if notwithstanding all this that I have said men will be still transported with the spirit of Revenge I shall only wish them to remember what Erasmus saith for a worldly counsel seeing they refuse the counsel of God that some remedies are far worse than the disease yea so far worse Vt satius sit oppetere mortem quà m his aucupari salutem Better to suffer wrongs than to repell them with far greater damage That it is better to suffer the Patients to die than to go about to compasse their health and recovery Veluti sugere sanguinem è vulnere recenti gladiatorum morientium As when we go about to save their lives by sucking the blood from the new-made wounds of the dying Gladiators And so saith he Melius est ferre pacem etiamsi parum commodam quà m bellum cum immensis malis suscipere It is sometimes better to conclude a peace or accept of peace though with some disadvantage than to undertake a war with far greater inconveniencies As it was better for David to bear a while with the sons of Zervia than presently with the hazard of his Kingdom to go about to punish their insolencies And so likewise Satius est aliquando ferre injuriam quà m majori incommodo ulcisci It is sometimes far better for a man to take some wrong and injuries than to revenge his wrongs with the suffering of far greater mischiefs And therefore touching fore-past injuries and wrongs done unto us I say with Juvenal minuti Semper infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Juven l. 5. Sat. 13. Vltio câ—ntinuò sic collâ—ge quòd vindiciâ Nemo magis gaudet quà m foemina Revenge is the badge of a Coward and the argument of a feeble-mind befitting rather weak women than any man of a Heroick spirit especially such as are endued with the Spirit of God whose Precept is to forgive and whose language is peace as the Prophet testifieth He will speak peace unto his people and to his Saints that they turn not again that is to revenge to war and fight again but to forget all former injuries and to honour all men and therefore not to revenge our selves upon any man And according to this Precept of S. Peter to honour all men S. Paul to inforce this Duty a little further Heb. 12.14 and to shew the meaning of it somewhat clearer biddeth us to follow peace with all men Wherein you may observe 1. The large extent of our peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with all men Two things to be observed 2. The great desire that we should have to get peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 follow peace that is just as the Psalmist saith Seek peace and ensue it 1. It must be with all men for it were a strange thing 1 The large extent of our peace with men and love to men that men should not live in peace with good men with Christians and with the Saints of God but that as in Moses time an Israelite fell out with an Israelite about the bricks and strawes of Egypt So we that professe the same Faith live under the same Head and dwell in the same Kingdom or perhaps in the same City must for the toyes and trifles of this world go to Law one with another or for some mistaken conceits and different opinions in our Faith fall out and war and rob and spoil and kill one another When as the Apostle bids us to honour all men and to follow peace with all men good or bad Jews or Gentiles For as Lot served God and lived in peace among the Sodomites and Joseph did the like among the Egyptians and Daniel likewise served the true God in Nebuchadnezzars Court and lived peaceably among the Idolatrous Chaldeans and all the true Saints and servants of Christ do keep themselves undefiled in the midst of a crooked and a froward generation So should we endeavour to live in peace and to honour and love even those that professe themselves enemies unto peace and to be of a different Faith and Religion from us that is not only the Papists Puritanes and the like Sectaries but also with the Jews Infidels and Pagans and as the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with all men Because we are bound to love our enemies and to do good to them that hate us and to pray for them that persecute us And therefore much more bound are we to be at peace with them and yet not to be corrupted or seduced by them but still to retain the true Faith The praise of Gods servants is to live holily among the wicked and to serve our God aright as we ought to do otherwise What thanks to them that live holily in heaven among
we were thus filled with malice swelled with enmity and opposite to all amity to all verity to all goodness when we lay polluted in our own blood as the Prop. Ezek. saith Ez. 6.6 were enemies unto God and were as the Ap. speaketh dead in trespasses sins having hearts but no hearts to love him having souls Eph. 2.1 but no souls to long for him and having bodies but no bodies to serve him but such as were breathing out slaughters against him as Saul was breathing the like against the Church Acts 9.1 and when we were no more willing to yield him any the least jot of true love or holy affection then dead bodies are able to perform the most honourable action God then pittied our miseries and had compassion of our unworthiness and as S. Aug. saith etiam non dilectus dilexit out of his abundant goodness without any other motive he loved us when we thus hated wronged and abused him continually provoking him to anger with our continual abominations and yet he doth not say with the Poet Odero si potero si non invitus amabo I love them against my will but indignos amavi I have freely loved them that are so worthy of my hate and so unworthy of my love And therefore here is love and the love of loves and the wonder of all wonders to prosecute them with love that persecuted him with hate and so mercifully to give his only Son to save their lives that so causlesly and maliciously put his Son whom he so dearly loved to a most direful and a most shameful death And therefore as David directeth his 45. Psalm which is Epithalamium Christi sponsae or Canticum amicanum a Song of Loves to the chief Musitian upon Shoshannim or to him that excelleth in Musick So must I leave this great love of God to be amplified by him that is vates amorum the Disciple of Love not he that termed himself so but he that was so indeed the Disciple which our Saviour loved And so I will descend unto the second part of this text which is Pars 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nos diligimus eum as Catharinus Calv. Beza Tremel and abundance more do read it or diligamus eum as the Vulg. Lat. Aquinas Justinianus Corn. a Lapide and all those that follow the vulgar translation do expound it which in effect is all one the Holy Ghost purposely using that word which in the original is both the Indicative and the Subjunctive Mood to reach us that what the holy men of God do all men should do the same that is to love him which is the second part of my Text far different from the former that being high and excellent this low and but indifferent that very great and more then can be expressed this very very little and less then should be imagined and therefore I can speak but a little of it and for that little I beseech you to consider these two points The 1. From the consideration of Gods love that he loved us 2. From the consideration of the time that he loved us first The first point teacheth us to love God again Quia amor amoris magnes 1 VVhat the first Point teacheth us i.e. to love God a-again De Lege Talionis Res dare pro rebus pro verbis verba solemus Pro bufis bufas pro trufis reddere trufas Buffets with blowes and mocks with mowes Dalton p. 180. Mat. 7.12 1. In retaliation of evil for evil Exod. 21.22 durus est qui amorem non rependit and Lextalionis The Law of like doth require no less then that we should love him that loveth us for even reason sheweth that Lex non justior ullaest there cannot be a juster Law in the world then the Law of Retaliation and so our Saviour testifieth With the same measure ye meat it shall be measured to you again and Nature it self teacheth us the same Lesson Quod tibi fieri velis aliis hoc fieri videto Quod tibi fieri nolis aliis hoc fieri caveto And the Eternal Verity saith Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do ye even so to them for this is the Law and the Prophets And this Law holdeth good not only in general but also in the particular retribution 1. Of evil for evil 2. Of good for good As 1. Moses that was Faithful in all Gods House saith If men strive and any mischief follow then thou shalt give Life for Life Eye for Eye c. which is to be understood not of private revenge but to be executed by him that is justly deputed to execute vengeance upon the evil doers And so we find it executed both by God and men for the Old world that filled the Earth with a Deluge of all wickedness God brought a Deluge of Water to wash the same clean away and the Sodomites that burned with the fire of unlawful Lusts were consumed with Fire and Brimstone for the same and the Egyptians that drowned all the Male Children of the Israelites were themselves drowned in the Red Sea and the Children of Israel when they took Adonibezek cut off his Thumbes and his Great Toes and he said Judges 1.6 7. Threescore and ten Kings having their Thumbes and their Great Toes out off gâ—thered their meat under my Table and now as I have done so God hath required me So when Perillus made his Brazen Bull to torment others Phalaris thought it just that himself which made it should first tast of his own Invention And when Egypt wanted the wonted Inundation of Nilus and Thracius told Busiris that the Wrath of the gods would be appeased by the Sacrificing of a Strangers Blood and the King understanding by his own Confession that he was an Alien Illi Busiris fies Jovis Hostia primus Inquit Aegypto tu dabis hospes aquam He thought it the justest act to offer him first unto the gods So we read that those Lords which first called the Moores into Spain to suppresse their King Rodericke whom they hated were themselves and their Families destroyed by the means of those Moores and the Britains that rejected their Just and Lawful King Aurel. Ambrosius Speed l. 7. c. 12. and sent for the Saxons Hengist and Horsus to aid Vortigerne and his Associates that were Intruders were driven by the Saxons into the Rocky Mountains where they remain exiled from their own Right to this very day and because the God of Long Patience is a God of Great Justice that will render to every man according to his deeds and holds it very just that those rebellious people which call any other Nation to suppresse their own Lawful King should at one time or other either by that very Nation or some other be subdued and destroyed themselves therefore Subjects ought to think of Gods Justice before they cast off the Yoke of their Allegiance And 2. As the Poet