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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08276	A commentarie or exposition vpon the first chapter of the prophecy of Amos delivered in xxi. sermons in the parish church of Meisey Hampton in the diocesse of Gloucester, by Sebastian Benefield ... Hereunto is added a sermon vpon 1. Cor. 9.19. wherein is touched the lawfull vse of things indifferent.	Benefield, Sebastian, 1559-1630.	1613 (1613)	STC 1861; ESTC S101601	198,690	274

vnto the LORD into the education of open enimies to the gospell of Christ most blasphemous and abominable Atheists or most blind and superstitious Papists 3 Sith it is not lawfull to commit the children of beleevers into the hands of infidels for the reason aboue specified that they bee not withdrawne from their holy faith religious worship and true service of God then neither is it lawfull for vs to keepe away or send away our servants from the service of God Let no man say vnto me such a mans servant and such a mans are employed in temporall affaires at the time of divine service and why should not mine be likewise Dearely beloved a good Christians part is to be of like resolution with Ioshuah chap. 24.15 Howsoever all the world besides shall be affected in this busines yet to resolue for himselfe and his familie as Ioshuah did for his I and my house will serue the LORD I doe but touch these points because I haue heretofore in this place more at large insisted vpon them Now followeth the second branch expressing the sin of the Tyrians their sinne of vnmercifulnesse and crueltie They haue not remembred the covenant of brethren For this time I note that men may be called brethren six māner of waies 1. By nature as Iacob and Esau 2. By kindred affinitie or alliance as Abraham and Lot 3. By nation or country as all Iewes 4. By religion as al Christians 5. By friendship as Solomon and Hiram King of Tyre 6. By calamitie or miserie as many poore distressed people who haue not wherwith to support their weake natures The covenant of brethren here mentioned some doe referre to that league of amitie which was concluded betweene King Solomon Hiram King of Tyre recorded 1. King 5.12 Some doe properly vnderstand these words to signifie that naturall league which should haue beene betweene Iacob and Esau naturall brethren and their posteritie in lineall descent the Iewes Israelites and Edomites Vnderstand it which way you will the Tyrians were both wayes blameable First they remembred not the covenant made betweene their King K. Hiram King Solomon Secondly they remembred not the couenant made by nature betweene the Iewes Israelites and Edomites brethren lineally descended from two naturall brethren Iacob and Esau From both expositions ariseth profitable doctrine First is Almighty God here displeased with the Tyrians because they did ill intreate the Iewes and Israelites not remembring the ancient covenant betweene Hiram their King Solomon King of Israel Hence we may take this lesson Ancient leagues are not rashly to bee violated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 breakers of leagues truces and covenants are Rom. 1.31 ranked among such whom God in his secret iudgement hath given vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to a reprobate sense Foederum tutor vindex Deus est God is as it were a tutor or protector of leagues and severely revengeth himselfe vpon the breakers of them The Gentiles of old by the light of nature did acknowledge as much and fearefull examples in all ages do proue as much I will instance but in few Ioshuah made a league with the Gibeonites and sware that he would suffer them to liue Iosh 9.15 long after Saule and his bloody house slew some of them Hereat was the wrath of the LORD kindled and for this cause he punished the people with three yeares famine and was not appeased with the land till seaven of Saules sonnes were delivered vp into the hands of the Gibeonites to be hanged vp in Gibeah 2. Sam. 21.1 Zedechiah king of Iudah made a covenant with Nabuchodonosor king of Babel sware a 2. Kings 24.17 2. Chr. 36.13 Ierem. 52.2 subiectiō to him But Zedechiah notwithstanding his oath tooke part with the kings of the Egyptians Idumaeans Moabites Ammonites and Tyrus against Nabuchodonosor what followeth this breach of his oath and covenant Even vtter ruine to himselfe his kingdome the city of Ierusalem and the glorious temple there 2. Chron. 36.17 Vladislaus King of Poland and Hungary concluded a peace for ten yeares with Sultan Amurath the sixt king of the Turks Vladislaus tooke his oath vpon the holy Evangelists and Amurath his by his embassadors vpon their Turkish Alcorā b Knolles Hist Turc p. 289. This was the most honorable peace that every Christian Prince had before that time made with any of the Turkish Kings and most profitable also had it beene with like sincerity kept as it vvas with solemnity confirmed Vladislaus c pag. 292. absolved from his oath by Cardinal Iulianus the Popes Legate and agent in Hungary breaketh the concluded peace d pag. 297. invadeth a fresh the Turkes dominions The Turke ioines battle with him at e pag. 297. Varna in Bulgaria and beholding the picture of the crucifixe in the displaied ensignes of the Christians pluckes out of his bosome that writing wherein the late league betweene him and Vladislaus was comprised holding it vp in his hād with his eies cast vp to heaven saith Behold thou crucified Christ this is the league thy Christians in thy name made with me which they haue without cause violated Now if thou be a God as they say thou art and as we dreame revenge the wrong now done vnto thy name and me shew thy power vpon thy periurious people who in their deeds denie thee their God What followed herevpon The victorie was the Turkes Vladislaus lost his life there eleven thousand Christians besides The successe of this great bloudy battle of Varna fought the 10. of November 1444. doth it not plainly shew that God cannot away with league-breakers These few instances of Saul Zedechiah and Vladislaus may suffice for the clearing of my propounded doctrine Ancient leagues are not rashly to be violated The vse of this doctrine is to admonish all subiects to bee very respectiue and mindful of that league covenant which they haue by their solemne oathes made and confirmed to their Kings Princes and other governers according to that exhortation made by S. Paule Rom. 13.1 Let every soule be subiect to the higher powers It is not a bare or naked exhortation it is backed with a good reason For there is no power but of God and the powers that are are ordained of God it followeth in the secōd verse Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Whosoever they are that resist power men in authority princes rulers and governours they resist God God will confound them their infamie shall remaine vpon perpetuall record for a spectacle to all posterity What else meaneth the Apostle in the same place where he saith They that resist shall receiue to themselues iudgement And here dearely beloved I beseech you to beware of Romish Locusts I meane Iesuits Seminary Priests who are sent from beyond the seas to inveigle you to make you vnmindfull or at least carelesse of your covenant confirmed by your sacred oathes