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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40476	The wickedness and punishment of rebellion a sermon preach'd the 26. July S.V. 1685 (being the day of thanksgiveing appointedby His Majestie for the defeat of the rebels) before the right worshipfull the Fellowship of Merchants Adventurers of England residing at Dordrecht / by Aug. Frezer, M.A. of St. Edmunds Hall in Oxford ...	Frezer, Augustine, b. 1649 or 50.	1686 (1686)	Wing F2204; ESTC R42039	21,832	42

few men in love with Vertue for its own sake or would be vertuous if they thought they should not be taken notice of and therefore when once they come to be suspected and find how hard if not impossible it is to regain their former reputation they resolve never to attempt it and care not if they are altogether as bad as they are supposd and represented besides all this the very suspition may sometimes be of as ill consequence to a man as if he was really guilty which may suffice to let you see what great reason every man has who values either his Innocence or Reputation to avoid the Company of those who are known to be men of seditious and Rebellious Principles if they would avoid the guilt or the Imputation of being given to change and the ill Consequences of it which brings me to the 2. General part of the words viz the Punishment threatend to all those who are given to Change or who rebell against their lawfull Prince set down in the latter part of the words for their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the Ruine of them both As God is pleasd to expresse the Duty he requires of us himself and the Duty which subjects ow their Kings by one and the same word to signifie the great Concern he has for them and for the peace and welfare of the world which depends upon the preservation of their persons and the Obedience which is due to them from their subjects so the better to secure their persons from violence and to keep their subjects in their Obedience he threatens the same punishment to those who shall violate their Duty to the King as to himself For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both And the reason is because he who is a Traitour and a Rebel to his King is at the same time a Traitour and a Rebel to God This God himself tells Samuel when the People refused any longer to be governd by him They have not rejected thee saies God but they have rejected me that I should not raigne over them which is more fully exprest by St. Paul Ro. 13. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation The Damnation here spoaken of by St. Paul includes both the Calamity and Ruine that is threatend to Rebels in the text and that more severe Punishment or Damnation which is reserv'd for them in the other world 1. The Temporal Punishment which is here threaten'd to Rebels is expresd after such a manner as to denote both the Nature the Certainty and the Suddennesse of it The Nature of their Punishment is expressed 1. by the Calamitie or miseries they bring upon them selves and then by their final Ruin and Destruction The Certainty of their Punishment is signified by the reduplication of the threatning expresd by Calamity and Ruine and the suddennesse of it as it is expresly set down for their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the Ruine of them both This as all other temporal threatnings in scripture is to be understood as generally and for the most part true Tho God has threatned the wicked with Temporal as well as Eternal miserie yet we see many times that the way of the VVicked prospers and they are happy that deal very treacherously They are not in trouble as other men neither are they plagued like other men nay they have no pangs in their death neither but their strength continues firm to the last So it may and so it does somtimes fare with Rebels they may for a time prosper in their Rebellion and God may suffer his People for the punishment of their sins and for their Amendment and Reformation to groan under a long and prosperous Usurpation But when any thing of this nature happens it is beside the comon method of Gods Providence and all such persons have reason to expect the contrary and if they do not meet with their Punishment in this world they may be sure it will light so much the heavier upon them in the next VVhen all the wicked spring as the Grasse and when all the VVorkers of Iniquity do flourish it is that they may be destroyed for ever But the Rule both of our Judgment and of our Practice is not to be borrowed from Extraordinary Occurrences but from the common and usual proceedings of God and the known declarations of his will in scripture And according to both these wayes of Judging the fate of Rebels as to this world may be concluded to be such as it is represented to us both as to the Nature the Certainty and the Suddennesse of their Calamity and Ruine They are generally reduced to great want and misery in their life time they come to an untimely end and their Destruction very often befalls them upon a sudden as might be easily made appear by innumerable Examples both in sacred and prophane story of which I shall only instance in afew Corah Dathan and Abiram whom I have already mention'd were the first Rebels that we have any account of in scripture and because Rebellion was till then a new and unheard of sin God resolves to punish them after a new extraordinary manner The Earth is made to open her mouth to swallow them up alive with all that belongd to them The next Rebel of any note or consideration that we read of was Absolom who contrary to all the ties of Nature Duty Gratitude raisd a Rebellion against his father which was quickly dissipated the General himself in his flight rideing under an Oak caught up by the hair of the head where he hung till he was struck through the heart by Joab which put an end to that Rebellion which is no sooner over but Sheba the son of Bichri a man of Belial sounds a trumpet issues out a Declaration saying we have no part in David neither have we Inheritance in the Son of Iesse Every man to his Tents ô Israel and he drawes all Israël after him but is presently pursued by Joab loses his head as the reward of his Treason Rebellion After this we read of nothing almost but Treasons Rebellions in the Kingdom of Israël which was at first founded in a Rebellion from the time of its Revolt from the house of David till it was carried away Captive and of the slaughter and destruction of those that had a hand in them that it was become a Proverb Had Zimri Peace who slew his Master He conspired against Elah his Master and slew him and the whole time of his Raign was seven dayes in Tirzah and when the People heard say Zimri hath conspired and hath also slain the King they made Omri Captain of