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A28627	Core redivivus in a sermon preached at Christ-Church Tabernacle in London upon Sunday, September 9, 1683, being a day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Sacred Majesties person and government from the late treasonable rebellion and fanatick conspiracy / by William Bolton ...	Bolton, William, 1650 or 51-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3535; ESTC R23230	14,627	36

Core Redivivus IN A SERMON PREACHED At Christ-Church Tabernacle in London upon Sunday September 9. 1683. BEING A Day of Publick Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of His Sacred Majesties Person and Government from the late Treasonable Rebellion and Fanatick Conspiracy By WILLIAM BOLTON one of the School-Masters of the Charter-House LONDON Printed for James Norris at the Kings-Arms without Temple-Bar M.DC.LXXXIV Core Redivivus A Thanksgiving SERMON For a Deliverance from a Fanatick Conspiracy NUMB. 16. ver 26. And he spake unto the Congregation saying Depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked Men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their Sins THE Context runs thus And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Speak unto the Congregation saying Get ye up from the Tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram and the Elders of Israel followed him and he spake unto the Congregation c. The Words are an Exhortation of Moses the Supream Magistrate of the Israelites to his Loyal Subjects That they should depart from the Ten 's of those wicked Conspirators Korah Dathan and Abiram with their Associates lest they should be consumed in their Sins What I have to say upon the Words shall be laid out in this following method 1. I shall give you an Historical Narration of this Conspiracy as the Scripture doth afford Light thereto with the Punishment of those wicked Men as the Holy Ghost calls them in my Text which Particular being spoken to I shall for my second Part 2. Draw this natural Proposition That all Rebellion of what kind soever is not only unlawful but destructive likewise to Traytors and that both in this Life and that which is to come 3. I shall reflect upon the sinister Practices and Opinions of the Jesuits and Presbyterians relating to the Matter in hand I name the latter because of their so known Opposition to Prelacy that they seem to draw their Extraction from this famous Triumvirate Korah Dathan and Abiram in this Chapter My last part shall be by way of Application First then that you may the better understand the History of this Chapter be pleased to go back two or three Years and you will find these rebellious Persons with all the Children of Israel groaning under the heavy Oppression of the Egyptians In this their misery they cried unto the Lord who heard their Complaints and by a Succession of Miracles wrought by the hands of Moses and Aaron was pleased to rescue them from their cruel Task-masters Suppose them therefore on the other side of the Red Sea from Aegypt free from their cruel Oppressors whom they had with Joy seen drowned in the Sea but yet these men forgat God at the Sea even at the Red Sea After this we find them often murmuring against God and as often punished though in the midst of Judgment God remembred Mercy nay they so provoked the Almighty at one time that had it not been for the Prayer of this Moses against whom they conspire in this Chapter I say had not this Moses then interceeded for them as ungrateful as they now appear the Lord had utterly rooted them out from the Face of the Earth These men had often rebelled against the Lord but they saw it was to their own Ruine now they will try whether they may not more safely fly out against their Prince and High-Priest whom the Lord had set over them here they think themselves safe and that God was not concerned in the Person of Moses their Supream Magistrate But surely my beloved one would rather expect these men to have been strengthning one another against the many Enemies with whom they were to fight one would have imagined to have heard these men offering up their Praises to God for the great Mercies past and imploring the Continuance of his Favours upon his Servants Moses and Aaron who as they had been God's great Instruments in freeing this People from an horrid Slavery so they might likewise settle them in the Promised Land but instead thereof we read in this Chapter of nothing in some men but Murmurings but Repinings but Rebellion the chief Heads whereof are Korah Dathan and Abiram who had supplanted from their Loyalty no less than two hundred and fifty Princes of the Assembly men of Renown upon whom notwithstanding the Holy Ghost in my Text fastens no other Character than that of Wicked who are here threatned to be consumed Dathan and Abiram were descended from the Line of Reuben the eldest Son of Patriarch Jacob and therefore reckoned themselves more fitting to receive the Supream Authority than Moses who descended from a younger House and Korah thought himself as much slighted and contemned in seeing Elizaphan the Son of Uzziel to have been made the Prince of the Kohathites the principal Family of he Levites next to Gerson when he himself descended of the elder Brother You may fancy them therefore in their Cabals and Association for in vers 2. we are told they had no less than 250 Princes of the Assembly and men too famous in the Congregation men of renown that joyned with them I say you may fancy those men got together in their Tents and Corah Addressing himself to them in this manner I intimate Korah rather than any of the others because the Conspiracy in Scripture is called the Gain-saying of Korah Suppose therefore Korah speaking to his Associates after this manner 'T is true indeed Moses and Aaron have delivered us from the Hands of the Aegyptians but we had better have continued there than basely to submit ourselves to be Vassals to our Fathers Children We do no longer indeed make Brick of Clay but then we were not in Subjection to our fellow-Servants Moses promised that he would bring us into a Land flowing with Milk and Honey and behold he kills us in a Wilderness If we must have Princes you my Lords Dathan and Abiram are more fitting to rule over us as being of an elder House than he and if there be a Necessity of having one Priest above another in place and power without Ostentation the Mitre might sit as well upon my head as that of Aaron In vain in vain we are freed from the Yoke of Aegypt to be Slaves to those whose birth at the best is but equal to our own As for my part I will not bear it neither do I think such generous Spirits as yours can submit to such a Servitude any longer But in this Speech I would not be misunderstood concerning Succession for the Jewish Government was then perfectly Theocatical and God himself was pleased to appoint Governours for his own People to which Theocracy amongst the Jews the next of Kin in Blood answers in other Nations I am sure in this Kingdom and may it always continue After such words as these you may imagine the chief Conspirators confirmed the People now are to beseduced and what measures I beseech you are followed Why They are flattered with the hopes of