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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43617	Curse ye Meroz, or, The fatal doom in a sermon preached in Guild-hall Chappel London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, May the 9th 1680 / by Edmond Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1803; ESTC R17523	32,578	46

is as fit for 1680 as it was for 1640. And we will not dissemble the truth of it but let it have its full Scope For this Text is part of the Epinicion or Song for Victory obtain'd by Deborah the Queen or Judge of Israel Judges 4.4 She Judged Israel at that Time and Barak her Captain General The Title of this Chapter wherein the Text is is The Song of Deborah and Barak after Victory obtain'd against the Queens Enemies the Captain of whose Host was wicked Sisera who with a Mighty Army came to Fight against Deborah the Soveraign of the Israelites of which her Subjects some Fought for their Soveraign Deborah as Zebulun and Naphtali some would not Fight for their Soveraign as Meroz Therefore Curse ye Meroz said the Angel of the Lord Curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the Lord the help of their Soveraign there called the help of the Lord against the Mighty Enemies of Soveraign Majesty So that the help of the Lord in this Text is evidently the help of Deborah the help and assistance of the Soveraign Magistrate against the Enemy This is so plain and Evident from the Context that nothing can be more Intelligible Whence observe Doc. that to help the Soveraign Magistrate against the Enemy is to help God Or thus They that Fight not for their Soveraign Fight not for God And they that Fight against their Soveraign Fight against God Or the Kings Enemy cannot be Gods Friend Or He that Honors not the King Fears not God Or thus All Rebels and Disloyal Persons to their Soveraign are Cursed Rebels and Disloyal to God Truth 's so clearly deduced without any wresting from this Text as well as throughout the whole Scripture Canonical that we may well wonder that there could have been such Pulpiteers as to Cheat their Hearers with quite contrary Doctrines and Deductions from this Text or such easie Gulls amongst their Auditors that could be so grosly impos'd upon and be juggled out of their Lives their Money their Plate nay it is to be feared their Souls are accursed if this Text be true not only for refusing to Assist their Soveraign the Cursed Crime in the Text but much more for resisting him even to Blood and their own Damnation so easie are and so Damnable too many times those Juggling Tricks that Cheats the Vulgar Cheat the Vulgar Alas What is more Ordinary But this was the most Gross most Palpable and the most Fatal Cheat that ever was put upon them and from the Holy Scripture wretchedly wrested and from the Pulpit too Fatal to the People Fatal to the King and Kingdom With this Text that is the most Loyal Text in all the Bible was the Kings Army rooted our Blessed King Martyr'd and Murther'd and the Kingdom Ruined Which may teach Soveraigns by woful Experience that if they let loose the Reignes of Government especially in Ecclesiastical Affairs if they cannot or will not restrain the License of the Pulpit and Pulpiteers they loose the best Flower of the Crown and expose themselves and their People to the wild Expositions and Harangues of every bold Expositor and Boutifeau Where by the way note how necessary it is for a King as to outward Administration to keep the Key of David that Openeth and no man shutteth Isa 22.22 and shutteth and no man openeth and not to trust the opening the meaning and Interpretations of Scripture to his Adversaries or Rebells or such as he has no influence upon whether Pope or Presbyterian Popery or Foppery And have we not Laws enough and strong enough to bind the Bloody hands of both and hinder their growth if men have but honesty and courage enough to put them in Execution And this Doctrine so apparent in the Text that to help our Sovereign against his Enemies is to help God and not to help him is to be lyable to the Curse of God is founded upon these two following Reasons and infallible Arguments which I shall place in Answer to the third Quere why Meroz was accursed Reas 1st Because Disloyalty and Rebellion against the Soveraign Magistrate is a Sin of the same horrid nature with Disloyalty and Rebellion against God himself Nay the Holy Apostle does not say they are like one another as ever they can look but they are one and the same Rom. 13.2 Job 35.6.7.8 He that resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God the Imperial Edict of God For if thou Sinnest what doest thou against God saith Eliphaz or if thy Transgressions be multiplyed what dost thou against him If thou be righteous what givest thou him or what receiveth he of thine hand Thy wickedness may hurt a Man as thou art and thy Righteousness may profit the Son of Man Upon this account Jehoiakim who rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar contrary to his Oath of Allegiance and Covenant 2 Chron. 16.13 with an Infidel King and is said to have broken Gods Covenant Ezekiel 17.19 by breaking the Covenant made to that Heathen King whose sworn vassal he was as appears also Ezekiel 17.13.18 Murmuring against Moses the Chief Magistrate is called tempting of God 1 Cor. 9.10 And the People in their Confession of the Mutiny say as much Numb 21.7 We have sinned for we have sp●ken against the Lord and against thee where note that speaking against Moses is called speaking against God even as the Royal Ayd in the Text is called the help of the Lord. Is not the People's murmurings against Moses called murmuring against God Exod. 16.2 The Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him and what are we your murmurings are not against us but against the Lord which must be taken implicitely for expresly they murmured only against the Chief Magistrate and Chief Priest Moses and Aaron Exod. 16.2 Nay God himself calls the rejecting of Samuel the Chief Magistrate the rejecting of the God of Israel 1. Sam. 8.7 1. Thes 4.8 The Spirit of Loyalty which moved Amasa to help the King is called the Spirit of God 1. Chron. 21.18 From whence then came that Spirit that moved Sheba to Rebellion and made him therefore a Son of Belial 2. Cor. 2 15. 2. Sam. 20.1 What Communion has Christ with Belial If then the help of the Soveraign be the help of the Lord as it is styled in this Text by the Spirit of God that Nick-names nothing then who do they help that ayd Rebells against their Sovereign The Devil without doubt And how meritorious is it in the sight of Heaven to help our Sovereign upon Earth the Blessing of God goes along with these whilst the other are Cursed by God and his Holy Angel as Meroz was Cursed Meroz Disloyal Meroz Thus the Indictment had been rightly drawn up against Naboth 1. K. 21.10 for Blaspheming God and the King if but the latter clause could have been prov'd The Counsel in their addresses to the Emperors made use of

for no History can tell us what is become of them to this day And this they got even ruin the certain Portion and lot of all Rebells whilst loyal Judah and Benjamin continu'd a Kingdom govern'd by their own Laws and Religion except in the Parenthesis of 70 years Captivity until the Blood of our Saviour which according to their wish fell heavily upon them unto this day and made them Cain's and Vagabonds upon the Face of the Earth All this shews us the Truth of the Old Religion of the Primitive Christians in spight of our new Presbyterian Church-Militant whose Weapons were only Prayers and Tears with which they defended themselves and wearyed out and at last overcame their Persecutors and Tyrants And as this is true Christian Piety so we in England find it the best Policy by Fatal Lectures of woful Experience People were so alarum'd from the Pulpits with such Texts as this and so frighted with Jealousies and Fears of Arbitrary Government and Popery that like men in a Shipwrack as I said before that leap into the Sea for fear of Drowning we gulf'd our selves into more Arbitrary Government Tyranny and Popery or Foppery and Phanaticisme the Spawn of Popery then could possibly have betided us if the worst had come that men did fear or were perswaded to fear How were our Miseries in the Late Civil Wars Prologu'd with a noise of Arbitrary Government in the Case of Ship-Money a Tax impos'd without a Parliament for Remedy whereof it came to Armes and Blood and Ruine and instead of one Arbitrary Tax as they call'd it by the King without a Parliament in a Case of urgent necessity to defend the Kingdom against Forreign Foes we underwent a Thousand Arbitrary Taxes by a Parliament without a King which is at least equally Illegal and Millions of Men and Treasure consum'd was not this Remedy worse than the Disease And was there ever any Tyrant heard of in any Age or Nation that ever Ruin'd and wasted his People at that Bloody Rate that we wasted and ruin'd one another and all this because nothing would please men but New Religions and New Preachers and New Expositions of Texts such as this is but explain'd quite contrary to Truth and the Old Christian Religion whose Weapons against Authority and Soveraign Majesty are only I say again Prayers and Tears And shall not God hear his Peoples Cryes and Groanings Yes surely read all Histories and you will find that as Rebels so Tyrants seldom come to the Grave in Peace Sine coede sanguine Nemo Nec siccâ morte Tyranni Rehoboam would play the Tyrant and lost his Subjects by it Dionysius the Tyrant of Syracusa thought he had ensur'd his Kingdom of Sicily to him with Chains of Adamant and he was glad to turn School-Master in Italy in Conclusion and get a Paultry living as a Tyrannical Paedagogue with insulting over Boyes The time would fail me to tell of the dismal ends of such Nero's and Dioclesian's and I am weary of this Tragical Discourse and will briefly come to a more pleasant Improvement of the Text concluding the Stated Question thus If the King happen to be a Child a Mad-man a Papist or an Infidel for his Personal Infirmities he shall answer to God alone but his Dominion and our Obedience are circumcised within the Limits of the Laws of the Land the only Rule of his Soveraignty and our Obedience and all other Doctrine of Obedience is Parasitical or Prophane Vse 1. If the help of our Soveraign Lord the King be the help of the Lord God and if Royal Aid be Divine Aid then who do they help that Fight against and resist their Sovereign Who are they for For the Devil sure There is no middle way no favorable Limbus no Purgatory that can Intervene but they that help not Heaven they help Hell they that help not the Lord help the Devil As do all those that are so Disloyal Lazy or Cowardly that neglect to help their Soveraign when endanger'd or distrest by Enemies much more do those help the Devil that Rebel and Tumultuously resist and Fight against their Soveraign If the Spirit of Loyalty be the Spirit of God as the Holy Ghost calls it as aforesaid then what Spirit is that which Resisteth God by Resisting the Soveraign Magistrate who is called God but the Spirit of Antichrist and the Spirit of the Devil Not the Spirit of the Devil in his own Black Hellish likeness and Apparition that would affright rather than invite men to be his Followers But a Devil in the likeness of Samuel in the likeness of a Prophet a Rebel with his Cloak on the Old Cloak of Religion and the Cause the Cause The Devil was great in Absalom to make him a Rebel against his King and Father but he was a Crafty Politick Devil withall 2 Sam. 15. to make him pretend Justice and Courtesie and Humility to gain the Populace and above all Arts Religion let me go and pay my Vows which I have Vowed to the Lord in Hebron saith he the Place of Conventicle and the Place of Randevouz and Parade also Finge Deum Belial quoties vis fallere plebem And such Devils in the likeness of a Prophet I say in the likeness of Religion is the fiercest the Bloodyest the most Antichristian and Devillish of all Devils Did ever man read of more Bloody Massacres than under the Conduct of the Papists Covenanted together in France by the Name of the Holy League Did ever any thing Parallel it except those Hellish contrivances and Bloody Butcheries in this Island under the favor and Influence of the solemn League and Covenant We read in the Holy Go pel of a kind of Devils that cannot be Cast out but by Prayer and Fasting but this kind of Devil or Spirit of Antichrist that I am Treating of gets Life and strength by Prayer and Fasting Variety of opinions there are the Man of Sin Spoken of 2. Thef 2. the Son of Perdition Be this Spirit of Perdition or Man of Sin who it will I am sure 1st It is a religious a pretendedly Religious Spirit because it sits in the Temple of God vers 4. Secondly It is a Rebellious Spirit against the Sovereign Magistrate opposing and exalting himself above all that is called God that is the Magistrate So that those that under color of Religion and upon pretence of Religion Fight and Kill and Slay and break the peace As in our Age have the Papists especially the Jesuits and the Fanaticks especially the rigid Presbyterian and Fifth-Monarchy-Men we are sure they are Men of Sin and Sons of Perdition opposing the Magistrate for God's sake or in pretence of Religion Religion certainly true Religion is the greatest happiness that God gives to Mortal Men thereby we converse with Heaven upon Earth thereby Men live on Earth like the Glorified Saints and Angels in Heaven thereby comes Glory to God on High on Earth Peace good Will towards