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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

brave the Magistrate and face him and dare him with their Numbers as if they were ready to come to the Poll with him and count whether more People come from the Church on a Lords-day or from the Meeting vying for multitude especially if the weaker Vessels the Vessels of Frailty will but pass Muster Poor Bashful tender Hearts and tender Consciences As if a Holder-forth cannot Preach Christ in the Wild of Kent as in the Throngs and Crowds of a City or Corporation Well the Magistrates surely do well enough know their meanings and what they would be at And such a Discourse as this and such a Text as this can no where be so properly or so well Improv'd as in this Assembly the most Honorable and most considerable of this greatest and most Glorious City of the whole Kingdom the great Hinge of Peace and War Those Preachers are like Jobs Comforters Job 13.4 either Forgers of Lyes or Physicians of no value that do not handle or do not handle to purpose this Distemper What disquiets your sleeps but Fears of Disturbances from the Spirit of Popery and the Spirit of Foppery I know not which is worst they are both Bloody and Dangerous the former by Plotting but Blessed be God their Plots come to nothing the latter by Plotting and Acting too God knows not to mention the Defolation the Bondage the Tyranny and oppression this City groan'd under for so many years under so many Masters and different Tyrants Three or Four several ones in a year sometimes before His Majesties Happy Restauration but even since though the Papists might Plot Rebellion and Treason yet the Phanaticks have not only plotted but twice been up in Armes which the Papists never were twice I say in Armes and Open Field Fights in Scotland where our Miseries were first brooded and begun their Rise but Blessed be God as soon Defeated which was Gods goodness more than our Deserts no Thanks though to the Coventiclers and Field-meeters they show'd their good will and their good Religion and their tender Consciences in the Interim oh true Church Militant here upon Earth Why should Ministers make wild and randome discourses in the Pulpit and but beat the air applying remedies to distempers that the City and Kingdom are not especially plagu'd with alas Faction and Foppery and Popery are the great disease of the Kingdom with which it now at this day as well as of a long time it has been vext and griev'd hic seca hic ure here make applications otherwise we Preachers are like those the Apostle speaks of 2. Thes 3.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Working not at all to the purpose but busie to no purpose What shall Jesuits dare to venture their lives to come to pervert our Nation in the Spirit of Popery and shall Fanaticks dare and brave the Magistrate to his Face in publick in the Cities in the greatest City of the Nation and all this with an Impudent Forehead like the Whore in the Proverbs wiping the mouth and saying they have done no wickedness and all this in contempt nay in defyance of all Law and Authority and shall no Man dare to say and speak publickly what they dare do publickly Is it no sin no crime no shame for them presumptuously and with a High Hand and a Brazen Face to transgress the Laws and is he fit to be a Minister of God and the King that has neither honesty nor courage to Check and Rebuke it The great and good Emperor Constantine the first Christian Emperor took another course with Factious Coventicles Euseb de vit const He prohibited them by Edict and Proclamation see the Proclamation and Edict at large in Euseb de vit constant Theod. l. 1. c. 19. He Burnt their Books and proscribed the Authors and Abettors to use his own words Pestium illarum audacia ministri Dei hoc est meâ Executione coercebitur Their Plaguy Impudence shall be restrained by the Authority of the Minister of God that is my self c. that good Emperor Those bold pestilent fellows that dare offend in defyance of all Authority I 'le make bold to punish their Fool hardiness by my Authority A Speech as pious as Princely and a pious Example to Princes For ancient and modern experience has taught that faction like a Top never goes well but when under the lash and well whip't 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therefore obstinate and prating Fanaticks or Seducers saith St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St. Paul whose Mouthes must be stopped oportet os obturare it is very fit they should be stopped Why it follows because they subvert whole Houses teaching things that they ought not for filthy Lucres sake When the People had got a new Religion but a false one King Josiah puts it down and is commended for it 2. Kings 23. from the 4. verse to the 14. verse The same did King Hezekiah 2. Kings 18.3 4 5 6 7. The first Law of Theodosius that good Emperor in his Law Book is de sacrâ Trinitate quid credendum Theod lib. legum A Lawful King may not only imperata facere but imperare facienda though I know the Learned Grotius scruples this latter but he was a Hollander By this Regal Supremacy Solomon deposed Abiathar the Arch-Bishop because he sided with the Rebels 1 Kings 2.27 Constantine did the like to Vigelius and Justinian to Silverius Otho the Emperor ejected Pope John 12. for his Necromancy and Wickedness 'T is Chrysostom's Paraphrase on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers whether Apostle Evangelist Pastor or Teacher Pope or Bishop Presbyter or Presbyterian they must needs be subject and that for Conscience-sake if they have any Conscience any Conscience unseared Rom. 13 5 Vid Chrys Hom 3. ad Antioch any Conscience not hardned To whom assents Theodoret Theophylact Oecumenius and all that are not posses 't with the evil Spirit to keep to my old terms of Popery or Foppery King Josiah came not with Cap in hand to the High-priest 2 King 23.4 but commanded him to reform this and that Nefas est in dubium deducere ejus potestatem cui omnium gubcrnatio superno constat delegata Judicio saith the 6th Toletan Counsel speaking of the undoubted right of King Chintellanus The four first General Counsels were called by Emperors not by Popes Socrat l. 5 in proem nor the Clergy Pope Leo petitions the Emperor to call a Counsel in Italy and he call'd it at Ephesus Supplicationi nostrae dignetur Imperator annuere Lev. Epist 9.24.26 Let the Emperor vouchsafe an Ear and hearken to the request of his humble Petitioner But many years after the Canon of Pope Boniface runs a stile and Language more Magisterical Dictator like Dicimus Definimus De majoritat in glossâ pronunciamus esse de necessitate salutis omm humanae creaturae subesse Romano Pontifici We say it we