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A83947	Englands alarm to vvar against the Beast: by command from heaven, and his Israels example upon earth, comming-in to rescue David, out of the hands of a cruell Lord, and a bloudy Edomite: upon the same ground from Scripture and reason, Israel had then, and Christians now, to resist the prince ruling in the aire, and with the kings of the earth. In 3. sections: wherein, I. The history of Sauls war against David is so related ... that it relates ... to the three last yeeres affaires ... II. And to the bloudy execution of the Edomite in this war against the Parliament in Ireland and Lngland [sic] ever since. III. Here is also excellent reason given, why the tribes came not in sooner ... Also, to confirme the hearts and hands of the godly in their warfare ...		1643 (1643)	Wing E2941; Thomason E56_15; ESTC R20696	26,569	31

extreame violences actings of an evill Spirit Israel withstood then and no body else in the world but as the body was acted by this evill Spirit And this is Israels Case now I meane all true Christians in the world And such is their practise according to Israels example in all Ages by allowance and command also of all the Laws in Heaven and Earth I repeat it again Vpon the same ground from Scripture and Reason All true Christians now are engaged as Israel then To help the Church against the mighty To come-in now with shield and buckler To oppose and resist with all their might Not their King no This resistance has an affi●●ce a full agreement rather with duty and loyalty nor the Papists nor the Athiests neither but that evill Spirit in both The actings and notorious violences thereof and of a private and perverse will acted thereby which has done all the mischiefe done in the world since the beginning of the same and will do all the hurt there it can while the world stands All true Christians now will maintaine a Resistance against the Actings as aforesaid of this will which like the tongue is a world of iniquity b defileth the whole body setteth on fire the course of Jam. 3. 5 6. nature and is set on fire of Hell i. e. of that evill Spirit whose Mansion-house is Hell but now he is the great Peripatetick of the world walking to and fro therein and by the help of mans will a willing servant to him does all the violences insolencies and wrongs our eyes have seen or our eares have heard have been done in both Kingdomes Thie evill Spirit this Will call it what you will if it be not the Devill yet it Acts his Commands This evill Spirit all true Christians will oppose and resist now Nay they have solemnly protested before the Lord That this evill and uncleane Spirit shall not rule over them he shall not be king in their world they will break his bands and cast away his cords they will oppose and resist him to the death and no Body else in the world but as the body is acted and effectually wrought in and upon by this evill Spirit and if so acted they will resist him or them what ever Bodies they be though Kings and Princes and Nobles of the Earth for upon the same ground from Scripture and Reason will they make this resistance by which they stand charged to obey God and to resist the Devill And if you finde any other resistance maintained now by men or books then against the actings and notorious violences of mans private will acted by that evill Spirit so powerfull upon Saul and working as effectually in the Edomite I meane him or them who say of our Jerusalem now Rase it rase it eaven with the ground If I say any other resistance is maintained in those books then onely onely against that Power which Commands in the Ruler not by God but against Him then let those books be served as the King served the Rowle be first cut it then burnt it onely read the books first c which the King did not do whereas c Jer. 36. 23. which is verily thought had he read the Rowle thorow out first he had not burnt it afterward I will name the chiefe of these books here That Answer to Doctor Fearn and the fuller Answer That of Anti-Turkisme Cavalierisme is too gentile a word for they are the same with the Turks more bruitish though Turks as one writeth are in the lowest degree of men next to bruit Beasts in the shape of Men. And the same Authours Vindication of the same Book against a Bishop in name who hath in that Vindication not onely given the Bishop a bone to pick but choaked him therewith for he has made the Bishop and his fellows speechlesse for ever in point of Reply thereunto Not so onely he hath burnt this note of infamy upon their foreheads gain-savers of the Truth Nothing for it but all they can against it more visible there then is the bone in the throat which the Anatomists too Rabinically do call Pomum Adam Adams Apple And let Scripture and Reason be served so to being first read thorow and that full Letter which has so cleared a just Cause that the Answerer hath not found with all his search yet he did his utmost with all his skill strength wrath malice and what the Devill could help-him into because he found the Devill his Father there a most notorious lyer yet he found not one word of sense to reply unto that Letter But yet let this and that and the other have the same execution aone upon them as aforesaid and as was done upon that abominable and cursed Pamphlet for we must not call it a Book giving liberty to riot and dance upon the Lords Day let those Books be burnt by the hand of the common hangman in all the Cities and Townes thorow the whole Kingdome for so such Papers should be served which give such liberty to sport and play away the Lords Day or a liberty to Subjects to resist their King But if th●se Books I will call them Books having for their Patrons Truth and Reason and such onely are worthy the name of Books d perswade obedience to Rulers submission to that power God d Libri 〈◊〉 nomi●e dignandi in vericatis tan●um rationis clientelam s●dare debent Ver. de Aug. l. 1 has set over them and resistance onely against that evill Spirit the great Monarch of the world King of the bottomlesse Pit working mightily now and effectually in the Rulers of the world and in their sworne servants Israels enemies the Edomites there if a resistance onely of that power in the Rulers not for God but against Him giving full Commission to Athiests and bloudy Papists to do as the Edomite did against Nob and as Saul would have done against Keilah if so allow the Books read what they say and heare them out it is Scripture and Reason and be stubborne and bruitish no more but obey Shew thy selfe a man who wilt never oppose so reasonable a charge as this Obey thy Soveraigne Lord Resist the Devill and thy owne will the Devils right hand in the world Grant so much we are agreed and altogether to fight against the Devill and this perverse will as long as there is a Spirit of life within us and a drop of quick bloud at our heart All this is commended to thee and charged upon thee before God the Father His Son Jesus Christ His Elect Angels and Men. Therefore do not dare to refuse nor gain say such a sacred Truth so firmly grounded upon sacred Scripture and Reason both Scripture specially now opening it selfe unto thee wherein thou mayest with one cast of the Eye Read and Remember David and all his Afflictions The Church and all her enemies Their deadly persecutions contrivances and complottings how to do her mischiefe The contrivances

Englands Alarm to VVar against the Beast By command from Heaven and His Israels Example upon Earth comming in to rescue David out of the hands of a cruell Lord and a bloudy Edomite upon the same ground from Scripture and Reason Israel had then and Christians now To resist the Prince ruling in the Aire and with the Kings of the Earth In 3. Sections Wherein I. The History of Sauls War against David is so related from the sacred Text that it relates in whole and in part to the three last yeeres affaires The most remarkable Passages between the King and the Parliament before the War brake forth II. And to the bloudy Execution of the Edomite in this War against the Parliament in Ireland and England ever since III. Here is also excellent Reason given Why the Tribes came not in sooner and sufficient Reason Why they came in so Armed at the last Relating fully to this present time The wonderfull Providences The admirable Deliverances Strange Discoveries c. As at this day Also To confirme the hearts and hands of the Godly in their warfare and to strike terrour to the wicked fighting for the Devill and against Gods hidden ones contrary to the Vow in Baptisme Oath of Allegiance and Covenant entred into by all good Subiects And To stablish the heart in a patient expectation of the glorious end GOD will make Though for a time He will plead with all flesh by fire and by His sword and the slain of the LORD shall be many He who affirms That Christians may not resist wicked Rulers does affirme with as with as loud a voice though he would not be heard That Christians may not resist the Evill-one ruling in wicked Rulers and acting violences by their hands Scl. de Imp. PSAL. 11. 5 6 7. The Lord tryeth the Righteous but him that loveth violence His soul hateth ISAIAH 60 22. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation I the Lord will hasten it in His time Printed in the second yeare of the Beasts wounding making war with the Lamb and those that are with Him 〈…〉 and Faithfull for Thomas Vnderhill 〈…〉 An Apologie for the Epistle following I Shall lay open the depths of Sathan hidden works of darknesse Then I shall shew a Traine of Providences c. The sure mercies of David I can tell my selfe now I shall against my Rule speak excellent things in the eares of a foole shew him the Sun in your hand as the Proverbe is he will not see it Tell him it is the Word of God what cares he he will not heare it Tell him it is a Pearle he regards it not A very swine A brutish man Mad upon his Idols Yet let us do our endeavours to make him sober Surely this before him will do it if any thing under heaven can make him heare and see both For he will see the Devill here all along acting a bloudy part and if the Devill be not in him he will see himselfe and his owne Actings in the Devill He will heare two men speaking to him from the dead also he will see all their notorious violences acted over afresh by his own hand now He must heare the voice of the Eving God too and see what end the LORD makes Those Persons all whom he and his fellowes have dealt so hatefully with shall be set on high before his face the higher the lower he would have pressed them downe there singing the high praises of their GOD and himselfe amongst others his fellow Malignants laid low as contemptible as their own dung gnawing their tongues for paine Whether he will heare or whether he will forbeare it is at his perill Let him that is filthy be filthy still and let the foole hold fast his folly sober men will heare and be instructed To the most Malignant Reader IT is granted on both sides there are but two That now is the time all over the Christian world when Kings go forth to battell All their Subjects are engaged now It is high time then to consider the Case weigh it well with all our hearts and with all our soules There are but two great Commanders in the world God and the Devill All serve under th●se two Another Commander there is we call it mans Will and boasteth great things but an underling it is and subservient obeyed in reference to the other two who rule in chiefe so the question is single Who must be hearkened to or obeyed Not whether Gods Command or mans Will contrary thereunto Though this is the greatest question in the world and most stubbornly argued nor will it be answered no not when it is answered and fairly proposed to every mans consideration judge yet so it was answered more then sixteen hundred yeeres ago therefore Act. 14. 19 it cannot be the question now But this Whether God is to be obeyed or the Devill I confesse it is a strange question But it were a stranger answer and argued more then a distemper in the brain To say That the Devill is to be obeyed and God is to be resisted And yet so much thou must say if thou wilt accuse Israel now for taking up defensive Armes being charged thereunto in obedience to God and in defiance of the Devill for this is the very Case which we will propose in Israels Case fi●st and anon bring-it-up to our times and make every line then run parallell with our Case now This was Israels Case All true Israel once tooke shield and buckler came in so armed to rescue David Did they well It must be granted they did well and their bounden duty in rescuing David and in him themselves out of the hand of a cruell Lord and bloody Edomite Indeed it would argue more then indiscretion in us to censure all Israel at that point for taking up defensive Armes though we could give no reason for what they did But the sacred Text is cleare in the point That the Tribes came-in not with an intent to resist Saul their King no nor the Edomite neither and that a Malignant may think strange being not like but the same now with the Edomite then a bloody adversary to Israel and yet Israel not resist him But to resist the evill Spirit commanding in chiefe with both This evill Spirit commanded in Saul else he had not throwne a javelin a● David quickly after at his owne son Jonathan nor had Saul after all this sealed a Commission to an Edomite to execute the pleasure of his owne will upon Israel 2. And the evill Spirit ruled in the Edomite too else he had not executed Sauls Commission to destroy a City of Priests man and beast there The Tribes then came-in not to resist Saul but the perverse will in Saul acted by the evill Spirit upon Saul They took up defensive Armes to withstand the notorious violences the astings of Sauls and the Edomites wills acted by their evill Spirits These outrages

he said again and again If it be so urged again and again we will grant it he was driven and B did not go but run which was Sauls case Certainly the Parliament did not drive away their King from his Court no more then David did drive Saul from his house but an evill councellour did it and away he goes nay he does not go but run for he must run whom the Divell drives and that was a sad ease we will note it by the way Saul pretendes that David sought his life and away he goes in pur●●it after David but when did Saul returne to his house Good Reader marke the answer and take heed of making that the cause of thy ●●ght which is not the Cause and so it fails out to thee that thou whose will carrieth thee from thine house shall never returne thither againe in peace It was so with Saul and that is the Answer he never returned unto his house in peace I say in Peace it is true there is mention a great while after that Saul after a conferrence with Davîd went home and 1 Sam. 24. 2● 26. 25. after a blessing upon David Returned to his place I cannot tell where or what that place was perhaps some strong Fort Castle or the like for war was in his heart so long as the evill Spirit was there and there he was though non-plussed then and silenced for a time But this is certaine where ever Sauls house or place was he had no peace there for surely he never ceased from persecuting of David till David went to Gath and about that time Saul heares a noice of a great Power comming against him whither of Israelites or Philistines I cannot tell But the sacred Text tell us plainly That he who ran from his house at the ●vill Spirits motion and the motion of his own will never returned againe in peace never enjoyed quiet rest there at home afterward This puts me in minde of a communication betwixt two great persons and a resolution thereupon Go thou one way and I will go another both their own wayes driving-on furiously towards a cursed end so they wen● on-ward setting their face against God and their back one to the other but never met again Truly it yeelds us a very sad consideration but this onely we will say touching the King driven they say from his Court There he might have rested within the armes and imbracings of his good people most quietly and securely there had it liked and pleased his Majestie best But his will seemed his best Councellour amongst the rest we know no other reason and he did otherwise and most contrary to his owne rest and quiet egged-on and acted no doubt by that evill Spirit acting most effectually and envying evermore to Kings and people all their rest and happinesse So he went from his Court and his good people or rather was indeed or too truly driven thence by the instigation of his wicked Councell and a common Adversary as aforesaid And now he lives as one in the land of Nod where he never enioyed himselfe nor one dayes rest and quiet ever since Councels which are carried headlong advised his Maiesty at that time to repair unto a strong hold O that they had told their Master where that strong hold was onely the Almighty God and next the peoples hearts there to make war with GOD and his good people So war was in proposition quickly great preparation for it then the sweet words wete all lost as the Proverbe sayes turned into gall or drawn swords This we shall read in the next Section where the language of the heart bloud and death is made legible to all the world in the bloudiest characters I will shut up this Section with the wise mans 〈◊〉 2● 26. 27. ●● proverbs Whose hatred i● covered by deceit his wickednesse shall be shewed before the whole congregation Whos● diggeth a pit shall fall therei● and he that rolleth a stone it shall return upon him A lying tongue h●●●th th●se that are afflicted by it and a s●●ttering mouth ●●●ke●● r●i●e Finis ● Sect.