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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

all that has been done in favour and honour of David and his Court. It is presumption to judge of the Kings intentions to be so and so bloudy and destructive towards his Parliament and by consequence to his Kingdome when his Words and Actions were so clearly otherwise good pious and most advantagious to King and Kingdome To iudge his intentions now argueth rashnesse headinesse and presumption all three No it does not For we do not iudge of thoughts proiects contrivances B while these are the secret Talkings as was aforesaid and parleys of the minde for this were rashnesse and madnesse both because they are in the dark to us and indiscernable But we may and ought to iudge of them when they are made legible by the hand demonstratively known to the world in full Declarations touching the Army in the North and his Bishops also There are more Acts of transcendent grace yet behinde But I A will summe up all in this one The King has passed an Act for the continuance of a Parliament a fundamentall mercy and such an Act of Grace as never the like Act passed from any Kings hand Yes there has But let that go For we will thank God here B who can make a grand enemy to the Parliament and as great a Traitour to the King and Kingdome Digby I meane not Lord now but Nobile Portentum a Noble Monster in the Heathens account Nequit●a sord●●us imbuta Nobitia portenta ●al M●x lib. 3. c. 5. Josh 10. ●2 an active Instrument to work-out this grace and good to the Kingdome We care not what his intentions were too bad and bloudy and so they have declared themselves but we Praise we Blesse we magnifie the LORD Jehovah Who did as great a work at that time in our dayes as he did in Joshuahs day when He made The Sun to stand still upon Gibeon and The Moon in the valley of Aiialon VVe exalt and magnifie this God and so we are resolved to doe while we have any being and not to give any thanke to the kings Councellours and yet we will give the King his due for we say and shall make good what we say had this Act been from the King an Act of Grace there had been grace in it I mean he had given grace unto it by continuing a gracious aspect upon it and his Influence into it seeing it was not imaginable how he could in so doing wrong himselfe or preiudice his prerogative for it had been good for his Kingdom and that was the end then it could not but be good for him But that his People may know and be assured what grace was in that Act of continuing his Parliament the King with-hol is all grace from it Makes it what he could and to his power headlesse and uselesse he takes away all life and power from it so far as was in his power I beleeve the oldest man living never heard of the like of an Act of grace made so gracelesse And yet I think I have read of an Act somewhat like it and that was as bloody an Act I think as ever was done in the world and yet it seemed and carried the face and obtained the opinion in the People a little while of an Act of grace Thus it was Duke D' Alva all the world knew what he was had besieged a Towne in the low-countreys so long that the Inhabitants in extremity treate with him for their lives he shall have a peaceable entrance all the Ammunition and all onely the Inhabitants crave their lives It was granted their lives I meane and the People accept it thankefully as an Act of grace for life is a precious thing When the Conquerour a Tyrant rather was entred the city he keeps the People pent-up still and denies them bread and yet tells them he keeps Covenant with them and keeps himself to the Articles of agreement They have their lives but they shall have no bread for bread that was not expressed in the Covenant No O monstrous But it is boorlesse to cry out and dispute the matter now otherwise I could make this good at large as I shall by and by very briefely That the Conquerour granting them their lives did in the same grant give them bread too But the Lord has Answered this matter by himselfe so I will passe it over and apply it onely telling the Reader this first That this Act of Grace was so gracelesse that it rendered him odious to all people after this and did the King his master Philip of Spaine no small disadvantage too for it lost him a little Kingdom which neither his Sonne nor his Sons son could ever recover againe no not to this day They will not be subject to him who would give them their lives but no bread to sustaine life I will apply it so far as it fits to our purpose Truly this Act of the King which is so extolled is but too like this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mentioned life was granted why then bread too in the 〈◊〉 grant bread is denied a poor People why then life is denied them for they cannot live without bread though I read of a maid that did live without bread or meat and was named Meatlesse it is a loud lie told by a Papist amongst a thousand more after his manner I say life here cannot be preserved in an ordinary way without bread or something like it therefore take away bread you take away life so the King grants an Act for the continuing his Parliament an Act of grace indeed it is which lyes in this included in the same Act a grant of all things which lay in him whereby to make the Parliament succesfull and by necessary consequence himself happy viz. his presence the influence of his very spirits into it his free ascent to the passing all Acts tending to the forementioned end But his Maiesty seduced by ev●l counsell with drawes all this which is as bread to life as the Soule of a Parliament he withdrawes all and yet this grant before specified must be called an Act of grace No God knows and he knowes and all his people know there is no grace in it at all for he has withdrawne his gracious presence from his Parliament and influence thereunto as aforesaid No his Maiesty did not willnngly withdraw himself his Parliament A ●erced him to do as he did to withdraw from the Tumults about the Court and from the City Take heed what you say God the searcher of hearts ●ears us B what we say and what was spoken in secret is made manifest now and that which was hid is knowne and come abroad and the Parliaments A●● 8. 17. Righteousnesse touching this imputation and the Cities in●●cency is cleared at this point as the noone-day therefore pray let ●s speake and heare Reason Lesse cannot be said but what his Maiesty is pleased to say he did A not go from his Parliament but was driven so

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

it was by the Devils motion that David had no more time then to b 1 Sam. 18. 10. slip away and avoid the place so the javeline was smote into the wall And though this was twice yet this was knowne in the Court onely perhaps to some dwellers hard by It is as true also and as cleare every whit in the sacred Text but the people inquire not into that not what is written not they That an evill Spirit from God c 1 Sam. 18. 10. came upon Saul and that is reported twice too And this evill Spirit was so active in Saul That whereas he might have rested and slept quietly in his owne house he runs about tanquam ostro percitus from place to place for he must run whom the Devill drives and is restlesse in the pursuit of Davids soule so as Saul might say and others also and all say truly and the people might beleeve it too That Saul did not go away from his Court but was d●i●●n away he was indeed for an evill Spirit did drive him which is clearly written But I say the people observe none of that No● could they heare what good Jonathan spake of David unto Saul his fa●●er Davids works have been to-thee-ward very good he did so and so and so ● ronght a great salvation for all Israel wherefore then wilt thou si● against innocent blood to slay David without a cause d 〈…〉 ● 4. 5. The people A●l Isr●el remote from the Court heard none of all this they heard what a salvation David had wrought and they might think as Jonathan did judging his fathers spirit by his owne that Saul seeing that salvation did rejoyce thou sawest it and didst rejoyce Verse 5. said Jonathan so the people might think too and that David was in all the blame and Saul in none at all That David had done some great matter against Saul because Saul did so persecute him so the people may think and the people might very well be so deluded for Saul did cover his malice with faire words as a potsheard may be covered with silver drosse e ●● 26. 23 go and tell David from me said Saul The King hath delight in thee and all his servants love thee f 1 Sam. 18. 22. Nor could there be greater shews nor more lively expressions then were in Saul towards David nor were his shews greater then were the reality of his actions as the people must understand them We do accouut Acts of meere Right and Justice to be Acts of most transcendent Grace and so we can flatter but indeed the Acts of Saul towards David could seeme no otherwise then Acts of most transcendent Grace and that was the account that David himselfe made of them he was sued unto twice to be the Kings Son-in-law and David was exceedingly taken with it seemeth it to you a light thing to be a Verse 23. Kings Son in-Law seeing that I am but a pore man and lightly esteemed It made David quite forget that unkingly act of throwing the javelin at him And the people must needs be taken as much with it also seeing a poore shepherd matched to a Kings Daughter for the people could not tell what Saul had said in his heart I will give him Verse 21. her that she may be a snare unto him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him Note it by the way That this very snare wherewith Saul intended to catch David took Saul himselfe as we may read 1 Sam. 31. 3. It is ominous and a point of desperate folly to lay a snare for David But this snare was contrived in the Court and that which was said was said in the heart whose language the people cannot understand till it be made legible by the hand So much as was in sight was an act of most transcendent Grace True indeed it is and it is legible that Saul spake to Jonathan his son bad 1 Sam. 19 1. councell to a young Prince therefore an Almighty hand staied Jonathan upright conversing with such a Father and amongst such Councellours and to all his servants as we heard That they should kill David But this was not legible to the people it was a secret from the Court where David had a good friend Jonathan who will tell him all he heares and what his fathers bloody intents are that so he might prevent them Saul goes on sends Messengers to Davids house to watch 1 Sam. 19. 11. him and to slay him in the morning but his wife makes an ill-favoured shift to save her husband and tells a lie to boote So David escaped Psalm 59. at that time and makes a Psalme of Thankesgiving to the LORD after his manner so many deliverances so many Psalmes to call to remembrance Then to Ramah he runnes and Saul sent Messengers as fast after him and then came himselfe thither we shall read more of that in due place And now that Saul is at Ramah David flies from thence and comes to Jonathan he and David are made sure together and fast one to the other Marke it by the way Saul had his Scout to spie as you shall heare anon The LORD provided for David too he had a Spie at Court a fast friend there close at Sauls elbow Be thou as David was upright with the LORD thou shalt have a Jonathan a true friend at Court that is certaine I proceed The Father observes great signes and tokens of their love so his anger kindled against Jonathan and reproacheth him shamefully it grieved Saul that 1 Sam. 20. 30 31. David liveth upon the ground that is the expression commands Jonathan to fetch him unto his Father for he shall surely die Jonathan will see reason for what he does he will not run out of the Court gates to fetch David to his Father because his Father said David shall die Jonathan was a good man notwithstanding the bloody words his ear dranke in from his Fathers mouth continually and his conversing daily with bloody Courtiers God He onely keeps the heart upright and from pollution even there where Satans throne is there Jonathan was a good man and an obedient Son notwithstanding Object Nay but he was not you may say for his Father a King commands and Jonathan a son disobeyes Ans It is seemingly so indeed and as we use to say That he is an obedient servant who obeyes his Lord never examining what is the command and charge nor how unjust as the Kings Attourney did obey commanded by his Master to accuse the six Members sitting in Parliament of high Treason This was an obedient servant say we but what says the Lord our great Master in heaven I think the Judgement Deut. 19. 19 20 21. from the LORD is That this wicked servant shal be drawn first and hanged after For ye shall do unto this evill servant as he had thought to have done unto his brother This was