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A77380	Ioabs counsell and King Davids seasonable hearing it. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne fast, Feb. 22. By W. Bridges, preacher of the Gospell at Dunstans in the East, London.	Bridges, Walter.; Bridge, William, 1600?-1670, attributed name.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing B4484A; Thomason E92_21; ESTC R1548	15,640	32

ungodly quarrell Oh the wickednesse of this world No cause so ill or person so untoward that is or shall be without adherents as wickedly desperate as the undertaker can be in a case of mischiefe 3. And these (l) Ahitophel Sh●mei Z●ba A Counsellour a curser a cousener a party good enough for so bad an undertaking counsellers cursers colloguers what not We may see the old complaint too truly verified My Kingdom is not of this world c. John 18.36 All them that doe the Devils businesse shew their faithfulnesse if it may so be called the Lord Jesus hardly findes one to trust Concilium deforme voca● glomerantur in ●nū Innumerae pestes Erebi Quest this I am sure is a very sad spectacle to see a good cause have so few a bad so many friends But let us aske one question What marks or signes may be given for the discovery of and discerning betweene the good and bad cause side or party in such a sad spectacle of confusion 1. Solution Markes to know the best side in a time of warre 1. The M●rcy The best side is ever the mercifull side more sparing lesse cruell ready to say with him 2 Sam. 2.26 Shall the sword devoure for ever ready to doe like him 2 King 6.22 Thou hast taken them but smite them not set meate and drinke before them that they may refresh themselves and goe to their Master Marke this and where you finde it honour that side in times of sadnesse and combustion the worst Religion is ever most cruell Bastardly professions are ever full of bloud 2. The best quarrell is mixt not personall 2. Quarrell so God be not dishonoured sinne maintained they are ever as conscientious in laying downe as couragious in taking up Arms with such men sinne is a greater evill then warre and no shame like that not to defend Gods cause See Joshua 22.12 13. c. 3. Doth God give them victory 3. Clemency other men shall feele their clemency they will cause their enemies praise God they have and pray him they may fall into such hands 2 Sam. 19.23 Davids Cavalliers are under command If God will please to continue us yet under this sad condition as I am afraid he will these few rules I desire to present the people in a desolation publike 1. The Law (m) Jus legionis facile est 1. Non sequi 2. Non fugere bel●●m Veget. lib. 2. cap. 17. of warfare is especially in a good cause Doe not follow doe not flie an onset 2. Every spirituall warre consists in a conflict betweene the reason and the will Does ours so surely it doth 1. It is reason the Militia be in safe hands 2. Reason the Parliament punish grosse offenders 3. Reason men should part with some to defend all 4. * Matth. 13.41 Religion things be taken out of the Church that doe offend 3. God is a Warrier Allegory and continually fighteth against the sinner his enemy How does he defend Oh he is got into a walled Towne called Obstinacy the ditch about it is a great depth of sin the Turrets of those wals are pride and height of spirit but what are his weapons resistance of the holy Ghost and a wilfull extinguishing the light of his owne conscience his Captaine blindnesse and his souldiers in this warre inordinate affections his Counsellour is folly and his conquest hardnesse of heart with the forsaking of God and security Apply this to our present condition and you shall finde it to be Englands Looking-glasse The two next points viz. the battell and the victory yeeld us this That Christians ought in times of sadnesse to contemplate the actions of warre which are severally performed Doctr. 2 2. Things in war to be seene viz. on mans part the former for they can fight but on the part of God the latter he ordereth the victory God orders hereby our sight of things Reas 1 so 2 King 6.16 17. we see but halfe if we see man onely We see him taunting vaunting boasting threatning he will doe this and bring to passe that but we see God determining Esa 37.33 He shall not enter into this City nor c. God would hereby guide our affections griefe feare Reas 2 joy c. If a man see nothing but man he sees nothing but feare They enquire in Flanders they aske at Sea Are not all the Round-heads kild yet Cloisters and the whole rabble of the Romanists all contribute heads hearts hands purses and all to this warre yea Antichrist Tua res agitur is thy worke a doing But turne me out one of thy companions that can give the victory no that is out of all your reaches see 1 Sam. 14.20 It is God that giveth victory unto Kings Psal 144.10 God hereby orders his owne acknowledgements No sacrificing to our nets Reas 3 God will have the glory Exod. 15. and Jud. 5. are monumentall chapters for such a purpose The Christians contemplation Vse 1 here is matter for the most excellent understanding whatsoever and as Paul said to Timothy Ep. 2. c. 2. v. 8. Remember that Jesus Christ c. so say I let all be remembred but especially fundamentall truths There is a counsell well given Act. 5.39 yea and well taken too for vers 40. to him they all consented in what in this maine thing that if it be of God there is no resistance lest happily we be found fighters against God If I had such a proffer from the King as sometimes Salomon had from a greater then he To his Majesty 1 King 3.5 Aske what I shall give thee I would first defire the contemplation of my deare Soveraigne fixed on this point We will not remember misled Ahab 1 Reg. 22. for feare the parallel should not be good enough But we will thinke of good Iosia one of the best of Kings 2 Chron. 35.21 22. Leave off to come against God which is with me lest he destroy thee but Iosia hearkened not to the words of Neche which were of the mouth of God Next yee Patriots of our Countrey 2. The Parliament I shall desire your remembrance of this point that you may be called as heretofore in such times and upon such occasions as now be called I say the Parliament working wonders 3. The Kingdome Of you yee Citizens and Countrey-men I desire the reading of Iad 5.6 the high wayes were I say will be unoccupied but observe vers 8. they chose new Gods new Devils rather and then was warre in the gates The Christians consolation Use 2 Nec temerè nec timidè men and Christians too both or neither Hezekiah's method me thinkes is excellent When the Blasphemer brags tell God of him Esa 36.21 with 37.1 Say nothing to that blasphemer but as if they should say Sirra we will complaine of you to one that shall take you to taske an excellent course be you carefull in nothing that is unbeleevingly distrustfully so

And Act. 20.24 My life is not deare so I may carry on the service a little What need men venture their neckes their lives to defend the cause Oh their conscience and the Commandement of God Gods Spirit the Churches ruine all concurre and become mightily yea irresistibly operative for the publique God gives another Spirit as to Caleb Numb 14.24 Reason 2 The River of Jordan turned our of its course to Pella a yeare together a Comer like a flaming Sword over Jerusalem Ar Sacrifice a Calfe brought forth a Lambe See Eusebius others Gives warnings as to Hierusalem fils the Aire with sights and Comets As the Cockes crow loud and thicke before a storme so these before a Judgement This begges excuse for us others all well-affected sympathizing ones in times of sadnesse Not so much manners discretion For believe it Honorable and well-beloved in Jesus Christ they cannot helpe it sometimes And marke the instance Amos 7.13 Note Prophesie no more at Court No See ver 16 17. He that sayes so and dares to silence the Lord of Hoasts his Wife shall be a Whore in the City and his children shall fall by the sword c. v. 17. But let us see the parts of the Kings chiding First His blame is plainely laid downe David was a very happy King here in the plaine dealing of Joab elsewhere in Nathan Kings are not more unhappy in any thing then this their flatterers and falsifyers with their entertainment reward hearing But is it true that Joab charges the King withal The Lord forbid that anything but truth should be charged upon the Lords Anointed Then for Answer 1. Simply and by it selfe David really hated to shame them that preserve him and his 2. But it is by accident thus as if Joab had said Sir I perceive there are in your heart two things in great competition striving for preheminence your Absolom first and then your People Now because he hath gotten so much of your heart therefore we get so little And thus Joabs charge is true laid to the King and thus may the Subjects charge against the King be true if lying under the like cause of complaint But the second part is Joabs Demonstration In that thou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy Friends Is this tiue Yes with this qualification 1. Negatively I doe not say alwayes you doe so but in this particular 2. Not in all particulars neither but in particulars of * No miserv greater to us in this sad time then this Religion is in competition with Barbarisme purity with popery he latter hath store of carnall men for it for they love it the former seene and loved of few therefore of few imbraced competition q.d. Joab Sir your Absolom and your Adonijah you may love them wel but not better then your own peace your owne people If the Queene of your bosome stand in competition with your Kingdome your people you must not love her better then us then it Sapientia optime cernitur in comparatis I conclude this with a History I have read the Emperour * Turk history was charged with defect and want of care in government by his Nobles and Princes moved thereto as they alledged by the too much love of a Lady his Concubine Whom in a great assembly the Emperour shewed to all his people on a time and they concluded that in regard of her excellent beauty they could not blame him for being misled by her and so were contented But saith he that you may know how little I regard her in comparison of you he drew his cemyter and kild her before them all If our Religion had stood in competition with any thing but Popery our Parliament with any thing but the Gentry and Delinquents they had never been so neare a miscarriage But the third part is Joabs humble request Now therefore c. It is in a triplicity First Surge you are falne Sir very low a King of others and not of your selfe how shall you rule their passions that cannot guide your owne Secondly Egredere you are in prison the worst of prisons Mens captiva manet a bird may be kept so long in the cage that at length she will not out though the doore be open Thirdly Loquere super cor speak comfort we have heard sorrow enough we desire now comfort and it is onely to be had in you and with a word a comfortable aspect upon your people you may give it them And the fourth part is Davids great danger if this be not done viz. the Peoples desertion But who shall apply this Who may Who dare First Let it be applyed to our David and tell him ye pillars of the People first Then bring it swiftly to him some of you also ye Charets and Horsemen of Israel that there are but two governments Two kinds of government First as the Soule governes the body Secondly as the reason the appetite Our Kings government is not like the first he cannot enliven us as the Soule doth the body Then let it be like the second as the reason doth the appetite how is that by commanding reasonable things Secondly And take heed you speake our sense We doe not * The Mother of Artaxerxes had wont to say that they that would addresse themselves to Princes must use 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Silken words Plut. Apophtheg we dare not thinke his Sacred Majesty doth intentionally hate his friends and love his foes but that something is unhappily got in competition with us which yet God hath not discovered to him Thirdly And let this be done dutifully humbly in a Subjects posture and as to a David indeed Fourthly And yet so boldly that you propound the danger with this direction also which is none of mine Scopus nostrae professionis est ut c. the scope of our Profession is that we be obedient to all Superiours so long as this obedience brings no detriment to the Soule but if it come to this we must dare to use our owne Liberty Epist Synod cuinomen Libellus supplex vide Tom. 1. Fol. 803. Conc. Ephes The seventh part the event on the Kings part he comes to the place of Judicatory on the Peoples part they come to the place of auditory The retractations of publique persons Doctr. 5 as Kings c. are exceeding attractive like the great wheele in the watch Instan 2 King 22.12 There is a concurrence and commoving in Reason 1 and with such actions before goeth Davids action after comes the peoples affection a heavenly order so dealeth God with his People as you may see Psal 116.1.8 9 10 11 12 19. and 2 Chron. 15.8.12.16 The King shewes himselfe zealous of their good the people shew themselves as zealous of his glory he Crownes their desires they his Temples There is a seasonablenesse Reason 2 in this retractation of David which is observable before the mischiefe grow too bigge before the Devill tempt before the heart be hardned before the approach of flattery or evill counsell the good God suggesteth and the good David obeyeth to returne to his People that they may returne to him c. Pray for audience in this particular Use 1 this day of God and of the King In relation to us they are Gods our Governors I meane but in relation to God they are but men First Present good viz. that of retractation in things amisse that they owe to us Secondly The future good that of submission and obedience that we owe to them With them both and with all those things which make to the best and blest establishment of Peace and Truth amongst us the Lord of Heaven be intreated to blesse both the King and People in this much distracted Kingdome for his deare Sons sake Amen FINIS