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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66985	A sermon preach'd January XXX. 1684/5 being the fast for the martyrdom of King Charles I of blessed memory / Benjamin Woodroffe ...	Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing W3469; ESTC R10607	19,085	44

Jeroboam the Son of Nebat who made Israel to sin This was the pulling up the Sluce that let in all the Inundation that afterwards over-flowed them this so black a Stain that no length of time no possession of the Crown could ever purge it for so the Holy Ghost tells us v. 19. That Israel rebelled against the House of David to this day And the continuing in this Sin and the fatal consequents of it was that which at last made them to be cast off by God deliver'd into the Hands and Power of the Assyrian and as to any Account we have of them ever since lost from being so much as a People in that Captivity for now as 't is Hosea 1. 6. they became Lo-Ruchama and Lo-ammi v. 9. no more either his beloved or his People to shew them their Sin in the Punishment of it they who revolted from their lawful Sovereign and their God were to abide many days without a King without a Prince and without a Sacrifice and without an Image and without an Ephod and without Teraphim Hosea 3. 4. Without any establish'd Government without any the least shew the very counterfeit dress and surface of Religion and when to be restored it will be only by returning to their Allegiance to the Posterity of David as it follows v. 5. and afterward shall the Children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their King But if this be so great a Guilt how comes God to declare he doth it upon the occasion of Rehoboam's taking Arms to reduce the Rebels and bring back the Kingdom again to Judah 1 Kings 12. 21. 24. that the thing was from him I answer 'T is one thing for God to approve another to permit any Action 1. 'T was from him as thereby the House of Solomon was to be punish'd for their own Rebellion against God in forsaking him and worshipping Idols 1 Kings 11. 33. 'T was from him as their not walking in his ways to do that which was right in his eyes had exposed them to his just Judgments 2. 'T was from him as by his Providence as he had purpos'd to over-rule their Sin to his own Glory 3. 'T was from him and therefore not to be punish'd by their Sword as he would take to himself to repay the Vengeance that was due to so notorious a Revolt as he did by those many Severities inflicted on them by those many Changes of the Succession no less than nine or ten times whilst they continued to be a Kingdom and People to see if any pouring them from Vessel to Vessel would cleanse them from their Dregs and when that could not be by giving them up the greatest Judgment that can befall any Nation to that Anarchy and Confusion they so much affected But however 't was just in God thus to treat one and the other to punish Judah by Israel's Rebellion this will in no case excuse the Actors no more than it will acquit the Devil of his implacable Malice that whom he seduces by his Temptations he is likewise appointed to be the unhappy Instrument 't is his Doom as well as his Nature to torment But might not some great Indignity put on Jeroboam some very signal Disobligation stirring up a Man of publick Spirit justifie his utmost Resentments Might there not be some publick Grievances that were necessary to be redressed Or Might not Religion be called in to assist in so good a Cause Let us see then what stands upon Record in these Matters for 't is the common case of most Traitors and was theirs who contrived and acted the black Tragedy of this day 1. As to the great Indignity put on Jeroboam the very signal Disobligations he had from the Government and what moved his publick Spirit you have the History 1 Kings 11. 26. And Jeroboam the Son of Nebat Solomon's Servant even He that 's the Emphasis the Holy Ghost puts on it He who stood in so near a Relation of personal Duty and stricter Attendance to his Master who was of his constant and daily Guard as every Domestick to a Prince is even he lift up his hand against the King And this was the Cause that he lift up his hand against the King Solomon built Millo and repaired the Breaches of the City of David his Father 't was a Distaste taken at the Strength and Security of his Prince the Envy he had at his Greatness and Power for we find very little Oppression or Injustice charged on Solomon's Reign Indignities and Disobligations he had received none from Solomon till he stood in open Defiance and Rebellion All that Solomon was faulty herein was his advancing Jeroboam to that Dignity whereby he began now to think himself a Match for his Prince v. 28. He had made him Ruler over all the Charge of the House of Joseph so dangerous is it to raise men of turbulent and ambitious Minds that like Lucifer presently Ascendam ero similis altissimo I will ascend and be like the most high is what comes next into their Thoughts Their Heighth makes them giddy and every thing turns round about with them their Glory only fits them 't is the Pattern the Son of the Morning hath left his Followers to be greater Devils 2. As to the publick Grievances necessary to be redressed for 't is pity there should not be some colour for so brave an Attempt what were they We must again consult the History as 't is related 1 Kings 12. 4. and the whole Complaint summ'd up in that grievous Yoke Solomon had put upon them and what that was you have at large 1 Kings 4. 7. c. 'T was only the more regular ordering of his Kingdom and Family 't was his settling his Dominion abroad and securing to them Peace and Plenty at home 't was his making Judah and Israel to dwell safely every man under his Vine and under his Fig-tree from Dan even to Beersheba v. 24. 25. Their great Grievance was That the Wisdom of God was with him ch 3. v. 28. that according to that Wisdom he framed those steddy Rules of Policy which the Sons of Belial who were for casting off every Yoke whose dissolute Lives could bear no Restraint could not withstand And how clamorous and noisy are they presently in their Complaints how diligent to find a fit Person to head the Faction and who so fit as a discontented Courtier a disobliged Favourite Jeroboam must be called home from Egypt 1 Kings 12. v. 3. A Fugitive presently adopted into a Patriot and none so proper to assert the Rights and Liberties of the People as one who by his Rebellion had forfeited all his own These are their intolerable Grievances and not to be redressed but by destroying Root and Branch Rehoboam is the present Oppressor his Father Solomon made the Yoke and David's Name too must be brought in to encrease the Odium v. 16. What Portion have we in David neither have we