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A71208	A discovery of the rebels by J.V., prisoner.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. Great antichrist.	1643 (1643)	Wing V301; ESTC R20945	28,284	50

their brethren farre away from their houses lands and friends that they may seize on their inheritance But thus saith the Lord to you Cains behold I will raise them from the place whither you have sent them and returne your recompence on your owne heads and I will sell your sonnes and your daughters to the sonnes of Judah and they shall send them to the Sabeans to a nation afar off for Jehovah hath spoken it Thirteenth they are Traytours fathers betraying children and children betraying fathers to the death the off-spring of the Wolfe and Tiger and the wild beasts their kindred breaking the bonds of society betweene man and man and delivering men up to Magistrates and Rulers for a word and that in secret our Saviour prophesyed of these Traytors Luk. 21. 16. Your fathers and brethren and kinsmen and friends shall betray you to death do we not see this in these days of Civill warre a father will not spare his child a child will kill his father in battaile and if he cannot so kill him he will betray him to death by discovering his secrets or by false accusation under pretence of justice But the greatest Travtours are such as fight against the King and they pretend all this is for the King though his owne person have beene in imminent danger more then once these are they that call darknesse light and light darknesse evill good and good evill the use of this is made by Isay the Prophet say not a confederacy to whom this people shall say a confederacy neither feare their feare but feare God and meddle not with Traytors that curse their God and their King and looke upward for as it followes they are proud and heady and their councells shall be carryed headlong Fourteenth these Hypocrites are hasty in all their consultations without deliberation they pretended Reformation must be done in a day not considering the divers gradations of a Reformation Josiahs wonderfull Reformation was of the continuance of three hundred yeares the reignes of Asa Iosaphat Iehoiada Iotham Hezekiah Manasseth Iosiah and then also was but fainedly and not with the whole heart and for punishment of Delinquents they are too hasty have they never read of David what he said of the sonnes of Zerviah Ye are too hard for mee he would but could not punish these two great Delinquents except he had involved his whole Kingdome in a Civill warre as is now done lastly they are too hasty in their hostility have they not read that Israel lost forty thousand in two dayes in a Civill warre through too much hastinesse and precipitancy not consulting with the Lord and surely in this respect these men have cause rather of mourning then rejoycing Fifteenth these are lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God whence come these warres and fightings do they not from their lusts and pleasures that warre in their members their pride ambition popularity avarice for hereby their portion who were beggarly is made fat and their meate pleasant they live by warre therefore they barne incense to their net and sacrifice to their dragge They cry nothing but warre and bloud digge they cannot and to begge they are ashamed therfore they resolve to kill steale rob rifle or doe any villany to satisfie their lusts which they love more then God Sixteenth They have a forme of godlinesse but deny the power thereof they have a portraiture picture or delineation of godlinesse but no life at all therein Consider the particulars they give almes but it is to be seene of men they make long prayers but to be heard of men they fast but disgrace their faces appearing as sad when they are not what is this but a picture of godlinesse without life it was never knowne from the beginning of the world that a dead beast was offered in sacrifice to God but the Hypocrites present dead sacrifices to God Againe in their Sabbaths is a shew of godlinesse but no life for they say When will the Sabbaths be gone and like the Pharisees their viperous progenitors abuse the letter of the Sabbath against doing good they sit in Moses chaire to teach and to judge others according to the Law but doe the contrary and breake all Lawes they make long prayers to devoure Widowes houses they enlarge their phylacteryes of the hand and head there 's the letter but no power their heads are full of mischievous devices and their hands are full of bloud They are ever hearing and learning there 's the shadow but are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth there 's no power except it be over silly women as the Apostle here saith These Hypocrites intrude into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sinnes and led about with divers lusts This time is a plaine interpretation of this Prophesie Another power they have got likewise by the shew of godlinesse it is against the King like Janis and Jambres the two Sorcerers of Egypt that resisted Moses who was King in Jesurun These sorcerers were Hypocrites for their miracles were but glisterings and delusions of the eyes The use of all this is First our Saviour saith Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is Hypocrisie Hereby wee are most like the Devill who transformes himselfe into an Angell of light and hereby wee become limbes of Antichrist the first borne of the Devill who is the great Hypocrite That hath two hornes like a Lamb but speakes like a Dragon The second use From such Hypocrites turne away so saith Saint Paul avoid their society for they are selfopinionated selfwilled greedy of money proud unnaturall truce-breakers fals-accusers traytours heady fierce unthankfull popular unquiet haters of all moderate men lovers of lusts and pleasures and deceiving the world by a forme of godlinesse so that they believe Rebellion to be Zeale and Treason to be Religion Depart from me yee Hypocrites yee bloudthirsty men The Lord give us grace to depart from them here lest wee have our part with these Hypocrites hereafter in the lowest Dungeon of Gehenna from which good Lord deliver us by Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and holy Spirit be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS a Theologia symbolica non est argumentativa b Aliquid c A paribus imparibus similibus c. d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e Syr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 f Chron. 10. g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philip. 2. 2 Phil. 6. 7. c. h Syr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arab. to recover it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 k Psal. 110. 1. m Prov. 8. 1 Cor. 15. n Psal. 68. o Debellare superbos p Matth. 24. q Luk. 21. r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s Matth. 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theophyl t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 12. Arab. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

they shall declare unto thee the wonderfull Reformation in this Nation the slavish Invasion by Water the Hellish Gunpowder-treason by Fire and how God hath brought thee through fire and water wherein thou couldest not live into a moyst place wherein thou hast lived so many yeares in plenty but Jesurun hath waxed fat and kicked and for ingratitude is justly with a Civill Warre consumed Sixthly Unholy or unquiet and restlesse are the Hypocrites they are all for Warre and accuse Petitioners for Peace of a Carilinarian conspiracy it is God that creates peace man cannot do it it is as hard a work as the Creation Our Land is without forme and voyd darknesse is on the face of the deepe nothing is but confusion in our Church and State it is the spirit of the Lord that moves on the face of these darke waters saying Let there be light and there was light this light that God creates is peace secondly this peace is a fruit a fruit of the spirit Love Joy and Peace but whence comes warre and fightings from the spirit of malice and envy thirdly it is said a fruit of the lips of the messengers of peace How beautifull on the mountains are the feet of those into whose lipps grace and peace is poured fourthly God creates a double peace Peace peace nationall and personall which cannot be without truth but there are restlesse men whose sinnes torment their conscience and love no peace the Text saith They are the wicked emphatically remarkable wicked men these Hypocrites revile others as wicked when themselves are by the spirit of God styled the most wicked that disturbe the Nationall peace and trouble our Israel by killing and stealing They are like the troubled Sea that cannot rest Raging waves of the Sea foming out their owne shame whose waters rage continually and cast up mire and dirt into the Royall face both by word and writing Woe to these Sectaries of Cain who loved bloud and slew his brother and was called the first Disciple of the Devill Abel was a Shepheard and a man of peace and he slew him because his works were righteous These covetous hypocrites run greedily after the error of Balaam who would have cursed defied Israel for reward they shal perish in the gainsaying of Core who rose up and rebelled against Moses the King and against Aharon who was the Priest of the Lord so these endure neither God the King or any Ministers but of the lowest of the people To conclude with Isay There is no peace saith my God with the wicked these wicked will have no peace for then all is lost which they have spent in warre their restlesse disposition appeares in all the ensuing particulars they are Covenant-breakers False-accusers Traytors heady high minded c. of each word and so an end Seventhly they are Covenant-breakers they have made a covenant with the King and taken the oath of Allegiance but this oath they regard not they have their Pope to dispense with it Achitophel made a Covenant with David but broke his Covenant and therefore is accursed in Psal. 55. 21. He hath prophaned his Covenant Zedechias rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar the King who was a Tyrant also as they say when he had made him sweare by God and hardned his neck so that the wrath of God came upon them and there was no healing 2 Chron. 36. 12. King Solomon chargeth all Subjects to obey the Kings commandement and that in respect of the oath of God Eccles. 8. 2 3. but these urge the Kings oath legibus quas vulgus elegerit but themselvs keep no oath Besides these men make Covenants with the Subjects of the King and the same day like Jesuits break the same their Jesuiticall faction like Antichristians dispenseth with the oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance and their subscription was forced and therefore they revolt Deus bone is there any Religion in these no Heathen story is able to parallell their sophistication In 2 Sam. 23. 1. there was a Famine three yeares for Saul and his bloudy house because he slew the Gibeonites the reason was because of the oath of the Rulers though taken out of errour to avoyd the scandall of the Nations and the seeming not reall prophanation of the name of God but these Hypocrites are Truce-breakers and hold it lawfull so to doe Eighthly they are without naturall affection witnesse their zeale in killing and spoyling of Fathers Sons Brethren Sisters Kindred c. but of this before Ninthly they are false-accusers in Greeke Devills in Syrian Hypocriticall mockers at feasts that like the Devill their father tell lyes for morsells Psal. 35. 15. In my affliction they rejoyced the abjects viler then the earth they rent me with their teeth and ceased not they print preach speake lyes against the Lords anoynted as David was every day Lord deliver him from lying lipps and from a deceitfull tongue Tenthly Incontinent what shall I say of their incontinency both in the concupiscible and irascible no penalty is now inflicted and it is a shame to speake of the things done of them in secret Eleventhly these Hypocrites are fierce Let Jehu speak for them all Come see my zeale saith he to Jonadab he killed the King and Queene and seventy sonnes of the royall Progeny all his kindred and Priests and destroyed Baal out of Israel he would have no peace What peace as long as the whordomes of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many his Zeale was all for truth as he said so the Sectaryes and others are all for truth and no peace while Jezebel lives their driving is like the driving of Jehu the sonne of Nimshi for they drivefuriously or madly but when by warre and bloud they have obtained peace I wish they set not up a worse Idoll then they have put downe as Iehu their father did Baal was Mars the planet Ralbag or Iupiter Belus which Iehu destroyed and set up the Calves a farre worse Idoll and made the common people Priests so I wish that these set not up as they begin the meanest of the people and drive out the sonnes of Levi as Iehu did Twelfthly they are haters of good that is moderate men who are not carryed with their turbulent zeale by which many a good Ionadab is deceived and their hatred is irreconciliable to eradication of their familyes expulsion of their wives and children and banishment from Countrey and friends because they cannot endure to see them or heare of them and this to a politicall creature is worse then death in Ioel 2. what have you to doe with mee O Tyre and Sydon who have taken my silver and gold and brought them to your palaces and the children of Judah yee have sold to the Grecians to remove them farre from their border and doe not these haters of good men send