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A93348	Great Britains misery; with the causes and cure. Described first, as it is from the justice of God the authour, who is now in controversie with the inhabitants of the land for sin: especially for eight capitall crimes, all which are aggravated by sundry circumstances. Secondly, the injustice and malice of the instruments of this misery, Satan and his agents: their main aime, and particular ends, moving them therunto. Vindicating, plainly and fully, (by way of answer to severall objections) the lawfulnesse and necessity of raising arms by the Parliament, and kingdom; for the defence of the King, kingdom, religion, laws, and known rights of the subject: against that viperous generation of papists, atheists, delinquents, and licentious men, who have at once invaded all. ... / By G.S. Gent. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4037; Thomason E250_4; ESTC R212534	90,980	68

that he hath increased their misery when lesser judgements would not humble them he brought greater till they were destroyed take a view Gods dealing with his people An example of Gods dealing with his own chosen people the Iewes Levit. 26. 17. Israel see first what he threatned to Israel and observe his justice in inflicting all that he had threatned because they repented not he threatned to bring upon them diseases sicknesse terrours c. if yet they would not hearken and repent he threatens to punish them seven times more breake their pride their power make the heaven Iron and the earth brasse if yet this would not serve but that they would still walke contrary to God he saith he would walk contrary to them and bring seven times greater plagues upon them according to their sinnes if that would not bring them to repentance and reformation Verse 21. he would bring the sword and avenge the quarrell of his Covenant Verse 25. send Pestilence and deliver them into the hands of their enemies make them eate the flesh of their sonnes and of their daughters destroy all their false worship and my soule shall abhorre you he threatneth to make their Cities Verse 33. waste and bring their Sanctuaries to desolation and scatter them among all the heathen Now aske but the sad stories of Jerusalem Iudeth and all Israel if all that Lam. 1. 4. Psal 137. Sec Iosep in war Iewes l 2. cb 13. was threatned came not upon them to the uttermost and all for their unbeleese and Impenitencie witnesse the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah the mournefull weeping Elegies by the Rivers of Babylon see Iosephus sad story of their misery when by seditious warre they robbed and spoyled all their Countrey and tooke away their goods under colour of justice and they that had not to satisfie their covetous desires were abused and imprisoned and the wicked seditious malignants within the City of Ierusalem set fire of the City burnt and destroyed their Magazines consumed men and meanes to support themselves against the enemie fill their streetes and the temple War Jew 1. 6. c. 1. c. 15. with dead bodies and no man reverencing the living nor burying the dead one sort of the living was desperately wicked the other driven to be wretchedly carelesse through dispaire Then extreame famine brake in upon them that men and women reeled like them that are drunke by extreame faintnesse and were glad if they could War Iewes l. 7. c. 7. 8. get the worst of excrements to eate and accounted mouldy hay and the lether of their targets good food yea women eate their owne children and were at last destroyed by their enemies their temple burnt with fire and their Cities defaced and layde desolate to this day and nothing left but a spectacle of pittie and an example to all others to take heed of Impenitencie and unbeleefe The threatnings denounced against them doe all belong to us our sinnes at this day are the same that theirs was we have had as many warnings as ever All the threatnings to the Iewes and the examples of Gods wrath upon them belong to us Luk. 13. 3. Rom. 11. 21. they had our mercies have beene no lesse then theirs and Gods hand hath been long streatcht out against us by easier judgements from time to time and may we not assuredly expect to be destroyed as they are thinke not that they were greater sinners I tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish if God have cast off his owne people will he spare us they were the naturall branches we as the Apostle teacheth but the wild Olive grasted in What could God have done more for a people then he hath done for us what could he have done to his vineyard that he hath not done for England he hath fenced it about planted it with the choycest Vine built a tower in the midst of it Esay 5. 2. 4. and made a wine Presse therein c. He hath dressed digged and dugged it as he did the figge tree and waited many yeeres for fruite that fruite of repentance and reformation but England miserable England is yet fruitlesse What can England expect but that fearefull and last sentence Cut it down● Luk. 13. 7. Esay 9. 14. God is now striking at the roote and will surely cut off branch and roote in one day Consider it ye people men and Brethren of England Scotland and Ireland you that are called by Gods Name you that are Protestants you that have Gods people must repent seek God or the Kingdome must perish Lam. 3. 29. knowne the wayes of God have given your names to be Christs and are in covenant with your God repeut turne from your evill wayes renew your Covenant of God prostrate your selves in all humilitie before God throw your faces in the dust and cry mightily to God who is mercifull and ready to forgive your iniquities transgressions and sinnes God yet hath spared you an oportunity he yet stands at the doore and knockes our day is not yet ended our sunne is not quite set there is still a moments time in our hand blesse Rev. 3. 20. God for that mercy and make present use of it let not God depart from you Wrestle with him like Jacob strive with him like Moses and speedily repent with Nenevie Nenevie had forty dayes given her we have had more than forty yeeres and are not sure of one day more than this present day yet there is Iona. 3. ● hope in Israel if we will repent God is able to prevent we have his owne promise from his owne mouth in answere to the prayer of Solomon if my people which are called by my Name shall humble their selves and pray and seeke my face and turne from their evill wayes then will I heare in heaven and will forgive 2 Chro 7. 14. their sin and beale their land here is the promise and the condition doe you but your parts and God will assuredly performe his promise to the full and will establish your peace and truth in despight of warre and falshood in whose hands or hearts soever they be cherished God will purge the land from Popery and Annabaptisme with all erronious sects and establish his Church in doctrine and Discipline according to his owne heart let me say to you as Iehosaphat once said to the people of Iudea and Ierusalem beleeve the Lord you God and beleeve his Word and Prophets and so shall 2 Chro. 20. 10. you prosper You ministers people of the most high God throw your selves before the God of heaven and make your supplications to him as Hezekiah 2 King 19. 14. did when Rabsheca blasphemed cry to him as Eliah did to shew himself let our enemies curse we will blesse let them blaspheme we will pray let 1 King 18. 37. them mumble Pater Noster and Ave Maryes numbring

and for the truth and power of Religion Ministers and Laiety calling them as Ahab did Eliah Troublers of Israel And as Saul through ignorance they through malice make havock of the Church accusing them by the Acts. 17. 19. names of factious men that raised new Doctrines which they cast reproaches Acts 28 22 upon and caused to be spoken against thus they Suspended Imprisoned Silenced and Banished our best Orthodox Divines men conformable to the esta●●●shed Persecution of 〈…〉 Ministers Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England not Annabaptists Brownists Famalists Donatists c. which if they had onely done we should not so justly complaine but choice Protestants men fearing God walking orderly warranted by Gods word and the Laws of the Kingdom onely refusing their new popish Canons and Oaths imposed contrary to Gods word and our established Laws yet now these say they fight for the Protestant Religion but as before to take it from us and therefore when former policies could not prevaile they took arms to cut off Religion and Law at once in destroying this Parliament by force and by the same force to make a Parliament The destruction of this Pa●● were the destruction of all They that were the Causers of the war in Ireland were cause of the warre in England of their own choice to repeale what Laws they please and to set up Popery in full power in all the three Kingdomes of Great Britain and afterward to suppresse the Protestant Religion through all the Christian world Nor let me be mistaken for I think not that the King intends all this but this is the intent and ayme of the Iesuiticall Plotters We see a proofe of it in Ireland They have perswaded the King to take arms against his Parliament by their unjust reports and false calumniations as if the Parliament would straighten the Kings prerogative and deprive Him or his Posterity of their just Rights and so they make it the Kings particular quarrell till they have made Him their Agent so far as lies in him and then they will not spare to destroy him if he hinder the rest that they have resolved upon God rebuke them and save his people The Parliament and with them all we Protestants may in the presence of God with upright hearts say to the King as David said to Saul in the like case Wherefore 1. Sam. 24. 9. hearest thou mens words saying Behold the Parliament or thy people the Protestants seeks thy hurt But we are all accused by corrupt Counsellors to our King as the three Servants of God were to Nebuchadnezer by the heathen ●an 3. 8. 12. Caldeans and for no cause but as they refused to worship and Idol so we for refusing to adore Popish Ceremonies and to give away our Birth-rights and Liberties And as Daniel by the precedents and princes because they hated him for his goodnesse and could find nothing against him to accuse him of but treacherously in the matter of his Religion Therefore they devise a way pleasing D●n 6. 3 4 to the King and destructive as they thought to Daniel in which all the Precedents Verse 5. Princes Governours Counsellors and Captains consulted together and come to the King urging Him to establish a Royall and firm Decree that Verse 7. no man ask any Petition but of the King for thirty dayes in which they pretend honor to the King and order in the Kingdom and the King signed it for He looked not to their private bloudy end Now they knew Daniel would be constant in Prayer to his God therefore they watch him and found him praying Vers● 1● so accuse him of the breach of the Kings Law and regardlesse of the King Then the King see his error and as the Text expresseth was displeased with Himselfe that He had made such a Decree and set his heart to save Daniel to deliver him but they urge his Acts which they say cannot be changed The King yeelds to them against nature both in respect of conscience and affection a weaknesse but afterward he shewed justice upon the unjust Accusers 〈◊〉 24. Here 's the authority of Sacred word to confirm the story and here 's the example of error mercy and justice in a heathen King who as Joseph●● relates ●xample of 〈◊〉 was by the Malignant Princes haters of Daniel urged to cast Daniel into the Lyons Den a second time alleaging as is usuall in such men to b●inde the Kings See Jos●pas in his book of an-tiquities Chap. 11. judgement that the Lyons were all gorged before and therefore had not destroyed Daniel Whereupon the King commanded the Lyons to be glutted with meat and then cast in those Malignants Princes to try if the Lyons would touch them when they were gorged who were presently devoured c. Hence may arise severall Inferences which for brevity I passe onely this by Inferences observeable way of instance First that wicked Councellors seek the destruction of good men more then the preservation of the common good Here is a plain instance Ester 3. 8 9 1. Sa. 2● 9. 10 Ier 20. 1. 2. of the truth of it as is seen in Hamans plot against Mordecai and his people we see it in Doeg against David in Pashur the Priest against J●remy and others frequent in holy Scripture Secondly that wise and good Kings may be intrapped by the snares of wicked Councells we have instance in this King Nebuchadnezzer so in King Ahashuerus to the destruction of his Queen and her people in Ester 3. 6 c. Salomon the wisest of Kings by the counsells and insinuations of strange wives in his son Rehoboam by the counsell of yong men c. See it in King James of happy memory a second Salomon for wisdom yet by the policie of Gundamores infusing a Romish Spirit into some of His councell which we beleeve he saw at last but seeing dyed c. And to the grief and great misery of His Majesties Subjects His Majestie is this day abused and His Kingdoms ruin'd by the same Romish Faction Thirdly here is instance of Gods protection to his people When Kings through Gods mercie for their errors and the unjust malice of wicked Councellors Example of gods protect 6 Gods people have present joy and comfort both in the State and in their own conscience al●o that the enemies of Gods people are cut off by the same judgements that they intended to bring upon the godly it was so with Nebuchadnezzer his Princes were e●ten by the Lyons but Daniel escaped Haman Ester 7. 10. Ester 9. 2. 3. was hanged upon the Gall●w● provided for Mordecai Mordecai had his honors and all they that took Arms against the Jews were slain by the Jews and the Iews escaped c. Observe that our case at this day is the case of the three Children of Daniel Mordecai and the Jews who may with good conscience say to our