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A62380	Papisto-Mastix, or, Deborah's prayer against God's enemies Judg. 5, 31. explicated and applyed : in the Cathedrall of Saint Peter in Exon, November the fift, 1641 / by William Sclater ...	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing S919; Wing P311_CANCELLED; ESTC R15926	46,487	70

bowed to Baal and whose mourn neer kissed him 1 King 19.18 In farther processe of time in the dayes of Herod the King of Judea that leach which sucked the blood of so many tender Innocents there were found Zechary and E●izabeth both righteous before God Luk. 1.6 In short even under the rage of that wilde bore of the forest Antichrist himselfe Recel 11.3 God had as here in this story Deborah and Barack two witnesses to stand up in his cause And in those first times of but blooming Christianity when the Heresie of Arriu in those dayes as that of the accursed Socinians in these now overthrowing blasphemously the divinity of Christ like to that Pestilence in King Davids time spreading from Dan to Beersheba had infected the whole Christian world as S. Hierome acquaints us yet then God raised up the spirit of an undaunted Athanasius whose learned zeale backed by the countenance and favour of the Christian Emperour Constantine as the o 2 King 2.21 salt of Elisha healing the sickly waters about Jericho both affronted and put to silence the abettors of that horrid blasphemy and by his tears as by the bleeding of a chaste vine cured the Leprosie of that tainted age In a word though p Gildas apud Episc Usher p. 68 c. 7. of the Irish Religion Gildas the ancientest and most authentique Historian that we have complained that the number of good men were so exceeding short among the Britons in his time in comparison of the exorbitant sons of Belial who as the Caterpillars sometimes over Aegypt prevailed sofarre upon the Nation that their Mother the Church in a manner did not see them lying in her own lap albeit they were the only true sonnes which she then had yet sonnes she had still some notwithstanding who as some few solid grains of corne were fanned from a world of chaffe and esteemed by the Lord as the costliest r Mal. 3.17 Jewels and treasure of hat age Even as here in the corruptest condition of Israel there was found out a godly Deborah to deliver the Church and to sing praises to the Lord Jehovah Nor need we wonder at the observation Reason considering the infallibility of the truth of that covenant and promise which God hath made with his Church to wit That he would so plant his feare into her heart that she should never utterly and finally depart away from him Jer. 32.40 and that he had so founded her upon a Rocke as the gates of Hell should never be able to prevaile against her Math. 16.18 The phrase of speech is borrowed from the customes of those dayes when the Counsellors of a State or City were wont to treat of the affaires of the Nation in the gates of their Cities as we see Ruth 4.1 and the Periphrasis of such a Counsellor Pro. 31.23 and so of a simple man on the contrary it is said Pro. 24.7 He openeth not his mouth in the gate so that by the gates of Hell are meant the policies and subtill stratagems of Satan though they were such as had been by him and his agents plotted and consulted of in the priviest Counsell-chamber if so I may speak of Hell it selfe yet shall they never be able to prevaile Matth. 7.25 irrecoverably to hurt the Church no more then those billows in the Ocean doe upon the Rocks which return them back in froth without annoyance yea saith that famous Champion of it the great t Athanasius orat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confer Arch B. Vsher c. 6 s 6.7 8 c.p. 147. De success Eccles Christ Athanasius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The Church of Christ shall remaine as mount Sion u Psal 1.25.1 immoveable though hell her selfe and all the powers thereof be moved against it Behold as soon shall the smoake be able though it make a deally smother in the chimney-top to blot out the Sunne and to stifle up the ayre for ever as all the violence of Hell universally to extinguish the truth or Church Psalm 89.33 and John 10.29 And this meditation should me thinks Vse as Job saith God doth to the Sea set u Job 38.10 doores and bars to the furious x Luk 6.11 madnes of the Enemies of Gods Church in whose heart it is as Esay saith of Ashur to y Isa 10.7 destroy and to cut off Nations not a few When alas as soon shall the Earth become a Starre and darknesse light as Gods z 2 Tim. 2.19 foundation be overthrown Wee read in the second Psalme that the Heathen made a mighty tumult raged furiously and as that fly in the Fable upon the Axle-tree imagined that they had raised a smothering dust enough to put out the very eyes of Christs Kingdome and as for the bonds of subjection to his Gospell look as Sampson did his a Judg. 16.9 wit hs they will breake them all forsooth in sunder and cast away the cords thereof from them compare also Psalm 83. But what of all this alas saith David all this was but to imagine a b Psal 2.7 vaine thing 't was but as if the c Isa 64.8 Clay had contended with the Potter or a Pigmy strugled with a Crane For behold maugre all opposition yet have I set up Christ my King saith God upon my holy hill of Sion Those Neroes Domitians Diocletians and Maximians the bloody tyrants of the Primitive times can witnesse this who having made ready the d Psal 11.2 arrow upon the string and prepared the e Psal 7.13 instruments of cr●ell death yea even before-hand sounded the Triumph and engraven the Victory over the very f As of old Psal 83.4 〈◊〉 of Christianity upon pillars of Marble with this inscription Nomine Christianorum deleto qui Rempuhl evertebant but all this bragge of theirs was but as a blaze before their last light went out 〈◊〉 some bulging wall that was swollen immediately before it fell For what was all that innocent blood of Martyrs which they so violently spilt but as g Tertul. in Apo 〈◊〉 banguis est s●●nen Christianoram Tertullian saith the very seed to sow Gods h Psal 80.15 Vinyard the Church withall in which for one true Catholique Saint cut off many hundred sprang up afresh this Palme-tree the more it was pressed the higher it grew that Israel the more oppressed the more they i Exod. 1.12 multiplied and this Arke the more 't was tossed on the billowes the nigher it was advanced up to the k Gen. 8.4 Ararat of Heaven In summe when in the very last age of all Pope l Sleidan Comment lib. 1. Leo that tenth Lyon of Rome roared upon the Church of God and thought by his Anathema's thundred from his simonia call Consistories to have devoured it up as his Prey or else as sometimes those Lyons did upon Daniel to have m Dan. 6.22 fawned by his abused indulgencies upon simple ignorants and so

so long in comming Why tarry the wheels of his Chariots have they not sped have they not divided the prey to every man a Damosell or two to Sisera a prey of divers colours a prey of divers colours of needle worke of divers colours of needle worke on both sides meete for the neckes of them that take the spoile Alas alas Fond Atheists what Castles of crazy hopes had they now set up in the ayre What silly Nimrods were these to build up Towers of expectation that cannot but being against God prove d Gen. 11.5 9. Babels and their sure confusion besotted Hamans mounting up gibbets no lesse than fifty cubits high to break their e Ester 7.9 10. own necks Behold Sisera that great terror of Israel who brought so many hundred thousands into the field had ere this vain brag of theirs quit his Chariot and betaken him to his heels and those heels posted him to the Tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite and at her feet he bowed he fell he lay down at the feet of a woman a weak instrument he bowed he fell where he bowed there he fell down dead Loe there lay this proud wormes-meat sprawling with his head fastened to the ground as if it had been now listning what was become of the Soule against the hammer of a feeble woman was this guilded pot-sheard of the earth not crackt but broken In short he who was pleased to stile himselfe the mighty f Psal 24.6 God of Jacob that God of Israel who neither g Psal 121.4 slumbered nor slept in the dangers of his chosen h Psal 135.4 treasure this Lord of Hoasts sitting above in Heaven i Psal 2.4 laughed all his enemies to scorn and when their hopes like ●o the sins of the Amorite were ripe and k Gen. 15.16 full the Lord he had them in derision and by the hands of the weaker sex levelled the magnificence of a daring Champion with the dust Then Jael saith the Text Judg 4.21 Hebers wife tooke a nayle of the tent an took an hammer in her hand and went softly unto him and smote the nayle into his temples and fastened it into the ground for he was fast asleep and weary See here no ●ne circumstance about his overthrow is left ●ut So he died And even so saith good Deborah the Proph●tesse in my Text So let all thine Enemies perish O Lord but let them that leve him be as the sunne when he goeth forth in his might And thus have yee seen the occasion of these words in which as to my observation they occurre wee have two principall parts commended to our notice The division I. An Imprecation upon Gods Enemies So let all thine enemies perish O Lord. II. An Apprecation or an obtestation of good upon his friends But let them that love him be as the sunne c. In the former we have these particulars 1. The person implyed thus praying against Gods enemies Deborah a Prophetesse verse the first 2. The person unto whom she directs her Prayer The Lord. 3. The forme of her imprecation Let. 4. The title she gives those against whom she prayes God Enemies 5. The universality or extent of her devotion all thine enemies 6. The matter of her Imprecation Let them all perish 7. The manner after which she desires they may all perish So. So let all thine enemies perish O Lord. In the second Generall her Apprecation of good we have I. The Perip●rasis of those she prayeth for such as love the Lord. II. The Assimilation or resemblance whereto she suits their happinesse he sunne and to that sunne going forth and going forth in his might These are the parts and heads of my discourse of as many of them in their cue order as the time shall allow and first by way of explication and then of Application by Gods assistance and the wonted favour of your Christian patience THE first particular is the person that here makes this Imprecation upon Gods enemies Part. I. and she is Deborah a Prophetesse and a Mother in Israel Judg. 4.4 and 5.7 A circumstance remarkeable if we meditate the deplored estate of the Church in those times which as we finde by the story were most forlorn and desperate For nothing but Anarchy and Tumult now prevailed And indeed in the whole face of that age nought but botches and blains and ulcers could be discovered which so universally became contagious that all degrees of men were tainted and the issue of them proved so dangerous that from that one people then is made good that Maxime in Policy It s better to live where nothing hen where all things are lawfull for now were those dayes Judg. 21. ● in which there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eye And what was that which was then so right in their own eyes Read but the story you shall dye your cheekes in graine and blush Then it seemed right in the eyes of Micah to make himselfe Gods or puppets of his own and to keep a Levite to adore them within his own private walls Judg. 17. And if this seemed right to Micah why not also unto others ita quot l B. Andrews p. 52. inter opera posthuma concion Lat. in psal 144.10 familiae tot Idolorum portenta nova so that there were not more families then new monsters of Idolatry Then it seemed right in the eyes of the Danites not onely to pilfer from the private closets of Micah but to depopulate and waste whole Cities as they did Laish Judg. 18. Then the shamelesse ravishments of women as of the Levites Concubine seemed right in the eyes of the men of Gibeah Ju. 19. The story abounds with particulars all shewing the state of those dayes to be most loathsome and rufull Lo yet and see even in those loose and forlorne times there was a Deborah found out in Israel a grave and godly matrone fit to make a Prophetesse even Deborah the wife of Lapidoth My note from hence is this Observ That in the barrenest times of the Church the Lord hath ever had some to feare him and to stand up for his Truth And this hath been found true Proofe in the experience of all ages In the old World when a Deluge of iniquity foregoing that of water had overflowen the earth and all flesh had corrupted his way Gen. 6.12 yet even then God saw a righteous Noah before him and that emphatically even in so vile a generation Gen. 7.1 In the very Court of Pharaoh that peerles prodigy of impenitence and obduration there was found a fervant who feared the word of the Lord Exod. 9.20 so likewise even in Nero's houshold there was a Church Phil. 4.22 .. After this when Idolatry had like Naamans Leprosie overspread the whole body of the Church yet even then God had left him seven thousand in Israel whose knees never

makes f Isa 52.10 bare his own arme and getteth g Psal 98.1 himselfe the victory himselfe as if he stood in need of none no not of the meanest ayd and therefore is Christs victory expressed by treading of a wine-presse alone Isa 63.1.6 When there are none to help when the Church is brought to sorest extremities and greatest improbabilities of being saved yet saith one though multitudes meet against her as many as Grapes in a Vintage they shall all be but as so many clusters of Grapes He shall squeeze out their blood like Wine and make his Church to thash them And this he doth sometimes extraordinarily to shew himself the immediate author of the deliverance as when he discomfited the Hoast of the the Syrians by a noyse of Horses and Chariots of fire 2 King 6.17 and 7.6 as there was a h Euseb l. 3. c. 8. voyce heard in the Temple before the destruction of Hierusalem not more in likelihood to warn the faithful to depart the City than to terrifie the lewd inhabitants The story of our own Henry the fifth against the numerous Frenchmen who thought to have even crowded them to death is more known than to need relation Under the conduct of Germanus here in Britain who came over from France to subdue the Pelagian heresie which then prevailed amongst us against a mighty army of Saxons and Picts the Britons prevailed onely by the three times pronouncing the word Hallelujah which voice ecchoing redoubling from the Acclamation of his followers among the Mountains nigh to which the Enemie had encamped frighted them and won the Conquest upon which it was called i Vide Archiepis Usserium lib. de Britan. eccles primordiis p. 332 333. c. Victoria Hallelujatica and the story telleth us Triumphant Pontifices bostibus fusis sine fanguine triumphant victoriâ fide obtentâ non viribus The joy was in a victory gotten without blood-shed and that by Faith not by force Sometimes againe the senses of the Enemies are deluded as the Moabites seeing the sunne shining upon the water flowing happily upon red earth had their eyes dazled and so ranne upon their unthought-off destruction 2 King 3.22 23. And so also he made way to his indignation upon Pharaoh and the Aegyptians by rowling up the waters into an heap till they were all run full on into the very gulfe of destruction Exod. 14. Sometimes againe ordinarily but by weake means Thus Zerah the Ethiopian with his Hoast of a thousand thousand was overthrown by a handfull of King Asa for it is nothing with the Lord to help whether with many or with them that have no power 2 Ch. 14.11 And Gideon only with three hundred men and a with few empty pitchers and blinking Lamps undid the Midianites though they lay as Grasse-hoppers upon the valley of Morch Judg. 7.7.20 the reason is verse the second Lest Israel vaunt themselves against me saith the Lord saying Mine own hand hath saved me So David a young stripling goeth forth against the huge monster Goliah and with nought but a sling and a smooth stone smote that dread of Israel that he felldown like to an k Pro. 7.22 Oxe fatted for the slaughter at the feet even of a tender stripling 1 Sam. 17. So the wals of Jericho were thrown down with the blast of Rams-horns Josh 6.20 to see wals that seemed to challenge by their height an equipage with the Stars of Heaven a man would imagine no warlike engine of the most martiall ostentation enough to batter them but behold that God may have the glory of so great a downfall onely a seven daies walk about them with the sound not of any silver shrill trumpets but onely of Rams-horns instruments base for the matter and not loud for the sound this must doe the businesse for the Lord when he will compasse an overthrow makes l B● Hall Contemplat of the siege of Jericho weaknesse no disadvantage and very mean and homely are those means which God commonly useth in his most glorious works At other times again by ordring casualties and particular emergencies for the deliverance of his Church a thing conspicuous in the Histories of Joseph Eester in which book of Eester though the name neither of God nor Lord be found at all yet in no Scripture is there set down more wonderfull and remarkable passages and acts of Gods immediate providence for his calamitous people So that as a man by a Chaine made up of severall links some of Gold others of silvers some of Brasse Iron or Tin may be drawn out of a Pit so the Lord saith an m Mr. Edward Reynolds on Ps 110. ver 5.6 p. 499. eminent Divine of this age by the concurrence of severall subordinate things which have no manner of dependance or naturall coincidency among themselves hath oftentimes wrought the deliverance of his Church that it might appeare to be the worke of his own hand In short God partly by defeating the devises of the crafty partly by restrayning the power or over-ruling the malice of the wicked n Jud 6. confer D. King p. 56. Lect. 4. on Jonah chayning up even Satan himselfe by these and a thousand other wayes the Lord declareth his power to be more for his Church then all the Enemies thereof can be against it and therefore after Deborahs example here because of that his power he is chiefly to be sought unto in the time of danger Thirdly for Gods goodnesse and readinesse to relieve the wants of his children it flowes naturally from the bowels of his innate compassions and most render loving kindenesse therefore Luke 1.78 old Zachary calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thus when his embondaged people groaned under their Aegyptian burthens the Lord looked upon them and soon eased them of their sighings and o Isa 1.24 himselfe of his adversaries Exod. 2.23 24 25. see Psal 103.8 9 Mic. 7.19 Lastly for fidelity and faithfulnesse heare Truth it selfe to speak Matth. 5.48 the whole creation shall as soone faile as the least iota of Gods word faile of accomplishment yea in comparison of God every even of the truest men is a direct Lyer Rom. 3.3 For it is an impossibility that God should ly Heb. 6.18 or deny himselfe being truth it selfe 2 Tim. 2.13 As for man indeed wherein is he to be p Isa 2.22 accounted of whose breath is in his Nostrils whose fidelity and favour like to the reeds of Aegypt may not faile us only but run into our hands and hurt us 2 King 18.21 see Psal 12.1 and Prov. 2● 19 Confidence in an unfaithfull friend in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joynt For as there is no trusting to a broken tooth for feeding nor to alame leg for speedy journeying no more firme confidence is there to be placed in a wa●ering yeelding unfaithfull friendship Now in God his fidelity is like himselfe q Ma●

some fouly degenerous sons of i 1 Sam. 2.12 Belial whose exorbitancies reflexively occasioned the very k Ver. 17. ibid. Sacrifices to be abhorred by the Vulgar among the Apostles themselves there was a Judas who was so wicked that our Saviour styles him no other then a Devill Jo. 6.70 But there are also and I hope doubt not the greater part whose drosse is more purged and whose silver more * Prov. 25.4 refined Glorious Lamps blazing both in Life and Doctrine to the honour and renown of this famous Church of England One spark of a Diamond may be worth whole piles of Marble and the beauty of such eximious Worthies outvie the duskishnes of a few false lights however I should rather choose with that pious l Theodoret hist lib. 1. c. 11. Socrat lib. 1. c. 8. carranza in Concilii Niceni apparatu Constantine to seale up the unhappy distempers of the Church with a signet of silence and to imitate the good Samaritan in m Luk. 10.34 binding up the soares of my Mother-Church then to blazon her sears too much alas known already to the bellowing and unsanctified n 2 Sam. 16.5 Shimeis of accursed Antichrist to her shame or obloquie He I believe who loves with Shem to o Gen. 9.23 cover up the uncomely nakednesse of his chiefly spirituall Parent may not without hopes expect his heavenly Fathers blessing Though on the other side if there be found out any Achans who have p Josh 7.25 troubled our Israel if they be convinced let them be brought forth and let every one cast a stone at them that q Psal 85.9 glory may still dwell in our Land But for the Lamps of the Tabernacle that burn but dimly the Snuffers of a seasonable Reformation instead of Extinguishers shall suffice Exod. 37.23 But I come to my Parallell and here not to stand long upon the brick-kilns of Aegypt to which I might compare the Romishz Purgatory r Concil Trident. sess 25. p. 224. vol. 8. Catechism ad Paroch sub Pio 5. but that it is but meerly an Ignis fatuus chiefly the ſ See B. Morton p. 85 86. sect 2 3. c. 5. Grand Impost ex Agrippa de vanit scient Inquisition that cruell rack not more of bodies then of Soules The first sign shewen before Pharoah was the casting of Aarons Rod upon the ground so that it became a Serpent Exod. 7.10 What was this Rod a Type of but of that true wood of the Crosse of Christ as t Macarius Homil 47. p. 523 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Confer Pet. Galatin lib. 6. c. 15. De Arcanis Catholicae verit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Macar Macarius acquaints us which Crosse of Christ whilest they teach to be adored and cringed unto and worshipped whether in Timber or otherwise and delude so many millions of soules with the narration of the saving virtue of the very splinters of it sent abroad to their simple and abused Proselytes instead of informing them how the Crosse of Christ should not in shadow but in Truth be taken up by suffering affliction with Christ What are these but Idolaters direct Enemies even Enemies of the true use of the Crosse of Christ Phil. 3.18 So as that which to the poore deluded soules among them should be as a staffe to support them is like to that of Aaron turned by the Magicall inchantments of those Romish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichristian Impostors into a Serpent to sting them even unto death Secondly to the Lice and swarms of Flyes Exod. 8 1●.24 what may better be resembled then that corrupt Doctrine of u 1 Tim. 4.2 lyes which they forge and speak in hypocrisie bred out of the putride matter of their own ntoxicated heads putrifying as the * Eccles 10.1 Dead fly doth the boxe of sweet Oyntment the clear and living Doctrine of Salvation Thus by what they teach of natures power to move it selfe of it's selfe to Heaven what of x Concil Trid. sess 6. can 4 5 6. Free-will of works y 〈…〉 sess 6. c. 16. meritorious of workes of Supererogation z Bellar. Rhemist ad Luc. 10.35 and more than duty what of a Conc. trid sess 22. c. 3 sess 25. p. 225. Invocation of Saints b Ibid sess 25. p. 225. prayer for the dead of finall Apostasie and the rest of that Doctrine of Devils crammed in together in their Trent Conventicle and sealed up with an Anathema in eve-Canon They Vermine-like endeavour most nastily to pester the truth of c Rom. 3.24 Art ●1 of our Church free Justification by Faith only of natures d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Calv. Instit lib. 2. c. 5. sect 13. in fine Joh. 15.5 art 10. of our Church Nothingnes of e Jer. 32.40 1 Cor. 1.8 art 16. of our Chur. Finall perseverance the main proppe of a Christian in temptation and the rest of that f 1 Tim. 6.3 Tit. 2.7 8. wholesome Doctrine of life summed into the Articles of our own Church which we have all or most protested to maintain lately but chiefely contained in the g Isa 12.3 wells themselves of salvation the Holy Scriptures And by the Flyes I may w●ll resemble th●se tales and Legends and lyes touching the virtue of Beads and Medals and h Conc. trid sess 25. p. 225 226 227. Reliques and Roses and Crossings and Agnus Dei and innumerable bawbles of like nature together with other Trumpery and Trash fitter for Children to sport with in a winters night than for me to mention in this grave assembly What was that other than a base Lye which i Kellison in survey of the new Rel●g lib. 1. ca. 1. sect 18 l 2. c. 5 sect 6. ib. Idem ferè ac si familiaritatem cum Diabolo ipso iniisset dic t. Serarius Jes tract de Lutheri Magistro Kellison leaves under his scabbed pen of Luther the k Si Luthero faverem it viro bona quod fatentur hostes exactissimum approbandigenus Deut. 32. Erasm tom 8. Ep. Albert. Card. Mogunt pag. 401 worthy and stout instrument of the Church her Reformation that the Devill was an Incubus to his Mother or succubus to his Father and as Cochlaeus seconds him d●ed l Cochlaeus in vita Lutheri suddenly a violent and shamefull death when●e saith Costerus the Jesuite If any Lutheran be saved Tum veldamner ipse Then see his charity let me be damned O. the same bran is that of Calvin that he dyed as Antiochus and Herod after he had first m Bolsecus in vitâ Calvini called upon the Devils being eaten up of n Bellarm. lib. 4. de Notis ecclesiae ca. 17. worms But as all the skill of the Magitians in Aegypt Exod. 8.18 failed in the o Magorum potesta● defecit in muscis S. August l. 3. c. 7. de trin least