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truth_n	believe_v	strong_a	unrighteousness_n	1,917	5	11.2143	5	false

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A76326	More sulphure for Basing: or, God will fearfully annoy and make quick riddance of his implacable enemies, surely, sorely, suddenly. Shewed in a sermon at the siege of Basing on the last Lords day, Sept. 21. 1645. Together, with a word of advice, full of love and affection to the Club-men of Hampshire. / By William Beech minister of the Army there, elect: min: of O. in the county of Suffolke. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Sept. 26. 1645.	Beech, William.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1680; Thomason E304_3; ESTC R200304	30,148	36

little Reformation hath beene furthered by the fatter sort of the Clergie There are enough to harpe upon this string I forbeare I will only mind you of Davids saying Had it been an open Enemy c. but it was thou my guide I pray God forgive these guides and for further satisfaction I shall referre you to a Doctrine and two Reasons The Doctrine is raised by Hosea Chap. 4. Vers 5. speaking there of false Prophets and people mis-led by them The point is Wicked men shall all fall the people by day and the Prophets by night The Reasons are twofold and rendred by the Apostle Paul The first out of 2 Thes 2.11 12. Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved therefore God shall send them strong dilusions that they should believe lies that all they might be damned which believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousnesse That 's the first reason because they would not receive the truth The second reason is Because they would not make knowne the truth Rom. 1.18 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse of men who hold the truth in unrighteousnesse They did hold it that is they did not communicate it to the simple for so some interpret the words or at least glosse them 2 Ans Or secondly I might answer and speake modestly that learning is not confined within the walls of Oxford blessed be God there are such lights this day in London and elswhere in obedience to the Parliament not to be compared with in the whole Christian world besides Object Can you give us any soule-satisfying grounds why we should use our clubs against our owne Countrey-men and not come within the guilt of blood Ans You may ground the equity of such an undertaking by the practice of the Israelites against their own Countrey-men and neare friends nay their brethren the Benjamites because they rescued and kept from justice the sons of Belial that had ravished the Levites wife Judges 20. Here Religion was not so much the matter in question as Common Justice which the Benjamites peremptorily denied to the Israelites hence the difference Israel takes up armes and encamps against Gibeah of Benjamin and albeit the Israelites were foyled at the first and shamefully too to the losse of forty thousand because they sought not the Lord as they ought to do yet as soon as they took the right course Phinehas the son of Eleaz●r moves the question whether they might go against their brethren the Benjamites or no vers 28. Shall I go out to battell against the children of Benjamin my brother or shall I cease and the Lord said go up for to morrow I will deliver them up into thy hands Where we see the Lord doth both owne and blesse the enterprize even against Benjamin their brother But the quarrell wee have in hand deare Country-men is of a different nature here Religion and Lawes and Liberties and the verie being of our English Nation lie at stake and our posteritie yet unborne lie a bleeding and I speak it from a sad heart if wee do not now quit our selves like free-borne English men for our Kingdome and for our Religion within lesse than a few ages the name of an English man will sound as bad here in England as the name of a Iew in Christendome or of a Christian in Barbarie I make no question unlesse you have stopt your eares as they say with wooll or corrupted reason with will you have heard of their motto's in the North Now or never Now if ever You may ken their meaning they cannot they must not speake plainer Object O but the King is engaged in the quarrell and shall wee fight against the King shall wee touch the Lords Anoynted I hope he is none of Gods enemies Answ The Lord be judge between him and us and the Lord judge where the fault lyes in respect of dutie There is a reciprocall answer of dutie betweene Prince and People as the people by the lawes of God and Nature are bound to render lawfull obedience to their Prince so ought the Prince reciprocally to be not only the Defender of the Faith but a Protectour of his Subjects everie Schoole-boy hath learned so much of State matters and of his Princes dutie that it is Parcere subjectis debellare superbos to be indulgent to his owne people and to suppresse proud Rebels we feele the contrarie Homer cals him the Shepherd of his people wee know the dutie of a Shepherd is to keep off the wolfe and other vermin from his flock and not to set them on and not to make way for the destruction of his sheep I 'le say nothing of the sending for the Irish vermine c. A good Prince is called Pater patriae a Father of his Countrey and Kingdome A father will love his children better than strangers will protect his children and provide for the future well-being of them sure hee will not murder them nor reward them that do so Have his children been undutifull No Was ever Parliament of England treacherous to the Crowne of England No Were ever children more observant and dutifull to their parents than they have been to their Prince No Have they not besought have they not humbly petitioned have they not wept have they not fasted and prayed to have him againe could more be done have they not undergone many brunts escaped many treacheries received many unspeakable discouragements and yet do they not still long for his returne do they not yet contend with God by prayer for him Brethren may not despised and cast-off England say of him Est mihi namque Romae Pater est injusta noverca Rome hath captivated his naturall affections and turned the streame from hence thitherward have wee not a cruell step-mother who hath taken him off from us and cals us Rebels and endeared him to her children Ireland France c. in aeternum eternally Nay have not all the Confederacie these many years kept Englands womb barren And no sooner was there a man child the heire the renowned Parliament borne but they sought to kill it that the inheritance might be theirs How truly may England say of Rome as it is in the Comedy Meretrix meum herum miserum intulit in pauperiem spoliavit bonis c. The Whore Rome hath robbed me of my Husband my Father widdowed my sisters Ireland and Germany murdered my children and have laid all the ignominious loads of treason and disloyalty upon me Well then let not that trouble thee We honour our King we fight for him we are resolved by Gods blessing it shall cost us our lives but we will have his love his presence againe We have covenanted with God to preserve him with his lawfull Rights and to rescue him if possible from their bloudy hands who have the dexterity to murder Protestant Princes and to make way for the happinesse of him and his

Deut. 32.41 42. J will saith God Render vengeance to mine enemies and will reward them that hate mee I will make mine arrowes drunken with bloud Cruell judgements So Psa 11.6 upon the wicked hee shall raine snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cup. 2. It shall come suddainly and unexpectedly Deut. 32.35 To me saith the Lord belongeth vengeance and recompence their foot shall slide in due time that is their fall shall be suddaine as the fall of a man when his foote slideth and downe he comes at once the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that come upon them make hast and so Psal 64.7 It is said of them that bend their bow and aime at Gods perfect ones that the Lord shall shoot at them with a swift arrow suddenly suddenly shall their stroake be And the Prophet Esay tells us that the multitude of the terrible ones shall be ●● the chasse which passeth away and it that is there scattering shall be at an instant and because they are a rebellious people and will not heare the Law of the Lord Esay 30.9 but despise the preaching of the word and trust in oppression v. 12. therefore v. 15. Their fall and breach shall be suddenly as the swelling in a high wall the breaking whereof commeth suddenly at an instant 3. It will be a totall ruine every one of all sorts shall perish these here all perished there was not a man left how long will yee imagine mischiefe against a man yee shall be slaine all the sort of you as a bowing wall shall yee be and as a tottering fence Psal 62.3 Their Pastors are become brutish saith Jeremy therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered behold the noise of the bruit is come and a great comm●tion out of the North Country to make the Cities of Juda desolate and 〈◊〉 Den of Dragons Will yee have examples they 'l affright you 2 Pet. 2.6 And turned the Cities of Sodom and Gomorah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow c. and made them an example to them that afterwards should live ungodly c. When God is moved and incensed against a people he commands an uttter extirpation of them Thus wee have a precept that when the children of Beliall had drawn any Towne or City or people to Idolatry the people were commanded utterly to destroy that City that people Deut. 13.15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that City with the edge of the sword destroying it utterly and all that is therein and the cattell thereof with the edge of the sword here 's a totall destruction commanded Will you see one or two executions You shall finde plundering Achan the troubler of Israel and his whole family executed Is 7.24 Corah and all the malignants with him in the same conspiracy were swallowed up Num. 16. and of all Ahabs family and persecuting house there was not a man left to make water against the wall All Bails Priests fared alike were all cut off and of all the wicked court faction that conspired against Ieremy the Lord saith cast them out of my sight let them go forth such as are for death to death and such as are for the sword to the sword and such as are for the famine to famine and those for captivity to captivity and though Moses and Samuel stood before me saith God my mind should not be towards them Jer. 15.1 2. 3. If it be so that the enemies of God shall surely perish Vse here is then matter of exceeding great comfort to the people of God in times of trouble that yet a little while and there shall be no more speech of a pillaging Cavalier they shall be all dispersed and destroyed This David teacheth they that hate mount Zion shall be ashamed and turned backward Psal 129.5 And God will arise and his enemies shall be scattered they that hate him shall flie before him Psal 68.1 This cordiall is to be applied to England in respect of the continuall working of her restlesse adversaries the Papists They brag in their talke saith David and swords are in their lips Psal 29.7 They imagine deceitfull words against the quiet in the Land Psa 35.20 They encourage themselves in a wicked purpose and commune together how they may lay snares privily but the word of God shall be true when they are liers they shall all speed as did the Midianites as Sisera and Iabin they may conceive mischiefe but they shall bring forth a lie 'T is true God hath suffered our enemies lately to take their pastime like the Leviathan in a Sea of Protestant blood here and in Ireland and hath let them loose to woory this secure Nation for their basenesse and beastlinesse for their oppression and neglect of Gods word and hath given up many of our besotted brethren to be led away with strong dilusions to believe lies because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved But shall they escape for their wickednesse do they think no God shall finde them out saith David The bloud they have drunk so greedily they shall be made to spue out againe But I heare an objection Object You preach of comfort that the people of God shall enjoy and of great victories over their enemies but where are these comforts those victories Is it not the fortune of the war to get here and lose there to supresse the flames at this end of the Kingdoms when they breack out as fierce in other Counties and Kingdom And besides have it not alwayes bin that the wicked have enjoyed many merry dayes while the Saints have bin under hatches even now do they not prosper thrive grow fat plunder and enrich themselves by others ruine Ans T is true they fare well and are well clad and many have bin their Halcion dayes This very businesse so pusled Ieremy that he expostulates with God about the matter but yet in very humble and submissive way Jer. 12.1.2 Righteous art thou O Lord saith he when I plead with thee yet let me talke with thee of thy judgements wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper and why are they blessed that deale teacherously thou hast planted them they have taken Boot they grow and bring forth fruit thou art neare in their mouth but far from their Reines The Prophet Habacuck useth greater boldnesse Hab. 1.2 3. O Lord how long shall I cry unto thee and thou doest not heare Even cry out of violence and thou doest not save why doest thou shew me iniquity and cause me to behold grieveance for spoyling and violence are before me and there are that raise up strife and contention therefore the law is slacked and Iudgement doth never go forth for the wicked doth encompasse about the Righteous Those in Malachy were more stout and peremptory did even mutiny with God that they had no better pay Mal.