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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27252	A view of Englands present distempers occasioned by the late revolution of government in this nation, wherein (amongst others) these following particulars are asserted : (viz) that the present powers are to be obeyed, that parliaments are the powers of God, that the generality of Gods enemies are the Parliaments enemies, et contra : together with some motives, ground, and instructions to the souldiery, how and wherefore they ought to subdue by arms the enemies of the Parliament in England &c.	Beech, William.	1650 (1650)	Wing B1683; ESTC R28903	51,490	140

spirits cry out against us Who were our Ancestors and what kinde of shape did they bear were they men or beasts If men were they Turks or Jews If beasts were they Wolves or Tygres that could find in their hearts to let our Liberties and happiness dye before them and expose us thus to be a by-word to all Nations and a proverb of reproach Will they not say Cursed be their memory and cursed be their covetousness and cursed be their negligence and cursed be their unnaturalness that might and would not save us that had power and would not use it to preserve us Is it not a shame that Christians should make such sad complaints against Christians O poor Church and distressed Spouse of Christ saith one Pax ab Extraneis pax à Paganis sed filii nequam c. Thou hast Peace with Turks Peace with Pagans but thine own ungracious children struggle in the womb of Reformation like Rebecca's twins and are bitterly enraged one against another Another bemoans our great unhappiness in this kinde Infelix populus Dei non potest in bono tant●m habere concordiam quant●m mali habent in malo The unlucky people of God as he calls them cannot so well agree in that which is good as the wicked can in that which is bad To act a mischief they can lay their heads together and reconcile different Nations to annoy the Church and people of God and yet we we must needs be divided rent and torn in pieces Here is the shame of England if you talk of shame The last Doctrinal Observation from the express words of the Text is this That these very enemies notwithstanding what hath been said shall be exactly punished in Gods good time according to this pattern of Midian Object But how can you ground this point from the words seeing they are rather like the Churches desire what they would have done then Gods purpose what he would do I answer That it is both a prayer and a prophetical Imprecation or Prophecy As it is a prayer you have the Churches minde as if she had said in plainer terms thus O Lord we have heard of thee in times of old how gratiously thou hast dealt with our fathers even in their greatest straits against their Enemies Even then Lord when they were in their greatest pride and presumption and namely how bare thou madest thine arm then upon the Midianites when they lay at the foot of Carmel by the river Kishon for number and multitude as the grashoppers How thou didst exercise thy mighty power in the overthrow of those innumerable multitudes by such weak means as three hundred simple men under thy servant Gideon and didst totally scatter them so that not a man was left Nay Lord how thou didst magnifie thy power wisdom and goodness together in delivering up the strength and multitude of the Canaanites unto the weakness of a woman even thy servant Deborah Nay that thou didst so provide for thy people that the valiant and renowned Sisera should fall at the feet of a weak woman even Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite Now O Lord true it is the Midianites are dead Sisera and Jabin are cut off but more are risen up in their stead Lo now the Tabernacles of the Edomites the Ismaelites the Moabites and the Hagarens These are as cunning and cruel and numerous and proud as ever those were and thy Name is as dear and thy people as precious to thee now as ever and therefore Do unto them as unto the Midianites But we look upon the words as a Prophecy for albeit they run in form of an imprecation yet it being considered what David was a Prophet we must needs think the ground of his speech was the certain knowledg he had touching the future estate of Gods Church and what would become of the enemies thereof For which cause he makes the desire of his Soul suitable to the purpose and determination of God For as David well knew and had said That burning coals would fall upon the wicked and that they should be cast into the fire and into the deep pit that they rise not again Psa. 140.10 11. so here he testifieth the fulness of his assent and desire that it should be so Do unto them as unto the Midianites So then because the Prophet here tells us that God will proceed against the Enemies of the Church according to the pattern of Midian It must be my work to shew you 1. Who be Gods Enemies And 2. What these Midianites were And 3. How they were punished This I say must necessarily be unfolded because the ruine of these is made a pattern for the destruction of Gods Enemies 1. Who be these Enemies In general terms they are Gods Enemies that hate his Friends as here Lo thine Enemies and they that hate thee How so They have said Let us cut them off from being a Nation They were Israels Enemies and therefore Gods Enemies by good consequence Thus Amalek was reputed one of the worst of Gods Enemies because his hatred was so desperate and bent against his darling Israel God is resolved to give him no quarter Exod. 17.8 9. He swore he would have war with him from generation to generation because he was such an enemy to Israel God hath Enemies of two sorts 1. Professed ones such as openly go about to extinguish the light of his Truth in the day time I mean that is so manifestly seen that all may discover their meaning to be so as if it were at noon day such of old were the Philistims the Amorites the Amalakites the Midianites These did oppose and hate Gods Israel then as the Turks and others do now to whom the very name of a Christian is odious 2. God hath closer Enemies too and these are such as do paint themselves with the profession and do shroud themselves under the name of the Church and of Religion but yet indeed are enemies to the Truth of Religion Now some of these profess a different kinde of Religion and do use another manner of worshipping God then the true Church useth such were the Samaritanes of old who after their rent from the Jews retained Circumcision boasted of their fathers and expected the Messiah yet were they not Gods people but were deadly Enemies to them and therefore the Jews had no dealing with them Joh. 4.9 Such are the Papists now who though they retain some broken fragments of Christian Religion yet they do hate Protestants and the powerful preaching of Gods Word amongst us I wish we had less familiarity with them we have payd well enough for it these eight years Other Enemies God hath in the midst of us of whom the old Complaint is verified O miseros nos qui Christiani dicimur Gentes agimus sub nomine Christi Wretches that we are we will be called Christians yet we play the Turk and worse under the name of Christ 2 Tim. 3.5 Such as