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A45169	Havel havalim, or, Persecution for conscience sake most vain, cruel, and destructive to the promoters and abettors of it, demonstrated in a discourse from Matth. 2, 16, 17, 18, and humbly presented to the consideration of all, but especially diis terrenis or the magistrates, from Gods Word for their information, beseeching them to permit Jesus Christ the sovereign rule o'er the kingdoms of conscience while he permits them to rule the bodily state / by John Humphreys.	Humphreys, John, b. 1637.	1682 (1682)	Wing H3722; ESTC R27617	9,297	18

and mark that word Jer. 31.17 where in the capital comfort lies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Signifies At the end of the World in the last times of it that is in this new state in Christs Kingdom thou shalt see them again In tuo novissimo spes est There is hope in thy end that is in the Resurrection and Kingdom of Christ she shall see them that are Gods Elect and had the Holy Ghost not capable of dying or being slain any more but in full perfection and incorruption 1 Cor. 15. This being believed it palliates and contemns Death rather than maketh afraid of Death FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pro Rege Regno Preces O Deus judicia tua Regi da justitiam tuam filio Regis Fac eum populum tuum adjudicandum justè pauperes tuos jure Fac tu justum temporibus ejus ad storendum pacis etiam amplitudo donec non sit Luna Et dòminabitur à mari uno ad alterum à flumine qu●quo ad fines terrie fac Jehova Ad incurvandum ei omnes Reges Potestates ac omnes gentes servient ei Deus gratiam faciat nobis benedicat nobis regno Sponsae Christi illustres faciem tuam erga nos maximé A Prayer for the King and Kingdom O God give thy Judgments to the King and thy righteousness to the Kings Son Cause him to judge thy people justly and thy poor righteously Let righteousness flourish in his days and abundance of peace while the Church endures upon earth Let him rule from Sea to Sea and from the Rivers unto the ends of the Earth Let all Kings and Princes bow before him and all Nations serve him O God let thy favour be shewn to us bless us and the Kingdom with the Church of Christ and make thy face to shine upon us for ever Amen Postscript TO all Christian Magistrates and Ministers the Author of this Book most humbly addresses himself who acknowledges that he is Misiorum postremus the least of the least What was said of the King of Cappadocia in Horace may be said of Jesus the King of the poor suffering Saints Mancipiis locuples egit aeris Cappadocum Rex He hath many poor suffering Servants but little Money First I humbly crave your pardons for any thing that may seem in me presumptuous or wherein I have missed the truth Also I do protest for my self and I humbly conceive I may for many thousands more that it is not in any contempt of the Kings Laws and Authority that we worship God without the Forms and Modes by men imposed but truly for conscience sake as fearing the great God who is still maxima potestas the highest power And for my self since the Year 1664 I might have had many Preferments in the Church as 100 l per ann if I would have conformed and have underwent many trying Dispensations both from false Friends false Brethren and private and publick Enemies which might have provoked me to accept of Honour and Preferment had not the Word of the Lord and a tender Conscience stood in my way for which I bless the Lord. I acknowledge Christs merits and righteousness imputed to us of mere mercy and divine love and received by the saith of the operation of God for my Justification and Life the Holy Spirit within and the Word without for the rule of my Life and inherent Sanctification I acknowledge a Holy Catholick Church dispersed militantly through the whole world which shall be gathered together into one at the second coming of Christ I approve teach and practise all conscientious obedience to Kings and all Magistrates till Christs second coming before whom the Kings shall vail their Crowns I approve of a regular and Gospel Ministry in the Church being my self ordained by Imposition of Hands in the Church of England having the spirit of grace and ordinary acquired gifts and the Authority of the Spirit by Imposition of Hands by the Presbytery 1 Tim. 4.14 I am not against Superintendents and such Prelacy as Timothy and Titus had in the Church of Christ I am for Peace for Liberty of Conscience according to the Word for Truth and His Majesty's long life and felicity Amen FINIS

them their way to Heaven Exod. 17.12 Psal 106.23 Jonathan being often incited by his Father to kill David 1 Sam. 20.2 protests Davids innocency though Saul persuaded him that Davids Glory could not be without Jonathans ruine and would not be drawn to do it And if he would not compass such a mischief at the Edict of Saul which had a threefold force in it First as proceeding from his Father Secondly from his Sovereign Thirdly being joyned with the temptation of a Kingdom much less are we to gratifie the State with the affliction of Gods Saints for we must rather Acts 4.19 obey God than Man Yet disobey not the Prince for his Commandment stands on these two feet either to do the thing or sustain the punishment for not doing it Doct. 4 Fourthly observe that as soon as Christ is born there is trouble and commotion civil and forein wars yet is not Christ the cause of it but the wickedness and perversness of Herods heart For righteousness must not yield to iniquity and Christ must be born and being born must reign If he be born in thee and thy Herods cursed subtil beastly whorish Heart and fleshly Interest Profit and Pleasure gilt o'er with a formal whorish profession be ready by subtilty or force to murder the Babe and Royal Seed as certainly thou dost mystically as well as Herod outwardly why yet he will escape into * Into Egypt that is mystically into dark appearances and wilderness condition Hos 2.14 and and there when he hath slain thy Herod thy dearest lusts and fleshly subtil wisdom then will he speak comfortably to thee that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to or in thy Heart and Soul to thy everlasting peace and satisfaction for ever Egypt and stay there till Herod be dead and he will and must reign at last o'er all that is in thee or else he is never born in thee And though the Devil rage and the World swell certain it is there is no such peace as this of Christs reigning in thy Soul It teaches peace between God and Man between Man and Man between Man and his inward Soul and makes the Wolves to become Lambs and thy Wolfish nature to turn to that of the Lambs and causes the Lion to lodge with the Lamb. But Heroa would have the Gospel abolished and Christ murdered which cannot be Shall Dagon yield to the Ark or the Ark to Dagon 1 Sam. 5.3 Shall the 10 Tribes go to Juda or Juda to them Herod loves not Christ therefore he murders the Children If Herods Crown cannot stand with the Government of Christ well may he harbour Murder in his thoughts against him but it shall fall on his own head For God will watch over his own Son and fight for his own truth and preserve as the Apple of his own eye his elect and truly redemed who shall have Christs Image in them and the Devils defaced So as where the true Protestant Scriptural Religion and Justification by Christs imputed righteousness alone Doctrine of Free Justification in King Edward and Queen Elizabeths days established by Act of Parliament without works but by Christs righteousness imputed and received by faith received by Faith and declared by good works to men through the Spirit and where this hath been granted by Parliament and suppressed by private commandment there may the Subjects stand on the part defensive to ward the blow being smitten But if it hath not been established by publick Authority then may they not take Arms to set it up though Gods real Truth and Gospel but suffer for it Out of the Murder it self we gather that though many be slain yet Christ escapeth And that in the greatest persecution yet Christs Religion shall never be abolished because Christ liveth Christ lives and I live yet not I but Christ in me Gal. 2. When Jezabel thought she had had her hands full of Bloud and had rooted out all the Lords Prophets and visibly scarce a Face to be seen so as Elijah thought himself to be left alone 1 Kings 19.18 yet says God I have reserved 7000 that have not bowed a Knee to Baal And when by scattering the Sheep and smiting the Shepherd Zach. 13.7 the Devil thought himself flush and that by Christs Sleep in the earth he had utterly stung him to destruction then was his Resurrection most glorious and then did the Churches of Christ increase daily For such is the nature of the Gospel that the more it is trodden down the higher it riseth and all the Powers of Earth or Hell that ever stood against it have in all Ages and ever shall be either won by it or ruined by it For the more it is maligned the broader it spreadeth and when it seemeth to be dead then is there most life in it Sanguine fundata Ecclesia sanguine crevit Sanguine tam illa vicit sanguine finis erit The third point which is the Prophecy Jer. 31.15 is to declare the greatness of Gods mercy in the delivery of the Jews and sheweth them that they were like to the Benjamites or Israelites that is utterly destroyed and carried away insomuch that if Rachel the Mother of Benjamin could have risen again to seek for her Children she might have wept for want of them but she should have found none remaining This does the Spirit bring in here as a Butchery foretold to the end that none might wonder or be offended at it Though the Saviour of the World should come with Bloud and cause the loss of a multitude of Children and himself preserved to shew that Christ and his Gospel is attended with great crosses and losses yea the dearest and yet they that will not leave all for him are not worthy of him Matth. 10.37 Luke 14.28 29 30. Phil. 3.8 9. The severest crosses and the losses of the profitablest and sweetest and pleasantest things attend Christ If thou wilt have Christ for thy Saviour for thy Lord for thy King for thy Husband for thy all thou must have him alone he will not admit of any Corrivals at all he must be sole in thee and over thee or else thy Idol for thy Idol and he will never brook together he will slay all thy Idols whether Children Lusts Gold Honour Pleasure Profit or whatsoever and thou must lose all Luke 14.28 29 30 31 c. Matth. 10. yea Life must not be before him Or else like to the Gadarens if thou valuest thy Swine before him thy Swine shall save thee in the day of the Lord if they can Lastly though Rachel lost her Children yet she did not lose her Saviour Though some here will rather lose Christ than their cursed Children and the Brats of their own bearing and fleshly fruits such self-lovers are men that profess Christ and hold a shadow But you that willingly lose for Christ to honour and save his Truth as Rachel did her Children shall at last have double as Christ promised Mark 10.29 30.