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A79831	Emanuel, or, God with us. Wherein is set forth Englands late great victory over the Scots armie, in a battle at Dunbar, Septemb. 3. 1650. And by many particulars of Gods acting and appearing then for us, it is certaine (and so much is clearly proved) that our armies marching into Scotland, and the wars undertaken and prosecuted against that nation, to be upon grounds of justice and necessity, as the Parliament of England hath declared. Also here is shewed, how grosly the Covenant is abus'd, and what an idoll it is now made. With the fraud and falshood of the Scots, and their kings hypocrisie and dissimulation. Moreover such objections are answered, as seeme to have any thing in them, against the point here asserted. / By John Canne. The first part, published by authority.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1650 (1650)	Wing C439; Thomason E614_11; ESTC R206534	45,110	52

Squint-eyes if you set a booke direct before them they cannot read a word nor see a letter though it be a large and faire print but hold the booke side-way then they can read very well and see even the least and smallest point Such mercies and deliverances as are before their eyes and wherein the power goodnesse justice and faithfulnesse of God most shine forth and which look most fully and directly at his glory those their squint-eyes cannot see * Quid non mortalia pectoracoges Auri sacra fam●s Virg. Eneid 3. But for others which come in side-way that is advance their Interest help to hold up their unsanctified places and standings their pomp pride Lordlinesse bring them in Corn and Wine c. These side-way blessings whether Victories or what else they can see and will read them and in their Churches too and keep dayes of publique Thanksgiving in remembrance of them If the State command it l Isa 26.11 Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy towards thy people yea the fire of thine enemies shall devoure them 6. Not onely hath the Lord given us this great Victory but with it hath happily brought to light many remarkable things whereby is discovered the grosse hypocrisie falsehood and dissimulation of the Scots especially some of their Church men and that great Proselyte their King which is another weighty Argument to prove Gods taking our part and Cause against them 1. Since the Victory some of their Officers and Souldiers have declared that the hand of God was certainly against them because their King was constrained to take the Covenant to own their Declaration altogether against his conscience For howsoever they well knew that whatsoever he did in this particular would be contrary to his mind Neverthelesse willing or not willing do it he * As puppets are moved wholly at his direction and bent that extēds or slacks the strings whereon they dance And the blind Bayard rusheth into the Battle which way he should goe he sees not save only his rider spurreth him so is this mans case must and shall howsoever as was said they knew that therein he would dissemble and play the hypocrite and themselves also It may seeme strange to all sincere and conscientious people that men speaking so much of religion of the great Cause of God of advancing the glorious name of Jesus c. should act so corruptly before God and men Touching the hypocrisie and deep dissimulation both of King people the * The Answer of the Parliament of England to a paper entituled a Declaration of the Kings Majestie c. page 17.19 same in the Parliaments Answer excellently is observed In the space almost of 24. hours to grow up in the full perswasion of the Justice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles contained in the Covenant and to be able to declare that he hath not sworn nor subscribed them upon any sinister intention and crooked design for attaining his own ends and fixed a resolution to persist therein really constantly and sincerely all the dayes of his life Againe He that can on the 15. of August hug all his Malignants and Popish party in his bosome and lodge them in the secret Reserves of his favour and love as his best friends can now on the 16. the day following from the fulnesse of perswasion of the Justice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles of the Covenant renounce and discard them in the sight of God and the world and vow never to have any more to doe with them There needs nothing to be added for the matter it selfe is like a filthy carkasse which will rot and consume away though it be never toucht Among the Myconians it was no unseemely thing to be bald because the people were naturally so if their young King among other nations had thus dissembled it would have been judged a thing unseemly most unchristian but it seems among Scots falshood and hypocrisie is no deformity no blemish or fault in nature they being naturally so I speak not of all but of the most part lyars and a seede of falshood Physitians in some unseemly convulsions wish their Patients should looke on themselves in a glasse which will cause them to strive the more when they shall see their owne deformity If the Scots would but looke here upon themselves and behold this deformity I should thinke they would strive the more against it howsoever God sees their halting and double-dealing and hath already shewed his great indignation against them for it Some of them say * In a letter to his Excellency God hath hid his face for a while from the sons of Jacob but by your leave Jacob's sonnes are m Isa 63.8 children that will not lye they will not n Isa 28.15 make lies their refuge and under falshood hide themselves they will not o 1 Tim. 4.2 speak lies in hypocrisie but p Zech. 8.16 every man the truth to his neighbour q Zech. 8.3 and Jerusalem shall be called the City of truth If men trust in vanity and speak lies conceive mischiefe and bring forth iniquity if there be transgression and lying against the Lord and a departing away from our God speaking oppression and revolt conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falshood If judgement be turned away backward and justice standeth afarre of If truth be fallen in the street and equity cannot enter God indeed wil then r Isa 59.2 hide his face from such a people as the Prophet hath it yea though they boast of a Covenant and a Temple title themselves the Sonnes of Jacob and say ſ Isa 65.5 stand by thy selfe come not neer to me for I am more holie than thou 2. Their dissimulation each with other doth further appeare and Gods judgment upon them likewise for it No sooner did the Scots King heare of the losse of their Army bu he protested he was glad of it and * This was affirmed considētly to the Lord Gen. by Major Gen. Straughams Trumpet falling down on his knees gave great thankes in the presence of all about him that they were so destroyed * Stat. Hist l. 8. c. 25. Plyny writes of a people called Tentarites when they have taken a Crocodile they will so fright him with their words and threats as he is forct to cast up and vomit out the prey which before he had swallowed downe If it should be granted the Scots by their thundring threats of rejection deposition Sale Excommunication c. had so terrified the young Crocodile I speake * It is usuall in Scripture to resemble Tyrants to Serpents Dragons Leviathan Psal 74.13 14. Ezek. 29.3 Isa 27.3 in Scripture language having gotten him amongst them as he was forced to vomit up his owne sins and his Fathers and Mothers sins all the idolatries adulteries

it is well knowne and our Army found the strength and fruit thereof in the day of Battaile When we see Clouds over our heads loden and full with raine we think it will not be long before the Earth receive the bles sing of it from God He that had seen what fullnesse of God what enlargment of the Spirit there was in Prayer for our Army might through faith have foreseen the Victory and said God will send l Ezek. 34.26 SHOWRES OF BLESSING m Psal 68.9 a PLENTIFULL RAINE Raine of Liberallities as the Hebrew is in giving Salvation to England Men at Sea labour to bring themselves upon such Points or Ports as they may receive good Wind to bring them home We know n Psal 33.16 17. there is no King saved by the multitude of an Host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength an Horse is a vaine thing for safety The Battell is not mans but Gods his right hand and holy Arme is the wind which brings us home gets the Victory for us And knowing this our labour was to bring our Army by Prayer upon that Port or Point where we might see Jehovah riding upon the Wings of the Wind girding our Army with strength in the day of Battail and the Enemies as Chaffe which the WIND driveth away * Fulmen adversus hostes imbrem ad refocillandum exercitum Euse Hist Ec. d. 3. c. 9. Eusebius reports that the Christians by prayer obtained lightning against their Enemies and raine to refresh the Army What lesse by Prayer obtained we but on our part Victory and great deliverance Against the Enemy he sent out his Arrows and scattered them he shot out lightnings and discomfited them o Psal 56.9 When I cry unto thee then shall mine Enemies turne back this I know for God is for me p Psal 66.20 Blessed be God which hath not turned away my Prayer nor his mercy from me It is a rule in Art and daily experience shews it contraries placed together doe mutually illustrate each other That there was Prayer made for the successe and wellfare of the Scots Army q Ezek. 3.21 Weeping and Supplications upon the high places r Mal. 2.13 A covering the Altar with Tears with weeping and with crying I say for their prosperity and our overthrow who knows it not ſ Ezek. 8.14 Women weeping for Tammuz the Covenant I should have said Now seeing the Lord when they did cry and shout did shut out their Prayer covered himselfe with a cloud that their Prayer should not passe through What should this signifie I shall forbeare to give them mine owne Opinion I desire they would lay their hands on their hearts and speake truely whither hence they have not just cause to think that t Ps 10.97 their Prayer became sin or u Pro. 289. an abomination or that the Lord x Ps 8.4 was angry against it or he heard them not because * Isa 1.15 their hands were full of blood and ‖ 1 TIm 2.8 wrath or ‖ † Ps 66.18 regarded iniquity in their hearts or as it is said of the * Job 27.9 Hypocrite Will God heare his cry when trouble commeth upon him It is true of some God speaks ‖ Jer. 11. Though they cry to him * Ezek. 7.18 cry in his ears with a loud voice he will not hearken to them Though they ‖ † Pro. 1.28 seeke him early with much fasting and ‖ Jer. 14 1● spread forth their hands he will * Isa 1.15 hide his face from them But who are these not a nationall Church standing for the Holy Covenant for the great cause of God and Reformation not men zealouslie earnest for the purity of divine worship and Enemies to Idolatry superstition heresie Schisme prophanenesse No the Prophets tell us otherwise these were ‖ † Isa 1.4 A sinfull Nation a people laden with iniquity ‖ Mic. 3.4 a seed of evill doers Rulers of Sodome * Ver. 23. rebellious Princes and Companions of theevs ‖ Mic. 2.3 who hated the good and loved the evill Whose ‖ † Jer. 14.14 Prophets Prophecyed lyes the Lord sent them not neither spake unto them They Prophecyed to the people a false Vision and divination a thing of nought and the deceit of their own heart These people whose prayers God would not heare and from whom he had hid his face were an HYPOCRITICALL Nation * Isa 10. dissemblers in their heart ‖ Jer. 4.2 AN ASSEMBLY OF TREACHEROUS MEN ‖ † Jer. 15.17 OF MOCKERS such as would deceive every man his Neighbour would not speak the truth but teach their Tongues to speake lyes and wearied themselves to commit iniquity Sons not of Jacob but * Jer. 42.20 of the Sorceresse Children of Transgression a seed of falshood of the Adulterer and of the Whore It is true such a Nation the Lord would not heare neither would his eye pitty them but did appoint them for Famine Pestilence Captivity and the fearfull Sword of War But what then Can it be shewed in holy Scripture that a pure Kirk holding fast the Covenant of God and having under hand the great work of Reformation seeking God by fasting and Prayer in a righteous and just cause were not onely denyed of his presence and pretection but left to the Sword of Hereticks and cruell persecutors to be devoured I remember I have read somwhere that whilst Pompey prospered and Rome flourished Cato stoutly held and defended a divine providence but when he saw Pompey overthrowne by Caesar his body cast upon the shore without honour of Buriall and himselfe exposed to danger of Caesars Army he changed his Opinion denying that there was any Divine providence but all things set out by chance The time was when the Presbyterians Scots and English spake much of Divine providence In Victories and deliverances they could see much of God I meane when the Prelats were going downe and they thought to have had as great power to persecute when like proud Haman they thought that the seducing the men whom the Parliament would honour and Mordecai and his people should be all destroyed then indeed every victory and deliverance against the Kings party in Books and Sermons must have a divine mark and Character of Gods presence then it was the War of God the Cause of God yea and confirmed to be so by Gods Actings and appearances for us But se●ng now their way like Baal is like to plead for it selfe sits upon a wooden horse and must stand of it selfe as it will if it be of God with Cato they have ‖ Some report that Manna at first was in eating very sweet and did relish wel but afterward through the murmuring unthankfullnesse of the people it had no savour or good tast That these men see not so much of God in his Dispensations have lost that relish sweet tast of