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Eikōn basilikē, or, The princes royal being the sum of a sermon preached in the minister of York on the Lords-Day morning (in the Assize week) March 24, 1650 ... / by John Shavve.
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Shawe, John, 1608-1672.
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imprisoned and after banished them Luther fore-told above one hundred years ago that the Familistical Errors which he then in their bud opposed would hereafter rise up with more subtilty and danger in the days of more light of the Gospel and sure now Satan is busie in sowing Tares 3. I beseech you encourage and further as blessed be God you have begun a glorious work that way a godly orthodox painful Ministry in England Ireland Wales c. that God that hath always payd so well for nursing his children and counted that done to him which is done to them will not forget Matth. 25. Acts 9. Mat. 10. 40 41 42. Zech. 2. 8 any pains and care for his faithful Ministers and propagating his Gospel advancing piety and learning with all due and needful encouragements thereto Satan every way opposeth them and Gods work by them Elijah was called the Troubler of Israel 1 King 18. 17. Amos charged for conspiracy Amos 7. 10. Paul counted a f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pestilent fellow a very post a mover of Sedition and Ring-leader of a Sect Acts 24. 5. and Christ himself a Teacher of New Doctrines Mark 1. 27. as well as Paul Acts 17. 9. g Jeremy was layd by the heels for a Traytor to the State Luther called a trumpet of rebellion and Beza a seedsman of sedition Unicum crimen eorum qui crimine vacabant as Lipsius out of Tacitus Therefore they stand in more need of your further encouragement so shall you be not titulary but real defenders of the Faith The Pope sent over to James the fourth King of Scotland a Sword with this Title Protector of the Faith and presently after another Sword to our King Henry the eighth with this Title Defender of the Faith but the meaning was to protect the Popish Faith and not Christs pure Gospel and accordingly both those Kings afterwards caused several godly men to be burned for the Truth in their Dominions and great ignorance followed men wholly studying Popish fancies and neglecting Gods Word so as George Creichton Bishop of Dunkel confessed that he had lived Bishop many years yet never knew any thing of the Old and New Testament 4. I beseech you while you sit in that Honorable Senate forget not poor Prisoners in the Gaol but let there be in every County some provision made for their Souls so that they may not be made in their Prisons ten times more the children of Hell then before and most unfit to dye when most unable to live How much good did that learned and holy Mr Perkins that way in his time One Malefactor amongst others crying out upon the Ladder to Mr Perkins that he feared Non metuo mori sed damnari not Death but a worse thing was even melted into tears at Mr Perkins his Prayer and dyed joyfully What a blessed work would this be to provide some able man and means for him to preach to and catechise these poor Souls that so they may not be in bondage to Satan but Christs free men that when the Justice of the Law will not suffer them to live the Mercy in the Gospel may fit them for death A reuerend Minister of this Nation now with God said that one shilling a quarter of every parish one with another in the County of Somerset which is no burthen to any man would encourage some godly man to this work so might we perhaps through Gods mercy see more penitent theeves 5. Contribute I beseech you your best skill and help for the joynting of godly and faithful men who agree in the same Fundamentals of Doctrine and truth of practice towards God and the State and shall agree in the same Heaven at night Tragediae Lutheranae mihi ipsi etiam calculo sunt molestiores said Erasmus The Differences among godly men more troubled Erasmus then the stone It 's a thousand pities to see what strangeness in Opinion Affection and Conversation a few years of peace have bred in too many who agreed mourned and wept together in times of Trouble like sheep run of a heap in a storm but spread up and down the mountain in a Sun-shine How do the Philistins hereupon triumph publish it in Gath and raise up their hopes And I fear there are some cursed spirits that do purposely heighten our Divisions to ruine us both I have often sadly thought of that passage of Oecolampadius to the Lutherans when the fire of contention grew hot 'twixt the Zuinglians and them as they were called and the subtil Jesuites and Papists joyned themselves with the Lutherans in the Sacramentary quarrel and stroked them on the head eos laudabant in pretio habebant c. purposely to make the breach wider and irreconcileable to ruine both Error condonari potest saith Oecolamp discordiam neque si sanguinem fundamus expiabimus and as our Divisions bring scandal so danger as Machiavils rule was by being divided in minutula frustula Cambden observes that the low Countries suspecting the friendship of the English anno 1587. stamped money with two Earthen Pitchers swimming on the Sea with this Motto Si collidimur frangimur If we dash one against another we are both broken I wish that England and Holland England and Scotland England and England would timely consider this whom to cement and glue firmly was worth the study and labour of another Constantine the great nay of an English Parliament but lieth onely in the Power of the Almighty In the Raign of Henry the eight anno 1536. fourty thousand Yorkshire men rose up in Arms to uphold the Popes authority their old Traditions Latine Service though alass whether it was cursing or praying they knew not their Beads Crosses and other Church-ornaments as they called them which they thought Cromwel would then have pulled down This Rising they called the Holy Pilgrimage on their Colours they had the five wounds of Christ with the letters JESUS in the midst The King sent down a great Army against them both Armies drew neer to one another the place day and hour of battel was set but that night before the battel should be fell a small rain which so raised a little brook that was betwixt the Armies that neither Army could come at the other all the next day the neighboring Inhabitants having never seen that brook swell neer that height which the day before a man might have gone over dry-shod though they had often seen far greater rain both Armies looked at it as Gods miraculous hand forbidding their fighting and so treated agreed and departed quietly How happily was the effusion of blood prevented Alass how do we see sincere godly men ready through different apprehensions and remnant of corruption like Abraham and Lot Paul and Barnabas to fall out In Queen Maries days of persecution some godly men after Martyrs thought that they might not with a safe conscience fly away though they had fair warning and opportunity as Latimer Taylor Bâ—adford