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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30433	A sermon preached at Bow-Church, before the court of aldermen, on March 12, 1689/90 being the fast-day appointed by Their Majesties / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5891; ESTC R21653	22,754	42

belong to our mutual Peace among our selves The common Peace and Safety will be ill preserved if we are biting and devouring one another we shall need no Enemy to destroy us if this continues for we shall be consumed one of another We have nothing so conspicuous in the History of the Destruction of the Iews as their cruel intestine Feuds and Wars which made them an easie Prey to the Romans They were at first divided into three great Sects that of the Sadduces who were plain Atheists and Libertines that denied the being of Spirits and a future state and that by consequence could lie under no Restraints from their Religion They struck in to Herod and afterwards fell under so general an Odium that they grew more inconsiderable towards the end of that State The second Sect was that of the Essens who were men of excellent Morals and of a sublime Piety who retained their ancient Simplicity they retired from the World lived in common at work and in constant Devotion These did likewise disappear and probably they became Christians to which their holy Dispositions and their strict Lives did so much prepare them that it is scarce possible to think that Men of such Tempers could resist such a Religion But the third Sect that swallowed all the rest up was that of the Pharisees of whom so much is said in the Gospels that it is not necessary to enlarge upon their Character They were a sort of People that under an outward appearance of great strictness were the falsest the violentest the cruellest and the most revengeful they were the least moral and the most hypocritical and diabolical Sect that ever was These by the appearance of Exactness and of Zeal had so possessed themselves of the Opinion and the Affections of the People that they could turn them which way they pleased but among them there were Subdivisions The Zealots were those who from the Example and the Rewards of Phinehas came to think that when Magistrates were too slack in punishing Offenders private persons might do it St. Paul had been one of these and as such he not only persecuted the Church from House to House but having got a company of Men of the same fury to follow him he went to persecute them even to strange Cities Now towards the end of the History of the Iews we see this became a matter of meer Rage and Companies assuming this name got together and run about executing whatsoever their own Fury inspired them with as a revenge of Sin in the Name of God These first murdered all the Romans every where and so engaged themselves in a War with them that required either a most mighty resistance or that must in conclusion end in their own utter ruin They also murdered all that inclined or moved at any time to treat with the Romans But men of this sort seldom agree long together So these were soon subdivided into those who were headed by Eleazar who were the Masters of the Inner Courts of the Temple and those who were headed by Iohn that possessed themselves of the Outer Courts And when those within opened the Gates at the Feast of the Passover that so the People might come in and offer their Lambs some of Iohn's party went in and killed Eleazar and so he became Master of the whole Temple But this was not all for there was another party among them that were called the Robbers that did the same thing that the Zealots did for it is scarce possible to think they could do worse But it seems they did not cover it with the pretence of Zeal for the Law and so were the more honest Robbers of the two who owned that they robbed for robbing sake These were at first commanded by Minahem the Son of Iudas of Galilee but he being killed by Eleazar's means they were after that headed by one Simon who being called into Ierusalem drove Iohn out of the City and had many Engagements with him and his Zealots in one of which they burnt the common store of Provisions which if preserved would have served to maintain a long Siege Thus were they fighting with one another when Titus came before them with an Army that consisted only of four Legions besides Auxiliaries a small force against so vast a multitude of Men of an enraged Courage and a City of such extent and defence In this Extremity it was plain that they must either treat and submit or unite and resist vigorously There was but one thing that was both desperate and foolish to perish within their Walls by Hunger and to be destroying one another as oft as the Enemy gave them leisure to go about it And this was precisely the course they took If any spake of treating with the Romans he was presently the Object of the common fury yet they did not sally out upon them till it was too late From the 14. of April that Titus sate down before them the account of those that died by Famine was kept by Mannoeus who had the charge of carrying out the dead Bodies to the 1st of Iuly and it swelled up to an hundred and fifteen thousand and eight hundred This was besides those who were carried out by their Friends After that he fled to the Romans and those who were appointed still to take care of the Dead told that the number was grown up to Six hundred thousand And thus the greatest and once the best but then the worst City in the World perished in so terrible a manner that the History of it would pass for a melancholy aggravating of matters beyond the possibilities of truth if he that wrote it had not been an Eye-witness and a person of so true a judgment of so much probity and so full of affection to his Country that there is no reason to suspect the Relation that he has made of it which as it is by much the saddest piece of History so it is that which can never be enough read for it will alwaies leave a very good Impression upon the Reader 's mind But this is not to be read meerly as a signal Transaction that pass'd 1600 years ago but as a standing Monument of the severity of the Justice of God against an Impenitent and Rebellious Nation and if these things were done in the green tree what shall be done in the dry If the Seed of Abraham Isaac and Iacob were so used why should others hope to escape if they become guilty of the like Ingratitude And since the immediate cause of their ruin was that mutual fury that transported them into the most extravagant Excesses and which blinded them in all they did and made them neglect the most obvious and certain methods for their preservation either in the way of treaty or of defence what a melancholly Prospect does this set before us who have such a mighty Enemy to deal with that all our Heads Hands and Purses united against him will find