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woman_n	child_n	mother_n	womb_n	3,217	5	9.6644	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61631	Twelve sermons preached on several occasions. The first volume by the Right Reverend Father in God Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester.; Sermons. Selections	Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.	1696 (1696)	Wing S5673; ESTC R8212	223,036	528

sense the Kingdom of God hath been taken from them 1. They make the Kingdom of God to consist in a deliverance of them from their enemies For this was their great quarrel at our Saviour that he should pretend to bri●g the Kingdom of God among them and do nothing in order to their deliverance from the Roman Power They either were such great admirers of the Pomp and Splendor of the world or so sensible of their own burdens and the yoke that was upon them that they could not be perswaded that God should design to send his Kingdom among them for any other end but their ease and liberty They apprehended the Crown of Thorns which was put upon our Saviour's head was the fittest representation of the nature of his Kingdom for they looked upon it as the meer shew of a Kingdom but the reality was nothing but affliction and tribulation and this was a doctrine they thought of all others the least needful to be preached to them who complained so much of what they underwent already They took it for the greatest contradiction to talk of a Kingdom among them as long as they were in subjection to the Roman Governours But if Jesus of Nazareth had raised an army in defence of their liberty and had destroyed the Romans they would never have enquired farther concerning Prophecies or Miracles this had been instead of all others to them and then they would willingly have given him that title which was set up only in derision as the Elogium of his Cross Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iews But we see how justly God dealt with them soon after when they crucified the Son of God because he preached another Kingdom than they dreamed of God suffers this very pretence of a temporal Kingdom to be the occasion of the ruine of the whole Nation For upon that it was that they denied subjection to the Romans for they were for no other Kingdom but only God's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to acknowledge no other King but God was the pretence of the War upon which arose that desperate Faction of the Zealots who like so many Firebrands scattered up and down among them soon put the whole Nation into Flames And from this time there never was a more Tragical story either acted or written than that is of the miseries which this people underwent For if ever there were the marks of divine vengeance seen in the ruine of a Nation they were in that For they were so far from hearkening to the counsel of their wisest men that the first thing they made sure of was the destruction of them Wisdom was but another name for Treason among them and there needed no other evidence to take away the lives of any but to say that they were rich and wise When they had thus secured themselves as they thought against the danger of too much Wisdom by the removal of all such who at least did not counterfeit madness and folly by joyning with them then they began to suspect one another and three Factions at once break forth at Hierusalem who seemed to be afraid the Romans should not destroy them fast enough for in the several parts of the City where they were they were continually killing one another and never joyned together but when they saw the Romans approaching their Walls least they should take that work out of each others hands By all means they were resolv'd to endure a seige and as a preparative for that they burnt up almost all the stores of provision which were among them whence ensued a most dreadful famine so great that it was thought reason enough to take away the life of a man because he looked better than his neighbours they thereby suspecting he had some concealed provisions They brake into the houses of such whom they imagined to be eating and if they found them so they either forced the meat out of their mouths or choaked them with attempting to do it It was no news then for a Woman to forget her sucking Child so as not to have compassion upon the Son of her Womb for the story is remarkable in Iosephus of a Mother that not only eat part of her Son who sucked at her breast but when the smell had tempted some to break in upon her and take part with her and were struck with horror at the sight of it What saith she will you shew your selves more tender than a Woman or more compassionate than a Mother It was no news to see Parents and Children destroying one another for a piece of bread to see the streets and tops of houses covered with the bodies of those who dropt down for want of food in-so-much that the stench of their carcases soon brought a Plague among them which and the Famine raged together with that violence that when there was no possibility of burying their dead they threw them over the Walls of the City and Titus beholding the incredible numbers of them lift up his hands to Heaven and cryed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was none of his doing For he used all possible means to prevent the ruine of the City and Temple as well as the destruction of the People but all to no purpose for now the time of God's vengeance was come yea the full time of his wrath was come So that Titus often confessed he never saw such an instance of divine vengeance upon a people that when their enemies designed to save them they were resolved to destroy themselves And Philostratus tells us that when the neighbour Provinces offered Titus a Crown in token of his conquest of Iudaea he utterly refused it with this saying That he had nothing to do in the glory of that action for he was only the instrument of God's vengeance upon the Iews Which we may easily believe if we consider almost the incredible number of those who were destroyed at that time 1100000 reckoned in that number in the time of eight months siege and 90000 carried away captive which might have been thought incredible but for one circumstance which is mentioned by their own Historian that at the time of the siege Hierusalem was filled with Jews coming from all parts to the solemnity of the Passover where they were shut up as in a Prison and their Prison made their place of Execution Yea so prodigious were the calamities which befel this people not only at Hierusalem but at Caesarea Antioch Scythopolis Alexandria and almost all the Cities of Syria that Eliazer one of the heads of the Faction when he saw they could not hold out against the Romans at Massada perswaded them all to kill one another by this argument That it was now apparent that God from the beginning of the War had designed their destruction and they had better be the executioners of his vengeance themselves than suffer the Romans to be so Upon which they all miserably destroyed each other who were the last that opposed