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A19288	The cry and reuenge of blood Expressing the nature and haynousnesse of wilfull murther. Exemplified in a most lamentable history thereof, committed at Halsworth in High Suffolk, and lately conuicted at Bury assize, 1620.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1620 (1620)	STC 5698; ESTC S108664	44,194	71

iollity and security And by this time euen the memory of these murthered soules was buried with them What now remained Surely where man vsually ends there God beginneth and while the wicked slept securely the vengeance of God was bestirring it selfe Behold saith the Prophet when the Lord makes inquisition for blood hee remembers it and forgets not the complaint of the poore The blood of these murthered soules cried loud in the eares of the Lord. from the bottome of the Pond for vengeance euen while the bloud-suckers sang a requiem to their soules And the Lord awakened at length out of the sleepe of his patience discouering the murthered by his owne Immediate Arme and by their discouery discouered also the murtherers and so brought them in due season to their iust triall and confusion as shall appeare most wonderfully in the next Chapter Which before we enter into for conclusion of this present and preparation to the discouery A speciall Case of Conscience comes heere to bee discussed and resolued Namely that seeing murther is so crying a sinne that it calls for speedy and continuall vengeance in the eares of the Lord how notwithstanding it comes to passe that the Lord differs the discouery and recompen●e thereof many yeeres yea ages after That the Lord doth thus deferre this discouery and execution is not onely apparant by the cry of those soules vnder the Alter slaine for the Word of God How long Lord holy and true doest thou not iudge and auenge our blood on them that dwell vpon the earth But also by the reuenge vpon Sauls Posterity for his slaughter of the Gibeonites which was not executed many yeeres after and the histories of our age doe witnesse no lesse that many murthers haue laine hid some 20. some ten yeeres some more some shorter time If wée desire to bée satisfied in the true reasons of this Diuine prouidence 1 some may be giuen in respect of the murtherers 2 others in regard of the murthered 3 some concerne the Information of the World and 4 some immediately concerne God himselfe Concerning the murtherers the prouidence of God is wonderfull in deferring the discouery of their sinne euen to a long time after for these Reasons Some tending to their good Others tending to their further condemnation Those that tend to their good are First that by the patience of God in deferring their discouery and vengeance they might be prepared meane while to repentance and so be better fitted to what end the Lord hath appoynted Rom. 4. 2. Secondly By the patience of the Lord towards them if they will not make vse of it for themselues yet hereby they may bée further seruiceable for the common good in those places and callings wherein God hath set them as for education of their Posterity for the maintaining of peace and order abroad yea happily for the sauing of others howsoeuer themselues are reprooued So was Iudas a long time concealed from others though long before knowne to his Master for the execution of his calling and seruing his Lord therein Reasons tending to the condemnation of these blood-suckers are 1 That the Lord forbeares the discouery of them not onely to make them Instruments of his further Iustice in peruerting and hardening others but also 2 This forbearance is a meanes to harden them in their sinne and drowne them in se●urity that so their surprizall being more suddaine may prooue more deadly and fatall to them 3 Hereby they are also nourished in their Atheisme and contempt of Gods prouidence and so prouoke the Lord in due time to auenge himselfe in their confusion As for the Murthered there may bee some Reasons of Gods silence and Patience euen in regard of them 1 That the crying of bloud from the earth so long deferred to vengeance may be a Simbole vnto them of an answer from God at length because no crie shall be in vaine which he hath warranted in this word 2 That the cry of Bloud though a long time deferred yet at length answered may Type vnto them their resurrection from the dead The case herein being much alike That as the bloud though consumed yet hath a loude cry for vengeance and shall in due time be recompenced so the bodies though rotten in the graue yet because they rest in hope doe therefore in their Manner cry for their raising vp againe and so in due time shall obtaine their desire Euen as the creature made subiect vnto vanity not willingly but by reason of him that hath subiected the same in hope doth therefore earnestly waite for the Reuelation of the sonnes of God that it also may be deliuered from her bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Children of God Touching the World This Patience of God respecteth it also And that to try it affection to Gods Iustice and such as are taken away whither they find any want of them whither they thinke the World is not well rid of them and that they may be heard of no more and such like But the maine ground of this Prouidence is in regard of God himselfe and that in these respects As first to Iustifie his great Patience to such horrible sinners whom he is so farre from taking in their sinnes that he respites them many times to commit greater euils that so he may make them more inexcuseable in the day of vengeance 2 His wisedome is herein magnified that by respiting the wicked in such horrible sinnes the guilt of the conscience is hereby so encreased and at length enraged that though all other meanes fayle yet their owne tongues shall be forced to bewray them to ease the inward pangs and so to Iustifie the Lord euen out of their owne mouthes 3 Lastly hereby the Lord reserues vnto himselfe alone the glory of his Iustice that when all sides are husht y e murtherers secure the murthered forgotten the world carelesse all hope past Then doth the righteous Lord make himselfe knowne by executing of vengeance to the stopping of the mouth of Atheisme that saith There is no God because the wicked scape scot-frée and to the opening of the mouthes of his children in that gratious acknowledgment Verily there is a reward for the righteous doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the earth 4 And doth not the Lord discouer herein his absolute power that seeing the times and seasons are onely in his hands and therefore when he seeth a conuenient time he will execute vengeance that it may appeare his thoughts are not our thoughts therefore howsoeuer we may thinke euery moment too much wherein vengeance is deferred Yet the Lord will deferre the time that it may appeare to be at his dispose and yet will do it in the most conuenient time which may make most for his glory and affecting of a secure and faithlesse generation And this may serue for the resoluing of this case of Conscience And thus farre of this third Scaene of this bloudy Tragedy