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A02532	Contemplations vpon the historicall part of the Old Testament. The eighth and last volume. In two bookes. By I.H. deane of Worcester; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 8	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1626 (1626)	STC 12659; ESTC S103673	131,130	578

could say It is better that one man dye then that all the people should perish and here Haman can say It is better that all the people should perish then that one man should dye Thy mercy ô God by the willing death of one that had not sinned hath defrayed the iust death of a world of sinners Whiles the iniurious rigour of a man for the supposed fault of one would destroy a whole nation that had not offended It is true that by the sinne of one death raigned ouer all but it was because all sinned in that one had not all men beene in Adam all had not falne in him all had not dyed in him It was not the man but mankind that fell into sinne and by sinne into death No man can complaine of punishment whiles no man can exempt himselfe from the transgression Vnmercifull Haman would haue imbrued his hands in that blood which hee could not but confesse innocent It is a rare thing if the height of fauour cause not presumption Such is Hamans greatnesse that he takes his designe for granted ere it can receiue a motion The fittest dayes for this great massacre are determined by the lots of their common diuination according whereunto Haman chooseth the houre of this bloody suit and now waited on by opportunity he addresseth himselfe to King Ahasuerus There is a certaine people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the Prouinces of the Kingdome and their lawes are diuers from all people neither keepe they the Kings lawes therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them If it please the King let it bee written that they may be destroyed and I will pay tenne thousand talents of siluer to the hands of the officers With what cunning hath this man couched his malice He doth not say There is a Iew that hath affronted mee let me be auenged of his nation this rancour was too monstrous to be confessed perhaps this suggestion might haue bred in the mind of Ahasuerus a conceit of Hamans ill nature and intolerable immanity but his precences are plausible and such as driue at no other then the publique good Euery word hath his insinuation It is a scattered people were the nation intire their maintenance could not but stand with the Kings honour but now since they are but straglers as their losse would be insensible so their continuance and mixture cannot but be preiudiciall It was not the fault it was the misery of these poore Iewes that they were dispersed and now their dispersion is made an argument of their extirpation therefore must they be destroyed from the earth because they were scattered ouer the earth As good so euils draw on each other That which should plead for pitty in the well-affected is a motiue to cruelty in sauage minds Seldome euer hath extremity of mischiefe seized where easier afflictions haue not beene billeted before All faith full Iewes had wont to say vnto God Haue mercy vpon vs O God and saue vs for our soule is full of contempt and we are scattered amongst the heathen and here this enemy can say of them to Ahasuerus Destroy them for they are scattered Root them out for they are contemned How much better is it to fall into the hands of God thē of men since that which whets the sword of men works commiseration in the Almighty Besides the dissipation of the persons Their lawes are diuers from all people All other people liue by thy lawes they onely by their owne and how can this singularity of their fashions but breed disorder and inconuenience Did they liue in some corner of the earth apart their difference in religion and gouernment could not import much now that they are dispersed amongst all thy subiects vvhat doe these vncouth formes of theirs but teach all the vvorld to bee irregular vvhy should they liue vnder thy protection that will not be gouerned by thy lawes Wicked Haman what were the lawes of Israel but the lawes of God if this be a quarrell what shall the death of the Iewes bee other then martyrdome The diuersity of iudgement and practice from the rest of the world hath beene an old and enuious imputation cast vpō Gods Church What if we be singled from others whiles wee walke with God In matters lawfull arbitrary indifferent wisedome teacheth vs to conforme our selues to all others but where God hath laid a speciall imposition vpon vs we must either vary or sinne The greatest glory of Israel was their lawes wherein they as far exceeded all other nations as heauen is aboue earth yet here their lawes are quarrelled and are made the inducements of their destruction It is not possible the Church of God should escape persecution whiles that which it hath good is maligned whiles that offēds which makes it happy Yet that they haue lawes of their owne were not so vnsufferable if withall they did obserue thine ô King but these Iewes as they are vnconformable so they are seditious They keepe not the King lawes Thou slanderest Haman they could not keepe their owne lawes if they kept not the Kings for their lawes call them to obedience vnto their soueraignes and adiudge hell to the rebellious In all those hundred and seuen and twenty prouinces King Ahasuerus hath no subiects but them They obey out of conscience others out of feare why are they charged with that which they doe most abhorre What can be the ground of this crimination Ahasuerus commanded all knees to bow to Haman A Iew onely refuses Malicious Haman He that refused to bow vnto thee had sufficiently approued his loyalty to Ahasuerus Ahasuerus had not been if Mordecai had not beene a good subiect Hath the King no lawes but what concerne thine adoration Set aside religion wherein the Iew is ready to present if not actiue yet passiue obedience and name that Persian law which a Iew dares break As I neuer yet read or heard of a conscionable Israelite that hath not passed vnder this calumniation so I cannot yeeld him a true Israelite that deserues it In vaine doth hee professe to acknowledge a God in heauen that denies homage to his deputy on earth It is not for the Kings profit to suffer thē Worldly hearts are not led by good or euill but by profit or losse neither haue they grace to know that nothing is profitable but what is honest nothing so desperately incommodious as wickednesse They must needs offend by rule that measure all things by profit measure profit by their imagination How easie is it to suggest strange vntruths when there is no body to giue an answer False Hamā hovv is it not for the Kings profit to suffer the Iewes If thou construe this profit for honor The Kings honor is in the multitude of subiects and what people more numerous then they If for gaine The Kings profit is in the largenesse of his Tributes and what people are more deepe in their payments If for

his humble condiscent to so vnpleasing and harsh a command of his master were it not that either he durst doe no other or that hee thus stoopt for an aduantage It is a thanklesse respect that is either forced or for ends True subiection is free and absolute out of the conscience of duty not out of feares or hopes All Shushan is in an amaze at this sudden glory of Mordecai and studies how to reconcile this day with the thirteenth of Adar Mordecai had reason to hope well It could not stand with the honour of the King to kill him whom he saw cause to aduance neither could this be any other then the beginning of a durable promotion otherwise what recompence had at houres riding beene to so great a seruice On the other side Haman droupes and hath changed passions with Mordecai Neither was that Iew euer more deeply afflicted with the decree of his owne death then this Agagite was with that Iewes honour How heauy doth it lye at Hamans heart that no tongue but his might serue to proclaime Mordecai happy Euen the greatest mignons of the world must haue their turnes of sorrow With a couered head and a deiected countenance doth hee hasten home and longs to impart his griefe where he had receiued his aduice It was but cold comfort that hee finds from his wife Zeresh and his friends If Mordecai be of the seed of the Iewes before whom thou hast begunne to fall thou shalt not preuaile against him but shalt surely fall before him Out of the mouth of Pagans O God hast thou ordained strength that thou maist still the enemy and the auenger What credit hath thy great name won with these barbarous nations that they can out of all experience make maximes of thine vndoubted protection of thy people and the certaine ruine of their aduersaries Men finde no difference in themselues the face of a Iew lookes so like other mens that Esther and Mordecai were not of long taken for what they were He that made them makes the distinction betwixt them so as a Iew may fall before a Persian get vp and preuaile but if a Persian or whosoeuer of the Gentiles begin to fall before a Iew he can neither stay nor rise There is an inuisible hand of omnipotency that strikes in for his owne and confounds their opposites O God neither is thine hand shortned nor thy bowels straitned in thee thou art still and euer thy selfe If wee be thy true spirituall Israel neither earth nor hell shall preuaile against vs we shall either stand sure or surely rise whiles our enemies shall lick the dust HAMAN hanged MORDECAI aduanced HAmans day is now comne That vengeāce which hath hitherto slept is now awake and rouzeth vp it selfe to a iust execution That heauy morning was but the preface to his last sorrow and the sad presage of his friends is verified in the speaking While the word was in their mouthes the messengers were at the doore to fetch Haman to his funerall-banquet How little do we know what is towards vs As the fishes that are taken in an euill net and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sonnes of men snared in an euill time when it falleth suddenly vpon them It was as Haman conceiued the onely priuiledge of his dearnesse and the comfort of his present heauinesse that he only was called with the King to Esthers banquet when this onely was meant for his bane The face of this inuitation was faire and promised much and now the ingenuous man begins to set good constructions vpon all euents Surelv thinkes he the King was tyed in his honor to giue some publique gratification to Mordecai so good an office could deserue no lesse then an houres glory But little doth my master know what termes there are betwixt me and Mordecai had he fully vnderstood the insolencies of this Iew and should notwithstanding haue inioined me to honour him I might haue had iust cause to complaine of disgrace and disparagement but now since all this businesse hath beene caried in ignorance and casualty vvhy doe I wrong my selfe in being too much affected vvith that vvhich was not ill meant Had either the King or Queene abated ought of their fauour to mee I might haue dined at home now this renued inuitation argues me to stand right in the grace of both And why may not I hope this day to meet with a good occasion of my desired reuenge How iust will it seeme to the King that the same man whō he hath publikely rewarded for his loyalty should now bee publiquely punished for his disobedience With such like thoughts Haman cheares vp himselfe and addresses himselfe to the royall banquet with a coūtenāce that wold fain seem to forget his mornings taske Esther workes her face to an vnwilling smile vpon that hatefull guest and the King as not guilty of any indignity that he hath put vpon his fauorite frames himselfe to as much cheerfulness as his want of rest would permit The table is royally furnished with all delicate confections with all pleasing liquors King Ahasuerus so eates as one that both knew hee was and meant to make himselfe welcome Haman so poures in as one that meant to drowne his cares And now in this fulnesse of cheere the King hungers for that long-delayed suit of Queene Esther Thrice hath he graciously call'd for it and as a man constāt to his owne fauours thrice hath he in the same words vowed the performance of it though to the halfe of his Kingdome It falls out oftentimes that when large promises fall suddenly from great persons they abate by leisure and shrinke vpon cold thoughts here King Ahasuerus is not more liberall in his offer then firme in his resolutions as if his first word had beene like his law vnalterable I am ashamed to misse that steddinesse in Christians which I finde in a Pagan It was a great word that he had said yet he eates it not as ouer-lauishly spoken but doubles and trebbles it with hearty assurances of a reall prosecution whiles those tongues which professe the name of the true God say and vnsay at pleasure recanting their good purposes contradicting their owne iust ingagements vpon no cause but their owne changeablenesse It is not for Queene Esther to driue off any longer the same wisedome that taught her to deferre her suit now teaches her to propound it A well chosen season is the greatest aduantage of any action which as it is seldome found in hast so is too often lost in delay Now therefore with an humble and gracefull obeysance and with a countenance ful of modest feare and sad grauity she so deliuers her petition that the King might see it was necessity that both forc't it vpon her wrung it from her If I haue found fauour in thy sight O King and if it please the King let my life bee giuen me at my petition and my people at