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<P>EMANUEL, OR, GOD WITH US. Wherein is &s;et forth <HI>Englands</HI> late great Victory over the <HI>Scots</HI> Armie, in a Battle at <HI>Dunbar,</HI> Septemb. 3. 1650.</P>
<P>And by many <HI>Particulars</HI> of Gods Acting and Appearing then for us, it is certaine (and &s;o much is cle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rly proved) that our Armies marching into <HI>Scot|land,</HI> and the Wars undertaken and pro&s;ecuted a|gain&s;t that Nation, to be upon <HI>Grounds</HI> of <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Nece&s;&s;ity,</HI> as the <HI>PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND</HI> hath declared.</P>
<P>Al&s;o here is &s;hewed, how gro&s;ly the Covenant is abus'd, and what an Idoll it is now made. With the fraud and fal&s;hood of the <HI>Scots,</HI> and their Kings hypocri&s;ie and di&s;&s;imulation.</P>
<P>Moreover &s;uch Objections are an&s;wered, as &s;eeme to have any thing in them, again&s;t the point here A&s;&s;erted.</P>
<P>By <HI>JOHN CANNE.</HI></P>
<P>The Fir&s;t Part, publi&s;hed by Authority.</P>
<Q><P><BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 41.11.</HI></BIBL> By this I know that thou favoure&s;t me, becau&s;e mine Enemie doth not triumph over me.</P>
<P><BIBL><HI>I&s;a. 26.11.</HI></BIBL> Lord, when thy hand is lifted up they will not &s;ee.</P></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> printed by <HI>Matthew Simmons</HI> next doore to the Goden Lyon in <HI>Alder&s;gate &s;treet,</HI> 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable, the Su|preame Authority of this Nation, the Par|liament of ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIRS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_MANY men have written well, and effectually in the <HI>defenc of your Cau&s;e,</HI> and have &s;ufficiently proved it, to be a righteous and glorious Cau&s;e. Nevertheles, as the <HI>Phili&s;tims</HI> &s;top'd the <HI>Wels</HI> which <HI>Abraham</HI> had dig'd, and <HI>filled them with earth:</HI> &s;o it hath been the con&s;tant endeavour of &s;ome men, by fraud and fal&s;hood, to darken the cleare and evident truth which hath been <HI>opened,</HI> to the end, people might not have the benefit of &s;uch whol&s;ome and &s;weet water: But <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> (who&s;e <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> yours is) hath (like <HI>I&s;aac) digged again the wels of water;</HI> &amp; what was &s;top'd by others, he hath opened: He (I &s;ay) now is a <HI>Writer</HI> for you: &s;o that were there no Bookes extent, <HI>pleading your Cau&s;e,</HI> Gods owne hand were enough; the late booke written (as it were) with pen and inke of <HI>divine providence</HI> were &s;ufficient. As the unbeleeving <HI>Jewes</HI> could not keep Chri&s;t in the grave, though they rol'd a great &s;tone before the doore of the Sepulcre, but hee gloriou&s;ly a&s;cended: &s;o this <HI>righteous Cau&s;e</HI> (which God hath put into your hands) &s;hall ri&s;e, and &s;hine as the Sun, far and neere among&s;t the Nations of the earth: In &s;pight of enemies, let them u&s;e all the the wiles, wit, and wayes they can to keep it under.</P>
<P><HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> &s;aith, <HI>omne incon&s;uetum e&s;t ob&s;curum.</HI> I confe&s;&s;e the <HI>way</HI> which I here take, to ju&s;tifie your <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> again&s;t all Adver&s;aries (of what name or title &s;oever) may at fir&s;t &s;eeme ob&s;cure, being hi|therto by few walked in. <HI>Scire per cau&s;am,</HI> is the common rode; but when it &s;hall be con&s;idered what light I have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nd who&s;e hand (as a Guide) I here follow. I que&s;tion not, but it will be acknowledged, that a more certain way cannot be cho&s;en, to give a clear and full &s;atisfaction to all men de&s;irous to know, on who&s;e &s;ide the <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>Right</HI> is, be|tween you and your Enemies.</P>
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<P> I doe ob&s;erve, that there are two &s;orts of men unfruitfull, <HI>Behol|ders</HI> of Gods marvellous and great works.</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> The <HI>bruiti&s;h man</HI> (as <HI>David</HI> calls him) he never con&s;iders of them, nor &s;ees any thing of providence therein: As <HI>Nicomacus</HI> in <HI>Plutarch</HI> fitly an&s;wered an Ide<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t, that could &s;ee no beauty in the famous <HI>Helena,</HI> painted by <HI>Zeuxis; take my eyes</HI> (quoth he) <HI>and you &s;hall think her to be a Godde&s;&s;e.</HI> Even &s;o, had the&s;e men other mens eyes, any &s;pirituall di&s;cerning: they would &s;ee in Gods di&s;pen&s;ations &s;o much of his power, goodne&s;&s;e, ju&s;tice, &amp;c. as they would &s;ay, <HI>Jehovah, there is none like unto thee; who &s;hall not feare thee, O Lord, and glorifie thy name.</HI></P>
<P>Another &s;ort there are, who will &s;peak of <HI>divine providence,</HI> and confe&s;&s;e that all things are gov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rned by Gods coun&s;ell, and nothing comes to pa&s;&s;e but according to his will and plea&s;ure: notwith&s;tanding, they will <HI>not &s;ee his hand when it is lifted up,</HI> nor make any profitable and good u&s;e thereof. As the <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> though in words they acknowledge the Scriptures, yet by their corrupt interpretation, in a manner deny them: So the&s;e men; though they confe&s;&s;e a providence, yet by their un|&s;ound application thereof, doe in effect deny it, de&s;troying with one hand what they build with the other. And with this later &s;ort I &s;pecially here deale.</P>
<P>I &s;hall not trouble your <HI>Honours</HI> with a large Epi&s;tle: Only thus, as God by his Acting for you hath made it evident (and you many times in your <HI>Declarations</HI> humbly confe&s;&s;e it) that he is on your &s;ide, takes your part, ju&s;tifies and ownes your <HI>Cau&s;e;</HI> &s;o let it appeare <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o the world, <HI>by your Actings,</HI> that you are (not for your Selves and your own Intere&s;ts, but) for God, as owning his <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> which is <HI>Truth</HI> &amp; <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>Now the Lord, who alone hath power to make you able to Act &amp; Ap|peare for him and his Cau&s;e (as he hath Acted and Appeared for you and your Cau&s;e) give you both hearts and hands &s;o to doe. And thus &s;hall hee ever pray, who is</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours mo&s;t humble and faithful Servant, <HI>JOHN CANNE.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>EMAN&V;EL,</HI> OR, GOD WITH US. Wherein is &s;et forth, <HI>Englands</HI> late great Victory over the <HI>SCOTS</HI> Armie in a Battle at <HI>Dunbarre,</HI> the third of <HI>September,</HI> 1650.</HEAD>
<P>_AS The Sun would &s;hine in it's own bright|ne&s;&s;e, and glory, though all the world were blind, or did wilfully &s;hut their eyes again&s;t it: So will the Lord, gloriou&s;ly appeare in his mighty and wondrous works, how&s;o|ever man &s;huts his eyes, and
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 26.10, 11.</NOTE> <HI>will not be|hold the maje&s;tie of the Lord, nor &s;ee w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">n his hand is lifted up.</HI> I make no que&s;tion, had the <HI>Scots</HI> ob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ai|ned the Victory (though not cloathed with halfe &s;o many remarkable circum&s;tances of Gods pre&s;ence) they would have &s;aid, (and their friends here likewi&s;e) in the words of the Prophet;
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 9.4.</NOTE> <HI>Thou ha&s;t maintained my right and my cau&s;e: Thou &s;ate&s;t in the throne judging right.</HI> And as <HI>Protogenes</HI> &s;aid of the <HI>Painters line,</HI>
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg"><HI>Non enim ca|dere in alium tam ab&s;olutum opus.</HI> Plin. na. hi&s;t l. 35. cap. 9.</NOTE> <HI>none but</HI> Apelles <HI>could draw it.</HI> So would they peremptorily have concluded, had our Army been overthrown, <HI>a &s;peciall hand of God,</HI> remon&s;trating a ju|&s;tifying of them, their Cau&s;e, their King and Kirk.</P>
<P>I hope without offence, what they would have done, (had our <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> been theirs) we may take the like liberty, and with reverence to the place &s;ay,
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 41.11.</NOTE> <HI>By this I know that
<PB N="2" REF="4">thou favoure&s;t me, becau&s;e mine enemy doth not triumph over me:</HI> Yea, and make it appeare in the eyes of all impartiall, and di&s;-ingaged men, that the Lord was &s;o with us, and for us in this great Victory, as doth &s;trongly prove, &amp; make good our Armies marching into <HI>Scotland,</HI> and the Wars underta|ken, and pro&s;ecuted again&s;t that Nation: to be (as the
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Decl. of the Parl. of <HI>Eng|land</HI> upon the marching of the Army in|to <HI>Scotland.</HI></NOTE> Parliament hath declared) <HI>upon Grounds of Ju&s;tice and Ne|ce&s;&s;ity.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. It is a &s;ign that the Lord maintains the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of a people when he &s;ea&s;onably delivers them from an in&s;ole~t &amp; proud Enemy; from
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 75.4.</NOTE> <HI>vain-glorious fools,</HI> Holelim, <HI>Mad-boa&s;ting fools,</HI> vainly promi&s;ing them&s;elves Victory, &amp; brea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hing out threatnings. Thus the Aegyptians triumph
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Exod. 15.9.</NOTE>. <HI>The enemy &s;aid, I will pur&s;ue, I will over come, I will divide the &s;poile: my lu&s;t &s;hall be &s;atisfied upon them: I will draw my &s;word, mine hand &s;hall de&s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y them.</HI> Behold, how they flattered them &s;elves in their own eyes,
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Hab. 3.14.</NOTE> <HI>rejoycing to devour the poore in &s;ecret:</HI> But whil&s;t they were imagining a victory, and <HI>dividing the prey,</HI>
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Judg. 5.30.</NOTE> the Lord &s;tirred up him&s;elfe, and awaked to I&s;raels judgment, even unto his Cau&s;e: and therein not only <HI>got him&s;elf a great name,</HI> but it is recorded as one
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Neh. 9.10.</NOTE> <HI>of his &s;ignes and wonders &s;hewed upon Pharaoh,</HI> a &s;pecial deliverance, and that which carries the &s;tamp and character of a divine providence and mercy towards his Church and People. No le&s;&s;e in&s;ulted <HI>Benhadad,</HI> he will not be &s;atisfied with
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 King. 20.5.</NOTE> <HI>Ahabs &s;ilver and his gold, and his wives, and his children:</HI>
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 6.</NOTE> <HI>But he will &s;end his &s;er|vants, and they &s;hall &s;earch his hou&s;e, &amp; the hou&s;es of his &s;ervants, and it &s;hall be, that what&s;oever is plea&s;ant in his eyes, they &s;hall take it away.</HI> Be&s;ides, he takes his gods to witne&s;&s;e,
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 10.</NOTE> <HI>If the du&s;t of Samaria &s;hall &s;uffice for handfuls, for all the people that follow him.</HI> Here I may &s;ay with the Prophet,
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 52.1.</NOTE> <HI>Why boa&s;te&s;t thou thy &s;elfe in mi&s;chiefe, O thou mighty man?</HI> How God de&s;troyed the Army of that <HI>blood-boa&s;ting Tyrant,</HI> and cloath'd him with &s;hame, the Hi&s;tory &s;hews, and with all, in that the Lord did &s;o, it did evid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ly appeare, that I&s;rael had the better Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Other in&s;tances of the like kind might be produced, but we come now to the application. Touching the in&s;olency
<PB N="3" REF="4">of the <HI>Scots,</HI> how proud and puft up they were, with an i|maginary victory, it is almo&s;t incredible: <HI>They reproached us with that condition the Parliaments Army was in, when it made its hard conditions with the King in</HI> Cornwall: <HI>this, je&s;tingly, they cal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d</HI> E&s;&s;ex <HI>his Pound, demanded of our men to yeeld up our Train, Carriages, and Fire-arms: They had di&s;po&s;ed of us, and of their bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e, in &s;ufficient wrath and revenge towards our per&s;ons, and had &s;wallowed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">p the poore Intere&s;t of</HI> England, <HI>believing that our Ar|my lay at their mercy, and that they would &s;uddenly with their new King at the head of their Army march up to</HI> London, <HI>without any oppo&s;ition or interruption.</HI> David Le&s;ley <HI>then Generall in the field, boa&s;ted he would have our whole Armie dead or alive by &s;eve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a clock the next morning.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Neither were the Mini&s;ters le&s;&s;e in&s;olent and pre&s;umptuous then the re&s;t;</HI> for as <HI>Pharaoh</HI> &s;aid of the children of I&s;rael, <HI>they are intangled in the land, the wilderne&s;&s;e hath &s;hut them in:</HI> &s;o the&s;e conceiving us to be in a trap,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Tantaene ae|nimis caele&s;ti|bus irae.</HI> Virg. Eneid. l. 1.</NOTE> <HI>per&s;waded their Commanders to draw up their Army between us and home, that none might e&s;cape, or drive us into the Sea, and &s;o drown us.</HI></P>
<P>It &s;eems the <HI>Scots</HI> would have been like the Fig-tree to which Chri&s;t went for fruit, and found none: no Quarter, no Mercy, no Deliverance to be expected from them. It was the honour of the <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ines,</HI> that they would make peace with <HI>Mancius</HI> a Roman Captain, when they might have had the killing of the whole Army to a man. But the <HI>Scots,</HI> al|though not Conquerours, but in conceit, will &s;wallow up our whole Army, not &s;pare a man, neither is there any one to deliver them out of their hands: But
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Exo. 18.11.</NOTE> <HI>in the thing wher|in they dealt proudly, the Lord was above them.</HI> So that, what <HI>David</HI> prayed for, when his ememies in&s;ulted, was a mercy here be&s;towed upon our Army:
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 35.26.</NOTE> <HI>Let them be a&s;hamed, and brought to confu&s;ion together, that rejoyce at my hurt, let them be cloathed with &s;hame and di&s;honour that magnifie them&s;elves again&s;t me.</HI> And in this the Lord hath not left him&s;elf without wit|ne&s;&s;e, in reference to the <HI>Ju&s;tice of our Cau&s;e,</HI> by giving us &s;o wonderful a victory and deliverance.</P>
<P>I &s;hall conclude with this admonition to the <HI>Scots</HI> and their Adherents.
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 75. l, 5.</NOTE> <HI>I &s;aid to the vain-glorious fools, be not vain-gloriou&s;ly
<PB N="4" REF="5">fooli&s;h, and to the wicked, lift not up the horn: Lift not up your horn on high, &s;peak not with a &s;tiffe neck.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. It argues Gods owning a people and their <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> when he
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 136.23.</NOTE> <HI>remembers them in a low e&s;tate;</HI> app<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ars for them, when humane helps and hopes in a manner faile, and gives them victory over an Enemy, &s;trong,
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Judg. 3.29.</NOTE> <HI>la&s;ty, and men of valour.</HI> In the Book of <HI>Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles,</HI> the people of God &s;ometimes have been &s;o low, as they have not
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 20.12.</NOTE> <HI>known what to doe,</HI>
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Deut. 32.36.</NOTE> <HI>their power gone,</HI> their Generall
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 21.15.</NOTE> fainted,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 30.10.</NOTE> half of their Army &s;o feeble &amp; &s;ore broken, as not able to march. In a word, they have been reduced to &s;uch &s;treights, as if they had <HI>the &s;entence of death in them&s;elves.</HI></P>
<P>Now Gods appearing for them at &s;uch a time, and giving them the victory in &s;uch a ca&s;e, not only &s;hewed that it was the work of his own hands; but as if upon the Actings and Appearances of the Lord, it had been written in broad and vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ble Characters, THIS IS GODS CAUSE.</P>
<P>How weake and low the condition of our Army was, thus it is related: <HI>We being thus humbled by the hand of God, and the menaces of mercile&s;&s;e men: Our Forces le&s;&s;ened, our bo|dies enfeebled with fluxes, our &s;trength wa&s;ted with watchings, want of drinke, wet and cold being our continuall companions, much impaired our &s;trength and courage, and made above</HI> 2000. <HI>men altogether u&s;ele&s;&s;e, which were &s;ent away at &s;everall times to</HI> Ber|wick: <HI>His Excellency and his Officers finding their unfitne&s;&s;e for further delay, and being in and under &s;uch &s;treights, and di&s;tre&s;&s;es, re&s;olved, by day breake, to breake through this I&s;raeliti&s;h con|dition.</HI></P>
<P>Mans extreamity is Gods opportunity: when we are
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 107.28, 29.</NOTE> <HI>at our wits end, then maketh he the &s;torm a calm, and bringeth us to our de&s;ired haven.</HI> And it is an u&s;ual thing with God, thus to manife&s;t his power in our weakne&s;&s;e, and by unworthy and unlikely in&s;truments, contemptible in the eyes of men, to bring great things to pa&s;&s;e, &amp; to confound the things which are great and mighty, that it may appear:
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Eccl. 9.11.</NOTE> <HI>The race is not to the &s;wift, nor the battle to the &s;trong,</HI> and therefore
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Jer. 9.23.</NOTE> <HI>the mighty man &s;hould not glory in his might,</HI> but his glorying &s;hould be in the holy one of I&s;rael.</P>
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<P> Again, the Lord very often, puts off the time of our deli|verance, till we are at a lo&s;t, and in the lowe&s;t and weake&s;t condition, that &s;o the power and goodne&s;&s;e of God may the more &s;hine forth, and the mercy it &s;elf when it comes ta&s;t the &s;weeter. As the greater a mans hunger is, the &s;weeter is the meat, and the more reli&s;h he hath in it.</P>
<P>That this victory may appeare to be of God, and not of man, and what a &s;ignall Te&s;timony the Lord hath given in this particular, that the Battle and Cau&s;e was his: I de&s;ire the Reader to ob&s;erve; that
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 11.34.</NOTE> <HI>out of weakne&s;&s;e our Army was made &s;trong.</HI>
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 40.29.</NOTE> <HI>God gave power to the faint, and to them that had no might he encrea&s;ed &s;trength.</HI> He that was
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Zec. 12.8.</NOTE> <HI>feeble among them at that day, was as</HI> David, and <HI>David as the Angel of the Lord before them.</HI>
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 21.26.</NOTE> The Lord <HI>exalted him that was low, and aba&s;ed him that was high:</HI>
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job 12.21.</NOTE> <HI>Powred contempt upon Princes, and weakned the &s;trength of the mighty.</HI> No &s;ooner had our men powred out their complaint before God, and &s;hewed before him their trouble, &s;aying,
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 142.6.</NOTE> <HI>Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Did not the Lord put his hook in their no&s;e, and his bridle in their lips, there would not be greater per|&s;ecutors in the world the~ the <HI>Scots,</HI> e&s;|pecially their Kirk-men.</NOTE> <HI>per&s;ecutors, for they are &s;tronger then I.</HI> But &s;uddenly the Lord aro&s;e like a Gyant re|fre&s;hed with wine, wounded the hairy &s;calp of his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nemies, &s;mote them upon the cheek-bone, and put them to a perpe|tual reproach.
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;alm. 97.8.</NOTE> <HI>Sion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoyced, becau&s;e of thy judgments O Lord.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. That the Lord hath given Te&s;timonie to the <HI>Ju&s;tice of our Cau&s;e,</HI> doth further appear by the great number of the e|nemies overthrown by a few.</P>
<P><HI>Some report the</HI> Scots <HI>Army was thirty thou&s;and; but &s;ix thou|&s;and hor&s;e, and &s;ixteen thou&s;and foote at lea&s;t. Ours (to &s;ound men) were not above &s;even thou&s;and and five hundred foot, and three thou&s;and and five hundred hor&s;e; the&s;e with the courage which the Lord was plea&s;ed to give them, in le&s;s than an hours di&s;pute, put the Enemies whole Army into confu&s;ion, and it became a totall Rout, our men having the cha&s;e and execution of them near</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Magna ea vi|ctoria, neque cruenta nobis &s;uit: Quinta ab hora diej ad no|ctem cae&s;i ho&s;tes decem milia pa&s;&s;uum cada|veribus atque armis oppleve|re.</HI> Tac. Anal. l. 2.</NOTE> 8. <HI>miles: their foot in a manner all taken and &s;lain, to the number of</HI> 15000. <HI>whereof a third part were computed to be killed:</HI> 200. <HI>Colours and more of Hor&s;e and Foot were taken,</HI> 10. <HI>Colonels,</HI> 12. <HI>Lieutenant-Colonels,</HI> 9. <HI>Majors,</HI> 47. <HI>Captains,</HI> 72. <HI>Lieutenants,</HI> 80. <HI>En&s;igns,
<PB N="6" REF="6">be&s;ides Cornets and Quarter-ma&s;ters: All their Train of Artillery, con&s;i&s;ting of</HI> 22. <HI>field-guns, be&s;ide &s;maller peeces: They left behind them all their Arms, no le&s;&s;e than</HI> 15000. <HI>their Tents, Bag, and Baggage.</HI> Thus the Lord
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 68.30.</NOTE> <HI>rebuked the company of &s;pear-men, the multitude of the buls, with the Calves of the people;</HI> and <HI>&s;o let thine enemies peri&s;h O God.</HI></P>
<P>And that it may appear
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 14.13.</NOTE> <HI>they were de&s;troyed before the Lord;</HI> and the &s;ame God which to them was terrible, a con|&s;uming fire, making his arrows drunk with the blood of the &s;lain, and of the Captives, to our Army was their rock, their fortre&s;&s;e and deliverer, the horn of their &s;alvation, who covered their head in the day of battle, and girded them with &s;trength.</P>
<P><HI>Our &s;lain &amp; hurt were not many; I do not believe</HI> (&s;aith his Ex|cellency) <HI>we have lo&s;t</HI> 20. <HI>men, not one Commi&s;&s;ioned Officer &s;lain that I can hear of, &s;ave one Cornet, and Major</HI> Rooksby, <HI>&s;ince dead of his wounds, and not many mortally wounded.</HI> Was not that promi&s;e here made good, even in the letter?
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 91.7, 8.</NOTE> <HI>A thou|&s;and &s;hall fall at thy &s;ide, and ten thou&s;and at thy right hand, but at &s;hall not come nigh thee: Only with thine eyes thou &s;halt behold, &amp; &s;ee the reward of the wicked: He &s;hall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings &s;halt thou be &s;afe.</HI></P>
<P>I have read of a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Antigonus.</NOTE> Generall, who finding his Souldiers di&s;|mayed by the &s;malne&s;&s;e of their company, and the multi|tude of their enemies, asked them, how many (quoth he) do yee reckon me at, who am your Commander and I eader: If <HI>David</HI> were
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 18.3.</NOTE> <HI>as ten thou&s;and of the people, what is David's Lord?</HI> Our Souldiers never thought as <HI>Caecina</HI> did,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Tacit. An.</HI> l. 1.</NOTE> <HI>unam in armis &s;alutem;</HI> that their &s;afety only con&s;i&s;ted in their wea|pons; they are better principled, and therefore knew, that <HI>Salvation belongeth to the Lord:</HI> and making him their Refuge, even the mo&s;t High their habitation, hee was with them in trouble, he delivered them, and honoured them, his right hand, and his holy arm got them the victory.</P>
<P>Heretofore, when the Lord had acted, and appeared for a people in this manner, it was always ob&s;erved by the godly wi&s;e, as a &s;ure evidence and &s;igne of his approving their Cau&s;e: as on the contrary, a righteous hand of divine pu|ni&s;hment
<PB N="7" REF="6">upon the de&s;troyed party, for taking up Arms in defence of &s;ome thing unju&s;t and &s;infull, either <HI>Per&s;on</HI> or <HI>Thing.</HI> And indeed, the promi&s;e runs &s;o;
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Lev, 26.2.</NOTE> <HI>If yee walke in my &s;tatutes, and keepe my commandements, and do them:</HI>
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 7.8.</NOTE> <HI>Ye &s;hall cha&s;e your Enemies, and they &s;hall fall before you by the &s;word: and five of you &s;hall cha&s;e a hundred, &amp; an hundred of you &s;hall put ten thou&s;and to flight:</HI> This promi&s;e is enlarged in
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Ch. 23.10.</NOTE> <HI>Jo&s;huah, One of you &s;hall cha&s;e a thou&s;and:</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Nos quoque, &s;i legem ob&s;er|vemus, victori|as con&s;equemur.</NOTE> <HI>So we al&s;o,</HI> (as <HI>Lavaret</HI> on the place) <HI>&s;hall obtain victories if we keep the law.</HI> This thing after|ward was notably performed in
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">1 Chr. 11.</NOTE> <HI>Davids</HI> Worthies, of whom &s;ome one
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 23.18.</NOTE> <HI>lifted up his &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ear again&s;t eight hundred, and &s;lew three hundred</HI> at one time.
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">1 Chron. 11.18.</NOTE> Three men brake <HI>through the ho&s;t of the Phili&s;tims;</HI> As <HI>Major-Generall</HI> Whalley's <HI>Regi|ment, charged through the Enemies whole Army, and back again, with little or no lo&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>I know <HI>there is no re&s;traint to the Lord to &s;ave by many or few,</HI> nothing is unpo&s;&s;ible with him: Notwith&s;tanding, when by weakne&s;&s;e he overcomes &s;trength and power, by a few, many and multitudes: as
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 11.7.</NOTE> <HI>the righteous Lord loves righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> &s;o this &s;hews, that he hath pleaded and maintained the righ|teous mans Cau&s;e; That God delivered divers Kings and all their ho&s;t into the hand of I&s;rael;
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Io&s;. 11.4.8.</NOTE> <HI>much people, even as the &s;and that is upon the &s;hore in multitude, with hor&s;es &amp; charets,</HI> and by a few totally routed; the
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Judg. 6.5. &amp; 7.12.</NOTE> <HI>Midianites</HI> and the <HI>A|malekites,</HI> and all the children of the Ea&s;t, <HI>which lay a long encam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ped in the vallies like gra&s;hoppers:</HI> Saved I&s;rael by a very &s;mall party, when the <HI>Phili&s;tims</HI> gathered them&s;elves a|gain&s;t them,
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 13.5.</NOTE> <HI>thirty thou&s;and Charets, and &s;ix thou&s;and Hor&s;|men, and people as the &s;and which is on the Sea-&s;hore for multitude.</HI> Overthrew <HI>Zerah</HI> the Aethiopian, when he came again&s;t <HI>A&s;</HI>
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 14.9.</NOTE> <HI>with a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ho&s;t of a thou&s;and thou&s;and, and three hundred Chario<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> and by a &s;mall number in compari&s;on of his. What is to be learnt hence; what ob&s;ervation to be rais'd? what u&s;e to be made of &s;uch glorious Vctories, &s;uch great Actings and high Appearances of God? Onely that hee is
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;a. 24.8.</NOTE> <HI>mighty in battle,</HI>
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg"><HI>Exo.</HI> 15.3.</NOTE> <HI>a man of warre,</HI>
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 77.14.</NOTE> <HI>a God that doth wonders,</HI> Great things and un&s;earchable, marvellous things, without num|ber? What, nothing el&s;e? Yes &s;urely, &s;omething more;
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Job 5.9.</NOTE>
<PB N="8" REF="7">namely, that he owned their cau&s;e, and acknowledged them to be his Souldiers, and
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 14.12.</NOTE> <HI>his ho&s;t,</HI> whom he delivered, &amp; made Conquerours, with a &s;tretched-out Arm, and with great judgments; the others he took for his enemies, and that their Cau&s;e was naught and wicked. They might &s;ee, by de&s;troying them in &s;uch a wonderful and &s;trange manner.
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 92.5.</NOTE> <HI>A bruti&s;h man knoweth not, neither doth a fool un|der&s;tand this.</HI></P>
<P>I have read of one <HI>Atabalipa,</HI> King of <HI>Cu&s;co,</HI> who being per&s;waded by one <HI>Vincent</HI> a Fryar to become a Chri&s;tian, &amp; upon this rea&s;on, that he &s;hould &s;erve the God that made Heaven and Earth: The <HI>Indian</HI> asked the Fryar how he knew it, he having a Bible in his hand, told him, he had learnt it there: The King takes the Book in his hand, opens it, &s;mels to it, and lays it to his eare, and hearkens if it &s;pake any thing; but perceiving he could have no &s;atisfaction by his feeling, neither did the Book &s;peak to him, hee threw it a|way, and laughing at the Fryar, told him, that his Book and he were both fools.</P>
<P>Now &s;uch there are at this day, and not a few; for all the world, like that Heathen King, becau&s;e God &s;peaks not to their dull and blind hearts, in their gro&s;&s;e and fooli&s;h way, they profit not by the works of his hands, neither are his pre&s;ent Appearances, and Givings in to his people, (though the &s;ame with his former di&s;pen&s;ations, all along held forth in holy Scripture) ob&s;erved, at lea&s;t not ac|knowledged of them, and God glorified, as they ought and &s;hould doe. But what of all this, yet
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 10.16.</NOTE> <HI>the Lord is known by the judgements which he executeth.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. I &s;uppo&s;e it cannot be parallel'd (as his
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In the 4 let|ters betweene him and the Mini&s;ters.</NOTE> Excellency hath well ob&s;erv'd) of the like &s;olemn Appeales unto God, in reference to the <HI>Ju&s;tice of a Cau&s;e,</HI>
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Deut. 17.8.</NOTE> <HI>between blood and blood, between plea and plea,</HI> and between &s;troke <HI>and &s;troke, being matters of Controver&s;ie,</HI> as was done by
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Solemn Ap|peales made by both parties to Almighty God.</HI> The An&s;wer of the Parliament to the Scots Kings Declaration, <HI>page</HI> 36.</NOTE> both parties be|fore the War began. The <HI>Scots</HI> not only took God to wit|ne&s;&s;e, that they had clean hands, and pure hearts, were men
<PB N="9" REF="7">(like <HI>Nathanael</HI>) in whom there is no guile, but
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See pag. 23. in that An&s;w.</NOTE> referred the Cau&s;e between Them and Us, to the unerring &s;entence of the highe&s;t Judge, as he &s;hould appear in his providence and mighty Actings either for us or them. It is true, they are a people pre&s;umptuous and lavi&s;h this way, as in all their <HI>Remon&s;trances, Declarations, Petitions, An&s;wers,</HI> &amp;c. may be &s;een; evermore <HI>Appealing to the great and eternall God, the &s;earcher of all hearts, and taking the Lord to record upon their &s;oules,</HI> touching their integrity and clearne&s;&s;e in walking. But how&s;oever, &s;eeing now
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 102.19.</NOTE> God <HI>hath looked downe from the height of his Sanctuary,</HI> &amp; hath
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Neh. 9.28.</NOTE> <HI>heard from heaven,</HI> and
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 22.14.</NOTE> <HI>from heaven uttered his voyce,</HI> and
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 76.8.</NOTE> <HI>cau&s;ed his judgment to be heard.</HI> Methinks they &s;hould <HI>feare, and be &s;till,</HI>
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 7.19.</NOTE> give glory to the God of heaven, and make confe&s;&s;ion to him: and the rather, becau&s;e they know, as he is a
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Tit. 1.2.</NOTE> <HI>God that cannot lie;</HI> a God that
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 33.5.</NOTE> <HI>loveth righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and judgement,</HI> and
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 45.7.</NOTE> <HI>hateth wickedne&s;&s;e:</HI> &s;o it is
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 85.11.</NOTE> <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e that hath now looked down from heaven, and</HI>
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">1 K. 8.32.</NOTE> <HI>in heaven God hath heard and done, and judged his &s;ervants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and ju&s;tifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>Appealing unto God,</HI> is like the water which was given in tryall of Jealou&s;ie:
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Numb. 5.27.</NOTE> If the woman had done tre&s;|pa&s;&s;e again&s;t her Husband, the water would become bitter in her bowels, her belly &s;wel, and her thigh rot: But if
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 28.</NOTE> clean, and not defiled, &s;hee &s;hould conceive &s;eed, and be fruitful. So it is, when men call upon God to judge their Cau&s;e, and wil have a witne&s;&s;e in Heaven, and in his defi|nitive &s;entence pretend to &s;tand. If they are Liers, Di&s;&s;em|blers, Hypocrites, fal&s;-hearted, double-hearted, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> no marvail if the <HI>Cur&s;e</HI> enter into them, and that God by &s;ome vi&s;ible, &s;en&s;ible, remarkable hand, puni&s;h them for their great pre&s;umption, and for &s;uch impudent boldne&s;&s;e, and becau&s;e they did not
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Deut. 28.58.</NOTE> <HI>feare this glorious and fearfull name,</HI> JEHOVAH THY GOD.</P>
<P>Again, on the other hand, if men appeal unto God, as <HI>David</HI> did in the Cau&s;e between him and <HI>Saul,</HI>
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 24.12.</NOTE> <HI>the Lord judge between me and thee:</HI> and are upright before him, walke
<PB N="10" REF="8">in their integrity, &s;etting the Lord alwayes before them: The Lord will open to them his good trea&s;ure, hee will make them the head, and not the taile; they &s;hall be above only, and not beneath, and where&s;oever they goe they &s;hall pro&s;per.</P>
<P>Neither did the <HI>Scots</HI> re&s;t in a bare appealing unto God, as to plead the Cau&s;e between us and them: but &s;o confident they were, or rather <HI>foole-pre&s;umptuous,</HI> of Gods being on their &s;ide; as if they had tyed him (as the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Alex. Gent. Dic.</HI> l. 6. c. 4.</NOTE> Tyryans did their god <HI>Hercules</HI>) with a golden chain to &s;ecure them&s;elves of his re&s;idence among them. And here &s;ome of their Mini&s;ters play'd their pranks, telling the people, yea and God too, <HI>he could not be ju&s;t and righteous, and like him&s;elfe, unle&s;&s;e he a&s;&s;i&s;ted them to de&s;troy the Sectarian Army,</HI> as they cal'd us: to &s;uch an height of blindne&s;&s;e and madne&s;&s;e were they lifted up, ma|king true the proverb,
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Prov. 26.28.</NOTE> <HI>a flattering mouth worketh ruine.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Henry</HI> the 2. hearing <HI>Menz</HI> his Citie to be taken, u&s;ed this bla&s;phemous &s;peech; <HI>I &s;hall never</HI> (quoth he) <HI>love God any more, that &s;uffered a Citie &s;o deare to me, to be taken from me.</HI> I am &s;o far from wi&s;hing, that any of them &s;hould be given up to &s;uch gall of bitterne&s;&s;e, and power of darkne&s;&s;e, as to bla&s;pheme the God of Heaven, becau&s;e of their pains and their &s;ores, as I unfeignedly de&s;ire (and my prayer to God for them &s;o is) that they may &s;ee, how the Lord, to whom they have again and again appealed, is again&s;t them and their Cau&s;e, as being come to them to judgment,
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Mal. 3.5.</NOTE> <HI>a &s;wift witne&s;&s;e again&s;t the &s;orcerers again&s;t the adulterers, &amp; again&s;t fal&s;e &s;wearers.</HI> And therefore they &s;hall do well, to
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Deut. 17.13.</NOTE> <HI>heare and feare, and doe no more pre&s;umptuou&s;ly.</HI></P>
<P>The Prophet <HI>David</HI> &s;aith,
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 77.19.</NOTE> <HI>Thy way is in the Sea, and thy path in the great waters.</HI> In a Sea-voyage, there are no lanes, no foot-paths, no print of wheels, no high Mercuries to direct the Marriners, all their direction mu&s;t be fetched from the Pole and Stars, compared with the card and com|pa&s;&s;e, and touched needle. It were to be wi&s;hed, that &s;ome men (for their owne &s;ake, and the &s;ake of others) would look le&s;&s;e upon the rotten po&s;t of the Covenant, the humane Kirk, and the Lordly di&s;cipline, and &s;ee more of <HI>Gods foot|&s;teps
<PB N="11" REF="8">and goings in his &s;anctuary:</HI> how he bows the Heavens and comes down, and darkne&s;&s;e is under his feet, when he ari&s;es: how his Enemies are &s;cattered, and the wicked peri&s;h at the pre&s;ence of God. Are the unrea&s;onable creatures cal'd up|on,
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 96.11, 12, 13.</NOTE> <HI>heaven and earth, the &s;ea, the field, and all trees of the wood,</HI> to rejoyce and be glad, becau&s;e the Lord judgeth the world with righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and the people with his truth? &s;hould not man more abundantly utter the memory of his great goodne&s;&s;e, &s;ing of his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and talk of his power. Now, wherein is this <HI>great goodne&s;&s;e, righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and power of God</HI> more &s;een, then when God hath <HI>his way in the Sea,</HI> &s;peaks from Heaven; that is, being appeal'd unto as the &s;upreame Judge, and call'd upon to give &s;entence in a Cau&s;e depending between two Nations; he &s;peaks out, and gives &s;entence, yea &s;o
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Job 37.4.</NOTE> <HI>thundreth with the voyce of his Excellency,</HI> as our Enemies them&s;elves, being Judges, they mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, it is a Divine voyce, a God &s;peaking, the righteous judgment of the mo&s;t high.
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 107.4<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>Who &s;o is wi&s;e, &amp; will ob&s;erve tho&s;e things, even they &s;hall under&s;tand the loving kindne&s;&s;e of the Lord.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. There is not a &s;urer evidence of the Lords pre&s;ence with a people, and pleading their Cau&s;e, then when in the way of his providence he makes the unrea&s;onable creatures &s;ea&s;onably &s;erve for their comfortable deliverance and &s;afe|ty. When he
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Dan. 6.22.</NOTE> <HI>&s;topt the Lyons mouths,</HI>
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Dan. 3.27.</NOTE> <HI>re&s;traind the violence of the fire,</HI>
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 114.3.</NOTE> <HI>Cau&s;ed the &s;ea to flie, &amp; Jordan to run back.</HI> What was &s;hewed here? <HI>That the Lord</HI>
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 109.31.</NOTE> <HI>&s;tands at the right hand of the poore, to &s;ave him from tho&s;e that condemn his &s;oule.</HI> Again, when
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Nah. 1.3.</NOTE> <HI>the Lord hath his way in the &s;torm:</HI> When
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Judg. 5.20.</NOTE> <HI>the &s;tars in their cour&s;es &s;hall fight again&s;t Si&s;era,</HI> and
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 10.11.</NOTE> <HI>great &s;tones from heaven &s;hall be ca&s;t downe upon the heads of the</HI> Canaanites: when the Lord vi&s;iteth
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 29.6.</NOTE> <HI>with thunder, and with earth-quake, and great noi&s;e; with &s;torm and tempe&s;t, and the flame of devouring fire:</HI> What is here &s;ignified? That he is angry with tho&s;e a|gain&s;t whom he thus fighteth, takes them for his Enemies, and that they have a &s;infull and unrighteous cau&s;e.</P>
<P>What a cleare Character and &s;ign the Lord gave our Ar|mie, of owning them and us, and the Cau&s;e for which they
<PB N="12" REF="9">fought, Our po&s;terity after us &s;hall have cau&s;e to remember, and to ble&s;&s;e God for it: Thus it was.</P>
<P><HI>&V;pon Saturday,</HI> Augu&s;t 30. <HI>we marched from</HI> Mu&s;cleburgh <HI>to</HI> Heddington, <HI>where by that time we had got the Van brigade of our Hor&s;e, and our Foot and Train into their Quarters, the Enemie was marched with that exceeding expedition, that they fell upon the Reed-forlorn of our Hor&s;e, &amp; put it in &s;ome di&s;order: And indeed, had like to have engaged our Reer-brigade of Hor&s;e, with the whole Army, had not the Lord by his providence put a cloud over the</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Luna clariore paene coelo vi&s;a langue&s;cere.</HI> Tac. Aon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">. l. 1.</NOTE> <HI>Moon, thereby giving us opportunitie to draw off tho&s;e Hor&s;e to the re&s;t of the Armie;</HI> So his Excellency. From ano|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">er
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">In a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">|tive <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> friend Col. <HI>O|verton</HI> Gover|nour of Hull.</NOTE> hand, thus; <HI>The Enemie (unknown to us) attended upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> right wing, and in the Evening drew up a &s;trong party upon our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">cer guard, and might, probably, have &s;poiled them, if not provi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">tially prevented by the over-&s;hadowing clouds, which &s;o eclip|&s;ed the Moone, as thereby a period was put to the Enemies motion, untill the Skie was cleared,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>A little before day, the darkene&s;&s;e is greate&s;t: When our &s;treights and troubles are at the highe&s;t, then is our deliverance neare&s;t at hand. In &s;ick per&s;ons we &s;ee it com|meth to pa&s;&s;e, that they think there is no hope of life; when the Phy&s;itians and &s;tanders by &s;ee certaine and undoubted &s;ignes of health. When
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 23.24.</NOTE> <HI>Saul and his men compa&s;&s;ed David and his men round about to take them:</HI> here was little hope of life: what way now could a man imagine of &s;afety to <HI>David?</HI> What probability, or po&s;&s;ibility in mans under&s;tanding, that he &s;hould e&s;cape? yet the Lord found out a way for him, and delivered him.</P>
<P>When the King of <HI>Syria</HI> &s;ent Hor&s;es and Chariots, and a great ho&s;t to apprehend <HI>Eli&s;ha,</HI> and they had
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">2 K. 6.14.</NOTE> <HI>compa&s;&s;ed the Gitie about,</HI> in which he was: What hope of life here? what way was there, in human Rea&s;on, for the Prophet to e&s;cape? Yet the Lord (who knowes how to d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">liver the godly out of temptations) had a doore open for him whereby to e&s;cape.</P>
<P>When the <HI>Scots</HI> Army &s;uddenly and unexpectedly fell up|on us, had many advantages; Our whole Army was like to be engaged, (not then in a capacity or po&s;ture to fight,
<PB N="13" REF="9">but rather as &s;heep to be led to the &s;laughter:) <HI>what hope of life here?</HI> who can &s;ee any way of comming out? As a man upon a Rock in the Sea, &s;ees only waters round about him, no land: &s;o is our pre&s;ent ca&s;e, we &s;ee nothing, but either fight or flye: <HI>Coacta &s;tabile ad praelium,</HI> we mu&s;t fight, and are forced to it, even in this &s;ad and hard condition. But the Lord, who hath his <HI>preventing ble&s;&s;ings of goodne&s;&s;e,</HI> comman|ded the Moone not to give her light, over-&s;hadowed her with his thick clouds, &s;o that the <HI>Scots</HI> are here left, like the <HI>Sodomites,</HI> in darkne&s;&s;e, groping for our men, as they did for <HI>Lot's</HI> hou&s;e, whil&s;t the Angels of the Lord put forth their hands, and pulled us in, under the &s;hadow of the Al|mighty.</P>
<P>Thus God was <HI>&s;eene in the Mount,</HI> an act of &s;peciall provi|dence, and &s;ufficient to convince any Adver&s;ary, that the Lord was with us and with our Cau&s;e, unle&s;&s;e he be like un|to him who &s;aid, <HI>I will not be convinced, though I am con|vinced.</HI></P>
<P>Indeed, &s;ome men are like <HI>Squint-eyes;</HI> if you &s;et a booke direct before them, they cannot read a word, nor &s;ee a let|ter, though it be a large and faire print; but hold the booke <HI>&s;ide-way,</HI> then they can read very well, and &s;ee even the lea&s;t and &s;malle&s;t point. Such mercies and deliverances as are be|fore their eyes, and wherein the power, goodne&s;&s;e, ju&s;tice and faithfulne&s;&s;e of God mo&s;t &s;hine forth, and which look mo&s;t fully and directly at his glory, tho&s;e, their <HI>&s;quint-eyes</HI> cannot &s;ee.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Quid non mortalia pecto|racoges? Auri &s;acra fam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</HI> Virg. Eneid. 3.</NOTE> But for others which come in <HI>&s;ide-way,</HI> that is, advance their Intere&s;t, help to hold up their un&s;ancti|fied places, and &s;tandings; their pomp, pride, Lordli|ne&s;&s;e, bring them in Corn and Wine, &amp;c. The&s;e <HI>&s;ide-way</HI> ble&s;&s;ings, whether Victories, or what el&s;e, they can &s;ee, and will read them, and in their Churches too, and keep dayes of <HI>publique Thanksgiving</HI> in remembrance of them, If the State command it,
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 26.11.</NOTE> <HI>Lord, when thy hand is lifted up they will not &s;ee: but they &s;hall &s;ee, and be a&s;hamed, for their envy towards thy people, yea the fire of thine enemies &s;hall devoure them.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. Not onely hath the Lord given us this great Victory,
<PB N="14" REF="10">but with it hath happily brought to light many remarkable things, whereby is di&s;covered the gro&s;&s;e hypocri&s;ie, fal&s;e|hood, and di&s;&s;imulation of the <HI>Scots,</HI> e&s;pecially &s;ome of their Church men, and that great <HI>Pro&s;elyte,</HI> their King, which is another weighty Argument to prove Gods taking our part and Cau&s;e again&s;t them.</P>
<P N="1">1. Since the Victory, &s;ome of their Officers and Souldiers have declared, that the hand of God was certainly again&s;t them, becau&s;e their King was con&s;trained to take the <HI>Co|venant,</HI> &amp; to own their <HI>Declaration</HI> altogether again&s;t his con|&s;cience: For, how&s;oever they well knew, that what&s;oever he did in this particular, would be contrary to his mind: Neverthele&s;&s;e, willing or not willing, do it he
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As puppets are moved wholly at his direction and bent that ex|te~ds or &s;lacks the &s;trings whereon they dance: And the blind <HI>Bay|ard</HI> ru&s;heth into the Bat|tle, which way he &s;hould goe he &s;ees not, &s;ave only his rider &s;purreth him: &s;o is this mans ca&s;e.</NOTE> mu&s;t, and &s;hall; how&s;oever (as was &s;aid) they knew, that therein he would di&s;&s;emble, and play the hypocrite and them&s;elves al&s;o.</P>
<P>It may &s;eeme &s;trange to all &s;incere and con&s;cientious peo|ple, that men <HI>&s;peaking &s;o much of religion, of the great Cau&s;e of God, of advancing the glorious name of Je&s;us, &amp;c.</HI> &s;hould act &s;o corruptly before God and men. Touching the hypocri|&s;ie and deep di&s;&s;imulation both of King &amp; people, the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The An&s;wer of the Parlia|ment of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> to a pa|per entituled a Declaration of the Kings Maje&s;tie, &amp;c. <HI>page</HI> 17.19.</NOTE> &s;ame in the Parliaments An&s;wer excellently is ob&s;erved.</P>
<P><HI>In the &s;pace almo&s;t of</HI> 24. <HI>hours to grow up in the full per&s;wa&s;ion of the Ju&s;tice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles contained in the Covenant, and to be able to declare that he hath not &s;worn, nor &s;ub&s;cribed them upon any &s;ini&s;ter intention and crooked de&s;ign, for attaining his own ends; and fixed a re&s;olution to per&s;i&s;t therein re|ally, con&s;tantly and &s;incerely all the dayes of his life.</HI></P>
<P>Againe, <HI>He that can on the</HI> 15. <HI>of</HI> Augu&s;t, <HI>hug all his Malig|nants and Popi&s;h party in his bo&s;ome, and lodge them in the &s;ecret Re&s;erves of his favour and love as his be&s;t friends, can now on the</HI> 16. <HI>(the day following) from the fulne&s;&s;e of per&s;wa&s;ion of the Ju|&s;tice and Equity of all the Heads and Articles of the Covenant, re|nounce and di&s;card them in the &s;ight of God and the world, and vow never to have any more to doe with them.</HI> There needs no|thing to be added, for the matter it &s;elfe is like a filthy carka&s;&s;e, which will rot and con&s;ume away, though it be ne|ver toucht.</P>
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<P> Among the <HI>Myconians</HI> it was no un&s;eemely thing to be bald, becau&s;e the people were naturally &s;o; if their young King among other nations had thus di&s;&s;embled, it would have been judged a thing <HI>un&s;eemly,</HI> &amp; mo&s;t unchri&s;tian: but it &s;eems among <HI>Scots,</HI> fal&s;hood and hypocri&s;ie is no deformity, no blemi&s;h or fault in nature, they being <HI>naturally &s;o;</HI> I &s;peak not of all, but of the mo&s;t part, <HI>lyars, and a &s;eede of fal&s;hood.</HI></P>
<P>Phy&s;itians in &s;ome un&s;eemly convul&s;ions, wi&s;h their Pa|tients &s;hould looke on themselves in a gla&s;&s;e, which will cau&s;e them to &s;trive the more when they &s;hall &s;ee their owne deformity. If the <HI>Scots</HI> would but looke here upon them|&s;elves, and behold this deformity, I &s;hould thinke they would &s;trive the more again&s;t it; how&s;oever God &s;ees their halting and double-dealing, and hath already &s;hewed his great indignation again&s;t them for it. Some of them &s;ay
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In a letter to his Excel|lency.</NOTE> <HI>God hath hid his face for a while from the &s;ons of Jacob;</HI> but by your leave, <HI>Jacob's</HI> &s;onnes are
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 63.8.</NOTE> <HI>children that will not lye,</HI> they will not
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 28.15.</NOTE> <HI>make lies their refuge, and under fal&s;hood hide them&s;elves:</HI> they will not
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4.2.</NOTE> <HI>&s;peak lies in hypocri&s;ie,</HI> but
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Zech. 8.16.</NOTE> <HI>e|very man the truth to his neighbour:</HI>
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Zech. 8.3.</NOTE> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem &s;hall be called the City of truth.</HI> If men tru&s;t in vanity, and &s;peak lies, conceive mi&s;chiefe, and bring forth iniquity: if there be tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion and lying again&s;t the Lord, and a departing a|way from our God, &s;peaking oppre&s;&s;ion and revolt, con|ceiving and uttering from the heart words of fal&s;hood. If judgement be turned away backward, and ju&s;tice &s;tandeth afarre of: If truth be fallen in the &s;treet, and equity cannot enter, God indeed wil then
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 59.2.</NOTE> <HI>hide his face from &s;uch a people,</HI> as the Prophet hath it, yea though they boa&s;t of a <HI>Cove|nant,</HI> and a <HI>Temple,</HI> title them&s;elves the <HI>Sonnes of Jacob,</HI> and &s;ay
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 65.5.</NOTE> <HI>&s;tand by thy &s;elfe, come not neer to me, for I am more ho|lie than thou.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Their di&s;&s;imulation each with other doth further ap|peare, and Gods judgment upon them likewi&s;e for it. <HI>No &s;ooner did the</HI> Scots <HI>King heare of the lo&s;&s;e of their Army, bu he prote&s;ted he was glad of it; and</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This was affirmed con|&s;ide~tly to the Lord Gen. by Major Gen. <HI>Straughams</HI> Trumpet.</NOTE> <HI>falling down on his knees, gave great thankes in the pre&s;ence of all about him, that they were &s;o de&s;troyed.</HI></P>
<PB N="16" REF="11">
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Stat. Hi&s;t.</HI> l. 8. c. 25.</NOTE> <HI>Plyny</HI> writes of a people called <HI>Tentarites,</HI> when they have taken a <HI>Crocodile,</HI> they will &s;o fright him with their words, and threats, as he is forct to ca&s;t up, and vomit out the prey which before he had &s;wallowed downe. If it &s;hould be granted, the <HI>Scots</HI> by their thundring threats of rejection, depo&s;ition, Sale, Excommunication, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> had &s;o terrified the young <HI>Crocodile</HI> (I &s;peake
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">It is u&s;uall in Scripture to re&s;emble Tyrants to Serpents, Dragons. <HI>Le|viathan,</HI> P&s;al. 74.13, 14. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 29.3. <HI>I&s;a,</HI> 27.3.</NOTE> in Scripture language) having gotten him among&s;t them, as he was forced to vomit up his owne &s;ins, and his Fathers, and Mothers &s;ins; all the ido|latries, adulteries, witchcrafts, &s;odomies, murthers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of his Ance&s;tors, to <HI>William the Ba&s;tard,</HI> as they make him &s;ay in his <HI>Declaration.</HI> Yet he knew how to lick up all againe, and to turne when occa&s;ion &s;hould be, to his former vomit, and wallowing in the mire.</P>
<P><HI>Germanicus</HI> (howbeit a Heathen) was &s;o affected to &s;ee his men ca&s;t away, as that he &s;aid
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Se tanti exitij reum clamita|ret, vix cohi|buere amici, quo minus eo|dem mari ope|teret,</HI> Tac. An|nal. l. 2.</NOTE> <HI>he onely was guilty of their death, and could hardly be &s;tayed by his Friends from ca&s;ting him|&s;elfe into the Sea.</HI> But their Kings happy <HI>Conver&s;ion,</HI> amount|ed not to &s;o much humanity, ingenuity, pitty, fellow-feel|ing, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> It &s;eems by this, he was at <HI>mo&s;t but a Phari&s;aicall Pro|&s;elite,</HI> of whome Chri&s;t &s;ayth
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 23.15.</NOTE> <HI>Yee</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">So did the <HI>Scots</HI> to make this man their Pro&s;elite.</NOTE> <HI>compa&s;&s;e Sea and Land to make one Pro&s;elite, and when he is made, ye make him two fold more the Child of Hell then your &s;elves.</HI> Some give the &s;ence of the place thus: the <HI>Pro&s;elite is two fold wor&s;e,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>what&s;o|ever he &s;aw evill in the Phari&s;ees, that he would learne and practi&s;e; but wherein they did well, and what was good, therein he followed them not.</HI> Such a <HI>Pro&s;elite</HI> their King &s;eems to be; he &s;ees them di&s;&s;emble, &amp; &s;eek to cozen the World, under glorious words of a <HI>holy Covenant,</HI> pure <HI>wor&s;hip, a zeale of God again&s;t &s;uper&s;titi|on, Here&s;ie, Prophanene&s;&s;e, &amp;c.</HI> This he learnes by heart, and &s;peaks it by rote, and lies, and di&s;&s;embles as fa&s;t as they: but for other things which he &s;ees among&s;t them, as are venera|ble, lovely, and of good report, we doe not under&s;tand he is this way inclined to follow their example.</P>
<P N="3">3. Remarkeable it is (and another proofe of Gods wit|ne&s;&s;ing again&s;t their Cau&s;e) how the <HI>Scots Prophets</HI>
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Lam. 2.14.</NOTE> <HI>have &s;eene vaine, and fooli&s;h things,</HI> fal&s;e <HI>Burthens and cau&s;es of bani&s;h|ment.</HI> The&s;e men, as our <HI>Generall</HI> hath well ob&s;erved, <HI>have
<PB N="17" REF="11">hindered the pa&s;&s;age of good things to the hearts of the People:</HI> And when much love hath been offered them in the Bowells of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>by good words,</HI> and faire Speeches, they have de|ceived the minds of the &s;imple, whereby they have brought the ju&s;t guilt of much blood upon their owne heads. And not onely like
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Jer. 28.1, 2, 3, 4.</NOTE> <HI>Hananiah,</HI> have &s;ome of them &s;ought out <HI>fal&s;e Vi&s;ions,</HI> Prophecying the de&s;truction of an Army, pro|mi&s;ing &s;afety, and Victory to theirs; but leaving the &s;ub|ject to which they were called, and taking to them <HI>the In|&s;truments of fooli&s;h Shepheards,</HI> they would give Orders to the Souldiery where to March, when to Fight, Coun&s;elling them contrary to the advice of their chiefe Officers, by which their <HI>ra&s;h and heady pre&s;umptions,</HI> many were overthrowne, and de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>It is &s;omewhere reported of the <HI>Indians,</HI> that if they &s;nuffe up into their No&s;trills the powder of the Herb <HI>Cohabba,</HI> they will &s;treightwayes run mad, and are ready to doe any bad thing. We can &s;hew it by experience, when Mini&s;ters leave off to Preach Chri&s;t, and meddle in State Affairs, and Worldly polities, will determine of civill powers, a&s;per&s;e the Government under which they live, and not be &s;ubject to the higher Powers (for all their &s;welling words of being <HI>the Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, ready to &s;peake in their Ma&s;ters &s;er|vice, and will refu&s;e no &s;uffering, &s;o they may fullfill their Mini&s;trey with joy.</HI>) Such as doe receive their <HI>Carnall Doctrines,</HI> are driven into a kind of fury, and madne&s;s, acting &s;trange things prejudiciall and de&s;tructive to the People among&s;t whome they live. Philo&s;ophers doe hold, if the inferiour &s;pheres were not rul'd, &amp; in a manner corrected by <HI>the highe&s;t,</HI> the &s;wiftnes of their motion would quickly fire the World. There are no men &s;o &s;wift of motion, as &s;ome of our Coat, and did not the higher &s;pheres wi&s;ely rule them, and many times correct them too, they would &s;oone &s;et on fire both Church, and State. <HI>Scotland</HI> at pre&s;ent can &s;ay &s;o by wofull experience, <HI>England</HI> would &s;ay no le&s;&s;e if her higher &s;pheres were as low and dull as theirs.</P>
<P N="4">4. This is to be added as a further manife&s;tation of God ju&s;t hand again&s;t their unrighteous Cau&s;e: To wit, wha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="18" REF="12">this Army was (I mean in their owne eyes) which the Lord by weakne&s;&s;e overthrew: All <HI>Covenanters,</HI> no
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As <HI>Gideons</HI> Ar|my was glorie+ous when it was &s;eparate from all the Cowardly, &amp; faint-hearted: So the <HI>Scots</HI> having outed, and routed all di&s;affected to the Cau&s;e of the Kirk, and Covenant, it mu&s;t needs be honourable~.</NOTE> Malig|nants, Sectaries, Papi&s;ts, an Army in point of <HI>Covenant, Re|formation</HI> (like the <HI>Spani&s;h Armado in</HI> 88. INVINCI|BLE:) An Army like <HI>Alberts,</HI> Duke of <HI>Saxony,</HI> called the <HI>Dye Groate Gaerde,</HI> the great Rod or Whip; &s;o this &s;hall be <HI>the Hammer of Hereticks, the Scourge of Schi&s;maticks, and Secta|ries.</HI> That is, being interpreted, the <HI>Arme of Fle&s;h,</HI> and in|&s;trumentall means to hinder the pa&s;&s;age of the Go&s;pell, &s;up|pre&s;&s;e the wayes of Chri&s;t, and power of godline&s;&s;e, and to advance humane in&s;titutions, formallity, Tyranny, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Indeed, &s;uch glorying there was in this reformed Army, having none in it but <HI>Sub&s;cribers to the Covenant, and the Prie&s;ts of the Lord, the &s;ons of Aaron being likewi&s;e among&s;t them: their e|nemies vaine men, &amp; Children of Belial, with whom were the golden Calves which the Parliament had made, &amp; who&s;e leader was the great Antichri&s;t.</HI> As the fooli&s;h and ignorant people did fully be|leive there would be little need for them to Fight, but &s;tand|ing &s;till they &s;hould &s;ee their Enemies fall before them. Be|ing dealt withall here not much unlike one <HI>Tammoran</HI> a Ja|cobine Fryer, who per&s;waded <HI>Joanillie, Ana&s;tros</HI> Boy, to kill the <HI>Prince of Orange,</HI> and for his encouragement gave him cer|taine Characters in paper, a&s;&s;uring him that he &s;hould goe invi&s;ibly, having the &s;ame about him: The Crue of the con|dition of this Army (having al&s;o the <HI>Kirks</HI> ble&s;&s;ing with it) &s;o tickled the ears of the people, as it was no other, then as a Chrame to bewitch them, cau&s;ing them
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Jer. 29.31.</NOTE> <HI>to tru&s;t in a lye,</HI> and <HI>for &s;ake their owne mercies.</HI></P>
<P>Among the <HI>Scythians,</HI> when their Prie&s;ts foretold an un|truth, they were carried along upon hurdles, full of heath, &amp; dry wood, drawne by Oxen, and manicled Hand and Foot, and burnt to death. My wor&s;t wi&s;hes towards the&s;e men, is <HI>Repentance from dead works,</HI> and that God will make them &s;ee how extreamly they have deluded and abu&s;ed the People. It was piou&s;ly and Chri&s;tianly &s;poken of our Generall in his Letter to them, <HI>The Lord pitty you,</HI> &s;ayth he: Truly I pitty them with my heart, and my Bowells yearn for them; ne|verthele&s;&s;e, being to &s;peake of their hypocri&s;ies and delu&s;i|ons,
<PB N="19" REF="12"><HI>in &s;o gro&s;ly di&s;&s;embling with God and his People</HI> (as the <HI>&s;ame Hand writes</HI>) I conceive it is my duty, having the Prophets, Apo&s;tles, and Chri&s;t him&s;elfe, for an example, to di&s;cover things in &s;uch a way as is be&s;t, and profitable&s;t to undeceive the people
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 29.16.</NOTE> <HI>Surely their turning of things up&s;idowne &s;hall be e|&s;teemed as the Potters Clay.</HI> Their filling of mens ears with the nau&s;eous noy&s;e of <HI>the Covenant, the cau&s;e of God, Reformati|on, the extirpation of Here&s;ie, Schi&s;me, Super&s;tition,</HI> is no other|wi&s;e (as they apply it) but <HI>hatching Cockatrice Eggs, and weaving the Spiders web:</HI> It is the very &s;ame which the Pro|phet calls
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 13.15.</NOTE> <HI>Dawbing with untempered Morter.</HI> When a man dwells in a ruynous hou&s;e, the <HI>Ma&s;on</HI> comes and Plai&s;ters it over, and makes him beleive that all is well, then the hou&s;e falls, and &s;mothers him: So by their lyes they make &s;ad the hearts of the righteous whom the Lord makes not &s;ad; that is,
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 59.15.</NOTE> <HI>he that departeth from evill,</HI> they brand him with the contemptible name of <HI>Sectary, Schi&s;matick, Regicide, Rebell,</HI> and &s;trengthen the hand of the wicked that he &s;hould not re|turne from his wicked way
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 7.3.</NOTE> <HI>They make their King glad with their wickedne&s;&s;e, and the Princes with their lyes.</HI> Hence the wrath of God ri&s;eth again&s;t them, <HI>cuts off</HI>
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 9.15.</NOTE> <HI>head and taile, Root and Branch,</HI> and there is no remedy,
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 2.7.</NOTE> <HI>Con&s;ider what I &s;ay, and the Lord give ye under&s;tanding in all things.</HI></P>
<P N="7">7. Neither was it without a &s;peciall providence of God that our WORD &s;hould be the LORD OF HOSTS, theirs, THE COVENANT: Here now lay the great Cau&s;e betwixt us and them, They for the <HI>Covenant,</HI> we for <HI>The Lord of Ho&s;ts,</HI> and as the Cau&s;e thus &s;tood betwixt us, &s;o the Lord by a mighty hand, gave a remarkable Witne&s;&s;e from Heaven, on who&s;e &s;ide the truth and right was. For as
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">As the hand of God upon that Idol was &s;ufficient to convince the <HI>Phili&s;tims</HI> of the vanity of it, an their madne&s;&s;e: yet the were ra|ther harden|ed in their I|dolatry by it then reclaim|ed: So I feare will be the condition here of &s;ome.</NOTE> <HI>Da|gon</HI> fell when the <HI>Ark</HI> came neare it, &s;o fell the <HI>Covenant</HI> (as another <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gon</HI>) at the pre&s;ence of <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P>Since this great Victory, &s;ome of the <HI>Presbyterian Mini&s;ters</HI> here, have openly declared, that there was an <HI>Achan</HI> in the <HI>Scots Army,</HI> it is true, there was &s;o indeed, but what was that <HI>Achan?</HI> Seing they t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> us not, I &s;hall doe it for them; the <HI>Cherem,</HI> or <HI>Cur&s;ed thing</HI> (I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ake it) was the <HI>Covenant;</HI> this &s;hould have beene de&s;troy<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, and therefore &s;eing their <HI>Cau&s;e</HI>
<PB N="21" REF="13">was the <HI>Covenant,</HI> and the Covenant <HI>Anathema,</HI> no marvaile they fell in the day of Battail. Now that the <HI>Reader</HI> may be of the &s;ame Opinion with me, I &s;hall lay downe many Rea|&s;ons for it. But before I &s;peake of them, I de&s;ire that the&s;e things may be taken notice of.</P>
<P N="1">1. I have
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In a Booke entituled, <HI>The &s;nare is broken.</HI></NOTE> el&s;ewhere clearly proved that the <HI>Covenant</HI> is &s;ick of <HI>Jehorams Di&s;ea&s;e,</HI> the Bowells of it are fallen out. It is a <HI>Covenant</HI> like <HI>Mu&s;grum,</HI> or <HI>Toad-&s;toole,</HI> though it grow, it hath no root; not a word or warrant in holy Scripture, for its ju&s;tification, either in reference to the matter of it, or the manner, as it was given, and taken. It is an <HI>Oath</HI> indeed, but contrary to the definition of a religious &amp; lawfull <HI>Oath,</HI> a <HI>Covenant</HI> it is, but again&s;t the properties, u&s;e, and end of a &s;acred, or holy <HI>Covenant;</HI> the&s;e things we have fully mani|fe&s;ted by the word of God, and rea&s;ons, and have an&s;wered to what&s;oever probablie may be &s;aid in the defence thereof.</P>
<P N="2">2. How&s;oever they have <HI>&s;et up Altars to</HI> THAT SHAME|FULL THING, and bow their knee before it; yet have not any of them to this day (and I de&s;ire
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">I hope &s;uch as feare God, and have by others been &s;educed and deluded about this <HI>Covenant,</HI> will now have their eyes o|pen. It gives ju&s;t cau&s;e to the buyer to &s;u&s;pect his wares are nought, who is not willing to bring them forth to light for trial.</NOTE> all men in all pla|ces to ob&s;erve it well) fairly appeared in the behalfe of it, as taking it part by part, and proving every part. I &s;ay it a|gaine, (as yet) they never came &s;o nigh the <HI>Covenant</HI> as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o prove, eyther the Ground-work, matter, or forme of it ju&s;ti|fiable. That which they doe, is thus, they tell us, <HI>The Ge|nerall A&s;&s;embly hath approved it:</HI> So the <HI>Reverend Synod of Di|vines in England,</HI> the <HI>Kirk allows it, Learned men of the reformed Churches beyond Sea con&s;ent to it.</HI> But the <HI>Church of England</HI> (as &s;ome call it) Re&s;olveth that all Coun&s;ells, and Synods, whither Provinciall, Nationall, or Oecumenicall
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Jer. 11.13.</NOTE> <HI>they may err, and have erred in things appertaining to God,</HI> and the &s;ame is profe&s;t by all Prote&s;tant Churches.</P>
<P><HI>King Henry</HI> the 8. put out the name of the Pope, but al|lowed &s;till his Laws. I know &s;ome are well content that Popes and Prelates &s;hould goe downe, how&s;oever they will walke in their &s;teps, as to be <HI>Lords over Gods Heritage, and have dominion over the faith and Con&s;ciences of men. Beza</HI> &s;ayth
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">De har. ci|vil. mag. puni|endis.</NOTE> <HI>that God never gave power to man for impo&s;ing Laws upon the Con|&s;cience, nor can indure that any be&s;ides him&s;elfe, &s;hould beare &s;way,
<PB N="22" REF="13">or dominion over the minds of men.</HI> Neverthele&s;&s;e, when the&s;e men &s;peake great, and &s;welling words, the KIRR, the GENERALL ASSEMBLY, the REVEREND SYNOD OF DIVINES; they looke now that men &s;hould
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Cajetan</HI> the Cardinall was wont to &s;ay, had it not bin for <HI>Luther,</HI> the Pope would have made the Germans eat gra&s;&s;e like Bea&s;ts: Now were it not but that God rai&s;eth up, &s;ome in&s;tru|ments to di&s;|cover the&s;e mens leger|demains, guiles, &amp; de|vi&s;es, they would in time make people &s;uch I dolls, &amp; &s;o bruiti&s;h, as to believe what&s;oever they &s;hould &s;ay, right or wrong.</NOTE> fall downe and wor&s;hip them, yeild &s;ubjection and obedience in points of faith, to what&s;oever is impo&s;ed upon them, under the&s;e big names, and titles, how&s;oever they bring nothing (neither can they) from the word of God, for the cleare ju&s;tification thereof.</P>
<P>But really, the <HI>Prie&s;ts of Rome</HI> (in this particular) deale more plainly and truely, and are truer to their owne princi|ples, then the&s;e men are. They &s;ay right out that the Pope, in things belonging to faith
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nullo ca&s;u er|rare pote&s;t.</HI> Be jarm. de. ju&s;t. l. 1. c. 7.</NOTE> <HI>he can by no po&s;&s;ible means err.</HI> when he &s;ets forth a Decree
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Divinitus illi praecu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;a e&s;t omnis via.</HI> Th: Bozius. l. 12. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ig. &amp;c. c. 16.</NOTE> <HI>God &s;toppeth every way unto him which might bring him into errour,</HI> &s;o that <HI>he never was, he never &s;hall be able to doe ought again&s;t faith.</HI> Now grant this, then what&s;oever he devi&s;eth, and impo&s;eth upon men, although there be not any Scripture brought to confirme it, yet there is no need to que&s;tion the &s;ame. The Mini&s;ters of the <HI>Church of England,</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> &s;ay, a <HI>Generall A&s;&s;embly,</HI> and <HI>Synod of Divines may err, and have erred in things appertaining to God.</HI> Neverthele&s;&s;e, Magi&s;terially, and Authoritatively, they will have their Acts and decrees received (as this <HI>Covenant</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o be the Covenant of God) though nothing doe appeare, wherefore it &s;hould be received, but <HI>ip&s;e dixit,</HI> their will, and bare word, and the great &s;ound of a <HI>Generall A&s;&s;embly.</HI></P>
<P>Thus <HI>Reader,</HI> I have thought good to mind thee of, to wit, how&s;oever the <HI>Presbyterian Mini&s;ters,</HI> both here, and el&s;ewhere, cry up the <HI>Covenant,</HI> and in their Pulpits make it halfe their work to &s;peake again&s;t <HI>Covenant-breakers,</HI> not|with&s;tanding they have not by the word of God ever &s;hew|ed the &s;ame to be lawfull. I &s;ay more (and will abide to it) there is not one of them &s;ingle,
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nunqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m va<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> it aut valebit facere contra fidem.</HI> Boz. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 16. c. 8.</NOTE> nor the whole <HI>Colledge</HI> of them together, that can prove it to be the <HI>Covenant of God.</HI>
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Pro. 14 15.</NOTE> <HI>The &s;imple beleiv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th every word, but the prudent man looketh well to his going.</HI> And now I come to the rea&s;ons, the <HI>Cove|nant</HI> being the <HI>Scots Cau&s;e,</HI> could not but incen&s;e <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts,</HI> to jealou&s;ie and wrath again&s;t them, con&s;idering the
<PB N="22" REF="14">foule, and gro&s;&s;e abu&s;e thereof, and to what bad, and ba&s;e u&s;es it is put: As,</P>
<P N="1">1. This <HI>Covenant</HI> (as it wanders like <HI>Cain</HI> in the earth) is now made a common Strumpet, as the Prophet &s;ayth
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Eze. 16.15.</NOTE> <HI>openeth her feet to every one that pa&s;&s;eth by.</HI> It's a cover for e|very pot,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">A <HI>Scotch</HI> Ar|my is rai&s;ed to invade <HI>England,</HI> and by the <HI>Cove|nant</HI> lawfull: and by the &s;ame <HI>Covenant</HI> is unlawfull, when the Kirk cannot prevaile to have what Generall they plea&s;e.</NOTE> a Fidler for all Companies, a Cloak to any de|&s;igne; it's like a <HI>Dutch-mans hou&s;e,</HI> you may turne it up, or down, wear it which way or how you wil. As it wil fit a <HI>Pre&s;|byterian,</HI> &s;o it will &s;erve a Cavaleer, or a Malignant likewi&s;e, and as well: their King and his party, by it, can as fairly carry on their intere&s;t of Tyranny, and Idolatry, as the o|ther their way (which they fal&s;ly call) <HI>the cau&s;e of God.</HI> And why not? For may not the former, abounding in their owne &s;ence, and taking the liberty which the later doe, &s;ay, <HI>the Church of Rome is be&s;t reformed,</HI> according to the <HI>word of God,</HI> and by the <HI>Covenant:</HI> they are bound in their places to &s;eek the extirpation of the <HI>Presbyterian-Church, Mi|ni&s;try, wor&s;hip, &amp; Government, as Hereticall, Factious, Schi&s;matical. Co&s;mus Medicis,</HI> Duke of <HI>Tetruria,</HI> gave <HI>two Anchors</HI> for his impre&s;&s;ion, with this word, <HI>Duabus,</HI> meaning it was good to have <HI>two holds.</HI> This Covenant carries the like <HI>device,</HI> or <HI>Coat-Arms, two holds,</HI> yea ten, and they may be u&s;ed any way, put * forward, or backward, as men plea&s;e, and Politici|ans know how to turne and wind them &s;o.</P>
<P N="2">2. That the <HI>Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> was again&s;t <HI>the Covenant,</HI> the <HI>Scots Cau&s;e,</HI> no marvaile, for if we will take the <HI>Presby|terian &s;ence</HI> of it, the <HI>Covenant</HI> enjoynes men to de&s;troy the Churches and people of God, and to &s;uppre&s;&s;e the gifts of God, and the Spirit of Chri&s;t in his Saints, and Servants. Yet &s;o <HI>(Caut&eacute; &s;i non ca&s;t&eacute;)</HI> as <HI>Nero</HI> cladded the Chri&s;tians in Bears skins, when he perceived the Ma&s;tives otherwi&s;e would not devoure them: &s;o this <HI>great wickedne&s;&s;e</HI> (in the
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">This is the Covenant Tongue. <HI>By this Covenant-Oath all Inde|pendents ought to be expelled from the hou&s;e of Parliament: yea not to &s;it in any Court of Judicatory, to heare votes, &amp; to determin the weighty cau&s;es of Religion, &amp; Church Refor|mation, but as offen&s;ive Rubs, &amp; Remoras to he removed, &amp; onely &s;ound Presbyters, Lords &amp; Com|mons to Rule.</HI> The implety of Impunity pag. 12. It &s;eems the Covenat in a Presbyterian &s;ence de&s;troys a man in things out|ward, and temporall, as well as things &s;pirituall, &amp; inward.</NOTE> <HI>Covenant Tongue</HI>) mu&s;t be called, <HI>the extirpation of He|re&s;ie and Schi&s;me,</HI> and under that colour men may act the highe&s;t per&s;ecution, and the <HI>Covenant</HI> will allow it. It is &s;aid, that the comming up of the Preaching Fryars, was purpo&s;ely to &s;uppre&s;&s;e the Truth; and <HI>Tiberius</HI> made <HI>Caligu|lus</HI> his Succe&s;&s;or, that he might de&s;troy the&s;e People. I will
<PB N="23" REF="14">not &s;ay that it was in any mans heart when this <HI>Covenant</HI> was fir&s;t devi&s;ed, that it &s;hould be a <HI>Snare,</HI> and a pit, whereby to de&s;troy true Religion, and the faithful&s;t Profe&s;&s;ors there|of; but this I will &s;ay, as it is now interpreted (and &s;ome would have it executed) one maine thing to be found in it is, <HI>the blood of the Prophets, and of the Saints, and of the &s;ouls of the poore innocents,</HI> being like the Idolls of the <HI>Samoeds,</HI> who&s;e mouths and eyes are all bloody: Or <HI>Hercules</HI> Image, which had a &s;tring in his Tongue, and a Club in his hand, <HI>inficiet,</HI> or <HI>interficiet,</HI> per&s;wade, or kill. I have &s;eldome heard of the like <HI>Covenant,</HI> unle&s;&s;e that of <HI>Charles</HI> the 5. who Vow|ed to make the Decrees of <HI>Trent,</HI> to be received by the Sword. <HI>When he maketh Inqui&s;ition for blood</HI>
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 9.12.</NOTE> <HI>he remembreth them, he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. This <HI>Covenant</HI> mu&s;t needs be one of the things which God hates, and is an abomination to him, becau&s;e it is
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Prov. 6.19.</NOTE> <HI>a fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e, that &s;peaketh lyes, and &s;oweth di&s;cord among bre|thren.</HI> The u&s;e &amp; end of a lawful oath (as <HI>Pareus</HI> &s;aith)
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Vt lites &amp; controver&s;iae fi|manter Com|ment. ad heb.</HI> c. 6.16.</NOTE> is <HI>that debates and controver&s;ies may cea&s;e.</HI> So the Apo&s;tle,
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Heb. 6.16.</NOTE> <HI>An oath is the end of all &s;trife.</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">On the 3. Com: p. 75.</NOTE> <HI>The taking of an Oath</HI> (&s;aith Mr. <HI>Elton) &s;erves to further brotherly love, and to confirm lawfull peace and &s;o|ciety between party &amp; party, Countrey &amp; Countrey, Kingdome &amp; Kingdome:</HI> And a little after, <HI>that Controver&s;ies which hinder love, &amp; Chri&s;tian charity, may be ended.</HI> So &dagger; <HI>Blakewel,</HI> word for word: What a <HI>Make-bate</HI> this <HI>Covenant</HI> is between man and man, Family and Family, Church and Church, Nati|on and Nation, I may &s;peak the le&s;&s;e, con&s;idering our pre|&s;ent &s;ad experience &s;hewes it abundantly. It is no
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 54 10</NOTE> <HI>Covenant of peace,</HI> but an <HI>I&s;hmaelite,</HI> who&s;e <HI>hand is again&s;t every man.</HI> As flyes &s;ticking to a &s;ore hinder the healing; &s;o this <HI>Covenant</HI> (as a noi&s;ome flie) keeps open the differences and breaches between brethren and neighbours, ob&s;tructing the recovery and cure thereof. <HI>Gideon's</HI> Altar and En&s;igns did cary this motto:
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Judg. 6.23. New Tran&s;la. marg.</NOTE> JEHOVAH SHALOM, that is, <HI>the Lord &s;end peace:</HI> but on the En&s;igns and Colours of the <HI>Covenant,</HI> is engraven the <HI>marke of the bea&s;t,</HI> WARRE AGAINST THE SAINTS, covered over with a &s;petious pretence,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See the Motto upon the Scots Co|lours hanging at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI></NOTE> <HI>For God and the King, for Religion, the Church, &amp;c.</HI> As the
<PB N="24" REF="15">Turks &s;ay, it is for <HI>Mahomet</HI> that they make war upon the Chri&s;tians? and the Popes plead it, <HI>in ordine ad deum,</HI> that they &s;upre&s;&s;e the truth, and per&s;ecute the profe&s;&s;ors of it: &s;o they make the <HI>Covenant to &s;peak lies in hypocri&s;ie. Woe unto them that call evill good, that put darkne&s;&s;e for light, and bitter for &s;weet.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. That the <HI>Scots Covenant,</HI> and &s;o their <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> was evill, and therefore <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> fought again&s;t it; appears fur|ther thus: As it is a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Canem rabi|dum.</HI> Hier: Catalog. Script. Eccle.</NOTE> <HI>mad dog</HI> (as <HI>Julian</HI> was cal'd) biting where it &s;hould not; &s;o it is a <HI>dumb dog</HI> in the <HI>Presbyterian &s;ence,</HI> not barking or biting where it &s;hould doe, and where there is ju&s;t cau&s;e and rea&s;on for it. The Scripture &s;ayth
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 9.6.</NOTE> <HI>He that &s;heddeth mans blood, by man &s;hall his blood be &s;hed.</HI>
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg"><HI>Num.</HI> 35.31.</NOTE> <HI>Ye &s;hall take no &s;atisfaction for the life of a Murtherer which is guilty of death, but he &s;hall &s;urely be put to death.</HI>
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 19.13.</NOTE> <HI>Thine eye &s;hall not pitty him, &amp;c.</HI>
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Pro.</HI> 28.17.</NOTE> <HI>Let no man &s;tay him from the Pit.</HI> Now, how&s;oever it be acknowledged by the <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> that the late King was <HI>a man of blood,</HI> and did mo&s;t unnatu|rally murther, and kill many thou&s;ands of his be&s;t Subjects, yet they &s;ay by the Covenant <HI>Oath,</HI> men were bound, (although clearly again&s;t the Law of God) to pre&s;erve his per&s;on, and not to put him to death, notwith&s;tanding all the innocent blood which he had &s;hed, and other high crimes committed. As his <HI>Excellency</HI> &s;ayth, away <HI>with the Covenant if this be &s;o;</HI> a Heathen could &s;ay,
<NOTE N="&dagger;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nihil hone|&s;tum e&s;&s;e pore&s;t quod ju&s;ticia vacet.</HI> Cicero. offic. lib. 3.</NOTE> <HI>Nothing can be hone&s;t which wants ju&s;tice.</HI> And 'tis a Maxime in Law
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Contractus vel pacta con|tra legem pro|hibitam, n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&ugrave;nt jure nulla.</HI> L. non dubinm. C. de 11. l. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bemujs nul|li.</NOTE> <HI>Prohi|bited contracts, or Covenants again&s;t Law, are by right nothing.</HI></P>
<P>Againe,
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Conditio tur|pis vel impo&s;&s;i|bilis vitiat a|ctum.</HI> de Verb. Obligat.</NOTE> <HI>A condition evill, or impo&s;&s;ible, makes the Action voyd.</HI> Our Divines al&s;o affirme the like
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Si factum. &s;it juramentum de rebus quae non &s;unt no&s;trae pocetatis ill<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">:</HI> Al&s;ted: Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">: c. 15. p. 288.</NOTE> <HI>An Oath is unlaw|full, being taken concerning things which are not in our power.</HI>
<NOTE N="&dagger;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nihil hone|&s;tum e&s;&s;e pore&s;t quod ju&s;ticia vacet.</HI> Cicero. offic. lib. 3.</NOTE> <HI>It is Tyranny</HI> (&s;ayth another) <HI>to oblige others unto impo&s;&s;ible things.</HI> So <HI>Rivel,</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Tyrannicum e&s;t ad res non po&s;&s;ibiles ali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s ad &s;tringere.</HI> Pareus Com. in Gen. 24. <HI>v.</HI> 8</NOTE> <HI>No man ought to be con&s;trained by Oath to act any thing that is unju&s;t.</HI> His Rea&s;on is, <HI>Becau&s;e obedience to Gods Commandements (which never di&s;agree among them&s;elves) is to be preferred before all things.</HI> That it is not in mans power to pre&s;erve the life of a Murtherer (whither King or Sub|ject) the word of God clearly holds it forth (and &s;o much I have in another place proved,) and therefore it is Tyranny
<PB N="25" REF="15">in the <HI>Covenant</HI> to force men to do that which is not in their power, neither can they do it po&s;&s;ibly: Or if they &s;hould,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Nemo jura|mento cogi de|bet ad aliquid inique perpetra~|dum: Quia obe|dientia erga di|vina mandata (quae inter &s;e nunquam pug|nant) Omnibus e&s;t praeferenda. Explicat. de Catalog.</HI> 3. <HI>prae. p.</HI> 90.</NOTE> it were then a &s;infull and mo&s;t unju&s;t thing.
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Non tantum non obligat: &s;ed &s;i ob&s;ervetur, auget reatum.</HI> Ames. cont. l. 4. c. 22.</NOTE> <HI>Ame&s;ius</HI> goes further; <HI>If a man</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>&s;hould &s;weare that hee would not doe his duty and office, he is &s;o far in &s;uch a ca&s;e from keeping his oath, that keeping it, he encrea&s;eth his &s;in.</HI> So then, by this it appears, if men by the <HI>Covenant</HI> did bind them&s;elves not to doe what God required of them, and what their duty and office was to doe, (namely not to put a Murtherer and Tyrant to death) yet they ought not to keep &s;uch an unlawfull Oath or Covenant; but rather repenting of it, fulfill the Commandement and will of God:
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Pro. 13.14.</NOTE> <HI>The law of the wi&s;e is a fountaine of life to depart from the &s;nares of death.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. How&s;oever the <HI>Scots</HI> and &s;ome here cry up the <HI>Covenant,</HI> as they did the <HI>Image</HI> which fell down from <HI>Jupiter; Great is Diana of the Ephe&s;ians:</HI> Neverthele&s;&s;e (and let it be well minded) what the <HI>Covenant</HI> is, it is not yet known; not the <HI>Negative</HI> or <HI>Affirmative</HI> parts of it: neither can the <HI>Takers</HI> of it agree among them&s;elves about the particulars contained therin. Some think it was in <HI>taking,</HI> like the Jewi&s;h <HI>Manna</HI> in eating, of w^c^h a report goes, that it ta&s;ted as every one would have it: &s;o it is &s;uppo&s;ed, that the <HI>Covenant</HI> might be apply|ed every way, and to any thing, as men did de&s;ire to plea&s;e their pallat. But here was not that way which <HI>David</HI> de&s;i|red the Lord to lead him in,
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 27.11. Margent.</NOTE> <HI>A way of plainne&s;&s;e;</HI> here would be no
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Jer. 4.2. <HI>Juramentum licitum e&s;t, de rebus veriscerto cognitis</HI> Pola~. Syntag. l. 9. c. 23. p. 628.</NOTE> <HI>&s;wearing in judgment,</HI> that is, con&s;ideratly, knowingly, and under&s;tanding what they did. But here rather, the do|ctrine of <HI>blind obedience,</HI> and the <HI>Colliars faith</HI> was counte|nanced: and what
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ho&s;: Confut. Petti. c.</HI> 14. <HI>p.</HI> 18.</NOTE> <HI>Ho&s;ius</HI> &s;aith, <HI>ignorance in mo&s;t things is be&s;t of all: to know nothing is to know all things.</HI> And <HI>Cu&s;an;</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Obedientia irrationalis, e&s;t con&s;ummata &amp; perfecti&s;&s;ima, &s;cilicet, quando obeditur, &s;ine inqui&s;itione ra|tionis: &s;icut ju|mentum obedit domino &s;uo.</HI> Cu&s;an. Exer|cit. <HI>l.</HI> 6.</NOTE> <HI>Irra|tionall obedience is the fulle&s;t and perfecte&s;t; that is, when obedi|ence is &s;hewed, without enquiry or asking any rea&s;on as a bea&s;t o|beys his Ma&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>This <HI>blind obedience</HI> in taking the Covenant I much pitty, and how&s;oever the time of this ignorance God winked at; neverthele&s;&s;e let men take heed of <HI>pre&s;umptuous &s;ins,</HI> as not to plead for <HI>Baal</HI> again&s;t knowledg and con&s;cience: <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;t</HI> hath begun to ca&s;t dung in the face of it, &amp; he will every
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.18.</NOTE>
<PB N="34" REF="16">day more and more
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.18.</NOTE> <HI>declare his wrath from heaven again&s;t all ungodline&s;&s;e and unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of men, who hold the truth in un|righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. That the <HI>Covenant,</HI> the <HI>Scots Cau&s;e,</HI> was the <HI>Achan,</HI> who will not think &s;o, if he duly con&s;ider, how after a <HI>Scots trick,</HI> it &s;erves to make men hypocrites and lyars: Of their King, made to
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Qui ne&s;cit di&s;&s;imulare, ne&s;cit imperare.</NOTE> di&s;&s;emble before God and the world, and that by the <HI>Covenant.</HI> I &s;hall &s;peak no more, only it is worthy of note, as one &s;aith of <HI>Traytors,</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Proditores, etiam ijs quos anteponunt, in|vi&s;i &s;unt.</HI> Tacit. Annal. lib. 1.</NOTE> <HI>they are odius to tho&s;e, even who&s;e in&s;truments they are:</HI> So many men, although they make u&s;e of the <HI>Covenant</HI> (as a Traitor to further their de|&s;ign) yet is the &s;ame dete&s;ted, and hated by them: The Co|venant u&s;ually hath been taken, as men do phy&s;ick, in extre|mity, and for nece&s;&s;ity &s;ake; not but the purge is bitter and loath&s;om to them: &s;o in extremity to prevent <HI>&s;eque&s;tration and the Kinks cur&s;e,</HI> they have &s;wallowed it, but &s;ore again&s;t their wills. Neither would they have done &s;o, if nece&s;&s;ity had not been: As a mon&s;ter occa&s;ioneth griefe to tho&s;e that bred it; even &s;o, my mind gives me, the Covenant is now matter of &s;hame and &s;orrow to &s;ome, who had a chiefe hand in the fir&s;t promoting of it.</P>
<P N="7">7. Neither in the la&s;t place may it be forgotten, as ano|ther cau&s;e, wherefore the <HI>Covenant</HI> could not &s;tand before <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts:</HI> Namely, becau&s;e (as it is u&s;ed) it &s;erves to heighten and &s;trengthen formality, prophane&s;&s;e, and loo&s;ene&s;&s;e of life: What an enemy it is unto <HI>Go&s;pel-truths,</HI> and the power of godline&s;&s;e, I have &s;hewed before: this only here may be added, how it leads men unto <HI>humane Formes,</HI> and builds them in a carele&s;&s;e, &s;piritle&s;&s;e, and fruit|le&s;&s;e wor&s;hip. The <HI>Spanyards</HI> &s;ay of <HI>Aquinas,</HI> he that knows not him, knows not any thing; and he that knowes him, knows all things. The <HI>Covenant</HI> is the <HI>Scots Aquinas;</HI> he that takes it is no Malignant, no Sectary or Schi&s;matick, but
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Vox pietatis, excu&s;atio ini|quitatis.</HI> Aug. in P&s;al. 38.</NOTE> a <HI>geud Chri&s;tian:</HI> who&s;oever refu&s;eth it, is an <HI>enemie to the Kirk, the work of Reformation, and the great cau&s;e of God:</HI> &s;o that the <HI>Covenant</HI> is lifted up above faith, and the grace of God in Chri&s;t; as if it were that <HI>man of &s;inne,</HI> oppo&s;ing and <HI>exalting it &s;elfe above all that is called God.</HI> The <HI>Turk</HI> keeps a lock on
<PB N="35" REF="16">the crown of his head, thinking he &s;hall be drawn up into heaven by it: &s;uch is the vanity and madne&s;&s;e of &s;ome, as they think God loves them, and that they &s;hall be &s;aved, and upon this account, becau&s;e they are <HI>Covenanters,</HI> not having be&s;ides, any appearance of piety, or fear of God before their eyes.
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Jer. 50.38.</NOTE> <HI>It is a land of graven Images, and they are mad upon their idolls.</HI>
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 7.12.</NOTE> <HI>I will not be with you any more, except ye de&s;troy the accur&s;ed from among you.</HI></P>
<P>Having thus &s;hewed, that <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> was above the <HI>Covenant,</HI> and why again&s;t it: I &s;hall now in the Clo&s;e, humbly propound &s;omething to the con&s;ideration of our State. The
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Numb. 21.8.</NOTE> <HI>brazen S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rpent,</HI> how&s;oever &s;et up by Gods appointment, yet afterward was
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">2 King. 18.4.</NOTE> <HI>broken in pieces,</HI> being abu&s;ed to Idolatry. If this <HI>Covenant</HI> had been of God (which never was but
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">So the Tem|ple, how&s;oe|ver built by Gods comma~|dement; yet being abus'd, and made an idoll (as this <HI>Covenant</HI> is) the Lord would have it to be de|&s;troyed.</NOTE> <HI>Nehu&s;htan,</HI> bras at fir&s;t) it being now made an <HI>Idol,</HI> &amp; like
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Judg. 8.27.</NOTE> <HI>Gideons ephod, a &s;nare to</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>England</HI> I mean; whether it be not fit (following the good example of that great Reformer <HI>Hezekiah</HI>) that it &s;hould be put downe by publique Authority: Methinks there &s;hould not any relick or monument of it remain in the Land, but what hangs up in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall:</HI> and the rather, &s;eeing <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> hath gone before us, and ca&s;t the fir&s;t &s;tone at the <HI>Hulalah.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>manna</HI> which the Lord gave <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> when it
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Exo. 16.20.</NOTE> <HI>&s;tanke and bred wormes</HI> (they having kept it again&s;t the word of the Lord) they threw it away. Flowers, though they pleas'd us wel when they were fre&s;h; yet when the &s;weetne&s;&s;s of them is lo&s;t, when they &s;tink, and are offen&s;ive, wee ca&s;t them off: Had this <HI>Covenant</HI> (like <HI>Manna</HI>) been good at fir&s;t, a lovely and &s;weet flower, (which never was:) Neverthe|le&s;&s;e, &s;eeing it is now a worm in our bowels, &amp; mo&s;t offen|&s;ive, &s;omething &s;hould be done in a publique way, to &s;hew our di&s;owning and rejection of it. I know that maxime in Logick,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ari&s;t. 2 Pol.</NOTE> <HI>tollatur abu&s;us, maneat u&s;us &s;eu &s;ub&s;tantia:</HI> but that rule cannot be applyed here, becau&s;e this <HI>Covenant</HI> was &s;inful and unlawful in the very matter and &s;ub&s;tance of it.
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 57.14.</NOTE> <HI>Ca&s;t ye up, ca&s;t ye up, prepare the way, take up the &s;tumbling-block out of the way of my people.</HI></P>
<P N="8"><PB N="28" REF="17"> 8. Concerning this Victory, it is further related, thus: <HI>They &s;taid only two &s;hocks, and &s;oone left their Train; their Foote threw downe their Armes, and both Hor&s;e and Foot ran &s;everall wayes.</HI></P>
<P>I have read of a certain mercenary Souldier, who would with many di&s;gracefull &s;peeches exclaim again&s;t great <HI>Alex|ander: Memmon</HI> the General of <HI>Darius</HI> Army lent him a blow with his lance, &s;aying, <HI>that he had hired him to fight again&s;t</HI> A|lexander, <HI>and not to raile at him.</HI> It is not credible, how the <HI>Scots</HI> Souldiers a&s;per&s;ed his <HI>Excellency</HI> with their bold and ba&s;e reproaches: but in Battle were like the <HI>Satyr,</HI> that win|ded his horn, and ran away from the &s;ound of it; fulfilling that &s;aying in the Prophet,
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 33.14.</NOTE> <HI>fearfulne&s;&s;e hath &s;urprized the hypocrites.</HI> And here was another clear demon&s;tration, that the Lord tooke our part; and by his acting and appearing in this manner again&s;t them, manife&s;ted him&s;elfe an Enemie to them and their <HI>Cau&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>It is u&s;ually Gods manner, when he comes to vi&s;it
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 10.6.</NOTE> <HI>an hy|pocriticall Nation,</HI> and purpo&s;eth to tread them downe like the mire of the &s;treet, for maintaining an unju&s;t <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> to &s;end
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Levit. 26.36.</NOTE> <HI>a faintne&s;&s;e into their hearts,</HI> and
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Jer. 49.5.</NOTE> <HI>bring a feare upon them,</HI>
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Ver&s;. 29.</NOTE> a feare <HI>on every &s;ide, and</HI>
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Eze. 7.18.</NOTE> <HI>horrour &s;hall cover them:</HI> then
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Job 12.5.</NOTE> <HI>he will take away the heart of the chiefe&s;t of them,</HI>
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Jer. 51.30.</NOTE> <HI>their might &s;hall faile,</HI>
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;a. 76.5.</NOTE> <HI>their &s;tout-hearted be &s;poiled, and none of the men of might &s;hall find their hands: their men</HI> (at &s;uch a time) <HI>&s;hall be as women,</HI> and
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 30.7.</NOTE> <HI>their &s;trength to &s;it &s;till.</HI>
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 13.7, 8</NOTE> <HI>All hands &s;hall be faint, and every mans heart &s;hall melt, and they &s;hall be affraid: Pangs and &s;orrowes &s;hall take hold of them, they &s;hall be in paine as a wo|man that travelleth; they &s;hall be amazed one at another, their fa|ces &s;hall be as flames.</HI></P>
<P>How this
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Job 5.21.</NOTE> <HI>dreadfull &s;ound</HI> comes in their ear, and
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 48.5, 6.</NOTE> <HI>through feare they ha&s;t away:</HI> It is</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Job 37.22.</NOTE> <HI>with God is terrible Maje&s;tie.</HI> Now
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">2 Chr. 14.14.</NOTE> <HI>the feare of him comes upon them,</HI> and
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Ex. 15.16.</NOTE> <HI>by the greatne&s;&s;e of his arme they are &s;till, and</HI>
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Mic. 7.17.</NOTE> <HI>affraid:</HI> When they heare,
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Judg. 7.20, 21.</NOTE> <HI>the &s;word of the Lord and of Gideon,</HI> all the ho&s;t runs, flyes, cryes
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Sam.</NOTE> <HI>woe unto us,</HI> who &s;hall deliver us out of the hand of this mighty God?
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Rev. 6.16.</NOTE> or hide us from the face of him that &s;itteth upon the throne,
<PB N="29" REF="17">and from the wrath of the Lamb? <HI>Why are thy valiant men &s;wept away? they &s;tood not, becau&s;e the Lord did drive them,</HI> Jer. 46.15.</P>
<P N="2">2. Trembling and angui&s;h &s;eizeth on them, becau&s;e their enemies are Gods friends. And how&s;oever at other times they &s;coffe the people of God, and &s;et light by them; yet in Battle, their appearance and pre&s;ence is terrible and dread|full to them.
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 32.</NOTE> <HI>I will make many people amazed at thee, and their Kings &s;hall be horribly affraid of thee.</HI>
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Deu. 2.25. &amp; 11.25.</NOTE> <HI>I will put the dread of thee, and the feare of thee upon Nations, who &s;hall heare report of thee, and &s;hall tremble.</HI>
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;. 2.9.</NOTE> <HI>Your terrour is fallen upon us, that all the Inhabitants of the land faint becau&s;e of you.</HI>
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;. 5.1.</NOTE> <HI>Their hearts melted, neither was their &s;pirit in them any more becau&s;e of the children of I&s;rael.</HI> Thus
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Job 17.8</NOTE> <HI>the innocent &s;hall &s;tirre him&s;elfe up a|gain&s;t the hypocrite:</HI> and how&s;oever behind their backs they &s;hall be called a <HI>Sectarian Army,</HI> and <HI>Anti-chri&s;ts &s;ouldiers:</HI> yet when they come face to face, they are a dread and a terror, and a great feare unto them: and no marvail, mark the rea|&s;on
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 14.5.</NOTE> <HI>for God is in the congregation of the righteous,</HI> and breaketh the bow, and cutteth the &s;pear in &s;under, and the Chariot he burneth with fire.</P>
<P>No marvail they throw away their Arms, and flie, Hor&s;e and Foot, when God &s;triketh their hearts with inward &s;tinging terrours: this was &s;ignified by the
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Exo. 23.20. Deut. 7.20. Jo&s;h. 24.12.</NOTE> <HI>hornets.</HI>
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Deut. 32.25.</NOTE> <HI>The &s;word without, and terrour within &s;hall de&s;troy.</HI> As a Theif flies before the pur&s;uer, and dares not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ight or look back, know|ing what he hath done, and how his condition is: &s;o men being con&s;cious to the fal&s;hood and inju&s;tice of their <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> have no courage in Battle; but through the horrour and dread of a guilty Con&s;cience, with &s;orrow and &s;hame flye before their enemies.</P>
<P N="4">4. Feare and faintne&s;&s;e is upon them, becau&s;e now they begin to con&s;ider the great things which the Lord hath done for their enemies: What remarkable deliverances and victories they have formerly had, how hee hath evermore ble&s;t the labours of their hands, and made them &s;ucce&s;&s;efull and pro&s;perous where&s;oever they come: This coming to
<PB N="38" REF="18">their mind (with thoughts of Gods revenging hand for|merly upon them forth i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">deceit and hypocri&s;ie, in acting the &s;ame thing which now they doe) it convinceth them that the others have a rightful cau&s;e: they, <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>haters of God, and fighters again&s;t God and Chri&s;t.</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Jer. 33.9.</NOTE> When the nations <HI>of the earth &s;hall heare all the good that I doe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nto thee, they &s;hall feare and tremble, for all the goodne&s;&s;e, and for all the pro&s;perity that I procure unto thee. Saul</HI> &s;eeing the Lord was with <HI>David,</HI>
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 18.28, 29.</NOTE> <HI>he was the more affraid of him:</HI> how&s;oever &s;ome men make no profitable and good u&s;e, in beholding Gods mighty Actings for his people; neverthele&s;&s;e, affraid they are of &s;uch with whom they &s;ee Gods pre&s;ence, and ap|pearance thus to be: As the Lord &s;aid of <HI>Noah</HI> and his &s;ons,
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Gen. 9.2.</NOTE> <HI>the feare of you, and the dread of you &s;hall be upon every bea&s;t of the earth:</HI> &s;o there fals and lies a dread and fear upon the&s;e men, although (as <HI>Saul</HI> did <HI>David</HI>) they hate them, and are ene|mies to them continually.</P>
<P N="5">5. And in a word, they are affraid
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 65.8.</NOTE> at <HI>Gods tokens,</HI> what de&s;olations he hath made in the earth. <HI>Who knows the power of thine anger;</HI> whil&s;t they con&s;ider what others have &s;uffe|red, for hypori&s;ie, fal&s;hood, cruelty, and other mi&s;demea|nors, they cannot but quake and tremble to think how the like wrath is powring out now upon them; yea greater, deeper, heavier, being for hypocri&s;ie and prophanene&s;&s;e of life, far wor&s;e and viler than many Nations whom the Lord hath &s;cattered and de&s;troyed for &s;uch &s;ins.
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 66.5.</NOTE> <HI>Come and &s;ee the works of God, he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.</HI>
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 42.18.</NOTE> <HI>Heare ye deafe, and looke ye blind that ye may &s;ee.</HI></P>
<P>Again, on the other hand, if they are the people, and it be the cau&s;e which the Lord loves and likes, and wil defend, he will in Battle put courage and &s;trength into them,
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">Lev. 26.6.</NOTE> <HI>None &s;hall make them affraid,</HI>
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 112.8.</NOTE> <HI>their heart is e&s;tabli&s;hed, and they &s;hall not be affraid untill they &s;ee their de&s;ire upon their enemies:</HI> And no marvell, for
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 12.2.</NOTE> <HI>the Lord JEHOVAH is their &s;trength,</HI>
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">Deut. 7.21.</NOTE> <HI>a mighty and terrible God among them,</HI>
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 74.12.</NOTE> <HI>working &s;alvation in the mids of the earth.</HI> As one &s;et on a high rock, or &s;tanding upon a &s;ure and invincible Tower may looke and laugh at all his enemies below, not caring what they can do po&s;&s;ibly again&s;t
<PB N="39" REF="18">him, how fiercely and furiou&s;ly &s;oever they a&s;&s;ault him: &s;o they, who have God for their rock and tower, though they
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 23.4.</NOTE> <HI>walk in the valley of the &s;hadow of death;</HI> though their enemies are two to one, yea ten to one, and have all the convenien|cies, accommodations, and advantages that their hearts can wi&s;h: yet they need feare no evill; for he
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 118.7.</NOTE> that takes their part with them that helps them, wil let them &s;ee their de&s;ire upon them that hate them.
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 28.29.</NOTE> <HI>This al&s;o commeth from</HI> THE LORD OF HOST <HI>which is wonderfull in Coun&s;ell, and excellent in working.</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. If by the return of prayer we may learn any thing of the mind of God: in this likewi&s;e we have a full and cleare te&s;timony given us, that the Lord loved us, and approved our Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>This thing his <HI>Excellency</HI> hath well ob&s;erved:
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In his letter to the Mini|&s;ters in <HI>Eden|burgh</HI> Ca&s;tle.</NOTE> <HI>Did not you</HI> (&s;aith hee) <HI>&s;olemnly appeale and pray? did not we &s;o? and &s;hall we after all the&s;e our prayers, fa&s;tings, teares, expectations and &s;olemn Appeals, call the&s;e bare Events? The Lord pitty you.</HI></P>
<P>Some men are like little children, who cannot read unle&s;&s;e it be in their owne Booke: what gracious An&s;wers and &s;peciall returns of prayer the Lord vouch&s;afes unto others; here they can &s;ee nothing of God, nothing of his power, goodne&s;&s;e, ju&s;tice, and faithfulne&s;&s;e; no|thing of his ju&s;tifying and owning a <HI>righteous Cau&s;e,</HI> and his ju&s;t di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t lying and fal&s;hood: It is only a <HI>bare Event</HI> which they behold, and nothing el&s;e; to &s;uch gro&s;&s;e darkene&s;&s;e of heart are they given up, and deli|vered over.</P>
<P>It was a law among the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians,</HI> that if any did fall &s;ick, he &s;hould ask coun&s;ell of tho&s;e, that had been vi&s;ited with the like &s;ickne&s;&s;e, by what meanes and way they were recovered. If you ask of
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Exo. 17.11.</NOTE> <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI>
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 56.9.</NOTE> <HI>David,</HI>
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 14.</NOTE> <HI>A&s;a,</HI>
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 20.</NOTE> <HI>Jeho|&s;aphat,</HI>
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">2 King. 19.</NOTE> <HI>Hezekiah,</HI> when they fought again&s;t their Ene|mies (who were more in number, and mightier then they) how out of weakne&s;&s;e were made &s;trong, waxed valiant in fight, &s;ubdued Kingdoms, and turned to flight the Armies of the Aliens: They would &s;ay, <HI>The Lord</HI>
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">1 Chr. 5.20.</NOTE> <HI>helped them, and delivered the enemies into their hands, becau&s;e they made their &s;up|plications and prayers unto him.</HI></P>
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<P> When God purpo&s;eth to be&s;tow any &s;peciall favour up|on his People, he moves their hearts before hand to pray for it: How the Lord prepared the heart, even filled the &s;ouls of many thou&s;and pretious people with the <HI>Spirit of Suppli|cation,</HI> it is well knowne, and our Army found the &s;trength, and fruit thereof, in the day of Battaile. When we &s;ee Clouds over our heads, loden, and full with raine, we think it will not be long before the Earth receive the ble&s; &s;ing of it from God. He that had &s;een what fullne&s;&s;e of God, what enlargment of the Spirit there was in Prayer for our Army, might through faith, have fore&s;een the Victory, and &s;aid, God will &s;end
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 34.26.</NOTE> SHOWRES OF BLES|SING,
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 68.9.</NOTE> a PLENTIFULL RAINE, <HI>Raine of Libe|rallities</HI> (as the Hebrew is) in giving Salvation to <HI>Eng|land.</HI> Men at Sea labour to bring them&s;elves upon &s;uch Points, or Ports, as they may receive good Wind to bring them home. We know
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 33.16, 17.</NOTE> <HI>there is no King &s;aved by the multi|tude of an Ho&s;t, a mighty man is not delivered by much &s;trength, an Hor&s;e is a vaine thing for &s;afety.</HI> The Battell is not mans, but Gods; his right hand, and holy Arme, is the <HI>wind which brings us home,</HI> gets the Victory for us. And knowing this, our labour was, to bring our Army by Prayer, upon that <HI>Port,</HI> or <HI>Point,</HI> where we might &s;ee <HI>Jehovah riding upon the Wings of the Wind,</HI> girding our Army with &s;trength in the day of Battail, and the Enemies as <HI>Chaffe which the WIND driveth away.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Fulmen ad|ver&s;us ho&s;tes, imbrem ad re|focillandum ex|ercitum.</HI> Eu&s;e. Hi&s;t <HI>Ec.,</HI> d. 3. c. 9.</NOTE> <HI>Eu&s;ebius</HI> reports, that the Chri&s;tians by prayer <HI>obtained lightning again&s;t their Enemies, and raine to refre&s;h the Army.</HI> What le&s;&s;e by Prayer obtained we, but on our part Victory, and great deliverance? Again&s;t the Enemy he &s;ent out his Arrows, and &s;cattered them; he &s;hot out lightnings, and di&s;|comfited them.
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 56.9.</NOTE> <HI>When I cry unto thee, then &s;hall mine Ene|mies turne back, this I know, for God is for me</HI>
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 66.20.</NOTE> <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed be God, which hath not turned away my Prayer, nor his mercy from me.</HI></P>
<P>It is a rule in Art, and daily experience &s;hews it, contra|ries placed together doe mutually illu&s;trate each other. That there was Prayer made for the &s;ucce&s;&s;e, and wellfare of the <HI>Scots</HI> Army,
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezek.</HI> 3.21.</NOTE> <HI>Weeping and Supplications, upon the high
<PB N="25" REF="19">places.</HI>
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg"><HI>Mal.</HI> 2.13</NOTE> <HI>A covering the Altar with Tears, with weeping, and with crying.</HI> I &s;ay, for their pro&s;perity, and our overthrow, who knows it not.
<NOTE N="&s;" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 8.14.</NOTE> <HI>Women weeping for Tammuz,</HI> the Co|venant I &s;hould have &s;aid. Now &s;eeing the Lord, when they did cry, and &s;hout, did &s;hut out their Prayer, covered him&s;elfe with a cloud, that their Prayer &s;hould not pa&s;&s;e through: What &s;hould this &s;ignifie? I &s;hall forbeare to give them mine owne Opinion I de&s;ire they would lay their hands on their hearts, and &s;peake truely, whither hence they have not ju&s;t cau&s;e to think: that
<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 10.97.</NOTE> <HI>their Prayer became &s;in,</HI> or
<NOTE N="u" PLACE="marg">Pro. 289.</NOTE> <HI>an abomination;</HI> or that the Lord
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 8.4.</NOTE> <HI>was angry again&s;t it,</HI> or, he heard them not, becau&s;e
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 1.15.</NOTE> <HI>their hands were full of blood,</HI> and
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">1 TIm. 2.8.</NOTE> wrath, or
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">&dagger; P&s;. 66.18.</NOTE> <HI>regarded iniquity in their hearts,</HI> or, as it is &s;aid of the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Job. 27.9.</NOTE> Hypocrite, <HI>Will God heare his cry when trou|ble commeth upon him?</HI> It is true, of &s;ome God &s;peaks,
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Jer. 11.</NOTE> <HI>Though they cry to him</HI> (
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 7.18.</NOTE> <HI>cry in his ears with a loud voice) he will not hearken to them.</HI> Though they
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">&dagger; Pro. 1.28</NOTE> <HI>&s;eeke him early,</HI> with much <HI>fa&s;ting, and</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Jer. 14.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>&s;pread forth their hands, he will</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 1.15.</NOTE> <HI>hide his face from them.</HI> But who are the&s;e? not a nationall Church &s;tanding for the <HI>Holy Covenant,</HI> for <HI>the great cau&s;e of God,</HI> and <HI>Reformation,</HI> not men zealou&s;lie earne&s;t for the purity of di|vine wor&s;hip, and Enemies to Idolatry, &s;uper&s;tition, here&s;ie, Schi&s;me, prophanene&s;&s;e: No, the Prophets tell us otherwi&s;e: the&s;e were
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">&dagger; I&s;a. 1.4.</NOTE> <HI>A &s;infull Nation, a people laden with iniquity,</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Mic. 3.4.</NOTE> <HI>a &s;eed of evill doers, Rulers of Sodome,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ver. 23.</NOTE> <HI>rebellious Princes, and Compa|nions of theevs</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Mic. 2.3.</NOTE> <HI>who hated the good, and loved the evill.</HI> Who&s;e
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">&dagger; Jer. 14.14.</NOTE> <HI>Prophets Prophecyed lyes, the Lord &s;ent them not, neither &s;pake unto them: They Prophecyed to the people a fal&s;e Vi&s;ion and divination, a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e people who&s;e prayers God would not heare, and from whom he had hid his face, were an <HI>HYPOCRITICALL Nation,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 10.</NOTE> <HI>di&s;&s;emblers in their heart.</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Jer. 4.2.</NOTE> AN ASSEMBLY OF TREACHEROUS MEN,
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">&dagger; Jer. 15.17.</NOTE> OF MOCK|ERS, &s;uch as <HI>would deceive every man his Neighbour, &amp; would not &s;peak the truth, but teach their Tongues to &s;peake lyes, and wea|ried them&s;elves to commit iniquity.</HI> Sons, not of <HI>Jacob,</HI> but
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Jer. 42.20.</NOTE> <HI>of the Sorcere&s;&s;e, Children of Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, a &s;eed of fal&s;hood, of the Adulterer, and of the Whore.</HI></P>
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<P> It is true, &s;uch a Nation the Lord would not heare, nei|ther would his eye pitty them; but did appoint them for Famine, Pe&s;tilence, Captivity, and the fearfull Sword of War: But what then? Can it be &s;hewed in holy Scripture, that a pure Kirk, holding fa&s;t the Covenant of God, and having under hand the great work of Reformation, &s;eeking God by fa&s;ting and Prayer, in a righteous and ju&s;t cau&s;e, were not onely denyed of his pre&s;ence and pretection, but left to the Sword of Hereticks, and cruell per&s;ecutors to be devoured?</P>
<P>I remember I have read &s;omwhere, that whil&s;t <HI>Pompey</HI> pro&s;pered, and <HI>Rome</HI> flouri&s;hed, <HI>Cato</HI> &s;toutly held and defen|ded a divine providence; but when he &s;aw <HI>Pompey</HI> over|throwne by <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> his body ca&s;t upon the &s;hore, without honour of Buriall, and him&s;elfe expo&s;ed to danger of <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> Army, he changed his Opinion, denying that there was a|ny Divine providence, but all things &s;et out by chance. The time was, when the Presbyterians, <HI>Scots,</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> &s;pake much of <HI>Divine providence.</HI> In Victories and deliverances they could &s;ee much of God, I meane, when the <HI>Prelats</HI> were going downe, and they thought to have had as great power to per&s;ecute; when like proud <HI>Haman,</HI> they thought that the &s;educing the men whom the Parliament would honour, and <HI>Mordecai</HI> and his people &s;hould be all de&s;troyed, then indeed every victory and deliverance again&s;t the Kings par|ty (in <HI>Books</HI> and <HI>Sermons</HI>) mu&s;t have a divine mark, and Character of Gods pre&s;ence; then it was <HI>the War of God,</HI> the <HI>Cau&s;e of God,</HI> yea, and confirmed to be &s;o, <HI>by Gods Actings, and appearances for us.</HI> But &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng now their way (like <HI>Baal</HI>) is like to plead for it &s;elfe, &s;its upon a wooden hor&s;e, and mu&s;t &s;tand of it &s;elfe, (as it will) if it be of God, with <HI>Cato</HI> they have
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Some re|port that <HI>Man+na</HI> at fir&s;t was in eating very &s;weet, and did reli&s;h wel, but afterward, through the murmuring, &amp; unthankfull|ne&s;&s;e of the people, it had no &s;avour, or good ta&s;t. That the&s;e men &s;ee not &s;o much of God in his <HI>Di&s;pen&s;ations,</HI> have lo&s;t that reli&s;h &amp; &s;weet ta&s;t of them which for|merly they had, they may thanke them&s;e~lves, this is of their ingratitude, &amp; murmuring a|gain&s;t God, &amp; <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI></NOTE> changed their Opinion, nothing now but <HI>bare events, &s;ucce&s;&s;e proves nothing, all things come alike, &amp;c.</HI> How&s;o|ever the Victories, and deliverances which they &s;o cried up, as to have on them the vi&s;ible <HI>&s;tamp, and Character of Gods own|ing the Cau&s;e,</HI> were not by many degrees in &s;everall particu|lars, &s;o eminent, and remarkable, as the&s;e are of whom we &s;peake.</P>
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<P> Now who can but pitty the people thus deluded, and a|bu&s;ed by the&s;e men? And what hath been the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 15.1.</NOTE> <HI>Snare on Mizpah, and the Net &s;pread upon Tabor,</HI> the
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Zech. 13.4.</NOTE> <HI>rough Garment</HI> whereby they have deceived the &s;imple; but chiefly their <HI>long Prayers, frequent Fa&s;tings for the pro&s;perity of the Scots Army,</HI> bitter exclamations, and invectives again&s;t the pre&s;ent Go|vernment. Tho&s;e who hawk for Birds, make a &s;tale of the <HI>Owle,</HI> and &s;o the &s;illy Birds, whil&s;t they are &s;taring about her, are taken. For what &s;erves &s;ome mens <HI>&s;owre faces,</HI> bowing downe the head as a Bulru&s;h, covering the Altar with tears, with weeping, and with cryings, throwing all the cur&s;es of the Law at Magi&s;trates: but as a bait to catch &s;illy Birds, &s;imple people; for whil&s;t they &s;tand gazing, on the&s;e men, as at &s;ome &s;trange Creature (a wonder to &s;ee &s;o much rebel|lion, malice, hypocri&s;ie, covered under the cloak of <HI>a holy Covenant, the cau&s;e of God,</HI> extirpation of Here&s;ie, Schi&s;me, prophanene&s;&s;e) they fall into the Net of de&s;troying, and undoing them&s;elves.
<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 58.34.</NOTE> <HI>Wherefore have we fa&s;ted, &s;ay they, and thou &s;ee&s;t not? Why have we afflicted our &s;ouls, and thou ta|ke&s;t no notice? Behold ye fa&s;t for &s;trife and debate, and to &s;mite with the fi&s;t of wickedne&s;&s;e.</HI>
<NOTE N="y" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 59.1, 2.</NOTE> <HI>Behold the Lords hand is not &s;hor|tened that it cannot &s;ave, neither his ear heavy that it cannot heare, but your iniquities have &s;eperated between you, and your God, and your &s;ins have hid his face from you that he will not heare.</HI></P>
<P N="10">10. How exceedingly the Lord at this time appeared for us, and gave witne&s;&s;e to the <HI>Ju&s;tice of our Cau&s;e,</HI> will be the more per&s;picuous and cleare, if former Victories, and delive|rances be duely con&s;idered: that is, what God hath done for us in <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and how he hath all along gone forth with this Army, &s;ince it was fir&s;t rai&s;ed, &s;till up|holding the &s;ame cau&s;e which, by the <HI>Scots</HI> (to their &s;hame, and lo&s;&s;e) is now oppo&s;ed.</P>
<P>It is true, the cau&s;e of God (this publick righteous Cau&s;e which is now held forth by the <HI>Parliament of England</HI>) hath found Enemies of &s;everall kinds, of all &s;orts, and &s;ice: As the <HI>Trent Fathers,</HI> how&s;oever among them&s;elves they could not agree, yet to oppo&s;e, and per&s;ecute <HI>Luther,</HI> therein, una|nimou&s;ly accorded together: So the Enemies of this Com|monwealth,
<PB N="28" REF="21">although there be among them &s;ome difference, (and that not a little, as being &s;ome Papi&s;ticall, others pre|laticall, &s;ome Presbyteriall) yet here they all center: and are one in malice, and revenge, in their de&s;igne, and plot all one; as &s;eeking every one of them, the overthrow of this pre&s;ent Government.</P>
<P>A Painter being Commanded by the <HI>Turk</HI> to paint every Nation in his habite, Painted the <HI>Germain</HI> naked; and be|ing asked the Cau&s;e, An&s;wered, he could not pre&s;cribe him a particular kind of habit, he was &s;o delighted with Novel|ties. If it were my task to &s;et out here, to the life, what the de&s;igne, and plot is, of the Enemy (I mean) wherein they agree altogether again&s;t us: I could not doe better (to have it truely under&s;tood) then to compare it to the <HI>naked Ger|main;</HI> for one while it hath upon it, <HI>Scarlet,</HI> or <HI>Royall</HI>
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Rev. 12.3</NOTE> <HI>Red,</HI> other while an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Pro. 7.9.</NOTE> <HI>black;</HI> &s;ometimes a <HI>Scotch</HI>
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 23.56.</NOTE> <HI>Blew;</HI> thus there is a changing, and &s;hifting of <HI>Colours</HI> (from <HI>Red</HI> to <HI>Black,</HI> from <HI>Black</HI> to <HI>Blew</HI>) as they &s;ee occa&s;ion of ad|vantage; yet &s;o, as but one body, the plot, and de&s;igne &s;till the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>In this combination</HI> (&s;ayth the Parliament) <HI>the Popi&s;h,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">An Act of Thank&s;gi|ving for &s;etting a part <HI>Tue&s;|day,</HI> Octob. 8. 1650.</NOTE> <HI>Prelaticall, Prophane, and Malignant Parties, &s;tand behind the Cur|taine, and &s;eemed for a &s;ea&s;on to be quite laid a&s;ide; that the cau&s;e of God, the Covenant, and work of Reformation, might beare the name.</HI></P>
<P>It is true, they did &s;o, here now was laid a&s;ide (in Ap|pearance) <HI>Red,</HI> and <HI>Black,</HI> and the naked <HI>Germain</HI> comes forth all in <HI>Blew:</HI> having on his forehead, RELIGION: and under the name of Religion, the extirpation of our Religion, Laws, and Liberty, is intended. But <HI>the Lord of Ho&s;t,</HI> who had before delivered our Army (and us with it) <HI>out of the Paw of the Lion, and the Beare</HI> (Royali&s;ts and Iri&s;h) the &s;ame God, by weake means delivered us from that in|&s;ulting Enemie, who had defied the Army of the living God. If we heare one Cock Crow, and no more, there is &s;ome hope, and probability the day is breaking; but if all, it is taken for certaine, and out of doubt. In many Victo|ries which the Lord hath given us, &s;o much hath appeared
<PB N="29" REF="21">(being lookt on, &s;ingle, and a part) as we might hopeful|ly &s;ay, <HI>Englands great day of deliverance from the Tyranny of Kings, and Prie&s;ts is at hand.</HI> But when we con&s;ider &s;ucce&s;&s;es, and victories, every where (in <HI>England,</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> in <HI>Scot|land,</HI>) &s;o &s;ea&s;onable, and wonderfull, as no other Nation almo&s;t hath ever heard, or been made partaker of: we &s;hould not glorifie God in tho&s;e great things which he doth for us, unle&s;&s;e (beleiving his works) we did &s;ay, <HI>The Lord is crea|ting England a rejoycing, and her people a joy.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Judg. 13.23.</NOTE> <HI>If the Lord meant to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ill us, he would not have &s;hewed us all the&s;e things.</HI> That
<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Deut. 23.14.</NOTE> <HI>Jehovah</HI> walks in the mid&s;t of our C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mp, to deliver them, and to give up the Enemies before them, makes one Army a ble&s;&s;ing in the Earth; no Weapon that is formed again&s;t it doth pro&s;per: And for the <HI>Macha|vilion</HI> Councells, traiterous devi&s;es, and all endeavours of the Enemy, here and every where (whither Popi&s;h, prela|ticall, <HI>Iri&s;h, Scoti&s;h</HI>) we &s;ee &s;till, like Arrows they fall on their owne heads; are not the&s;e things &s;ufficient evidences, and demon&s;trations that the Lord takes our part? is, <HI>Ema|nuel, God with us,</HI> and <HI>with our cau&s;e?</HI> Surely let the Enemy, (like another <HI>Pharaoh</HI>) harden him&s;elfe, and in the time of his di&s;tre&s;&s;e, tre&s;pa&s;&s;e yet more again&s;t the Lord, as <HI>Ahaz</HI> did: Yet we for our parts, &s;hall not be unbeleiving, but beleive, yea, and further be a&s;&s;ured, from the&s;e pre&s;ent a|ctings and appearances of God for us: that he will maine|taine this <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> of ours, again&s;t all Enemies, in &s;pight of all their fal&s;hoods, lies, Hypocri&s;ies, never &s;o artificially, and deceitfully cloaked, and covered over, with <HI>the cau&s;e of God,</HI> the <HI>Covenant, Reformation, Praying, Fa&s;ting.</HI></P>
<P>When <HI>Balak,</HI> and <HI>Balaam</HI> (King and Prophet) had done what they could, turned every &s;tone, and tryed every way (from place to place) what they could doe again&s;t <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> by their Sorceries and Enchantments; and perceiv|ing all to be in vaine, it is &s;aid,
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Numb. 24.25.</NOTE> <HI>Balaam ro&s;e up, and went, and returned to his place, and Balak al&s;o went his way;</HI> doubtle&s;s as convinc'd that the Lord was &s;o with <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> as they &s;hould not pro&s;per in that way and cour&s;e which they had taken up again&s;t him. Will the Enemies of this Common-wealth
<PB N="38" REF="22">be wor&s;e and more blind then they? What blinder then <HI>Balak,</HI> and <HI>Balaam?</HI> It &s;eems they are, for how&s;oever they have gone as far in <HI>e&s;&s;ayes,</HI> and <HI>trialls,</HI> and found no better &s;ucce&s;&s;e, yet have they not the under&s;tanding the others had, that is, to give over, and cea&s;e, as they did, and goe e|very one to his owne home.</P>
<P><HI>Balak</HI> brought <HI>Balaam</HI> up <HI>to the high places</HI> of <HI>Baal;</HI> &s;o hath the Enemies <HI>de&s;igne</HI> been
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Namely by the late King and his wife, who made it their <HI>Ma&s;ter|piece,</HI> and <HI>ground-worke,</HI> to have in the fir&s;t place the Prie&s;ts of <HI>Rome,</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> for their a&s;i&s;tants. Of her it may be &s;aid, as <HI>Livia, gravis in Remp. mater.</HI> Tac. An. l. 1.</NOTE> brought unto the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Baal.</HI> The <HI>Prie&s;ts of Roome</HI> have built Altars, offered Sacrifices,
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">In the Po|pi&s;h Syna|gogues be|yond Sea, the late King was every where prayed for, that he might prevaile a|gain&s;t the Parliament.</NOTE> and called upon their Gods, their <HI>He Saints,</HI> and <HI>She Saints,</HI> for aid and a&s;&s;i&s;tance; and the <HI>Parliament of England</HI> by them hath beene <HI>cur&s;ed with Bell, Booke, and Candle.</HI> But there was no voyce, nor any that an&s;wered. The Lord who
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 20.2.</NOTE> &s;end|eth his people help (not from <HI>the high places of Baal</HI>) but from his Sanctuary, and &s;upporteth them out of <HI>Sion,</HI> tur|ned <HI>that cur&s;e,</HI> into a ble&s;&s;ing, unto us. Be&s;ides, what&s;oever the <HI>Baalimites</HI> could otherwi&s;e doe (as the Pope, Cardi|nals, Je&s;uites, Monks, Fryars, with the Engli&s;h Arch-Bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Deans, Cannons, &amp; the re&s;t of that <HI>Viperous brood:</HI>) either by their coun&s;ells, Policies,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">There have bin many great Colle|ctions among the Papi&s;ts (as voluntary gifts) in all Popi&s;h Coun|treys, for to furni&s;h the late King with monies in his war again&s;t the Parlia|ment, be&s;ides the great &s;ums he had from them other wayes.</NOTE> Pur&s;es, or what way el&s;e they have contributed, from time to time, all the fur|therance, and help they could. But as a wet Sack where|with a naked man is covered, is &s;o far from arming him a|gain&s;t the cold, that it doth increa&s;e his &s;hivering: So this Enemies <HI>De&s;igne</HI> hereby, was &s;o far from being holpen, or effected, as this prov'd a means (the Lords good hand &s;o or|dering it) of its greater fall and ruine. <HI>Truly in vaine is Salvation hoped for from the Hills, and from the multitude of Mountaines; truely in the Lord our God, is the Salvation of I&s;rael,</HI> I&s;a. 3.23.</P>
<P N="2">2. As <HI>Balak</HI> brought <HI>Balaam</HI>
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Num. 32.14.</NOTE> <HI>into the Field of Zophim,</HI> that is, <HI>of the</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">So is the word by the Learned Interpreted.</NOTE> <HI>Spies,</HI> or <HI>Scowt-watches:</HI> So the Enemies <HI>great cau&s;e,</HI> or <HI>de&s;igne</HI> hath been here likewi&s;e witne&s;&s;e; the Popi&s;h, prelatical, and Malignant party, who have <HI>watcht</HI> all op|portunities to rai&s;e Hurliburleys, and Commotion, both in <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and where ever they have &s;pied any ad|vantage, or imagined the lea&s;t help of &s;ucce&s;&s;e, multitudes have made them&s;elves ready to engage again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI>
<PB N="39" REF="22">What
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 29.20.</NOTE> watching there hath <HI>beene for iniquity,</HI>
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37.32.</NOTE> <HI>to &s;lay the righteous;</HI> pretended to be for the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion, Privi|ledges of Parliament,</HI> and the <HI>liberty of the Subjects,</HI> now for the <HI>Covenant,</HI> and <HI>reformation,</HI> it is well knowne by what the <HI>blood-thir&s;ty Iri&s;h,</HI> and de&s;perate <HI>Engli&s;h Cavaleers,</HI> have often attempted; but he that &s;its in Heaven laughed them to &s;corne, &s;o as their taking Coun&s;ells together their A&s;&s;oci|ations, con&s;piracies, and in&s;urrections, in City, and Coun|trey, was to them no otherwi&s;e then a <HI>Quagmire,</HI> or <HI>Iri&s;h-bog,</HI> the more they &s;tir'd, the deeper they &s;anke, and fa&s;ter they were.
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 47.11.</NOTE> <HI>Mi&s;chiefe did fall upon them, and they were not able to put it off, and &s;uddain de&s;olation which they did not know.</HI> Our Army
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 18.42.</NOTE> <HI>Beating them &s;mall as the du&s;t before the wind, ca&s;ting them out as the dirt in the &s;treet.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. As <HI>Balak</HI> when he &s;aw he could not attaine his end by carrying <HI>Balaam</HI> unto the two former places, he brings him then
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Num. 23.28.</NOTE> <HI>unto the top of Peor, to</HI>
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Deut. 3.2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>Beth-Peor,</HI> the <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> or <HI>Temple of his God,</HI> the <HI>Kirk</HI> in which his <HI>Idoll</HI> was, the ene|mies <HI>de&s;igne,</HI> their <HI>great cau&s;e</HI> (after they have
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 9.5</NOTE> <HI>wearied them&s;elves to commit iniquity, and with their lyes</HI>) at length is brought to the <HI>holy</HI> place where (under colour of <HI>Religion,</HI> and <HI>reformation</HI>) it may be the more &s;trengthened, and bet|ter carried forth. But as <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;ayth
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Ezek. 24.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> <HI>The Sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind.</HI> As the Lord here &s;aw
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Si mulata aequitasnon e&s;t aequitas &s;ed ini qua duplex; quia iniquitas e&s;t &s;imulatio,</HI> Aug. Super. P&s;. 63.</NOTE> more di&s;&s;i|mulation, Hypocri&s;ie, fal&s;hood, then <HI>on the high places of Baal,</HI> or <HI>Field of Zaphim,</HI> &s;o doth the power of his anger the more appeare; here the Lord will &s;hew him&s;elfe that he hath <HI>not plea&s;ure in wickedne&s;&s;e, is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity.</HI> And how&s;oever (perhaps) they might flatter them&s;elves, and think, <HI>He would hide his face, and never &s;ee it,</HI> or &s;ay, <HI>How doth he know? Can he judge through the dark Clouds?</HI> Never|thele&s;&s;e he did &s;ee their fal&s;hood, and jugling (how cun|ningly &s;oever covered) and hath left them (as <HI>Lots</HI> Wife) to be a <HI>Pillar of Salt,</HI> a memorable example unto po&s;terity, not to provoke the Almighty, and terrible God in &s;uch &s;ort; for as <HI>Eliphaz</HI> &s;ayth in <HI>Job, The Congregations of Hypo|crites &s;hall be de&s;olate. My fle&s;h trembleth for feare of thee,</HI>
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">Job. 15.43.</NOTE> <HI>and
<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg">Pro. 21.27</NOTE>
<PB N="32" REF="23">I am afraid of thy Judgements.</HI></P>
<P>Two things I find more acted at <HI>Beth-Peor.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>Balaams</HI> wicked <HI>Doctrine,</HI> who Counn&s;elled <HI>Balak</HI> to lay a Stumbling-block before the Children of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> whereby they might be occa&s;ioned to rebell again&s;t the Lord, and &s;o de&s;troyed.</P>
<P N="2">2 <HI>Balaks</HI> putting off his Prophet without any reward; when he &s;aw he had received no profit by him, and that all his juggling, and <HI>Hocus-Pocus,</HI> helpt him not. <HI>O Lord how manifold are thy works, in wi&s;dome thou ha&s;t made them all.</HI> What was that <HI>Declaration</HI> which the <HI>Scots</HI> lately coun&s;elled their King to &s;et forth, but
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">It carries the look &amp; face of their Kirk.</NOTE> <HI>Balaams</HI> Doctrine, a &s;tumbling block, a &s;nare, a pit? For what was the maine drift, and &s;cope thereof: but rebellion again&s;t God, and man; name|ly to have the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ri&s;e up in Armes again&s;t the Magi|&s;trate, that &s;o they might be cut off. I &s;ay them&s;elves, their Families, Wives, and Children utterly undone: and then the <HI>Scots</HI> to come in for our <HI>Gued,</HI> or <HI>Goods.</HI></P>
<P>As for the other particular, their King perceiving now that he cannot carry on his de&s;igne by their <HI>Wiles,</HI> where|with they thought to have beguiled <HI>England.</HI> (No more then <HI>Balaam</HI> helped <HI>Balak</HI> by his Enchantments, and Sorceries,) he is &s;o far from having any thoughts to reward them; as that he is upon the point to ca&s;t them off, and to cloth the <HI>naked Germaine</HI> againe with <HI>Red,</HI> and <HI>Black:</HI> as making u&s;e no more of the <HI>Blew:</HI> for he &s;ees the <HI>Covenant</HI> &s;o ominous, and unhappy, as no de&s;igne or plot ever pro&s;pers that goes forth under the name of it. As if God had &s;poken of it. <HI>Cur|&s;ed &s;halt thou be in the City, and cur&s;ed &s;halt thou be in the Field; cur&s;ed &s;halt thou be when thou comme&s;t in, and cur&s;ed &s;halt thou be when thou goe&s;t out.</HI> And thus much of <HI>Balak</HI> and <HI>Balaam,</HI> or the pararell between them, and the Enemies of this Com|mon-wealth,
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 44.11.</NOTE> in acting their <HI>De&s;ignes,</HI> or cau&s;e alike. <HI>Let them all be gathered together, let them &s;tand up, yet they &s;hall feare, and be a&s;hamed together.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hould now &s;peake &s;omething in An&s;wer to &s;uch obje|ctions as might be made again&s;t the thing here &s;tood for: &s;omething I &s;hall write, although a larger di&s;cour&s;e the
<PB N="41" REF="23">Reader &s;hall have in the <HI>Second part.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> 1. <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;ayth,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Eccl. 9.1, 2 <HI>Judicium carnis de admini&s;trati|one dei erga per|&s;onas ip&s;as.</HI> Ju|nius in Loc. <HI>E&s;t autem hic. de&s;crip<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">io elegan|ti&s;&s;ima totius ju|dicj carnalis.</HI> ibid. <HI>Sententia car|nis de admini|&s;tratione dej in mundo. Gartw.</HI> in Loc.</NOTE> <HI>No man knoweth either love or hatred, by all that is before him: All things come alike to all, there is one event to the wicked, and to the righteous.</HI> Hence it follows, that nothing can be concluded from <HI>Succe&s;&s;es, Vi|ctories,</HI> or <HI>outward deliverances,</HI> as if thereby it might be pro|ved, that God &s;hould owne and ju&s;tifie one mans cau&s;e, more then another.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. It is a great Que&s;tion whither the&s;e are the words of <HI>Solomon,</HI> &s;ome &s;ay not, but the <HI>Athei&s;t,</HI> or <HI>carnall rea&s;on,</HI> is here brought in, denying Gods providence, and framing an Objection thus. <HI>If things here below were ordered and admini&s;tred by a ju&s;t, and wi&s;e God, &s;ome di&s;tinction then, would be &s;eene between men, and men, in order to their condition, and e|vents of things; but wicked men, and &s;uch who&s;e cau&s;e is &s;infull, and unju&s;t pro&s;per, and have as great &s;ucce&s;&s;e as the righteous, and tho&s;e who&s;e cau&s;e is right and good. Ergo.</HI> An Argument like <HI>Catos,</HI> after <HI>Pompey</HI> was beaten by <HI>Cae&s;ar:</HI> and the &s;ame in ef|fect which the <HI>Scots,</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h Presbyters,</HI> now maintaine, to darken the glory of God, &s;hining forth in his works. But,</P>
<P N="2">2. Admit another interpretation, neverthele&s;&s;e, by the&s;e words, <HI>All things come alike to all, &amp;c.</HI> It cannot be meant, as if nothing could be gathered from Gods di&s;pen&s;ations in the World, or that <HI>Events,</HI> and <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;es</HI> prove nothing: for &s;uch a &s;ence is a plaine contradiction unto other Scrip|tures.
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 34.15.16.</NOTE> <HI>The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, his face is again&s;t them that doe evill, to cut off the remembrance of them from the Earth.</HI> When he &s;aved <HI>Noah,</HI> and his Family from drowning, and left the re&s;t to peri&s;h in the great waters: de|livered <HI>Lot</HI> out of <HI>Sodome,</HI> and gave up the <HI>Sodomites</HI> to be burnt with fire, and brim&s;tone: brought <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;afe through the <HI>red Sea,</HI> and left the <HI>Aegyptians</HI> there to be overwhelmed, and de&s;troyed. Here <HI>all things are not alike,</HI> neither <HI>is there one event to the wicked and to the righteous.</HI> Be&s;ides, by the de|liverance, and good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, which the Lord gave <HI>Noah, Lot,</HI> and the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> it did appeare (and had there been no|thing
<PB N="42" REF="24">el&s;e, that &s;ame thing was enough to prove) their way and cau&s;e to be better then the others. It is therefore mo&s;t true, as one &s;aith
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Jermin</HI> up|on Eccle&s;. 9.3. p. 312.</NOTE> <HI>As God beholdeth men who are not a|like, &s;o he beholdeth them in a manner not alike.</HI> And much to the &s;ame purpo&s;e are <HI>Salvians</HI> words,
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg"><HI>Intelligis ge|neralem qui|dem e&s;&s;e in om|nes domini vi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|onem, &s;ed meri|torum fieri di&s;|parilitate di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> ver&s;um, boni quippe a&s;pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iun tur ut con&s;er|ventur, mali ut di&s;perdan|tur.</HI> Salvian de Gub: dej. l. 2.</NOTE> <HI>Thou under&s;tande&s;t the &s;ight of God to be generall upon all, but to be made different by di|ver&s;ity of their de&s;erts, for the good are beheld that they may be pre|&s;erved, the wicked, that they may be de&s;troyed:</HI> &s;o he,</P>
<P N="3">3. Should the place be under&s;tood that nothing can be proved by <HI>Events,</HI> and <HI>Succe&s;&s;es,</HI> there would then little u&s;e many times be made of Gods pow er, ju&s;tice, goodne&s;&s;e: or any cau&s;e to a&s;cribe glory and prai&s;e unto him, for his great and marvelous works: for &s;uppo&s;e he have &s;aved a people by a &s;peciall, and mighty hand, and de&s;troyed their enemies in an unwonted and extraordinary &s;ort; and all this, after both have &s;olemnly, and often appealed unto Heaven, that the <HI>Lord would judge the cau&s;e betwixt them;</HI> yet mu&s;t not any man (beholding the&s;e things) &s;ay, that God in all this, either gave any &s;igne or token to the Con|querors of approving their Action, or that they &s;ubdued, had not a ju&s;t and righteous cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Now what place is there here (if &s;uch <HI>Events,</HI> and &s;ucce&s;|&s;es &s;peake nothing) <HI>to &s;ing the Song of Mo&s;es: Great and mar|vellous are thy works O Lord God Almighty, ju&s;t and true are thy ways, thou King of Saints.</HI> As for the grounds of the War between them, it is po&s;&s;ible many may be ignorant thereof, &amp; therefore if they may <HI>neither</HI> &s;ay, nor think of the cau&s;e by the <HI>events,</HI> be they what&s;oever: here then they mu&s;t either hold their peace, or offer <HI>the Sacrifice of fools.</HI> It is a rule in <HI>Ari&s;|totle, Ex vero &s;emper &s;equitur verum:</HI> but this <HI>Doctrine</HI> that <HI>E|vents prove nothing,</HI> cannot be Sound, becau&s;e &s;uch an ab&s;urdi|ty, and untruth follows thereupon.</P>
<P N="4">4. Had the&s;e men been living (who teach that nothing can be concluded from <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;e,</HI> or <HI>event</HI>) when the
<NOTE N="&Verbar;" PLACE="marg">&dagger; There is a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> much now in a &s;olemn ap|pealing unto God, as there was in ca&s;ting a Lot; &s;o that if men (being at difference) doe appeale, and that before the World, unto God, that he &s;hould judge the cau&s;e between them. No que&s;tion but the Lord now upon this appealing to him, will doe, as formerly he did in the Lot: give a mo&s;t righteous &s;entence by his ordering hand of providence. And therefore it &s;eems to me, that had a <HI>Scot,</HI> and others of his mind, bin found out by a Lot, as <HI>Achan</HI> was, they would not have allow'd it, or &s;tood to it; but have &s;aid, <HI>One event to all.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Lot</HI>
<PB N="43" REF="24">fell to <HI>Achan, Jonathan Jonas,</HI> and others: they could ea&s;ily have evaded it, had it been their ca&s;e; as for example, they would have pleaded, <HI>all things come alike to all, there is one event to the wicked, and to the righteous:</HI> And therefore what&s;o|ever the <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;e</HI> or <HI>event</HI> be of the lot, nothing thence can be inferred, as to prove a man guilty, or that any di&s;tinction or difference &s;hould be put betweene per&s;on and per&s;on, Cau&s;e and Cau&s;e. But what cannot men doe (<GAP DESC="foreign">) by wit and art, as to make the works of God and his Admini&s;trations <HI>(&s;ought out of all that have plea&s;ure therein)</HI> to be of no effect, and to teach men &s;o to doe, when, and as they plea&s;e. I have read of <HI>Antonius,</HI> when he angled, &s;ome dived under water, &amp; put fi&s;hes upon his hook, the which he ca&s;t up at his plea|&s;ure one after another: hee that would learn to wre&s;t the Scripture, needs not &s;eeke any further Coun&s;el then here; for if he ca&s;t in his hooke where the&s;e <HI>Divers</HI> are, hee may be &s;ure they will fit him with fi&s;h to the purpo&s;e, a &s;ubtle de|vice and trick whereby to mock God, and de&s;troy his owne &s;oule.</P>
<P N="5">5. Sometime the <HI>event</HI> or <HI>&s;ucce&s;&s;e</HI> of a thing, is &s;o far from being <HI>Null,</HI> or &s;tanding as as a <HI>Cipher:</HI> as the equity and truth of the <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> is thereby confirmed, and no other way. Put a &s;taffe in the water, and it will &s;eeme crooked, not that it is &s;o, but we cannot &s;ee it right for the water. Even &s;o a <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> how&s;oever right and ju&s;t; yet through the cunning of men, by the water of their calumniation and &s;lander, it may &s;eem otherwi&s;e, and by many otherwi&s;e believed. As on the con|trary, a filthy dunghill may be covered with &s;now, a viper hid under a ro&s;e; an
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 15.8.11.</NOTE> <HI>an unrighteous Cau&s;e</HI> &s;o coloured and cloak'd, with &s;uch titles of Truth, piety, Religion, Gods wor&s;hip, &amp;c. as &s;ome (deceiv'd thereby) may think the &s;ame to be ju&s;t and good.</P>
<P>When <HI>Jannes</HI> and <HI>Jambres,</HI> (two Aegyptian Sorcerers) with&s;tood <HI>Mo&s;es:</HI> and <HI>five hundred fal&s;e Prophets of Baal</HI> con|tended with <HI>Elias:</HI> Here was <HI>Cau&s;e again&s;t Cau&s;e, Plea again&s;t Plea</HI> (as it is now between us and the <HI>Scots:</HI>) But how was the
<PB N="44" REF="25">truth here di&s;covered, and made to appeare? and tho&s;e &s;ati&s;|fied or convinced which were concern'd therein? Truly by the <HI>Event</HI> or <HI>Suc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;&s;e;</HI> that is, he Lord making them Con|querours, and giving them the victory who had the ju&s;t and rightfull <HI>Cau&s;e.</HI> That <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aul</HI> by his calumniations, lyes, flat|teries, and other deceitfull practi&s;es, had &s;o clouded <HI>David's</HI> Cau&s;e, as many thought that his carriage &amp; dealing toward his Father in law was not good, and that <HI>Saul</HI> had &s;ome rea|&s;on and ground for what he did: &s;o much is very cleare, by many pa&s;&s;ages and expre&s;&s;ions of <HI>David</HI> in the <HI>P&s;alms.</HI> But the <HI>Succe&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>Event</HI> cleared <HI>David,</HI> and ju&s;tified his <HI>Cau&s;e:</HI> as how? to wit, by the many wonderfull and &s;ea&s;onable de|liverances which <HI>David</HI> had by the Lords mighty appearing, and working &s;alvation for him with an high hand: On the contrary <HI>(is not de&s;truction to the wicked,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 31.3.</NOTE> <HI>and a &s;trange puni&s;hment to the workers of iniquity?)</HI> that Divine Ju&s;tice that followed <HI>Saul</HI> all along in life and death, was &s;uch an <HI>Event,</HI> as did <HI>prove with a witne&s;&s;e,</HI> what for a man he was, and how un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> righteou&s;ly he had dealt with <HI>David.</HI></P>
<P>It is true, (and I know it to be &s;o) that the <HI>Parliament of</HI> Englands <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> in reference to the publique Enemies of this Common-wealth (by what name or title &s;oever) hath beene proved &s;ufficiently to be a <HI>Ju&s;t Cau&s;e,</HI> even th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Cau&s;e of GOD,</HI> both by the law of God, of Nature, and Nations: As for in&s;tance,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See a booke Intituled, <HI>the golden Rule,</HI> or <HI>Ju&s;tice ad|vanced.</HI></NOTE> <HI>The putting to death the late KING, the laying a&s;ide the Hou&s;e of LORDS, the Con&s;ti|tution of</HI> England <HI>a COMMON-WEALTH, the pre&s;ent Parliament a true REPRESENTATIVE, and Supreame Authority of the Nation. The marching of our Army into</HI> Scot|land <HI>upon grounds of Ju&s;tice and Nece&s;&s;ity.</HI> All the&s;e things have been proved over and over: neverthele&s;&s;e, &s;ome envy|ing the good we have, becau&s;e it came not to us by them: Others perceiving that their private profits and intere&s;ts mu&s;t goe downe, and lye in the du&s;t, if <HI>publique Good</HI> be &s;et up, and pro&s;per; hereupon, they con&s;ult together, and are Confederates: and what can be done by fraud, or fal&s;hood, or any way, they &s;eeke to attempt. Yea, &s;uch
<PB N="45" REF="25">are the depths of <HI>Satan,</HI> and <HI>my&s;tery of iniquity,</HI> now wor|king to deceive every where, and every one; as that the <HI>ju&s;t and righteous Cau&s;e of the Parliament,</HI> is que&s;tioned by &s;ome, denyed by others, and all this through the deceit and craft of &s;uch men, who either are di&s;contented, becau&s;e others under God did the good work, and not they; or who finde them&s;elves now &s;hut out from the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Act 10.25. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> know th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> by this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> we have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> wealth.</HI> A <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> rea&s;o~ <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ore <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c|cupation.</NOTE> g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">infull trade for|merly they had, and unwarranble ways to deceive and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the people in &s;oule, pur&s;e, and per&s;on.</P>
<P>But the Lord, who&s;e wayes and judgements are all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters">|teous; he I &s;ay, <HI>who ju&s;tifies the righteous, and condemns <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> wicked,</HI> &s;eeing them to ca&s;t &s;uch a cloud over his <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> and to make it contemptible before men, by a&s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ng <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with <HI>Trea&s;on, &V;&s;urpation, Oppre&s;&s;ion, Fraud, &amp;c.</HI> comes forth in behalfe of it: and as hee did for <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> again&s;t the Magici|ans, for <HI>Elias</HI> again&s;t <HI>Baals</HI> Prophets, and for <HI>David</HI> again&s;t <HI>Saul:</HI> &s;o doth hee for us, (or rather <HI>for his great name</HI>) gives &s;uch <HI>&s;uch glorious Succe&s;&s;es,</HI> and <HI>mo&s;t remarkable Events</HI> to this <HI>Cau&s;e</HI> every where, that unle&s;&s;e men did wilfully &s;hut their eyes, or made them&s;elves blind through ma|lice, pride, covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> they might &s;ee
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Quid faciun video, nec me ignorantia veri de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ipiet, &s;ed amor.</NOTE> as clear|ly as they doe the &s;unne &s;hining at noone day, to be a RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD CAUSE, the which the Lord hath, doth, and will &s;till defend.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> 2. The <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> in two Battles were overcome by the <HI>Benjamites,</HI> but they had a good Cau&s;e, the which the others had not: Therefore Succe&s;&s;es or Events in Warre prove nothing in re&s;pect of the Cau&s;e, whether it be ju&s;t or unju&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. Some mens tongues are like a mill that is loo&s;e hung, keepes a mighty crackling, but grinds no corne. This example of the <HI>Benjamites</HI> I heare is much tal|ked of; and as <HI>David</HI> &s;aid of <HI>Goliah's</HI> &s;word, <HI>there is none like that:</HI> So &s;ome &s;ay, <HI>there is none to this,</HI> it cannot be an|&s;wered. But how farre this is from that rule, <HI>&s;impliciter ad &s;impliciter,</HI> incon&s;i&s;tent to the matter they bring it for; and to what they apply it, will appeare, by putting it into
<PB N="46" REF="26">forme; for thus it mu&s;t be, if it be any thing. <HI>If GOD &s;ometimes (for rea&s;ons known to him&s;elfe) &s;uffer wicked men to pro&s;per in a bad Cau&s;e, as to have a Victory once or twice, be|ing fewer in number then their Enemies: It will nece&s;&s;arily fol|low, that what &s;oever a&s;&s;i&s;tance he gives a people in Battle, what Victory and Deliverance &s;oever they have: in what manner or way &s;oever he appeares for them, and again&s;t their Enemies: Nothing by the Succe&s;&s;e or Event can be gathered, concerning the ju&s;tice of the Cau&s;e, on who&s;e &s;ide it is.</HI></P>
<P>A &s;imple Reader, without helpe of Schoole-learning, may ea&s;ily &s;ee the vanity and ab&s;urdity of &s;uch rea&s;oning. Suppo&s;e I would argue thus; there is not any light that &s;hewes a di&s;tinction or difference betweene day and night; and to prove this a&s;&s;ertion: I in&s;tance, that neither the Moon-light, Star-light, or Candle-light doth it, or can doe it: But thou wilt &s;ay, by the &s;hining light of the Sunne, the day is known from the night. Can&s;t thou finde out the depth and &s;ubtlety of this argument? looke over then up|on the other, it's the very &s;ame <HI>in Mood and Figure:</HI> becau&s;e that Light or Appearance of God which is like <HI>Moon-light,</HI> proves not the <HI>day</HI> or <HI>Cau&s;e;</HI> therefore the greater light will not doe it: not the &s;unne, not the highe&s;t and <HI>mo&s;t glorious &s;hinings of God.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. That the <HI>Benjamites</HI> had an ill <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> and yet in Bat|tle overthrew the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> two &s;everall times, we grant: which might be to humble the one, and harden the other; but here the main and <HI>e&s;&s;entiall part,</HI> to make the compari&s;on hold between this Example, and the thing whereto they apply it, is altogether wanting. We do not &s;ay that Vi|ctories and Succe&s;&s;es (barely con&s;idered) prove a good Cau&s;e; but this we &s;ay, &s;uch may be the Actings and Ap|pearances of God for a People, &s;o wonderfull may be their Victories and Deliverances, as thereby it doth infallibly appeare, the LORD his owning and ju&s;tifying their Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>For the Victories which the <HI>Benjamites</HI> had, there is no|thing appeares in them, of any &s;peciall divine pre&s;ence; no
<PB N="47" REF="26">remarkeable foot-&s;teps of Gods walking in their Camp: not one thing in the Hi&s;tory, witne&s;&s;ing a &s;ingular and tran|&s;cendent love of God towards them. Whereas our Victo|ries all along, in <HI>England, Ireland,</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> have had mo&s;t apparent evidences of Gods e&s;peciall pre&s;ence with us: we have &s;een his <HI>Goings</HI> in our Army before us, and our &s;al|vation hath been wrought for us, by an extraordinary pow|erfull hand: and therefore unle&s;&s;e they &s;hew us, that the LORD was with the <HI>Benjamites,</HI> in the &s;ame manner hee was with us,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">where doe they read that <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &amp; <HI>Benja|min</HI> before they &s;ought, did both par|ties &s;olemnly appeal to God: and after they had re|ferred the Cau&s;e betwee~ them to Gods tri|bunall &s;eat, I&s;|rael lo&s;t the Battle.</NOTE> and gave them the like victory, in the cir|cum&s;tances and &s;everall particulars, which we had over the <HI>Scots.</HI> In mentioning this example, as they &s;hew their great perver&s;ne&s;&s;e again&s;t the works of God, and implaca|ble malice to us; &s;o it only &s;erves (and we cannot imagine for what other u&s;e and end they bring it) then to darken the glory of God, and deceive &s;imple people.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> 3. Many have been great Conquerours (as the <HI>Caldeans, A&s;&s;yrians, Romanes</HI>) howbeit wicked men, and their Cau&s;e &s;infull and unju&s;t: <HI>Ergo,</HI> Victories and Suc|ce&s;&s;es in War prove nothing.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> That this <HI>Objection</HI> may be capable of an&s;wer, there are 3. things to be cleared.</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether men, how&s;oever wicked, may not have ju&s;t cau&s;e to fight, and therein the Lord to take their part.</P>
<P N="2">2. How it doth appear, that when their Cau&s;e was un|ju&s;t, that the Lord then gave them good &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="3">3. But if &s;o, then where is it recorded that wicked men in &s;infull and unrighteous Cau&s;es have had the a&s;&s;i&s;tance and help of GOD, in as full and large manner, and way, as we have had.</P>
<P>I have now done for this time; and as I am upon clo&s;ing, I remember how the Clown &s;erved <HI>Ari&s;tides;</HI> who giving his voyce to the bani&s;hing of <HI>Ari&s;tides,</HI> and being asked of him unknown,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Plutarch</HI> in <HI>Apo.</HI></NOTE> <HI>whether he knew him again&s;t whom he had gi|ven his voyce, an&s;wered that he knew him not, but it was trouble to him to heare him termed a ju&s;t man.</HI></P>
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<P> It may well be, that &s;ome (who know mee not) will give their voyce again&s;t me, for what I have now done, but they mu&s;t be &s;uch then, as are troubled to hear of <HI>ju&s;tice,</HI> of an honourable and righteous Cau&s;e. This <HI>ju&s;t Cau&s;e</HI> I have in|deed here pleaded, and in the <HI>Second Part</HI> (by the good hand of God a&s;&s;i&s;ting me) will plead it more: to the &s;atisfaction of all &s;uch as love the <HI>pre&s;ent Government, and de&s;ire the pro&s;|perity and peace of this</HI> Common-wealth.</P>
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