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<P>The three Kingdomes Ca&s;e: OR, Their &s;ad Calamities, together with Their CAVSES and CVRE. Laid down in a SERMON PREACHED AT A Publique Fa&s;t at <HI>Kingston</HI> upon <HI>Hull.</HI> With &s;ome very remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages of Providence worthy of generall Ob&s;ervation.</P>
<P>By JOHN SHAWE <HI>M. A.</HI> &s;ometimes of <HI>Christs</HI> Colledge in <HI>Cambridge:</HI> and now Lecturer at <HI>Hull</HI> afore&s;aid.</P>
<Q><BIBL>JER. 12. 10, 11, 12. </BIBL>
<P><HI>They have made my plea&s;ant portion a de&s;olate wilderne&s;&s;e&mdash;being de&s;olate it mourneth unto me, the whole land is made de&s;olate, becau&s;e no man layeth it to heart: the &s;poylers are come upon all high places through the wilderne&s;&s;e, for the &s;word of the Lord &s;hall devoure from one end of the land even to the other, &amp;c. no fle&s;h &s;hall have peace.</HI></P></Q>
<Q><P><HI>Nullus fer&egrave; credit quod propter peccata no&s;tra variis modus Deus animadver|tat in homines hujus &s;ecule: maior pars &s;ecur&egrave; praeterit quaecun&abque; profert Deus irae &s;uae iudicia, alii fortunae tribuunt quae videntur in orbe conver&s;iones ac mu|tationes: in &s;umm&acirc; pauci &s;unt vel propemodum nulli qui manifesta dei iudicia expendant,</HI></P><BIBL>Aug.</BIBL></Q>
<Q><P><HI>Plectimur &agrave; Deo, nec flectimur tamen; corripimur, &s;ed non corrigimur,</HI></P><BIBL>Salv.</BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. B.</HI> for <HI>John Bartlet,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop in <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard, at the Signe of the gilt Cup, under Saint <HI>Austins</HI> Gate. 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Chri&s;tian and wel-affected READER, e&s;pecially to my worthy and loving friends, both the Inhabitants within the Town and Country of <HI>Kingston</HI> upon <HI>Hull,</HI> and al&s;o the Pari&s;honers of <HI>Bradfield,</HI> in the We&s;t-riding of <HI>York|&s;hire:</HI> Grace, Mercy and Peace be multiplied.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Chri&s;tian Readers and friends,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_I</HI> Have looked with <HI>Elijah's</HI> &s;ervant more then &s;even times, to &s;ee what would be the i&s;&s;ue of the&s;e troubles, <HI>1 Kin. 18. 43.</HI> and I long &s;ince espied a great cloud (bigger then his, ver. 44. yea, like that ver. 45) and trembled becau&s;e of this matter, and for the great <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word">, <HI>Ez. 10. 9. &amp;</HI> my &s;elf have felt neither few nor &s;mall drops of the&s;e troubles (as you know;) and truly &s;til, if I did not &s;ee that the great and wi&s;e God had a &s;peciall hand in carrying on, and ordering al the&s;e wars and combu|&s;tions, I yet &s;ee &s;o much malice, private &s;pleen even in tho&s;e who return home and &s;it &s;till, &s;uch factions, &s;ci&s;ms, and upon (any occa&s;ion) apo&s;tacies; in a word, &s;o much of that many-headed Mon&s;ter <HI>Selfe,</HI> yet in the Kingdomes, that I could hardly expect fair, quiet, &s;un-&s;hine dayes of long, but that the Lord raigneth, and therefore may the earth rejoyce, and this poor I&s;land be glad thereof, <HI>P&s;al. 97. 1.</HI> I have in the en&s;uing lines, opened and applied, as I could, what the word and &s;word, my Text and times hold out unto you. My Text tels of war, plunderings, &s;poilings, which <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">In locum.</NOTE> <HI>Hie|rom</HI> refers to the overthrow of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> after Chri&s;t, by <HI>Titus,</HI> becau&s;e the Jewes rejected Chri&s;t, the Son of God, and &s;alvation by him, <HI>(o&s;tendens ferociam Romanorum</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>in populum Judaeorum qui idcirco punitus
<PB REF="3"> e&s;t quia Dei filium non recepit.) Pi&s;cator</HI> refers to the troubles of the Jewes by <HI>Zenacherib</HI> and the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians, Calvin</HI> to the plague, famine, wars and all &s;uch mi&s;eries laid on them by the Lord at &s;everall times; others, to <HI>Ne|buchadnezzars</HI> de&s;olating wars, and the Jewes &s;eventy yeers captivity; <HI>Mu&s;culus</HI> to the war and mi&s;ery which I&s;|rael endured by the <HI>Phili&s;tines, Idumaeans, Amorites, Moabites, Syrians, A&s;&s;yrians, &amp;c.</HI> notwithstanding all which troubles, I&s;rael could not be per&s;waded that &s;in was the cau&s;e, but either chance, or becau&s;e they wanted their number of men, and were not &s;trong enough; but the Pro|phet prophe&s;ieth &s;in to be the true cau&s;e, and confe&s;&s;eth, that he living among them, had contracted &s;inne and guilt, &s;o as that he had a hand in bringing downe the&s;e Judgements, <HI>(we have &s;inned)</HI> yet pre&s;ently in the &s;ame ver&s;e, chan|geth the per&s;on, his &s;in not being &s;o wilfull, contemptuous, and per&s;erved in as theirs, ver. 24. <HI>(they would not walk)</HI> yet in the&s;e &s;ad wars and combu&s;tions of ours in <HI>Eng|land</HI> (like tho&s;e in the Text) I &s;ee &s;ome grounds of hope; as fir&s;t, a budding generation comming up, hungring and gasping after Chri&s;t and the means of grace (a good &s;igne that God is not leaving our land, but that the time of the promi&s;e drawes nigh, <HI>Acts 7. 17. I&s;a. 49. 20, 21.)</HI> Se|condly, many active and eminent spirits rai&s;ed up like <HI>Mo&s;es, Aaron. Phineas,</HI> like <HI>Zerubbabel</HI> and <HI>Jo&s;hua,</HI> for the work of the Lord in Church and State with bold|ne&s;&s;e, <HI>Hag. 1. 12, 14. Jer. 50. 2. Micah 5. 5.</HI> Third|ly, cleerer light &s;hines in the Kingdom (even by contenti|ons which &s;atan &s;tirs up to overthrow the truth) and in ma|ny dark corners, <HI>Dan. 12, 4.</HI> adde to the&s;e, that the iron and clay break a&s;under daily, <HI>Dan. 2. 41, 42.</HI> and the &s;tone cut out without hands growes more and more, <HI>Dan. 2. 43, 44, 45.</HI> and I &s;ee all this carried on above, and con|trary
<PB REF="3"> to the power and policy of the &s;ubtille&s;t heads, by the mervailous hand of God, <HI>Zach. 4. 6.</HI> let me to the only prai&s;e of the wonder-working God, and the better to perpe|tuate the memories of his miracles of mercies to this Town of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull</HI> (which place, if ever any is mo&s;t infinitely indebted to God, who hath &s;hewed mercies indeed to other places, but to this town miracles) let me (I &s;ay) in|&s;tance in &s;ome particular mercies which God hath afforded to this town, wherein it appears, that God him&s;elf hath bared his arme and &s;aved it beyond, and contrary to the wit and will of the &s;ubtille&s;t enemies and &s;eeming friends, and made the very enemies to help on your &s;afety, and their owne ruine; as appears, fir&s;t, in that a little before the&s;e wars began, your Castle and block-hou&s;es were out of re|pair, and too much (through long peace and di&s;-u&s;e) unfit for &s;ervice; upon which pretence, &s;ome of the Kings Coach|men begged them of the King, and &s;ued you for them; where|upon you pre&s;ently repaired them; which Forts, thus on this occa&s;ion repaired, helped now to keep out the Kings party: Secondly, whereas formerly you had no draw-bridges to keep out an enemy, Captain <HI>W. Legge</HI> and others of that party cau&s;ed draw-bridges to be made about the Town, on purpo&s;e to keep out our Brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> when fir&s;t they came into this land for our a&s;&s;i&s;tance; but the&s;e bridges kept out Captain <HI>Leg</HI> and that party: Thirdly, Arms were al&s;o &s;ent hither for above 20000. men, under the manag|ing of the &s;aid Cap. <HI>Leg;</HI> &amp; after that, a Garri&s;onof 1000. &s;hould. here planted (having not bin any here for many yeers before) under the command of Sir <HI>Tho. Glenham,</HI> by the di|rection &amp; advice of the Earl of <HI>Strafford</HI> (for the &s;ame pur|po&s;e afore&s;aid) and yet all this turned to keep out that very party: Fourthly, in the dawning of the&s;e troubles, Captain <HI>Leg</HI> being &s;etled in this Town, and having this &s;trength and power afore&s;aid, and the Earl of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> being al&s;o
<PB REF="4"> &s;ent hither by the King, with his Commi&s;&s;ion to be Gover|nour here (who came into the Town by the name of Sir <HI>John Savage)</HI> but the town demurred upon their an&s;wer to him, till they heard from the Parliament) both the&s;e per|&s;ons (viz. Earl and Captain) thus in the town, upon a bare &s;ummons from Parliament, left the Town and posted to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> (a thing which I beleeve both of them have forethought an hundred times &s;ince.) Fifthly, the day be|fore the King came fir&s;t to <HI>Hull,</HI> to demand or command entrance (Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> being then Governour here) the King &s;ent the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> the Prince Elector, the Earl of <HI>Newport,</HI> the Lord <HI>Willoughby,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Glenham,</HI> and others, into <HI>Hull,</HI> which cau&s;ed &s;ome jea|lou&s;ies in the Governour and Town&s;-men, whereas if the King had come &s;uddenly to the gates, without any warning, when the Duke and the re&s;t came, I am confident none had then &s;uspected his comming, nor would any &s;ouldier have hindred his entry at the gates (&s;uch a work was then rare.) Sixthly, the next day after (viz. about Ap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters"> 25. 1642. being &s;aturday) the King with &s;ome hundreds of atten|dants, came to enter the Town of <HI>Hull</HI> (the Governour be|ing bu&s;ied in entertaining the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> the Prince Elector, and their Company) and had the King &s;till come without any further warning, &s;uddenly to the gates, I am confident no &s;ouldier would have hindred him; but the King &s;ent Sir <HI>Lewes Dives</HI> two hours before him, to tell the Governour that the King was within four or five miles off, and would dine with him (and this time and warning had Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> to advi&s;e and hearten him&s;elf and his &s;oul|diers, to keep out that company that came with the King, and to draw up their bridges, &amp;c. Seventhly, adde this for a wonder, that Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> &s;hould then &s;o re&s;olutely keep the&s;e per&s;ons out, having &s;uch a numerous party of the
<PB REF="4"> contrary mind, mo&s;t active that day; both within and with|out again&s;t him (a work at that time not for every mans &s;pirit) him&s;elf, as &s;ince it appears, proving &s;o unfaithfull; of whom and which work, I may this &s;ay, that when he could have ruined the Town, and endangered the Kingdom there|by, he would not, and after when he would have done it, he could not: Eighthly, when the Kings Army came fir&s;t again&s;t this Towne, they (thinking thereby to have compelled you to yeeld) burnt your Mils, but this did wonderfully &s;et the hearts of all, both rich and poor again&s;t them (their food being endangered) whereas &s;ome of them before were not &s;o fully affected to the Parliament and that cau&s;e. Ninthly, the Earl of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> after this, having over-mastred all the North, &s;ave <HI>Hull</HI> and <HI>Wre&s;le Ca&s;tle,</HI> and ha|ving got &s;o great and formidable an Army, with which he might in probability have gone through mo&s;t parts of <HI>Eng|land</HI> then, and have ruined or endangered many a City, Town and County, yet were his old, wi&s;e&s;t and &s;ubtille&s;t &s;ouldiers &s;o far befooled, that they per&s;waded him to bring this Army again&s;t <HI>Hull, in Augu&s;t 1643.</HI> and lay a &s;e|cond &s;iege here; but partly by the &s;hot and &s;allies out of the Town, partly by lying in wet trenches (the Country round about being drowned at spring-tides) their whole Army was brought almo&s;t to nothing, and tho&s;e that were left of them (now no way formidabe) after &s;ix weeks and odde dayes &s;iege, went away with infinite &s;hame and lo&s;&s;e, <HI>October 11. 1643.</HI> (for which mercy you &s;till keep on that day an aniver&s;ary thankfull commemoration.)</P>
<P>Tenthly, In all the&s;e &s;ix weeks &s;iege, though the enemy &s;hot many fiery hot bullets into the Town night and day, yet very few of you were hurt; &s;ometimes many wel-affected per|&s;ons were met in a chamber to repeat &s;ermons, and pray, as &s;oon as ever they were departed and gone down the &s;tairs,
<PB REF="5"> (and not till then) came a red hot bullet through the place where they met; &s;o in another chamber where children went to &s;chool, came another of tho&s;e fiery me&s;&s;engers as &s;oon as ever the children were gone from that place, and none hurt.</P>
<P>Eleventhly, on Thur&s;day, <HI>June 29. 1643.</HI> when <HI>Sir John Hotham</HI> was conceived trecherous, he being alwayes very active and vigilant, and especially then, yet were the Magazine, the &s;everall guards and forts of the garri&s;on &s;eized on by the Town&s;-men and others (no experienced &s;ouldiers) within the compa&s;&s;e of le&s;&s;e then an hour (and that before <HI>Sir John Hotham</HI> was aware) without the lo&s;&s;e of any blood (which great and hazardous attempt, one would have thought, and it was feared, would have co&s;t many a mans life.</P>
<P>Twelfthly, that on the very day after this (viz. Friday, <HI>June 30. 1643.)</HI> the right Honourable and Noble Lord General <HI>Fairfax</HI> had that great lo&s;&s;e at <HI>Atherton More,</HI> and when he was retired from the field into <HI>Leeds,</HI> and was in danger, yet more &s;ad and troubled (as his Lord&s;hip &s;aid) for the lo&s;&s;e of his men and the danger of the Country (and not well knowing which way, or what cour&s;e to take the next day) a Boy came ju&s;t in that nick <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Like the <HI>ca&s;e of Mor|decai,</HI> or the <HI>Shunamite, E&s;t.</HI> 5. 14. with 6. 1, 4, 6, 10. 2 King. 8. 5.</NOTE> of time, with a Letter from the Major and Aldermen of <HI>Hull,</HI> acquaitnting his Honour, that <HI>Hull</HI> was open for him if he would come thi|ther, and that the town and ammunition were &s;eized upon, as afore&s;aid; <HI>Sir Iohn Horham</HI> fled, and in his flight ap|prehended in <HI>Beverley,</HI> (a joyfull me&s;&s;age at that time, though till then, neither had his honour heard thereof, nor the town, when they &s;ent, of Lord&s;hips lo&s;&s;e.)</P>
<P>13. Though it was generally &s;aid and thought, that if the wars &s;hould continue, and Armies &s;hould lye <HI>in York|&s;hire</HI> but one yeer, there could not po&s;&s;ibly be any provi&s;ion
<PB REF="5"> or food left; yet have Armies been here almo&s;t &s;ix yeers already, in <HI>York&s;hire,</HI> &s;ometimes &s;ix Generals and their Armies at once, often above 20000^d. &s;ouldiers abominable firing, &s;poiling, plundering, &amp;c. yet &s;eldom have we &s;een meat &amp; drink more cheap or plentifull here, then &s;till it is (ble&s;&s;ed be God:) This is the Lords own doing; thus have you Sea|men, &s;een Gods wonders as much by Land
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">P&s;a. 107. 23 24.</NOTE> as by Sea, and this Town &s;ometimes a poor Hamlet called <HI>Wyke,</HI> after, in <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;econd his time, called the Kings Towne (upon the River <HI>Hull)</HI> which is a greater honour, then if by the cowardize or trechery of any, it had been turned to be (in that &s;en&s;e that &s;ome badly mean it) the Queens Town, may now justly be called Gods Town, becau&s;e of the miracles God hath wrought for it. (Oh that it appeared to be &s;o by our holy practice an&s;wera|ble <NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 116, 12, 13.</NOTE> to &s;uch mervailous mercies!)</P>
<P>To conclude, let me for the &s;ame end acquaint you, the Inhabitants of <HI>Bradfield,</HI> with another instance, though of a lower ranke, <HI>viz.</HI> the mer|vailous delivery of a Minister of Christs Go&s;pel, born in your Pari&s;h, wherein you may &s;till &s;ee Gods hand; learn to tru&s;t and prai&s;e him more: 'tis this, When the Earl of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> be&s;ieged <HI>Rotherham in May 1643.</HI> at la&s;t, the Towne wanting powder (which was taken at <HI>Gain&s;|borough,</HI> as it was bringing to them) and &s;ome bou&s;es being on fire by the enemies Granadoes, the Town was forced to entertaine a parley with the Earl, who after &s;ome &s;hamefull repul&s;e and lo&s;&s;e) a&s;&s;ured them under his hand, that upon laying down their Arms, they &s;hould have their estates, lives and liberties &s;afe; but as &s;oon as be entred, fined, impri|&s;oned, plundered many, and as it &s;eems had a &s;peciall intent to ruine the Minister of that place afore&s;aid; yet, fir&s;t, that Minister went through the mid&s;t of the Town (then &s;o throng'd) undi&s;cerned by any; &s;econdly, he hid him&s;elf in a vault of a bou&s;e not inhabited (after he heard of the ene|mies ba&s;e unfaithfulne&s;&s;e and cruelty) which hou&s;e (the enemy pulling downe the Works about the Towne) came into, and kept as their main guard night and day, and lay clo&s;e by him (which thing he neither did nor could &s;u&s;pect before-band;) thirdly, the enemy proclaimed him traitor by a cryer throughout the Town, yea, and all others traitors al&s;o, who know|ing of him, brought him not in to them within 24. hours; in the afore|&s;aid bou&s;e the &s;ouldiers &s;eeking him mo&s;t diligently, thru&s;t their &s;words betwixt the Loards frequently, yet neither found, nor hurt him; fourth|ly, at la&s;t they looked up to a vault above their heads (which lay vi&s;ibly open to view, by the &s;pace of three yards and more, where him&s;elf and his man lay indeed) and &s;wore that he was there, whereupon they instantly ran up their &s;tairs (which they kept) broke open the door (entring to the vault
<PB REF="6"> which they &s;aw, and where he was) found it lockt, and the key in the door on the in-&s;ide, &s;ought him five &s;everall times, the great windowes all open round about, be and his man lying on their &s;ides, could have taken hold on them, yet never found either of them (no cau&s;e but that <HI>Jer.</HI> 36. 26) fifth|ly, he having layen there on the &s;tones mo&s;t part of three days and nights, <HI>viz.</HI> from Thur&s;day May 4. 1643. (when the Town was taken) till Saturday evening May 6. could not &s;tir, &s;carce cough or &s;pet, left be &s;hould be heard, and no friend, meat, drink or relief could come at him (the enemy keeping the Town, that hou&s;e and &s;tairs to the vault) be re&s;olved that night, ra|ther then &s;tarve, to goe down and yeeld him&s;elf to their cruell mercies (for be might hear them &s;wear his death with many dammees) pre&s;ently, that very afternoon they went away (be cannot to this day learn any rea&s;on why) for they came thither again the next day, and &s;taid there constantly long after, as if they had meant (as indeed the good and wi&s;e God did) to give him ju&s;t a fit time and &s;pace to get &s;afe away, for neither before nor after could be get away thence, nor longer &s;tay here: &s;ixthly, when he was come down the &s;tairs from the vault, though the enemy be found removed, yet were the doors lock; but the enemy had cau&s;ed a Carpenter to pull up two boards of the floor to &s;eek for him in a hollow place underneath, and left them unnailed down again; through which &s;pace (as if they had ment to have made him away forth) be got out: &s;eventhly, when he came forth
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts 12. 7, 10.</NOTE> by that hollow afore&s;aid, he came through the mid&s;t of the Town again to his hou&s;e undi&s;cerned; and as he was &s;tepping into the Hall (not knowing now who lived there or in any other hou&s;e) there were &s;even Cavaliers billeted (having formerly plundered him &s;ufficiently) amongst whom he was ju&s;t &s;tepping, had not a friend of his pulled him by the &s;houlders into another Room next the Hall: eighthly, yet dur&s;t he not carry there, but got to a vault in another hou&s;e, and lay upon an earthern floor the remainder of three weeks in the mid&s;t among them, yet never got cold, nor was the lea&s;t &s;ick, no not &s;o much as u&s;ually before: ninthly, after this he got &s;afe to <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> &amp; after &s;ome cumbers, is &s;afely returned to his nativeCoun|try; for all which, he entreats his friendly neighbours and readers that prai&s;es may be returned to the only wi&s;e God, and &s;ole and lively confi|dence put in him for ever and ever. Which pa&s;&s;ages (Christian Reader) together with the en&s;uing notes, bad I not been importuned to publi&s;h, till I was in <HI>Eli&s;hah's</HI> ca&s;e, <HI>2 Kin. 2. 17.</HI> nor thou nor I had had this trou|ble: however, if God may have glory, his Cau&s;e any furtherance, or any of his people profit by them, I have all my aime, and re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>The unworthie&s;t of the lea&s;t of Gods mercies, J. S.</SIGNED>
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<HEAD>The three Kingdomes CASE, with their CAVSES and CVRE. OR, A SERMON Preached at <HI>Kingston</HI> upon H&V;LL.</HEAD>
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<BIBL>ISA. 42. 24, 25.</BIBL>
<Q><P>Who gave Iacob for a &s;poile and I&s;rael to the Robbers? Did not the Lord, he again&s;t whom we have &s;inned, for they would not walk in his wayes, neither were they obedient unto his Law?</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="25" UNIT="Ver."> Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his Anger, and the &s;trength of battell, and it hath &s;et him on fire round about, yet he knew it not, and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.</P></Q>
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<P>_I Need not (right Honourable and beloved) to u&s;e any other motive to be&s;peak your at|tentions then the words immediately fore|going my Text, ver&s;e 23. <HI>Who among you will give eare unto this? who will hearken and beare for the time to come?</HI> Only give me leave for the cleering of the words, to acquaint you (and that very briefly) fir&s;t, with the Prophet; &s;econdly, the time when; thirdly, per&s;ons to whom he prophe&s;ied; fourthly, the &s;ub&s;tance of his prophe&s;ie. Divines u&s;e to ca&s;t the &s;ixteen Prophets (who&s;e prophe&s;ies are recorded in the old
<PB N="2" REF="7"> Te&s;tament) into three ranks; fir&s;t, &s;ome prophe&s;ied before the Jewes &s;eventy yeers captivity in <HI>Babilon,</HI> as <HI>Jonah, Ho&s;ea, I&s;aiah,</HI> and &s;ome others: Secondly, &s;ome of them gave cordials in the time of the captivity, as <HI>Ez<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">iel</HI> and <HI>Daniel:</HI> Thirdly, others quickned them after the captivity, and their returne, as <HI>Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.</HI> Among&s;t the&s;e, our Prophet is of the fir&s;t ranke, yet though his prophe&s;ie be ranked in the fir&s;t place, its not probable that he was the fir&s;t of them in time that prophe|&s;ied, but rather <HI>Jonab,</HI> who prophe&s;ied before (or at lea&s;t in the beginning of) the raigne of <HI>Jeroboam</HI> the &s;econd, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 14. 25 (whereas <HI>Ho&s;ea,</HI> though you grant him to be a Preacher &s;even|ty yeers, began but in the latter end of his raigne, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 1. 1.) &s;o in the new Te&s;tament its thought by the Hi&s;tory in the Acts of the Apo&s;tles, that not the Epi&s;tle to the Romans (though placed the fir&s;t) but that to the The&s;&s;alonians was fir&s;t writ; al&s;o, not the book of <HI>Malachi,</HI> but <HI>Nehemiah</HI> was the la&s;t book in order of time and &s;tory in the old Te&s;tament.</P>
<P>This Prophet <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> was nobly borne, by both births, of na|ture and grace, being of the royall blood both of Heaven and earth (let no man think him&s;elfe too good, by rea&s;on of his birth or e&s;tate, to be Gods Prophet, &s;ee <HI>David, Solomon, I&s;aiah, &amp;c.</HI> God cals to this office, &s;ometimes men of greater birth and e&s;tates, as this <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;onne of <HI>Amoz,</HI> &s;ometimes poorer, as <HI>Amos,</HI> a poore Neat-heard of <HI>Tekoah, Amos</HI> 1. 1. which two names <NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">Robu&s;tus fortis, <GAP DESC="foreign"> Onu&s;tus durus <GAP DESC="foreign"> Hie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">. in I&s;a. 1.</NOTE> differ much both in the Hebrew writing and &s;ignification) <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> prophe&s;ied above &s;ixty yeers to a &s;tubborne people of the Jewes, that profited little (&s;o did <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> to I&s;rael above &s;eventy yeers) yet would not leave off his Mini&s;try; to leave off ones Mini&s;try becau&s;e he cannot &s;ee it doe that good which he wi|&s;heth (&s;aith old <HI>Latimer)</HI> is a naughty, a very naughty deed.</P>
<P>After all his toile and paines, he was &s;awne a&s;under by his neere Kin&s;man; let us learne to be content, though ill reward|ed by men, &s;eeing this Evangelicall and noble Prophet was &s;o u&s;ed, after &s;o long and great paines for their &s;oules good.</P>
<P>The &s;umme of the Prophe&s;ie is a di&s;covery of the abomina|tions of the Jewes, and of Gods judgements again&s;t the impe|nitent for tho&s;e finnes, together with a promi&s;e to the Elect, and prophe&s;ie of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t; his birth, life, death, re&s;urrection, a&s;cen&s;ion, and interce&s;&s;ion.</P>
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<P>In this chapter, the Lord holds out Chri&s;t full of beauty and bounty, goodne&s;&s;e and pitty, ver. 1. 10. exhorteth the Jewes to prize and prai&s;e him, ver. 10. 13. but fore&s;eeing their con|tempt and rejecting of &s;uch an invaluable mercy, he denoun|ceth heavy judgements again&s;t them, ver. 13. to the end, where|of my Text is part. In which, con&s;ider, fir&s;t, the puni&s;her, the Lord; &s;econdly, the puni&s;hment, battell, war, with the fruits of it, robbing, firing, &s;poyling, &amp;c. And thirdly, the puni&s;hed, not Heathens, but the Members of Gods vi&s;ible Church, <HI>Ja|cob, I&s;rael;</HI> fourthly, the meritorious cau&s;e of this puni&s;hment, &s;inne and di&s;obedience, neglecting Gods wayes; fifthly, the Peoples incorrigiblene&s;&s;e and unprofitablene&s;&s;e under all this, they con&s;ider not, nor lay it to heart. I will gra&s;pe as much together as I can, and collect &s;ome ob&s;ervations as &s;uita|ble to the Text, occa&s;ion and time, as with conveniency I may. And fir&s;t this:</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> 1. That warre with the fruits thereof, robbing, firing, &s;poyling, are very &s;ad and heavy calamities, yet &s;uch as may befall a Nation profe&s;&s;ing the true Religion.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> 2. That when &s;uch warres befall &s;uch a Nation, it's God that &s;ends them, and gives up a people to them <HI>(Who gave I&s;rael to the robbers, did not the Lord?)</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> 3. When ever God &s;ends &s;uch warres and calamities on &s;uch a Nation, their &s;innes and iniquities were the pro|curing and meritorious cau&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> 4. That when a people have &s;uch judgements pou|red upon them by God, and yet doe not con&s;ider rightly thereof, and lay it to heart, it much provokes and angers God.</P>
<P>For the fir&s;t, that the &s;trength of battell, robbing, firing and &s;poyling, are &s;ad calamities, it needs no further proofe, it's too apparent already; I may &s;ay of this, as our Saviour, <HI>Luke</HI> 4. 21. this day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares; yet that this point may prove more u&s;efull to us, let me a lit|tle cut it up, and &s;hew you the mi&s;eries of warre; fir&s;t, by the precedents or occa&s;ions of it; &s;econdly, the nature of it; third|ly, the con&s;equents, e&s;pecially of a civill warre (&s;uch as ours now is.)</P>
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<P>And fir&s;t, for the occa&s;ions of warre, I will name &s;ome; as it's a &s;ad thing when King a and people fall out, and cla&s;h one with another till one weaken another, and endanger the ru|ine of both; thus <HI>Abimilech</HI> and the men of <HI>Sechem,</HI> the Lord &s;ent an evill &s;pirit of di&s;&s;ention betwixt them, <HI>Judg.</HI> 9. 22, 23. after <HI>Abimilech</HI> had raigned a while, ere long both parties took up armes, &s;o as no man could &s;afely travaile on the high-way becau&s;e of the Souldiers, ver. 25. the event of this warre was this; fir&s;t, the people were ruined, ver. 44. the City de&s;troyed and &s;owne with &s;alt, ver. 45. the Tower, a &s;trong hold of <HI>Se|chem,</HI> burnt, and a thou&s;and men and women in it, ver. 49. and ere long, the King was ruined, and that di&s;honourably, ver. 53, 54. a &s;ad and heavy ca&s;e, to &s;ee a body tearing out its owne bowels, to &s;ee a Kingdome, like <HI>Judas</HI> or <HI>Achitophel,</HI> ma|king it &s;elfe away when the Lord &s;ends a &s;pirit of perver&s;ities among&s;t a people, <HI>I&s;a. 19. 14.</HI> (the Lord hath mingled a &s;pirit of perver&s;ities, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Secondly, it's a &s;ad thing when Courtiers and favourites of a King, who much mind not any Religion, yet come to Church and perhaps take a Prote&s;tation, the better to plea&s;e men and keep their places a while, but as &s;oon as they e&s;pie their time, take advantage upon a King, and labour to &s;educe &amp; draw his heart from God and his truth, to idolatry, and to rai&s;e up armes and make warre upon his Subjects, and this hath been done, &s;ee 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 23. 16. in <HI>Jehojada's</HI> dayes the Courtiers and people entred into Covenant to be the Lords people, and op|po&s;ed idolatry, ver. 17. but a&s;&s;oon as <HI>Jehojada</HI> was dead, 2 <HI>Chro.</HI> 24. 15. the flattering CGurtiers with their congies, obey&s;ance and cringes, vowing they would &s;erve King <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> for ever, ver. 17. and e&s;pying their advantage with the King, wrought upon his nature, and drew him away with them from the pure wor|&s;hip of God, ver. 18. but &s;ee what warres followed, and what became of tho&s;e Courtiers, ver. 23.</P>
<P>Yea, &s;ometimes a Queen, the wife of his bo&s;ome, may draw a King away, as <HI>Jezabel</HI> to <HI>Ahab,</HI> that was an high addition to all his other &s;innes, that he took <HI>Jezabel</HI> to wife, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 16. 31. and there was none like him, whom his wife <HI>Jezabel</HI> &s;tirred up: <NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1 Kin. 21. 25</NOTE> &s;o <HI>Solomon's</HI> wives, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 11. 3, 7, 8. and rending his
<PB N="5" REF="8"> Kingdome followed upon it, ver. 11, 13, 14, &amp;c. &s;o <HI>Ezra</HI> 9. 2. 14. thus the Sonne of godly <HI>Jeho&s;aphat</HI> did evill, becau&s;e led away by a bad wife, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 21. 6. we read 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 22. 1. that the <NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">So the people met to make Rehoboam King 1 King. 12. 1. See Deut. 17. 14, 15, &amp;c.</NOTE> people made <HI>Ahaziah</HI> King (called <HI>Jehoahaz,</HI> 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 21. 17 and <HI>Azariah,</HI> 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 22. 6.) but two things drew him away, a bad mother, and her bad kinred and Coun&s;ellours, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 22. 3, 4. (if not a third, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 8. 27.) and the&s;e cau&s;e warres and divi&s;ions.</P>
<P>Thirdly, it's a &s;ad thing when &s;ome young flattering Cour|tiers be neer about the King, that per&s;wade him to &s;tand upon his points and prerogative, and not to condi&s;cend to his Sub|jects petitions at all, but either to rule by his own will (an arbitrary government) or el&s;e venture his Kingdom and all; thus did <HI>Rehoboam's</HI> young Coun&s;ellours, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 12. <HI>Solomon</HI> was the wi&s;e&s;t of meer mortals, he had a thou&s;and Wives and Concubines, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 11. 3. and yet had but one &s;onne, and he fooli&s;h; when his Subjects came humbly petitioning his Ma|je&s;tly, <HI>Rehoboam</HI> takes the advice of Malignant young Coun|&s;ellours, who tell him, would I have my neck under my Sub|jects girdles? either rule at your own will, and keep them un|der, or adventure all, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 12. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. and &s;ee what rents in the Kingdom followed, ver. 16.</P>
<P>Fourthly, it's a &s;ad thing when malignant Coun&s;ellours and para&s;ites about the King, who &s;tudy the humours of Princes, lye at watch to &s;pye an advantage, while they may take the King in a fit mood, to per&s;wade him to ruine the Church and people of God, yea, &s;ubtilly entrap the King, and get his hand and &s;eal (or el&s;e &s;igne it them&s;elves, and counterfeit his hand) to a decree de&s;tructive to the hone&s;t party, and by their deep plots draw the Kings heart away from them; thus did the ene|mies of <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;ubtilly work upon King <HI>Darius,</HI> and got a de|cree &s;igned for <HI>Daniels</HI> ruine, though again&s;t the Kings mind, who&s;e con&s;cience told him, that <HI>Daniel</HI> was a faithfuller and hone&s;ter Subject then they, <HI>Dan.</HI> 6. 5, 6, 9. they pretend they &s;tand for the Kings honour, and that this decree is only for the Kings greater glory, ver. 7. the King ere long &s;aw him&s;elf abu&s;ed by them, but could not mend it, ver. 14.</P>
<P>Fifthly, it's a &s;ad thing when flatterers about the King per|&s;wade
<PB N="6" REF="9"> him that tho&s;e who are Gods be&s;t &s;ervants, and the Kings faithfulle&s;t Subjects, are Rebels and Traitors, and the Kings enemies; thus they accu&s;e Chri&s;t to be enemy to <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> and that he would hinder his tribute and revenues of the Crown, <HI>Luke</HI> 23. 2. and they that favoured him were no friends to <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> (that word &s;truck deep) <HI>John</HI> 19. 12. thus the three childrens enemies per&s;wade the King, that they are enemies and rebels again&s;t him, <HI>Dan.</HI> 3. 12. &s;o did <HI>Daniels</HI> enemies, <HI>Dan.</HI> 6. 13. thus <HI>At halia</HI> cryes trea&s;on, trea&s;on, (but who was the Traitor?) &s;o foul-mouthed <HI>Rab&s;bekah</HI> cryes rebellion, rebel|lion, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 18. 20. thus Courtier <HI>Haman</HI> would pre&s;wade King <HI>Aha&s;uerus</HI> that the Jewes (Gods be&s;t &s;ervants, and the Kings be&s;t &s;ubjects, whereof one <HI>Mordecai</HI> had done more faithfull &s;ervice to the King, then an hundred flattering <HI>Hamans)</HI> were a factious, perver&s;e people, regarded not the King nor his lawes, and were again&s;t his profit, <HI>Ester</HI> 3. 8.</P>
<P>Sixthly, it's a &s;ad thing when tho&s;e that are neer a King, not only whi&s;per and tell lyes and tales to draw his heart away from his be&s;t Subjects, but al&s;o u&s;e all means, yea adven|ture pur&s;e and life and all to ruine &s;uch: <HI>Balaam</HI> the Witch <HI>(Jo&s;h.</HI> 13. 22. <HI>Numb.</HI> 24. 1.) would &s;eek to Heaven and Hel to ruine I&s;rael; Moabites and Midianites were content to make their daughters whores to ruine them; &s;o de&s;perate is the old Serpents malice, (&s;ee <HI>Numb.</HI> 25. 1. <HI>Rev.</HI> 2. 14.) thus <HI>Haman,</HI> who would never give a penny to a good cau&s;e (not only makes the King glad with his lyes, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 7. 3. as before) but will give ten thou&s;and talents to the Churches ruine, <HI>E&s;ter</HI> 3. 8. &s;o that cur&s;ed Edomite <HI>Doeg</HI> (a &s;tranger, but now made a Courtier) not onely lyes again&s;t the hone&s;t party, and &s;ets on the King (who of him&s;elf was eager enough again&s;t them,) <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 52. 3. but him&s;elf (when the re&s;t refu&s;ed) playes the Butcher, not onely &s;laying the Prie&s;ts (as he was bidden, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 22. 18.) but al&s;o man, woman and child beyond his commi&s;&s;ion, ver. 19 and &s;o brings much crying guiltle&s;&s;e blood upon the King and his owne head.</P>
<P>Seventhly, it's a &s;ad thing when Mini&s;ters (that &s;hould be men of God) advi&s;e and harten a King on to &s;uch a warre as
<PB N="7" REF="9"> a matter of con&s;cience; thus <HI>Zedekiah</HI> with four hundred Pro|phets, or rather &s;atan by them, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 22. 21. per&s;wades <HI>Ahab</HI> to go up to a battle, which proved de&s;tructive to him&s;elf, 1 <HI>Kin.</HI> 22. 11, 12. and how bitter was <HI>Zedekiah</HI> again&s;t the true Pro|phet, ver. 24. (a godly Mini&s;ter hath not a wor&s;e enemy in the world, then a wicked, wretched Mini&s;ter, &s;ee <HI>Jer.</HI> 26. 8, 11. with ver. 16.) hence followed a war that ruined King <HI>Ahab.</HI></P>
<P>Eighthly, it's a &s;ad thing when &s;ome bloody minded men even force a King (for their own &s;afety, gain or ends) beyond his own inclination. Let me put a ca&s;e; I can tell you of a King that had two Nephews, his own &s;i&s;ters &s;ons, the elder of the&s;e was General of the King his Uncle's Army, he was a furious, bloody-minded man, yet oft times the King his Uncle could not re&s;train him, but at la&s;t the King and he fell out, and the blood that he &s;hed, fals in time upon his own head; my mean|ing is, <HI>David</HI> the King had a &s;i&s;ter called <HI>Zerviah,</HI> <NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">1 Chron. 2. 15, 16.</NOTE> &s;he had two &s;ons, (for the third was dead, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 18, 23.) <HI>Joah</HI> the elder of these was <HI>David's</HI> (his Uncles) General of his Army, he was bloody, very bloody, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 2. 5. yet his Uncle &s;ometimes could not rule him, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 3. 39. at la&s;t they fell out, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 2. 5, 6. and his cruelty is revenged upon him, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 2. 32, 34.</P>
<P>Ninthly, it's a &s;ad thing when there is emulation and envy among&s;t Commanders in Armyes, or betwixt chief per&s;ons of the &s;ame &s;ide, &s;o that out of envy &s;ome de&s;ert the cau&s;e, leave off, or turn to the other &s;ide; how did <HI>Aaron</HI> and <HI>Miriam</HI> envy <HI>Mo&s;es, Numb.</HI> 12. thus great General <HI>Abner</HI> makes <HI>I&s;hbo&s;heth</HI> King, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 9. (as the great Earl of <HI>Warwick</HI> &s;aid, it's more honour to make, then be a King) <HI>I&s;hbo&s;heth</HI> afterwards reproves this Souldier for whoring, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 3. 7. pre&s;ently <HI>Abner</HI> takes this in &s;nuffe, and revolts to the other &s;ide, and lo&s;eth <HI>I&s;hbo|&s;heth</HI> his Kingdom, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 3. 9, 10. ere long <HI>Joab</HI> and <HI>Abner</HI> (two great Commanders) envy one another, and <HI>Abner</HI> is &s;lain ver. 27. &s;ee <HI>Achitophel</HI> and <HI>Hu&s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> cla&s;hings.</P>
<P>Tenthly, it's a &s;ad thing when Souldiers make but a play of war and killing men, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 14. <HI>Let the men ari&s;e and play be|fore us:]</HI> and care not how long the wars la&s;t, or what ruine is done, &s;o they may thrive, &s;aying with <HI>Demetrius,</HI> by this craft we get our wealth, <HI>Acts</HI> 19. 25. all the&s;e are &s;ad things,
<PB N="8" REF="10"> which are but the beginnings and occa&s;ions of war: But the point will further appear, if we con&s;ider war it &s;elf, e&s;pecial|ly ours, and that but in a word (for I at once con&s;ider my time and your occa&s;ions.) Therefore</P>
<P>Secondly, view a little what a &s;ad thing war is; fir&s;t, of all judgments war &s;eems to be the &s;ore&s;t, by <HI>David's</HI> choyce, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 24. 14, &amp;c. &s;econdly, of all wars civill wars <NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Graud. Sa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ifice.</NOTE> are wont nothing got but grating one upon another, like mil-&s;tones without gri&s;t (as I have &s;hewed el&s;where <NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Summum (Brute) ne&s; as Civilia bella &s;atenuer, Ceto. apud Claud. 1. 2.</NOTE> in many particulars at large;) thirdly, of all civill wars, Engli&s;h war is <NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Bella pox Emitheos plus quam Ci|vilia Campas. See Mark 3. 24, 25.</NOTE> the wor&s;t, &s;ee the Barons war compared with forraigne troubles; fourthly, of all Engli&s;h wars the&s;e pre&s;ent wars is wor&s;t, if we con&s;ider, fir&s;t, the truell bloody minds of the adver&s;aries, who profe&s;&s;e they had rather the Turk or Devil prevailed, then the Round-heads; &s;econdly, in former times of ca|lamity (as in Queen <HI>Maries</HI> dayes) there was an <HI>Ireland</HI> to fly to, not now, then &s;ixty or &s;eventy &s;uffered, now &s;o many thou&s;ands, then lands de&s;cended to the Martyrs heirs, but if this Parliament be by force brought down, you may write upon the doors of your Liberties and e&s;tates, <HI>Lord have mercy upon us.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">e</HI> 3^l^y the con&s;equents of war (I will clean but a few) as, fir&s;t, plague; &s;econdly famine <NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Ier. 14, 3, 4, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">. &amp; 52. 6. Lam 4. 7, 10. &amp; 2. 20. 2 King. 6. 26, 30. 2 Sam. 24. 13, 15.</NOTE> (read <HI>Jeremy</HI> and <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> for both the&s;e on <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> once and again;) thirdly, firing, <HI>Jer.</HI> 52. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">3. <HI>Judg.</HI> 1. 8. &amp; 20. 48. &amp;c. fourthly, plundering, <NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">Where is &s;trife there is every evil work, Iames 3. 16. I&s;a. 13. 16.</NOTE> many godly men left thou&s;le&s;&s;e, without Harbour, victuals, goods, money in an hour, by one party nor by another, what the pal|mer-worm leaves; the locu&s;t, ranker worm or caterpillar eats, <HI>Joel</HI> 1. 4. we who&s;e goods e&s;cape the &s;word of <HI>Hazael,</HI> yet plundered by <HI>Jebues,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Sabenns, Chaldeans,</HI> &amp;c. fifthly, want of means of grace, <NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Amos 8. 11, 12.</NOTE> neglect of &s;tudies, Pa&s;tors dare not come at their Flock, but hide them&s;elves, <HI>Jor.</HI> 36. 26. nor Flocks at the Congregation; the wayes to <HI>Sion</HI> mourn, <HI>Lam.</HI> 1. 4. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 74. 7. &s;ixthly, want of execution of good <NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Iudg. 5. 11. &amp; 17. 6. Lam. 2. 9. Inter Arma &s;i|lent leges.</NOTE> laws, where all things are lawfull, nothing is right; &s;eventhly, want of chri&s;tian &s;ociety of Saints, who are &s;catteved, perhaps never meet together again, husband and wife, parents and children in this world, <HI>Acts 8. 1. Math.</HI> 2. 14. eighthly, want of tre|ding,
<PB N="9" REF="10"> none dare pa&s;&s;e the high-wayes, <HI>Judg.</HI> 5. 6. <HI>Levit.</HI> 26. 22. <HI>Lam.</HI> 4. 18. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 33. 8. 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 15. 5. ninthly, many like <HI>Me|phibo&s;heth,</HI> lamed, wounded, want arms, legs, &amp;c. tenthly, many (who&s;e blood is precious in Gods &s;ight) are &s;lain, and their blood run down the &s;treet, part from their friends, and never returne againe, <HI>Acts</HI> 12. 2. 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 35. 23, 24. <HI>Judg.</HI> 20. <NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 3. 5. Lam. 4. 5. &amp; 5. 8.</NOTE> 21, 25, 35, &amp;c. and many of the beggarly and ba&s;er &s;ort, ri|fle hou&s;es, and domineer over the per&s;ons of &s;uch worthies, whom they dur&s;t heretofore &s;carce look at.</P>
<P>But I have much work yet to do, and little time, I adjourn the rea&s;ons; the truth of the point is apparent, and I accoa&s;t upon an U&s;e or two.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e.</HI> 1. <HI>Ad Magistratum,</HI> all you that be in places of autho|rity and power, u&s;e all lawfull means, doe what in you lyes for the &s;heathing up of the &s;word, the preventing plunderings, &s;poilings, &amp;c. and removing the&s;e &s;ad calamities, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>Ad Clerum</HI> (as we u&s;e the phra&s;e) pray we, and preach, and u&s;e our be&s;t endeavours for the compo&s;ing of the&s;e differences, preventing the&s;e &s;poilings and robbings, to our griefe we &s;ee it; the Papi&s;ts take away the &s;econd Commande|ment, the Courtiers did take away the fourth Commadement, Plunderers the eighth, and the abu&s;e of the&s;e wars in many places the pra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ice of all.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>Ad Populum,</HI> and that in divers things; and fir&s;t, be we all affected with mourning &s;pirits for the&s;e &s;ad judgments, war, and the fruits of it, as were <HI>&V;riah. Nehemiab, Jeremiah, &amp;c. Jer. 4. 19. Ezek. 21. 9, 10. My bowels, my bowels, &amp;c. Should we now make mirth? &amp;c.]</HI> take we up the lamentation, <HI>Lam.</HI> 3. 48, 49. 51. <HI>Look away from me, I will weep bitterly,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 22. 4. con&s;i|dering fir&s;t, what a land we lately had, like the Garden of God before the&s;e wars, <HI>Joel</HI> 2. 3. &s;econdly, how wofully now &s;poil'd e&s;pecially in many places, like a de&s;olate Wilderne&s;&s;e, <HI>ibid.</HI> 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 15. 5. no peace to him that goes out or comes in: Thirdly, by whom all this is, <HI>viz.</HI> one neighbour again&s;t ano|ther, yea, and by Papi&s;ts (and their confederates) who in quie|ter times burnt living men, women and children, and digged others out of the grave to burn their dead bodies; what would they now doe? Fourthly, how long it may yet la&s;t, <NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">The fir&s;t Carthaginian war lasted 23 yeers, that betwixt the Hollanders and Spain about 70 yeers,</NOTE> we &s;ee the
<PB N="10" REF="11"> differences are greatned, mi&s;eries hightned, and gape, widened every day, divi&s;ions in Church grow greater, and divi&s;ions in the State not le&s;&s;er; &s;ee al&s;o how long the calamities were up|on I&s;rael in <HI>Aegipt,</HI> upon the Jews in <HI>Babylon,</HI> upon <HI>Germany</HI> of late yeers, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Secondly, pray hard for tho&s;e of our Brethren, that be in, and under the &s;ury of battle, and the cruelty of the enemies; and that fir&s;t, they may not &s;in, that they may keep a good con&s;cience; alas, this is their hour of temptation and &s;ore tri|all, Satan is winnowing them, pray their faith may not fail, <HI>Revel.</HI> 3. 10. <HI>Luke</HI> 22. 31, 32. &s;ee our ca&s;e, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 22. 26, 31. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 62. 6, 7. pray God to keep them from &s;inning, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 74. 20, 21. <HI>Jer.</HI> 14. 19, 21. Secondly, pray God to &s;anctifie the&s;e troubles to them, to take away the &s;cum, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 24. 6. to fan away the chaffe, purge away the dro&s;&s;e, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 27. 9. <HI>Mal.</HI> 3. 2, 3. Thirdly, in due and the fitte&s;t time to deliver them from their troubles, and recompence the enemy, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 79. 11, 12.</P>
<P>Thirdly, endeavour in thy place and calling, to &s;tench the&s;e wars, this bleeding wound, by fir&s;t, repenting towards God: &s;econdly, not willingly a&s;&s;i&s;ting the Enemies of the Common|wealth, &s;o as to hinder Delinquents from ju&s;tice, or in what we are able any other ju&s;t way.</P>
<P>Fourthly, Prepare for the wor&s;t, who knowes what &s;ad dayes we may yet &s;ee, <HI>Jer.</HI> 25. 15, 16. e&s;pecially if we &s;eriou&s;ly look at, fir&s;t, our &s;ins and abu&s;e of great mercies; &s;econdly, what far better men then we have &s;uffered before us; thirdly, how many clouds and mountains &s;eem yet to be betwixt us and a quiet end; fourthly, how &s;ins in every part of the Land yet encrea&s;e; fifthly, how all Treaties and probable means of reconciliation &s;till knap a&s;under; we thought if ever the Ar|mies met, one battle would do it, but, &amp;c. &s;ixthly, what &s;elfi&s;hne&s;&s;e and ends are yet in men, what envy and emulation, that &s;ometimes we cannot agree to follow the probable&s;t means clo&s;e.</P>
<P>Therefore prepare (I &s;ay) for the wor&s;t that can come, and tru&s;t not, fir&s;t, to policy (how little hath been done in the&s;e warres, by the deepe&s;t dungeon politicians (tho&s;e who were thought the wits and <HI>Achitophels</HI> of our time) even as much as
<PB N="11" REF="11"> <HI>Balaam</HI> and <HI>Achitophel</HI> did; God hath befooled men, I <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 19.) &s;econdly, nor to riches, oft-times they make men fare the wor&s;t, as at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> <NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">2 King. 25. 9, 12.</NOTE> and ma&s;&s;acre at <HI>Paris;</HI> thirdly, nor to &s;trong wals &amp; works (as was &s;aid to <HI>Phocas) Nahum</HI> 3. 12. fourthly, nor to multitude of &s;ouldiers, &s;trength of men and hor&s;e: But fir&s;t, turn to him that &s;miteth &s;peedily, cordially, throughly, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 9. 12, 14. <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 6. 1. Secondly, get into the Ark, <HI>Noah's</HI> Cabbin, Je&s;us Chri&s;t by faith; then &s;afe, if floods come, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 26. 20. thirdly, take heed of lying in any &s;in &s;ecurely, <HI>Amos</HI> 6. 7. fourthly, look to uprightne&s;&s;e, that fundamentall grace of &s;in|cerity, pluck up a good heart; &s;o <HI>Hezekiah, I&s;a.</HI> 38. 3. fifthly, keep peace with Heaven and con&s;cience, however things goe here below; &s;ixthly, gang loof off from the creature, take heed of being in&s;nared now, <HI>Jer.</HI> 45. 5. Seventhly, hide thy trea&s;ure in Heaven, where no plundering, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e.</HI> 2. Reproves tho&s;e that delight in war, and are the wic|ked incendiaries of the&s;e troubles, and &s;till adde (for their own ends) fuell to the fire, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 68. 30. And this delight is fur|thered, either, Fir&s;t, by cu&s;tome in the wars; about five or &s;ix yeers agoe, what a &s;trange thing was it to hear of a man &s;lain, or e&s;pecially if twenty or thirty &s;lain, now (to many once fle&s;ht in it) but a play, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 14, 15, 16. or &s;econdly, tre|chery; &s;hould two Neighbours have walked together &s;even yeers agoe, and one of them &s;hould have wept; his friend asks him, why weepe&s;t thou? the other &s;hould an&s;wer, I fore-&s;ee within the&s;e four or five yeers the Papi&s;ts and Athei&s;ts in <HI>Ire|land,</HI> will rai&s;e a horrid rebellion; and I fore&s;ee, that though thou and I walk to Church together, eat and drink together, yet thou wilt join in the &s;ame cau&s;e with them, and wilt plun|der my hou&s;e, &s;eek to betray me and mine, yea, to &s;lay me, &amp;c. this would have been thought &s;trange, yet now proved true in many; &s;ee this 'twixt <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> and <HI>Hazael,</HI> 2 <HI>King.</HI> 8. 11. how true is that now in many, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 55. 12, 13, 14. God hath opened a window in mens bre&s;ts (as &s;ometimes through the wall to <HI>Ezekiel</HI> in a vi&s;ion, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 8. 8.) whereby their hollow-hearted|ne&s;&s;e hath been di&s;covered: Thirdly, gaine, as <HI>Demetrius</HI> &s;aid, <HI>By this craft they get their wealth.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But if &s;word and war be &s;uch &s;ore judgements, <HI>Ezek.</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="12"> 14. 21. is not war then &s;imply unlawfull? <HI>An&s;w.</HI> &s;o &s;aid <HI>Cypri|an</HI> and <HI>Lactantius</HI> of old, &s;o <HI>Era&s;mus</HI> and others of late, others affirm it unlawfull only to Chri&s;tians in the new Te&s;tament (as Anabapti&s;ts formerly) but he that con&s;iders that war is an art, fir&s;t, of Gods teaching, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 18. 34. &amp; 144. 1. &s;econdly, of Gods directing, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 23. 2. thirdly, commanding, Numb. 31. 1. <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 6. 2. him&s;elf Captain, <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 5. 14. fourthly, practi|&s;ed by choy&s;e&s;t Saints, with good approof from God, as <HI>Abra|ban, Jo&s;hua, Gideon, David, &amp;c.</HI> Secondly, ye war with men profe&s;&s;ing the &s;ame true Religion with you is lawfull, <HI>Jndg.</HI> 20. 28, &amp;c. 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 13. &amp; 18. 7. yea thirdly, in new Te&s;tament lawfull, as appears, fir&s;t, by Chri&s;ts direction, <HI>Luke</HI> 3. 14. and &s;econdly, the Magi&s;trates Commi&s;&s;ion, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 14. and third|ly, by the Saints practice allowed, as Centuriou, &amp;c. <HI>Matth.</HI> 8. 10. <HI>Acts</HI> 10. 1, 2, 4. <HI>Revel.</HI> 17. 14. he needs not doubt the law|fulne&s;&s;e of it.</P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 2. But &s;econdly, the greater Quere is, When, and in what ca&s;es war is lawfull? <HI>An.</HI> fir&s;t, in generall (for we &s;peak of ordinary war) when it's nece&s;&s;ary, and when no other means can obtain our ju&s;t and nece&s;&s;ary de&s;ires; but in particular, our Ca&s;ui&s;ts require four conditions to a ju&s;t and lawfull was: Fir&s;t, lawfull and &s;ufficient authority requiring it; &s;econdly, a ju&s;t cau&s;e; and not only &s;o, but weighty (not <HI>de l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">na capitan)</HI> but fir&s;t, for defending of our laws, lives, liberties, &amp;c. as a <HI>Sam.</HI> 3. 1. &amp; 18. 7. &s;econdly, for taking ju&s;t revenge upon &s;uch as doe publike wrong, out-face ju&s;tice, Malignancs, Delinquents &amp;c. <HI>Jud.</HI> 20. 8, 18. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15. 2. 2 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word">. 10. 7. or 3^l^y toregain &s;ome|thing unju&s;tly taken or detained by Land or Sea, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 7. 14. &amp;c. 2 <HI>Chr.</HI> 13. 5. Thirdly, a right end, not to maintain a popi&s;h <HI>Diana,</HI> nor any faction, or private opinion, not inrolled in &s;a|cred writ (&s;uch as of which <HI>Chry&s;ippus</HI> u&s;ed to &s;ay, that many times he wanted new opinions to broach, but if he had the opinion, he never wanted arguments to defend it) not to main|taine monopolies, great places, to get other mens e&s;tates, to revenge private &s;pleen, &amp;c. but to obtain a ju&s;t peace, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 2. &s;o 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 11. 2. it's there &s;aid, that <HI>David</HI> demanded of <HI>&V;ri|ah,</HI> how the war pro&s;pered; in the Hebrew it is [of the peace of the war] <HI>i. e.</HI> in what readine&s;&s;e the war was for a peaceable
<PB N="13" REF="12"> end; the end of &s;uits is to be quiet; and of phy&s;ick is health: Fourthly, a right manner of managing the war for &s;uch an end; as, fir&s;t, undertaking it by prayer in the fear of God, <HI>Judg.</HI> 20. &s;econdly, when we goe along in a ju&s;t manner, not to phan&s;ie a man guilty for a word, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 29. 31. or for praying <HI>Dan.</HI> 6. 5. thereby to plunder him, not to accu&s;e men fal&s;ly, but be content with their wages, <HI>Luke</HI> 3. 14. not to whore, be drunk, &s;teal, &amp;c. holine&s;&s;e &s;hould be on the bels of the hor&s;es, and &s;ouldiers blades, as well as Prie&s;ts frontlet, <HI>Zach.</HI> 14. 20. <HI>Deut.</HI> 23. 9, 14. thirdly, fir&s;ttender tearms of peace, <HI>Deut.</HI> 20. 10, 11, 12. fourthly, carry it wi&s;ely, <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 1. 7. <HI>Deut.</HI> 20. 38.</P>
<P>There is yet a third Quere, more difficult then the two for|mer, and that is;</P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 3. What may be &s;aid for the lawfulne&s;&s;e of the&s;e wars which the Parliament now maintain; are not tho&s;e again&s;t the King, and &s;o unlawfull?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> I have el&s;where &s;aid my thoughts, <NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Brittains Re|membran<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">.</NOTE> at pre&s;ent take this; fir&s;t, that there &s;hould be Rulers, or &s;uperiours over men, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 23. 3. is <HI>Jure Divino,</HI> all lawfull government, whether Monarchy, Ari&s;tocracy, Democracy; whether Kings, or (which were before them in I&s;rael, Judges, Patriarchs; whe|ther by Con&s;uls, Dictators, Tribunes, &amp;c. in a word, all law|full government is of God, and the Ordinance of God, this is cleer by the light of nature, rea&s;on, Scripture, old Te&s;tament and new: But &s;econdly, whether this or that Kingdom (or any particular Nation now) &s;hall be governed by Kings, States or Con&s;uls, by a Monarchicall, Ari&s;tocraticall, or Democra|ticall government, this can be but <HI>Jure Humano,</HI> according as that people at their fir&s;t union, coalition and fundamentall con&s;titution, did bargain or agree; God never by his Word or Revelation &s;aid, that <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Spain</HI> &s;hould be governed by Kings any more then <HI>Holland, Venice, &amp;c.</HI> when <HI>Rome</HI> was governed by Con&s;uls, Dictators, &amp;c. it was lawfull, according as they did agree for the publike good and &s;afety of the State; the world hath yet not &s;tood &s;ix thou&s;and yeers, and the greater part of this time that the world hath &s;tood was &s;pent, ere Gods I&s;rael had a King, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 8. 5, 6, 7. yea, among the Jewes, where they needed no Parliaments (for God him.
<PB N="14" REF="13"> &s;elf made and gave them their Law of the Land) and God had a &s;peciall hand in choice of their Kings (more then can be &s;aid of any Kings now) yet even then the people had a hand and con&s;ent in the choice of their Kings, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17. 14, 15. 2 <HI>Chro.</HI> 22. 1. 1 <HI>King.</HI> 12. 1, &amp;c. much more in any other Kingdoms) the in&s;titution of government is of God; but the con&s;titution of this or that particular government, is from men.</P>
<P>Thirdly, if any Nation be governed by Kings, yet what line or family &s;hall be the Kings or chiefe governours there, this is from man, or according as the people fir&s;t made their com|pact, gave their binding con&s;ent and choice: Marriage is Gods Ordinance, but whether this woman &s;hall have this man to be her head, is by her own choice and con&s;ent; God hath not &s;aid, thou &s;uch a one, be thou King of <HI>Spain,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Fourthly, &s;uppo&s;e this line or family, King of this or that Nation, yet whether he &s;hall be King for yeers, or for life, or to him and his heirs, or to him and his heirs males for ever, this is <HI>Jure humane,</HI> a humane Ordinance, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 13. accor|ding as that Nation fir&s;t made their bargain, agreement, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Fifthly, what priviledges, Prerogatives &s;uch a King &s;hall have, what liberties immunities that people under him &s;hall have, this is <HI>Jure humano,</HI> according as they have, and do make the bargaine, according to the fundamentall con&s;titutions, agreements and laws of that Land (for <HI>France, Spain, Denmark, Hungary,</HI> &amp;c. are not all bound by any word of God to have ju&s;t the &s;ame liberties, laws, prerogatives, &amp;c. but according as them&s;elves agree, &s;o they be not again&s;t the generall rules in Scripture; &s;o that I herein concur with the Lord <HI>Digby,</HI> that our ca&s;e is not &s;o much to be re&s;olved by Divinity, but law; and properly to be determined by tho&s;e who are Judges of what is, or is not law; what are, or are not the fundamentall con&s;titutions of our government: Now to the ca&s;e in <HI>England,</HI> the King was never made or e&s;teemed Judge of Law; men u&s;ed not to goe to the King to know what is Law; &amp; if he &s;aid this or that to be Law, it was but his own opinion; neither are our Lawyers or inferiour Courts the ultimate Judges, but the la&s;t Judge from which there is no appeal with us, is the &s;u|pream Court of Parliament: (now no Court of the Kingdom
<PB N="15" REF="13"> is null, or the acts of it void, becau&s;e the Kings per&s;on is not there, or his mind again&s;t it.) This &s;upream Judicatory affir|ming and declaring to me, that by the fundamentall con&s;titu|tions and con&s;tant agreements and laws of this land, we may defend our laws, liberties, lives, e&s;tates, &amp;c. by arms, and that now is this ca&s;e, and nece&s;&s;ity thereof; I beleeve it, and have no further to goe for re&s;olution in this ca&s;e: The objection of conque&s;t is fond and frivolous; an unju&s;t conque&s;t without ju&s;t title (meerly becau&s;e another is &s;tronger) gives a man no right to my pur&s;e, without my con&s;ent &s;ome way, much le&s;&s;e to a Kingdome; &s;hould the Turk or Spaniard unju&s;tly make wars upon our King <HI>Charles,</HI> and conquer him, have they a ju&s;t right therefore to his Kingdom?</P>
<P>But &s;econdly, I conceive a man may very much &s;ee the hand of God in the&s;e wars going along with the Parliament; if we con&s;ider, fir&s;t, the beginning of them, and that fir&s;t, when we were very low, when by rea&s;on of flatterers, &amp;c. many were bani&s;hed and terrified, &s;o as it was thought no man dur&s;t lift up his head, <HI>Zach.</HI> 1. 21. yet thou&s;ands appeared pre&s;ently; &s;e|condly, when it was thought that by idlene&s;&s;e and long di&s;u&s;e we were grown &s;o effeminate, ru&s;ty and unfit for war, yet have we found men not bred, but made as gallant &s;ouldiers on the &s;udden, as any in the world; thirdly, when we were embroiled in a war with our brethren of <HI>Scotland,</HI> yet &s;ome of both Nati|ons delivered, like brands out of the fire, for this work, <HI>Zach.</HI> 3. 2.</P>
<P>Secondly, if we con&s;ider the growth of them, fir&s;t, God hath wrought upon mens &s;pirits, and that is above mans work, <HI>Haggai</HI> 1. 14. God touched mens hearts, <HI>Ezra</HI> 1. 1. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10. 26. and hath fitted men like <HI>Bezaleel</HI> and <HI>Aholiab, Exod.</HI> 31. be|yond their naturall temper for this work; of weak, made &s;trong; of dull, made quick, &s;ee <HI>Judg.</HI> 6. 1, 6. a &s;trong, potent enemy, ver. 5. yet a poor Leader (a thra&s;her) <HI>Gideon,</HI> mean per&s;on, mean family, mean furniture, weapons, &amp;c. pre|vailed.</P>
<P>Thirdly, con&s;ider how God hath befooled the &s;tronge&s;t wits and &s;ubtille&s;t, deepe&s;t plots in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, how little mens deepe plots have done in this work, but God hath car|ried
<PB N="16" REF="14"> on-things beyond the wit of man, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. 19. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 44. 29. had tho&s;e reaching wits many a time taken a quite contrary cour&s;e, how much in probability, had we been endangered?</P>
<P>Fourthly, we have gone mo&s;t forward by going backward, gained mo&s;t by our lo&s;&s;es, like that plot, <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 8. 20. 22. at our lo&s;&s;e of <HI>Albertan, Bristol, Leicoster,</HI> &amp;c. how did our &s;eeming friends turn, and were di&s;covered, and when we were weake&s;t, we did mo&s;t; in mo&s;t great victories, we almo&s;t quite lo&s;t all, ere we conquered, as <HI>Keinton, Newbery, He&s;&s;am-More, Na&s;eby,</HI> &amp;c. at <HI>Atherton</HI> we fir&s;t won, then lo&s;t all.</P>
<P>Fifthly, our enemies have helped and furthered us much in this work; how came the Bi&s;hops to be &s;hut out of the Hou&s;e of Lords, Delinquents from the Hou&s;e of Commons, but by their own deeds? trecherous per&s;ons and plots di&s;covered the enemies victories and plots knit the Hou&s;es firmlier together when any breach, and won them a peg higher (&s;ee <HI>Daniels</HI> three childrens, and <HI>Jo&s;ephs</HI> enemies rai&s;ed them, this is <HI>Digi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> Dei.)</HI></P>
<P>Sixthly, Religions purity, the plots and filth of popery more di&s;covered; tell me of any war in all the world (Greci|ans, Romans, &amp;c.) that ever looked at the power and purity of Religion &s;o much as this:</P>
<P>Seventhly, the work is done, not by might or by power, but Gods way, by Gods &s;pirit, <HI>Zech.</HI> 4. 6. like <HI>Jericho's</HI> wa&s;e, the way that <HI>Babybon</HI> mu&s;t down, <HI>Revel.</HI> 14. 6, 7, 8. and Anti|chri&s;t fall, 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2. 8. <HI>Ezra</HI> 5. 1, 2.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But Antichri&s;t &s;eems to befar from his fall and go|ing down.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Con&s;ider if as great things, and as unlikely have not been done in <HI>England</HI> within the&s;e few yeers, he that &s;hould have told thee but &s;ix yeers agoe, that we &s;hould have an in|di&s;&s;oluble Parliament (&s;ave by its own power) that it &s;hould
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lord is gone out be&s;ore us, Iudg. 4. 14.</NOTE> la&s;t above five yeers together, that there &s;hould be never a Mo|nopoly or Bi&s;hop in <HI>England,</HI> that the Book of Common-pray|er and twenty &s;uch things &s;hould be removed; would you have beleeved them? may not we &s;ay, God hath done wonders that we looked not for, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 64. 3. <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">d.</HI> 15. 11. and who knowes but God may &s;ay, thou &s;halt &s;ee greater things <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> the&s;e,
<PB N="17" REF="14"> <HI>John</HI> 5. 20. then may we change our prai&s;es as they, <HI>Jer.</HI> 16. 14.</P>
<P>Secondly, when Antichri&s;t goes down, he will goe down &s;uddenly, like his Ma&s;ter, <HI>Luke</HI> 10. 17. like <HI>Pharaoh, Human, Bel&s;hazzar,</HI> unexpectedly, &s;ee <HI>Revel.</HI> 18. 8, 10, 17, 19, 21. like a great mil-&s;tone thrown down violently.</P>
<P>Eightly, God hath done much already, he hath already made that good to us in <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 14. 2. that Gods people take them captives, who&s;e captives they were, and rule over their oppre&s;|&s;ors: but the time warns me, let this &s;erve for the fir&s;t point, and I will di&s;patch the re&s;t in few, or el&s;e prorogue them. The next is,</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Ob&s;erv."> That when wars, plunderings, &amp;c. befall a Nation, it's God that &s;ends them, that gives up a people to them, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 24. 3. 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 15. 5, 6. <HI>Amos</HI> 3. 3. the enemies are Gods rod, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 10. 5. Gods &s;word, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 17. 13. Gods battle-Axe, <HI>Jer.</HI> 51. 20. And this is not without rea&s;on, if we look at Gods glory, on his peoples benefit: <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Rea&s;."> Fir&s;t, at Gods glory; he hereby manife&s;ts wi&s;dome, in di&s;covering the cowardly, trecherous and rotten|hearted, the plots of open enemies, and fal&s;hoods of &s;eeming friends, are in times of wars and plunderings much di&s;cove|red, many &s;uch vi&s;ions like that <HI>Ezek.</HI> 8. 8. hath God revea|led to us.</P>
<P>Secondly, his power; that he can make medicines of poy|&s;ons, bring light out of darkne&s;&s;e, and much good to his peo|ple and Church by wars and lo&s;&s;es, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 12. 9. and in the fir&s;t time (eft times as wor&s;t, as <HI>I&s;aac)</HI> deliver them, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10. 13. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 9. make devouring Whales and Lyons help and &s;ave them, as <HI>Jonah, Daniel.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, his love; when the wars and &s;poilers have left them nothing but a God to live upon, yet oft times then have they mo&s;t enlarged, full comfort, as <HI>John</HI> in <HI>Patmos,</HI> &amp;c. Apo|&s;tles Acts 4. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">.</P>
<P><HI>Rea&s;.</HI> 2. In regard of his people, God &s;uffers plunderers; and that, Fir&s;t, hereby to put them in mind of their former abu&s;e of their hou&s;es, lands, e&s;tates and liberties, therefore &s;uf|fers them to be plundered of them, and to teach them to prize and value them better another time, and God in them.</P>
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<P>Secondly, to prevent &s;ome &s;pirituall di&s;ea&s;e, or &s;ore evil that he &s;ees would el&s;e grow upon them, perhaps pride, carnal &s;e|curity, loo&s;ne&s;&s;e, therefore he hedgeth their way with the&s;e thornes, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 2. 14. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12. 7.</P>
<P>Thirdly, to quicken them to duties with more heat, to cry more heartily, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 5. 15. to take away their &s;cum, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 24. 6. to make them &s;hine brighter, <HI>Dan.</HI> 11. 34, 35. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 4. 3, 4. <HI>Zech.</HI> 13. 8, 9. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 1. 25, 26. &amp; 27. 9. and other &s;uch good ends, which I have formerly mentioned.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 1. To apply it briefly, fir&s;t, art thou robbed, plunde|red, &s;poiled, look up higher then man, as <HI>Job</HI> did, <HI>Job</HI> 1. 21. &amp; 2. 10. as <HI>David,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 16. 10. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 39. 9. not like dog at the &s;tone.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 2. Snarl not, but learn patience, it is God hath done it, who is ju&s;t and wi&s;e, who may doe what he will, who will doe what is be&s;t; it's a fathers cup and rod; any thing on this &s;ide hel is mercy; thou art no poorer yet, then thou came in, and mu&s;t goe out of the world: Con&s;ider fir&s;t, &s;uch a &s;ubmit|ting patient frame of heart God loves and likes, and looks for, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15. 26. &s;econdly, &s;uch a frame of &s;pirit hath a pro|mi&s;e of ea&s;e and delivery, <HI>Levit.</HI> 26. 41, 42. thirdly, with &s;uch &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion ca&s;t thy care on God, and thou neede&s;t take no di|&s;tracting care in the wor&s;t times, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 5. 6. <HI>Phil.</HI> 4. 5, 6, 7.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 3. Is it God? here is a cordial in the wor&s;t times; he can take off the&s;e &s;poilers, plunderers again (who &s;ent them) when he will; go to him, he can hook back a <HI>Zenacherib,</HI> bring down a <HI>Pharaoh, Herod, Haman,</HI> when he plea&s;eth, by Angels, Stars, winds, rains above; by Lyons, Whales, lice, frogs, &amp;c. below; weak means, contrary means, no means, <HI>Job</HI> 34. 20. when pa&s;t hope in mans eye, <HI>Deut.</HI> 32. 36, as <HI>I&s;aac, Jonab,</HI> &amp;c. wait on God then in the&s;e harde&s;t times, and comfort we our &s;elves: for fir&s;t, are there not a great number of <HI>Abels</HI> &s;lain, who&s;e blood cries under the Altar, <HI>Revel.</HI> 6. 9, 10. and will not God avenge his elect &s;peedily? <HI>Luke</HI> 18. 7, 8. <HI>Jer.</HI> 51. 35.</P>
<P>Secondly, many Saints (though dead) have left prayers for the&s;e times, and for this work, who &s;owed what others mu&s;t reap, <HI>John</HI> 4. and laid the fir&s;t &s;tone of this work, and the&s;e prayers are upon the fyle.</P>
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<P>Thirdly, there are many thou&s;and Saints alive, for whom God will doe much, as for ten righteous in <HI>Sodom,</HI> for the wheats &s;ake, yea, many young ones comming on (and we u&s;e not to execute a woman while great. with child;) the Lord often ble&s;&s;eth a <HI>Potiphar,</HI> a <HI>Labans</HI> hou&s;e, for a <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> a <HI>Jacob's</HI> &s;ake; when the great men of a Kingdom be in a combu&s;tion, yet the Saints then are the &s;trength of a Land, <HI>Zech.</HI> 12. 5, 6.</P>
<P>Fourthly, we have a thou&s;and of wra&s;tling prayers goe to God daily for this cau&s;e, if one poor widow can &s;o prevail with an unju&s;t Judge, <HI>Luke</HI> 18. one <HI>Jacob, Gen.</HI> 32. 26. how much more the Armies of prayers that begirt Heaven; the thing that we aime at, that Chri&s;t may raign, is the de&s;ire of the godly in all Nations, <HI>Haggai</HI> 2. 6, 7.</P>
<P>Fifthly, we have many &s;weet experiments, ta&s;tes, and be|ginnings of what we de&s;ire already; the bu&s;h is not con&s;umed, two Kingdomes reconciled, much done already, many grie|vous yoaks we are freed from.</P>
<P>Sixthly, Gods Name is much engaged in this work, <HI>Exod.</HI> 32. 12. <HI>Numb.</HI> 14. 15, 16.</P>
<P>Seventhly, enemies &s;ins ripen apace, <HI>Gen.</HI> 15. 16. <HI>Zech.</HI> 5. 9. <HI>Ephah</HI> fils apace.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 4. Learn to profit under Gods rod; and that fir&s;t, by &s;eeking our wayes more then formerly, <HI>Haggai</HI> 1. 7. <HI>Lam.</HI> 3. 40. (you hear my ha&s;te;) &s;econdly, accept the puni&s;hment meek|ly, <HI>Micah</HI> 7. 9. <HI>Levit.</HI> 26. 41. thirdly, learn obedience, <HI>Heb.</HI> 12. 10. &amp; 5. 8. fourthly, learn reformation, <HI>Jo&s;h. 7. I&s;a.</HI> 9. 13, 14. <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 6. 1. fiftly, prize mercies more hereafter, and u&s;e them better. For fir&s;t, this is Gods end when he &s;ends the&s;e robbers and troubles, <HI>Zeph.</HI> 3. 5, 7. &s;econdly, it was the Churches way, <HI>Davids P&s;al.</HI> 13. 1. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 26. 9. thirdly, then the pla&s;ter will fall off, &amp;c. But to end it:</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 5. La&s;tly, art thou, thy friends, or Church di&s;tre&s;&s;ed, look up at him for cure that made the wound, meet God, <HI>Amos</HI> 4. 12. &s;eek his face, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 7. 13, 14. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 80. 3. yea, cry to God for help now; for fir&s;t, the enemies are very cruel, <HI>P&s;.</HI> 83. 3, 4. &s;econdly, Church in much need, like a woman in travail, rea|dy to bring forth an excellent birth, but a Dragon &s;tands rea|dy to devour it, <HI>Revel.</HI> 12. many are like tho&s;e wicked &s;pirits,
<PB N="20" REF="16"> <HI>Mark</HI> 9. when they &s;ee they mu&s;t be ca&s;t out, they rend all (though a Kingdom) in pieces; thirdly, God expects thy cries for his &s;ick Spou&s;e, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 36. 37. fourthly, Church expects and cals for it, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 51. 18. <HI>Lam.</HI> 1. 1, 2, 17. But may I but have leave to give you a brief of what I &s;hould have &s;aid to the other points, and I have done.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> 3. <HI>Jacobs</HI> &s;ins and iniquities are the procuring and meritorious cau&s;es of <HI>Jacobs</HI> puni&s;hment, <HI>Micah</HI> 6. 9. <HI>Jer,</HI> 9. 12. <HI>Lam.</HI> 3. 4. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 59. 1, 2. and no wonder; <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Rea&s;."> fir&s;t, it's but ju&s;t that God &s;hould &s;end plunderers and &s;poilers to rob us; when we by &s;in doe what in us lyes to plunder God of his Sabhaths, of his pure wor&s;hip, of his prai&s;e, of his obedience, of his goods, our &s;ouls and body: Secondly, &s;in gives God the lye; it is &s;o &s;aith God; it's not, &s;aith &s;in; let me have my will, &s;aith God; nay, but I will have my will, &s;aith the &s;inner: There is no peace to the wicked, &s;aith God; I &s;hall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my own heart, &s;aith the &s;inner: Such and &s;uch per&s;ons cannot be &s;aved, &s;aith God, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 10. oh but they &s;hall, &s;aith the &s;inner: thirdly, &s;in would take away Gods &s;overaignty; a wicked wretch could with there was no God, and will not have Chri&s;t to rule over him: fourthly, &s;in cro&s;&s;eth the nature of God; he is not only holy, but holine&s;&s;e; not onely righteous, but righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, <HI>Jer.</HI> 23. 6. but &s;in is unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, it's a very oppo&s;ition to in|finite truth and ju&s;tice, &amp;c. fiftly, &s;in kicks God upon the bow|els, abu&s;eth infinite kindne&s;&s;e, patience; for which of my good works doe you &s;tone me? wherein have I wearied you, &amp;c. no wonder then if this procure &s;ore puni&s;hments: A word or two of Application &s;hall &s;hut up this point.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 1. See then whom to blame for all the mi&s;eries that have and &s;till doe befall us; all the Nations in the world could not have put us into that condition that our &s;ins have, and that ju&s;tly; we but drink as we brewed; cleer God in all, he hath done nothing without a cau&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 2. It informs as al&s;o, who is the greate&s;t Malignant in all <HI>England, Scotland, Ireland, &amp;c.</HI> truly &s;in; there are bad Cour|tiers, but &s;in is wor&s;e, el&s;e all hel could not have made us thus mi&s;erable and di&s;tracted.</P>
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<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 3. Let this &s;hew us &s;in in a right gla&s;&s;e, and hereby learn to hate and leave it; we may &s;ay of this war as <HI>Zipporah</HI> of <HI>Me|&s;es,</HI> a bloody war ha&s;t thou been unto me, in which &s;ome have lo&s;t their husbands, &s;ome their &s;ons, &s;ome their friends, &s;ome their e&s;tates; but then chiefly &s;ay, oh bloody &s;ins that cau&s;ed all this: There are four gla&s;&s;es wherein I would &s;hew you the ba&s;ene&s;&s;e of &s;in: Fir&s;t, in the ri&s;e and &s;pring of it, it's a ba&s;tard, whereof the Devil is the father &amp; mans naughty heart the mo|ther; who would nur&s;e &s;uch a brat, &amp;c. Secondly, in the nature of it, it's a thwarting and cro&s;&s;ing God and his law to his face: Thirdly,
<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">See two clean Birds.</NOTE> by way of compari&s;on, dirt, poy&s;on, cro&s;&s;es, De|vill, hell, are nothing &s;o ill as &s;inne, but &s;hadowes of it, &amp;c. fourthly, in the effects of it; &s;ee what mi&s;ery it brought upon Angels; Secondly, <HI>Adam;</HI> thirdly, <HI>Sodom;</HI> fourthly; old world; fiftly, what troubles on Je&s;us Chri&s;t: &s;ixtly, on all the world to this day, it's a make-bate and break-peace every where, in Heaven, earth and hel.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 4. Exhorts us as ever we would have war removed, &s;word &s;heathed, wounds healed, break off our &s;ins by repen|tance; would you like it to &s;ee your Town robbed and &s;poiled, your channels run with blood, your hou&s;es plundered? if not, for&s;ake your &s;ins that procure the&s;e; then fir&s;t, acknowledge <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Iohn 1. 9. Ho&s;. 5. 15.</NOTE> thy &s;inne, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 32. 5. and thy worthine&s;&s;e to peri&s;h forthy &s;in, come before the Lord like <HI>Benhadad,</HI> with ropes about your necks, &s;ay, Lord if thou wilt condemne me, here I am, thou &s;halt need no other witne&s;&s;e; acknowledge thy &s;ins, national, per&s;onal, in&s;ide and out-&s;ide.</P>
<P>Secondly, break off thy darling &s;in, that is a main work, this fa&s;ting day, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 58. it's not con&s;e&s;&s;ing, like <HI>Judas,</HI> or &s;ack|cloath with <HI>Ahab,</HI> will &s;erve without this, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 1. 11, 15.</P>
<P>Thirdly, doe the contrary good, <HI>Matth.</HI> 21. 29. repenting was expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;onnes doing the contrary to his former finnes.</P>
<P>Fourthly, mourn, lend a tear to a poor &s;ick mother when we are almo&s;t robbed of our God of our King, of our Religion, and our liberties, of our e&s;tates, of our friends and lives, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;till in many <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> the growing hand; &s;hould we now make, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> 1. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 21. 6. be not in&s;en&s;ible; but a word of this in
<PB N="22" REF="17"> the next point, and an end. Which is,</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;erv.</HI> 4. That when God pours the&s;e &s;ore calamities of war, &s;poiling, &amp;c. aforementioned, upon a people, he expects they &s;hould be &s;en&s;ible of, affected with them and mourn un|der them, and is very angry and di&s;plea&s;ed, if they doe not lay them to heart; and no wonder, for fir&s;t, God cals for this mourning temper, when he afflicts a people, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 22. 12. <HI>Rom.</HI> 12. 15, 16. &s;econdly, Church cals for it, have pitty upon me, have pitty upon me, <HI>Job</HI> 19. 21. <HI>Lam.</HI> 2. 18, 19. thirdly, God complains when we are not affected with the rod, when we lay it not to heart, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 7. 9. <HI>Amos</HI> 6. 6. <HI>Obad. v,</HI> 12, 13. &s;o doth the Church al&s;o complain for want thereof, <HI>Lam.</HI> 1. 12. fourthly, the Saints of God have laid Gods rod &s;ore to heart, when it hath layen on their brethren, though them&s;elves have been free; thus <HI>Nehemiah,</HI> though he had provi&s;ion, wine, &amp;c. enough, and was &s;ervant in ordinary to the highe&s;t Potentate on earth, <HI>Neh.</HI> 1. 3, 4. &amp; 2. 2, 3. &s;o <HI>Daniel</HI> one of the highe&s;t &s;ubjects on earth. &s;ee how he is affected with the Churches ca|lamities, <HI>Dan.</HI> 10. 3. &s;o <HI>Jer.</HI> 9. 1. witne&s;&s;e his Lamentations, &s;ee <HI>&V;riah,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 11. 11. &s;ee <HI>Eli&s;ha,</HI> when he but fore&s;aw the mi&s;eries that would come on I&s;rael, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 8. 11, 12. above all, &s;ee Chri&s;t over <HI>Jeru&s;alem, Luke</HI> 19. 41, 41. And rea&s;on good, if we look at, fir&s;t, God; &s;econdly, our Brethren that &s;uffer, or thirdly, our &s;elves.</P>
<P><HI>Rea&s;.</HI> 1. In regard of God, it's he that &s;trikes, his rod, his work, his &s;trange work, and &s;hould we not be affected then? if a father la&s;h one child, &s;mite another, chide a third, &s;hall not the re&s;t lay it to heart; a child of God trembles at his word, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 66. 2. much more at his blows and judgments; the Church trembled and were all afraid, when but one or two were &s;mit|ten, <HI>Acts</HI> 5. 11. how much more when God &s;trikes down thou|&s;ands, <HI>David</HI> cryes, he was afraid of Gods judgements, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119. 120.</P>
<P>Secondly, in regard of God al&s;o, becau&s;e in plundering, fighting, robbing times, there is much wickedne&s;&s;e committed again&s;t God; &s;ee in our times what open wickedne&s;&s;e again&s;t both Law and Go&s;pel; what profe&s;&s;ed Athei&s;me again&s;t the fir&s;t Commandement, like him that was advi&s;ed to leave &s;in,
<PB N="23" REF="17"> el&s;e there was hel for him, cried, <HI>Tune credam cum illuc venero;</HI> or that Souldier that on the one side of his &s;hield (as he fancied) pictured the image of God, with the&s;e words under it, <HI>Si tu non vis,</HI> on the other &s;ide, the Devil, and under it the&s;e words, <HI>Isle rogitat,</HI> if God will not, the Devil will; that was all that he cared: So what open Idolatry again&s;t the &s;econd Comman|dement (Athei&s;ts and Papi&s;ts being combined together,) what prophane &s;wearing, cur&s;ing, damming, ramming, banning again&s;t the third; &s;o that many men (tolerably civill &s;even yeers agoe) cannot now &s;peak except they &s;wear; I think veri|ly God hath given them over to that in wrath; which they at fir&s;t prided them&s;elves in; for the fourth Commandement, we need no books of &s;ports to be read to cry it down; among&s;t many, it's almo&s;t forgot, &s;ome denying it in opinion, others in practice; for the fifth, how doe the vile&s;t people if &s;tronger, in&s;ult over the ancient, rifle his hou&s;e, &s;o that he who&s;e face they dur&s;t &s;carce (the other day) look at, cannot &s;ay, his hou&s;e, lands, goods, wife, children, &amp;c. are his own, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 3. 5. <HI>Lam.</HI> 4. 5. &amp; 5. 8. but drag him forth of his hou&s;e bare, though gray headed and bare-foot, and u&s;e him villanou&s;ly, as <HI>Phocas</HI> did to that good Emperour <HI>Mauritius,</HI> for murder, whordome and &s;tealing, (breaches of the &s;ixth, &s;eventh and eighth Comman|dements) which u&s;ually goe together; how rarely are the&s;e puni&s;hed? nay, made but a je&s;t? plundering, &s;moaking, &amp;c. lying is grown a trade in word, writing, print, &amp;c. For the Go&s;pel, how do men jeer at it, the go&s;pellers, go&s;pel lives, faith, &amp;c. nay, how do &s;ome openly ca&s;t off the old Te&s;tament &amp; much of the new, both in doctrine and practice? and &s;hould we not, nay, can we but lay the&s;e things to heart that are practi&s;ed in the&s;e plundering times? if our father, husband, wife, &amp;c. vvas &s;truck down, vve would mourn; and is not God dearer to us then a thou&s;and friends, &s;hall vve not lay it to heart vvhen men grow vvor&s;e then Devils, <HI>James</HI> 2. 19. neither beleeve nor tremble?</P>
<P>Thirdly, vvhen the enemy gets a petty victory, Gods name is bla&s;phemed, therefore &s;hould vve be affected and afflicted, he cannot be content to &s;trip, plunder, beat the poor Saint (whom he bla&s;phemes Round-head) but he mu&s;t rail on and revile his
<PB N="26" REF="18"> God; where is your God now? what is become of your Fa|&s;ting, Conventicles, long prayers, praying by the &s;pirit? alas, this kils a <HI>Davids</HI> heart, troubles old <HI>Eli</HI> and his daughter, more then other cro&s;&s;es, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 4. 18, 19, 21. P&s;al. 74. 18, 19. &amp; 79. 10, 11. &s;o <HI>Mo&s;es, Exod. 32. 11. Numb. 14. 16.</HI> &s;o P&s;al. 3. 2. &amp; 10. 13. &amp; 42. 3.</P>
<P><HI>Rea&s;.</HI> 2. In regard of our Brethren and Country; for fir&s;t, many are bani&s;hed, plundered, wounded, &s;lain, their hou&s;es burned, them&s;elves outwardly undone, that are very dear to God, who&s;e lives are precious, <HI>Lam.</HI> 4. 2. blood precious, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 72. 14. death precious, P&s;al. 116. 15. Gods &s;ervants, friends, children, heirs, Chri&s;ts fellows (fellow &s;ervants, fellow &s;ufferers fellow conquerors, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. fellow judges, 1 <HI>Cor,</HI> 6. 2. fellow citi|zens with the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 17. nay, Chri&s;ts &s;pou|&s;es, partakers of divine promi&s;es, divine nature, divine (com|municable) priviledges of Chri&s;t, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 4. and &s;hall we not lay this to heart?</P>
<P>Secondly, they are neer to us, of the &s;ame hou&s;e with us (for all Gods Church is but one hou&s;e, only &s;everall Cham|bers and Parlours, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4. 17.) nay, members of &s;ame body, under &s;ame head, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12. 12, 26. and when the&s;e &s;uffer deep|ly, &s;hall not we mourn? then are we but gla&s;&s;ie eyes, and wooden legs, no living members; &s;hall Chri&s;t be &s;en&s;ible, who is the head, <HI>Acts</HI> 9. 4, 5. <HI>Matth.</HI> 25. 42, 43. and not your fellow|members? 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 29. 1. <HI>John</HI> 2. 9, 10.</P>
<P>Thirdly, in regard of our Country; can we &s;ee our native Country &s;poiled, torn in pieces by its own &s;ons and not mourn? &s;ee <HI>Neh.</HI> 2. 3. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 107. 34. <HI>Joel</HI> 2. 3. how hath this dar|ling &s;oyl and Kingdom been hara&s;&s;ed and over-run by the Sax|ons (Anno 447. after Chri&s;t) whom King <HI>Vortiger</HI> &s;ent for to help him again&s;t the Picts and Scots, who came over hither under the conduct of <HI>Hengistus</HI> and <HI>Hor&s;us,</HI> with about 9000. men at fir&s;t, but after they had conquered the enemy, they con|quered King <HI>Vortiger</HI> him&s;elf, &s;lew his Nobles, got fir&s;t a Ca|&s;tle in <HI>Kent (Thong Castle)</HI> then a County, then mo&s;t part of our Kingdome, and made &s;even Kingdoms of it, plundered, bani&s;hed and &s;poiled the Brittains: After came in the Danes, fetcht in by one of our Nobility, <HI>Beorne Bockard</HI> (as &s;ome &s;ay, by occa&s;ion of one <HI>Lothbroke)</HI> under the conduct of two Da|ni&s;h Captains, <HI>Hunga</HI> and <HI>Hubba,</HI> upon the Danes comming in|to
<PB N="27" REF="18"> <HI>England,</HI> they &s;lew <HI>Osbert</HI> King of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> and &s;o re|venged the cau&s;e of <HI>Bockard,</HI> &amp; after &s;hot King <HI>Edmond</HI> to death with arrows, having bound him to a Tree, therein revenging the death of one <HI>Lothbroke</HI> (&s;lain by one <HI>Beric</HI> King <HI>Edmonds</HI> fal|coner:) The&s;e Danes again plundered the poor Inhabitants of this Land, kept them under as &s;laves, &s;o as they could not drink, but a Dane would cut an Engli&s;h-mans throat; hence were they fain to get one to pledge them when they drank, to &s;ave their throats from being cut. After this, came in the Normans from <HI>Normandy</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> in the dayes of King <HI>Harold</HI> brought hither by <HI>William</HI> Duke of <HI>Normandy</HI> (after called <HI>Wil|liam</HI> the Conquerer) landed neer <HI>Hastings</HI> in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex,</HI> September 28. 1066. Duke <HI>William</HI> &s;unk all his &s;hips, that &s;o his men might re&s;olve to fight (for fly they could not) fought with <HI>Harold</HI> October 14. in the yeer of Chri&s;t 1066. in which battle were &s;lain about 68000. men, <HI>William</HI> proved the Conquerer, got the Crown, the poor Inhabitants were again plundered, their lands, places, e&s;tates were given to the French, many fled to <HI>Scotland,</HI> to King <HI>Malcolme</HI> there, &amp;c. but yet the&s;e were plun|derings from forraign Nations, but now are we tearing out our own bowels in civil wars and broils one with another; it's true al&s;o, we have had terrible civill warres in <HI>England</HI> before this in the Barons war, in the divi&s;ions twixt the hou&s;es of <HI>Lancaster</HI> and <HI>York;</HI> but &s;till ours are wor&s;e; when tho&s;e wars were at hotte&s;t, it's Chronicled for a &s;trange wonder, that in the Reign of <HI>Edward</HI> the fourth, there were nine &s;everall bat|tels fought in that civil war, and yet he reigned (I think) al|mo&s;t 23. yeers. But I can tell you of nine battles in half a yeer in King <HI>Charles</HI> his time, nay three times nine battles in three yeers of his Reign, and the Lord knows how many more yet may be. In every one of our late Soveraigns Reigns, there hath been &s;ome remarkable trouble or danger to this Laud; burn|ing in Queen <HI>Maries</HI> dayes, a Spani&s;h Navy in 88 in Queen <HI>Elizabeths</HI> days; a helli&s;h Powder-plot in 1605. in King <HI>Iames</HI> his days, but the&s;e troubles in King <HI>Charles</HI> his days exceed all the re&s;t; in Queen <HI>Maries</HI> days &s;ome three hundred were burnt, in our days above thrice three thou&s;and &s;lain; alas; how is our Country (lately like the Garden of God) now become a de|&s;olute
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<PB N="26" REF="20"> Wilderne&s;&s;e, <HI>Joel</HI> 2. 3. that Land that <HI>Gregory</HI> (after cal|led the great) at <HI>Rome</HI> called Angel-land, a Land of Angels; which <HI>Spain</HI> called the fortunate I&s;land; how &s;its &s;he like a wi|dow? <HI>alas,</HI> one comes from the Army and brings news like his 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 4. 17. there hath been a great &s;laughter, and thy &s;ons are &s;lain, and then what pitty to &s;ee how <HI>Rachel</HI> weeps becau&s;e they are not; another cries, my Husband is &s;laine; another comes like <HI>Jobs</HI> me&s;&s;engers, and cries, thy goods are plunde|red, &s;heep and Cattel &amp;c. gone by the Sabeans, &amp;c. <HI>Job</HI> 1. another is &s;hot to death, but lockt in the &s;addle, &s;wags up and down; another hath his arme off, leg off, no&s;e off, hand off, &amp;c. ah, alas ten thou&s;and pitties! Corn-fields burnt, hou&s;es; Churches burnt down, <HI>I&s;a. 64. 10, 11. P&s;al. 74. 4, 7.</HI> thumbs and toes cut off, as in <HI>Adonibezek's</HI> time, <HI>Judg.</HI> 1. 7. &s;words make women childle&s;&s;e, as in <HI>Agag's</HI> time, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15. 33. cru|elty u&s;ed to living, yea and to the dead al&s;o, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 79. 2. which a very <HI>Tacitus</HI> would have abhorred.</P>
<P><HI>Rea&s;.</HI> 3. In regard of our &s;elves: Fir&s;t, our &s;ins have had as deep a &s;hare in bringing the&s;e judgments as any, and &s;hall we not be affected then with them? then are we wor&s;e then the old Prophet was, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 13. 30. he hurt the young Prophet, but then mourned; <HI>Davids</HI> &s;ins hurt the people, Actions the Army; the peoples &s;in hurt <HI>&V;zzah, 1 Chron.</HI> 13. 10. a bad &s;to|mack hurts a good head, and &s;hall we not mourn then, as <HI>Daniel</HI> did in the like ca&s;e? <HI>Dan.</HI> 9. 5, 6.</P>
<P>Secondly, becau&s;e that which lies on others to day, may be our ca&s;e to morrow, <HI>ille bodi&egrave; ego cras,</HI> as <HI>Bernards</HI> good old man &s;aid, the cup may pa&s;&s;e unto us, <HI>Lam.</HI> 4. 21. we may be forced to drink round of Gods cup, <HI>Jer.</HI> 25. 28, 29. &amp; 49. 12. &s;ay not they are greater &s;inners then we that are &s;harplier cha&s;tized, <HI>Luke</HI> 13. 4, 5. but lay it to heart as if we were in bonds, Heb. 13. 3. <HI>Gal.</HI> 6. 1. But I mu&s;t break up; an U&s;e or two therefore &s;hortly, and I have done.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 1. Of reproof to many (herein nigh a kin 20 <HI>Jacob,</HI> to I&s;rael) that though we are thus given to the robbers and &s;poi|lers, yet con&s;ider not, yet lay it not to heart; the&s;e are of di|vers &s;orts; Fir&s;t, they that are glad of it; en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">es cry, down with us, down to the ground, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 137. 7. &s;eeming friends,
<PB N="27" REF="20"> that &s;ay, hereby they get their wealth, <HI>Acts</HI> 19. 25. Newters of <HI>Gallio's</HI> temper, or of theirs, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 14. <HI>Obadiah</HI> ver. 12. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 35. 15.</P>
<P>Secondly, they that are &s;en&s;ible of <HI>Jacobs</HI> troubles, but im|pute them to a wrong cau&s;e, they &s;ay as Barbarians of <HI>Paul,</HI> or <HI>Job's</HI> friends of him, <HI>Surely Iacobs cau&s;e is naught, be goes in a wrong way, el&s;e had never been &s;o given up to the &s;poilers and robbers; but oh &s;ee ere thou judge,</HI> Judg. 20. 21, 25.</P>
<P>Thirdly, they who are &s;en&s;ible of, and affected with the cro&s;&s;e and trouble, not the &s;in.</P>
<P>Fourthly, they that make it appear they are not affected with our mi&s;eries and &s;ins, no not upon our humiliation, fa|&s;ting and mourning dayes; for fir&s;t, &s;ome come not, cannot &s;pare time from work; &s;econdly, other game, card, &s;port this day, which is much more needle&s;&s;e then work; thirdly, others fea&s;t this day purpo&s;ely, &s;et up an anti-fa&s;t, as well as an anti|parliament, &s;ee <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 22. 12, 13, 14.</P>
<P>Fifthly, others take occa&s;ion this day, while you are &s;hut up here mourning and weeping, and praying, to haunt Ale|hou&s;es, and whordome, and pour more oaths out, and more cups in, then we pour out tears, like brazen-faced <HI>Zimri,</HI> when all the Congregation was weeping, <HI>Num.</HI> 25. 6.</P>
<P>Sixthly, they that come hither and &s;it here, but are not affe|cted, mourn not; fa&s;ting days &s;hould be weeping days, fa&s;ting and weeping u&s;ed to be joyned together, <HI>Neh.</HI> 1. 4. <HI>E&s;t.</HI> 43. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 7. 6. <HI>Joel</HI> 2. 12. many are very eager and earne&s;t in buying, in &s;elling, trading, hunting, cour&s;ing, only mighty carele&s;&s;e, mindle&s;&s;e, in hearing, praying, and when they &s;hould be weeping.</P>
<P>Seventhly, others weep &amp; mourn for a day, but hold not out, are not like wra&s;tling <HI>Jacob,</HI> or the importunate widow, or like mourning <HI>Jeremy, Lam.</HI> 3. 50. till God look down and heal his Church: Now this in&s;en&s;iblene&s;se in the&s;e &s;ad days, this not laying the&s;e things to heart, is, fir&s;t, a walking contrary to God, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 22. 12. <HI>Levit.</HI> 26. 40. &s;econdly, it argues much folly and blindne&s;&s;e of mind, <HI>Jer.</HI> 5. 3, 4. thirdly, much hardne&s;&s;e of heart, wor&s;e then <HI>Pharaoh, Mana&s;&s;es,</HI> Prodigall, they in times of cro&s;&s;es relented, <HI>Exod.</HI> 9. 27, 28. 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 33. 12. <HI>Luke</HI> 15.
<PB N="28" REF="21"> fourthly, it's a de&s;pi&s;ing God; let him &s;mite and doe what he will, &s;aith the &s;inner, I will not yeeld, like <HI>Balaam,</HI> will not turn back for all &s;word and miracle, <HI>Numb.</HI> 22. fiftly, it argues a mervailous love of &s;in, as the child that is whipping for playing with rattles, will &s;till play with them while he is on the knee whipping, &s;ure he loves them dearly, as <HI>Balaam</HI> did the wages of unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, &s;o as word and &s;word could not turn him, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 15. &s;ixtly, it argues want of love to Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>John.</HI> 3. 17. &amp; 4. 20. &s;eventhly, want of love and zeal to Gods Cau&s;e, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 74. 18, 19. &amp; 79. 10, 11.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e.</HI> 2. The &s;econd U&s;e &s;hould have been for tryall, whe|ther we are rightly affected with <HI>Jacobs</HI> troubles; fir&s;t, are we as much affected with them now, as we were at the beginning of the&s;e wars? &s;econdly, how are we afflicted on dayes of humilia|tion, <HI>Levit.</HI> 23. 27. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 7. 16. thirdly, are we affected with &s;in, the cau&s;e of all the&s;e troubles? fourthly, doe we turn from our evil vvays and reform, <HI>Jonah</HI> 3. 10.</P>
<P><HI>&V;&s;e</HI> 3. But to end, la&s;tly, be exhorted this mourning day, to con&s;ider and lay to heart <HI>Jacobs</HI> troubles; as fir&s;t, the &s;cat|tered dry bones of <HI>Germany;</HI> &s;econdly, the <HI>Acheldema</HI> and tor|tures of <HI>Ireland;</HI> thirdly, the divi&s;ions of <HI>Scotland;</HI> fourthly, the plunderings in <HI>England:</HI> fiftly, the fury of battle and &s;word, hacking &amp; hewing among&s;t us; &s;ixtly, the de&s;troying Angel, the noy&s;ome pe&s;tilence in many places of our Land and Country; &s;eventhly, the &s;ci&s;ms, rents, old, new errours in the Church; eightly the encrea&s;e of &s;in daily, of all kinds, as light encrea|&s;eth; there vvas light and knovvledge in King <HI>Edward</HI> the fixt his dayes, more in Queen <HI>Elizabeths,</HI> more &s;till in King <HI>James</HI> his, mo&s;t in King <HI>Charles</HI> his dayes, yet &s;till &s;in encrea&s;eth, yet &s;ome doe not &s;ee, &s;ome vvill not &s;ee, &s;ome pretend to &s;ee that vvhich is not to be &s;een; ninthly, God dravvs neerer and neerer vvith his judgements and vvarnings, begins novv to make his approaches, intrench and make his batteries; he began in <HI>Ger|many,</HI> came on to <HI>Ireland,</HI> then to <HI>Scotland,</HI> then to <HI>England,</HI> then to <HI>Yorke&s;hire,</HI> then to the gates of <HI>Hull;</HI> and that fir&s;t, mildlier, vvhen the King came to the gates in <HI>April</HI> 1642. then &s;harplier in the fir&s;t &s;iege, then more terribly in the &s;econd &s;iege, from vvhich you vvere delivered <HI>Octob.</HI> 11. 1643. bevvare the fourth
<PB N="29" REF="21"> time; novv God knocks at the gates vvith a fear of the plague the King called in <HI>Anno</HI> 1642. the King of Kings knocks novv in 1645. tenthly, the danger of continuing the&s;e troubles, till all be da&s;ht in pieces, and many &s;uch like evils.</P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> What &s;hould vve do? <HI>An&s;.</HI> fir&s;t, ponder &s;adly, the lands mi&s;eries, the particulars, the quantity, the quality of them, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 41. 1. &s;econdly, ponder thy ovvn evil vvays, as &s;adly, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 4. 4. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 36. 31. <HI>Lam.</HI> 3. 40. &s;ift thy &s;elf for thy &s;ins (as the word is <HI>Zeph.</HI> 2. 12.) when God &s;ifts the Land, <HI>Amos</HI> 9. 9. doe as the Prodigall, return to thy &s;elf, <HI>Luke</HI> 15. 17. thirdly, clear God in all this, and condemn thy&s;elf, <HI>Ezra</HI> 9. 13. though thou art no rebel again&s;t the King, yet again&s;t the Kings King thou ha&s;t been; fourthly, have a fellow feeling of thy brethrens mi&s;eries <HI>Heb.</HI> 13. 3. &s;o as to pitty them in thy heart, <HI>Jer.</HI> 4. 19, 20. <HI>Lam.</HI> 3. 51. and pray for them with thy heart and tongue, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 62. 3. help them in thy life, mourn for them, <HI>Neh.</HI> 1. 4. and look not only on them, as Prie&s;t and Levite did, but to thy power be a good Samaritan; thirdly, you that have power, puni&s;h wic|kedne&s;&s;e and vice, let it not be now when the Kingdom bleeds (as a godly Divine &s;aith) as hard to pull down a ba&s;e Ale|hou&s;e, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ma&s;t.</HI> Bol.</NOTE> as to win <HI>Dunkirk,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Motives might be many, but I will only hint at one or two and conclude: Fir&s;t, to lay to heart <HI>Jacobs</HI> troubles, with the cau&s;e thereof, is the way to &s;ave us in time of danger, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 9. 4. when King <HI>Zedekiah</HI> would juggle on all &s;ides, mourning <HI>Ieremy</HI> &s;peaks home and plain, yet finds more favour from the Chaldeans heathen Army, then <HI>Zedekiah</HI> and all the Nobles, <HI>Jer.</HI> 39. 6, 7, 11, 12. &s;o <HI>E&s;ter</HI> 4. 14. Secondly, we have &s;et apart this day to lay to heart <HI>Jacobs</HI> troubles, let us doe the work that we came for: Thirdly, con&s;ider how Je&s;us Chri&s;t was and is affected with the churches mi&s;eries, <HI>Luke</HI> 19. 41. <HI>Acts</HI> 9. 4, 5. Fourthly, how great things now lye at &s;take, not an Army only new moulding, but Kingdom, &amp;c. but I to ca&s;e you, and my&s;elf, break off with the &s;ad complaint of mourning <HI>Jeremy</HI> Lam. 3. 48, 49, 50, 51. <HI>Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people; mine eye trickleth down and cea&s;eth not, without any intermi&s;&s;ion, till the Lord look down and behold from Heaven; mine eye affecteth my heart, becau&s;e of all the daughters of my people.</HI></P>
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