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A71286	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing W364; ESTC R6426	39,735	52

talke together of laying snares for the innocent they consult with one consent and take crafty Counsell together against Gods people even his hidden ones who are his jewells and his treasure they are confederate against God himselfe Psal 83 3.5 they judge unjustly accept the persons of the wicked Psal 82.2 And in a word there is no evil action or unjust practice which men of wicked counsells banded together will not doe earnestly with both hands Mich. 7.3 Let Abimelechs example by evill counsell and ayd of wicked instruments slaying his 70. innocent brethren Iudg. 9. Doegs accusing first and after murthering the Lords Priests 1 Sam. 24. and such like bee an evidence of this Now what state is not miserable where a Band of such wicked Counsellors rule and judge What man can securely enjoy his lands goods liberty or life what peace or safety can be to any righteous man if God doth not stop these Lyons mouthes and extraordinarily protect him Every good man may say with David My soule is among Lyons and I lye among them who are set on fire even the sons of men c. Psalm 77.4 O that I had wings like a Dove c. Psal. 55.6 and Ier. 9.2 Therefore this Doctrine is a certain truth reason 3 The third Reason is drawn from the bitter fruits and unhappy event and issue of their evill Counsells and actions The Prophet David upon certaine knowledge of the evill and mischiefe which followes them proclaims the man blessed that hath not walked in their counsell Psal. 1.1 First they bring woe and misery on themselves as it is reported of the Dog-bramble that in hot Countries being vehemently shaken with the winde and one branch dashed against another it teares and grates it selfe till it sets it selfe on fire and the woods round about it so these men by consulting wickedly together and by their restlesse rage they mutually enflame one another and the Lord against whom they set themselves conspiring against his anoynted holy ones will speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his hot displeasure Psal. 2.2.5 He will destroy them and make them fall in their own imaginations Psal. 5.10 And when they associate themselves and take counsell together their counsell shall come to nought and they shall be broken in pieces Isa. 8.10 and the fruit of their Counsells which they seek deep to hide and of their workes which are in the darke is woe Isa. 29.15 Secondly they involve in the same misery and destruction with themselves the City and State wherein they act with power and all those who walke in their Counsells they bring the sword on their City with Captivity and slavery Hos. 10.6 The Counsellors of the King of Assyriah and of proud Babel brought them downe to hell and destruction Isa. 10.15 and 47.13 And in all the examples before mentioned as of Abimelech of the men of Belial in Gibeah of Saul Absolom Rehoboam Ioash and of the wicked Princes Priests Rulers and people in the dayes of Zedekiah before the captivity to Babel and in the dayes of Christ and the Apostles before the destruction of City Temple and Nation of the Iewes by the Romans we may see as in a clear glasse the cursed fruits and woefull events of the evill counsells and actions of the wicked banded together in an evill cause And upon these premisses the Doctrine followes as a necessary conclusion That the bands and factions of the wicked associated to consult and act against justice religion and the Church and people of God are pernicious and dangerous a plague and curse to Lands States and Kingdomes vse 1 And now I come to the Application first of all to you the Honourable members of the House of Commons in Parliament not by way of exprobation but of exhortation for you are the chosen worthies of this Land and Kingdome the representative body of the Common-wealth And it hath been the ancient Priviledge of the great Counsell of this Kingdome the high Court of Parliament whereof you are Members by the supreme power of judicature given you in your Election to call to account all unjust Iudges corrupt Officers and the wicked Counsellors of your Kings to depose them from their Offices to strip them of their power and authority to dissolve their Courts and for treacherous Counsells and attempts against the Lawes Liberties and Religion sometimes to cut them off by the sword of Iustice I hope that you who are so vigilant over others will be as watchfull to keep all such out of your assembly or if any such be discovered to note and observe them and upon the first occasion and opportunity to remove them lest they band themselves together make divisions and prove pricking Bryars and grievous thornes among you And it is my hearty desire and prayers to God for you that no Prophet Preacher of the Word or faithfull Messenger of God may have any cause or colour to speake to you as here the Propheticall Psalmist doth to King Sauls great Counsell in the two first Verses of this Psalme Doe yee indeed speak righteousnesse ô Congregation doe yee judge uprightly ô yee sonnes of men Yea in your heart yee worke wickednesse and weigh the violence of your hands in the earth I dare be bold on the contrary to speake to you and that in the common voyce of all that are godly and well-affected to Religion and Iustice O yee Honourable Assembly the great Counsell of this Kingdome and noble Worthies of this Land that yee have not onely spoken righteousnesse and upright judgement but also by your zealous Votes as by the voyce of Thunder you have scattered the Bands of wicked Counsellors and corrupt Offices dissolved some tyrannicall Courts hurled downe unjust Iudges from the seats of justice who had set up wickednesse for a Law You have driven away as with a whirle-winde all those malignant and factious spirits from among you who have opposed your godly and religious endeavours to relieve the oppressed to reforme both Church and State and to purge out all corruptions and intollerable geievances out of both And you have for the terrour of the present and future Ages cut off many malignant and desperate instruments of violence rebellion and treason by the sword of justice and warre The Lord is with you the mighty men of valour goe on in this your might and Gideon-like yee shall save from destruction this perishing State and shall set up the Kingdome of Christ over us Though you meet with many difficulties and great opposition of crafty subtle fierce and cruell enemies yet be not discouraged but perswade your selves that these are the dayes of the devills rage who hath great wrath because he knoweth that he hat but a short time While he fights against you in the forme of a great red Dragon with all the power of the beast and assailes you openly on all sides with all the forces of the Romish Antichrist raised up at home and

Exodus 20.5 by the expresse words of the Law where the Lord saith He will visit the sins of the Fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation which sins they had no finger in when they were first committed but onely approved them by imitation or did not sorrow and mourn for them nor shew open detestation nor make restitution Therefore much more they who joyne in Counsell with the enemies of Gods Church and further and helpe forward their malicious designes let them seem never so moderate and zealous for Religion and the welfare of Church and State they are all hurtfull and dangerous pricks of the cursed Bramble brethren and companions with the malignant in their mischiefe guilty of the same sins and shall perish in the same destruction if they do not repent and separate themselves from their Congregation The common Law of Nations also confirmes this which makes accessaries though not desperately cruell nor so hardned reason 2 in malice as the chiefe principalls guilty of murther robbery treason and the like crimes This Doctrine is of good use For it serves to admonish us vse 1 all to be vigilant and watchfull against all hurtfull persons dangerous sons of Belial who are so many thornes and pricks of the cursed Bramble yea far more dangerous for their teeth are Speares and Arrowes and their tongue a sharpe sword Psalme 57.4 They doe not onely catch and wound and teare all that come within their reach and touch them as the Pricks of Brambles doe but they have bent their tongues like a Bow for lies and shoot forth their poysoned arrowes bitter words of slander to hurt and wound at a distance Psal. 64.3 The Prophet Ieremiah living in a dangerous time in which there were many assemblies of such treacherous men cryed out in great feare and anguish O that I had in the wildernesse the lodging place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people and goe from them Ieremiah 9.2.3 David also beset with such Bryars as a man possest with horror and trembling wished that hee had wings to flye away O that I had wings like a Dove for then would I flye away and be at rest Lo then would I wander farre off and remaine in the wildernesse Thus Gods deare servants were more afraid of these pricking Brambles than of the briars and thorns in the wildernesse wherefore let me exhort you in the words of the Apostle to see that yee walke warily and circumspectly not as fooles but as wise because the dayes are evill Ephes. 5.15 Let us not be deceived with the faire shewes of those instruments of Satan who are outwardly Saints and Angells of light professing aboundance of new light every sort and Sect of them but inwardly are ravening and grievous wolves not sparing the flock of Christ his true Church planted in this Land and like stinging and tearing pricks of the bramble wounding and tearing the high Court of Parliament and the Assembly of Divines with the speares and arrowes of bitter words Although the great Band of wicked Counsellors Iudges and Officers which did tyrannize over our soules as much as our bodies and was like a great Bramble overspreading the whole Land darkning our light with the shadow of it is by Gods mighty hand working with this happy Parliament hurled out of all high Courts of Iustice and removed further from us and some noysome and dangerous pricks thereof broken off and destroyed yet let us not dreame of peace nor suffer security to creep upon us for it doth get root and strength again in other places round about us and doth prevaile to doe misciefe not a little in the North the South the West and middle Countries And the Lord calls us to fasting and prayer and to great humiliation that we seeking to him may finde deliverance from the cruelty of that devouring Bramble the sharpe hooked pricks whereof doe sting wound catch and hold whatsoever comes within their reach as appeares by their robbing and plundering and haling men to prison slaying and murthering many harmlesse people where they come yea this Bramble shrouding it selfe under the shadow of the great Cedar of Lebanons regall power and presence rules over many great trees and Oaks of Bashan and therefore still troubles us and puts us in feare and Satan and Antichrist fore-seeing the fall of their Kingdome in the full and destruction of it combine all their forces to support it And hence it is that besides forraigne forces Satan hath raised up from among our selves bands of Malignants Anabaptists Antinomians Libertines Schismaticall Separatists all which are so many treacherous enemies at home and do all worke together to strengthen the popish Faction and to lay us open and naked to their fury and violence by opposing and retarding the blessed worke of Reformation deviding us among our selves and rending the Coat of Christ without seame And every one in these severall factions is like a sharpe venemous Thorne or Prick of the cursed Bramble stinging and wounding the Church and Common-wealth and all that are faithfull in both And therefore to me it is not grievous but to you it is safe to admonish you againe in the words of the Apostle to beware of these Dogs to beware of these evill workers to beware of the concision never had we more need to be firmely united in hearts soules and affections that with joynt strength and one shoulder wee may labour and strive to dissolve these wicked Bands and to scatter them for they are a heavy curse to all our Land Secondly this Doctrine serves as to stirre us all up as to beware vse lest these men of Belial who are combined together in hurtfull Counsells and practises catch hold of us to hurt us so also it gives a Caveat to all men to take heed that they be not so deceived with the seeming moderation and faire shewes of any sort of them as to seek or hope for any helpe from them either for resisting the Popish faction or for furthering the true reformation of the Church and setling of the Land in peace For certainly whether they be of the Band and Sect of Anabaptists or Antinomians or Libertines or separating Schismaticks or Seekers of new light they are all of them hurtful pricks of the cursed Bramble and all their counsells and designes tend to crosse and hinder all sound Reformation and to further the grand Antichristian faction in their desperate attempts to ruine Religion Church and Common-wealth Can any be so blinde and voyd of understanding as to expect any blessing or good at all from them who are the curse of the land will the pernicious enemies of Reformation and peace contemners of Lawes and lawfull authority cordially joyne to defend our Lawes and Religion and helpe forward the reformation of the Church from corruptions errors and abuses which abound chiefely in themselves and they are the authors and abettors of them Is there any hope that they who exclude and