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A28224	Two sermons the first shewing the mischiefs of anarchy, the second the mischiefs of sedition, and both of them the mischiefs and treasons of conventicles : preached at the assizes held for the county of Suffolk, ann. 1682/3 : and published at the request of Tho. Waldegrave, Esq. ... / by Nath. Bisbie ...; Mischiefs of anarchy	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1684 (1684)	Wing B2984; ESTC R3888	38,700	75

at present as much more proper to our purpose to what happened to their Names and Posterity a Consideration perhaps no less influential with some to deter from the sins than the former And in order hereunto remark we 1. That Sedition and Rebellion are two such sins that they deservedly stain the memory of the engagers in them with perpetual Infamy and disgrace their Names must never after be mentioned without their Crimes their Escutcheons must have their blot their Arms a bar their greatness an allay something or other to make them infamous for having once been famous This this is that Dathan and Abiram This by way of contempt and disgrace This whom all Records must stigmatize all Chronicles defame all good men loath This who if but casually nam'd must be spat at spoke against and made odious to Posterity for the crimes they have been guilty of The like may every way be observed of Jeroboam who for turning Rebel to his Lawful Soveraign and for renouncing and casting off the Priesthood and Service of the Temple to become a King himself And to have Service and Priests of his own sins scarce ever forgiven but never in History to be forgotten is said to have taught Israel to sin and for his so doing can never after be mentioned though often and often in Scripture nam'd without a record of that his wickedness affixt with a This is that Jeroboam the son of Nebat who taught Israel to sin Customary it was among the Jews at the naming the name of Haman to beat their fists upon the Planchers where they were as if it had been upon Haman's head not willing that such an enemy to Religion and one that had deserved so ill of it should have a naming among them without a blow at the same time if possible to brain him Now the rest of the Acts of Zimri and his Treason that he wrought are they not written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel 1 Kin. 16.20 such sort of sinners must not off the stage and have their memories preserved unless it be to keep up their wickedness and therewith their punishments for an admonition to us that we be not in our generations like unto them And wherefore then is it O Son of Dathan that thou canst glory in thine or thy fathers shame That thou canst boast of the mutinies thou hast made of the battels thou hast been engaged in of the murders thou hast therein committed Dost thou think that those arms those Spears which hang up as Trophies by thee of thy wickedness do or can give lustre to thy name or add any merit to thy family Nay canst thou imagine that those sinners upon whom the tower of Siloam fell or rather those sinners whose limbs are yet upon the Tower were sinners above all other men I tell you nay but except you repent ye shall all likewise perish Remark we 2. That Sedition and Rebelion are two such sins that God usually punisheth unto the third and fourth generation unless by their posterity they be repented of Here you shall find the whole family of Dathan and Abiram to be cut off they and all that appertain'd unto them their wives and their sons and their little children Num. 16.27 Insomuch that when the land was to be divided among the respective families of Israel there was not one of the families either of Dathan or Abiram to be found Num. 26. which shews that they all dyed with for or under their fathers sins Nay look into the next Chapter and you shall find the daughters of Zelophehad though their father was dead pleading for his inheritance and using this for an argument why they should not be overlook'd nor pass'd by in the division because though dead yet he dyed in his own sin and not in the company with Dathan and Abiram Our father dyed in the wilderness and he was not in the company of Korah but dyed in his own sin v. 3. intimating that if he had been guilty of the Treason or had been in the Conspiaacy with those Traitors and Rebels his name had worthily been struck out of the genealogy and his posterity justly disinherited and made objects of scorn contempt and poverty to all after ages The sons indeed of Korah either were not ingag'd in or at least repented them of their fathers sin and therefore it is sad in the verse save one succeeding my Text that the children of Korah dyed not nay they not only surviv'd the desolation but they kept their office in Israel for their genealogy is reckoned their posterity appointed by David to be Singers in the house of the Lord they had many Psalms dedicated to them of them came Samuel the Prophet and Heman who with his off-spring were singers 1 Chron. 6. and I dare say there is no man living who wisheth well either to Moses or to Aaron that envies theirs or any other man's reconciliation or preferment We know and we desire that the sons integrity may expiate for their fathers sedition and their after Loyalty for all former Rebellions there is joy in heaven as our Saviour telleth us over one sinner that repenteth and our trouble rather is that there are not more as great an appearance of them as ever march'd against their King or quarrel'd their Priests I should then turn my Sword into a Plough-share my Steleteuticks into Euges my reproofs into Paeans I would bless the day and enter it not into my Rubrick that perhaps may seem too bloody but into my Calendar which hath its atros as well as albos dies that ever I saw such a reformation and instead of rearing up gibbets with Haman I would venture my life with Hester were my interest like hers to lead such Mordecaies to the King but since I see that the dog returns unto his vomit and that not only the parents have eaten sowre grapes but that their childrens teeth are set on edge by them I hope it will not be amiss to call unto such to repent lest the tower of Siloam fall also upon them and they likewise perish in the gain saying of Korah For my part had I been the son of a Korah of a Dathan or Abiram and had not repented me of my fathers sins yea and given a sufficient demonstration to the world of that my repentance I should dream of nothing but of murdered Bishops and of martyr'd Kings of Whitehal Scaffolds and of Edghill fights Cromwel and Bradshaw in their blood and armour would be all I should see Certainly the most miserable Caitiff whom the earth hath not as yet swallowed or whose limbs the justice of God hath not exalted to be a spectacle to Angels and men I should fansie every corps I touch would bleed every grave I tread upon would cry out like Abel's against me I should conclude an host of Loyalists and Churchmen always behind me chaceing me to the judgment-seat to give an account of my actions but how others

do or can harden themselves unless they be their fathers own sons in principles as in blood I know not may perhaps pity but I am afraid never reform And yet verily there is a generation of men in the world who need none of this repentance who have been neither enemies to their King nor opposers of their Priests who in the heat of the mutiny have been neither Schismaticks with Korah nor Rebels with Dathan but fidi Achates trusty and Loyal Subjects good old Barzillai's who are feign God knows to be content with their olim meminisse their wounds and scars and dy'd garments from Bozrah the services they have done and the sufferings they have undergone yea and others who following their fathers steps have fought with beasts at Ephesus ventur'd at the dens of Lyons stood the shock of Schismatical envy and Democratical fury and whenever the records be search'd I wish their names and their merits may not be overlook'd But and if this be that Dathan and Abiram or if these be the sons of that Dathan and Abiram whose names are to be branded to all posterity for their Schismatical rebellious doings what ought to be done to those that have been thus faithful and loyal valiant and serviceable ever striving against the strivers and as need requir'd resisting the resisters unto blood Verily Silver and Gold I have none but what I have give I heartily unto you may the blessing therefore of Aaron and of his rod fall upon you and follow you may the King of Jeshurun whose Champions and worthies you have been with his oyl and his fatness reward you and when the day of account comes may you never be found Rebels to your God more than you have been unto your King Remark we 3. That Sedition and Rebellion are two such sins that will destroy the whole fabrick of Government though never so well rear'd and run it eftsoon into confusion and slavery if not timely and carefully prevented They 'l divide the house and if the house be divided truth it self will tell us that it cannot stand Humanity will turn into cruelty nature and friendship into Faction and fury to kill one another will be called valour to disobey the King accounted loyalty plain robbery and oppression the best of zeal and Religion the Sword the bloody heedless devouring Sword the only Lord Chief Justice of the Land We shall soon see an overthrow of all order and Law a confusion in our duties both to God and man and a Kingdom which for its pleasure may be a Paradise for its Light a Goshen for its plenty a Canaan chang'd into a Chaos a worser Chaos than that which the world came out of for a word put an end to that God spake and the world was made Psalm 38.9 nay God divided the light from the darkness and he called the light day and the darkness he called night and the Evening and the Morning were the first Day Gen. 1.5 But if these take place Evening and Morning will be both alike we may know their beginning but never their ending darkness and horror of darkness till we our selves if we be not careful fall thereby into the pit of darkness Wherefore let me perswade you you who are this day to number the people and to view the several inheritances among us that there be no Mutineer nor Rebel in our Tribes or families To be careful and jealous in that your enquiry that none such pass your Tribunal much less go off from you with Ceremony and Complement too customary a thing with some as if you were lovers of their Nation and would build them Synagogues It is not their being an holy Congregation that will make them when they are Seditious Holy neither will your punishing them be a slaying the people of the Lord. We live you see in an age full of Sedition and Conspiracy where neither our Moses can well keep his Crown upon his head nor our Aaron his Ephod upon his breast the Seditious Levite on one hand the Rebellious Reubenite on the other are so industriously concern'd in the undermining and supplanting them both that if heaven interpose not to defend the one and to root out the other both Moses and Aaron Priesthood and Government must sink and fall together Wherefore to your respective Stations and Charge and know 1. That Dathans Conspiracy is still on foot in the land alive and alive like to be The Cause saith one of our late Regicides lies in the bosom of Christ and as sure as Christ arose the Cause will rise again I believe saith another of them no less Prophet than the former that at long running there is not a man that fears the Lord will have any reason to be sorrowful for engaging in the Cause for though the Lord hath been pleased to let it be as it were the Sun-setting for a night yet it will certainly arise next Morning very gloriously again Neither was it for ought that I cand find ever thorowly brow-beaten or hiss'd off the stage These saith the publishers of their death all dy'd in the Faith Saints who through Faith of the Gospel have entered into rest Nay who of the Company of them especially if they were famous either in the Assembly or in the Congregation ever went unto their graves from that day to this without an Herse full of Scripture Scutcheons and Religious Labels The memory of the Just is blessed precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints enough to give credit to the worst of Causes and to draw all the Saints of the land after them And yet with horror be it spoken some of them have had their bowels burnt alive and went down into the earth like Dathan others of them liv'd and dy'd in the company of Korah and never repented them of their sins though stained with the blood of the best of Kings and the devoutest of Prelates Shall I re-mind you of what one of the Korathites still living hath said of himself That he hath often searched into his heart whether he did lawfully engage in the late War against the King or did well to encourage so many thousands to it and that he cannot as yet see that he was mistaken in the Cause neither dares he repent of it nor forbear to do the same if it were to do again And yet this man lives and repents him not nay hath his Company with him still to whom he preaches Sedition as of old and with whom thousands of the Dathanites and Abiramites of the land do Confederate whereby you may see the stubbornness and hopes of the Faction and how the good Old Cause will go on if God by his judgments and the Magistrate by his care and severity prevent it not Awake and know 2. That the Cause not only lives but there are multitudes in the Land ready fixt and prepar'd to carry it on dissatisfied Reubenites who for their own or their fathers sins