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A01575	Two sermons One, the curse and crime of Meroz. Preached at the assises at Exon. The other, a sermon of patience. At St Maries in Oxford. By Edward Gee, Doctor in Diuinitie, and chaplaine to his Maiestie. Published since his death, by his two brethren, Iohn Gee and George Gee, ministers of Gods Word.	Gee, Edward, 1565-1618.; Gee, John, d. 1631.; Gee, George, b. 1574 or 5.	1620 (1620)	STC 11700; ESTC S103012	31,809	66

TWO SERMONS ONE The Curse and Crime of Meroz Preached at the Assises at Exon. THE other A Sermon of Patience At St Maries in Oxford BY EDWARD GEE Doctor in Diuinitie and Chaplaine to his MAIESTIE Published since his death by his two brethren IOHN GEE and GEORGE GEE Ministers of Gods Word LONDON Printed by W. S. for Nathaniel Butter and are to be sold at his shop neere S. Austins-gate at the signe of the Pyde Bull. 1620. A Premonition to the READER TO yeeld any reasons for the publishing these Sermons considering the sufficiencie of the Author and the excellencie of the Argument were to call into question the valew of an Offering cast into the treasurie of Gods Church If TERTVLLIAN an ancient and learned Father when the Light of the Gospel shined neerer the times of the primitiue puritie confessed that hee did adore the fulnesse of the Scriptures Haue wee lesse cause in these dayes indeed not of ignorance but of contention and libertie to respect the sincere Expositors of the Mysteries of GOD especially when euerie man is almost become an Interpretor to himselfe But for as much as they who are the Publishers of these exercises can best giue resolution for their publication how euer extraordinarie occasions vnexpectedly withcal'd them for the present yet where a man in his life time so knowne and so deseruing to be knowne for sinceritie of conucrsation generalitie of learning grauitie of iudgement and soundnesse of Doctrine as the Author was hath left any monument of his studies there it cannot bee but an iniurie to his memorie and a kindt of defrauding the Store-house of Religion to conceale that for any priuate vse which concernes a publique benefit A Teacher after his death is best commended by the remaining fruits of his labours those parcell-reliques of this worthie man being then read rightly vnderstood and applyed cannot but both informe the charitable Christian Reader and confirme him THE CVRSE AND CRIME OF MEROZ IVDG 5. VERS 23. Curse yee Meroz said the Angel of the Lord curse continually the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to helpe the Lord to helpe the Lord against the mightie AS it is the first care of a good Gardener right Honourable right Worshipfull and welbeloued to purge and rid his Garden-plot of all noxious hearbes and pestilent weedes So is it the chiefest worke of a wise Gouernour to remoue all naughtie and incurable persons from a Citie and Common-weale The which wee need not to proue by the authorities of Solon Lycurggus or other Heathenish Law-giuers but euen by the prescript of the wisdome of God the well and fountaine of perfect policie For when the Lord had brought his vine out of Aegypt and had giuen to the people of Israel the land of Canaan he first and principally charged them that they should vtterly root out the idolatrous Cananites that they should make no league of friendship with them but without all compassion smite and destroy them from the face of the earth Deut. 7.2.3 Deut. 7. And this commandement they kept religiously both vnder the flourishing gouernment of Iosua and of the Elders also which succeeded him But after when they had taken roote in the fruitfull land and plentie had begotten ease and ease had bred securitie and securitie had brought forth forgetfulnesse of God and forgetfulnesse of God had caused them to make an impious truce with the cursed Cananites Judg. 1.28 whom for a little tribute they suffered to liue quietly in the middest of their land the Lord did therefore bring vpon them many calamities and gaue them vp often to bee subdued and tyrannously oppressed by those prophane Nations And yet behold the Father of mercie did in the middest of his furie remember mercie For in their greatest oppressions whensoeuer they truely repented and turned vnto the Lord Chap. 2.16 he raised them vp Iudges that is to say rare and extraordinarie Champions men of valiant and heroicall spirits which by strong hand deliuered them from their oppressours Witnesse this one example for all in the fourth Chapter of this Booke wherein it is hard to say whether the oppression was more grieuous or the deliuerance more famous For the Lord had sold his people into the hands of Iabin King of Canaan whose munitions euen nine hundreth chariots of yron seemed vnresistable his souldiers innumerable his Captaine Sisera inuincible who by continuall excursions had ouer-runne the whole land for the space of twentie yeares And yet when they called vpon God in their distresse hee raised vp Debora the Prophetesse who perswaded Barac the sonne of Abinoam to take vnto him tenne thousand souldiers of the Tribes of Zebulon and Nepthalye and with that handfull of men to encounter that huge Hoste of the Cananites in a pitched field neere vnto the brooke Kishon whose armie was three hundred thousand men and more as Iosephus writeth In which battaile Iabin was for euer vanquished the Cananites discomfited their chariots dismēbred their captaine Sisera most dishonourably nayled vnto the ground with a pinne of a Tent strucken through the temples of his head by the hands of Iael the wife of Heber And vpon that glorious victorie Barac and Debora did sing this sweete song of thankesgiuing vnto God in the fift Chapter of this Booke In which most excellent triumphant Hymne as the Authors name is Debora Deb. signif which signifies a Bee so doth she bring not onely the sweet hony of praise and thanks-giuing for that glorious victorie but also a sharpe sting of reproofe wherewith she pierceth those Tribes and men that came not to helpe them in that great extremitie But of all the Israelites that absented themselues there were none so faultie as the men of Meroz who dwelling neere vnto Mount Thabor where the field was foughten and beeing called vpon to come did notwithstanding hide their heads in the day of battaile And therefore this holy Prophetesse doth thunder as it were from heauen a speciall malediction against them saying Curse yee Meroz c. which words are nothing else but a direfull doome of Debora against the mercilesse Merozites wherein for breuities sake I will obserue but 2. Points 1. The Curse of Meroz and what it was 2. The Crime of Meroz and how great it was 1. Concerning the former 1. Part. the meaning is that an Angel of God to wit either Barac as the Chaldee paraphrase doth render it or some other Prophet inspired from aboue as I expound it did commaund both the Iudges and the people to pray for the ruine and vtter destruction of Meroz and of all that dwelt therein Quest Now if any man aske whether the command of this Angel be not contrarie to the command of that great Angel of the Couenant Christ Iesus who bids vs in the Gospel to blesse them that curse vs and pray for them that persecute vs Matth. 5.44 whereunto heauens great trumpet S. Paul accordeth saying Rom.