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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92083	Zimri's peace: or, The traytor's doom & downfall. Being the substance of two sermons preached at Apethorp in the county of Northampton. By John Ramsey Master of Arts, and minister of East-Rudham in the connty [sic] of Norfolk.	Ramsey, John, Minister of East Rudham.	1661 (1661)	Wing R227; Thomason E1057_10; ESTC R208079	26,510	35

Ideo mala omnia rebus humanis quotidie ingraevescere quia Deus hujus mundi effector Gubernator derelictus est Quid susceptae sunt contra quam fas est impiae religiones Lactan. Institut l. 5. c. 8. Toleration of religions is in Gods account and estimate a sin intolerable And being a just and jealous God of any Rival Competetour or Co-partner who will not give his glory to another it will not it shall not passe vengeance proof nor escape unpunished The third specialty III. The Third circumstance of the Tert The successe and issue of Zimri's Treason considerable in Zimri's treason pointed out in the speech of Jezebel is the successe and issue of it and that laid down by way of interrogation Had he peace which hath the force and strength of a pure negation a positive and peremptory denial wherein there is a kind of amplification and heightning of the speech and there is more intimated and implyed then mentioned in formal words and it is all one in effect as if Jezebel had expressed her self in proper and emphatical termes Zimri had no peace at all he was far from injoying it (h) Nemo unquam imperium flagitio quaesitum bonis a●●bus exercrit Tacit. Histor l. 1. p. 417. His feet were swift to shed blood Destruction and misery were in his wayes And the way of peace had he not known Rom. 3.6 v. 15 16 17. This was the success of Zimri's treason and hints and and holds forth unto us a fourfold punishment A fourfold punishment of treason The first punishment of treason is the horrour and terrour of an unquiet and restless conscience A want of that inward and spirituall peace the bird in the breast The first punishment The horrour of an unquiet and restless conscience that sings so sweetly the Garden of Eden a spiritual Paradise and an Heaven here upon Earth An inward peace which is as much to be preferred before the outward as that above all external and temporal mercies Nor is it a want of peace only but is likewise accompanied with astonishment and amazement of mind anxiety and anguish of heart confusion of thoughts jealous apprehensions ghastly fears the raging and roaring of a perplexed Spirit Like unto so many racks and strappado's that distend each joynt and rend and tare one limb from the other There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Isa c. 57 v 21. No tranquillity and calmness of mind No serenity and smoothness of Spirit And if there be any at all Ipsa tranquillitas tempestas est The very calme is a weather-gall and the breeder of a storm These fears and terrours are multiplied and increased according to the several kinds and degrees of mens wickedness and are most extreme and intolerable in notorious and flagitious sinners as Traitors and Tyrants (i) Si recl●dantur Tyrannorum mentes posse aspici laniatus ictus quando ut corpora verberibus ita saevitiâ libi line malisconsultis animus dil●ceretur Tant Annal. l. 6. p. 190 ●uos di●i conscia facti mens kabe● a●tonitos surdo verbere caedit Ocul um quatiente animo tortore fl●gellum Juv-Satyr 13. whose bowells if they were ripped up and laid open there are nothing to be discerned but blows and butcherings as the Historian speaks of them who are lashed and scourged with deaf stroaks haunted with Fiends and Furies and hunted as with greedy and yelling blood hounds to their own destruction Evill shall hunt the violent Man to overthrow him Ps 140. v. 11. An eminent example whereof we have in Theodoricus King of the Goths Who having barbarously butchered Symmachus and Bo●taus the splendor and glory of the Roman Senate in a most immane and inhumane manner such was the strength of his imagination or rather the force of his guilty conscience that he conceived and fancied the head of a very great fish that was served up to his table at supper (*) Pros●pius in Gothecis some few dayes after to be the head of Symmachus whom we had so lately made away gaping upon him with a wide mouth the teeth hanging over in the neather jaw the eyes wildly staring in a grim and stern manner and threatning him with dier ●ull and dreadfull vengeance And being affrighted with the strangness of the monster shaking and quaking in all his joynts he betakes himself into his inward chamber throwes himself down upon his (k) Namque animus impurus neque vigiliis neque quietibus sedari poterat ita conscientia mentem excitam vexabat Salust of Catiline Bell. Catil p. 22. bed commands a great pile of cloaths to be heaped upon him And having confessed and bewailed to Elpidius his Physitian the horridness of the fact which did so much remorse and afflict him after a little pause and rest The second punishment of treason Unsetledness and distraction of Government he soon ended his miserable and wretched life A second punishment of treason is (l) Quibus quieta movere magna merces videbatur ll cat p. 30. unsetledness and distraction of Government Sudden and boisterous changes like violent Earthquakes in nature causing strange shakings and tremblings a good while after and it is long er'e it setleth upon the old basis and stands firm and sure as before Such shakings and tremblings we may observe in mens Spirits upon the tumultuary ejection of lawfull Soveraignty and the forcible entry of Tyrants and Vsurpers repining and murmuring at the present power Othoni compositis rebus nulla spes omne in turbido consilium Tacit. Histor lib. 1. p. 412. to the height of impatience and discontent and greedily longing after that which is past bringing it back again in their affectionate wishes with an Antigonum refodio and if it were possible they would dig up King Antigonus out of his grave and see him once more upon his Royal Throne These are but the beginnings of sorrowes intestine quarrels and garboiles are set on foot open wars are commenced one pitch'd battell fought after another and much blood shed on both sides as it was in the civil wars of England betwixt the two houses of York and Lancaster the white and the red roses Till that red rose became white with the blood which it lost and the white was died red with the blood which it shed Aut bellum aut bello pax ea deterior Such a confused temper of government as was sometimes in the Kingdom of Israel 2 Chron. c. 15. v. 5 6. A third punishment The brevitie and shortness of their reign And in those times there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the Countries And Nation was destroyed of Nation and City of City For God did vex them with all adversity A third punishment of treason and Traitors is the brevity and shortness of their reign And hereof we cannot have