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A28659	A doore of hope, also holy and loyall activity two treatises delivered in severall sermons, in Excester / by Iohn Bond ...; Doore of hope	Bond, John, 1612-1676.	1641 (1641)	Wing B3569; ESTC R23253	104,423	165

Aaron Exod. 8. v. 6. stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streames over the rivers and over the ponds and cause frogs to come up upon the Land of Egypt ver 7. And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt 2. These Frogs I conceive may fitly nay must be paralleld in the multitudes of Fryars and Priests amongst us croking and crawling up like their Frogs into houses and bed-chambers ver 2. They shall come up into thine house and into thy bed-chamber and upon thy bed and into the house of thy servants and upon thy people and into thine Ovens and into thy kneeding troughs And have not these croking crawlers of late especially come up from all the foure Seas or channells of this Island have they not in a sence almost covered the Land going like the Divell in the earth too and fro in the Nation Job 1. v. 7. and walking up and downe in it Nay have they not gone openly for a long time in the streetes of the Metropolis of this Kingdome like the shamelesse Harlot in the Proverbs A woman of whorish attire and subtill of heart Pro. 7. v. 10 11 12. she is lowd and stubborne her feet abide not her house Now is she without now in the streets and lyeth in waite at every corner And the Reason or ground of her boldnesse followeth For that the goodman is not at home ver 19 20. he is gone a long iourney c. So Parliaments are long in comming and when they came they made but little stay Yea once more have not these Frogs walked in those streetes more securely by farre and freer from Messengers then those Conscientious painefull Ministers which have scrupled some Ceremonyes in their owne natures indifferent Bretheren I appeale to your owne ingenuity and knowledge touching the multitudes of those Frogs 3. But now concerning their Removall blessed be the God of truth there hath beene already some order taken by Proclamation for their expulsion and they are deveted to banishment The good Lord finish this work that it may be done to them that was to those Frogs in Aegypt Saith Moses The frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people they shall remaine in the river only The third and fourth plagues being Lice and Flies I shall joyne together As they are joyned Psal 105. v. 31. He spake and there came diverse sorts of flies and lice in all their coasts Of the latter sort the plague of Lice see Exod. 8. v. 16 17. And the Lord said unto Moses say unto Aaron stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the Land that it may become Lice throughout all the Land of Egypt And they did so for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth and it became lice in man and in beast all the dust of the land throughout all the land of Egypt Of the former viz. Swarmes of Flies see Exod. 8. v. 21 24. Behold I will send swarmes of slies upon thee and upon thy servants and upon thy people and into thy houses and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarmes of flies c. Calvin reads Examen and indeed both sorts of them are baggage vermine alike The English Paralell of these may be all our Proiectors and Monopôlists in the secular State and in the Ecclesiasticall all those Vexatious hang-byes and exacting underlings of that Court of Commissioners suppressed by the late Statute as insufferable oppressors All these Civill and Spirituall wickednesses ô how did they of late plague the soules bodyes and goods of the whole Kingdome The Paralell betwixt them and these Aegyptian vermine doth hold in diverse respects as First in respect of their Eduction or Generation the Lice were begetten out of the dust Exo. 8. v. 16. Stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may become lice throughout all the land c. And were not these unlawfull Proiectors and Monopôlists for the generall Animalia ex putridâ materiâ solis calore c. obscure heads and vile persons raised out of the dust and this made that opression so much the more intollerable for there is no oppressor to a begger if once he can get on horse-back to oppresse Nihil deterius est imperante servo Nay 't is Scripture Prov. 28. v. 3. A poore man that oppresseth the poore is like a sweeping raine which leaveth no food What cruelty mentioned in the Gospell was like his which ought more then he was worth He takes his fellow by the throat Mat. 18 v. 28 29 30. would have no pitty on him but cast him into prison c. Secondly the likenesse holds in regard of their Multitudes Exod. 8.17 21. It became lice in man and in beast all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt And againe I will send swarmes of flyes upon thee and upon thy servants and upon thy people and into thy houses and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarmes of flies and also the ground whereon they are The Margent saith A mixture of noysome beasts Brethren and did not our case fall pat with theirs in this what corner what condition yea what commodity almost in the land was not pestered with those Proiectors and their emissaryes Oh the Alphabet of Monopôlyes which we might here reckon up yea rather an Alphabeticall Index there being diverse particulars belonging to one letter and so in severall letters of the foure and twenty What shall I say our meats our drinks our cloathings our extraordinaryes our necessaryes were all annoyed by these lice and flies Nay one thing more as in Egypt Exod. 8. v. 21. ver 24. the ground also was full of them and the land was corrupted by reason of the swarmes of flies So 't is observeable with us that those illegall taxes projected by some did destroy the very Land I meane they reached beyond houses and shops even to husbandry and to the beasts of the field And now see the removall of all these in a very blessed degree 1. How many Monopolies were cast downe by those first Proclamations and all the rest saving Justice a labour are tottered after of their own accord 2. Ship-mony is damn'd as they call it by one Act of Parliament 3. And vexatious Knight-hood by another 4. Besides that against stannery Incroachments and for the certainty of Forrests which though divers I doe put them together 5. And finally least the Hidras heads should spring again for prevention of a returne or relapse behold that great and gracious Statute of a Trienniall Parliament together with another for continuance of this present of which more hereafter Is 107.8 O that men would therfore praise the Lord fir his goodnesse and for his wonderfull

workes to the children of men The fifth Plague in Aegypt was the Murraine of Beasts Behold the hand of the Lord is upon thy Cattell which is in the field Ex. 9.3 ver 6. upon the Horses upon the Asses upon the Camels upon the Oxen and upon the Sheepe there shall be a very grievous Murrain And the Lord did that thing on the morrow c. This was an heavy plague though only upon Beasts But we have felt a kinde of Murraine upon men in our unprosperous expeditions of late yea and a kind of Murrain and rot of soules too by our late yet too long darknes and obscurity but I passe over this to another place The Removall of both these blessed be God is begun The fixth Plague was Boyls and Blains And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron Ex. 9.8 ver 9 10 11. Take to you handfulls of Ashes of the furnace c. And it shall become small dust in all the Land of Aegypt and shall be a Boyle breaking forth with Blains upon man and upon beast throughout all the Land of Aegypt c. Let our late late Epidemicall boyle of Anti-sabbatarianisme be the paralell to speak as a Divine Not only the profane sports of men but the groanes and cryes of poore beasts travelling for the profits and pleasures of their owners upon that day can witnesse the spreading of this soare whether it hath not bin a Boyle breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast Oh how have their May-poles and Church-ales their Morish-dances and Trojan-horses how have they grieved the strictest profaned the middle sort and brutified the looser kind of people Well did they know that the Sabbath was the very meale-time in which our spirituall food was served in unto us Yea and that they might make a two-edged sword of it it was not thought sufficient that the people should heare but the Minister especially if conscientious must be the man to reade the Declaration which they had gotten These are our Boyls and Blains indeed and I hope that to every tender soule they are grievous But see now some kind of Removall of this death also 1. First there is an Order for the observation of the Sabbath-day 2. And in this last Declaration of the Commons for the taking downe of Scandalous Images and Pictures c. there is a second Order that the Lords day shall be duly obscrved and sanctified Thus these Boyles and Blains also do begin to be cured The seventh Plague in Aegypt was that of Haile Behold to morrow about this time J will cause it to raine a very grievous Haile Ex. 9.18 c. such as hath not bin in Aegypt since the foundation thereof even untill now c. And again Ps 105.32 Hee gave them Haile for raine and flaming fire in their Land ver 33. hee smote their vines also and their fig-trees and brake the trees of their coasts But now what evill can we find amongst us that is terrible enough to paralell this grievous thundering fiery hail-storme so generally mortall to man beasts and herbs Surely we might long since have spoken it truly but now I hope we may safely speak it too those two arbitrary Courts one Civill the other Ecclesiasticall I meane the Star-chamber and High-Commission they are both taken away as grievances and abuses You know that they were like those treasures of Haile mentioned in the booke of Job Job 38. v. 22. for they were armed at all times with stones of all sizes ready to be shewred downe upon persons of all degrees to their utter breaking in pieces An Arbitrary government in my young judgement seems to include in it both Anarchy and Tyranny in Church and Common-wealth in the first it is no lesse than a Spanish Inquisition in the latter little better then the Muscovian Soveraignty in two sillables Pope and Turke All Israels bondage in Aegypt which to them was I conceive as direfull as were all those forementioned seven Plagues put together yet I say all that durance was but the sufferance under a meere Arbitrary governour Exod. 1. v. 11. View their case 1. What oppression under Taske-masters They did set over them Task-masters to afflict them with their burdens ver 13. and they built for Pharaoh treasure Cities Pithom and Raamses Yea their serving under rigour ver 14. so that they made their lives bitter with hard bondage in morter and in bricke and in all manner of service in the field c. ver 15 16. ver 22. 2. Nay that bloudy stratagem in working with the Mid-wives 3. And finally that highest degree the publike command for open drowning of all their Males All this and the rest of their durance did spring from hence that they had no Laws Charters Pri●iledges of their own but lay at the mercy of an Arbitrary governor this was the Plague of plagues to Israel But now behold the mercy of our God and the goodnes of our Soveraigne these two treasuries of Haile are utterly rifled and suppressed by two expresse distinct full grations Acts of the present Parliament so that the places of them shall know them no more Blessing and praise be to our God for ever The eighth Plague was the Locusts Behold Exod. 10 4. to morrow I will bring the Locusts into thy coast And they shall cover the face of the earth ver 5. ver 6. ver 13. ver 14. And they shall fill thy houses and the houses of all thy servants and the houses of all the Aegyptians And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Aegypt c. And the Locusts went up over all the land of Aegypt The paralell of this Plague amongst us is made to our hands by Scripture it selfe Rev. 9. Rev. 9. v. 3. There we reade of Locusts upon the earth that came up out of the smoke of the bottomlesse pit ver 4. and unto them was given power as the scorpions of the Earth have power that they should hurt onely those men which have not the seale of God in their fore-heads c. These Locusts are by Interpreters especially Moderne conceived to be the whol brood of Jesuites and indeed all the markes of the Locusts there set downe doe very properly agree unto those late swarmes of hellish Proselites For 1. First ver 7. the Locusts are said to be like unto Horses prepared unto battell so the Jesuites they are the Popes yea Satans cavellery 2. Next on their heads were as it were crownes like gold ver 7. and we know that these Romish Locusts they are the great crowne-mongers and Scepter-merchants to buy sell and barter both Kings and Kingdomes through all the Christian world 3. Againe Their faces were as the faces of men ver 8. they had haire as the haire of women and their teeth were as the teeth of Lyons All these particulars are matched by the cunning complacency insinuations and in