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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44695	A sermon preach'd on the late day of thanksgiving, Decemb. 2, 1697 by John Howe ... ; to which is prefixed Dr. Bates's congratulatory speech to the King, Novemb. 22, 1697, in the name of the dissenting ministers in and about London.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.; Bates, William, 1625-1699. Congratulatory speech to the King, Novemb. 22, 1697.	1698 (1698)	Wing H3040; ESTC R6550	23,177	33

it in its Causes and they are principally these two the Wickedness of Men and the just Vengeance of GOD thereupon These two concurring and falsing in together must be understood to be the Causes of so great a Calamity among Men in this World And I shall only consider these two in their Complication and not speak to them distinctly and separately VERY Plain it is That War is a Mark of the Apostacy and Stigmatizes Man as Fallen from GOD in a 〈◊〉 ●evolted State It is the Horrid Issue of Mens having fo●saken GOD and of their being Abandon'd by Him to the 〈◊〉 of their own Furious Lusts and Passions The Natural and the 〈◊〉 Effect of their having sever'd themselves and broke loose from the Divine Government From whence are Wars Are they not from your Lusts Jam. 4. 1. GOD most Justly Punishes Mens Injustice not by Infusing Malignity which he needs not into their minds and Natures and which it is impossible He can be the Author of whose very Nature it self is Goodness and Purity and Love but having Forsaken Him Rebelled against Him Disclaimed Him as their Ruler Refused any longer to be Subject to Him they are Forsaken of Him and left to take Vengeance for it on one another of which there cannot be a greater Instance than that when Controversies do arise between Men and Men between Nation and Nation Kingdom and Kingdom one People and another it is presently to be Decided by a Bloody Sword This speaks a Monstrous Degeneracy in the Intellectual World and from the Original Rectitude that belongs to the Nature of Men which in his Primitive State did stand in a Temperament of Reason and Love That there should be Differences about Meum and Tuum in a Creature of that Constitution is it self an Horrid Thing but then that such Differences are to be Determined only by Violence that presently they must hereupon Run into War Good GOD What an Indication is this That Reason Wisdom Justice and Love are fled from this Earth And it speaks Rebellion against GOD in the Highest Kind 't is a Subversion of the most Fundamental Law of his Kingdom over the Intelligent World Thou shalt Love the LORD thy GOD with all thy heart with all they soul with all thy mind with all thy might and thy Neigbour as thy self 'T IS impossible there should be any such Thing as War in the World but by the Violation of this most Fundamental Divine Law the Principal and most Important Thing that this Government does as it were Consist in over reasonable Creatures their Loving Him above all and one another as themselves This Law observed must make this Earth another Heaven This Law Violated and Broken makes it another Hell Man being Faln from GOD and having lost their Acquaintance with Him and all Relish of Divine Things think to Repair their Loss out of this Sensible World whereof no Man thinks he hath enough Desire of more blinds their Eyes that they cannot Judge of Right and Wrong Hence every Man's Cause is Right in his own Eyes Appetite is the only Measure they Judge by And Power whatsoever of it any one can grasp the Instrument by which they Execute their perverse Judgment A Dismal Spectacle and Subject of Contemplation to the Inhabitants of the Purer and more Peaceful Regions To behold a Divine Off-Spring the Sons of GOD now Transform'd into Sons of the Earth and Tearing in pieces one another for what some Posses and others Covet YEA and to a Calm Uninteressed Spectator on our own Globe this can be no grateful prospect to View the History of all Times and Nations and take Notice how full it is of such Tragedy Countries from Age to Age made Akeldama's Fields of Blood on this Account of extending or Confining Empire and Dominion of Invading anothers or Defending ones own BUT hereupon it is not strange when a World of Intelligent Reasonable Creatures are thus gone off from GOD and in Rebellion against him in the most Fundamental part of his Government that He suffers them to be the Executioners of His Just Wrath upon one another AND if we thus look upon War First in this it s Complicated Causes it is the Opprobrium the Reproach of Humane Nature of Intelligent Reasonable Creatures BUT Next look upon it In it self and what is it but the Destruction of Humane Lives of Creatures made after the Image of GOD Of whom He has so High a Value and whose Lives even for that very Reason He is pleased to Fence and Secure by a Severe Law Whoever sheds Man's Blood by Man shall his Blood be shed for in the Image of GOD made He Man But here is a Formed Design of Destroying Humane Lives by multitudes Lives of Creatures bearing the Image of GOD. AND by how much the more Necessary this is in many Cases so much the more Grievous and Calamitous a Thing it is that when to Cut Off and Destroy by multitudes so Precious Things as Humane Lives is Tragical and Horrid not to do it is so much Worse Yea That War it self is become an Art and that the Valour and Skill which belong to it are Laudable Excellencies is all Aggravation of the Sadness of this Case AND if we do consider the Consequences and Effects which do ensue upon such War How full of Horror and Frightfulness are they And those most of all that are least of all thought on and that lye most out of view For besides that Property is gone and no Man knows what to call his own Laws lose their Force Magistrates their Authority and Reverence Civil Government is Disobey'd and Despised Common Order is Violated and Turned into Confusion Families torn in pieces Countries laid Waste and Desolate Towns and Cities Sack'd Ravag'd and made Ruinous Heaps Besides all this I say the Sacred Rites and Mysteries of Religion are Neglected and Profaned its Holy Solemnities interrupted Worshipping Assemblies are broken up Men have little Opportunity left them to mind their great Concerns with GOD and for another World Care for Immortal Souls when it is most Necessary is thrown out of doors and Reasonal Creatures that should be employed in Adoring and Worshipping their Great Creator the GOD of their Lives are Employed in Designing the Mutual Destruction of one anothers Lives And it may be that is least consider'd which carries the most of Horror in it that multitudes are hurried down to Perdition neither Dread●d by themselves nor Apprehended by the Destroyer Souls are passing in shoals into Eternity they not considering it who are sent nor they that send them And what sport does this make for Devils those Envious Apostate Spirits that first drew Men into a like Apostacy that when GOD had given this Earth to the Children of Men Assigning to themselves a worse abode amidst Infernal Darkness and Flames they should be Tearing one another in pieces about this their Portion under the Sun making GOD's Bounty to them the Occasion of their