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A97343	The Kings chronicle in two sections wherein we have the acts of the wicked and good kings of Iudah fully declared, with the ordering of their militia and grave observations thereupon : this section containes the wayes and works of the bad kings, with marks the Holy Ghost hath set upon them, for the terrour of all those who walke in the wayes of Israel, and after the counsels of the house of Ahab which was to the destruction of Iudah / published by Hezekiah Woodvvard.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3494; ESTC R1678	91,401	115

each the other at the highest point the point of service and homage to their GOD It is legible to all the world that one of these walks as a Rebell most contrary to GOD and good-men Then the other doe walk as becometh obedient children It is not possible That they walking crosse in the same way should meet together in point of Rebellion But the Text is yet clearer The Priests forsake Iehoram nor the King And why forsake they Iehoram Because he had forsaken the LORD GOD of his Fathers * Gods command makes them deafe to the command of Iehoram Disobedience here is the truest obedience And the greatest Rebell here is the best Priest Looke ye The case is cleare for God has cleared it He has given us the clearest account of this matter that ever was given The King had forsaken his LORD paramount LORD of Lords The Priests must forsake Iehoram in his way or forsake GOD That they will not doe He is the Fountaine of their life their light their comfort He is their praise their feare for He is their God and He is ALL. They will not forsake Him A good God has done them good all their dayes nor can they forget or neglect the charge their good old Master layed upon them d 2 Chron. 19. 9 Deale couragiously in the worke and way of the LORD and the LORD shall be with you for He will be with the good e ver 12. They durst not follow Iehoram downe a precipice They knew also there was a pit at the bottome that had no bottome Let Iehoram venture his necke the Priests would not much lesse their eternall souls Should they follow him that had forsaken GOD GOD forbid Thus we see it cleare now as the beaten way that here was no resistance of the Kings Power for that is of GOD and for GOD holy iust and good Here was a resistance only of Iehorams power unholy unjust and naught mannaged cleane against GOD and forcing his people to rebell against Him too A resistance I say not against the officiall power of the King but the humane power of Iehoram a wicked and Idolatrous man and as Vxorious we have not a fitter word one that ruled not but let his Wife doe and rule all The Priests resisted not Iehorams power but his wives power tyranny rather for she did all after the Line and Law of Ahabs house whose Sister she was and Daughter of Omri and that was no Law to Israel but most crosse unto it They resisted the FORCEING will of Iehoram for it had no Reason whereby he would force the freest people in the world and the freest Thing in the world which can be no more imprisoned then can the Sunne-beame and as much without the verge of Iehorams juris-diction as a Starr is above his finger they resisted this Will and obeyed GODS Will Holy Holy Holy blessed for ever Thanks be to GOD Who has so cleared unto us the practise of these Priests and Levites in Jehorams dayes that he must say as a bold fellow did The sacred Text is seditious who will accuse those Priests and honest men of raising sedition because they forsooke the way of Jehoram when he had forsaken the LORD and His good way We must give men leave who have their eyes open and can discerne a pit before them to turn out of the way that leads to death and follow on in the way of the LORD Wee reade on 4. The Priests can doe Jehoram no more service he stops his eare to their word the word of GOD and bends his fist he will compell them to doe as he does they will not be forced therein let Jehoram goe his owne way as his wife leads him they will goe theirs and yet not theirs it is the way of the LORD So now the best flower of his Crowne is gone the honest Priests a good Kings best jewels The supporters of his Crowne were gone before judgement and justice his wife made him stampe those under his foot What will become of this man You shall heare anon and very quickly Judgment and justice are set under foot The Law of GOD is forsaken a contrary Law is forced now GOD will forsake Jehoram and He will take peace away with Him His Priests pack-after Then vengeance comes powring down for all will forsake Jehoram but the executioners of GODS justice The poorest King that was in the world and more miserable because the King of Judah Now the LORD for He has held His peace a great while is returning upon him will shatter Jehorams Crowne and even break the man to peeces He will hold him up to the wind and that shall carry away his Substance He will throw open the gates of his Kingdom He will take away his defence The weake shall come-in upon him and take the prey It is most observable how GOD pursues the quarrell of His Covenant against this man no King now in GODS account and of very small account in all Israel Iehoram had forsaken the Fountaine the LORD dashes to peeces all his Cisternes He makes holes in them all the comfort shall run out thence his Cisternes shall hold no water not a drop I meane the LORD confounds his strength and his counsell both nothing should do him good for besides the blood that he shed the violence he offered to the Law his forcing men to break it his advising with his wife a wicked woman Besides all this he forsooke the Lord he went out from the presence of the LORD as it is said of Cain Let me aske how can that be A man may forsake Gen 4. 16. the LORD as Iehoram did but how can he goe out from the presence of the LORD as Cain did Who is wholly in Heaven and wholly in Earth not by interchanged times but all at once and so David witnesseth If I be in Heaven thou art there if in Hell thou art there also How then must it be understood or what is the meaning that Iehoram as Cain went-out from the presence of the LORD This is the meaning Cain and so Iehoram and so every wicked man hardned in evill goes out from the presence of GOD that is from out of the King of Heavens high-way wherin only is safety and a Commission granted and sealed for his protection He is gone from under GODS roofe as I may say from out of His Angels hands he is left to himselfe delivered up into his owne hands he had better be delivered up to the Devill to be his owne Keeper disfavoured now and bereaved of GODS protection This was Iehorams case a forlorne and forsaken man for he hath forsaken GOD and now no man followes him but the Ministers of GODS vengeance And they come-in upon him from every quarter for the Defence is gone and the doores of his House and Kingdome lye open in comes the Adversaries GOD stirred up their spirit c ver 16. The Philistines

fast to their GOD in the Bond of a Covenant More briefly It is the Intiteling GOD to a Kingdome The writing His Salvation upon our Gates and Barres Then they be strong holds indeed Then we may say we have a strong City and Kingdome when the LORD appoints His Salvation for Walls and Bulwarks c Esa ●6 1. This is the Militia of a Kingdome No other thing but this Then surely this worke is like the Desire in the 4 th Psalme sutable to the whole Kingdome and to every Person therein No man is such an Enemy to his owne and the publike Peace as not to desire This with all his desire The Lord our King doth say Amen to this All His good People will say Amen also and doe pray The LORD GOD of our Lord the King say so too 1 King 1. 36. Who doth not desire that the doors of his house be shut-in upon him and himselfe shut-in as Noah was If we could aske from one end of the Land to the other every man would tell us This is his desire Hee would rest at Night and sleepe at quiet which he cannot do if his Doores stand open It were then a notorious solecisme in Policie To command the Doores in private Houses to be locked against spoilers And to suffer Frontiers in Kingdomes to lye open to invasion Therefore I said It is every mans Desire and the very same that has been ever since there was a Man upon Earth Is there any thing whereof it may be said SEE THIS IS NEW Yes that it is you will say The opposition Eccles 1 10. that is made against this Glorious worke is NEW there was never such a thing like unto this since man was upon the Earth Like unto what Like to this opposition an unparalel'd and most desperate opposition managed against this worke by a most malignant party An. Indeed I cannot say and proove That this opposition can be paralel'd that we can finde the like to it running-on and holding pace with it all along But this we finde That this opposition now is not new for Evill stood crossecentered to Good ever since there were two Bretheren upon the earth and ever after that time we shall find if we consult with the Records of Time That all times of Reformation of well Posturing a Kingdome have been vexatious and troublous * Dan. 9. 25. We shall speake more to this anon we reade on now It hath been already of old time which was before us Kings and Princes and Nobles of the earth have in all ages made this their great b Prov. 8. 36. worke To fortifie themselvs and secure their Kingdom So as they might be secure at home and feared abroad I will keepe my selfe to the Sacred Chronicles and observe thence What the Kings of Judah have done touching this great businesse The different wayes they went yet all towards the same end and carrying all levell to the same marke The setting themselves and their Kingdom in a Posture of Defence Ob. But have I not spoken contradictories words and things crossing each the other I said That the Militia the Posturing of an House or Kingdome is every mans Desire he Wills it and can take God to record hee Wills it heartily and presently after we heare of an opposition against it as if a man could desire his owne good and with the same breath refuse or oppose it Answ Yes all this a man may doe he may desire good and yet crosse himselfe and his Desire in the way thereunto he may will his owne Peace and yet oppose it as a man that hates Peace and loves Death ● Naturally there are crosse Desires and crosse Wills in every man Every man desires Peace his soule desires it as it is said of the sluggard c Prov. 13. 4. The sluggard wills with his mouth wills not or puts back with his hand for it is not diligent A true desire of Grace and Glory sets all his powers of soul and body on work in pursuance of the same as an hungry soule desires bread and the thirsty water A new or regenerate will runs-on strait and even like a paralel line with Gods revealed will And whē it crook's or runs crosse it is not that will but his other will is crosse to himselfe now that he is himselfe for what that does hee hates Ch●ys Acts 27. 8. Grace which is but Glory begun and Glory which is but Grace perfected it is every mans Desire he Wills it he thinkes with all his soule But he hath a Will crossing this Will and a Desire standing in opposition and utter enmity to this Desire which unlesse taken away by an Almighty Hand he shall never have what he seemes for he doth but seeme to Will and Desire Note we this well That Rest and Peace here and hereafter for ever with the LORD is the SABBATH and Port of all mens Labours and Intentions but with this difference It is seemingly so with the most Really and indeed so with the fewest and therefore the fewest attaine this Port they only who steere their course according to the two Poles of motion safety and a faire haven It is indeed a naturall desire and the very end of every mans thoughts The preservation of himselfe and to avoid whatever is contrary thereunto Yet such is our darknesse nothing more ordinary then to misse of the end by mistaking the way whereof I shall give anon very great Examples recording dayes of old for the benefit and instruction of the present times They are the examples of those who have willed contradictories as men in all times have done and now adayes doe and will to the worlds end They will have the end and will none of the meanes So with the sluggard as Jerom translates it very well d Prov. 13. 4 ●ult non ●ult piger They WILL and they WILL NOT They will command the end yet not endure the meanes They will have Peace and Grace and Glory they think they may have what they will they will not goe the way not tread the path that leads thereunto We shall try the possibility of this and see clearly what the end will be as crosse to their expectation as their wills were in the wayes and wills of the Kings of Judah taking the worst first for the worst Kings are the best examples to make all wiser that observe them aright which no man does that presumes to goe on in a wicked way for the examples here will open the pits mouth before him and assure him it will close its mouth upon him if he goes on There is indeed a great seducement by wicked examples for through the depravation of our natures we rather imitate the worse then the better and too ordinary it is in ill to exceed in good to come short of the example But this is for want of well weighing the example because we doe not looke through it to the