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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16562	Remaines of that reverend and famous postiller, Iohn Boys, Doctor in Divinitie, and late Deane of Canterburie Containing sundry sermons; partly, on some proper lessons vsed in our English liturgie: and partly, on other select portions of holy Scripture.	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1631 (1631)	STC 3468; ESTC S106820	176,926	320

Iewes and it answered because Abraham the father of the Iewes out of faith and obedience was content to haue sacrificed his sonne to God Whereupon this tyrant following that example determined to offer vp his sonnes to get the fauour of his god But they hauing notice thereof and prouoked to wrath by this vncouth and abominable cruelty rushed in vpon him as hee was worshipping his Idol in his chappell and smote him with the sword Thus almighty God who brings light out of darkenesse and ordereth all things sweetly disposeth of bad men and of bad meanes for the compassing of his good ends As a cunning physitian he makes of deadly poyson a wholesome medicine Facit benè sinendo fieri quaecunq que male saith Augustine The text is plaine that Christ our blessed Sauiour was betrayed and crucified by Gods determinate counsell and foreknowledge Iudas betrayed Christ only for money the Iewes crucified him onely for malice But God gaue his Sonne and his Son gaue himselfe for vs only for loue So that in one and the same tradition as Augustine notably God is to bee magnified and man to be condemned Quia in re vna quam fecerunt causa non vna ob quam fecerunt Because God and Christ did that out of mercie which Iudas and the Iewes did out of malice God which is Causa causarum in whom we liue and moue and haue our being disposeth of all things in heauen and earth and hell according to his good will and pleasure Adramelech and Sharezer did ill in murthering their father but God ordered that bloody fact well in making Sennacherib a fearefull example to barbarous tyrants and blasphemers as a man hunteth one beast with another and catcheth one bird with another so God vseth one wicked man for the destruction of another Adramelech and Sharezer as the Poet sayd Nomina suntipso quae metuenda sono Adramelech signifies a great King and Sharezer Prince of treasure the which names happily Sennacherib imposed for this end that they might acquire great power and riches or that he might hereby make them a great deale more terrible to the people But oh the deepnesse of the riches both of the wisdome and iudgements of God all the greatnesse of Adramelech and Sharezer was imployed to make Sennacherib little to bereaue him and that vnawares both of his kingdome and life for they slew him with the sword Hence we may learne that impunity for a time is no good argument of innocency because the wicked are reserued for the day of euill as the fish that playeth a great while with the hooke is caught at the last euen so the wicked into whose nostrils as it is sayd in this Chapter at the 28. vers God hath put an hooke reioice in doing euill and delight in frowardnesse vntill they perish at the last nay some of them are so shamelesse and gracelesse that howsoeuer they well escape present danger yet their sinnes as Paul speakes goe before vnto Iudgement and so they stand condemned in the conceit of themselues and others In their life their owne conscience condemnes them in such sort that here they begin to feele the flashes of hell fire No place quoth Seneca will make a wicked man quiet for that he thinkes Although I bee not as yet taken I may neuerthelesse be taken at the length and that I haue not hitherto beene taken is come rather of fortune then of confidence In their death other men and that iustly condemne them for a ranke Athiest obstinatly dying an Athiest may be sayd without breach of charity to be damned If any be thus openly known by his fruits woe to them which speake good of euill and euill of good who put darkenesse for light and light for darkenesse who put bitter for sweet and sweete for bitter 2. The tragicall end of this vngodly tyrant murthered by those who came out of his owne bowels admonisheth vs what a fearefull thing it is to fall into the hands of the liuing Lord. His feete are sayd to bee of wooll but his hands of iron slow to wrath and of great patience before he comes to punish but when he commeth hee will pay home he hath in his hand a rod of iron to breake his enemies in pieces like a potters vessell 3. Here wee may note that the destruction of great blasphemers is vsually sudden acted not only in such a time and in such a place but also by such persons as they least suspect As Iob speakes they spend their dayes in wealth and suddenly goe downe to hell and Dauid oh how suddenly doe they consume perish and come to a fearefull end As Belshazzar in the mids of his carousing Haman in the mids of his malice Herod in the mids of his pride Iulian in the mids of his fury Sennacherib the great King of Assyria the terrour of nations who with the sole of his feet dryed vp all the riuers of besieged places and turned defenced cities into ruinous heapes in the mids of his idolatry for as it followeth in the next circumstance to be considered Hee was in his owne land in Nintue the strongest city of all his land in his stately palace the most inuincible fortresse of al Niniue in his Royall chappel the most secure place of all his palace Yet it so came to passe that as hee was in the temple worshipping Nisrock his god Adramelech and Sharezer slew him with the sword Out of this circumstance wee first obserue that when almighty Gods hue and cry commeth after any malefactor for wickednesse committed that nothing is able to shelter him as Dauid in the 1 9 Psalme whither shall I goe from thy spirit or whith●…r shall I goe from thy presence If I climbe vp into heauen thou art there If downe to hell thou art there also I●…tra omnia s●…d non inclusus extra omnia sed non exclusus His eyes are all-seeing his eares all-hearing his handes all-doing when hee sent frogs into the land of Egypt Pharohs stately pallace was not able to keepe them out but they croked in euery corner of his house scrauling in his bed-chamber and creeping vpon his pillowes a malefactor escapeth happily the magistrates hand by forsaking the parish or the place where he dwels or if that will not serue by flying out of one liberty into another or if that fayle by running out of the countrey or if this will not doe the feate by leauing the countrey crossing the seas into forreine lands and forlorne Ilands as Adramelech and Sharezar fled into the land of Ararat But yet the Lords hand and stretched out arme wil euen while he thinks himselfe secure find him out and giue him a deadly blow The Lords hand found out Ionas on the seas and committed him close prisoner into the whales belly the Lords hand found out the cruell Idumeans albeit they did dwell in the clests of the rockes and sayd in the