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A85381	Anti-Cavalierisme, or, Truth pleading as well the necessity, as the lawfulness of this present vvar, for the suppressing of that butcherly brood of cavaliering incendiaries, who are now hammering England, to make an Ireland of it: wherein all the materiall objections against the lawfulness of this undertaking, are fully cleered and answered, and all men that either love God, themselves, or good men, exhorted to contribute all manner of assistance hereunto. By Jo: Goodwin.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1146; Thomason E123_25; ESTC R3123	51,456	53

of God obeying this in the stead remained untouched of the fire in the midst of the furnace Dan. 3. 22. So the men of Israel that had obeyed the commandement of Saul in giving their assistance to him for the persecuting of David were punished together with Saul fleeing and falling down wounded before the Philistines as Peter Martyr hath well observed upon 1 Sam. 31. 1. So of that great Host of Assyrians that joyned with their King in an unlawfull war against the Church and People of God there were 185000. slaine in one night by an Angel 2 King 19. 35. To passe by all other examples of the severity of God in this kinde that is most worthy consideration which is recorded 2 Chron. 24. It is said ver. 17. That after the death of Jehoiada the Princes of Iuda came and did reverence unto the King and that the King hearkened to them Not long after They conspired together against Zachariah a faithfull Prophet of the Lord for dealing faithfully with them and at the Kings commandement stoned him with stones in the Court of the house of the Lord ver. 21. But saith the Story ver. 23. it came to passe at the end of the yeare that the host of Syria came up against him and they came to Iuda and Ierusalem and destroyed all the Princes of the People from among the People c. The just revenging hand of God singling out from amongst many thousands those persons by name who had obeyed the King in a way of unrighteousnesse though they were the chiefest and greatest of them and in that respect in all likelihood kept furthest off from the danger and had more outward provision for their safety then others 6. And lastly for this If this liberty we speak of of examining the commands of Kings and other Superiours were granted unto and used by those that are in subjection it would not devest or bereave Kings or Rulers of any obedience at all that were worth the having or receiving from men or that were truly honourable or safe for them to receive All that in reason it could be conceived to doe in this kinde is to prevent and cut off all such obedience from Kings which would endanger their cutting off and their States and Kingdomes with them If this liberty or duty rather of examining the Commands of Superiours had been preached and pressed upon the consciences of men with that authority and power which the truth and high concernment of it will beare or rather indeed required those crownes might have flourished upon the heads of Kings which now begin to droope and languish and those Nations enioyed abundance of peace under them the foundations of whose safety are now shaken Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgement because he willingly followed the commandement viz. of King Jeroboam who commanded the worshipping of the golden Calfe Hos. 5. 11. Here is the fruit of the forwardnesse of a Nation to obey and comply with an Idolatrous King even to be oppressed and broken in judgement .i. Not only to be sorely afflicted but utterly ruined and destroyed and that in a course of iustice and of the righteous proceedings of God against them In this cup of trembling and astonishment which they were compelled to drink from the hand of God there was none other ingredient but their own wayes and that which it seemes was predominant in the mixture was their forwardnesse to side with their King in that false Religion and worship which he maintained And for the ruine and destruction of Jeroboam himselfe and his house that is much considerable from the pen of the H. Ghost that it is not ascribed so much to his sin wickedness in comm●nding Idolatry as to the sin wickedness of the people in obeying And this thing saith the history speaking of Jeroboam's Calfe and command given to the people to worship them 1 King 12. 30 turned to sin meaning to a provocation of a very high nature to such a sin which even rooted out and destroyed the house of Jeroboam from the face of the earth Cap. 13. 34. But how or by what meanes did Jeroboams Calves and Idolatrous commands concerning them turne to such a sin or provocation as was his ruine The Holy Ghost ascribes this to the obedience of the People in this behalfe And this thing turned to sin for the people went to worship before the one even unto Dan. Clearely implying that that sin which was the ruine and rooting out of Ieroboam and his house was not so much his wicked and Idolatrous command considered simply and in it selfe but as it found obedience and subiection in the people The people in true accompt who magnified Ieroboam in his commands above God in his were they that ruined both Ieroboam and his house And generelly all that Kings and Princes gaine by an unlawfull subiection and obedience from their People is little else but the kindling of the fire of Gods iealousie against them I am the Lord saith God Esa. 42. 8. this is my Name and my glory will not I give to another .i. I will not suffer it to be given to nor to be received by another I will sell it deare to him that shall own it and will recover it out of his ruine We know Herod was smitten by an Angell from heaven and soon cast up that morsell of divine honour which he had swallowed by a miserable shamefull and loathsome death As those that make Images of wood stone silver go●d or the like to be adored and worshipped doe the greatest iniury that may be to those poore innocent creatures they expose them to the fury and iealousie of God whereby they commonly suffer a dissolution of their beeing before their time as the brasse whereof the brazen Serpent was made did being broken all to pieces when incense was once offered unto it 2 Kin. 18. 4. and the gold whereof Aarons Calfe was made being burnt in the fire and stamped and ground small even to very dust and this also cast into the river Deut. 9. 21. So they that will devest the great God of heaven and earth to cloath Kings and Princes or whomsoever with the spoiles of his Name as all those doe who obey them with disobedience unto God as in one sence they make them gods so in another by making them gods they make them indeed more men then they were more obnoxions to his displeasure who hath the command of their life and breath Consider that passage to omit many others of like importance which you shall finde Esa. 1. 31. And the strong .i. the Idoll either because in the Idolaters conceit it is strong like a god or rather strong in respect of the firmnesse and durablenes of the matter of it Shall be as Tow and the maker therof as a Spark they shall both burne together and none shall quench them Marke well How strong and durable soever the matter is whereof the Idoll is made whether it

used these words Now wee commit thy soule unto the Divell And when Hierom of Prague through long and grievous imprisonment grew very sicke and as himselfe thought neere unto death desired that hee might have a confessor being it seemes consciencious this way the story saith that very hardly and with great importunitie it could bee obteyned which shewes that it was griefe and torment to his enemies that hee should have any thing that in their opinion might bee a meanes to save his soule after hee was dead besides many other like streynes of the same spirit which that story presents unto the diligent Reader Now then there being a spirit of this profound deepe and divellish enmitie against you working in the Bowells and inward parts of these men to desire not onely your temporall but eternall death also it is none other like but if they suspect and doubt of the strength of their arme for the sending of you by death into Hell as I make little question but they doe they have no great hope of hunting your soules into the bottomlesse pit which is reserved for their owne they will themselves create a Hell for you as full of torment and cruell burnings as they can make it and cast you into it themselves before you die and so be gotten out of their reach So that there is nothing to bee looked for from these men but death or that which is worse then death a life to contribute towards the increase of the paines and sorrowes of your death and so indeed death howsoever Therefore I beseech you consider the weight of this branch of the present motive also Will you thinke of keeping or saving your estates to the losse or imminent danger of your lives Shall you not keepe your money to make a goodly purchase if you bring all these great evills and miseries upon you thereby Though in many other cases you might make much gaine and advantage by making the Divell a lier yet it will bee your wisedome to justifie him in that his saying skinne for skinne or rather skinne after skinne or skinne upon skinne and all that hee hath will a man give for his life If you have so much of men in you as Sathan your enemy supposeth it seemes that you have to value your lives at any such rate above all your possessions whatsoever shew it this day and make a fortification and bulwarke of all that you have for their defence and safetie Solomon we know made some hundreds of Targets and Shields of Gold it should not be grievous to any man to sacrifice his estate his Gold and Silver upon the service of his life There is a time to keepe saith Solomon and a time to spend or to cast away Eccles. 3. 6. Certainely of all other that is no time to keepe when a mans life lies at the stake and is in all likelihood not to bee redeemed but by casting away Thus much for your temporall and outward injoyments they are all involved and concerned to the utmost in the present occasion and service which you have beene exhorted to promote and further with all your strength and all your power But secondly it were well at least it were lesse to bee layd to heart it were a matter of farre lighter moment and importance if your outward concernments onely though it were even to life it selfe were imported in that great occasion which is now on foot and hath beene againe and againe recommended unto you but behold greater things then these Your spirituall concernments also are like to suffer and that in a very high degree if Gog and Magog prevaile if ever you come to bee at the allowance of Cavaliers Papists and Athiests that have taken the field against you for the things of Heaven You are like to have stones in stead of bread and Scorpions in stead of Fish Those golden Pipes by which Heaven and Earth are as it were joyned together and have lively communion each with other I meane your pure ordinances of worship which have both the wisedome and grace and goodnesse of God abundantly in their frame will be cut off and others of Lead laid in their stead ordinances I meane of an humane constitution and frame whose chiefe substance or ingredients will bee the wisedome and will i. e. the folly and corrupt affections of men by which not Heaven but Hell and the world will bee joyned together and the trade and traffique betweene both places much quickned and advanced ordinances which will bee ready to bee cast as dung into your faces by God when you have beene exercised in them You must never looke to see the goings of God in the Sanctuary as you have done to see any more visions of life and immortalitie let downe from Heaven unto you in these houses of vision those excellent ravishments and raptures of spirit those takings up into the third Heaven by seeing him that was greater then Solomon in all his glory will cease from you Those pure streames of the Gospell will bee all bemired and soyled when they are given unto you to drinke Yea happily and poysoned too by the influence of the corrupt minds and judgements of those that shall give them unto you You must looke to have the Gospell turned upside downe and to be made to stand in perfect conjunction with Hell with loosenesse wickednesse and prophanenesse and in opposition to Heaven Grace and Holinesse to be made a Savour of death to those that shall bee saved and a Savour of life to those that shall perish It will bee made to frowne upon those that are godly and to looke cheerefully and comfortably upon loose men So that if your soule shall lust for these Sommer fruits if you shall desire to have communion with God in communion and fellowship with his Saints If you shall desire at any time to bee rained upon by a shower of life and peace from Heaven you must repaire againe to the woods and mountaines or to the covert of some close and secret place where you must eate the bread of your soules in perill of your lives as your forefathers did in Queene Maries dayes on with danger of suffering whatever the malice and revengefull spirit of your enemies shall thinke good or can devise to inflict upon you Therefore now consider you that have had the liberty of your Sanctuaries and of your publike assemblies that have beene fed with hony out of the Rocke and with the finest wheate of Heaven you that have had an open and free trade to Heaven and have had glorious returnes from them day after day to whom the Ministery of the Gospell hath beene as the wings of the morning as Chariots of fire to carry you up and downe as it were in spirituall state and triumph betweene Heaven and earth Oh how will that day be as the shaddow of death unto you wherein you must exchange your Quailes and Manna from Heaven for the Garlike and Onyons

of Egypt when you shall heare the Pope and his Hierarchie preached up to the Heavens and Jesus Christ with his Saints preached downe to the earth and made to sit at their footstoole when your soules and consciences shall bee compassed about with lies and errors and the Commandements of men in the Ministery of the word in stead of those spirituall and glorious truths which were wont to bee as so many Angels sent from the presence of God to comfort you doubtlesse if ever you saw the heavens opened over your heads by an effectuall and sound Ministery and Jesus Christ standing at the right hand of God in glory as Stephen did if ever you smell the savor of life by Jesus Christ preached the day wherein such a ministery shall bee taken from you will bee like the day wherein the Sunne shall bee covered with Sack-cloath and the Moone turned into blood and the Starres in the Firmament of Heaven lose their light The change will bee every whit as sad unto you as that was unto David when hee was driven from the Sanctuary and presence of God and compelled to dwell in Mesech and make his habitation in the Tents of Kedar If this exchange made him cry out woe is me you must thinke it will bee a double woe unto you when the Arke of God shall be taken from you and Dagon set up in its stead when the dispensations and administrations of Heaven which were spirit and life the light of Gods countenance it selfe unto you shall bee exchanged for the statutes and ordinances of Rome which are like tombes and sepulchers having nothing in them but rottennesse and dead mens bones If such a day were now upon you what would you give to buy it off and is not the purchase of the prevention of it worth as much It may be there are some amongst you whose soules and consciences were never yet engaged eyther by the puritie or power of any of the ordinances of God who never yet knew what it was to bee kindly touched from Heaven by any spirituall administration to such as these it is like Dagon may bee as good as the Arke the devices and inventions of men as beautifull as savory in the house and worship of God as those ordinances themselves which have the perfect image and superscription of God upon them a ministery that is low and cold and set in consort with the Earth and the things thereof as that which is calculated for the Meridian of Heaven and breathes life and immortalitie in the faces of mens soules continually If such as these lend but a dull or deafe eare to the motion cannot finde so much as two mites in their estates to cast into the treasury of God it is not much to be marveiled at But for you that know how little the chaffe is to the wheate I beseech you to have this sence of the businesse recommended to you that when you have done the utmost of what you are able to doe for the advancement of it you would yet unfainedly desire to doe more Thirdly To engage you yet further to give out your selves fully freely as you have bin exhorted you may please to consider that as all your pretious interests whether in the things of this life or of that which is to come are deepely concerned in it so are all the like interests of all your brethren the godly persons in the land concerned likewise And if the cause should suffer or miscarry it would bee as a sword that would passe through all the righteous soules throughout the land it would bring such a day of sorrow lamentation and woe upon the generation of the servants of God throughout the Kingdome as scarce hath beene heard of in all ages it will cause all their hands to hang downe and their knees to wax feeble and their hearts to wither as the grasse it will fill all their eyes with teares and their hearts with heavinesse there will bee no end of those great evills and miseries which will come upon them in that day The breach that will bee made upon them will bee like the great breaches of the Sea which cannot bee repaired It was a night of much sadnesse to the land of Egypt when God slew in every house one throughout the whole Land the Text saith There was a grievous cry throughout the whole land of Egypt upon it But this cup was given to the Egyptians to drinke And yet this stroke fell not so sore upon them neither as the miscarriage of that great action wee speake of would doe upon the Israell of God amongst us That did but touch the Egyptians in the lives of one in every Family respectively but the stroke which is now lifted up and likely to be given in the land whereever it light should it fall upon the right hand upon the people of God it would wound them all and that very sore yea and that not in some but in all their concernments and injoyments whatsoever as well in those which relate to this world present as in those whose accommodations are more peculiarly for that world which is yet to come as hath beene shewed already If ever that mountaine of prophannesse which now you are exhorted to put to your shoulders to remove shall be establshed doubtlesse it will magnifie it selfe against all that is called Holy in the Land it will lie heavy and oppresse if not overwhelme and bury under it all that have the marke of the living God upon them Therefore I beseech you consider what you doe If this great evill shall come upon the Church and people of God amongst you and you bee found dull and heavie negligent and remisse in the preventing of it and not improve your selves to the utmost that way when as it hath beene so fully and feelingly and frequently both represented and recommended unto you shall you not bring the guilt of it all upon your heads Shall you not bee looked upon both by God and men as accessaries if not principalls in all those sore afflictions and calamities which in this case shall fall upon them will not God require their sorrowes and their teares and their troubles and their afflictions and all the extremitie they shall endure at your hsnds When I shall say unto the wicked saith the Lord to his Prophet Ezekiel Oh wicked man thou shalt die the death if thou dost not speake and admonish the wicked of his way that wicked man shall die for his iniquitie but his blood will I require at thine hand Ezek. 33. If God will require the blood of a wicked man at the hand of his Prophet in case he did not seeke to prevent it by admonishing him will he not much more require the sorrowes sighings troubles teares extremities blood of a whole nation of Saints at the hand of those by whose unfaithfulnesse coldnesse covetousnesse negligence in any kind they shall come upon them The Sonne of man saith our Saviour

goeth his way as it is written of him but woe be to that man by whom the Sonne of man is betrayed it had beene good for that man if he had never beene borne In like manner the Church and people of God amongst us may yet suffer grievous things but woe bee to those whomsoever they bee bee they fewer be they more bee they rich be they poore by whom their peace and safety shall bee betrayed Fourthly and lastly All our owne concernments and the concernments of all our deare brethren in the faith throughout the land are bound up in the businesse which hath bin so frequently and affectionately recommended unto you so are the like concernments of others of our brethren also partakers of like precious faith with you in other lands and Kingdoms bound up likewise herein though not all perhaps in the same degree There is a common report of a strange sympathie between Hippocrate's twins that they alwayes cried together and laughed together And doubtlesse there is some such simpathye betweene all the Reformed Churches as we call them in these parts of the world amongst which likewise I comprehend those plantations of our Brethren of this Land in America and other Westerne parts at least betweene all that are truely faithfull and sound in that profession which they make in these Churches I doe not speake here of that inward or spirituall simpathie which in respect of reciprocall affections and mutuall tendernesse intercedes betweene all the true and living members of the mysticall body of Christ though never so remote asunder but of that mutuall dependencie which the outward affaires and condition of every one hath upon the condition of the other so that the prosperitie and well established peace of any one hath an influence into and contributes more or lesse towards the like establishment of the other As on the contrary the shaking trouble ruine or destruction of any one weakens the strength and impaires more or lesse the securitie of all the other So that they must needs all weepe together and all laugh together Now then this is that which I say and hold forth to your Christian and godly considerations in this motive that the action wherein the Church and people of God in the Land are now ingaged and which is yet depending betweene them and their adversaries will in the issue close and fall of it bee of very remarkable concernment to all the Saints of God in all those other Churches mentioned if it falls on the right hand it will bee the riches strength and increase of them if on the left it will be the diminishing shaking and impairing of them therefore consider I beseech you the great weight and importance of the opportunitie that is before you if through your zeale and forwardnesse and faithfulnesse to advance it and the blessing of God upon it your present service shall prosper your light will be like the lightning which as our Saviour saith shineth from the East even unto the West the heate and warmth and living influence thereof shall pierce through many kingdomes great and large as France Germany Bohemia Hungaria Polonia Denmarke Sweden with many others and finde out all the children of God and all that are friends to the Kingdome of Heaven and will bee a cheering and refreshing to them Especially to your brethren in their severall plantations in farre countries and most of all to those in these united and neere kingdomes Scotland and Ireland it will be as a feast of fat things and of wines well refined and particularly to poore bleeding dying Ireland it will be as a resurrection from death unto life Now then in-as-much as God hath set you this day as the Sunne in the firmament of Heaven from whence hee hath an opportunitie and advantage to send forth his beames and to furnish and fill the world with his light and influence round about him since you have the commodiousnesse of such a standing that you may doe good to all that is Gods I meane to all the Saints in all their dispertions and quarters throughout so many kingdomes and such a considerable part of the world as hath beene mentioned so that you may cause them to rise up before you and call you blessed I beseech you doe not betray this first-borne opportunitie of Heaven looke upon it as a great and solemne invitation from God himselfe unto you to do greater things for the world at least for the Christian world then ever you did unto this day or then ever you are like to doe the second time yea then any particular Christian State ever did or is like to doe while the world stands God hath prepared and fitted a Table for you large enough if you will but spread and furnish it with such provisions as are under your hand that you may feast and give royall entertainment to the whole houshold of faith almost throughout the whole world at once And shall it now seeme any great thing in our ages or bee in the least measure grievous unto any man or woman of you even to lavish his gold out of bagges to bestow his whole substance to devest himselfe of all he possesseth in the world even to his shooe Latchet to furnish and set out such an occasion as this is like it selfe Shall not the very conscience and comfortable remembrance of such a thing as this done with uprightnesse and simplicitie of heart by you be a thousand times better then any superfluities of silver or of gold or of meates or of drinkes or of houses or of or of jewels or apparell whatsoever Nay if we shall bring povertie and nakednesse and hunger and thirst upon our selves to purchase and procure it will it not bee better then an estate then cloathing then meates and drinkes unto us will it not take out the burning and allay the bitternesse of all these Doubtlesse the honour and conscience of the fact will beare all the charges and answer all the expence of it to the full The opportunitie and occasion is so rich and glorious that it calls to remembrance as sometimes the shadow doth the substance the great opportunitie that was before the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of the world We know that he being rich became poore that the world thorough his poverty might be made rich You have the patterne in the mount before you See that according to your line and measure you make all things like to it FINIS Jon. 4. 11. Jon 4 11. * See Gen. 14. 12. c. 1 Cor. 15. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Et opprimetis vel opprimite Arias Mont. Comprimite Jun. Trem. Si enim hostes exertos non tantum vindices occultos agere vellemus deesset nobis vis numerorum copiarum Externi sumus vestra omnia implevimus urbes insulas castella municipia conciliabula castra ipsa c. Cui bello non idonei non prompti fuissemus c. Tertul. Apolog. Cap. 37. 2 Sam. 17. ●4 * Revel. 13. 10. Matth. 26. 24.