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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

end we see what is done but we doe not see what will be the issue of the act Here in this Chronicle we may behold all together The Proud Man in his Throne with his Princes about him and presently after dwelling with the beasts of the field there eating grasse as Oxen d Dan 4. 32. We may behold him here drinking wine in bowles the sacred vessells of the Temple and the same houre seeing a hand-writing upon the wall and within an houre after feeling the Sword in his bowells e Dan. 5. 4. We may behold the Man here even as a wild-Asse f Jer. 2. 24. snuffing up the wind or as the expression is sowing the wind and with the same glance of the eye behold him reaping the whirle wind g Hose 8. 7 12. 13. And then we can consider how gratious the proud Man will be in the eye of the beholder at that time when pangs come upon him the paine as of a woman in travell h Jer. 22. 23. for then we shall see him ashamed and confounded for all his wickednesse i ver 22. Of infinite use this To looke thorow the example to the end and then nothing better instructeth then the worst examples for therein we shall see wicked wayes and Idolatious counsels leading to ruine and destruction and all this together Mans heart is desperately wicked and so pursues his owne way as the two Captaines with their fifties k 2 King 1. 9. 10 11 12. with the Sword in his hand threatnings and menacies in his mouth thinking to command the end which he hath vainly conceited But when he lookes-on forward and considers his way to be a perishing way and that not two Captaines with their fifties but thirteene Kings with their people so many we shall reade of went traversing the same way and fier from Heaven consumed them When he considers this heartily it will check him in his way and put supplications in his mouth not only to the Man of God for he may be sought to also But to GOD-MAN The LORD JESUS CHRIST whom we persecute marching in our owne way so bespeaking mercy from the LORD in the words of that wise and considerate Captaine before him Fier from Heaven hath consumed these Kings with their People and their Land once the Eden of the World Let my life and the life of Thy servants and the peace of this Land be pretious in thy sight Amen We see the scope and purpose of this Chronicle I shall not now crave the Readers attention I know the weight and excellency of the matter will command it for I shall set before Kings and People what I must correct my selfe first els I shall spoyle all What can I set before them which the meanest man will regard Alas silly man when he saith what he will doe he doth but disadvantage himselfe and the cause I should have said the LORD the HIGH the DREADFVLL GOD Hee will this Day in the examples which follow set before Kings and their People DEATH and EVILL LIFE and GOOD If our hearts turne away so that we will not heare if we will be drawne away and worship strange Gods then behold Death and Evill For surely we shall perish But if we will love the LORD our GOD obey His voyce cleave unto Him then we choose Life and Blessing for He is our life and length of our dayes Behold Death and Evill is set before us in the following examples of the Kings who though dead yet speake much to the Instruction of the l●ving how destructive Idolatrous wayes are and he beaten pathes of humane policies as the other tell us how safe and good the holy way is wherein never any man miscarried Before we reade their doings I would say this for the length of the Chronicle That when my thoughts were first upon it I did not intend it so but more contracted and abrid ed into a narrow roome But then I considered what a worke I had in hand and what my scope therin My worke was well to ponder the wayes and workes of bad and good Kings wherin nothing can be found small or of light account Then again The Scope is as we heard the Instruction of the living Kings and their People all I thought it then my duty to ponder matters yet more and to looke over their History again and againe And the more I read the more I found even mighty things and wheron the LORD Himselfe had set a marke with His owne Hand like an hand in the road-way pointing the passenger This way thou must goe for this is the strait way and tends to life And here thou must forbeare for it is a destructive way and tends to death Truly I find so many marks in my travell here that I could not tell where to picke and chuse finding all so remarkable of so great and excellent use to marke out the way of LIFE and DEATH unto us all whether high or low great or small I would adde this also That the Chapters in this Chronicle are enlarged as the Story of the Kings there is continued where thorow two whole bookes and more as is the Story of the two first Kings there are the Chapters lengthened Where thorow three Chapters as the Story of Asa or foure as the Story of King Jehoshaphat and Hezekiah for these wrought effectually to edisie strengthen and establish themselves and their Kingdomes which is a worke evermore of difficulty labour and time accordingly are their Chapters enlarged The Story of the bad Kings is begun in one Chapter and there ended except the Story of Saul which fils a Booke and of Rehoboam which is continued through three Chapters for a King in an Idolatrous way doth not goe but runne and is quickly at the end posting-on himselfe and his people to ruine and destruction Therfore though the Story be short yet the observations therupon may be long and of infinite use It is our wisdome to set our hearts thereunto And sith DEATH and EVILL LIFE and GOOD are before us well to consider looking well before us that we chuse the good way the way of good men walke therein and keepe the pathes of the Righteous That wee love the LORD our GOD obey His voyce and cleave unto Him For it Prov. 2. 20. followes Hee is thy LIFE and length of thy Dayes Deu. 30. 19 20. Hee is thy Praise and Hee is thy GOD That hath done for thee the great and terrible things which thine eyes have seene Therefore thou shalt feare the LORD Deut. 10. 20. thy GOD Him shalt thou serve and to Him shalt thou cleave Amen THE KINGS CHRONICLE THE ACTS OF SAVL SECT I. The Chronicles of the bad Kings of Judah are read their mistakes about their Militia The contrary waies and motions to their owne ends are recorded CHAPT I. A Change in the mind and ways of the Judges makes the Elders of Israel aske a change

TO THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT There or elswhere scattered for the faith of the Church and service of the Gospell Grace and Peace be multiplied LEt me crave your Honorable patience while your eye runs over this Epistle and Preface both as short as possibly I could make it For the Book it self it cannot crave haply it may command your eye and eare both for this Reason It is a CHRONICLE fully and wholy taken out of the Book of God It treats of Kings and Princes Priests and Levites too of common-people also their severall ways here on Earth with severall notes upon these wayes taken from Gods mouth too I will take leave to tell you how I fell upon this work I heard a great cry and I was one who helped to make it greater we complained of the Times and of you not a word of our selves and thus we spake unadvisedly enough after our manner our expectation is cleane frustrate we looked for good behold evill for peace behold a Sword Summer is come and gone we are not delivered Delivered never in worse case then now That we thought would do us good hath done us hurt Then as that stubborne people never well full nor fasting called out Moses Moses he was in all the blame still so we called out upon you and wished ten times as they did that we were as we were in Egipt again Thus we poore simple ones have done and doe standing all the while in the bottom and upon the levell of our own Imaginations By the good hand of God upon me I did according to the charge SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES they testifie of the Lord Jesus Christ yes and of all that ever was is or shall be done in the world for or against His Kingdom there wherein these times are eminently very infamous and very glorious both I thank God that I did search the Scriptures for now I can give a full and cleare account of all the affairs now a days 1. That they are what they have bin nothing NEW that is now under the Sun What is now irregular and our of Rule is not new but as it hath bin done by these whose will was their Bias so they run apace furiously I had almost said but very directly to their own and their peoples ruin And they that walked regularly after the line of Heaven obtained the Sabbath and port of all their labours were a blessing to themselves and to the place where they lived 2. I can reprove my own folly now and theirs who are but a little wiser That we have not a faith to live upon for we make haste we ask and we have not because we asked amisse we expected and our expectation is vain because we were too hasty and expected without the book we would have God goe our way and do things just when and how we would have Him as if wisdom were with us and we could tell the fittest time Our complaints are as wild as our thoughts we complain as if some strange and new things were done now when indeed there is nothing now that is new Man was mad upon his Idols in ancient times he is but mad now And when his Idols * Ier. 50 38. were struck-at he would strike too and be in a rage he do's no more now The Nations were angry when Christ had taken to Himself power a Reve. 11. 18. then they made Tumults they do but the same now And in proportion to their rage now shal their judgment be anon it shall reach unto Heaven and be lifted up even to the skies b Ier. 51. 9. 2 Chron. 28. 9. They brake His bonds before and cast away His Cords They are not more like to Devils now The Lord laughed at those furious fools then He laughs now He saw their day was coming c Ps 37. we thank Him for His Eye salve we see as much now The LORD Christ has few friends that will own His cause that will stand by Him and that troubles a few in the world That is no new thing neither Time was when all forsook Him Disciples and all And then His Adversaries wrought their will on Him but then He wrought most gloriously for from the Crosse and the grave the Adversaries thought Him sure enough they had their will on Him when they had Him there but from thence He hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospell He is the same and by the same 2 Tim. 1. 10. crosse-ways and wills can worke as gloriously still and there is nothing now that is new 3. But that which pleaseth me most of all is I have found a price and I find it put into your hands I meane A way opened unto you whereby to deliver a Nation brought even to the mouth of destruction which you shall do not by commanding the Sword to be still for it is the Lords Sword and out of your command you are no more able to stop it in it's way then you can the Sun in it's course but by striking at the root Idolatrous persons and things by removing them from before the eyes of His jealousie and by casting them out If not the Lord has sworne and He will not repent that He will do with you and with your Land for it is yours now and not the Lords so long as Idols are countenanced there and they are countenanced so long as they are not throwne out whether persons or things as you should have done to the Idols there as He hath done to Israel and Iudah because of those Idols They did not cast them forth from before His Eyes therfore they are cast out of their own Land and from being a Nation Now the choise is easie you must cast-out these abominations els you and your Land must be cast-out it is at your choise chuse you whether You are about it you will say you have made an Ordinance against Idolatry and we must be humbled for it every man of us Blessed be God for that and His blessings be upon your souls But do ye consider what an engagement you have laid upon your souls or do we silly ones consider what it is to be humbled for this high provocation To loath our selvs because of our whorish hearts and abominable Idolatries wherwith we have broken the Lords heart * Ezek. 6. 9. as His Highnes is pleased to expresse His loathing of that sin This is to be humbled and then presently follows a casting-out as we do that we loath and our stomack riseth against d Esa 30. 22. But herein you must lead us the way els like Behemoths legs we shall break before we bow we must see you humbled before us as all the worthies of Israel before the Lord for this thing but we shall never believe our eyes neither till we see you as you may see them casting-out Idols and their services till they were all cast-out I mean al these