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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04657	Vox belli, or, An alarum to vvarre; Vox belli.	Barnes, Thomas, Minister of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London.	1626 (1626)	STC 1478; ESTC S118246	34,522	50

shall touch upon anon You have the meaning The matter next whose course comes now multiplies upon us into many points 2. The matter which consists in Doctrinall points some indirect some direct all which to handle twice as much time as I entend for this subject would not suffice us Wee will name no more than we intend to handle we will handle no more than wee may well dispatch within the compasse of a reasonable time and they shall bee these three First Doct. 2. or 1. from the second part that God sometimes smiteth one wicked man by the ●●nd of another Secondly that the sword may not bee stretched out to bloud without a call Thirdly that to bid the sword keepe scabbard when God calls it forth exposeth to the Curse Of these in their order And first of the first b Solet Deus malos per malos punire Parae in Gen. col 1074. God sometimes drawes the sword of one wicked man against another Here the Chaldaeans an impious idolatrous people are summoned to battell against the Moabites and Ieremie Gods Prophet brings Israel Gods people the certaine newes and tidings of it In the * Hoc primum bellum legitur in historijs mundi nec profanae habent tam antiquum ne dum antiquius ullum Ib. col 1069. first field that was ever fought which did happen as some reckon in the c Ergo 84. anno circiter aetatis Abrami haec gesta videntur mundi anno 2092. Ibid. col 1071. fourescore and fourth yeere of Abrahams age the 2092. of the world we have ten wicked Kings hard at it five against five in the Vale of Siddim d Gen 14. the first 13. verses In the booke of Iudges we shall finde the unrighteous Midianites sheathing their swords in their owne bowels and every man drawing upon his neighbour e Iudg. 7.20.22 When the Tribes of Israel grew corrupted the Lord threatned by his servant Esay that every one should eate the flesh of his owne arme Manasseh Ephraim and Ephraim Manasseh and that they both should be against Iudah f Isa 9.21 The same Prophet foretold the destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians g Isa 13.27 the overthrow of the Egyptians by the hands of the Assyrians h Isa 19.2 Saul a gracelesse reprobate man put Amalek a i Deut. 25.19 cursed people to the edge of the sword k 1. Sam. 15.7 Iehu an Idoll-server an imitator of Ieroboam that made Israel to sinne l 2. Kin. 10.29 drawes his blade makes it red in the bloud of the followers of Baal m 2. King 10. ver 19. ad 28. Adramalech and Sharezer wicked birds of an evill egge laid violent hands on their owne father proud Senacherib n Isa 37.38 Reason negative What truth more backed with multitude of testimonies than this is If any would know the reason of this I answer It is not because God delights in cruelty or takes pleasure to see men imbrue their hands in one anothers bloud for as o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mac. hom 16 231 236 he is voide of all sinne himselfe so hee neither is nor can bee the author or approver of any iniquity notwithstanding hee bee both the p Fulgent de Praedest ad Monim l. 1. p. 295.296 orderer and q Ibid. avenger of it As r Macar hom 16. p. 236. no darknesse can comprehend his light no impurity communicate with his holinesse so his light can abide no darknesse his Majesty can away with no wickednesse The chiefest good cannot take pleasure in any evill the soveraigne and supreme Mercy cannot delight in any cruelty He will indeed laugh at the wickeds destruction and mocke when their feare commeth ſ Pro 1.26.27 yet hee laughs not joyes not to see men sinning in destroying one another And therefore no evill or cruell disposition in God can be the ground of our assertion t Quest. What then v Answ Reasons affirmative 1. I answer first his Will secondly his Wisedome both concurring to set forth the glory of his Iustice First his Will is the ground of it Sinne being the transgression of his Law x 1. Ioh 3.16 an horrible y Salv. de provid Dei l. 4. p. 120. injury to his sacred Diety a z Salv. de prov l. 1. p. 29. thing that beates his eares and knockes at heaven gates necessarily calls for a Theophyl ad Autolyc l. 2 p. 114. D. punishment at the hand of his Iustice Of the infliction of which punishment both for the matter manner and meanes of it his will is his rule If it be his will that Angells shall be the instruments of executing his judgements then the destroying Angell is sent forth If it be his will that Iehu shall destroy Ahabs family Iehu is annointed and appointed to the purpose If it bee his will that the Daughter of Sion shall thresh the Nations HER hornes shall be made as iron her hooues as brasse b Mich. 4.13 to that worke If on the other side it be his will to give the Land of Egypt to the king of Babell that king of Babell shall surprise her multitude spoile her spoile take her prey and it shall be the wages of his Armie c Ezek. 29.19 It is his pleasure to smite one wicked person by the hand of another and therefore it is that one evill man is punished in Gods Iustice by an other as bad as himselfe His wisedome as well as his will is another reason Reason 2 his wisedome I say to bring to passe his owne worke To punish the ungodly is his owne worke Neede he aske of man or Angell what workeman he shall employ Shall the scholler prescribe the Master what rod to smite with shall man teach God what sword to fight with Hee whose the Iudgement is knowes what instrument to chuse to use without the direction of any other When therefore you see one wicked man stretching forth his hand striking with his sword against another Nation against Nation as Chaldaea against Moab say as the Prophet doth This commeth forth from the Lord of hosts who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working d Isa 28.29 A point very usefull if we rightly improve it First Vse 1 Instruction in two conclusions Conclusion 1. it affordeth two conclusions for information of judgement 1. That the warres betwixt the Pope and the Turke are no argument that the Pope is better than the Turke I know that Babylonian Prelate arrogates to himselfe as a superiority above all Princes so an excellency above all persons in the world as though in place and grace he were superior to all inferiour to none but in my judgement in basenesse and badnesse the Turke himselfe goes not beyond him Their cursed Kingdomes began much at the same time In the yeere 607. Boniface the third or rather Maleface challenged by disputes

time may come when God may summon these voluptuous ones to stretch out the sword to bloud yea and threaten against them the terrible Curse if they doe not doe it This Curse how can they then escape when their bodies weakened by sinne shall make them refuse to follow this call and cause them to bee readier with the Kitchin-Curre that Plutarch speakes of to runne to the pot than with the generous Grey-hound to the field Thirdly is it so that to withhold the sword from bloud when the Lord calls it forth procureth the Curse Vse 3. Exhortation then goe thou Text of ours thou short sentence of old Ieremy that authentick Prophet goe I say into all Brittanne be as a trumpet to her inhabitants to sound an alarme unto war Thou standest upon their shelves lyest upon their deskes art in their houses as the other sentences of the Bible bee Oh round them in their eare present thy selfe to their eyes that the sight of thee may make them stirre in the Lords quarrell who have been backward all this while and make them constant that have begunne untill they have done the worke of the Lord. Thou maiest be the bolder in thine importunity now the royall head of great Brittanne our dread Soveraigne hath taken the course to exempt his kingdomes from this Curse by beginning to draw his weapon for the helpe of the Lord against the mighty and the Lord grant that like the sword of Ionathan it may never returne empty Now now I say never lin crying never lin sounding in his subjects eares untill Iehovah repaires the ruines of Sion and settle more peace in the Christian world And inasmuch as I have gone thus farre in discourse upon thee give mee leave to give thy Presse-money to this worke And now O England where shall I begin whom shall I first call upon Might I be suffred and do no wrong to the Text to speak in an allegory I would begin with mine owne calling wish them as many Champions amongst them have already done to dag their pens dipt in the Fount of holy Writ as farre into the body of Hereticall Divinity as Ehud did his dagger into Eglon's bowells Iudg. 3.20 Ib. ver 25. that Errors servants may like Eglons bee ashamed Next I could entreat the temporall Magistrate to stretch forth the sword of his authority to the spilling of the bloud of those dangerous enemies grosse impieties who have got such strength in these evill times Finally I could advise every Christian to use a Metaphoricall weapon not hypocrisie which woundeth religion under a colour of devotion but the sacrificing knife Chrysol serm ● pag. 28. that sharp weapon the sword of Repentance which may lay ableeding their mightiest corruptions that they may never prevaile nor beare rule againe But the stream of my exhortation must not runne in this improper channell The Text doth not enjoine it though the times doe well require it I must goe more litterally to worke and say to this Kingdome as Moses to Ioshuah Chuse out men and goe out to fight Blessed be he that keepeth not backe his sword from bloud Goe out and fight why what is there a Moab in the world and doth Moab provoke us or provoke God to call us to draw sword against her Yes both First there is a Romish Antichrist a Popish Faction and therefore a Moab in the world For the Romish beast which now rageth How the Pope and his Faction are like to Moab 1. In their originalls in many particulars may bee compared with that wicked Moab so oft mentioned in the old Testament First Moab was a childe of Incest begat by Lot in his drunken fit of one of his daughters So Antichrist is an incestuous brat bred of * Religio peperit divitias Religion the Mother and of Riches the Childe The Christian Emperors in the first age after Christ endowed the Church with great revennues bestowed upon Relgion much substance Religious Bishops grew drunke with riches intoxicated with honours in this their drunken fit committed filthinesse with worldly wealth and begate that monster the Romish Whore Secondly was Moab an Idolater had he his Idoll and abomination Chemosh 1. King 12.33 Who grosser Idolaters than Papists be who have a multitude of Idolls and abominations Thirdly the Moabites were not onely Idolaters themselves but also enticers of others to Idolatry calling the Israelites to the sacrifices of their gods Num. 25.2 and drawing Salomon himselfe notwithstanding his wisedome to build an high place for their Idoll Chemosh 1. King 11.7 Doth not the Romish Moab draw the whole world to wonder after him poysoning the Princes of the earth with his Idolatries and perverting them notwithstanding their wisedome Who knowes not how bold his Factors have beene to entice our Gospellers to their Masses superstitious services How many Gentlemen have their filthy Cages their Popish houses beyond the Seas robbed of their sonnes deprived of their daughters Isa 15.17 Fourthly Moab got aboundance by wrong Antichrist hath raysed himselfe to his rule and riches which is uncountable by secret villany and open violence Iudg 11.17 Fiftly Moab would not let Israel passe thorow his land to their place no more will Antichrist permit Protestants by a free use of their conscience to passe thorow his countryes quietly to the kingdome of heaven They of our side that have to doe there unlesse they bee very wary are in daily danger of the bloudy Inquisition They that dye there when they lye on their death-beds are molested by the Priests with proffers of fopperies and fooleries unto them Sixtly did the King of Moab send Balaam on his Asse to curse Israel so the Romish King of the Romish Moab sends abroad his Bulls Num. 22. Balaams and Asses to curse and condemne Gods people Lastly for I omit many things it was prophesied in the old Testament that Moab should be smitten with the starre of Iacob Num. 24.17 It is likewise prophesied in the new * 2. Thes 2.7 Testament that the man of sinne shall bee consumed by the breath of the Lords mouth and with the brightnesse of his comming There is a Moab then in the world O England a fit object for thy sword a meete foe to fight withall Yea but what cause hath England to take sword against Moab what injurie what wrong have the Romanists done her What causes No * 2. The same sins as causes of destruction by the sword in the Romane Papacy now that were in Moab in Ieremies time 1. The pride of Papists 2. Thes 2.4 lesse than the Chaldaeans had to make their sword red with Moabs bloud First have we not heard of the pride of Rome how that man of sinne sitteth in the Temple of God exalting himselfe above all that is called God Have not we heard of a Sunne and a Moone of a Vniversall Vicar of Christ and a Catholike King of pompous