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A88808	Three sermons viz. Davids tears for his rebellious son Absalom, Israels tears for Abners fall by bloudy Joab, infants tears for Athaliahs treason, / preached by S.L. a true lover of the church, his king, and country, in his country-cure.	S. L.; T. L.	1660 (1660)	Wing L66; Thomason E2129_2; ESTC R210253	75,004	185

Parents and yet as bad as he was David the King wept for him saying O Absalom my son my son Absalom would God I had died for thee O Absalom my sonne my son Athaliah's detestable Treason SERMON III. 2 Kings 11. 14. Then Athaliah rent her cloathes and cried Treason treason VErbum diei in die suo was the Apostles charge to Timothy 2 Tim. 4. 2. and therefore it shall be my practice for saith Solomon Prov. 25. 11. A word spoken in season is like apples of gold with pictures of silver How well then doth this Text match the occasion of this our meeting together at this time which is to give thanks unto God for the discovery of Sundercombs desperate Treason against Oliver Lord Protector Then Athaliah rent her cloaths and cried Treason treason Herein let us consider these two general branches 1. Athaliahs action Then Athaliah rent her cloaths 2ly Athaliahs passiion And cried Treason treason In the first let us consider these two particulars 1. The subject of her action her cloaths she rent her cloaths Ah Athaliah this was a more suitable occasion for thee to follow the Prophets instruction Joel 2. 13. in rending thy heart and not thy garments But she that had no heart to spare infants like Herod had no heart to repent and so runs on still in revenge And if she can make man the subject of her wrath no longer her cloaths shall feel it and speak her minde She rent her cloaths 2ly The time of her rageing and mad wilde action implyed in the first word then Then she rent her cloaths Then when she saw another sun risen up in Judah to eclipse her pride her glory and her hautiness Then when she found she could no longer stand or keep the saddle or wear the Crown She rent her clothes In the second consider with me these two particulars likewise 1. The manner how she vents her passion She cried Her dead and seared conscience now revives and whispers in her ears that she had committed crying sins and so considering how near her door the punishment of them was come as a woman amazed frighted and startled at it she cried out for help when she was past cure she cried 2ly The cause of her passion and of her heavy exclamation in these words Treason Treason She had committed Treason against heaven and the King of heaven and that never troubled her which is the greatest Treason of all She had committed Treason in murthering the Kings Seed and that lieth not nigh her heart but when she seeth her full sea ebbing her sun setting her bright day drawn to an end and shutting in her hour-glasse run out and her doom of death passed upon her Then she rent her clothes and cryed Treason Treason Herein let us for the better discovery and opening the Text consider these four particulars 1. What Athaliah signifies 2ly Who Athaliah was 3ly What her Treason was and that which she complained of 4ly What her end was and of these in order 1. Athaliah signifies time for the Lord. When the ungodly destroy Gods Law and bring it into utter contempt then saith David in this sense Psal 119. 126. It is time for thee Lord to work that is to send help either by converting or confounding the enemies thereof as God converted Saul but confounded Herod When the wickednesse of the Amorites is full Gen. 15. 16. and the corn ripe for the harvest then it is time for the Lord to thrust in his sickle When Ahaliahs feathers of pride are full grown then it is time for the Lord to deplume her and send her as naked out of the world as ever she came into it When she was joined to Idols it was time for the Lord to make her know that an Idol was as vain a thing as a horse to save her from tumbling and ruine and destruction Psal 33 17. And this time is come and is made good to a tittle upon her all crying out with one voice as they did against Paul Acts 22. 22. Away with such a woman from the earl for it is not meet that she should live 2ly Who Athaliah was from the beginning And so she was descended from high Parentage for she was daughter unto Omri King of Israel 2 Kings 8. 22. and mother to Ahaziah King of Judah and wife to J●horam his father As she came from a high Stock so she soared high and nothing could satisfie her ambition but the Scepter and sway of the Kingdom and the Crown and have it she will per fas per nefas be it right be it wrong rather than she will misse of so goodly a bait From whence we may learn Obs That ambitious Spirits will climb over the head of all wickednesse and make it their foot-stool to raise them to honour When Eteocles and Polynices his brother were contending for their Fathers kingdom with naked swords in their hands ready to sheath in each others bowels then Jocasta their Mother stepped in between them mediating for peace and accommodation upon her bended knees using these or the like words What my sons the sons of my womb the sons of my desires as Bath-sheba the Mother of Solomon said to him Prov. 31. 1. rather than let my eyes be spectators of your selves weltring in your bloud in me convertite ferrum put up your weapons into the womb that did conceive and bear you But saith Eteocles to her Pro regno velim patriam penates conjugem flammis dare Imperia precio quolibet constant bene To gain a kingdom I would set Country Houshold-gods wife and all on fire like Troy for Kingdoms and Crowns cannot be purchased at too dear a rate Absalom to step into his Fathers throne quid non audet what will he not what dares he not to do And it was the speech of one in later times who having by perjury dissimulation and treachery mounted himself aloft That if he fell all the Commonwealth should fall with him farr preferring his private interest before the publique And Athaliah was cast into the same mould for neither the frown of God the curse of the people the tears of Innocents could give a supersedeas to her wicked design she had in hand but a kingdom she will have although she buyes it with the losse of her soul Obs 2. As it was said of Corax and Lysias mali ●orvi malum ovum a curst Crow hath hatched a shrewd egge a crafty Master hath b●ed as crafty a scholar Even so as Isay speaks 24. 2. Like father like daughter a wicked father 1 King 16. 25 26. and as vile a child Of all the Kings of Israel there was not one good and of all their children there was not one thoroughly righteous It s true there was found some goodnesse in Abijah towards the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam 1 Kings 14. 13. but it was but some and that God takes notice of and that goeth not unrewarded but of all

was the saying of a Reverend man that he never committed that sin in his life but that the Lord met with him in the same kind for it and paid him in the same Coin Pharaoh causing the male children of the Hebrews to be drowned in a River was at last drowned with all his Host in the Red Sea Exod. 14. 28. Gideon slaying the Seventy Elders of Succoth with unreasonable and unmeasurable torments had his own seventy sons murthered by the hands of Abimelech his Bastard Judg. 9. 5. Haman prepared a Gallows to hang Mordecai thereon but his foot is taken in the same snare he laid and he suffers on it Esth 7. 10. Darius Governors that conspired Daniels death are torn into pieces by the Lions they had provided to devour him Dan. 6. 24. David lying with Vriahs wife had his own wives defloured by his own son Absalom in the sight of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 22. Bajazet the first who resolved in the pride of his heart that if he should conquer Tamberlain to carry him in an iron Cage thorow his whole Kingdom in Triumph being overcome was served in the same kind by Tamberlain The Tyrant Maxentius was overthrown in the same Bridge which he craftily built as a snare for the destruction of Constantine and so his mischief returned upon his own head and cruelty fell upon his own pate Psal 7. 16. Alexander the sixth was poisoned at Supper with the same wine which he had prepared as a deadly draught for his familiar friend Cardinal Adrianus his servants by Divine Providence mistaking the bottle The Sodomites burning with the fire of Lust were burned with fire from heaven they finned against nature and were punished against nature fire descending upon them whose property is to ascend The dancing daughter of Herodias who preferred John Baptists head before half her fathers Kingdom going over a frozen River the Ice brake and falling into it had her head cut off without any other harm to her body as History reports So that we may conclude the generality of this point in the words of David Psal 9. 15 16. The Heathen are sunken down in the pit that they made in the net that they hid is their foot taken The Lord is known by exeecuting judgement the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah that is take notice of it mark it very seriously consider this in thine heart for it is worthy to be noted The Reason hereof is to prove unto us the attributes of God as I will shew you in some particulars 1. That he is omniscient for no man can conceive the least mischief in his heart against another but the Lord knoweth it and seeth it For he that made the eye shall ●e no● see Psal 94 8. and in this sense saith Peter to Christ Iohn 21. 27 Lord thou knowest all things and knowing of them he can the better p●e●ent them and dispose of the issue of them 2. That he is omnipotent in catching the wise in their own craftinesse and the counsel of the wicked he makes foolish Job 5. 13 He is not onely omniscient but omnipotent in turning things upside down as he best pleaseth 3. That he is a most just God in repaying evil with evil evil in intention with evil in execution The wicked have drawn their sword and bent their bow to slay such as be of upright conversation but herein his Justi●e is made known that he causeth their sword to enter into their own heart and their bows to be broken Psal 37. 12 13 14 15. If men were not as blind as Bats and Owls that can see little or nothing in the clear light they might perceive Gods Justice in our latter times upon many that had a bloody hand in their Masters death Some hanging themselves some being beheaded and some dying mad and some falling to shame and in falling into the pit that they made for one far more righteous than themselves 4. That he is a most true and faithfull God and keepeth his promise and Covenant for ever Deut. 7. 9. his promise is Matth. 7. 2. With what measure men mete it shall be measured to them again and this is made good upon Saul David Athaliah and so I passe to the Uses Vse 1. May serve to convince the strongest Atheist that there is a God Thales Milesius considering plantas humiditate virescere siccitate marcescere concluded that there was an over-ruling power and providence even so the Consideration 1. Of the disapointing mens hopes and bringing them to nought 2ly Of bringing the mischief which they imagined upon their own heads is sufficient argument to declare unto us and resolve us there is a God and there is none like unto God that can do such great things so that we may sing with Moses and the Israelites Exod. 15. 11. Who is like unto thee O Lord among the gods Who is like unto thee so glorious in holinesse fearfull in prayses doing wonders Vse 2. Is according to that of Moses to the people Num. 32. 23. Be sure your sins will find you out Who would have thought that Athaliah sleeping so securely in the bed of her fornications lined and stuffed with such bloody feathers and boulstered with so much wickednesse so many years together should be awakened out of it and called to the bar of Divine Justice and then and there sentenced to death but when she sleeped the Lord watched her down-lying and uprising he compassed all her paths he seal'd up her iniquities in a bag Job 14 17. and breaks it open to her destruction Now Mutato nomine de vobis Fabula narratur what is recorded of her will be verified of you in the end and therefore search out that Achan sin and turn that Hagar out of doors lest it trouble you and find you out and turn you on t of Gods favour and bring you to shame Oh that men were wise saith Moses Deut. 32. 29. then would they consider and understand this that their sins will find them out and so the considering and understanding thereof would teach them to stand in aw and not dare to sin Psal 4. 4. I read of a Philosopher that took up a Stage in an eminent market and proclaimed se velle vendere sensum that he would sell understanding to any that stood in need of it the King of that Countrey being informed thereof sends messengers with store of gold in their hands to purchase it the Philosopher writes in a little Paper these words In omnibus quae facturus es semper respice finem cogita quid possit tibi accidere that is In all things thou goest about think alwayes what the end will be and what may befall thee in the end and so delivering of it to them advised them to carry it to their Master and to tell him that it was full worth his mony the which the King receiving caused it to be written in golden letters