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A81100	The cruel tragedy or inhumane butchery, of Hamor and Shechem, with other their adherents. Acted by Simeon and Levi, in Shechem, a city in Succoth a county or Lordship in Canaan. Lately revived and reacted heere in England, by Fairfax and Ireton, upon the persons of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, in Colchester, the 28. Aug. 1648. Presented to publicke view in meditations, discoursing the former, discovering the latter, and comparing the circumstances of both, and dedicated to the honoured memory of the two last named worthies.		1648 (1648)	Wing C7422; Thomason E462_30; ESTC R205082	11,297	19

haste to execute premeditated revenge and be swift in running to doe mischiefe That their hands may be ever ready to shed blood and their right hand the right hand of falshood whilst it takes by the beard to kisse smiting its sword into the fift rib to kill 2 Sam. 20.9.10 In a word That all the affections of their soules though religiously seeming but deceitfull be the words of their mouthes members of their bodies and swords by their sides who in our dayes are termed the chosen of God Saints and holy ones may prove instruments of cruelty is a truth fully justified by the late act of Fairfax and Ireton parallell to this of Simeon and Levi heere the putting to the sword these two valiant Commanders Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lysle in cold blood the third day after they had yeelded themselves to their mercy and within two houres after notice given to them of death and therefore wee may say of them that the instruments of cruelty are in their habitation That 's the first observation But before I touch upon the second it is requisite that we revive and consider the whole story Shechem the sonne of Hamor an uncircumcised Canaanite had wrought Villany in Israel Gen. 34 7. committed that which was to the reproach of Jacob and his sonnes v. 14. both these by Jacob were past by with silence and their redresse committed to the Lord and by Sechem endeavoured to be satisfied and repaired to this end Shechem desires a Personall Treaty the sole meanes with Gods blessing to effect a reconciliation if without hypocrisie Jacob consents really intending a reconciliation with Shechem who intreated it with humble submission and with Hamor who had propounded it with promise of a considerable satisfaction with his sincerity and integrity had the matter been ended peaceably betweene them who had no other ends but love peace union and amity But the sonns of Jacob pretending to embrace the motion intend to compasse their premeditated revenge and in Order thereunto begin their cruelty with craft and shroud their craft under the cloak of Religion If you will submit to our discipline serve the God whom we serve and receive on your Bodies the badge or ensigne of our Covenant according to the Ordinance of God circumcision then may we yeeld to your desires otherwais know we cannot do this thing wee cannot give our sister to an uncircumcised man Gen. 34.14 a covenant intended not for the salvation of the soule but the destruction of the body The Fatherly affection to the sonne and the intended conjugall affection to the desired Wife cause both Hamor and Shechem waving the painfullnesse of the execution to embrace that condition themselves and to perswade their people thereunto also they dissemble with them as they themselves had been dissembled with by Jacobs sonnes common profit is pretended in order thereunto shall not their flocks and substance be ours Gen. 34.23 though Shechems love was therein only meant the hope of profit is the most powerfull motive to the common People and the mention of commodity makes the vulger sort proud to be prodigall of their skin and blood therefore they also are content to smart and so all put the knife to their owne fore-skins and now Simeon and Levi taking advantage of this submission to their mercy and inability to make resistance by reason the sorenes of the Shechemites own-given wounds on the third day tooke either of them his sword and went into the City boldly and slew every male v. 25. This designe taken in hand upon so just a cause but carryed on with such craft dissimulation and hypocrisie and in cold blood so barbarously executed is by Jacob sharpely reprehended in them Gen. 34.30 and heere made a charge impeachment or affirmative position of their cruelty the instruments of cruelty are in their habitations This premised the second Doctrinall conclusion will be this 2 Doct. Though the uncircumcised Infidels worke villany in Israel Gen. 34.7 and commit an act to the shame and reproach of the faithfull promised seed Christians Gen. 34.14 and afterwards with humble submission sue for an honourable reconciliation in hopes by a Personall Treaty to conclude all in love peace union and amity and thereupon yeeld themselves up to their mercy yet if Israel Christians Saints take advantage of such submission and in cold blood murther those uncircumcised Infidels this charge may be justly put in and this impeachment drawne up against them cruelty are in their habitations this is Iacobs charge against Simeon and Levi yea although which is more the designe of the Shechemites were to possesse themselves of the flocks substance and all the cattle of Iacob and all his sonnes Gen. 34.23 The Application This charge hen I must draw up and this impeachment put in against fairfax and Ireton those principall actors in that ryot which in cold blood was committed on the lives of those two worthy Christian Cavaliers Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle by their according to their owne report elected selves and holy Worthies that Army of Saints as the deluded seduced blinded or besotted people of this Land terme them For if that bloody fact committed by Simeon and Levi upon Hamor and Shechem Infidels For which yet they might pretend some cause and had a faire colour were by Jacob justly condemned and this charge put in against them that cruelty was in their habitations Certainely I may be bold to put in the same impeachment against Fairfax and Ireton and declame against that their bloody act as the quintescence of cruelty and putting to the sword after a submission to mercy those two noble Christians who had not injured them at all much lesse in so high a nature who tooke up armes only to recover their owne substance and not to possesse themselves of theirs and were gathered together in a body to no other end then by a Personall Treaty to compose all differences satisfie all publick interests and effect an happy reconciliation between the King and his Subjects and between the subjects themselves that so the King might live in glory and command the subjects in plenty and obedience and all in peace righteousnesse and fitting liberty which Fairfax Ireton and the rest of their adherents pretended in all their Remonstrances and Declarations in which it is apparently they talk't but deceitfully And shall men of these principles taking up armes to these good and religious ends after they are over powred and have yeelded to the mercy of the Victors in cold blood be shot to death and yet shall they that have been chiefe plotters and actors with their adherents and abettors be looked upon and acknowledged the elect children the chosen people No let them be pointed at by their knowne appellations or proper names Fairfax and Ireton as being prodigies of nature stigmatized with their deserved character or proper appelation brethren in iniquity as the shame branded shame of their Nation and charged

with that impeachment unto which themselves cannot but plead guilty and none that impartially compares the circumstances will acquit of as innocent this affirmative position the instruments of cruelty are in their tents or habitations Psal 14. as the scorne of truely valiant souldiers And therefore heere I conjure all that would not be thought to have a favour to or an hand in so foule an act with their soules to abjure their secrets or counsells and with their bodies to avoid their companies Assemblies Committees or Counsels of war as good old Jacob doth teach them by his example heere and so I come to the fourth particular The fourth particular expounded The ingeminated conjuration Of his soule to objure their secrets c. Of his honour to abjure their Assemblies c. 1. Oh my soule come not thou into their secret that is oh my soule minde will and affections I conjure you not to give the least connivance to the impious results of such consultations nay not to be so much as present when such wicked designes are discussing Observations A good man should conjure his spirit and inward man not to partake with bloody men in their secretly contrived machinations and counsells but to adjue and utterly renounce all voted either Ordinances of close Committees or Orders of a Counsell of War that tend to the execution of any cruel design 2. Unto their Assembly O mine honour be not thou united that is O my glory honour or reputation if thou desiret to be preserved I conjure thee to abjure renounce utterly disclaime the companies of such bloody projectors to avoid the societies of such inhumane voters and then to have no union with the congregations or assemblies of such implacable and mercilesse Councellors If they account it their glory and honour to be an Assembly that can doe what they will without controule much good may it doe them but far be such honour from me A good man as he will conjure his inward man not to consent to such bloody machinations nor affect such cruel counsels so will he also conjure his outward man not so much as to joyn it selfe with such companions nor be an instrument with their assemblies to effect such cruel actions as he will not joyn with them in the consultation or contriving of them so neither in the execution or effecting them as the faculties of his soule shall not be counsellours so neither shall the members of his body be actors of such foule proceedings as Jacob did conjure both here O my soule c. unto their Assembly not to joyne with them either in thought word or deed either in inward affection or outward action of which conjuration in himselfe and as an argument to provoke others thereunto in the next whods he declares the ground cause or reason thereof thereby to move in others a detestation or hatred of two actions the effects of a twofold passion and the fifth partionlar The exposition of the first particular The double actions of a two fold affection Of their anger Of their selfe-wilfull revenge Of their anger For in their anger they slew a man that is being incenst for the injury done unto their sister and the reproach which thereby did accrue unto themselves in cold blood after submission to mercy they slew a man Hamor and Shechem the chiefe Commanders put for the rest of their subjects or soldiers Observation Some natures are not satisfied but with the life blood of their injuers nor will some mens anger be reconciled but hunt implacably for the life of its object 2. Of their selfe-wilfull revenge and in their selfe-will they digged down a wall that is wilfully bent upon revenge they prosecuted it with such violence that nothing was of force to hinder the executing thereof a wall shall not resist the fury of malice but downe goes that too before they will be prevented that is saith one in the night they brake downe the wall of Shechem which stood betwixt them and the object of their revenge and entring at the breach did act that bloody tragedy But I shall thus expound it by craft and policy having undermined circumvented Hamor and Shechem the two stoutest Commanders who by their valour were as a wall unto their City and whose undaunted courage they durst not singly and upon equall tearmes meet or incounter but now over powred by this crafty advantage they dig them downe that is as it is the nature of all cowards they slay them and insult upon them in their fall The Application And now how neere a resemblance there was betweene the manner of Simeon and Levies taking away the lives of Hamor and Shechem and of Fairfax and Iretons destroying those two valiant Commanders in Colch-ster and what a vast disproportion there was betwixt the causes that provoked both of them to so cowardly bloody an act I shall leave it to any endued with common sense and reason to judge and I doubt not but it will be a powerfull argument to provoke all who will not be thought to have a favour to or hand in so base and unworthy an action to adjure the counsells or secrets renounce the companies or assemblies and depart from the tents of such wicked worthlesse men from their soules detesting such cowardly cruelty and such inhumane butchery which was so abominable in the sence and apprehension of the good old Patriarch Jacob though in his sons that the consideration thereof caused him to convert his last words to them which should have been a benediction into a malediction cursed be their wrath for it was fierce and their rage for it was cruel and to period his speech of them with a prophetick divination and fatall prediction against them I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel which containes the two last particulars The exposition of the 2 last particulars 6. Cursed the their Wrath Rage For it was Feirce Cruel Cursed that is ill successe may it have may such a thing never prosper or be blest by God or man But may men for the future tremble at it as an Anathema and shun it as a Maranatha a thing deserving the malediction of men and bitter curse of God Their wrath their progresse in passion the cherrishing that humour and harbouring that ill affection Their rage wrath hightned to a perfection or the highest degree of passion for there are three degrees of passion The first is anger a sudden but short collition of the humors The second is wrath a continuance of the disturbance and a countenancing of the passion The last is rage the discomposure degreed unto perfection by savouring and feeding the passion the effects whereof are executed with implacable cruelty Be angry but sinne not passionmay forcibly break in upon us but we must not cherish it till it prove wrath muchlesse humor it to perfection till it becomes rage breaking out into cruell effects that is to sinne and that sinne is here curst Cursed

be their wrath their rage cursed be their sinfull actions not persons the person bears the stampe or image of God therefore hopes of reconciliation upon reformation but sin defaceth that stamp deformeth that image therefore cursed to prevent the committing thereof by imitation Cursed be their wrath for it was fierce violent in the encrease rage for it was cruell implacable at the full growth Passio igitur dignasane maledictione these qualities render them worthy of a curse and were the cause of Jacobs cursing as himselfe here testifies Good men are such lover of equity that although they know they may justly pronounce a malediction against the sin yet they hold it convenient to produce the cause so good a man was Jacob from whose rule not to digresse The Application Let us consult those very men themselves who were the Actors in that Tragedy at Colchester Say ye the two heads of our new and new qualified Israel ye holy Leaders of that Army of Saints may we not say cursed be your wrath for it was fierce did not your anger swell to that height in the prosecution of the ends at which it aymed that it would upon no tearmes admit of so much as a Treaty much lesse hearken to the honest meanes of reconciliation with them till they had submitted to your mercy and was it not then fierce and after they had submitted to your mercy can you deny that your rage would not be satisfied with any thing but their lives and was it not then cruel wrath thus fierce in the encrease rage thus cruel in the full growth as certainly worthy of a curse Cursed then be your wrath for it was fierce and your rage for it was cruel And may the 7. particular Jacobs fatall predictions be fulfilled in you and your assissinates for conclusion may you be divided among your selves may you be disperst amongst others for the Lord may be said to pronounce this sentence aswell against you that have more then justified Simeon and Levi by imitations as against them that set you downe their owne example for your instruction I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel it is just with God to divide them thereby to make way for a mercy upon a Kingdome who so easily were united in their forces and affections to bring miseryupon a Kingdome and it is policy to disperse them who in a body have contrived and acted so many cruell designes to the ruine and destruction of so many families lest they should againe be gathered to an head tali suo consilio aliis perniciem machinentur by such Counsels hatch and exercise the like cruelties on others to this that they have executed on the forenamed valiant Champions to whose immortall honour but the shame of the cruel contrivers and actors of their death I record this transition for the conclusion Fairfax and Ireton Brethren in iniquitie the instruments of cruelty are in their habitations quarters Tents or Armies or their swords are instruments of violence Oh my soule come not thou into their secret unto their Assembly Oh mine honour be not thou united for in their wrath upon premeditation they slew Sir Charle Lucas and Sir George Lisle and in their self-will they craftily undermined and after submission to mercy in cold bloud cruelly murdered those two valiant Commanders who had by their incomparable valour and undaunted courage like a wall defended Colchester Cursed be their wrath for it was fierce and their rage for it was cruel And what Jacob did foretell of them by way of prophesie I will beg by way of prayer for these divide them Lord among themselves heere in England and scatter or disband them among the Inhabitants of all his Majesties Dominionsk that such a mercilesse pack of so cruel blood thirsty Tyrants may never gather to an head againe to destroy the people and disturbe the peace of this thy Israel Amen And wheresoever they shall like Cain their brother and first murtherer wander let this still be presented to their thoughts for a scourge unto their soules Satia te sanguine Cyre They that delight mans precious blood to spill Their stomacks shall of their owne blood have fill Thus I leave them to the vengeance of him who makes inquisition for blood and this in memory of our two murdred Worthies Epitaphium STAy stay oh mortall contemplate the Dust Which Hence expects to rise among the just And Loyall soules Lucas is this this Lysle The Living Glory dead shame of this Isle But would'st Athenian like desire to know What bloody hand did signe the cruel blow Fairfax and Ireton prejudging Loyalty Doom'd e'm to dye by new found piety Such false Simeon and Levi shew'd When both their hands in rage in blood imbrew'd Father and sonne with Loyall Subjects all They murdred to make up one Funerall If F. with S. and I. be compar'd with L Judge whethers crime comes neerest unto Hell Prosopopeia Sleepe honor'd Paire in peace your wars are done Revenge Awake strike Tom and Ireton FINIS