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on the Coronation -day.
rove atic, their Aandwillreach at it : thereis no parting them, Therefore, ifa bad eye lighc upon’.
an hand that hath ftrensth, and there be not Rex, of the ftrongef barre, ic will be done, You
may feeitinalltheformer : 1, Micah liked an Idol well; Adicah had a good purfes he told out
- ¢wo hundred ficles, and fo up went the Idol, 2. ‘The men of Dax liked well of fpoyling': they wers
well appointed ; their fvords were fharp 3 Fecerunt, they did ic. 3.. They of Gibeah : to their
lult, ‘Rape {eemed a {mall matcer : they were a multitude, no refifting chem ; and fo they commit-
ted chat abominable villany. Pee ve oy BE .
By this time we fee, whata ‘maffe of mnfchief there isin thefe few words. For fure, if thefe,
all feemed right ; and fo feeming were done ; Then are we come to guidlibet a quoliber, any man
do any thing; whichis the. next’door to’ cosfu/fon, nay.confufion it {elf For {o, no mans foul
fhall be: fafe, if idolatry vo up. Alas, what talk we of the foul! they have leaft fenfe of it, talk
to them of thatthey have feeling. No mans goods, ot wife;or lifeinfafety, if this may go on
thus. If robbery, rape and marther be right, what is wrong ? : Pe es
‘See then now, whata woful face of a Common-wealth is here > Idods and murther feen,
and allowed for ‘good: done’ and prastifed’ for good. Again, CMéicah a private man; Gibeahy
a City: Dax, a whole Tribe : T ribes, Citiesy Families, all out of courfe. Out of courfe, in Re=~
ligion ; andnot in religion alone, but in moral matters : and{o, that che like never hzatd of , noy
not among the heathen. © “ ‘
. Lalt, this was now not in acorner, but all over the Land. A4icah was at Mount Ephraim, int
the mid@t Gibeah, was at one end,and Davat the other, So in the midft and both ends, all were’
wrapped in the fame. confufion, §° 9 00 :
But what, hall this be ‘fufferedand no remedy fought >. Ged forbid. ,
Firft, the Eye, errour inthe eye, is harm-enough; and order muft be taken even for that. For,’
‘men do not errein judgement but with hazard of their foules , very requilite therefore, that men
be travelled with, thatthey may fee their own blindnefle. Then, that the counfel be followed
t,thac isfoindeed. This, if ic may be, is belt. | | .
But, if they be ftrongly conceited of their own fight, and marvel at CHR 1st (as they,
John g..40. What, are we blind trow?) atid will ior endure any tocome nearcheir eyes : if We
‘cannot cure their eyes, what fhall we not hold theirbands neither ? Yes, in any wife. So long,
as they but fee, chough they fee amiffe, they hurt none but themfelves’s itis but {v0 damno, to their:
own hurt (andthat ts enough, nay too much’; ‘it may be as much as their foules be worth. ) But
thar is all, if it ftay there; and go no further than the eye. But, when they fee amiffe and that
groflely; What, fhall their band be fuffered to follow theit eye ? their. bad to be as defperates
in mif-doing, as theit eye datk, tm mistaking , tothe detriment of others, and the feandall of all?
~That may not be. <~ ~ Be eT ee a
|" “We cannot pull mens eyes out of their heads » nor their opinions neither ; but fhall we nor
pinion their bans, or bind them toche peace > Yes, wharfoever become of relluyz in ccnlis, order
mu(t be caken wich. fecit, or elfe farwell all.Foul Rule we are like to have ; even (for all the world)
fuch as was here in J/rael,
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We feerhen the maladie ; more than time we foiight out a remedy for ir, , That fhall we beft
do,’ if we know the caufe, “The caufe is here fet down ; and this isit, Non erat Rev, Is, this the
caufe?. We would (perhaps) imagine many caufes befides, but G 0 D’paffeth by themall, and |
Inyeth it upon none but this, Won erat Rex. And feeing he hath affigned that only forthe caufe,
we will not be wiler than He, but reft our felves init, The racher:for that, Ex ere inimict we have
asmuch, For thefe mifcreants, whom He fers on work, to bring Realmes to confufion, and to
root out Religion, .that every one may do that, is good 1 their own eyes,? LO this'poinr they all drive,
Ut ne fit Rex. “Avay with the King, tharis their only way. Heaven and hell both are agreed, that is
the casfe.. ° * , ay : . .
To ke fhore work then : If the caufe be [ There & wo King. } Letthere be one, that is the,
remdy : A good King will help all. If it be of abfolute neceflity , thac neither CALicah, for ail
his wealch ; “nor Daz, forall their forces ; nor Gibeah, for all their multitude , do what they lift :
‘And if the mifs of the Kings were the caufe, chat all this were amiffe ;_ no. betrer way to ceafe
it, no better way tokeep Religion from Idolatry , mens /ives and goods in fafety , their veffels
in honoar, thanby Kings. _No more effettsal barre to fecit gifque quod refbumin oculis, than
“Rex in Ifrael.* — : : . a
This will better appear, if we take ic in funder 5 There was no King. He doth not charge them
with a flac Azarchie ; that there was no Eftates , no kind of Government among them: but this
only, there was no King, Whatthen? there were Priefts: would not they ferve ?. It feemed,
‘they wouldnot, Phineas.was to lookto their eyes : But, fomewhere there be fome fuch ,as
\ "Hofee {peakes of , Populus hic qu :
we ste their Priefts Pad Preachers to fchool 3 and not learn of them, but-learn them Divi=
nity. The’ Fudges areto look to their hands: But, there are {too fomewhere fuch ,.as he fpeak-
eth of ( Chap. VII. Ver. VII. ) “Devorabunt judsees 5 fuch, as ‘(if ittake them in the head ) will
hot (tick to fer p, and fallow down the Fudges 5 {pecially, snter arma, “How ‘then, fhall we have
Military Goversment ? Nay, that is coo violent : and if it‘li¢ long,’ the remedy- provesas ‘ill, is
i the
= ¢ Apec-3. ) that eye-falve be bought of him and applied tothe eyes, thac that might feem to them Revel. 3.
The caufe, .
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