Numb.45
The Moderate:
Impartially communicating Martial
Affaires to the KINGDOM of
ENGLAND
From Tuesday May 15. to Tuesday May 22. 1649.
THat which is of God, will stand; and that which is of
man, must fall. Mercy, Love, Patience, &c. Are the spiritual
Weapons of Christ, to overcome sinners, and
should be mans temporal, to overcome one another;
but Covetousness, Malice, and Revenge taking place in
mans corrupted spirit, occasions War. Yet when Christ
comes in the power of the spirit, to convince all of sin,
these things shall case. Policy is for the most part ranked
in the Van, supported with Authority and Riches, and
thus marshalled into a body, may be of some continuance,
especially when the ends of that Engagement are prosecuted for a general good
of the whole Nation; but failing herein, this Body comes to be much distempered,
and so long diseased, That Nature makes her sad complaint of a total dissolution.
This, as it is just with God in breach of Covenant, so is it his goodness to
man, to use instruments no longer, then they stand firm to their first Engagements;
for when the cause, and end of all things cease, the effects thereof must consequently fall. But O that Egypt might not be waste, and Edem might not be a
desolate
Wilderness, for the injuries of the children of Judah. because they have shed innocent
blood in the Land, J[unr]319. but because they have gathered themselves together
against the soul of the righteous, and condemned the innocent blood ;there
fore will the lord recompense them their wickedness and destroy them in their
own malice; yea, the Lord our God (says the Ps[unr])shall destroy them, psal.
94.21, 23.