have the same word in the other Scriptures; in the 1. of the Corinthians, 16.13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, Stetite, it is only two words in the Greek, as it is in the English, stand fast; so that this stand, it is not only a standing, but a standing fast, stand still in your ranks, fast, be not in a hurry up and down, and be not in a confusion: If upon danger souldiers should presently be in a confusion in the Army, what would become of them? and so the truth is, in a City, in any place, where there is any danger, if people grow to a confusion, they are gone, they are lost, you must stand still in your ranks, stand still; There are several stand-stils, some very vile and naught, and others very good: there is first,
1 A stand-still out of amazement, When a man through fear is at a stand, and dears not stir any further; now this cannot be meant in the text; for Moses saith, Fear not, but stand still, therefore it is not a standing still out of fear, because I am asto∣nished.
2 There is a stand-still, out of ignorance; Because I do not know which way to take; and this is not in the text neither: Thus many in our time, they stand still, they plead ignorance; they stand still, they will be of no side, and they plead ignorance, they know not what to do; they say, they know not what to do, one saith one thing, and another saith another thing, the King commands one thing, and the Parliament another, they know not what to do; to go against the King, is it not Re∣bellion? and so they stand still because they plead ignorance, & their consciences are not informed. It hath bin the work of divers Ministers, that have hazarded themselves in this, to o∣pen to you the Counsel of God, and to set your consciences at liberty; divers things I have spoken in this place, but cer∣tainly men do blinde their own eyes, and are willing to stand still, to plead ignorance, after so much light revealed: It is strange that any rational man should speak of rebellion now, when as we know, that the King himselfe sent aid to the Ro∣chellers, and that (we know) in the case of their liberties, and Religion; they took up armes to defend themselves against their own King, & he sent help to them, surely he did not him∣self take them to be rebels, & King James in his answer to Byron