REV. PAUL KNELL (1615‒64), ISRAEL AND ENGLAND PARALLELED Israel | And | England | ♦Paralleled, | In a Sermon preached before | the honourable society of _Grayes_-|Inne, upon Sunday in the | afternoon, _Aprill 16. 1648_. | By Paul Knell, _Master in Arts of Clare-Hall_ | in Cambridge. | Sometimes Chaplaine to a Regiment of Curiasiers | in his Majesties Army. London, | Printed in the Yeare 1648.¹ (_4to._ 2 _ll._ + 20 _pp._) [B. M.] ♦ “Paralelled” replaced with “Paralleled” ¹ It was re-issued thirty-three years later:―― ... London, Printed in the year 1648. And now Reprinted for a Caution to all those that are given to Change. Sold by _Randal Tayler_ and _Robert Stephens_, by Stationers-Hall, near _Ludgate_. 1681. _4to._ 2 _ll._ + 16 _pp._ [I. S.] _pp._ 16‒17. “... first, we may compare with _Israel_ for a fruitfull scituation, being neither under the torrid nor the frozen Zone, neither burned away with parching heat, nor benummed away with pinching cold, but seated in a temperate climate & fertile soile; our folds are full of sheep, our vallies stand so thick with corne that we may laugh & sing. God hath also fenced us about, like the _Israelites_ in the red sea, with a wall of water, the waters are as a wall unto us, on our right hand, & on our left,. .. _And now_, England, _what doth thy Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his waies, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soule_? But here God may as justly complaine of us as he did of _Israel_,...” III. MATTHEW ARNOLD ON RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT MATTHEW ARNOLD, in his _Literature and Dogma_, insists that righteousness is in a special manner the object of Bible religion. The word “righteousness” is a master word in the Old Testament. What would England have been were it not for the importance which _Jeshurun_, the upright, attached to the thought and practice of righteousness? She might have been eminent in law, in arts and sciences borrowed from the Romans and the Greeks, but she would have been addicted to idolatry and the gratification of the senses, and would have borne the doom of destruction within herself. He draws a vivid imaginary picture of the authorities of one of the English great Universities, the vice-Chancellor, beadles, masters, scholars, and all, nay, their very professor of moral philosophy, going in procession to worship at the shrine of Aphrodite.