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<P>ENGLAND'S BACKWARDNESSE Or a lingring PARTY In bringing back a lawful KING, DELIVERED In a SERMON at <HI>Waltham Abbey</HI> Church in the County of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> at a &s;olemne fa&s;t.</P>
<P>By THOMAS REEVE D. D. Preacher of Gods Word in that Pari&s;h.</P>
<Q><HI>Aegr&egrave; facimus, facimus tamen.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>William Grantham,</HI> at the black Bear in <HI>S. Paul's</HI> Church yard, near the little North Door, 1661.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of <HI>Southampton,</HI> Lord high Trea&s;urer of <HI>England,</HI> and one of his MAIESTIES mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council, length of dayes, and increa&s;e of Honour.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable and admired Peer,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WHat is man, if but meer man? where grace doth not &s;anctifie, what is natural wi&s;|dome, but a &s;ubtil Cacodaemon? we may &s;ee it in this Synop&s;is of <HI>Davids</HI> troubles; what variety was there of &s;trange prodi|gious Wits? the Prototype was in <HI>Davids</HI> time, the Antitype hath been in our time. There was an <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> that took up arms again&s;t his natural Father; and what have we had, but <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> among&s;t us for the&s;e many years? Subjects (which are political Sons) ap|pearing in an ho&s;tile manner again&s;t their natural Sove|raign, the true Father of the Countrey? we have had the chariots &amp; hor&s;men prepared, &amp; men (per&s;ons of &s;ervile &s;pirits, and complying di&s;po&s;itions) to run before the De|&s;igner; yea, the trumpets of &s;edition have been blown, and the popular perfidious cry hath been heard, <HI>Ab&s;alom reigneth in Hebron;</HI> and our Land hath been filled with as many Spies, Intelligencers, Face-triers, Speech-latch|ers (the vermine of corrupt Commonwealths) as ever <HI>I&s;|rael</HI> abounded with in <HI>Ab&s;aloms</HI> dayes. And as <HI>Ab&s;aloms</HI> rebellion began with glorious pretexts of religion, and
<PB REF="3">reformation, &s;o have not we been &s;prinkled with the <HI>Rebels holy Water?</HI> what was there in this Nation for a great while, but paying of vows in <HI>Hebron,</HI> Lectures, Fa&s;ts, Self-denying Ordinances; and telling the people, that the Form of Government in this Nation was di|&s;tempered; but if any had a cau&s;e, or &s;uit, and they would repair unto them, they would do them ju&s;tice. Thus all the engines of execrable policy were &s;et on work. And as in tho&s;e dayes there was a <HI>Zibah</HI> that betrayed his dear Ma&s;ter <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">phibo&s;heth,</HI> &s;o, have not we had many a <HI>Zibah?</HI> Yes, what have we had but infinite treacherous &s;ervants and &s;upplanting neighbours; which, to gain the e&s;tates of renowned Noblemen, and worthy Patriots, have u&s;ed all manner of undermining practi&s;es, and ble|mi&s;hing informations? <HI>Si &s;at &s;it accu&s;a&s;se, quis erit inno|cens?</HI> If a bare accu&s;ation be enough to make a man guil|ty, who &s;hall be innocent? yet a meer a&s;per&s;ion was e|nough for a Seque&s;tration; if this &s;tratagem hath co&s;t me three thou&s;and pounds, how many Millions have there been drained, by the&s;e helli&s;h contrivances, from many innocent and eminent men in this Land? And as there was a <HI>Shimei</HI> that cur&s;ed <HI>David,</HI> and had no better terms then bloody man, and Son of <HI>Belial,</HI> and telling him that the ju&s;tice of heaven did pur&s;ue him, and that he was taken in his mi&s;chief; &s;o have not we had as cur|&s;ing a generation? Yes, what was the &s;pittle of many mens lips, but &s;irnames, and nicknames, Malignants, De|linquents, limbs of Antichri&s;t, helli&s;h Fire brands; <HI>Cypri|anus</HI> was called <HI>Caprianus,</HI> and <HI>Athana&s;ius, Sathana&s;ius?</HI> no &s;candalous names they thought were ignominious e|nough to avile us, revile us, and reproach us to the peo|ple, and this by men that profe&s;&s;ed the &s;pirit of meekne&s;s, and knew that it was not lawfull to &s;ay unto a brother,
<PB REF="3"><HI>Racah;</HI> and did they not pronounce upon us, and &s;ay that we were taken in our mi&s;chief, judged from heaven, and that the hand of the Lord was lift up again&s;t us? Oh what adoe was there with the righteous cau&s;e! and of venge|ance printed upon our brows by the &s;tigmatizing finger of God Almighty. The&s;e were a people of high revela|tions, and &s;eemed to be Secretaries of State to the hid|den Councils, and Decrees of the great God. That party carried it in that height, as if it had been Ma&s;ter of the Ordinance to the Lord of ho&s;ts, or been the very Coun|cil of War in heaven, by authority to &s;entence poor Ma|lignants (as they called us) to be &s;hot to death: And as <HI>Ahithophel</HI> was the bu&s;ie active man in that rebellion, &s;o have not we had an abundance of Mercurial brains, and dangerous Craftma&s;ters in this In&s;urrection, &s;uch as have advi&s;ed <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> to lye with his Fathers Concubines in the &s;ight of all <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> I mean, to coun&s;el our State. Ma&s;ters to do the mo&s;t ne&s;arious, dete&s;table, abominable things, w^c^h ever the Sun beheld? yea, to plunder; rifle, impri&s;on, gibbet, to make their own countrymen Vagabonds at home, to &s;ell them for Slaves beyond &s;ea, to break in pieces the great Seal; nay, the Crowns, and Scepter, to ra&s;e Palaces, to demoli&s;h Ca&s;tles, to &s;et up Eunuch Parliaments, Her|maphroditical Committees, Cyclopical High Courts of Iu&s;tice, to &s;eiz upon Church-land, to expel the mo&s;t reve|rend Churchmen out of their ju&s;t Cures; Oh how have we had Anabapti&s;tical and Phanatick principles of State delivered, as the fundamental Laws of the Kingdome? the&s;e <HI>Ionadabs,</HI> the&s;e wily men, the&s;e <HI>Ahithophels,</HI> were accounted as the Oracles of God in tho&s;e dayes? And did this rebellion go on onely with a State-vapour? or a daring bravado? no, as in <HI>Ab&s;aloms</HI> dayes, the battle was &s;cattered over the face of the whole Countrey, and there fell twenty thou&s;and men, and the wood of <HI>Ephraim</HI> de|voured
<PB REF="4">more then the &s;word; &s;o our trea&s;on, was it not a mo&s;t &s;atal and de&s;tructive attempt to the Na|tion? how many pitched battels were there fought? what horrid &s;laughters were there committed, as if here, and el&s;ewhere, there had been nothing but &s;laughterhou&s;es to be &s;een? What corner hath not been &s;prinkled with bloud? how many mournful Families hath this war cau|&s;ed? we might ju&s;tly be called <HI>Acheldamah.</HI> The lo&s;&s;es of precious trea&s;ure is grievous, but the lo&s;&s;e of mens precious lives is an a&s;toni&s;hing, di&s;maying Spectacle. Now (my honourable good Lord) what &s;hall the re&s;ult of this hideous pa&s;&s;age be, but to conclude with <HI>Samuel,</HI> that <HI>Rebellion is as the &s;in of witchcraft,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.23. For if men had not been bewitched, it could never have en|tred into the hearts of men, or Chri&s;tians, or e&s;pecially &s;uch Chri&s;tians as &s;eem to defie Ie&s;uites for trea&s;on, and rebellion, to perpetrate &s;uch barbarous things upon their natural Country, and Countrymen. Some &s;ay there are no Witches, and &s;ome &s;ay there are no Rebels; tho&s;e that are called Witches, there are that &s;ay, they are but <HI>Vene|&s;itae,</HI> Poy&s;oners, or <HI>Ventriloquae,</HI> Speakers through the belly; &s;o tho&s;e which &s;ome call Rebels, are but &s;uch as have a rare art in a new way to take away the enemies of State, &amp; can &s;peak through the belly in a my&s;terious way, to cry up the liberties of the people; or if they be Witches they are to be called but <HI>Sagae,</HI> the prime Wits of the time, or White-witches, that do more good then hurt. But I doubt they will be found <HI>Maleficae,</HI> black Witches, and their very practi&s;es will declare it; 1. as Witches are di&s;contented people, &s;o the&s;e are Malecontents; 2. as Witches for the mo&s;t part look ill, &s;o the&s;e have a bad phy&s;nomy, they look with glating eyes, and ominous countenances; 3. as the Devils &s;ucks a pap in Witches, &s;o tho&s;e have their con&s;ciences &s;ucked; 4. as Witches deny
<PB REF="4">their Chri&s;tendome, &s;o the&s;e have denied all the ancient principles of faith and morality. 5. as Witches enter into league with the Devil, &s;o the&s;e have their covenants, and engagements; 6. as Witches are fair, and plau&s;ible in &s;peech, &s;o the&s;e have their inchanting language; 7. as Witches are pernicious, they de&s;troy cattel, and li|ving &s;ouls; &s;o the&s;e con&s;ume the e&s;tates, and lives of men. 8. as Witches &s;eldome repent, for it is a rare thing to hear of a Witch to be a true penitent, &s;o the&s;e &s;eldome have remor&s;e for their mo&s;t wicked, and wretched a|ctions, it is a rare thing to hear of a Rebel to turn true convert, &s;ome of the Paradoxes of their old Witch|craft will a long time &s;ticke in their con&s;ciences; what a do had <HI>David</HI> with his Witches? they had ca&s;t him out, and they would keep him out, it was a tedious thing unto them to bring back their King; &s;o what a do had we with our cunning people, they had expelled a King, and how backward were they to rein&s;tate him in his known, and antient rights? we had much &s;trife with them to get them leave their old &s;orceries. Some would not have had the King brought in at all, and &s;ome would have had him brought in upon conditions: when they did it, they did it after an irke&s;ome expectation, yea the Text may ju&s;tly be applied unto them, <HI>Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t to bring back the King?</HI></P>
<P><HI>But (peerele&s;se Peere)</HI> in the mid&s;t of this Tragical pa&s;|&s;age, this was the comfort, the honour, the happine&s;&s;e, that when &s;o great a part of the Nation was under (as they u&s;e to &s;ay) ill hands, yet &s;ome were free from the Witchcraft; for as in <HI>Davids</HI> time &s;ome &s;tood firme to him in them mid&s;t of the rebellion; as <HI>Zadok,</HI> and <HI>Abia|thar</HI> the Prie&s;ts, <HI>Ittai</HI> the <HI>Gittite,</HI> that great States-man; <HI>Hu&s;hai</HI> the <HI>Archite,</HI> that renouned Countrey worthy, <HI>Barzillai</HI> the <HI>Gileadite, Shobi</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Noha&s;h</HI> of <HI>Rab|bah,</HI>
<PB REF="5">and <HI>Machir</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Ammiel</HI> of <HI>Lodebar,</HI> &amp;c. So there were among&s;t us &s;ome &s;table, and invariable to the King, and the Kings cau&s;e, who were true Mour|ners all the time of his ab&s;ence, and never quiet till they &s;aw him brought back; among&s;t whom I may reckon your Lord&s;hip One, and a con&s;picuous One, you need not my pen to Characterize your worth, wi&s;dome, in|tegrity, fidelity, con&s;tant affection, and un&s;haken loyalty to your lawful, precious, and pious Prince, the whole Land is filled with the Bruit, and fame of your high en|dowments, and your un&s;potted obedience to your dread Soveraigne; and truely (honoured Lord) this is the motive of this dedication; Had the Duke of <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> been living, I &s;hould have made bold to have made you two the joint Patrons of this worthle&s;&s;e piece; but He (to whom I was &s;o infinite obliged, though I never &s;aw his face) being tran&s;lated to the glorious pre&s;ence of God Almighty, Let me humbly intreat your Honour (to whom I am as much unknown, as I was unto him) to be the &s;ole Shelter to this way-faring Pilgrime, which mu&s;t travayle through the whole Nation, and perhaps into &s;ome neighbouring Countries. I love to choo&s;e Patrons by fame, a&s;well as familiarity, and report as acquaintance. Accept of your Suppliant Servant; who doth devote him&s;elf to the honouring of your high per|fections, and doth pro&s;trate his incon&s;iderable &s;elf, and the&s;e his unpoli&s;hed labours at your Lord&s;hips feet. Thus be&s;eeching God long to pre&s;erve among&s;t us, &s;uch an invaluable Patriot, and prizele&s;&s;e Peere with all reverence to your Graces, and ardent de&s;ires for the increa&s;e of your honour, &s;ubmi&s;&s;ively I take leave and re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE> <SIGNED><HI>The vowed &s;ervant to your Honours per&s;on, and the high admirer of your rich and pretious qualifications</HI> THOMAS REEVE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<BIBL><HI>2 SAM. 19.12.</HI></BIBL>
<Q><P>Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t to bring back the King?</P></Q>
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<P>_HEre is a King to be fetched home, and a people to be fetched out; the King may come home, but, there are come that will not in|vite him home; no, when others &s;hew their forwardne&s;&s;e, they &s;hew their backwardne&s;&s;e; aver&s;e, per|ver&s;e they are. Some are eager, and pa&s;&s;ionate to have him return.</P>
<Q>&mdash; <HI>acrius omnes</HI></Q>
<P><HI>Incumbunt generis lap&s;i &s;arcire ruinas;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Virg. <HI>4.</HI> Georg.</NOTE> their hearts have &s;ent Me&s;&s;engers to him, their de&s;ires have prepa|red Charrets to convey him: if longings, and yearnings, could have brought him home, he had been there long ago; their brea&s;ts are full of nothing but pantings, their lips are full of nothing but earne&s;t cryes for his Return, they wi&s;h him among them.</P>
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<P><HI>Et gemitu,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ovid. <HI>1.</HI> Met.</NOTE> <HI>&amp; lachrymis; &amp; lucti&s;ono mugitu,</HI> With groanes and teares, and dolefull plaints: &s;aying, Oh that we could &s;ee the Kings face! oh that the Royal Throne had the Royal Gemme to adorn it! oh that we could behold <HI>David</HI> in as much lu&s;tre and Maje&s;tie as ever! we could leap out of our hou&s;es, and leap out of our Tribes to take a &s;olemn journey about &s;uch an happy oc|ca&s;ion. This Party hath filled the Land with &s;uffrages to &s;et forward the work,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Virg. <HI>9.</HI> Aeneid.</NOTE> &mdash;<HI>oneravitque aethera votis,</HI> and laden the Ayr with Votes: But</P>
<P><HI>Quid prode&s;t coelum votis imple&s;&s;e Neaera?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tibul</HI> l. 3.</NOTE> What matter if one Party be forward, and another be back|ward? &s;ome were not &s;o propen&s;e as others were op|po&s;ite. <HI>Mulciber in Trojam,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Virg.</NOTE> <HI>pro Troja &s;tabat Apol|lo.</HI> The Tribes are at a difference, they cannot agree upon the de&s;ign.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Martial.</NOTE> <HI>Alia voce p&s;cittacus, alia coturnix lo|quitur.</HI> The Birds have &s;everal notes, and tunes. What love, and loyaltie was there in the ten Tribes? How did they con&s;ent together, and even contend one with another, that the work might be concluded upon: nay, ha&s;tned to regain the &s;ight of the King in his proper place, and wonted Glory? <HI>All the people were at &s;trife throughout all the Tribes of</HI> I&s;rael: <HI>&s;aying, The King &s;aved us out of the hands of our enemies, and delivered us out of the hand of the</HI> Phili&s;tins, <HI>and now he is fled out of the land for</HI> Ab&s;alon. <HI>And</HI> Ab&s;alon <HI>whom we a|nointed over us is dead in battail, now therefore why &s;peak ye not a word of bringing back the King;</HI> Ver&s;e 9.10. Oh generous expre&s;&s;ions! Oh honorable mo|tions! but are all as loyal in their affections, and roy|al in their intentions?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zenod.</NOTE> no, <HI>Unicum arbu&s;tum non alit duos Aerithacos.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Cui quae&s;o, ut &s;uadeas ne ve&s;|centium denti|bus edentulus invideat, &amp; o|culos caprearum talpa non con|temnat <HI>Jeron.</HI></NOTE> It is a rare thing to &s;ee a whole Land con&s;pire together in the mo&s;t worthy Re&s;oluti|ons: <HI>They which want teeth and &s;ight, hate them which can chew their meat, and di&s;ingui&s;h of colours. The Tribes of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>are very fervent for a King, but there is a Tribe, a &s;ullen Tribe, which is not half &s;o warm and glowing.</HI> No, they had been &s;o deep in Rebellion, in
<PB N="3" REF="6">entertaining <HI>Ab&s;alon</HI> and advancing his cau&s;e, ap|plauding and anointing him, that they were a|&s;hamed and afraid ever to look <HI>David</HI> in the face. Trea&s;on is a black crime, it will ever have &s;ome of her &s;wartine&s;&s;e &s;eem upon it, &s;ome of her foot will be cleaving to her &s;ides, it beginnes in pa&s;&s;ion, and is accompanied with con&s;ternation, it is fir&s;t Male-Actor, and doth continue a Malecontent; if it hath follow|ed <HI>Ab&s;alon</HI> when he was living, when he is dead, all affection to his cau&s;e &s;hall not dye with him; no, after men have been full of horrid plots and practi&s;es, they are ever after full of horrid conceptions, and &s;u&s;picions. Oh, if the right King &s;hould come to his Throne, what &s;hall become of our E&s;tates, what &s;hall become of our heads? they which have de&s;erved ill are trou|bled with a Megrim in their braines, they are never quit of their feares and jealou&s;ies; they think that all are as fierce, as they have been, and as cruel and mer|cile&s;&s;e, as they have been perfidious and treacherous. See it in this &s;taggering and lingring Tribe of <HI>Judah,</HI> they could readily joyn with the U&s;urper, but when they &s;hould do right to their lawfull King &mdash;<HI>clau&s;is cunctan|tur in aedibus omnes,</HI> they &s;it mu&s;ing in their hou&s;es with their doores &s;hut; they cannot &s;hew their heads, they cannot &s;tir their feet. Let who will &s;peak, <HI>Ju|dah</HI> is &s;ilent; let who will gather hands, <HI>Judah</HI> will not &s;ub&s;cribe; let who will go, <HI>Judah</HI> will &s;tay at home; the Tribes of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> make mentions, but <HI>Ju|dah</HI> is deaf; the Tribes of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> expre&s;s their de&s;ires, but <HI>Judah</HI> is dumb; the Tribes of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> prepare for the journey, but <HI>Judah</HI> is lame. Alas poor di&s;tru&s;t|full, delaying <HI>Judah, Quae tantae tenuere morae?</HI> What made thee thus to protract the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e? Sure I am thou art very tardy, and &s;low-paced: thou art as the be&s;t of the Tribes, and yet the la&s;t of the Tribes; la&s;t in the League, and Leaguer; neither thy Pre&s;ents, nor thy preparations, thy Me&s;&s;engers,
<PB N="4" REF="7">nor thy Waggoners are ready; the general cry can|not awaken thee, the general offer cannot incline thee. Ten to one is nothing to thee, thou &s;tande&s;t by thy &s;elf, when all others &s;tand again&s;t thee, &s;tand before thee; thou maye&s;t come in in time, but it is at thy lei&s;ure, with a great deal of pau&s;ing and he&s;i|tating, thou art the hindmo&s;t, and thou art the la&s;t. Thou do&s;t not appear of thy &s;elf; no, thou mu&s;t be &s;ought, and wrought upon; thou move&s;t not a foot, till thou bee&s;t &s;ent unto; thou &s;ende&s;t not a Me&s;&s;age to the King, but the King is enforced to &s;end a Me&s;&s;age to thee. Stiffe <HI>Judah,</HI> that thy King mu&s;t bow to thee! Is this haughty <HI>Judah!</HI> that thy King mu&s;t Court thee! Is this Subject like? after thy high Trea&s;on, is not this a kind of petty Trea&s;on? to abu&s;e Maje&s;tie, and to make thy Sove|raign a Petitioner, a Sollicitour; this may be thy &s;tomach, but it is none of thy dutie; it may be thy arrogancie, but it is none of thy Allegiance; thou maye&s;t face it out to the world, but thou wilt never an&s;wer it to God Almightie; it is pride, it is di&s;|loyaltie. Yet thus Princes are con&s;trained divers times to be &s;upplicants, and to bend to &s;uch as ought to bend their knees to them: Kings may connive at this, but will God pardon it? What, to have Leigmen, lofty Lordly men? Is there a more &s;hamefull, &s;infull thing then to &s;ee imperious Inferiours? Lu&s;ty Subjects? no, were they Peeres, or Dukes, they might blu&s;h to &s;ee it in their garbe, and tremble to put it into their account. If <HI>Davids</HI> heart &s;mote him, that he cut off a lap of <HI>Sauls</HI> garment, then, their hearts may grieve them that trample the Robe of Maje&s;ty under their feet. It was a good &s;peech (full of judgement, full of honour) of him, that &s;aid, A King ought to come into his King|dom upon his feet, and not upon his knees; for, may eve|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">y man boldly challenge his right, and mu&s;t a King beg for his right? Matchiavil may have &s;uch a principle,
<PB N="5" REF="7">but I find no &s;uch fundamental rule in my Bible; doubt|le&s;s it hath more in it of the a&s;piring Spirit, then the in|&s;pired &s;pirit. Yet my good King here in my Text, (hap|pen how it will at Doomes-day) is nece&s;&s;itated to how, and &s;toop, to &s;end and &s;eek, to u&s;e informations, and in&s;tigati|ons to get into his Throne; <HI>De facto</HI> it was &s;o, though <HI>De jure</HI> it ought not to be &s;o. Yet for the pre&s;ent <HI>David</HI> is enforced to employ Me&s;&s;engers, and tho&s;e none of the meane&s;t, even the reverend Prie&s;ts, yea, the mo&s;t reverend High Prie&s;ts, <HI>Zadoc,</HI> and <HI>Abiathar</HI> to con&s;ult, and conte&s;t with them, why they &s;hould be &s;o refractory, and &s;tiff-necked with their King; and indeed at their conference, they might do &s;omething; but out of their own con&s;ci|ences, before they did ju&s;t nothing. Well what Argu|ments do they u&s;e? Such as were pregnant and convincing; Fir&s;t they pre&s;s them upon the point of honour, whether it &s;tood with their reputation to neglect &s;uch a memorable Duty; would they &s;tand out, when all others yielded? No, They would be di&s;honoured by the Generality: For that the King &s;hould come home, it was a common bruit, a National vote, <HI>The &s;peech of all</HI> I&s;rael <HI>was come to the King, even to his hou&s;e,</HI> v. 11. But for fear that this &s;hould not effectually per&s;wade, they fetch a &s;troke with the great hammer; they leave the argument of fame, and come to the argument of &s;hame, telling them, That they would be accounted more then unrea&s;onable, and unju&s;t, even inhumane and unnatural, if they did it not: For they told them, that they were not only of his Countrey, but his kindred, they were his brethren, his bone and his fle&s;h; he was born among&s;t them, and drew his linage from them, therefore if &s;trangers will do &s;o much, then &s;hall men of the &s;ame blood not joyn with them? Yes, For con&s;anguinity &s;ake they &s;hall be the fir&s;t, and not the la&s;t. Wherefore then hath <HI>David</HI> the lea&s;t kind|ne&s;s from you? wherefore are you in the rear to do a good office to your native King? wherefore are ye the la&s;t in bringing back the King? <HI>Ye are my brethren, my bone and my fle&s;h, wherefore then are ye the la&s;t to bring back the King.</HI></P>
<PB N="6" REF="8">
<P>In the Text con&s;ider with me the&s;e particulars.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. An Expo&s;tulation, <HI>Wherefore then,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The per&s;ons rea&s;oned with, <HI>Ye,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The un&s;ea&s;onablene&s;s of appearance, <HI>the la&s;t,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The action of moment di&s;cu&s;&s;ed, <HI>to bring back,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. The per&s;on of quality to be rein&s;tated, <HI>the King.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Fir&s;t for the Expo&s;tulation, <HI>Wherefore then?</HI> From hence ob&s;erve, <HI>That man is not Lord Paramount over his actions, but he is to be brought to an account;</HI> wherefore is it &s;aid, <HI>That every man &s;hall ki&s;s the lips of him that giveth a right an&s;wer,</HI> Prov. 24.26. if man were not to an&s;wer for him&s;elfe? This is meant not only in re&s;pect of coun|&s;ell, but likewi&s;e of convention. God &s;aith in point of Religion, <HI>Declare that thou maye&s;t be ju&s;tified,</HI> I &s;ay 43.26. And &s;o the word doth &s;ay in point of manners, Produce thy Rea&s;ons that thou maye&s;t be vindicated, <HI>The wi&s;edome of the prudent is to understand his way,</HI> Prov. 14.8. And how to under&s;tand his way, if men were not bound to maintain the Judiciou&s;n&s;&s;e of his actions. The Apo&s;tle doth &s;peak of unrea&s;onable men, 2 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 3.2. and &s;uch are all tho&s;e, which will not act by rea&s;on, or render a rea&s;on of their actions. <HI>Job</HI> &s;aid, that he would not refu&s;e to argue the equity of his doings with his &s;ervants, when they did contend with him, <HI>Job</HI> 31.12. When then we deny to be re&s;pon|&s;ible to mankinde in general to atte&s;t what we have done.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Virtus e&s;t recta ratio.</NOTE> <HI>If Vertue be nothing el&s;e but rectified rea&s;on,</HI> then we &s;hould declare whether we have kept within our mea|&s;ures, or be irregular, and exorbitant. Mans refined rea|&s;on
<PB N="7" REF="8">&s;hould be &s;hewn in the defending of his own actions, as <HI>Tully,</HI> when he was brought to the te&s;t for his de|meanour, &s;aid, it was but rea&s;onable that was demand|ed, and they &s;hould find by his an&s;wer, that he had conver&s;ed with all the Mu&s;es. <HI>Ratio e&s;t numerus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Cum omn bus Mu&s;is me ratio|nem habere cogi|to C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ad Attic.</NOTE> Rea|&s;on is a number, &s;ay the Philo&s;ophers; then every rea&s;onable man &s;hould bring in the bill of his whole life, and not be unwilling to &s;hew what an Arithme|tical Cover&s;ation he hath had; for this is <HI>Rationem red|dere,</HI> to exhibit an account. To defend our actions, what is it but to purge, and <HI>purgare e&s;t purum agere,</HI> To &s;hew our &s;elves to be pure from the &s;teines,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Colum. l. l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">b <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> which &s;ome would fix upon us. Wherefore hath man a tongue in his head, but to be his own Advocate? it is as nece&s;&s;ary to fence thy deeds, as to fence thy head. So many eyes do not look upon us in vain, no,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Magna quaedam re&s;pondere mun|da. Man l. in&s;e|perabilis comes ju&s;tutiae. Aristot.</NOTE> <HI>We ought to give &s;ome &s;a|tisfaction to the great world,</HI> that high Judiciary: this &s;ame clearing of thy tran&s;actions, <HI>is the in&s;eparable companion of Ju&s;tice.</HI> If thou bee&s;t inculpable, thy innocency will an&s;wer for thee; if thou ha&s;t been culpable, and ha&s;t renounced thy &s;ins, thy reformation will an&s;wer for thee; if thou ha&s;t been culpable, and do&s;t remain culpable, the Judgement of the world may be a preparation to thee for repentance to prevent the la&s;t Judgement; how&s;oever an&s;wer thou mu&s;t, for thy coins are not more nece&s;&s;ary to be tried, than thy works; thy evidence for thy land, is not more requi&s;ite, then the evidence for thy life; that if it be po&s;&s;ible thy Apology may be ready, <HI>And thou maye&s;t have the an&s;wer of a good con&s;cience.</HI> Every man may be put to this trial, and have an Interrogatory put to him as here, <HI>Wherefore then?</HI></P>
<PB N="8" REF="9">
<P><HI>Application.</HI> This &s;erveth to reprove them, <HI>which do de|cline this &s;earch,</HI> que&s;tion our lives? no, who made you our In&s;pectors? no, we have men that are ready to &s;trike out tho&s;e eyes that &s;hall but look into them. Men mu&s;t rather &s;ubmit to their actions, then they will &s;ubmit to a di&s;covery, or di&s;cerning of their pa&s;&s;ages. How many &s;infull, &s;hamefull, ab&s;urd, abominable, &s;en&s;le&s;s, gracele&s;s, deplorable, dete&s;table things have there been done, and yet none of the&s;e will endure a &s;crutiny? They are Cen|&s;urers of all other men, and yet no men mu&s;t be Judges of them: They act by humour, and live without control; No probe &s;hall be put into their wounds, no balance &s;hall take the weight of their facts:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Herod. l. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> no, if <HI>Prexa&s;pes</HI> meddle with the intemperance of <HI>Camby&s;es,</HI> it is enough to have his own &s;on &s;hot to the heart in his pre&s;ence:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cromer. l. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> If Bi&s;hop <HI>Stani&s;taus</HI> come to enquire into King <HI>Bole&s;taus</HI> li&s;t, and Tyranny, it is enough for him to be &s;lain at the high Al|tar, and the Soldiers to hew him to pieces. Examples are infinite of this kind.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pertinocia, e&s;t inflexibil m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> is ob&s;tinatiae, nolle cedere milori|bus. Cicero. Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">anto rigore &s;uum co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">tur defendere erro|rem.</NOTE> Strike at an A&s;ps hole, and thou art &s;ure to be &s;tung: Shave a Lion, and thou wilt feel the force of his teeth. Many men live as if there were not a Superiour to que&s;tion them, or a wi&s;e man to pa&s;s &s;en|tence upon them. Pertinacy doth ari&s;e from an inflexi|ble &s;tubbornne&s;s, that men are not willing to yield to their betters. It is to be admired, faith <HI>Jerome,</HI> That when a man hath done incongruous things, with what rigour he will defend his errour. <HI>A fool is wi&s;er in his own eyes, then &s;even men that can render a rea&s;on,</HI> Prov. 26.16. And we have a drove of the&s;e bruites, that though fools they are, yet there are no wi&s;e men that can &s;hew them their want of rea&s;on, or by rendring a rea&s;on, can bring them to rea&s;on. By this means it doth come to pa&s;s, <HI>That wicked men do rule, and holy men are &s;laves.</HI> But ought not all men to be brought to the bar?<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">mpii regnent <HI>&amp;</HI> pri &s;erv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">, Augu&s;t.</NOTE> yes, why el&s;e do we read of &s;uch frequent di&s;qui&s;itions of mens behaviours in holy Scripture. <HI>What is this that ye have done,</HI> Gen. 3.13. <HI>Why ha&s;t thou not obeyed the voice of the Lord?</HI> 1 Sam. 15.16. <HI>Wherefore tran&s;gre&s;s ye the
<PB N="9" REF="9">Commandments of the Lord that ye cannot pro&s;per,</HI> 2 Chron. 24.20. But there is no <HI>what, why,</HI> nor <HI>wherefore</HI> to be put to the&s;e men. What&s;oever they do, mu&s;t be taken up for authentick, and authoritative beyond di&s;pute, or inquiry. But this is but the &s;uperciliou&s;ne&s;s and &s;elf-conceitedne&s;s of mens natures, for by their favour every man ought to endure an expo&s;tulation, and &s;ubmit to an experiment to be made of them, as here, <HI>Wherefore then?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ye.</HI></P>
<P>Now let us come to the per&s;ons rea&s;oned with, <HI>Ye:</HI> ye that challenge the &s;ame Pedigree,</P>
<P>&mdash; <HI>Quo eadem genuerunt vi&s;cera,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ovid.</NOTE> whom the &s;ame bowels brought forth, which have a propinquity of blood with me, which are my <HI>brethren, my bones, and my fle&s;h.</HI> Is this your reference to me, and &s;hall the Tribes of I&s;rael be kinder unto me than ye? Is not this a ju&s;t cri|mination again&s;t you? Yes, a&s;&s;oil it, if ye can, <HI>Where|fore then are ye?</HI> From hence ob&s;erve, That it is a &s;can|dal for near Relations to fail in offices of love. There is no greater grievance, then when a man is de&s;erted of his own, when Acquaintance, Affinity, and Alliance do &s;tand at a di&s;tance.</P>
<Q>&mdash;<HI>dolus, an virtus quis in ho&s;te requirat?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Virgil <HI>2</HI> Aen.</NOTE></Q>
<P>It is no matter for an open enemy, whether he u&s;e craft or courage, but for a profe&s;&s;ed friend to u&s;e any thing but integrity and &s;incerity, is &s;hamefull and hatefull:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Id. ibid.</NOTE> Oh it is an un&s;ufferable thing, when</P>
<Q>&mdash;<HI>ip&s;e doli fabricator</HI> Epeus,</Q>
<P>a man is deceived by his tru&s;ty confident:</P>
<Q>&mdash;quis fallere po&s;&s;et amantem?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Virg. <HI>4.</HI> Aenead.</NOTE></Q>
<P>Who can be treacherous to that heart, which is knit to a
<PB N="10" REF="10">man in entire affection. This was <HI>Davids</HI> complaint, <HI>My lovers and Neighbours &s;tood looking upon my trou|ble, and my kin&s;men &s;tood afarre of,</HI> P&s;alm 38.11. and this was it that pierced <HI>Job</HI> to the quick; <HI>His bre|thren were farre from him, his acquaintance were ut|terly e&s;tranged, his kinsfolk failed him, and his fami|liars forgot him, they which dwelt in his hou&s;e counted him a &s;tranger: he called his &s;ervants, and they gave him no an&s;wer, though he entreated them with his mouth, yea his breath was &s;trange to his own wife; though he entreated her for the childrens &s;ake of his own body,</HI> Job 19.13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Yea, this was our Saviours groan; that <HI>he had no honour in his own Countrey, nor among&s;t his own kinne,</HI> Mark 6.4. Now what more inhumane, and prodigious, then that the ties of nature &s;hould be loo&s;e twi&s;ts? where there is <GAP DESC="foreign"> there &s;hould be <GAP DESC="foreign"><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Naz.</HI> Illa e&s;t vera fraternitas, quae|nullis ca&s;ibus frangitur. <HI>Se|neca.</HI></NOTE> where a reciprocation in birth, there &s;hould be a reciprocation in re&s;pects. That is true brotherhood, which is not rent a&s;under with any ca&s;ual|ties; &s;trangene&s;&s;e in kindred is not only a repture in humanity, but a &s;chi&s;m in Nature. It is grievous, when <HI>there is a friend that is clo&s;er then a brother,</HI> Prov. 18.24. <HI>when a man cannot go into his brothers hou&s;e in the day of his calamity, becau&s;e better is a friend that is near, then a brother afarre of,</HI> Prov. 27.10. How do the&s;e violate all engagements? and ra&s;e out the very Chara|cters, which are engraven and imprinted in the womb; they dry up the &s;prings of pedigrees, and grind to powder the &s;ouls of their Progenitors. For, did their Ance&s;tours give them the &s;ame linage to live as Aliens? Should communitie of &s;tock, and kindred not beget a communitie of corre&s;pondencie, and benevolencie; Should the&s;e be aver&s;e, di&s;crepant, diametrically oppo|&s;ite? no, here is a ground for a rebuking, increpating, criminating expo&s;tulation, as here, <HI>Wherefore then are ye?</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="11" REF="10">
<HEAD>Application.</HEAD>
<P>This doth &s;erve to exhort all men, <HI>not to quench the incentives of Nature, not to fal&s;ifie Relations:</HI> for, why &s;hould any go about to di&s;&s;olve tho&s;e bands of Adamant? or infringe that ingenerate League? Shall a kin&s;man fail in his tru&s;t? or &s;et his own ne&s;t on fire? Shall one foot tread upon another? or the right hand cut off the left? no, the Apo&s;tle doth cry out again&s;t them: which are <HI>without natural affection,</HI> and the Spou&s;e doth complain again&s;t her own con&s;an|guinitie for being unkind, <HI>The children of my mother were angry again&s;t me.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Aet tu, mi Fili?</NOTE> Shall <HI>Brutus</HI> be &s;tabbing his own fathers bre&s;t? Mu&s;t <HI>Julia</HI> make peace between her two children <HI>Caracalla</HI> and <HI>Gaeta,</HI> by wi&s;hing her &s;elf to be divided into two parts if they continued in di&s;cord? Mu&s;t <HI>Axuchus</HI> by much Oratory work a re|conciliation between <HI>Johannes Comnenus,</HI> and his own &s;i&s;ter <HI>Anna Cae&s;ari&s;sa?</HI> Where, in the mean time, are all the prickles and &s;parkles of Nature? Have they learned then Mother-Tongue to expre&s;s it to others, and can they no better pronounce it among&s;t them|&s;elves? Do they call Kin&s;men, and live as Savages? No, the&s;e above all people, have endearing, and in|gratiating obligations. If they be thus unke&s;t, and un|kent, tetricall and wayward, they mu&s;t have the check in my Text, <HI>Wherefore then are ye?</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The la&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>Now let us come to the un&s;ea&s;onablene&s;&s;e of the appearance, <HI>The LAST.</HI> From hence ob&s;erve that <HI>lingring doth eclip&s;e the honour of worthy Actions.</HI> It is ill in good things to be taken <HI>in mora,</HI> in delay, as the <HI>Civilians</HI> &s;ay: will a man &s;ue for ju&s;tice when the Court is ri&s;en? no, <HI>Vigilantibus non dormientibus &s;uccurrit lex.</HI> The Law doth help the wakefull, and
<PB N="12" REF="11">not the &s;leepy. He that ob&s;erveth the Wind and Rain, &s;hall never &s;ow; So a man mu&s;t take his feed-time for noble Attempts upon the fir&s;t offer, and not &s;tay for fair weather. In good things the fir&s;t op|portunity is to be taken, for <HI>Deterior posterior dies,</HI> the latter day is the wor&s;er. <HI>To every thing there is an appointed time.</HI> How then art thou di&s;appointed, if thou do&s;t neglect the appointed time? Will any &s;et forth on fi&s;hing, when the &s;eas are frozen? or &s;ow at Harve&s;t? no, over-late things are po&s;tdated: <HI>Every thing is beautifull in the &s;ea&s;on.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Bern.</NOTE> <HI>Volat verbum irrevocabile, volat tempus irremediabile,</HI> The word doth flye and cannot be recalled, time doth flye, and cannot be remedied. <HI>Sicut capillus de capite &s;ic mo|mentum non peribit de tempore:</HI> As an hair doth not fall from the Head in vain, &s;o a moment of time &s;hall not peri&s;h. Thou maye&s;t peri&s;h, if thy time doth peri&s;h. <HI>No man doth walk in the dark,</HI> no, it is too late, then to beginne a Journey. <HI>E&s;au</HI> lo&s;t a Ble&s;&s;ing becau&s;e he came not in time, and the Wi&s;e Virgins lo&s;t their entrance, becau&s;e they &s;tayed till the Door was &s;hut. Opportune things are the mo&s;t beneficial things. A man doth lo&s;e much honour in lo&s;ing his ju&s;t &s;ea&s;on. The be&s;t workes are the earli|e&s;t, and the forwarder&s;t things are the firme&s;t; the fir&s;t births are the honourable&s;t, and the fir&s;t ripe fruits are the plea&s;ante&s;t. He that doth things out of time, meeteth rather with &s;corn then contempt, as the <HI>Trojanes</HI> that came to <HI>Tiberius,</HI> to comfort him up for the death of his dear &s;onne <HI>Germanicus,</HI> two yeares after he had been dead, he took it in &s;uch di&s;dain, that he &s;aid, he wi&s;hed the like com|fort to them for the death of their Valiant <HI>Hector,</HI> who had been dead above a thou&s;and yeares: <HI>Rhe|&s;us</HI> which came to help <HI>Priamus</HI> in the tenth year that the <HI>Grecians</HI> had be&s;ieged <HI>Troy,</HI> the Citizens de|rided him, and &s;aid, he &s;hewed him&s;elf, <HI>Qualis Trojae amicus fuit,</HI> what manner of friend he was
<PB N="13" REF="11">to <HI>Troy.</HI> It is a di&s;paragement to prolong, or after|day good things, it is as it were to admini&s;ter Phy|&s;ick at the la&s;t ga&s;p; or to bring a &s;hore when the Building is falling. <HI>As vineger is to the teeth, and &s;moke to the eyes, &s;o is the &s;luggard to them that &s;end him,</HI> Proverbs 10.26. Such an one as doth de|liver his me&s;&s;age, when the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e is done. The &s;low A&s;&s;e was not fit to be &s;acrificed: &s;o the delayer is not fit for any commendable enterprise. He that is long expected at a Banquet is no welcome gue&s;t; he that hath his work to do in the Clo&s;e is no ap|proved paines-taker. The&s;e &s;ame hindermo&s;t men do carry a blemi&s;h with them, as <HI>Judah</HI> here hath a &s;kar, becau&s;e la&s;t. Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Application.</HEAD>
<P>This doth &s;erve <HI>to reprove Retarders,</HI> who do de|ferre <HI>honourable Undertakings:</HI> who either never ap|pear at all, or do come <HI>nimis &s;ero</HI> too too late: a protracting generation, who cannot walk without their Guides, nor &s;tirre a foot till all their Neighbours round about them have trodden out the way for them; they are loth to be too forward, or to be called at the fir&s;t: no, they halt and loyter, and play the Truants: if they do pre&s;ent them&s;elves at la&s;t, it is at a very untimely &s;ea&s;on; they are the la&s;t, as if they had no will to the work, or could be contented it &s;hould ne|ver be done. But are they thus backward in &s;inne, or ba&s;e actions; no, there they are in the forefront, they flye with Eagles wings, they &s;end in their pre|&s;ents, ca&s;t in their Thimbles, and Bodkins, appear in Buffe; call in all their friends to arme, and har|ne&s;&s;e; have their young Voluntiers, and Maiden-Troops, and what not? Oh very quick, active, &s;e|rious, furious, accelerating, precipitating, mi&s;chievous, and &s;candalous things they are! there they move <HI>na|vibus
<PB N="14" REF="12">&amp; quadrigis,</HI> with their Sea-forces, and Land-forces; Oh the holy Cau&s;e, the holy Covenant, made without either King or Scripture; &s;tand by it, dye by it, make no delay, u&s;e no tarrying, no, <HI>Fe|&s;tinate viri, jamjam mora nulla e&s;t,</HI> Make ha&s;t ye men of Gods right hand, though ye do the &s;ame things that ye condemn the Je&s;uites for, yet this de|&s;ign is &s;anctified in the Pulpit, and let their Zeal kindle you into a <HI>Jehu's</HI> heat; March furiou&s;ly, go in the &s;trength of the Lord, and take with the Lord the Wings of the Morning, let every man be <HI>Ocior c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rvis, &amp; agente nimbos ocior Euro,</HI> &s;wifter then Harts, or the tempe&s;tuous Ea&s;t-wind; Oh your day is dawn|ed, make no pau&s;ing, lo&s;e not a minute, but &s;ee ye be at your colours, at the fir&s;t beating of the Drumme. Cur&s;e ye <HI>Meroz,</HI> cur&s;e the Inhabitants thereof, becau&s;e they came not forth to help the Lord, to help the Lord again&s;t the mightie, the exe|cration of holy Church lay upon him, who if either ab&s;ent, or not active, and expedite in &s;uch a pious Cau&s;e. <HI>Corah</HI> is the formo&s;t to head a Rebellion, and <HI>Judas</HI> doth lead the Van to betray his Ma&s;ter.</P>
<Q>Tarte&s;&s;os fratrem medio Therone premebat.</Q>
<P>One pre&s;s upon the heels of another: every one would be a Leader; let it be a contrary act, yet there is &s;triving that a man may be a Prevaricator; let it be an har&s;h &s;ong, yet there is a de&s;ire to be a Praecentor; let it be a bad Race, yet there is an ambition to be a Prodromus, a Praecur&s;or. But in matters of Vertue and Fame, and Honour there is no &s;uch ha&s;t; no, there men &s;tand gazing, and expecting, as if they mu&s;t be drawn out, forced on, led forth, how many &s;cru|ples and demurres, and feares and jealou&s;ies are there? men are loth to &s;hew their faces, or lift up their feet, or get into the way, or keep the way; a man would think they were undertaking a Pilgrimage, or going
<PB N="15" REF="12">to a gibbet, or called forth to fight with Giants and Tygers. If they yield their pre&s;ence at all, they are the la&s;t. But, on beloved, learn more promptne&s;&s;e in lawfull and laudable things: it is a &s;hame in mat|ters of ju&s;tice and equity to be paw&s;ers, as you may &s;ee here in bringing <HI>Judah,</HI> who is di&s;graced for being the la&s;t. <HI>Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t?</HI></P>
<Q>To bring back.</Q>
<P>Now let us come to the action of moment di&s;|cu&s;&s;ed, <HI>to bring back.</HI> Could <HI>Ab&s;alon</HI> draw multitudes to his party, and being drawn in, do they not know how to get out? Cannot the &s;educed be reduced? Could the whole countrey ri&s;e to drive forth, and cannot the whole Countrey ri&s;e to call home? Or, would the o|ther Tribes advance the work, and do <HI>Judah</HI> &s;lacken it? Is the Royal City mo&s;t langui&s;hing towards the Royal Per&s;on? Is not this her &s;candal? her infamie? Yes, was &s;he the fir&s;t to bani&s;h, and the la&s;t to bring back? How is this urged upon her as her Reproach? <HI>Where|fore then are ye the last to bring back?</HI> From hence ob&s;erve, <HI>that a work of Restauration doth come off with an heavine&s;&s;e.</HI> It is an ea&s;ie matter to rend, and to &s;catter, and to quench, and deface, but it is not &s;o ea&s;ie a matter to &s;titch together, to gather up, to kindle, to repair. This &s;ame work of Reformation and Redinte|gration, to renew things in their fir&s;t Beauty, and to re&s;tore them to their pri&s;tine &s;plendour doth come off with a difficultie, it is <HI>Elephantis partus,</HI> as the birth of an Elephant, long in the bringing forth. <HI>Hoc opus, hic labor e&s;t,</HI>&mdash; This is the work, this is the laborious At|chievment; it is a wonder to &s;ee, that &mdash;<HI>aula &s;e|pulta re&s;urgit, a buried Court &s;hould</HI> ri&s;e again out of her Grave-cloathes. <HI>Alexander</HI> at the motion of a Strumpet might, &s;oon burn <HI>Per&s;epolis,</HI> but neither he, nor any of his Succe&s;&s;ours; could rai&s;e it again to her an|cient Glory. <HI>Aero&s;tratus</HI> in a mad humour might con|&s;ume
<PB N="16" REF="13">in a night the magnificent Temple of <HI>Diana;</HI> but to this day there is nothing to be &s;een of it but wa&s;ted Ruines:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fortunat.</NOTE> A di&s;ea&s;e is &s;oon gotten, but health is not &s;o &s;oon again regained; it is an hard thing to bring men to the re&s;titution of ill-gotten goods, but it is an harder thing to bring men to the re&s;titution of decayed. Great|ne&s;&s;e. <HI>As he wich is fallen is like a lamp that is de&s;pi|&s;ed in the thought of him that is at ca&s;e,</HI> Job 12.5. &s;o, that which is demoli&s;hed is looked upon with an eye of neglect in the thought of him, which minds nothing but his per&s;onal quiet, and &s;afety. Let <HI>David</HI> come to a &s;tate of di&s;tre&s;s, then every <HI>Which</HI>-&s;corning <HI>Nabal</HI> can &s;ay, who is this <HI>David?</HI> who is this &s;onne of <HI>I&s;hai,</HI> 2 Sam. 25.10. then, <HI>Bow down that we may pa&s;&s;e over thee,</HI> E&s;. 5.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">5: at that time the&s;e is rather deri&s;ion, then &s;ym|pathy. If <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> come to a weeping &s;tate, how many are there, which will bring her fir&s;t &s;miles into her cheeks? no, <HI>amongst all her lovers there were none to comfort her,</HI> Lam. 1.2. <HI>Who &s;hall feed the &s;heep of &s;laughter? their own &s;hepheards will not pity them,</HI> Zach. 11.5. <HI>By whom &s;hall</HI> Jacob <HI>ari&s;e,</HI> Zach. 7.5. God may lift him up, but man will not readily &s;et him upon his feet. No, men &s;tand aloof from the &s;ore, and puffe at them which are in extremity; The walls of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> being burnt, <HI>Nehemiah</HI> and all his Friends were hard put to it to get them, rebuilt. People out of an high-brained fancy may quickly pull down places of Judicature, and throw down Thrones, but it will be no le&s;&s;e then a miracle from Heaven <HI>to re&s;tore Judges as at the fir&s;t, and Princes as at the beginning.</HI> E&s;. 1.22. <HI>Behold the teares of &s;uch as were oppre&s;&s;ed, and they had no comforter,</HI> Eccle&s;. 4.1. Many are of the mind of <HI>Age&s;ilaus,</HI> who being de&s;ired to &s;tay his march, till his &s;ick friend recovered, he never regarded the motion, but went on with his march, only &s;aying, <HI>Arduum e&s;t mi&s;ereri, &amp; &s;apere,</HI> It is an hard thing to pity, and. to be wi&s;e &amp; &s;o by many among&s;t us it is counted meer folly to be too com|pa&s;&s;ionate. Many can wound, few can heal, many can expel, few can bring back, <HI>Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t to bring back?</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="17" REF="13">
<HEAD>Application.</HEAD>
<P>This doth &s;erve to exhort men to forbear, from outragi|ous cour&s;es, many men have no greater civility, then</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;ictu di&s;cludere turres</L>
<L>Di&s;turbare domes, avellere &s;igna, trabei&s;que.</L>
<L>Et monumenta virum demoliri, atque cicre.</L><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lucret. l. <HI>7.</HI></NOTE></Q>
<P>To throw down Towers, Palaces, En&s;igns, Monuments, yea;</P>
<Q>Diruta Martae &s;uo Lyrne&s;&s;ia maenia vidi,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ovid. Ep. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE></Q>
<P>We have &s;een the wals or glorious Cities levelled by the hands of their own Natives; their own Country-men have been Pioneers and Batterers, to work their own de&s;olation; nay, &s;uch a City,</P>
<Q><L>Quam neque finitimi valuerunt perdere Mar&s;i.</L>
<L>Minacis aut Etru&s;ca par&s;onae manus;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Horat. Epod <HI>16.</HI></NOTE></L></Q>
<P>Which neither our neighboring Enemies, nor our mo&s;t &s;pight|full, full outlandi&s;h foes could ever de&s;troy, the&s;e have brought it to ruin. Oh what wa&s;tes and &s;poiles have there been in <HI>Eng|land</HI> and <HI>Ireland?</HI> It would make a <HI>Barbarian</HI> lament to &s;ee how the Hou&s;es of Ivory have peri&s;hed, and goodly dwellings have been made po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions for <HI>Bitterns,</HI> and <HI>Cormorants,</HI> and <HI>Scritch-owles;</HI> yea, a land that was once as <HI>Eden,</HI> the garden of God, hath been &s;ince left de&s;olate like the wilderne&s;&s;e; &s;ure I am, that,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ovid. Ep. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE></P>
<Q>Luxuriat Phrygio &s;anguine piguis humus,</Q>
<P>Many a Feild hath been fattened with the blood of the &s;lain, and ma&s;&s;acred. Now oh yee wilde Furies, how long will it be before we &s;hall &s;ee the&s;e wofull skars of your blinde and mad rage healed up? No, tumult may root up that which modera|tion cannot in a long time replant. The Foole may ca&s;t fire|brands, and Arrows, and &s;ay, <HI>Am I not in &s;port?</HI> But the wi&s;e|man cannot extingui&s;h the burnings of the&s;e firebrands, nor cure the piercings of the&s;e Arrows, which the foole hath been the Author of. <HI>Multi laedunt, nemo &s;uccurrit, nemo opitulatur.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Hugu</NOTE> Ma|ny men hurt, but few &s;uccour or help. When <HI>Jeho&s;huah</HI> the high Prie&s;t &s;tood before the Angel to procure remedy for <HI>Jeru&s;alem, Sathan &s;tood at his right hand, Zach.</HI> 3.1. So when &s;ome would re|deem a Church or State out of thraldome, there are Adver&s;a|ries enough to continue her mi&s;eries, and increa&s;e her bonds.
<PB N="18" REF="14">How many &s;oft bowels, and State-building hands are there in this land. Speech co&s;t nothing, and &s;iding with a party is not very chargeable; many men will &s;ub&s;cribe their Names, be Confederates with the ju&s;t cau&s;e, and vaunt &amp; vapour as high|ly as the be&s;t ; but it is an hard thing to get a Commonwealth Offering from them. No, they which are worth thou&s;ands, and have no charge of Children, yet they will give away all that they have to &s;trangers, or &s;ome new created kin&s;man, ra|ther than be&s;tow ten Talents upon the Publique, their Natu|ral Country that hath bred them, and fed them, and &s;tocked them, and be&s;towed all their Honours upon them, get not a Legacy from them in their la&s;t Will and Te&s;tament. His Epi|taph will be this;</P>
<P><HI>Hic jacet Triparcus, donec farcae &s;ub hoc tumulo condiderunt,</HI> here layeth &s;elf-thir&s;t, till the De&s;tines laid him under this Tombe|&s;tone. Therefore &s;eeing help doth come in &s;o &s;lowly, let not damage be &s;o rife; let this <HI>Boutefeau</HI> of Nations leave ca&s;ting of his Bals of wilde-fire; Vermine are not beloved, every one hate a Woolf and a Crocadile. <HI>Nimrod</HI> the mighty hunter hath no good report, it made the tears to &s;pring out of the eys of <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> to look but upon the face of <HI>Hazael,</HI> who &s;hould &s;lay young men with the &s;word, and da&s;h in pieces Infants a|gain&s;t the &s;tones, and rent in pieces women with childe: Thou may e&s;t count thy &s;elf an Hector by the&s;e things, but thou art but a Ma&s;tiff; for, <HI>What is thy &s;ervant a Dog, that I &s;hould do &s;uch things?</HI> Thou had&s;t better be a Dung-hill carrier than to lay Cities in heaps; or be a Fox-hunter, then a King|cha&s;er; for when <HI>David</HI> is driven from <HI>Jeru&s;alem, Ab&s;alon</HI> doth play mad prankes, and thy poore Con&s;cience is &s;ubject to the advi&s;e of <HI>Achitophel;</HI> thou &s;illy wretch, doe&s;t thou know no God but thy Commander? then &s;ee thy Captain General, and his Zanee at his elbow. Art not thou a rare Swordman under <HI>Ab&s;alon</HI> and <HI>Achitophel.</HI> Give over thy trade therefore, for poore blinde &s;oule thou art doing that, that the childe that is unborn &s;hall cur&s;e thee for; yea, that after ages &s;hall defie thee, and execrute thee for. For thou ha&s;t nothing in thy mind but wa&s;tes and ruines, pulling down of Nobles, and frighting, and pur&s;uing Kings but of the Nation, <HI>Egregiam vero laudem, &amp;
<PB N="19" REF="14">&s;polia ampla,</HI> thou would&s;t faine have a great name for vilany, and be egregious for that which is prodigious, and execrable; But when thou ha&s;t done all thy mi&s;chief, who &s;hall make &s;atis|faction for it? We know thy Venomous heart (in the &s;tate that thou art in) very well, thou ha&s;t nothing but poy&s;on in thy brea&s;t, but who &s;hall pull out the &s;tings that thou ha&s;t left in other mens &s;ides? Thou art bad enough thy &s;elf, and it is an hard thing to finde good men enough to redre&s;&s;e that which thou ha&s;t left deploreable; The be&s;t are not very for|ward to promote good things; no, that which &s;ome have damnified, others will hardly repair; him whom &s;ome have driven away, others will hardly bring back; no, they are the la&s;t u&s;ually in &s;uch a work: <HI>Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t to bring back?</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The King.</HEAD>
<P>Now let us come to the per&s;on of quality to be rein&s;tated, <HI>The King.</HI> It was not to bring back a Patriot, or a Peere, but one more Pretious than all the Potentates of the Nation; one worth a whole Land, a King. From hence ob&s;erve, that a <HI>Nations Lu&s;tre is a King.</HI> So long as a King is wanting, there is an eclip&s;e in the Hemi&s;phere, but &s;o &s;oon as he is brought back, the whole Dominion doth &s;hine. If <HI>Agar</HI> wept &s;o for want of water, and <HI>Saul</HI> went &s;o &s;orrowing up and down for the want of his Fathers A&s;&s;es, then how great may be the Na|tional dolour for the want of a King? A Land without a King doth &s;eem to be without ey-&s;ight, for that <HI>thou maye&s;t be unto us in &s;tead of eyes, Num.</HI> 10.31. and unarmed, for Kings are the <HI>&s;heilds of the earth, P&s;al.</HI> 47.9. and without day-light, for a King is <HI>the Light of I&s;rael,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 21.17. and without her Ca|pitall member; for a King is the <HI>head of the Tribes,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.17. and without motion, for he is the <HI>breath of the No&s;trils, Lane</HI> 4.20. put all the grandees, the high, and mighty Ones of a Land together: yet can they match a King in Stature, no <HI>he is higher than Agag Num.</HI> 24.7. the re&s;t are but Hillocks, the&s;e are <HI>the Mountaines of I&s;rael, Ezek.</HI> 36.1. the&s;e are &s;o great that
<PB N="20" REF="15">they are called <HI>Dignities,</HI> 2. Pet. 2.10. <HI>The foundations of the Earth, P&s;.</HI> 82&punc; 5. they are the <HI>&s;hepheards to the &s;heepe, Num</HI> 27.17. Nur&s;ing Father, <HI>which bear the children in their Armes, or ca|ry them in their bo&s;omes, Num</HI> 11.12. They are kind of bright Spirits in a Nation, for <HI>David</HI> is called an <HI>Angel of God,</HI> and <HI>Cyrus</HI> an <HI>anointed Cherubin,</HI> yea the Deity it &s;elf hath not a cle|rer reflex upon earth, then a King, for <HI>I have &s;aid ye are Gods, I&s;.</HI> 82. very Extracts of Gods Power, Superiority and Autho|rity; The earth hath not a Nobler object of grandeur, then a King, for Excellent Maje&s;ty is added to him, <HI>Dan.</HI> 4.36. Oh how great is Eminency, Excellency, Summity, Sublimi|ty. Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">pollency, Praepotency! It is &s;aid of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> (that he might be &s;et out as the principal of the Jewes) that he was <HI>as King of Jo&s;hurn, when the heads of the people, and the Tribes of I&s;|rael were gathered together, Deut.</HI> 33.5. and of <HI>Job</HI> (to &s;hew his potency) that he cho&s;e out the peoples way, and &s;at as chief, and was as a King in the Army; <HI>Job</HI> 29.25. as if there were none above a King, or a King were above all: Seeft thou a man diligent in his way he &s;hall &s;tand before Kings, and not mean men, <HI>Pro.</HI> 22.29. as if all were mean men in compari&s;on of Kings, and there were no greater honour upon earth then to &s;tand before Kings. He that endeavoured to &s;et out him&s;elf with the greate&s;t honour could &s;ay no more, then <HI>I am the &s;on of antient Kings,</HI> E&s;a. 19.11. The Church can have no joyfuller news then of a King comming unto her. <HI>Rejoyce oh daughter of Sion, behold thy King commeth unto thee,</HI> Zach. 9.9. Is there a &s;ad|der judgment, that can light upon a Nation, than the want of a King? No, <HI>They &s;hall &s;ay, we have no King, becau&s;e we feared not the Lord,</HI> Ho&s;. 10.3. As if God then had puni&s;hed them to purpo&s;e, laid on a braining blow, &s;trook out their right eye, cut their very heart-&s;trings in pieces, when he had deprived them of a King: Well, this is the greate&s;t puni&s;hment, and can there then be a greater ble&s;&s;ing happen to a Nation, then to enjoy the pre&s;ence of a King? No, <HI>Oh tower of the flock, the Strong hold of the daughter of Sion, unto the &s;hall come the Fir&s;t Do|minion, the Kingdoms &s;hall come unto the daughter of</HI> Jeru&s;alem.
<PB N="21" REF="15"><HI>Why do&s;t thou cry out? It there no King thee. Micah</HI> 4.8, 9. confe&s;&s;e that there are &s;everal &s;orts of Governments, Demo|cracy, the Government of the People; Ari&s;tocracy, the Go|vernment by Nobles; Oligarchy, the Government by a few, as the Decemviri, the Triumviri in <HI>Rome,</HI> and of later times among&s;t us; when the Pettitoes of a Parliament, &s;tood for the Repre&s;entatives of a whole Nation; yet when all Govern|ments are reckoned up, Monarchy is the chiefe&s;t and be&s;t. Wretched we that knew Kings &s;o well, and lived &s;o happily under them; yet for our execrable, and incorrigible &s;innes have drunk of all waters, been under the Army of all Em|pericks, have tryed the paces of all Hackneys, been &s;ucked by all Hor&s;eleeches, been &s;courged with all the whips of the Coriection-hou&s;e, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed (as it were) with all Devils; yet now we have had experience of all the&s;e, which of all the&s;e (be&s;ides Monarchy) are &s;o good, that they can have our good word? No, I doubt, that they de&s;erve rather a Sar|ca&s;me than a Panegyrick. Let men if they will pre&s;erve the skins of tho&s;e Scorpions, which have &s;tung them, and lay them up for Reliques: Some Humouri&s;ts, and brain&s;ick people may doe &s;o, but I believe, that the greate&s;t part of the Na|tion are not &s;o taken with them, that they will write Encomi|a&s;tickes, and &s;ing <HI>Paeans</HI> to the honour of them; no, <HI>Difficile e&s;t Satyram non&s;cribere,</HI> it is hard thing to keep patience at the thought of them. The land in general, &mdash; <HI>Ora in|dignantia &s;olvit,</HI> &s;peak of them with indignation, and dete&s;tati|on and good rea&s;on; for their con&s;ciences, that they brought in new Oathes, a Directory, &amp; Lay-Elders; &amp; for their e&s;tates they brought in the ble&s;&s;ed exci&s;e, Monthly Taxes, and de&s;cimation after Compo&s;ition; all new, new, that old England from the fir&s;t foundation of Government never heard of before; can a worthy Patriot of the Land think of the&s;e without angui&s;h? no, <HI>Alcides magno errore percitus,</HI> he that hath any regard to his principles, or priviledges cannot but with a kind of di&s;erutia|tion, and vexation dece&s;t the&s;e innovations both in Religion, and Government. For my part I am holy for Monarchy, not
<PB N="22" REF="16">only becau&s;e of the Unity, Moderation, and Maje&s;ty that is in it (for the&s;e may be the Topictes of politicians, as if every State&s;-man had a mea&s;uring rule in his brayne, to line and level, to draw out what Government he doth think mo&s;t con|venient for him&s;elf) but principally in re&s;pect of divine Au|thority. For I finde that God fir&s;t &s;et up this Government in the Father of Family, and afterwards he promi&s;ed to <HI>A|braham</HI> that Kings &s;hould come out of his loynes, <HI>Gen.</HI> 35.11. And therfore <HI>Jacob</HI> prophecied by in&s;piration, that the Scepter &s;hould not depart <HI>Judah,</HI> nor a lawgiver from between his feet till <HI>Shiloh</HI> come, <HI>Gen.</HI> 49.10. yea <HI>Balaam</HI> as bad a pro|phet as he was pronounced to the honour of <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> That the <HI>&s;hout of a King was among&s;t them. Num.</HI> 23.21. and was it not foretold that in the time of the Go&s;pel, <HI>Kings &s;hould be their Nur&s;ing Fathers, and Queens &s;hould be their Nur&s;ing Mothers, E&s;.</HI> 49.28: were the children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> ever in a wor&s;e ca&s;e then when they were without a King? No, it was threatned as a cur&s;e, that <HI>many dayes &s;hould pa&s;&s;e in I&s;rael without a King, Ho&s;.</HI> 3.4. and when this happened what wofull effects followed? <HI>e|very man did that which was good in his own eyes.</HI> Judges 18.13, 21. Then there were nothing but &s;etting up of Teraphims, rob|bing of hou&s;es, and outragious lu&s;ts, as in the Levites wife. This Government is &s;o requi&s;ite, that very Heathens have magnified it. <HI>Nil Monarchia melius.</HI> Nothing is better than Monarchy &s;aith <HI>Herodotus.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Herodot. l. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Monarchiae multum attribuunt ut opti|mo generi.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;orc. ad Nicor.</NOTE> Men attribute much to Monarchy, as the be&s;t kinde. <HI>Thucydides</HI> could &s;ay, <HI>Vt plures apparere, &s;iles frodi|gio&s;um est, &s;ic plures Monarchas.</HI> As it is a prodigious thing for many Suns to appear, &s;o it is to have many Governours: <GAP DESC="foreign">; Let there be one Lord, and one King &s;aith <HI>Homer</HI> in his fir&s;t <HI>Illiad.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Thucid l. <HI>6.</HI> in conc. Al|cib.</NOTE> <HI>Nulla communionis humane curatio majori mitiorque, quam regin,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Polit.</HI> in <HI>Polit.</HI> There is no Government of humane Society greater or milder than Kingly. I could abound in many more Authorities, but here is enough, both from the Law of God, and the light of Nature, to &s;hew, that the mo&s;t Con&s;cionable and Comfortable Covernment is Monarchical, Sure I am, we may in this
<PB N="23" REF="16">Land with wringing hands, and bleeding hearts, think of the pernicious, Nefarious, flagitious practi&s;es, and out|rages in the interval, that Monarchy was interrupted, and other Governments took place enough for us forever to abhor all Legi&s;lative Powers, but that of Monarchy. There|fore let who will honour the Ring-taile, O&s;pray, O&s;trich, Vultur; I honour the Eagle: There is no Government like to Kingly. And it is a Lunacy, a Phren&s;ie no to de&s;ire the be&s;t, and choo&s;e the be&s;t, and replant the be&s;t, as it was , in <HI>Judah,</HI> when a King driven out from them, not to bring him back. <HI>Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t to bring back the King?</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Application.</HEAD>
<P>I could make &s;everal Applications of this point, as fir&s;t, to &s;hew that mans nature is wilde, for he mu&s;t be kept under by Government, there mu&s;t be a King.</P>
<P>Secondly, That that man is inttactable, which is not <HI>bene moratus</HI> well ordered; for he hath the means of a well com|po&s;ed life, there is a King.</P>
<P>Thirdly, that &s;inne cannot ever e&s;cape &s;cot-free, there will be vengeance for it el&s;where; for here is puni&s;hment, there is a King.</P>
<P>Fourthly, That great is the Charge of Supream Authori|ty, there are thou&s;ands to be an&s;were for, for, why is one &s;et over all, but to be re&s;pon&s;ible for all? Yes, he is a King.</P>
<P>Fifthly, That high Dignity doth belong to him in the chief place, for he is a King.</P>
<P>Sixthly, That God is to be adored, for there is one upon Earth, that hath Reverence, Subjection and Loyalty, there is a King.</P>
<P>But I &s;hall pa&s;&s;e by the&s;e, and many other Applications, which might-ju&s;tly be drawn one of this word King, and &s;hall onely in&s;i&s;t upon that which is mo&s;t pertinent to my Text, and the pre&s;ent occa&s;ion, which is this,</P>
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<P><HI>That true remor&s;e &s;or Rebellion &s;hould carry with it a King &s;ecking affection.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Repentance doth</HI> expre&s;&s;e it &s;elf in contraries, the &s;infull acts are turned into dutifull acts; for how is it a tran&s;menta|tion, if there be not a transformation in the de&s;ires? Yes, he that hated a KING, mu&s;t honour him, and he that hath cha&s;ed him from his Throne, <HI>mu&s;t bring him back;</HI> el&s;e though he hath put off his Harne&s;&s;e, and withdrawn his Ordnances; yet he doth keep his Drum, and his Trumpet; though he hath &s;heathed his Sword, yet it is drawn naked in his heart; He is not a Rebel in Action, but he is a Rebel in Re&s;olution; an injured King&punc; therefore mu&s;t be righted; and he that hath been ca&s;t our, mu&s;t be &s;ought out and brought back: Oh then that it is &s;o hard a thing to finde a true penitent Rebell; &s;ome there are that perhaps have given over the WARS, but have they given over their &s;pight? They have left their Commands, but have they left their Principles? They make no tumults, but willthey make &s;atisfaction? They &s;eek not to de&s;troy him, but will they &s;eek to Enthrone him? No, they had rather bring him to nought than bring him back. The&s;e &s;ame Kings Lands, and Kings Rights are &s;o &s;weet, that they cannot endure that the right Owner &s;hould have a Reentry; there are too many &s;ick of the Kings Evill.</P>
<P>They have been Kings &s;o long, that they are loth that their <HI>Jura Regalia</HI> &s;hould be taken out of their hands; it is Indignation to them to hear of the Kings Name, but it would be Death to them to look on the King's Face. The bringing of a King back, would bring them back indeed; they mu&s;t loo&s;e their Princely Hou&s;es, their Lordly Mannours, their rich Offices, their &s;tately Parkes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Doe Lyons u&s;e to part with preys, which they have carried home? No, there may be many &s;teps &s;een towards their Dennes, but &mdash;<HI>nulla retror&s;um,</HI> none backward;</P>
<P>A man may ea&s;ily conjecture what they will give
<PB N="25" REF="17">to a King, which will not give him the title of a Gerttle|man, nor the patrimony of a yeomans &s;on; were he of their dieting, he &s;hould have <HI>far modicum</HI> &s;lender commons, were he their Alm&s;-child;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Per&s;. &s;at. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> he &s;hould receive every thing <HI>manu con|tracta</HI> with the Nigards fi&s;t, <HI>Lazras</HI> got as much at the gate of <HI>Dives.</HI> They know his birth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Horat.</NOTE> but like Foxes they provide onely for their own cubs they knew where his Crown land lay, but all the revenew of it goes to their coffers, little comes to his pur&s;e. He may ble&s;s the bounty of &s;trangers, rather then magnifie the courre&s;ie of his own Nation; what &s;umptuou&s;|ne&s;s &s;oever hath been at their own tables to gorge them&s;elves, their Friends, and Favourites, Sycophants, and Para&s;ites, their Comrades in ba&s;ene&s;s, and complices in mi&s;chiefs, yet I doubt the King can boa&s;t little of their large&s;&s;es. The <HI>Smaritain</HI> hath powred in all the Oyles and Wine into the half dead mans wounds, the re&s;t have but gazed upon him and pa&s;t by; It is a&s;toni&s;hment and horrour, to think of the barbarous &s;avage|ne&s;s to the Father, and the bruti&s;h inhumanity to the &s;on. And wherefore all this, but as they had murthered a King &s;o they would murther King&s;hip it &s;elf, &amp; behead the very office and calling of a King; fain they would have imitated the <HI>Romans</HI> in keeping <HI>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">galia,</HI> fea&s;t for the utter exterpation of Kingly government. And why &s;o? Kingly power was, burthen&s;ome, burthen&s;ome? what the rule of one King more, then of many? No, I doubt the &s;houldiers of this Nation have found the weight trebled by many Governours beyond that it was by one. Tappeal to the con&s;ciences of any impartiall men, whether there was ever heard of &s;uch taxes, and impo&s;&s;itions, venations, and skinnings, as there were by the&s;e Butchers? they plagued the living, and they would if it were po&s;&s;ible a <HI>mortuo tributum exigere,</HI> require tribute from the dead, we have found the proverb true, that Serpents <HI>ni&s;i edat &s;erpentem, non fiet Draco,</HI> a Serpent, unle&s;s it do eat a Serpent, can never. be a Dragon; They were wholly given to devouring, and ra|veiling <HI>bonus odor ex re qualibet.</HI> The odour was &s;weet though it came from the bafe&s;t exactions, and I pray what a kennel of bounds, did they keep to hunt the poor Common to death?
<PB N="26" REF="18">was there ever heard of &s;o many &s;hirking Officers, &amp; rapations Servatours, as there was in their reign? if they were &s;uch good rulers, I hope there are &s;ome memorable records that they le&s;t behind them of their worthy &s;pirits; but I doubt it will trou|ble the wits of their be&s;t friends to &s;hew one good deed con|&s;picuous, and eminent, that they did in their eighteen years &s;upremacy; except they did count the&s;e good deeds, to help beggers to hone&s;t mens e&s;tates, and to execute the innocent, that their well-affected men might inherit. No marvaile there|fore that we &s;hould de&s;ire the&s;e pious governours once more to Saint it over us, when we are minded to be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, and to be tortured even to the death it &s;elf, we will call again for the &s;pirit called Legion; in the mean time let all the world judge, whether Monarchy hath not been more gentle in u&s;age, and noble in expre&s;&s;ions, then ever was Poliarchy, under Poliarchy phere was nothing but invading mens e&s;tates, rifling, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">undering, but under Monarchy what door was broken up? what freeborn &s;ubject was ca&s;t out of his inheritance? was the name of &s;eque&s;tration ever heard of? under Polyarchy what ob&s;truction was there of ju&s;tice? No man could get right again&s;t a Saint of the cau&s;e: but under Monarchy who was denied propriety, was there ever heard then of a Committee of Indempnity? under Polyarchy there was nothing but con|ventings, and impri&s;onments, but gibbets, and blood-axes, under Monarchy was there a man &s;uffered but by the known Laws of the Kingdom? was there ever heard of a high Court of Ju&s;tice? under Polyarchy there was nothing but profaning of Churches, toleration of bla&s;phemy, abu&s;ing of Alm&s;-hou&s;es, impeding of Merchandi&s;e, pulling down of Palaces, ra&s;ing of Noble mens hou&s;es, what Patriot was there? What benefa|ctour? out of tho&s;e millions of mony which were drained, and wre&s;ted out of this impoveri&s;hed Nation, &s;hew one glorious Monument that they left behind them, either to State or Church, or Univer&s;ities, be it but a famous Ho&s;pitall, or a beautifull Colledge, or a poor Library; what the be&s;t govern|ment, and &s;hall <HI>Herod</HI> the proud, and <HI>Nero</HI> the cruell exceed them in magnificence? here are lean jaws indeed to live un|der,
<PB N="27" REF="18">as it was &s;aid of <HI>Tyberius Patroclus</HI> might then have been the Patriot, or <HI>Martials Paternus</HI> might have been &s;upreme Governour who couched down upon his trea&s;ures, le&s;t any of them &s;hould have been conveyed to publick u&s;es, &s;uch Go|vernors are ju&s;t like <HI>Vi&s;bur</HI> the <HI>Gothi&s;t</HI> King who got wealth by extortion, and &s;acriledge,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Largiris nihil, incu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;que gazae, ut ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nus D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">aco quem canunt poetae cu&s;todem &s;cithi|ci fui&s;&s;e. <HI>Luci. Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">.</HI> l. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE> <HI>nihil autem prae&s;tari pereas ingentes di|vitias &s;udore, &amp; &s;anguine pauperum comparatus officere curavit Joh. Magnus. l.</HI> 7. but never did any famous work by all tho&s;e va&s;t trea&s;ures, which were gotten with the &s;weat and blood of the poor; the&s;e Governours when they &s;hould have given any thing to their countrey, they were ready to &s;ay as <HI>Hera|chus</HI> did to the <HI>Saracens,</HI> &s;hall we take our childrens bread,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Who En&s;ing, l. <HI>7 c 9.</HI></NOTE> and feed dogs with it, when they &s;hould have given any thing to the Church; they were ready to have &s;aid with <HI>Alexander Mammeae in templo quid facit aurum?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sabel <HI>l 6.</HI> Ae|nead <HI>7.</HI></NOTE> What &s;hould the Church do with gold? pitifull Countrey-men, lamentable Church|men they were; the family mu&s;t needs have been upon the &s;tarving point, when the &s;tewards name was <HI>inho&s;pitalis;</HI> Ni|gard. Yet the&s;e were our rulers, and the&s;e were all the Dona|tives, like beautifull Princes in &s;o long a reign, that they be|&s;towed upon us. But under Monarchy was there no more muni|ficence expre&s;&s;ed? Yes, then might have been &s;een <HI>pravus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">agis quam condus;</HI> there was no clo&s;e fi&s;t nor hiding eye, but the wide hand <HI>Deut.</HI> 15.8. and the bountifull eye, <HI>Prov.</HI> 22.9 It was the age of &s;ending portions, &s;owing be&s;ides all waters, gi|ving offerings of a faire eye, men delighted in nothing more then to be as tho&s;e that comforted the mourners; the poor were brought up with them as with their Father, the whole land &s;melt of their &s;weet odours, they grudged at no charge Silver and Gold was not regarded in tho&s;e dayes, they were the people of ho&s;pitality, and had began to hang all their Countrey with garlands, what was the genious of that age, but to found Ho&s;pitals, build Churches, and to erect Colledges, how many famous works had they done, and how many by this time would they have done, if <HI>gorgon i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">on &amp; amazon;</HI> or if ye will, &s;teel, bonnet, and buff-coat, had not frighted them from what was intended; I could tell you their names, but
<PB N="28" REF="19">they have engraven them them&s;elves in their everla&s;ting Mo|numents; Oh then they were men of beneficent &s;pirits, hero|ick di&s;po&s;itions: Oh the&s;e were the right Prote&s;tants, the building Prote&s;tants, they did not pluck down popery onely by the pick-axe, by digging up cro&s;&s;es, and da&s;hing in pieces imaged, and crying out again&s;t the ma&s;s, and calling the Pope Antichri&s;t, and telling fine &s;tories, but they pulled down Pope|ry by the trowel, in building as fa&s;t as any Papi&s;t, and &s;hewing to all the earth that if pious works were a way to Heaven, the Prote&s;tant Catholick would vye with the <HI>Roman</HI> Catho|lick, they were ambitious to be firnamed the Ho&s;pitable as <HI>John</HI> of <HI>Alexandria</HI> was called the Eleemo&s;inary, their chiefe&s;t honours (with <HI>Alphon&s;us</HI> the tenth of <HI>Arragon</HI>) they e&s;teemed to be <HI>dona in&s;ignia,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Sygeb. Chron.</NOTE> hountifull gifts. Yea they were not onely works of charity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Marin. <HI>l. 11.</HI> rer. Hi&s;pan.</NOTE> that tho&s;e times were ble&s;&s;ed with, but they abounded in every thing that might bear the name of good.</P>
<P>If people were not blinded, and infatuated with an ex|ternall holine&s;s and charmed with a few &s;tudied phra&s;es, and apt to call primitive devotion Popi&s;h &s;uper&s;tition; they would &s;ay that that was the age of an operative &s;aith, and of the power of godline&s;s: for laying a&s;ide all pa&s;&s;ion, and parti|ality to a particular cau&s;e, let men of any moderation, and con|&s;cience &s;ay if they can, if there were not more piety and pu|rity, ju&s;tice, neighbourhood, integrity, fidelity, &s;incerity of doctrine; uncorruptne&s;s in Courts of judicature, cheri&s;hing of learning, and advancement of trade; under kingly govern|ment, then ever there was under the multiplicity of govern|ments, which we had by our new rulers. Kings dealt with us really, but <HI>Sphinx</HI> &s;pake very intricately. Oh it was the enig|matical age, poor deluded people were taught to tell many a lye; as that they did but hold up their hands to &s;ight for their liberties, and yet their hands are bound by Scripture that they mu&s;t not fight for their liberties, that they fought for the King and <HI>Parliament,</HI> and yet neither the King, nor the better part of the <HI>Parliament</HI> ever gave them authority to do any &s;uch courte&s;ie for them; that they fought to pre&s;erve the King in his rights, and prerogative, and yet allowed him neither
<PB N="29" REF="19">rights, nor prerogative; that they fought for the power of the Militia, and yet the King doth bear the &s;word: that they fought to &s;eparate the King from his evil Councel|lers, and yet they their &s;elves were but Coun&s;ellers, and it is again&s;t rea&s;on that Coun&s;ellers &s;hould be Commanders, and that every one &s;hould not have libe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ty to choo&s;e his own Coun&s;ellors, and that fighting men &s;hould be counted better Coun&s;ellors, then they that did not fight till their throats are ready to be cut; that they fought to make the King a glo|rious King, &amp; yet when they had him in their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion kept him as a pri&s;oner; that thay fought to pull down Archbi&s;hops and Bi&s;hops, &amp; yet they were ordained by a primitive in&s;tituti|on: that they fought to bring the King to his <HI>Parliament,</HI> and yet when they had him never brought him to his <HI>Parliament;</HI> that they fought to bring mal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">factors to condign puni&s;hment, and yet no malefactors according to any known Law, nor Malignants except to follow the King, and to di&s;charge their Oath of Allegiance with all their might, power, and ability, be malignancy; that they fought to &s;ettle the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion according to the be&s;t Reformed Churches, and yet the be&s;t Reformed Churches cannot be private Cities, Cantons, and States, would the Kingdoms of <HI>Denmark, Sweden,</HI> and the great <HI>Lutheran</HI> Princes in <HI>Germany,</HI> ever allow of them to be &s;o called? Are the&s;e (and many other) truths? they mu&s;t have larger con&s;ciences; and more capacious judgments, then I have to conceive them, or, believe them? I believe them to be no more truths then Sarahs, <HI>non ri&s;i timore perterita.</HI> I laugh|ed not; being affraid, <HI>Gen.</HI> 18.15. or <HI>Abrahams, Soror mea est,</HI> She is my Si&s;ter, <HI>Gen.</HI> 20.2. or <HI>Iacobs, Ego &s;um Primogenitus,</HI> I am thy Fir&s;t-born, <HI>Gen</HI> 27.9, or the old Prophets &s;peech to the young Prophet from the Lord, <HI>Reduc eum in donum tuam,</HI> bring him into thy hou&s;e, 1 <HI>Kings.</HI> 13.18. or the Father of the Blind mans &s;peech, <HI>Quomodo autem nunc videat ne&s;eimus,</HI> But how he doeth now &s;ee we know not, <HI>Ioh.</HI> 9.21. or the Devils <HI>Praecipita te, &s;criptum e&s;t enim Angelis &s;uis mandabit de te, ut tollant manibus, ne impingas pedem in lapidem,</HI> Mat. 4.6. Ca&s;t thy &s;elf down headlong, for it is written, he &s;hall give his Angels
<PB N="30" REF="20">charge over thee, to lift thee up lea&s;t thou do&s;t da&s;h thy foot again&s;t a &s;tone, <HI>Mat.</HI> 4 6. There may be &s;ome &s;hew of truth in the&s;e things, but as far from the e&s;&s;ence of truth, as <HI>Michals</HI> pillow &s;tuffed with goats haire was from the body of <HI>David.</HI> They are blear-eyed, that will not &s;ee them fal&s;hoods, and partial, and para&s;itical, which will not acknowledge them to be &s;o. The re&s;ult is, if the fifth of <HI>November</HI> were an un|lawful attempt, why &s;hould the Prote&s;tant &s;mell of the Ro|mi&s;h Gunpowder; If Equivocation be unlawful, why &s;hould we have new Je&s;uites under colourable di&s;gui&s;es. I am afraid that at the latter day of judgement the&s;e things will be found to be wor&s;e Poperie, then cro&s;&s;ing Infants, or Organs, or Cap, Cope, and Surplice: How can &s;uch be heard &s;peak|ing again&s;t any &s;inne, when &s;uch palpable di&s;&s;imulation is apparent; the grief is this, that if Prote&s;tants may be allowed to weare this pocket-dagger, every Prince doth &s;tand in fear of his life, which doth reign over them; if they cannot preach them into their own Paradoxes, there will be fighting to the worlds end; and they &s;hall be chri&s;tened to be the Lords bat|tels, as if they were waged again&s;t Paynims and Infidels; in what &s;treights doth a King live, when he hath Anabapti&s;ts on the one &s;ide, which would de&s;troy all Magi&s;tracy, and others, which if they cannot &s;ubject Magi&s;tracy to their own bents, will fight it into order, an odd weapon, I never find that Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles ever armed Subjects thus again&s;t their lawful Soveraigns; lu&s;ty Popes indeed have done thus, and this is plain Popery: I be&s;eech you therefore by your hatr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">d again&s;t Pope|ry, and your reverence to Prote&s;tancie, by the name of Autho|rity, and the fame of obedience, by the pa&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t, which could have freed him&s;elf, and by the patience of Mar|tyrs which would not free them&s;elves; by the mi&s;eries of War, and the ble&s;&s;ings of union; by the &s;ubjection of Pagans, and the concord among&s;t Devils; by Chri&s;ts rebuking his Di&s;ci|ples when they would have fire fetched from heaven, and by Chri&s;ts commanding S. <HI>Peter</HI> to put up his &s;word into his Scabbard, by <HI>Davids</HI> heart &s;miting him when he had cut off the lap of <HI>Sauls</HI> garment, and by S. <HI>Pauls</HI> checking him&s;elf
<PB N="31" REF="20">when he had called <HI>Ananias</HI> painted wall, by the black infa|my of this action, and the horrid effects of it; by the certain|ty of divine providence, and the uncertainty of events; by the thraldome which ye have long endured, and the pardon which ye have obtained; by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance which ye may yeeld to your friends, and by the plots which ye ought to prevent again&s;t your enemies; by the fruits of the fle&s;h, and the arm of fle&s;h; by the propagation of truth, and the flouri&s;hing of Trade; by the honour of your profe&s;&s;ion, and the obligation of your oaths; by Chri&s;ts legacy of peace, and by the Go&s;pel of peace; by prace in the time of your pilgrimage, and by peace at the hour of your pa&s;&s;age; that ye never li&s;t a Souldier, nor &s;et up a Flag, nor undertake a March, nor di&s;charge a Canon again&s;t a lawful Soveraign: <HI>Bella gerant alii,</HI> Let others if they will fight again&s;t their ju&s;t Princes, but let the Prote|&s;tant have the honour of being a peaceable, and patient Pro|fe&s;&s;or, for how el&s;e Subjects? how el&s;e Chri&s;tians? <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is he that is not condemned in that which he doth allow, Rom.</HI> 14.22. Doubt|le&s;s ye cannot but have inward convictions, &s;elf-&s;miting Con|&s;ciences, <HI>The fear that begetteth pain,</HI> and then there is a bloodi|er war within, then there is without; it were well therefore that you would confe&s;s your error, purge away the &s;candal of it by &s;ome Chri&s;tian &s;atisfaction; yea, to procure the inward peace of your own &s;ouls, and to inform the &s;ouls of them whom ye have mi&s;led, to pacifie offended minds, and to give a&s;&s;urance to Prince, that ye will hereafter prove truly loyal, that ye would defie, and execrate a thing &s;o abominable to the whole world; but if out of ob&s;tinacy, or mode&s;ty ye will not do this, yet that we may for ever ra&s;e out of our bre&s;ts, the memory of all the injuries and mi&s;eries which we have endured by this ra&s;h and fatal de&s;ign; let us from henceforth find you reall Converts, learn war no more, &s;tudy not com|motions, preach not up the Gantlet, and the Pole-axe; this is the way whereby we may heartily forgive you, embrace you, and ble&s;s you; think how many watchful and impla|cable enemies we have abroad, and how full the land is of Sectaries, Hereticks, Papi&s;ts and Jewes, and if ye have any
<PB N="32" REF="21">apprehentions of dangers, love to your Country, pitty upon a di&s;tracted Church, fears that ye may peri&s;h with us in a common fate, or de&s;ires for the pre&s;ervation of Religion, government, pro&s;perity, lay down animo|&s;ities, yeeld to conveniencies, let us and you, which dif|fer but in a few things, and doe equally lay open to the general &s;pight, for the &s;ame &s;word will draw bloud from us both alike, if ever Papi&s;t, or Anabapti&s;t, or Phanatick, get the upper-hand agree in this one fundamental of mutual pre&s;ervation, that order &s;hall never be di&s;turbed, nor authority a&s;&s;aulted, but our Countrey-men &s;hall &s;it quiet in their hou&s;es, and Kings &s;it quiet in their Thrones; if ye have any grievances, debate them kindly, argue them meekly, petition as much as ye will, di&s;|pute what ye can, and what ye cannot convince by rea&s;on, &s;ub|mit to with quietne&s;&s;e, but fight no more, let us never hear your drum beating, nor your trumpet &s;ounding, nor have any more of your &s;olemn League and Covenant, nor fighting for King and Parliament, for Kings are &s;acred per&s;ons, and are not to be &s;acrificed unto with Gunpowder; no, et Ie&s;uites, or Devils, offer &s;uch oblations, but let not Prote&s;tants have any &s;uch bloudy victimes. If ye then have unroo&s;ted any &s;uch Kings, do ye &s;ettle him, if ye were the fir&s;t that drove him away, be not ye the la&s;t to bring him back, <HI>For wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the King.</HI></P>
<P>Thus beloved have ye heard an expo&s;tulation about <HI>David</HI>'s return, and ought not we to have the like di&s;qui&s;ition about our Kings return, hath not the fate been alike to both? yes, as <HI>David</HI> had his <HI>Ab&s;olom</HI> that con&s;pired again&s;t him, &s;o have not we had many which have broken the yoke, and to all their o|ther di&s;re&s;pects have added rebellion to their &s;ins? which with <HI>Ab&s;oloms</HI> feigning lips have &s;tolen away the hearts of the peo|ple, and with the complements of putting forth of hands, en|deering ki&s;&s;es, and large promi&s;es of high reformation, that if they were made Iudges in the Land, and any man had a cau&s;e or &s;uit, if they would lay down their grievances at their feet, they &s;hould have &s;peedy ju&s;tice done them, <HI>Ab&s;olom</HI> would &s;et up Committees enough to redre&s;&s;e the plaints of the people, and
<PB N="33" REF="21">as <HI>Ab&s;olom</HI> paid his vowes in <HI>Hebron,</HI> &s;o have not we had them that had their religious exerci&s;es and &s;trict fa&s;ts? and as <HI>Ab&s;o|lom</HI> had <HI>Achitophil</HI> the Gilonite to promote the work, &s;o have not we had them that had dangerous wits, Craftma&s;ters, <HI>A|chitophels</HI> enough. And as the con&s;piracy grew &s;trong for <HI>Ab|&s;olom,</HI> &s;o did not multitudes, and mutinies, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">actions, and &s;editions grow &s;trong and mightily encrea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e for oue male con|tents. And hath not the fright of this rebellion cau&s;ed as much con&s;ternation here as ever it did to <HI>Pavid,</HI> even to leave the Royal Palace, and to pa&s;&s;e over the river <HI>hid on,</HI> and to go up the mount of <HI>Olives</HI> weeping, and hath not the Kings Court been entred, and though not his concubines lain with, yet his Royal revenue and Prerogative deftored? And hath there not been a <HI>Shimei</HI> to cur&s;e the King, and to call him bloudy man, and &s;on of B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">lial; ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">, how numerous, and venemous have the Pamphlets and Libels been to defame the King, and bla&s;t his innocency? Thus farre then they do a|gree, as face doth an&s;wer face in water, onely they differ in this, that &s;ome of the&s;e turbulencies, commotions, di&s;gu&s;ts, di&s;|graces happened in the fathers time, and &s;ome in the &s;ons; how&s;oever the &s;on is &s;till in his flight, and doubtful it is when he &s;hall return, for what a delaying, fluctuating, &s;crupling Na|tion have we? they would, and they would not, they de&s;ire, and de&s;pair, they wi&s;h and long, and again faint, and fear, all is ambiguity, and &s;u&s;pen&s;e,</P>
<Q>Pugnaces Parthi dubium tenuere favorem.</Q>
<P>The&s;e warlike <HI>Parthians</HI> which have been &s;o u&s;ed to booties and &s;poils, promi&s;e but a doubtfull favour to the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, they have been &s;o u&s;ed to garboi&s;es, that they are loath to hear of peace, and to cut throats, that they are loath to &s;heath up their &s;words, they act things not according to their duties, but their de&s;ignes; not according to their con&s;ciences, but their con|veniencies; not according to their judgements, but their am|bitions; they dream more of &s;poil, then re&s;titution, and their own profits, then the Nations peace, and of having their own turns &s;erved, then the Kings return; there may be &s;ome can|did, upright dealing men among&s;t them, which &s;eeing the mi|&s;eries
<PB N="34" REF="22">of their Nation have remor&s;e, and &s;hame for what hath been done; but for the generality of them, <HI>triplex Mercurius,</HI> there &s;eems to be a tripple headed Mercurie among&s;t them, confounded they are in their re&s;olutions. <HI>Sybilla horrendus ca|nit ambages, atque remugit, ob&s;curis vera involvens.</HI> This Sybil is in her trembling, variable an&s;wers, and loweth out of her den with a mixture of truth, and ob&s;curity. Few men &s;atisfied, mo&s;t men debating, and full of ambiguities and perplexities, <HI>ii&s;|dem &egrave;literis &amp; Comoedia, &amp; Tragoedia compenitur;</HI> out of the &s;ame Letters, both a Comedy, and a Tragedy is compounded; ye &s;hall find &s;uch &s;trange contraries wrought up together, that a man may &s;ay as <HI>Augu&s;t. plus aloes quam mellis,</HI> there is more aloes then honey in them; examine the ingredients, and ye &s;hall find this diver&s;ity of &s;imples in the compound, they a|count the Kings return not an ab&s;olute requi&s;ite thing, but <GAP DESC="foreign">, as <HI>Strabo,</HI> a nece&s;&s;ary evil.</P>
<Q>Scinditur incertum &s;tudia in contraria vulgus.</Q>
<P>This &s;ame vulgar is divided into &s;everal opinions, full of divi&s;i|ons and di&s;tractions,</P>
<Q><L>Et libet; &amp; timeo, nec adhuc exacta voluntas,</L>
<L>Et &s;atis in dubio pectora no&s;tra labant.</L></Q>
<P>The thing plea&s;eth and frighteth, the will is not compleat; but the bre&s;t to&s;&s;ed with various conceptions. And are there not the like alterations, di&s;ceptations, anxieties among&s;t a great part of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Merchants, and common people in general; yes, hear them &s;peak, if the King &s;hould not return, what &s;hall become of our oaths, prote&s;tations, exhau&s;t|ed Nation, and decayed Trade? if the King &s;hould return? what &s;hall become of the violences offered to the father, and the outrages to the &s;on, of the &s;ettling of our purcha&s;es, and the confirmation of our preys? one Parliament hath granted our conveyances, and another may cancel them, and wring our new-forged keys out of our hands. So that it is hard &s;ail|ing through the whirlepool, here are collateral winds blow|ing, in&s;omuch that though the &s;peech of all I&s;rael be come to the King to bring him home, yet <HI>Iudab</HI> &s;its in her tents mutter|ing, and &s;tunning, and doth not &s;tir at all, or if that tribe
<PB N="35" REF="22">doth move at length, it will be the la&s;t that appear; <HI>Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t to bring back the King?</HI> and if he be brought back, I doubt there will be bitter heart-burnings, why &s;ome are emploied, and not others in the re-in&s;talling of him; yea I fear that &s;ome &s;editious <HI>Shebah</HI> will blow a trumpet, and cry, <HI>to your tents, O I&s;rael,</HI> and that &s;ome haughty <HI>Ioab</HI> will be ma&s;|&s;acring an <HI>Ama&s;a</HI> that he &s;hould be commi&s;&s;ioned to reduce the Countrey to peace, rather then his all de&s;erving &s;elf. I fear &s;ome turbulent &s;pectacle or other to di&s;may the King up|on his return, yea, I &s;u&s;pect &s;ome <HI>Scotch</HI> receptions or <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Stratagems, the children are apt to &s;trive together in the womb, mens hearts will be boiling, their heads inventing, and their hands fatal. But away with all plots, and projects, &s;up|po&s;itions and oppo&s;itions, minings and counterminings, and fervently, and faithfully, candidly and cordially, ingeniou&s;|ly and in&s;tantly, bring back the King, abhorie to be out of the work, and be a&s;hamed to be the la&s;t, <HI>wherefore then are ye the la&s;t to bring back the King?</HI></P>
<P>Think what ye have &s;uffered for the want of him, what ye may enjoy in the fruition of him, oh that ye could b humbled for the driving him away, oh that ye could de&s;ire his return, oh that ye could prepare the highe&s;t joy that can be to enter|tain him, oh that ye could be dejected for the expelling him, Is it not an errour to cha&s;e away a King? is it not an heinous &s;in to put a King to flight? are Princes to be conte&s;ted with, and in an armed way re&s;i&s;ted? no; away with this damned po|pery, all &s;ober Prote&s;tants defy it, let the Vaticane of <HI>Rome</HI> be &s;tored with poi&s;ons, and pi&s;tols, dagges and daggers, engi|neers and canoneers again&s;t their lawfull Sovereigns, but let not the Reformed Church be &s;uch an Armoury. The primi|tive Church (I tell you again) u&s;ed no &s;uch Armoury, in the height of martyrdome, though Cities and Ca&s;tles were filled with Chri&s;tians, and they could have re&s;i&s;ted (if they would) &s;ucce&s;&s;efully. The Scripture doth allow no &s;uch artillery; doubtle&s;&s;e if we may not cur&s;e the King in our thoughts, we may nor cru&s;h him with our hands; if we may not meddle with them which are given to change, we may not change
<PB N="36" REF="23">both King, and government, the&s;e three po&s;itions are Para|doxes.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t that the people make a King, for the people almo&s;t do but choo&s;e him, the Ordinance do make him, and when he is once con&s;tituted a King he is out of the power, and con|&s;traint of the people, he can neither be depo&s;ed nor oppo&s;ed; no, the Ordinance doth &s;ecure him and his priviledges. This is for a King by election, and hereditary King hath a greater priviledge.</P>
<P>Secondly, that there is a Co ordination with Kings, for he which is &s;upreme can have no Co-ordination with hint; the be&s;t in the land, and the greate&s;t repre&s;entatives at the highe&s;t are but grand Coun&s;ellers, not joint Commanders. Was it ever heard that Coun&s;ellers were the principall men in an e&s;tate? Authority and direction are two di&s;tinct things. All the Members may help in execution of things, but &s;till the head doth maintain its honour.</P>
<P>Thirdly, that Kings in point of tyranny, &amp; idolatry may be repre&s;&s;ed, and &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, rejected &amp; ejected. I hear it, but I do not find it; <HI>Mana&s;&s;es</HI> I am &s;ure vomitted both the&s;e things, for he wor&s;hipped the ho&s;t of heaven, &amp; made his children pa&s;s through the fire to the idol <HI>Molech,</HI> and filled the &s;treets of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> with blood, and yet no Prophet &s;tirred up the peo|ple to rebellion again&s;t him. <HI>Is it fit to &s;ay to Kings ye are wicked? or to Princes ye are ungodly,</HI> Job. 34 18. No though Kings &s;hould be wicked, or ungodly, yet we mu&s;t not di&s;|po&s;&s;e&s;s the Devil with another, or cure a Princes &s;in with a greater crime of our own. Therefore <HI>again&s;t a King there is no ri&s;ing up,</HI> Prov. 30.31. when a King was but &s;et up by Prophecy obedience is enjoyned towards him. <HI>Thou</HI> Judah <HI>&s;halt have the Scepter, thy brethren &s;hall prai&s;e thee, thy Fa|thers, children &s;hall bow down before thee, thou &s;halt-be a Lions whelp that &s;hall come down from the &s;poil,</HI> thou &s;halt couch down, and who &s;hall rou&s;e thee up? <HI>Gen.</HI> 49.8, 9. And how do the Fathers children prai&s;e him, when they call him enemy to the State? how do the Fathers children bow down before him, when they &s;tand up again&s;t him with &s;pear and poleaxes? how do
<PB N="37" REF="23">they fulfill that, who &s;hall rou&s;e him up? when there are tho&s;e that dare rou&s;e him up, and clap him up? Are there not mary &s;pirits at this hour, and perhaps in this pre&s;ence &s;o bitter, that when there is but a motion of the Kings re|turn they are &s;o oppo&s;ite, to it, that they wi&s;h never to hear his trumpets blowing, nor behold his chariots &s;tirring nor to &s;ee his royal face; no they had rather that he were &s;mitten with &s;ome mortall di&s;ea&s;e beyond &s;ea, or drowned in his pa&s;&s;age or &s;lain at his landing, then that he &s;hould enter the Nation freely to come with pomp and triumph to his Throne. We have preached obedience the&s;e many years, but we have but taught <HI>ferrum natare,</HI> iron to &s;wim or but put our bread, as Plato &s;aid <HI>in frigidum furmum</HI> into a cold Oven, but let the Viper delight in biting (as the old Adage &s;aith) and Frogs in croking, but let all tho&s;e who are of the&s;e ve|nomous and &s;late troubling humours expre&s;s better di&s;po|&s;itions.</P>
<P>Away therefore with all paradoxes, and let us once again embrace true Orthodox Divinity, that Princes are to be obey|ed. Let tho&s;e which hold that Princes may be re&s;i&s;ted, de&s;i&s;t from this cur&s;ed opinion, for this is but to keep the fire-brand &s;till kindled in the Church. And let tho&s;e which hold that there ought to be no King upon earth but Chri&s;t at la&s;t be cured of this Luna&s;ie; for this is but to pull down lawful Kings, and to &s;et up mongrel Princes of their own faction. For will not men be a&s;piring to be Kings among&s;t the Pha|naticks? yea, there are none of them &s;o humble but if they can they will wear the Crown, <HI>Arthur</HI> hoped to have been a Prince, and &s;ome &s;ay <HI>Henry</HI> was anointed, and was not <HI>John</HI> of <HI>Leyden,</HI> where this opinion was mo&s;t rife an actual King? and a mo&s;t bloody one as ever was heard of? Oh that men there|fore would leave their delu&s;ions, and be guided by true in|&s;piration. Kings there may be, and Kings there mu&s;t be, Oh therefore let us acknowledge the calling and &s;ubmit to him, who by the Law of God, nature and Nations ought to reign over us. Have a reverend opinion of the name of a King, and honourable, and loyall thoughts to the per&s;on of a King;
<PB N="38" REF="24">yea and principally to your own lawful, indubitable, and in|valuable King, though he hath been a long time ob&s;cured; yet let him come and &s;hine in his proper Horizon; though he hath been driven out, yet let him be brought back. For think that your Countrey will never be happy, nor your Church ble&s;&s;ed, till the Guardian of the Countrey, and the Pa|tron of the Church, be re&s;tored. Let others therefore &s;tand upon their tiptoes to defie him, but be ye ready to bend your knees and honour him, let others be forward to bind his hands, but be ye ready to ki&s;&s;e his hand; let others go into the gunroom (if they can) to &s;hoot him back, but go ye to the tops of your turrets to &s;ee him coming; let others wi&s;h his ab&s;ence, but do ye pray for his return: &s;ay, oh that the bringing of him back were concluded on, oh that the day were dawned when he &s;hould &s;et forward, oh that our eares might hear that he were upon our &s;hoars, and that our eies could &s;et him within our &s;treets, oh that the citie were ecchoing to welcome him home, oh that his Court-gate were opening to entertain him, oh that the Crown Imperial were &s;etting upon his head. Walk not with plea&s;ure, eat not with contentment, &s;leep not with &s;atisfaction, till ye be happy in the &s;ight of his princely face; He is the true heir to the Crown, and would it not be an un|&s;peakable comfort to &s;ee (as the Scripture &s;aith) the inher|tance of the father pa&s;&s;e to the &s;on? <HI>Numb.</HI> 27.7. We have had too much of U&s;urpers, oh let us de&s;ire a Prince lineally de|&s;cended. Ble&s;&s;ed art thou O Land, when thy King is the &s;on of Nobles. He is eminent in vertues, and what a ble&s;&s;ing were it to us, to have a man after Gods own heart, made Captain o|ver I&s;rael? he hath been honoured in foreign lands, and how &s;hould our Nation be illu&s;tred to enjoy him, whom many Countries and Kingdomes have magnified, he hath high ex|perience in State affairs, and what a glory would it be to us to have &s;uch a Prince reigning over us, as hath been famed through Chri&s;tendome for his deep and profound judgement, he is merciful, and what a joy would it be to us, that after we have met with &s;o many bloud-&s;uckers, we might re&s;t in the bo&s;ome of &s;uch a tender-hearted father; he is valiant, &amp; how
<PB N="39" REF="24">would the pre&s;ence of &s;uch a pui&s;&s;ant Prince fill the Land full of prowe&s;&s;e, and make the fear of us, and the dread of us, to fall upon all Nations; he is of a magnificent &s;pirit, of prince|ly birth, and mo&s;t princely qualifications, that knows not (as I hear) how to be Prince enough in kindne&s;&s;e, bounty, and all manner of acts of honour, and Royalty, and if his beams be &s;o bright in an eclip&s;e, what a glorious Prince will he be when he &s;hines out in his full &s;trength, without oppo&s;i|tion, or interpo&s;ition. Away therefore with your abject, indi|gent, needy. low-born Princes, thimbl-Prince, awle-Princes, care-Princes, yard-wand, anvile, pe&s;tel, dyfat, brewfat-Prin|ces, men that were once not worth a Lord&s;hip, and yet dur&s;t challenge a Kingdome, &s;carce good Cotragers, and yet dur&s;t ne&s;tle in Palaces, not able to pay their debts, and now &s;haring Crown land. Is it not a foul blemi&s;h to &s;ee &s;uch lay hold on the legi&s;lative power, and to impo&s;e laws, and taxes upon three &s;uch va&s;t and renowned Kingdomes. And on the contrary, would it not be the greate&s;t fame and lu&s;tre to this Nation, to have royal bloud, royal qualifications, royal benificence, and royal authority joyned together? yes, a &s;upereminency of ex|cellency would happen to this Natio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> if we could get &s;uch a magnificent Prince into the Throne. Oh then, now ye &s;ee the King, and his perfections, and will ye invite him home, with demurres and deliberations, &s;u&s;pitions and he&s;itations, detra|ctions and protractions; no let him have that Prerogative, that h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s birth, and your oaths, the laws of God, and the laws of the land do allow him, and fetch him home with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">|gerne&s;&s;e, &s;end for him with &s;peed, call for him with longing de&s;ires, pave the way for him with your humble obedience, &s;ettle him in his Throne with a million of ble&s;&s;ings de&s;ired to him, and expected from him, be importunate and impati|ent till ye do enjoy him: &s;tay not till ye be led forth, but &s;trive who &s;hall go for mo&s;t, for when a King is wanting, what a &s;olitary Kingdome is there? if then he hath been compelled away by violence, it is but duty to &s;eek unto him to vi&s;it a|gain his Native Countrey. As it is a mi&s;erie to be deprived of him, &s;o it were a &s;hame to be the la&s;t in bringing him in, in
<PB N="40" REF="25">bringing him home, in bringing him back; <HI>Wherefore then are ye the la&s;t in bringing back the King?</HI></P>
<P>In conclu&s;ion I be&s;eech you all high and low, old and young, by the brickilne&s;&s;e that ye have wrought in, by the heavy Task ma&s;ters which ye have lived under, by the tem|pe&s;ts of &s;orrows that ye have been da&s;hed vvith, by the blevv &s;tripes that are yet to be &s;een upon your &s;ides, by the dange|rous &s;tate that the Kingdome is now in, and by the infinite mi&s;eries that are even ready to &s;eiz upon it, that ye <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ax wea|ry of other governments, and that ye &s;uddenly &s;top your ears again&s;t all inchanting Princes, which promi&s;e you a free &s;tate, and yet keep you in chains, and tell you of liberties, but they are felt only in loads, lo&s;&s;es, and la&s;hes, and &s;peak highly of the propagation of the Go&s;pel, but plague your poor &s;ouls with nothing, but the pre&s;ervation of all Chri&s;tianity, by &s;chi&s;ms, here&s;ies, and bla&s;phemies. Oh therefore de&s;ire no longer to be adopted children to &s;uch Fo&s;terfathers, for Step|fathers could not u&s;e you wor&s;e. And again I be&s;eech you by the &s;weetne&s;&s;e of peace, and the ble&s;&s;ing of ju&s;tice by your ci|vill liberties, and the liberty of con&s;cience, by the terrour of the bloud that hath bee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">hed, and to pre&s;erve the land from the effu&s;ion of more innocent bloud, that ye re&s;olutely op|po&s;e the&s;e incroaching rulers, and that ye pre&s;ently bring back your lawfull King, &s;o may the King have his right, and the Kingdome may have her peace, the Church may become holy, and the State may be made happie, ju&s;tice may be re&s;to|red, and trading may flouri&s;h, your con&s;ciences may be paci|fied, and your &s;ouls may be &s;aved, which that they may be, the Lord grant for his mercies &s;ake.</P>
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