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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86216	A changling no company for lovers of loyaltie, or The subjects lesson in poynt of sacred submission to, and humble complyance with God and the King; wherein confusion is reduced to order, misery to mercy; reproach and shame to freedom and honour.	W. H.	1660 (1660)	Wing H150; Thomason E1021_4; ESTC R208372	35,158	56

Wood where we may see under over and through it each end and side of it and yet cannot get out of it Is not our nation betrayed by it self either pitied scorn'd or hated by all where have we a friend where not an enemy In such a case who will not say What shall I doe It hath often been the result of my serious thoughts I have often with Paul breathed out Lord What wouldst thou have me to doe Your consciences your honours your interests your posterities cannot I am confident but engage your most constant desires and endeavours with a holy and watchfull prudence for the glory of God and the peace and happinesse of this nation In such a case if you shall enquire of God as I hope you have done take this returne as an Oracle of divine truth and a most sacred directoty My sons fear you the Lord and the King c. Let not the greatest take it for a solecisme that the meanest of their servants calls you son God often intrusts his treasure in earthen vessells Poor Eliah was in some sence a Lord with that good and great Courtier Obadiah and Moses a man and of mean parentage upon a divine account was no lesse then a God to Pharoah but indeed the counsell is of God who am I that I should attempt or undertake such a design unsolicited by any but moved by that good ●●irit of God mercifully preventing me in all the duties of my calling I have appeared It is very true that there is somthing in piety as well as Policy to countenance that which some account unparaleld prudence evidenced in silence the prudent will keep silence in that time for 't is an evill time But there is as a time to keep silence so a time to speake Believe it the banes betwixt the King and his people hath been published once and again those that it is either now time to speak or to be silent for ever Such a marriage would be honourable amongst all men May it therefore goe on and prosper all that are sons of Sion pray for the Peace of our Jerusalem and may they prosper that love it in order to which fear the Lord and the King This is our duty and will be our safety I have had some struglings within me whether fully to subscribe my name or no I have resolv'd not to do it not that I fear any danger or apprehend any cause of danger The greatest enemy is envy but because I would not Court applause or worship the Rising Sun Take all the notice I shall afford you I am A Lover of Truth and Peace W. H. A CHANGLING no Company for the Lovers of LOYALTY Prov. 24.21 22. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both THe genius of the Text as it is plain pleasing and plausible so it is necessary just and honourable I cannot in these dayes of confusion but congratulate the Text to the times oh that I could reduce the times to the Text I cannot but own it as a guide to the blind as a naile of the Sanctuary fastned in a sure place as a seasonable speech spoke by him that sits in the congregation of the Gods is president in all the counsels of men and establish or overthroweth them at his pleasure what shall I say I looke upon it as the only balm of our Gilead prepared by God and to be apply'd by men for the health and recovery of the daughter of his people Licurgus the great Law-giver to the Lacedemonians and no lesse then a King in Sparta ordain'd that if any man came to propound a novelty he was to come with a halter about his neck to signifie his submission to a speedy execution in case that which he propounded was judged evill and inconvenient tending to sedition or ruine but if just necessary and safe his halter was taken off and an honourable reward assign'd him for his good service and encouragement The latter of those I expect not the former I do not fear I know whose the command is and who hath appointed it It is divine and therefore uncontroulable It is a charge not a humble Petition or Advice But was it meerely morall The saying of Seneca Isocrates Plato Aristotle yea of Machivell himself The state of affairs justly lookt upon with prudent and impartiall eyes such as are neither blood-shot nor have the beams of profit and self-love then I durst and would if call'd to it before a free and full Parliament not packt by faction nor over-aw'd by force propound it in the Lacedemonian posture as the best advise most seasonable and sutable counsell that they can take or any man can give Fear the Lord c. Wisdome and authority say our Lawyers necessarily concur to the being of a law Wisdome without authority makes as little impression upon some mens spirits as an arrow upon a wall of flint it may be powerfull to do well but seldome prevalent to hear well The wisdome of a poor wise man may deliver the city but no man regards or rewards the poor wise man Authority without wisdome easily degenerates into tyranny no fury like a fool cloath'd with authority Absolon and Abimeleck of old our Butlers Brewers and Coblers now adays can sufficiently evince it I countenance it in none I abhorre it in all better is a wise child then an old and foolish King But in my text wisdome and authority go hand in hand and God himself having joyn'd them together let not man dare to put them asunder if we look upon God the Author of this and all other holy writ who shall resist his will If upon the penman it was Solomon for his wisdome stil'd the Preacher for his authority the son of David king of Israel Solomon as he had a threefold title so had he also a threefold imployment in holy Scripture we may not unfittingly terme his three books his Ethicks his Physicks and his Metaphysicks or if you will they seeme to have relation to or resemblance with the three integrall parts of his sacred building The First was the Court of the people common to all Israelites The Second The Court of the Priest into which might come only the Tribe of Levi. The Third The Temple and holy of holies into which might enter Priests especially consecrated to that purpose for the time and the high Priest in the most sacred and solemne feast The Song of songs is only a fit subject for sanctified souls none that are common or prophane may enter into it or intermeddle with it Ecclesiastes is only fit for the Preacher or worthy Church-man But the book of the Proverbs is of generall concernment belonging equally to the Prince and Peasant and such is the Text equally directed to every man high and low rich and poor every soul My son fear thou the