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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50540	The new-cured criple's caveat, or, England's duty for the miraculous mercy of the King's and kingdomes restauration in a sermon preached before the honourable society of Grays Inn, upon the 29. of May, our anniversary thanksgiving / by Rich. Meggott ...	Meggott, Richard, d. 1692.	1662 (1662)	Wing M1618; ESTC R9894	22,309	48

Behold O ye Lawyers you are made whole in your Laws that are maintained your Courts that are upheld your Societies that are countenanced Behold O ye Souldiers you are made more than whole in the estates you have got the priviledges you have granted the Arreares which have been paid you In a word all of us may behold our being made whole in our peace which was disturbed our Liberty which was violated our indemnity which is granted And being thus sensible of our being made whole forget not the other Part of the Text to sin no more least a worse thing c. 2. General Sin no more against the Lord to provoke him to do such terrible things as he hath been doing among us of that largely before here let me add one word more Sin no more against the Lords anointed When Robert King of Naples desired Giotto then famous in Italy to paint him out his Kingdome he drew an Asse with a Saddle on his Back smelling to another new Saddle with a Crown and Scepter upon it the King demanding what he meant by it he reply'd this is the lively protracture of your People and Subjects who are still desiring new Lords and Governours Indeed had the Picture of England been to be drawn some years agoe it would have puzled a good Artist to have done it better How did the new-fangled tumults cloyed with the lusciousnesse of their antient constitutions hancer after every wilde Chimaera and Eutopian forme of policy that was started to them rather than have no new Government in the State some would send to Rome for a perpetual Dictator some to Holland for acurst Common-wealth others I had almost said to Hell for hardnamed Juntos it would almost fright you to repeat to you Rather than have no new alteration in the Church some would send to Geneva for a Presbyterian Parity some to New-England for an Independent Anarchy some to Munster for an Anabaptisticall Frenzy Yea so hot and eager were we upon those frantick crotchers that have them we must whatever we pay for them Caligula-like an Army must be raised to spend blood and mony that they may gather these Cockleshells And now my beloved now you have eat of the fruit of those unreasonable as well as unchristian projects tell me what taste had it where was the goodly reformation that they promised you where was the amendment of abuses they would rectify for you where was the glorious days they would make for you I cannot but think you are sensible a plague and a cheat was never so dearly purchased O now the omnipotent God hath wound us out of those wofull Labyrinths we had brought our selves into Sin thus no more Sin no more by your unthankfull repinings sin no more by your tumultuary complainings Sin no more by your Factious sidings Parliaments Sin no more by Disloyall Votes and Ordinances Preachers sin no more by Seditious Doctrine and discourses Citizens Sin no more by Rebellious Armes and Contributions Grant you must you were sadly punished for these sins before and be assured you will not come off so easily if you should returne again to them A worse thing will come unto you Vossius telleth us that the Tapejones in the West-Indies owne two Gods one who is the Author of all good the other the inflicter of all crosses and afflictions The good one he saith because such is the goodnesse of his nature that he punisheth no body nullo prosequuntur honore they are wholy regardlesse off but the bad one they pray offer sacrifices to quia iracundus sit cultus sui negligentes male perdat because he is fierce and will destroy them else I hope every misled person among us is of a better temper and will now love love his sweetly engaging Soveraign much because much is forgiven him but if any should be of so devillish a disposition as with the Clay to be the more hardned by these sun-beams the more embolded to new disturbances and insurrections as you could not but expect that as you snarled at one another before it would be worse you would devoure one another then So on the other hand you could not expect another Act of Indemnity to secure you then but a worse thing would come unto you But I forget my self This day calleth for Musick to affect you and not for Thunder to affright you I remember what the Massorites tell us that in foure books of Holy Scriptures viz. Ecclesiastes Isaiah Lamentations and Malachy when they are read in the Synagogues the last verse save one is repeated after the last because the last verses themselves end with threatning The end of my text doth so it endeth with threatning of a worse thing but I was thinking upon this blessed occasion to follow that president and close with repeating the former part of my text as suitable to the Triumph of this day behold thou art made whole but all things considered that it may be the stronger motive to you to sin no more I shall choose rather to sweeten the latter sin no more and a better thing shall come unto you What our God hath done for us as amazingly by great as it is shall be but the earnest of a larger bargain the first fruits of a fuller harvest the dawning of a brighter day this being made whole shall be but a Preface to our being made happy O sin no more this will keep all whole Sin no more this will keep the nation whole the nation that hath been an Aceldama a field of blood this will make it a Canaan a place of fruitfullnesse Sin no more this will keep the inhabitants whole the inhabitants that have been Benon●s's sons of sorrow this will make them Isaacks children of joy and laughter in a word sin no more this wil keep the church whole the Church that hath bin a Meribah a place of strife and contention this will make it a Hierusalem a City uniforme compacted and united within it self Thus we being better by sinning no more every day better and better things will be coming to us Which God who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and as a Testimony that he had not cast us off for ever brought again our Gratious Lord and King to sit upon the Throne of His Fathers this day grant every day more and more and in an humble sense of what he hath done already Let us ascribe unto him The Kingdome the Power and the Glory now and for ever more Amen FINIS

and clear that we may see our own features dress and posture in it and then I shall dimisse you Behold thou art made whole sin no more least a worse thing come unto thee When Luther eagerly read over the History of young Samuel how he was dedicated to God how the Lord appeared to him c. Caepit optare saith my Author Melchior Adam vit Lutheri Vt olim talem librum ips c. O that such a book might be made of him too Much of such a nature I cannot but tell you have my own thoughts been often with reading of this Scripture many a time in the days of our Tyrants and Taskmasters when we lay uncomfortably groaning for some good Angel to come down stir these waters of Marah my melancholly Loyalty thinking of this story hath been ready to sigh out Oh that this Text were verifyed in us too And now blessed blessed blessed be God! our eyes have seen it hujus voti deus nos abundè reddidit compotes a little to alter the Historians words upon this occasion at length it is come to passe compleatly and now the Kingdome is removed into this upper forme this is the lesson God is teaching every one in it Behold thou art made whole sin no more least a worse thing come unto thee A Text which in reference to us like Janus hath two faces like Rebeccah hath two Children like Homer's wise man looketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both forward and backward backward upon our past misery Behold thou art made whole forward upon our present duty sin no more least a worse thing come unto thee Of one part of it I may say as our blessed Saviour of another place this day is the Scripture fulfilled in your eares Behold thou art made whole of the other sin no more What day it will be fulfilled alas I am at a losse in But that we may see our selves the better let us once more split the Text assunder and look severally upon the two great parts of it The Commemoration of the mercy we have received The Admonition of the duty that must be performed Begin we with the first the Commemoration of the mercies we have received Behold thou art made whole If the ancient said of David's Psalms they were enough to make mutum eloquentem a dumbe man speak I may of this days deliverance it is enough to make caecum discernent em a blinde man see And yet the wretchednesse of turbulent and pevish spirits how many shut their eyes upon it A generation we have so exceeding sharpe-sighted they could behold Liberty in a Dung-hill Tyrant Law in high Courts of Justice Reformation in a sacrilegious confusion and yet good men are able to discerne nothing in a Lawfull Prince but jealousies in a setled Church but superstition in ancient laws but persecution they that taught them thus upon this day when they must appear in publick by the uncouth choice of their Texts sly drift of their discourses impertinent if not scandalous being carefull to speak no more to the purpose than they doe upon the thirtieth of January or one of the Churches Festivals too clearly manifest they are unwilling the people should behold any thing of mercy in the dispensation Indeed it is no great wonder for such as these licked themselves whole when the Kingdome was broke and they themselves are broke now the Kingdome is made whole But let us remember what it is this day is set apart for and that we may behold the dimensions of this miraculous deliverance not to stay in such haste upon the length of it which God grant may be as long as the Sun and Moon shall endure See a little The depth of it in its needfulnesse The Heighth of it in the Sweetnesse The Bredth of it in the Extensivenesse of its conveyance First the depth of it in its needfulnesse We were ready to say of it as Rachel of her Children give us this or we dy The Schoolmen dispute boldy whether God could have found out another way for the redemption of mankinde than the blood of his Son I like not that question so well as to start another as unnecessary and presumptious whether he could have found out another way for the setling of our foundations then the restoring of our Soveraign This I am sure of we men could pitch upon no other How did those Mountebancks and Quacksalvers of State that had the body Politick in cure try all conclusions that they might not fly to this prescribing sometimes the strong Purges of illegal Sequestrations sometimes the fasting Spittle of pretended Humiliations sometimes the letting Blood of a High Court of Justice constantly the Weapon-Salve of a domineering Army and what did all availe us All could see at last and acknowledge the Kings Evill was the disease which we were sick off and his hand onely could work the cure and him God gave us Consider Secondly The height of the deliverance in the Sweetness smoothnesse that it came to us Rabbi Bechai in his Paraphrase upon Gen. 49. R. Bechai co●… in Gen. hath nicely noted that all the letters in the Alphabet are to be found in the blessing of Judah except only I and the subtle reason he giveth us of the omission of that single letter is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifyeth a weapon and this was left out to hint to them that all the mercies they should enjoy should not proceed from their strength and valour but from divine love and favour What his affected curiosity fancied our own experience hath verifyed as many blessings in a lump as all the letters can well express have been restored of late and setled on us and all without Weapon or Blood-shed Sword or Speare Thus God delighteth to act by contraries when he would punish us he let the Embassadours of Peace Ministers beat our Plow-shares into Swords our Pruning-hooks into spears when he would deliver us he maketh the Children of Warr Souldiers beat their Swords into Plow-shares and their Speares into Pruning-hooks to carry it yet further let us Behold Thirdly The breadth of it in the extensivenesse of the mercy How farr did it reach Who is not the better for it Let none be so sottish as to mistake it for a particular mercy to His Majesty onely true it is he hath a Benjamin's portion in it this day he was made brought forth into the World and made whole brought back into His Kingdomes but this is not all though the blessings was poured out immediately upon Him the Head yet it ran down plentifully on His Subjects the hems of His Garment that all are made whole Behold O ye Nobles you are made whole in your priviledges that are returned your Honours which were despised your Families which were endangered Behold O ye Churchmen you are made whole in your worship that is established your jurisdiction that is restored your Revenues that were Ravished