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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84319	An eye-salve for the city of London: discovering unto them the great engagement that lyes upon them in point of duty and interest, to joyne speedily with the kingdome for the restoring of His Majesty, and the re-setling of the lawfull government and peace of this nation. / By a lover of peace and truth.	Lover of peace and truth.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3937; Thomason E445_7; ESTC R201958	14,736	22

AN EYE-SALVE FOR THE CITY OF LONDON Discovering unto them the great Engagement that lyes upon them in point of Duty and Interest to joyne speedily with the Kingdome for the restoring of His Majesty and the re-setling of the lawfull Government and Peace of this Nation By a Lover of Peace and Truth PROV 24.21 My sonne feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Printed in the yeare 1648. A short Advertisement to the Common-Councel of the City and to all other Citizens concerning the Contents of this Book Gentlemen and Fellow-subjects IT was a wise saying of a wise man Prov. 27.6 Faithfull are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull And truely I am afraid you have had many such kisses and some of them too like that of Judas from the mouthes of pretended Disciples and Apostles as it were who have soothed you up in your sins and sought by faire words and deceitfull colours to dawbe over your flawes with untempered morter not to cure them but to cover them and to make sure your ruine I am sorry to think that this hath been the businesse of some Pulpits now so lately amongst you when the paint of Religion and Piety that hath been drawn over the horrid mischiefe you wot on is growne so fading and withered and the ugly wickednesse of the strumpet of Sedition is so visible to the whole Kingdome and she forsaken and hated of so many that formerly doted upon her sophisticate beauty that yet they should be so impudent and goe about to make so cleere a merchandize of your soules unto your faces as to perswade you stil to entertain such a loathsome and hatefull in your bosomes I shall say no more to them at this time but as Michael did once unto Sathan The Lord rebuke them Not unto you concerning them but to advise you that you will not so far betray your selves to those that walk in the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward having received as you may too probably suspect the hire of your destruction as to let them bewitch you into an incurable condition As for me I come to you with sincere affections both to your owne and the Kingdomes good And though you may perceive me to deale plainly with you yet I assure you I meane nothing but benefit unto you If my pen have the sharpnesse of a launce in some things yet you will find my Inke to have Balsome in it in other things My searching is to make way for healing Let me entreat you not to be impatient of the one and I hope you will find much comfort in the other Genus quoddam Martyrii est non ignobile saith Saint Augustine reprehendentem aequanimiter ferre It is a noble kind of Martyrdome to endure the stroak of Reproof with a patient mind Be pleased therefore to reade it through without prejudice and I doubt not but you may find Cordials at last for every irkesome purgative in the beginning Let me not become your enemy because I tell you the truth I will say no more for my Apologie then what Quintius the Consul said once unto the Romanes in a case not in all things unlike unto this wherein I have to doe with you The Romanes it seemes were then in a slothfull and stupid condition and he doth not spare like an honest man to tell them of it that he may rouze them from it Sedemus desides domi saith he mulierum ritu inter nos altercantes praesenti pace laeti nec cernentes ex otio illo brevi multiplex Bellum rediturum We sit lazily at home like women holding debate with one another We please our selves with our present peace not fore-seeing how many wars will shortly rise up out of that sloth And as he draws to a conclusion with them so give me leave to make my entrance with you His ego gratiora dictu alia esse scio sed me vera pro gratis loqui etsi meum ingenium non moveret necessitas tamen cogit vellem equidem vobis placere Quirites sed multo malo vos salvos esse qualicunque erga me animo futuri estis I shall English it thus I know well that other language might be more acceptable unto you then that which I am now to deliver But although mine owne disposition did not admonish me yet very necessity doth exact it of me rather to speak things true then acceptable I would most gladly please you Grave Senatours and Citizens But I much more desire your safety and preservation however you shall be affected toward me And since there are so many that are plotting both within you and about you to engage you to expose your selves unto ruine that you may serve the turnes of their sinnes and wicked interests Be not offended at one plaine-dealing friend that desires to move you unto your owne preservation To the City of LONDON ARe you not ashamed to see the spirit of Courage and Loyalty moving so cheerfully in the Country round about you for the restoring of His Sacred Majesty and the re-settlement of the Peace and Government of this Kingdom and you to sit still and say nothing nor put to the least of your fingers to set it forward Were you so early and so hasty to be a wretched example unto others in kindling the flames of Sedition and Confusion in this Nation to satisfie the lust of your pride and rebellious hearts and wil no exactions of Conscience stir you up nor no examples provoke you to bring so much as a bucket to the quenching of them Have you no regard of the miseries and oppressions of your pious and gracious King trampled upon by base and unworthy vassals with more then Turkish and Heathenish cruelty Suffering so many barbarous injuries and persecutions in his Crowne in his Honour in his Liberty in his Revenue in his Queen in his Children in his Servants in his very soul being not so much as allowed a Chaplain to assist him in Religion no regard of the sad and bleeding condition of this Church and Nation ready to be embroyled againe in blood and ruine and to become a prey unto forraign Nations no sense of the heavy Calamities that hang over your City which is like to be made the prize of our ensuing contentions Do you not yet see that there is no way probable upon earth no course allowable or approveable from heaven to repaire those ruines which are already broken in upon us or to disperse those other clouds that threaten us round about but our returning unto God and restoring of his Anointed Are the eyes of the whole Kingdome opened and are you onely incurably blind Are the Country people sensible of their engagements and can your City be so stupid as to think themselves lesse obliged than the rest Have not your sins as well as theirs been the sad Factors of our