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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66086	Beatitas Britanniæ, or, King Charles the Second, Englands beatituded as preached to the incorporation of the honour of Eay, in the county of Suffolk, March 31, 1661, being the Lords Day before their election of Burgesses, and the week before the choice of knights for the county / by Edward Willian ..	Willan, Edward.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2260; ESTC R98	30,979	47

unholy therefore both because without a King When there was no King Judg 17. 6. 21. 25. is Israel every man did that which was right in his own eyes And when every man did so but few or none did that which was right in the eyes of God And when it was so in the Land how could it be blessed Great was the wickedness then and great the wretchedness in Israel witness those wofull stories towards the end of Judges where all the evils both 〈◊〉 and poenae of sin and suffering be often ascribed to the Jud. 18. 1. want of a King non erat Rex there was no King in Israel And as Israels woes in diebus illis were for want of a King so were Englands of late Non erat Rex in Anglia we had not our King in England But almost every man plaid Rex and did what seemed good in his own eyes Yea every man but those good English Protestants that were true Royal●ists● and had the fear of God before their eyes Alas they only might not do what seemed right to them and was right indeed or not without dangers of censure and suffering They might not do right to their God nor right to their King nor to their Countrey nor to their own souls except in secret They might not serve God as they ought nor pray for this blessedness of my Text without hazzarding liberties livelyhoods lives and all Indeed much tender pity was then pretended towards tender Consciences but none intended indeed for any but those erroneous No kind of pi●tymight be extended to any good conscience that obliged to Loyalty nor to any pious soul that would not renounce the right English Protestancy The mercies designed for such were cruelties unless sequestrations proscriptions and trucidations were Acts of mercy or unless the forcing of men from conscience with Covenants and trappaning their souls with snares were mercies All sorts of Apostates might be indulged but no * Invidiam sortita est Religio S. August 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. 17. 3. true sons of the Church of England as in Greece of old and in old Rome men might have worshipped any God but only the God of Israel the onely true God or might have worshipped him with any but his own true worship so in England of late men might have been any thing but onely what they should have been they might have been of any new Religion they listed or of no Religion at all if they listed as too many were But might not be for that good old way Jer. 6. 16. they had been and ever should have been any but the Divine service of our Church might have been used toleration for any besides might have been purchased The Jews might have a Synagogue and had in Englands Metropolis to deny our Saviour and contradicted his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But English Protestants might not be protected Many were ruined Religi●nis ergo and others ran the hazzard Theirs was the saddest condition of any because there was no King in England We then were like to Israel for want of a King and should not be unlike the better Israelites now we have one When God had blessed them with a King they loved him as their lives and styled him the † Lam. 4. 20. L●cernam Israel 2 Sam. 21. 17. Quintus ● Curtius de Gest Alexandr lib. 10. Job 28. 13. Psal 27. 13 142. 5. Isa 38. 11. 53. 8. Ezec 26. 20 32. 23 23. Breath of their nosthrils and the Light of Israel We have now as just cause as I conjecture for the Light and Life of this our Israel went and came with our Soveraign The whole Land without him was but Corpus sine Anima a Body without a Soul as Q● Curtius said of an Army without a General We could not then look upon England as on Iobs or Davids or Isaiahs or Ieremies or Ezechiels Land of the Living It was a dying Life we living or a living Death we endured a state worse then Death indeed When this Preacher Solomon in his dayes had considered the oppressions done under the Sun and beheld the teares of such as were oppressed and had no Comforter On the side of their Oppressours there was power but they had no Comforter He praised the dead more then the living Eccles 4. 1 2. No● could he have done otherwise of late had he considered the Oppressions done in England and behold the teares of such as were oppressed and had no comforter Proh dolor non erat Rex in Anglia there was no King in England to relieve the oppressed or to enliven those that were even worse than dead The Natural Bodie wanteth Life when it wants a Soul so did the Bodie of this Land when that Civil Soul King was parted from it And Carkess-like it corrupted apace and bred devouring Vermine which lived like themselves upon the Bodies of other Men's Estates while others their betters did not could not live as otherwise they might Alas good Subjects did not live but suffer for simplex vita non est vivere sed valere It is not to live merely to have life but to enjoy it But that we did not could not when the Civil Soul of our Nation and religious Soul of our National Church was forced to a sorrowfull state of separation Most heavy oppressions were all Surely oppression maketh the wise man mad Eccles 7. 7. abroad Such as made some wise men mad and some mad men Wise So wise as to see their want of a King yea so wise as to understand that England's real Comfort is onely in a Royal Comforter It was merely by Antiphrasis that some would needs be miscalled Conservators and others Protectors when P●ety and Loyaltie could find no Protection because no King in England But blessed be the King of Rev. 17. 14. kings we have one now to do us right one that hath already enlivened and enlightened the Land as holy Iob has Iob 33. 30. it Luce viventium with the Light of the living And nothing now can seem more seasonable than Acts of Oblivion in reference to the late Oppressours and to the Powers on their side Yet nothing can be less sutable than present forgetfulness of such Oppressions in reference to God our Saviour who hath so redeemed us from them It is indeed S. Chrys Homil. ad popul Antiochen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as S. Chrysostome saies of Sadness to retrive any thoughts of those injurious Times Yet must they be thought of not to corroborate Animosities nor yet renovare dolores to rub old sores much less to beget Resolves cruorem cruore reponere if † Tertul. Lactant. Institut l. 5. S. Hieron Epist 128. ad Fabiol 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 12. 13. Memineris quod servus fuisti in ●erra c. Deu. 5. 15. noble Tertullian's phrase may be so taken to recompence evil for evil But for more pious purposes As first