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A42487	Kakourgoi, sive Medicastri slight healings of publique hurts. Set forth in a sermon preached in St. Pauls Church, London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermen, Common Council, and companies of the honorable City of London. February 28. 1659. Being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God, for restoring the secluded Members of Parliament to the House of Commons: (and for preserving the city) as a door of hope thereby opened to the fulness and freedom of future Parliaments: the most probable means under God for healing the hurts, and recovering the health of these three Brittish kingdomes. By John Gauden, D.D.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G361A; ESTC R215531	65,440	132

What peace can there be while fleshly lusts and all manner of evil concupiscence in Rulers and ruled fight against mens own souls against Gods Spirit and against the publique welfare while worldly lusts of pride envy covetousness ambition and Sacriledge daily supply matter for general discontents publique wars and perpetual woes What peace or healing can there be in Church and State while men of the same polity are like Pikes in a pond or fish in the sea or beasts of prey in a wilderness pursuing and devouring one another while neither the bonds of the same Laws nor the same Oathes nor the same Covenants nor the same Religion can hold them while they will not indure the same Magistrates nor the same Ministers nor the same form of Church and State while they have so little equity so no piety or charity to each other while every petty person among the Prophets and people aims to set up a party of faction and every party designs to subdue others to set up it self and to oppress the common liberty and publick welfare which are only contained in those Laws that are made by the consent of all Estates in the Nation What peace can there be where there are so many tumults and strifes so many whispers and jealousies so many fewds and animosities in the brest and bowels of the same Nation for want of that rare Elixir of lawful and just government which only is able to compose the distracted spirits to give a just allay and temperament to all humors and parts in their due places and proportions except they be such as are indigestable to any good order and are better purged out than kept in the body Alas these pitiful partial applications these diurnal doses these borary medicaments these slight and superficial plaisters these verbal and decretal healings which some men have so gloried in and vapoured of are as ridiculous as they have been inefficacious unless these great Masters of their new arts these Galens and Hypocrates of Church and State were so in favour with some Esculapius as to partake of his Diety and so by the words of their mouths or shadows of their bodies or touch of their garments to rebuke the Feavers of the body politick and immediately to cure as by miracle what they have so long tampered about to very ill purpose But as an illfavored Physitian is an ill omen to his patient especially if he look ill from his being ill therebeing no great hope that the Physitian should cure others who doth not or cannot cure himself so the busie Practitioners on the Daughter of their people should do well first to commend their skill to the publique by giving some good experiments on their selves by curing their own corrupt hearts or crazy heads by recovering themselves from those vertigo's megrims and falling sicknesses with which they have been so oft afflicted let them wash their own foul hands and cleanse their double minds let them cease to do evil and learn to do good Let them do all things not arbitrary ad libitum libidi●●● but as exact Physitians and Apothecaries per pondus mensuram by weight and measure by the rule and standard of the Laws of God and man which give or restore or preserve to every one what is their own by such purchase donation descent and honest industry wherein their rights are made good by Law and which they have no way forfeited by any injury to the publique of which the Laws of the Land and lawfull Magistrates are the only lawful Judges Let them not think by a little Fasting-spittle to cure the hurts of Church and State nor yet by their solemne feasts This is the fast and this the feast the Lord hath chosen comely for true religion and wholsome for the Nation To loose the bands of wickedness to undo heavy burthens to break every yoak of unrighteous decrees and acts to restore what is unjustly that is without law taken away from any man to do as they would be done unto to deal justly to all men to shew mercy even in deserved Justice and after all to walk humbly with God This do O ye Physitians of my people and you shall live This do and the daughter of my people shall live being throughly healed of the wounds she hath received in the house of her seeming friends For it was not an open Enemy of the heathens round about which hath done her all this hurt But her own Children Let them cease from being Rebellious Children companions of Adulterers Robbers and Murtherers return to that duty they owe to their God and their civil Parents to their Country and their Church or to that pity and compassion they owe to their Children and Posterity whose teeth will certainly be set on edge by the ●ower grapes their Fathers have eaten Jer. 31. 29. Then shall health spring forth speedily righteousness shall go before and the glory of the Lord be thy rearward Then shall they be as Fathers and Sons too of the Nation who shall build the old wast places repair the breaches and raise up the foundations of many generations which have been overthrown overthrown overthrown after they had continued firm for many Ages as to the stability of Church and State under Gods indulgence and the care of good Magistrates But since these Tamperers are so justly and severely reproached by God and the Prophet for their slight healing which was indeed none at all the more cruel by how much they were more cunning to keep the daughter of my people in continual pain and themselves in constant practice and pay It will not be amiss more particularly to examine in the sence of Gods Spirit and his Prophet whence this malice or mistake had its rise how this slight healing did befall the daughter of his people and how it is to be avoided as much as Death and Hell and Devil First it comes by unskilfull Empiricks such as neither understand the Science of Physick nor the Art of Chirurgery neither the cause nor the symptoms nor the proper and specifick medicines for such hurts and diseases as Church and State may labour under which possibly may be as many as the natural bodies of men are subject to if a man had a true Anatomy of the parts and constitution with all accidentall distempers incident to the body Politick from within or without When men of little or no literature of as little experience in matters of policy and prudence of mean capacity and education of small minds and narrow souls do undertake the cure who are easily deluded and gulled byassed and swerved with fair words specious pretenses and partial yea pivate interests especially if these novel interests have any smack or tincture fucus or form of more than ordinary godliness when these easie shallow and inconsultive men of giddy heads and rash hands full of childish credulity and popular formalty

up Hydropick bodies till they kindle in them calentures and make them as tindar apt fewel for a Feaver they draw away so much blood pretending it is bad till the Patient Church and State loseth withal much of its best blood and purest spirits so falling at last into fits of convulsion and such emaciatings as betray to desperate consumptions Thus they are prone totally to abandon a good an excellent a long tried yea and the only adequate way of Government that can be adapted to all just interests in Church and State out of a popular prejudice against some misgovernments incident to the Governors and to the best Governments which are sooner remedied then a new one modelled and fitted as a crackt silver vessell is sooner sodered and new burnished then a new one malleated out of the rough m●ss or wedge of metal Thus Dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt for want of wise honest and steady Physicians remedies over-driven prove worse than the diseases and a Nation is further off from cure after twenty years passionate practice than it was at the first cause of complaint This fals out when Physicians grow so sympathysing or symbolising with their petients pevish passions and humors that they flatter their diseases and fear nothing so much as to cure them with that discreet severity and moderation which permits not the outcry when greater than the grief nor the importune clamor of the patient either to keep him short or carry him beyond the reality of the disease Since health of the body as vertue which is the health of the mind consists {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the mean between extreames T is too true as in Patients and Physicians so in people and Parliaments perit judicium quum res transit in effectum when Physicians so much mind their patients distemper and clamor that their minds contract a disease that sets them next dore to a kind of raving or madness or dotage of which all men are thought in some degree guilty who either much over-do or underdo what they undertake to do as he that broke the pitcher which he was to wash and burnt or pulled down that house which he had commission only to sweep or repair and cut off that head for aking which was only to be shaved and forrified with some defensive plaister against the rheume To these transports of some men who were much swayed by the passionate outcries of some people we owe the loss of our antient Government and have run the sad ventures yea shipwracks of Anarchy so long in both Church and State 4. When these pretended healers look more at the lesser symptoms of the diseases or at the putid excrescencies of the sore than at the ro●t and fountaine of the malady when they regard more the sufferings of a Nation then their own or other mens gross sins and are more sensible of mans prejudices and displeasures than Gods It is a rule in Physick In complicatis morbis acutiori attendendum In complicated diseases the maine care must be to give check to that which is most accute malignant and predatorious of the spirits for if these faile or be not refocillated both nature and art as Hippocrates says must needs fail they are then very impertinent Physitians who seeing a Patient in an high feavour are more solicitous to take away some cloths or covering which seems too hot on them then to mitigate the flames of that fevorish furnace which boyles within them Sect. Here by grosse mistakes some Physitians take non causam pro cause angry at some Ceremonies and scared with meer shadows more than with grosse sins that are most immoral and substantially evil as I may say This runs even Reformation it selfe many times to a Deformity while Physitians look so much to some appearances of evil that they neglect what is most apparent evil Thus men quarelled in their little cavils at the Liturgy so much about some things they lesse fancyed or understood as to the Antiquity and Innocency of their sence and use that they never regarded either the excellent matter and forme of the Prayers and Administrations in it or their own dull cold and formal application to them when indeed they deserved for their Divine Truth to be believed and for their publique use and charity to be entertained with humble intentive fervent and devout affections the fault was not in the holy formes but the unholy formality Nor lastly did they bethink themselves of the great want which plainer people have of such wholesome compleat wonted formes of Publique Prayers and administrations which they can best learn and understand and intend For daily variety in Religion such as some men affect is almost as inedifying to poor countrey people as Latin service nor is any Symbol of Christian union more proper in any Church and if it could be in all the Churches then to have where ever they come the same Summary sence and solemnity of holy mysteries and such duties are ill left to all private mens fancys yea or to all Ministers suddain and extemparary abilities though they be able men Sect. If lying and swearing and riot and luxury if Schisme and perjury and sacriledge and Hypocrisie and bloodguiltinesse if covetousnesse and ambition and immoderate revenge if discontent and impatience against God and Superiours if malice and high uncharitableness if bribery and corruption if popularity formality idlenesse and debauchery in Ministers if peoples immoralities and prophanesse factiousnesse Atheistical indifferency and rude insolencies if these and the like great hurts of the daughter of my people had been cordially reformed and by reinforced Lawes with due execution of both Civil and Ecclesiastical discipline had been so purged out or curbed and abated that the flagrancy and predominancy of them had been generally allayed doubtlesse the publique welfare might have consisted with those other things of convenient and comely use in Church and State at which some mens zeal did so rise and over-boyle that it almost quenched all Religion and Civility to sordid confusions Sect. 5. When these pretended healers do either by immoderate tampering and dilatoriness multiply diseases or by stopping one orifice indiscreetly make a score or force ill Humors to shift their seat and transfer Diseases alike the running gout from one part to another from the head to the hands thence to the feet and at last to the heart still the inward malady remains unpurged the daughter of my people as to the main is not healed so to rectifie the more feared than felt excesses of Monarchy and Episcopacy a greater Tyranny may be easily raised not only in a downright Anarchy but there are tyrannous and tedious burthens to be feared even in the best Democracy or Aristocracy that can be modelled for Church or State where as the teeth of harrows are worse than the point of one sword so many Reguli or Masters are like

in honor and conscience in Reason of State and for the repute of the Reformed Religion from whose face such black and bloody stains must be washed if ever she will appear lovely to the world and not as the Whore of Babylon who was drunk as well as besmeared with blood All the inventions and projects of making supplies and amends by some other Commonwealth way is no better than getting a wooden leg or hands of clouts instead of such as are natural or as ● bolster of g●ats hair instead of David The body cannot have ease or orderly motion or beauty and complexion till every part is restored to its place office and proportion 2. When the venom and core of the main distempers is removed the next work of a wise Physitian and Chyrurgeon is Sana Medicamina applicare to follow the Patient with wholesom medicaments as are 1 probata approved upon the file of long experience 2 propria specifica as apt proper and specifick as can be had considering the genius and constitution of the Patient also the original continuance and progress of the disease cures are by contraries those medicines will most certainly help which most encounter the principal causes of our maine disease and are proper antidotes against the malignity of our sores It is but the capricious and ridiculous conceit of some fine men who want employment to send this now languishing State of England and the other two adjacent antient and united Kingdomes to Mars his hill in Athens or to the Lacedemonian Sparta or to the Roman Capitol or to the Venetian Arsenal or to the State-house of the low Countries and so to send the Church to Geneva Edinbrough or Amsterdam as if we were Churches or Nations of yesterday in our bibs and swadling clouts to be dandled in the laps of such dry nurses and this in order for sooth to learn some unwonted models of civil and Ecclesiastical Government which like new garments will hardly fit for they will be either uneasie because too straight or unhansome because too loose Doubtless in Governments that Scripture Proverb of Wine holds true the elder is the better if it have not lost its spirits especially when not onely time and use but great wisdome had proportioned it to the true interests of the Nation and of all estates in it which follow much the genius of the people if they be either soft slavish and pesantly as in some countrys or robust manly and generous as in England the first will easily croutch under any burthen and truckle under any prevalent power the second is hardly contained in any bounds but those that are Soveragine and Imperial by way of monarchical yet legal Majesty which having something in it neerer the Divine Idea than any other way of Government by the perfection of wisdome guiding power and power assisting wisdome is onely fit to govern those Nations whose high spirits are impatient to be ridden by their equals much more to have their inferiours to become not only their rivals but superiours When the Cappadocians had leave to be a Province or popular State under the Roman Empire they refused the freedome and craved the favour of having a King to rule them as they ever had time out of mind professing the temper of the people was such that they would not be subject to any but those in whom Majesty was so concentred by the Laws and customs of the Nation that they could without shame and disdain pay an homage as subjects to them Herein experience hath been and will be our teacher but then it will be and hath been as Hippocrates begins his Aphorisms {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a costly painful difficult and dangerous experiment and if at last it do not fit the Genius temper and desire of these Nations so as to ease them of their terrors and vast charges of civil War to free them of the fear of Enemies at home and abroad to settle them in such peace and plenty as many yet remember they injoyed before the flood of our civil wars to open the obstructions of trade and those veins of industry by which the body is maintained by the secret circulation of commerce as of the blood if all these Symptomes Concomitants or effects of health do not follow the essayes of new formes of Government alas what do we all the while but keep the daughter of our people upon the rack of paine and expence using a kind of a State Strappado by which to bring the armes to hang backwards rather than forwards so as they can neither lift up themselves to their head nor yet defend and help the body or themselves so by a dreadful convulsion to bring all things of antient order honor and beauty in the nation to the distractions and deformities which must needs attend such novelties as are not proper for the publique nor practicable without continued force and endless charge 3. Their healing medicines must be plenaria Catholica such as may in time do the work compleatly yet with leisure and discretion For momentary cures are onely miraculous So as carefully to preserve the good spirits und humors to strengthen the sound parts yet remaining to follow the grand crises of the disease and the indications of health which way evil humors are easiest discussed breathed out or purged still conserving the two main principles pillars and supports of health life and subsistence in the body politique the radicale humidum as I call it which is plenty by trade and industry that there be no crying out nor complaining by those whose mouths cannot eat if their hands be idle 2. That calidum radicale the sacred fire or celestial flame which Prometheus is said to have kindled in mankind which shines in reason and religion in Justice by good Laws well executed by Magistrates and in devotion by the holy publique worship of God solemnly discharged by able and autoritative Ministers both which are the grand designes of good learning which is the souls school for improvement and education during its minority or absence from its Fathers house till it comes to vision and fruition which sets it beyond all learning but that of the Fathers glorious example No civil laws can be wholesome for the publique which do enterfeer with true Religion which either rob God or his Church or his Vicegerents and Ministers or his poor of what is their due nor can any Ecclesiastical laws be healthful which cross the civil laws and authority so as to bring in licentionsness injuriousness rebellion or any thing that is for Doctrine fanatick or for practice injust and immoral all which like poysonons touchings or unwholesome feedings are destructive to the publique health The perfect healing of the Church and Religion as Christian and reformed whose divisions hurts and deformities are many will hardly be done without calling those spiritual Physitians together after the primitive pattern