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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91559	The cure of the kingdome, an old fashioned sermon treating of peace, truth, & loyaltie. A discovery of the diseases of the state, with a direction to the true, certaine, and only means for the recovery of health to this distressed nation. / By R.P. ...	R. P.	1648 (1648)	Wing P97; Thomason E465_10; ESTC R144	13,906	22

Creed and the Lords Praier they are lost So that our Church now travelling of this new birth of her now Reformation may with Phineas his wife cry out in her paines and call her issue Johabod that is where is the glory for the glory is departed Let us goe from the defaced Church and looke into the distressed world and see how the cry goeth there In every trade and calling there is a continuall crying Is it not now with us as Job observeth in a great snow signasti manus thou hast sealed up the hand of every man Iob 37. 7. As the hand is to the body so is money to everie trade and calling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the instrument of instruments what use or exercise can wee make of our trades when the warres command a great part of our monies and the Dearth a constant Waiter upon warre doth claime a second part I doubt the third part will be little to trade withall Lastly for the two last circumstances Matter and Manner All men are to desire Peace and Truth by all meanes and in all matters how soever they be handled whether they be matters of Difference or of Reference or of Conference First of Difference and reference When a Difference is ended by reference or Judgement without Peace and Truth there may finis causae non querela an end of the cause but not of the quarrell So for Conference if that be without Peace and Truth we are in some respect in worse condition then the Devils they though they lie to us yet they lye not one to another though they divide us by warres sects and schismes yet Satan is not divided against Satan Should we not abhorre to have our conversation worse then an hell upon earth the best meanes to represse these evils and to procure Peace and Truth in our dayes after true humiliation for sinne and earnest prayer unto God for mercy to avert his judgements from us is to call the King home to his wonted houses of abode that he may sit on his Throne of Majesty and rule his people under Christ with the Scepter of Righteousnesse and move in his proper sphere of Princely power The King is Pater patriae the Father of the countrey When the Master of the Family is long absent and that his stay exceedeth the expected time of his returne it causeth a dampe in his good servants a disorder in the bad what fallings out will there be in the Family what wishings amongst the servants O that our Master were once come home Indeed the Masters absence is a great cause of difference amongst the servants Wee are loath to beare hard commands from our fellow servants but when the Master commeth he commands all and all are quiet Indeed were the Master a Tyrant unjust unquiet harsh and cruell then the servants might wish his absence But for this our Master he is wise just meeke sober honest And I thinke I may safely say of him as it is said of Edward the third He was such a King as that none of the Kings before him had more vertues and fewer vices This Kingdome for want of this King amongst us is fallen into many dangerous disorders and distempers as there was sometimes when there was no King in Israel Iudg. 6. 6. This Kingdome is sicke and hath the symptomes of many diseases upon it as 1. A bloody issue in warre 2. The falling sicknesse in the fits of the monethly taxes 3. The Palsie in the Excise which commeth of the weaknesse of the sinews All the Land shaketh 4. The Ague which either turneth to a burning Fever which causeth a Phrensie or madnesse or into an Hectick Fever which consumeth to destruction There is a greater evill in this Land then all these and that is the Kings evill Let that be cured and we shall easily find Physitians for all the rest All the rest are rooted and grounded in this evill Now none can cure this but the King onely Onely his prayers his presence his stroakings nothing else can doe it Why should we languish when we may have health let us desire his comming to us let us long for it let us pray for it let us endeavour it which being effected the Son of Righteousnesse will come along with him with healing in his wings to cure the distempers of this distressed Nation This he grant who is our health and our salvation for his sonnes sake who hath borne our infirmities and cured our sicknesses even by the pretious Oyntment of his Holy Spirit to whom even God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be all Power Praise Might Dominion and thanksgiving both now and for ever Amen FINIS