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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88950	King Charles the II. his restitution. The best cure for Englands confusion; or A most soveraigne salve for healing the sores of the three nations. Being an alarme to the nobility, gentry, clergie, and commonalty to bend and lend their hearts, heads and hands unanimously for the speedy and peaceable restitution of their liedge, lord and King to his crown and dignity, and recovery of their native countrey from ruine and slavery; by certain prophecies and texts of holy truth properly applicable, and ever paralel to the present times and occasions in the nations. By Ed. Mat. a cordiall lover of his King and country.	Mathews, Edward, of London.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1288D; Thomason E1019_8; ESTC R202946	3,884	8

King Charles the II. HIS RESTITUTION 1 Star The best Cure for ENGLANDS CONFVSION OR A most Soveraigne Salve for healing the Sores of the three NATIONS BEING AN ALARME To the Nobility Gentry Clergie and Commonalty to bend and lend their Hearts Heads and Hands unanimously for the speedy and peaceable Restitution of their Liedge Lord and KING to his Crown and Dignity and recovery of thei● Native Countrey from ruine and slavery By certain Prophecies and Texts of holy truth properly applicable and even paralel to the present times and occasions in the Nations By Ed. Mat. a Cordiall Lover of his KING and Country O yee Children of Israell turn again in as much as yee are sunk deep in Rebellion Isa 3.6 Fear the Lord and the KING and meddle not with the seditious for their destruction shall rise suddenly Prov. 24. 21 22. Nullus est casus pro dignitate et libertate patriae non ferendus Cicer. Phil. 13. LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. A Soveraigne Salve for healing the Sores of the Nation T IS storyed of Craesus King of Lydia that when a dumbe Son of his saw a Traitor ready to stab his Father he conquered the naturall impediments of speech and distinctly cry'd out kill not the King That which wrought this wonder was the power of naturall affection by the operation of an extraordinary Sympathy Surely they are chargeable with a more then brutish even insensate stupidity and want of affection and Sympathy who will not now use what nature ordinarily affords to all speech at least yea imploy the primest powers and faculties of soule and body not the tongue and pen only but hearts heads and hands also to rescue their dear mother their native Country from ruine and slavery and restore the Father thereof their liedge Soveraigne Lord and King to his just rights Crowne and dignity and preserve both from the destructive designes and Traiterous attempts contrived and intended against them An honest Heathen will not be bribed by the offer of immortality to doe his Country injury ne immortalitatem contra patriam acceperim T is a fire in bones and I cannot suppresse it c. Davids zeal on this occasion is to be desired if I forget thee O England let my right hand forget c. if I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth yea if I preferre not the good of my King and Country to my cheife joy Psal 137.5 6. This duty puts the pen into my hand and without paint of Apology presseth me though least able of any to declare how dangerously the States Empericks practice upon the Bodies Politick of great Brittain and Ireland making it as the evill one their main work to propagate the since of their rebellion unto others otherwise well affected loyal faīthful to their King Country and their poysonous pills are guilded with the pretence of piety the publick peace and safety of the people whereas sad experience too truly shews nothing is produced but oppression and slavery confusion and calamity both in Church and State to the three Nations a flourishing glorious Commonweald is pretended and promised whilest a common woe and misery is the sole fruit we find of these golden promises And the principall designe of the contrivers hereof being to make themselves Masters of those that deserve better servants then themselves to continue an unlimited command and domination over the Nations exercise an arbitrary power over the people forcing them by an Army which the people must also maintain to submit to their insupporable oppressive taxes and impositions assuming to themselves the disposition of all the wealth and treasure places of profit trust and honour in the three Kingdomes yea arrogating a power over the lives liberties and estates of the freeborn people thereof By this time I hope t is cleer day even their eyes whose unwillingnesse to believe it made them as blind as Bartimeus are now open and awake to see how sadly a setled happy Government is subverted our lawfull liberties infringed our fundamentall laws contemned and everted and freemen made vassals to vile usurpers so that we may take up that sad lamentation with Jeremiah Lam. 5.5 8 12 14 15 16. Our necks are under persecution we are weary and have no rest Servants have ruled over us none would deliver us out of their hands The Princes are hanged up by their hands the faces of the Elders were not had in honour The Elders ceased from the gate there is no law nor form of Government the joy of our heart is gone our dance is turned into mourning The Crown of our head is fallen woe now unto us that we have sinned ver 12 14 15 16. Our Idolatry of a pretended Parliament and rebellion against our King hath brought this woe upon us whiles we waited for our vain help our eyes fail for in our waiting we looked for a people that could not save us Sam. 4.17 There the Prophet sets forth a two-fold cause of Israels destruction their cruelty and their vaine confidence in an arm of flesh which is cursed Jer. 17.5 Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and Isa 31.1 3. Woe unto them that stay upon their horses and trust in horsemen the help and the helped shall fall and faile together The Breath of our Nostrels the annointed of the Lord was taken in their nets of whom we said under his shadow we shall be preserved our good King Josiah is slain by them ver 20. doth not the Prophet speak of our times think yee I am sure t is a perfect paralell of our present condition And not unlike to this is that of the Prophet Isaiah where a Chaos like confusion is described The Nobles thereof shall call to the Kingdome and there shall be none none and all the Princes thereof shall be as nothing Isa 34.12 c. Intimating that there shall be neither order nor policy nor state nor Commonweale a sad presage for any place or people yet this hath been the portion of these Nations for almost twenty years last past God by his Prophet Zachariah sharply chargeth Israel as justly he may England with great ingratitude which would not be ruled by his most beautifull order of Government nor continue in the bands of brotherly unity and therefore he breaketh the two staves of beauty and bands the beauty of orderly Government bands of unity Zech. 11. Not unlike that judgement denounced against Israel for the wilde Grapes I will take away the hedge and fence from the vineyard Isa 5.4.5 c. So the Foxes of the Wood and the Bores of the Forrest may devour destroy So here the Lord menaceth them with merciless destructive Governors who should consume them without any remorse thinking they did no evil They that possesse them slay them and sin nor and they that sell them say blessed be the Lord for I am rich Zech. 11.5

c. Their own sheephards spare them not A just judgment upon them that spared not their milde and gentle Ruler therefore oppressing Hypocrites are set over them who have the name of God in their mouths but in their doings deny God attributing their gain to Gods blessing which cometh of the spoile of their brethren and for those and such like accounts have daies set apart for publick thanksgiving The Children of Israell saith the Prophet Hosea shall remain many daies without a KING and without a Prince and without an Offering and without an Ephod and without Teraphim c. Hosea 3.4 signifying that they should have neither Religion nor Policy Ecclesiasticall nor Civill Government and their Idolls wherein they trusted should be destroyed as the margent renders it Hath not this prophesy had full accomplishment in England hath not that Beautifull and flourishing Government both in Church and State setled and famous throughout Christendome been not for many daies onely but many years broken and interrupted and the Idolized Parliament the cause thereof and many other dolefull breaches in the Nations often also dissolved and now totally determined and infamously branded with an odious name of unfavoury reproach and their pillars of power their arm of flesh shrunk up and like Jeroboams hand withered most of their principall Officers cashier'd c. who seeth not the hand of God herein none but digitus dei hath done this The Prophet proceeds in the next verse to prescribe a cure for this confusion vers 5. Afterward shall the Children of Israell returne convert and seek the Lord their God and David their King and shall feare the Lord and his Goodnesse in latter daies The accomplishment hereof is at hand The Lord hath touched the hearts of the People and now after they have tasted the bitter fruit arising and growing from the root of Rebellion which beareth nought but the wormwood of woe wretchedness and the gall of grief and oppression they feel and find the want of their gracious KING and of an happy Government under him and resolve to returne from Rebellion and call home their banished and restore their lawfull KING CHARLES the most renouned Prince in Christendom to his rightfull Throne and Dominion The same Prophet proceeds cap. 10. to shew how the great disposer in whose hands are the hearts of both King People hath changed the Subjects hearts so that in stead of their former crucifige's they are now ready to receive their King with Hosannahs and Allelviahs and to make Recantation of their rebellion their heart is divided and now are they found faulty for now they shall say we have no King because we feared not the Lord is not our condition correspondent to Israels in that respect may we not say truly that the want of the fear of God hath been the cause we have so long wanted our Kin g behold saith the Lord the voice of the cry of the people is not the Lord in Zion Jer. 8.19 in England Is not her King in her why have they provoked me to anger intimating that as an argument of his displeasure hath nor the Government been toss'd and tumbled from hand to hand and none stands still remaines unsetled Hath not the Lord divided the hearts of the people and still continues a spirit of division among them that they shall not unite untill he come whose right it is to rule these Nations Set up what Governors or Goverment you can with all your turning devises contrive to resist your true King there is a mene mene c. ordained for prevention of all your designes The hand writing on the wall shall set you on shaking so that all your powers and policys shall fall and fail a tremor cordis shall possesse you trembling of soul shall cerify you and God shall blast all those unjust enterprises that tend to the resistance of the Kings restitution with a triple defeate and disappointment According to that of the Prophet Ezek. 21.27 I will overturn overturn overturn and it shall be no more untill he come whose right it is and I will give it him But hereof more in the next this being but the first of seven stars which by divine assistance shall be set forth to shine as bright beams and illustrious rayes of the Sun like glory of this right Royall Plant of Renown FINIS