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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

Instructions and their doing making their Doctrine to blush when they heal publick Enormities or calamities by I know not what novel Inventions and magick spels of fine words which are no better than the powder of a post compared to the approved Catholick prescriptions of 1600 years which were soveraign for Clergy and Laity to preserve order and unity soundnesse of doctrine and ins●andalousness of manners in the Church of Christ under Christian Kings and Queens who were bountiful nursing Fathers and Mothers to the Church of Christ and the Clergy yet not by the Dominion and pomp luxury and tyranny of Bishops nor yet by the Factious and refractory humours of Presbyters much less by the schismatick saucinesse of people who cast off both Bishops and Presbyters but by the fatherly gravity prudence and Eminence of godly and Reverend Bishops by the brotherly assistance and son-like subordination of sober and orderly Presbyters by the service and obsequiousness of humble and diligent Deac●●● and by the meek submission of Christian people to the Care Monition Councel and respective Superiority of every order as sheep to their Chief Shepherds and their Assistants o● Attendants Divide this chain of Church-Union Order and Communion in vain shall we talk of bealing the Flock of its scabs and scratches or hurts I confess that I own and ever shall do Primitive Episcopacy with Presbitery so that as St. Paul speaks in another case Neither of them should be without the other in the Lord Neither of them oppressed or extirpated but so regulated and incouraged as I believe all moderate and learned men desire if it be my fault and Errour that I prefer this Holy and Catholick Composition before any other late simple receipts of Church Government by which to heal any Church Truly I ow this my Judgment to all the Councils to all the Fathers to all the Church-Historians to be best witnesses of truth in all times who have unanimously conspired to lead me into this Opinion agreeable to the word of God the Example of Christ the practice of the Apostles and the parallel Customes of all Churches which is besides mightily confirmed in me by the misdom Piety and Prosperity of this Church under good Bishops since its Reformation which none in the world exceeded for health and happiness for sound and sincere Christians till some mens itching and scratching too much even till the bloud came and others either not applying seasonable Salves or else sharper Remedies than perhaps were necessary or prescribed by the wisdom of our Church and Laws have festred the ●urts and sores of Religion that they now feem almost incurable till such ●●nds are by Gods goodness applyed and such Medicines used as are most proper for a sick and diseased Church which hands and Medicines I cannot think ought to be Secular but rather Ecclesiastick Such in a free Synod of learned Divines should as a Colledge of spiritual Physicians advise and prepare for there is as much need of calling for free Synods as Free Parliaments The want of the former G. Naz. deplores as the occasion of so much Faction and Vexation in the Church in his times Lay-men though learned able and honest have enough to do in Lay-matters Churchmen have nothing left them to do as to Secular Councels or State Concernments and therefore ought not to be excluded from their proper sphere Church affairs being the best skilled of any men else they are ill imployed in the things of God for the searching supplying and healing the hurts of the Church and true Religion in its Doctrine Discipline Order Unity and Authority That maxime is true of the Clergy as well as of other Orders of men Unicuique credendum est in sua arte Every man is most to be credited in what he is most skilled I am sure as to the point of Physitians no people that are wise and would be healed in good earnest but are carefull to get the best and ablest unless they undervalue their health and lives and to save charges will venture to dye Fourthly They that is Those Souldiers and Military men Chief Commanders and Others under them these heal but sleightly when either they will be as the Clowns all-heal the onely Professors of State Physick and undertake all cures in Church and State or else they think and act as if there is no such way to heal soundly as to make greater wounds and bruises by irreconcilable distance preposterous power and violent impressions even on those that both commissionate them and recompence them They are Iron Heads Brazen Faces and Stony Hearts who crye that Might gives Right And all power is of God though unjustly gotten and so used against the Word of God and the Laws of the Land such a commission the Devil may boast of as well as any evil doers but little to the comfort of either when mens will is their onely warrant in Law and sad successes their onely security in Conscience when Souldiers make their backs and bellies the Commonwealth putting their Interest of pay and power into the ballance against all others when they are but as the dust of the ballance to the weight of the Nation for numberand estates When men of War know not the way of peace but onely to avoid it seeking to make themselves necessary by keeping the wounds open and the sores raw of a Nation pleading necessity and native Liberty and I know not what Good Old Cause or Metaphysical godly interests unknown to our Lawer or fore-fathers and it had been happy if we never had known them Lastly When Military men are injurious rapacious and insolent lovers of themselves more than of God or the Church or their Countrey when they look more to their Guns and Pistols than to God or godliness to their swords than to his Word and to the Riddles of Providence more than the Rules of conscience resolved to sacrifice the daughter of their people as Agamemnon did Iphigenia or Jephta his on the Altar of the Military interest These will be smart and chargeable beatens of the hurts of the daughter of their people when they shall be such as prepare Wan●● against any that speak of Peace when such as esteem the speedy healing of their Countrey to the publick peace to be their greatest hurt when they grow so desperate as they had as live be damned as fairly disbanded though in order to the publick ease and tranquillity When as no good Souldier that either fears God or loves his Countrey or reverences the Church or hopes to save his own Soul but will most seriously strive to avoid the latter and most willingly submit to the former without the sin of Rebellion or Mutiny being content with his wages and more that his sharp work is at an end and no more need of cutting and lancing remembring that it is not multitude or Power or Armies or 〈…〉 that shall keep injurious and dissolute Souldier● from the

in Ecclesiastical Synods or National Councils who are best skilled in the true state of health in the nature of the diseases and in the aptest remedies which in Religion ought to be very humane and charitable convincing with meekness of wisdom and healing as much by prayers and tears as by reasonings and perswasions I confess I cannot see how a Committee of Parliament for Religion is proper for this work further than to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the promoters of it when put into fit hands of able Ministers Herein the first grand work is to bring us to be again one National Church from which honor and happiness we fell as Lucifer from heaven when some mens ambition affected to make the chief Magistrate of a Commonwealth to be similis al●issimo as high as the highest in three Kingdoms which unity of this Church those have sought most subtilly to divide whose interests and purposes was to destroy it that by balancing of parties they might better keep up themselves as dancers on the rope are wont to do This restoring of the Church to its pristine unity is to be done by such an harmony of Doctrine as may be publickly owned and confessed by such an uniform way of worship as shall be publickly recomcomended and eneouraged by such an authoritative and orderly Church Government among Bishops Presbyters and People as may carry on the Discipline of the Church for Ordination and Censure with gravity and honor with piety and charity redeeming both holy things and the Ministers of them from that vulgar insolency and Plebeian contempt under which they are fallen and have long lain either by their own indiscretion levity and divisions or by the petulaney force or fraud of others whose aim is to have no Presbyters as well as no Bishops yea and no Churches of the Reformed Religion That lenitive of equanimity forbearance and moderation in respect of consciencious Dissenters from the publique consent customs and constitutions in the Church which Christian charity requires and publique peace with safety may bear will best be prepared and applied when we fully see what is noxious malicious and intolerable what is only inconvenient and imprudent or infirm and venial in mens opinions and pretensions to be sure such a wise method may be used and such a course taken to have able Ministers and honest Magistrates concur in their judgement and joynt endeavors that the Justice of the one and the gentleness of the other the ability and sanctity of both in their places and performances may be such as shall render the established Religion so venerable and conspicuous as will in a few years draw all sober men to it when they shall see nothing in it but what is for the main conformable to Gods Word and necessary either for the being or wel-being of Humane and Christian Societies As Civil so Ecclesiastical hurts are best that is soonest easiest surest healed revertendo ad leges bonas antiquas by returning as the wounded Hart to Dictamnum to those Laws and Canons wch are not therefore bonae quia antiquae but therefore antiquae quia bonae in which the aequum unum bonum make the vetustum Their verity equity and piety gave rise to their antiquity and their antiquity gave reverence and solemnity to their equity or goodness T is certain there can be no compleat health in the body till every part every limb every vein every vessel doth its Office in due time and place irregularities must be rectified defects supplied excesses repressed ill humors purged and all reduced by Law to good order A blessed work and to be done with as much Moderation and gentleness as the fidelity of the cure will permit and the spreading of the disease doth require wherein many parts may by weakness or by nearness to the fons morbi the first peccant or ill affected part have contracted sad distempers which will easily be cured of their anguish if the evil neighborhood be mended Here generous and gracious remissions are just and Christian to misled multitudes and to such whose penitent errors shew they were not of malice but credulity and mistake who are more zealous now for health than ever they were to be debauched and disordered so much to their own and the publique affliction Acts of pardon Amnesty or Oblivion are excellent lenitives Publico bonotam publicae quam privatae simultates injuriae sunt condonandae to pardon as well publique as private losses and injuries to the publique peace to interpret the intent and meaning of either side to have been good who persist not in evil the zeal of some to maintain their Loyalty to the King for which they thought they had the clearest commands of Gods Laws and mans The zeal of others to preserve the lawful priviledges and fixed authority of Parliaments against any thing that by violent overthrowing of those must needs hazard the overthrow of all possibly neither of these parties might be so bad or blameable as to the first intentions but that they may easily be reconciled in the medium which both first professed to intend namely King and Parliament setled laws and established Religion if this had been kept to the quarel had been soon ended in Church and State the misery was that by jealousies and misunderstandings the passions and transports of both sides might so overbear them as to occasion those sad conflicts and consequences upon both which neither of them at first intended but deprecated and detested mean time while humors were in motion new and unexpected diseases got head under the name of interest of State of liberty and common equity which had no law little reason or Religion So between the Episcopal Presbyterian and Independent Parties much of the acidness and sharpness of the humor would be allayed if this Poltice of charitable censure and interpretation were applyed one all sides that the first did but aim to maintaine the order and eminency of presidential Episcopacy which was so universal so antient so primitive so apostolical and so prosperous in the Church of Christ the second designed onely to bring Episcopacy to such a paternal temperament with Presbytery that the whole Clergie of a Diocess and the concerns of Religion might not be exposed to one mans sole jurisdiction without the such joynt counsel consent and assistance of Ministers as is safest for Bishops Presbyters and People the third of Independents ' or Congregationists which seemed to stickle for ' the iuterests of people in religious transactions where their souls are so much concerned what Minister they have and how both he and others of their congregation behave themselves either to the edification and comfort or the scandal and grief of that part or members of the Church with which they actually congregate and communicate It seems but agreable to the ancient usage of the Churches of Christ in St. Cyprians Tertullians

earnest for every days delay of our oure is a chargeable uncharitable and painful delusion to the Nation threatning such a consumption of Spirits and such debilitation of the Nations strength and estate besides the debasing of its honor and reputation as must necessarily at Kast betray us with our posterity with our Estates Laws Liberties and Lives yea and with our Reformed Religion which ought to be dearer to us as it was to our forefathers than our live● and estates to that f●raign invasion and Romish superstition which is the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the great design of the Jesuitick agitation whereto are subservient all the fanatick factions of those who are such enemies to the just and legal closing or composing of our hurts in Church and State It will be found true by us at last as well as hitherto some others have felt it to their smart That a Commonwealth as well as Kingdom divided against it self cannot long stand Et sero medicina paratur Cum mala per longas invaluere moras In vain shall we at last cry out How have we been deluded how have we despised counsel and neglected such plain and safe remedies as would have cured us long ago There want not birds of prey Eagles Ravens and Vultures that wait for the feebleness and fall of this Church and State that they may pick out its eyes of Religion and Learning of Law and Justice the Universities and Inns of Court that the life and soul of Christian and humane Societies Equity and Charity Reason and true Religion being departed the cadavarosa Patria Ecclesia carkass of our Church and Country may be their spoil and booty which God of his mercy forbid In the Text there are six things to be enquired 1. Persona laesa icta afflicta the Patient or afflicted whom the Prophet yea God himself deplores and owns she is called the daughter of my people 2. Plaga or laesio the grief or malady her hurt or lesure 3. Ficta medela or insana sanatio the pretended cure or verbal healing they have healed with saying Peace peace slightly and superficially 4. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or mendacium the fallacy and cheat when there is no peace 5. Medicorum turba the Physitians or Empericks They great Statists grave Polititians formal pretenders to do great feats and miraculous cures in Church and State when really they are no other than imperious Hypocrites magniloquent Montebanks cruel and covetous confident and careless Boasters of their skill but no way Effecters of a real cure 6. Vera medendi methodus the true way of curing a diseased Nation a distressed Country a sick and languishing Church which is implied and supposed to be First As evident in it self Secondly As easie and as feasible by these Pretenders if honest Thirdly As it necessary apt and seasonable for the poor Patient hence the great blame and reproach imputed to these Tamperers or Medicasters They to their sin and shame They with their pride and pollicy Thy with their cunning and cruelty They more for want of honesty than ability have thus superficially skinned over and perfunctorily healed the hurt of the daughter of my people saying c. Of these I intend by Gods blessings to speak not as a Ruler or Magistrate nor as a Statist and Politian nor as a Soldier and Commander nor as a Citizen and Trader but as a Preacher or Minister of God to his Church And since we are excluded beyond all men in the Nation from being chosen to meet or advise in any other ways of publick Counsels Civil or Ecclesiastical you may not think much if as men and Christians no less than Divines we use the freedom of this place to acquaint you with the sence and sympathy of our souls yea of Gods Spirit in and by the Prophet when he was not a Spectator only but a joynt suffer as we Ministers have been more than any order of men in the common hurts and miseries of Church and State 1. I begin with the Patient who is called here both by God and the Prophet The daughter of my people {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That is gens mea or populus meus First In relation to God the people that I have bred up with so much care and tenderness the Nation that hath been to me as a Son or Daughter the Vine that I have planted watered and fenced for my self That Polity of Church and State to which I was Lawgiver the chief Counsellor and Constitutor the supream Head and Governor the Captain Shepherd and Bishop their great King and Protector My peculiar people whom had preferred beyond all Nations as a Theocracy or holy Monarchy or royal Priesthood This is the Patient with whose hurts sores bruises wounds and sorrows these practicants have most impudently padled and cruelly pleased themselves in turning publique miseries of Church and State to their private advantages 2. In relation to the Prophet the daughter of my people which are of the same linage and derivation of the same Father and Family of the nearest blood both by parentage and alliance with whom I have the same Laws and ●ivil immunities also the same Religion and sacred communion Natural Civil Ecclesiastical kindred endears me to them they are as flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone yea we are or ought to be of the same spirit and soul as having the same God and Saviour the same holy duties or solemnities to engage us in love and dearness as well as nearness to each other so as the publick and common good should be the supream good of every particular We cannot be happy or miserable alone as members in one body all our enjoyments are social and all our sufferings are sympathetick This is the daughter of my people for whom I am so concerned and afflicted that I preach and pray I write and weep I wake and dream lamentations and tears for her a man as a Citizen as a true Israelite or Jew as a Christian as a Protestant or reformed Professor This Tittle of the Daughter of my people is so frequent in Scripture that it seems to importune the Reader to consider the importance of it Isa. 1. 8. and 22. 4. Jer. 4. 12. and 9. 1. and 6. 14 19. Lam. 2. 11. Zach. 9. 9. So Daughter of Sion and of Jerusalem or the like expressions First To shew not so much the fruitfulness of a Nation whom God so blesseth that they increase and multiply as that softer and procreative or mother sex doth to great numbers which are as the off-sets or fruit of a pregnant womb as the people of God are sometimes called his first born and his sons in respect of that masculine vigor and valor which was among them while God with them so the daughter of his people as apt to bring forth Secondly But further to express the