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A93057 A receipt for the state-palsie. Or, A direction for the setling the government of the nation: delivered in a sermon upon Proverbs 25.5. By S.S. Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696. 1660 (1660) Wing S3043; Thomason E1015_4; ESTC R208172 11,455 27

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his counsel 2 Sam. 15. Others think that the goodness of their Titles will defend them their Crowns are made of good and lawful gold and therefore they must needs stick fast to their heads Many other props doe many Thrones in the world lean upon But Solomon whose Crown God put on and Justice kept on prescribes to all Kings and Powers whatever a better foundation than any of these and it is here in my text Be not deceived it is not the taking of wicked waies but the taking of the wicked away that will establish Thrones in righteousness 2 See here one great cause of Englands unsettlement at this day There are not more admirations at than false conjectures concerning it Some impute our changes to chances some lay the fault upon the Court some upon the Camp some upon the City some upon the Country nay some stick not to lay them at our Church doors to impute them to the Clergie saying there was never good world since there was so much praying and preaching being acted with a spirit like unto that of Ahab who said to the Prophet 1 King 18. 17. Art thou hee that troubleth Israel although that were true directly Evangelium ciet bellum Others say something but not the whole that Factions doe create our Fractions For if they were not tolerated they would not be or at least they would not be so intolerable But Solomon here prescribing the means of settlement seemes to describe to us the cause of our unsettlement the not taking away the wicked I know that oppression usurpation ambition and other sins are fore shakers of the Government of a Nation And I know we have a composition of all these ingredients and a complication of all these distempers yet if one should ask me what is the grand cause the strongest hand that thus rocks the Throne of England and so keeps them that sit in it from sleeping in it I should fetch an answer from Solomon The not taking away of the wicked hinders the Throne of England from being establisht in righteousness What peace said Jehu to Joram so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezabel and her Witchcrafts are so many What peace may one say to the Powers and Primates of England so long as their Sectaries Schismaticks Hereticks are so many What establishment so long as the wicked erroneous perfidious rebellious ambitious and treacherous are not taken away Except these abide in the ship said Paul speaking of the Ship-men yee cannot bee saved except these bee taken away out of the same Ship the Common-wealth wherein we all sayl as in one common bottom wee cannot be safe nor setled I doubt wee are not yet fit for settlement for a prosperous and composed State because the accursed things the wicked are not yet taken away Some of our Governours have done worthy things as some of the Kings of Israel did but yet the People sacrifice still in the high places every man is left to the free choice of his own God and his own Religion and therefore the Throne is not yet established in righteousness One may weep over Englands shakings and say to it as the Prophet sometimes to Israel O Isa 48. 18 that thou hadst hearkned to Gods Commandements Then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea i. e. for duration whereas now wee are as the waves tossed to and fro The second Use would bee to exhort and excite Rom. 13. 3 all Magistrates not to bear the sword in vain but to use it for the terror of evil doers as the Apostle phraseth it or to take away the wicked from before them as Solomons phrase is here What need I more Motives Therefore are wee emptied from vessel to vessel because the wicked sit still upon their lees Therefore does England lye bleeding because the Sword of Justice does not revenge Gods Cause upon the bloud of the wicked The third Use would comfort all those that doe earnestly and seriously endeavour the extirpation and separation of the wicked according to their power place and interest although they cannot effect it according to their endeavour To these I say concerning the separation of the wicked what God the Father said to God the Son concerning the gathering of Israel Isa 49. 5. Though the wicked bee not separated yet they shall be glorious Of such a man I will say as God saies of David Though the Crown of England be not established yet upon himself shall his crown flourish though the Scepter of England shake yet hee shall bee fastned as a nayl in a sure place But as for all erroneous idle fearful Magistrates that are not a terrour to evil-doers I doe denounce against such that God will one day make them a terrour to themselves for their evil deeds and either take them away here or cast them off hereafter for their not taking away the wicked whereby the Throne might be established FINIS