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conscience_n	heart_n	sin_n	smite_v	1,347	5	9.5535	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

idleness or their Jesuitick juglings or their desperate designs to turn all into rapine blood and confusion makes them impatient that any men of better skill and honester wills than themselves should come nigh the Patient or apply those All-heals or Panaces and Catholicons which are no where to be found in their Pedlars packs or Apothecaries shops where poisons are set off with the specious titles and inscriptions of sanctity and liberty and light but in the known Laws of God and man rightly interpreted and impartially executed according to Equity Order and Charity not in those godly formalities or gracious extravagancies or illegal irregularities with which some vaporers have made so great flourishes for some years and so long afflicted the daughter of my people and would for ever have done so according to the method of those rare cures they sometimes wrought in Germany about the 1530. by the seduction and slaughter of an hundred thousand people in the Anabaptistick and fanatick waies of mutiny and rebellion if God in his mercy as we hope had not prepared to put the Patient into better hands which may be guided by wiser heads and honester hearts who will not so cry up Religion and Reformation as to run out to horrid violence and crying injustice nor fancy and teach that any evil of sin and injustice may be done that a publick good may come thereby One may as well expect to heal wounds by poysoned plaisters or venemous instruments Men must not lye for God nor commit robbery for burnt offering nor do things unwarrantable or unjust by mans Law in order to magnifie Gods cause much less their own though just and may they do it for causes wholly unjust this is only to dash the two Tables against each other at best or to break them both in pieces against the rocks of hard hearts as is usually done when fantastick heads and foul hands dare without authority from God or man to set up the golden Calves which they list to Idolize and which all men must presently fall down and worship such was that popular and plausible invention of the Jews at first but it cost the wickedly wanton people dear at last when their new Diety rare invention was consecrated by the blood and death of many thousand of the people Nor was that fire of mutiny and rebellion with Korah and his faction raised against Moses and Aaron quenched at a cheaper rate whatever they pretend of holiness Yea St. Austin observes in his 162 Epistle ex poenae differentia peccatum censeri by the honor of that new punishment which fell on them one may easily see how the sins of mutiny Rebellion and Hypocrisie being twisted together do outweigh any other sins Lastly Then they heal slightly 1. When Physitians either give good words or make good salves and spread good plaisters but never effectually apply them to the Patient or suffer them to be pulled off as their impatience listeth When bones are broken as well as the flesh deeply wounded the ligatures and splinters must be good as well as the plaisters There must be no dislocation where we expect a perfect cure Parts must be set and kept in their proper places else they either heal not at all or to a great deformity and continued infirmity Or 2. When both Healers and Patient like King Uzziah trust so much to themselves to the skill of the Physicians and Chrurgeons that they less look up to God and lean to their own understanding They will find the wisdom of the world foolishness and the arm of flesh an Egyptian reed to lean so much on them as to neglect God is not only a vain but a noxious and cursed thing for God will bring to naught the counsels of Princes who begin not their wisdom and end it in the fear of God as the most pious and learned Primate Bishop Usher in the beginning of the long Parliament would oft with earnestness foretel That God would confute and punish the too great glory and confidence which people generally had in Parliaments as if the sins of the Nation could not out-vie all the care skill and power of Parliaments who may have their infection and diseases too if they do not exactly look to God and their consciences to Religion and Justice both to duty more than applause or reward or success which can never be good or comfortable unless it be First the fruit and effect of good counsel that is religious and legal Secondly of humble prayer to God Thirdly of a gracious submission to his will when we have done our duty men lose themselves when they seek not God first in all their publick counsels For the race is not to the swift nor the battel to the strong but the Lord gives the blessing of peace and health and salvation to his people He as the soveraign Physitian can best and only heal our publick wounds by making men to be of one mind in the Lord by pouring out his spirit of wisdome and moderation of repentance and compensation of mutuall pitty and compassion of Justice and judgment of an holy and happy reformation which heals the hurts of mens hearts and the wounds of their consciences and the running issues of their evil lives these are the happiest and surest methods of a Nations healing We see in the oft relapses of the Jews no sooner had they by sins of publique scandal and notorious contagion hurt themselves but Gods hand smites them by famine or plague or sword or war and oppression no sooner had they repented and turned solemnly from their sins to him that smote them but God turned from his wrath and healed the Land We have had in England many days of humiliation in order to our humbling and healing but hitherto we have been more and more hurt because we fasted not for sin but to sin as God reproacheth the Jews for strife and debate and oppression to smite with the ●ist of violence c. We laid on a formal plaister of Reformation but we never throughly searched the wound nor purged out the putid matter yea we multiplied the corruption and added hypocrisie to former iniquity the sins of War and violence of inordinate revenge and cruelty to those of peace and luxury I finde the Parliaments of England never thrived better nor kept the publick in better health than when those two excellent Prayers lately reprinted which very gravely and plainly minded them of their duty in that place were daily used among them which were much more significant grave and pertinent than such Seraphick or rambling and loose or odd Expressions as some men are prone to use either in their affected varieties or in their tedious Tautologies which have oft more in them of Invention than Judgment and stick more upon fancy and faction than conscience and the common good Certainly where men are solemnly and jointly to ask of God the

these pretending healers are much for a new Paracelsian practice for unexperimented applications or medicaments of their own inventions which are occasionally extracted and Chimically made with sin and force by themselves and such as are of their faction but they do not natively flow as the balme of Gilead doth from the Tree of good Government and polity that is from those Laws and Constitutions which have been long approved as most proper for the Nations Welfare which without doubt are best able and most apt both to preserve and restore the health of the Daughter of my people no counsel practice or power of Prince or Potentate or Parliament that are praeter or contra legal can be for long or sound healing but rather proves more noxious and infestive at last to the publique peace For the Law which is power regulated by Wisdome and Wisdome asserted by just power and both confirmed by the Parliamentary consent of all estates concerned this is the Radical moysture or native balsome by which the lamp of life is preserved in the body politique as this decayes so spirit and vigor health and harmony peace and protection love and life decays Yea where force is necessary to be used yet it must be limited and commissionated by law else it is but a Lion broke loose or a ranging Bear or a ravening Wolf or as a mutinied Army no better then a tumultuary riot and violence like the fighting of a body with it self in fits of the falling sickness such new pits and cisternes will not hold any water for they are not onely crackt in the making and marred upon the wheels but they presently dash against one another as earthen pitchers they are by-paths of extravagant power and fallacious pretentions but not comparable in point of health and safety to the good old way bona antiqua probata which long time had liked and attested to be very good Such as put on in all haste Sauls Armour of Soveraignty which they never before essayed to wear nor have shoulders fit for it will soon find it not onely inconvenient for them but combersom dangerous and in the end pernicious if they mean indeed to kill those Gyants those Goliahs of uncircumcised enormities which defie God and Law it is better to take those smooth stones and that sling to which as Masters of assemblies or Magistrates or Parliament men or Justices they are wonted according to the Law and the duty of their place than to cumber and engage themselves in such uncoth high and heavy undertakings which are seldome other than disadvantagious and destructive as always dangerous to the counsellors and actors no less than to the publick peace and welfare for as Tacitus well observes Consilia callida inhonesta prima fronte laeta tractatu dura eventu tristia new and illegal projects are commonly pernicious and crying at last however they smile and flatter at first nor can any violence or success heal a Nation or a conscience where the Law smites by accusing and the conscience by condemning men for their wicked principles and unjust proceedings 7. When these pretended Healers leaving all wonted and approved medicines which Gods word and the laws of the land right reason and true religion do warrant or allow fly to their inchantments as if they would heal by charmes and cure by Philters or amulets as by carrying Bibles in their hands by using much Scripture phrase and expression by following sermons and fasts and prayers by affecting an odd kind of canting way of writing and speaking by zealous pretending of sanctity and Christian liberty or through reformations of advancing the cause of God and Kingdome of Jesus Christ by crying up providences and successes by conjuring up strange fears and hopes jealousies and expectations like so many Ghosts and Goblins to scare and amuse the common people Lastly by flying to raptures inspirations enthusiasms holy convulsions and such like quaking and quacking tricks as pretend no less to the skill of healing all the hurts of the daughter of my people than Wizards and cunning men do to cure all diseases of man and beast Thus the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord is urged when they intend to destroy Church and State it is superciliously yea very surlily spoken to persons much better every way then themselves Stand by we are holier than you we are Abrahams seed and the true Israel of God The work of healing Church and State is the work of Saints as soone as they can agree what way to take what plaisters to make and what power to get into their hands that they may apply their rare Cataplasmes or Emplasters Thus some tell us there must be no King but King Jesus and themselves sitting on his right and left hand in all power Ecclesiastical Civil and Military judging the twelve tribes of Israel for they strongly fancy England to be Judea or the holy land and most of the people to be of late turned Jews Others will have no Bishops nor any thing that belonged to Bishops but onely their good lands and houses the spoiles of those Egyptians others will have no presbyters nor tythes nor Temples but arbitrary and unmercinary Preachers in occasional Barnes and Stables or sub dio in open fields who will do the work of Christ without mans wages It were well if their Souldiers would do so too in their holy wars which are voted by some to be the work of Jesus Christ some would have they know not what themselves but they attend further light by which they may better discerne the way of healing the Nations and their own hurts Mean time they look neither to the Law nor the Testimony neither to the rule of piety equity nor charity as if a little chattering of pious or rather impious nonsence were sufficient to cast out the legions of Divels or the clay and spittle of their lips were able to cure the many distempers of these Nations especially when the blindness boldness and folly of such Operators and Circulators is so manifest to all men that have eyes inlightned by reason or religion by Laws of God or man that I hope it shall proceed no further Have we need of mad men as Achish King of Gath speaks of David disfigured to a frenzy Are they likely to be healers of others whose diseases are so got into their crowns that they are not onely fantastick but fanatick to the tune of the Maniches and Circumcellians that is people of no just and honest of no settled or constant no rational or religious principles morbus destruit artem a good Physitian is not fit to be his own or others Physitian if he be distempered much less these men than who no men have discovered more craziness of mind and crookedness of manners having little fear of God and less reverence of men either their ambition or their indigence or their