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A92321	England's restitution or The man, the man of men, the states-man. delivered in several sermons in the parish church of Waltham Abbey in the county of Essex. / By Thomas Reeve D.D. preacher of Gods word there.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R689; Thomason E1056_1; ESTC R208033	132,074	175

Abihu's death there had like to have been another Funeral for Moses was even ready to have executed severe Judgment upon Eleazer and Ithamar for not eating the Goat the Sin-offering where God had commanded and for not bringing the Blood into the Holy-place and Aaron though he pleaded hard and Moses connived at the Trespass yet by Divines it is concluded that Moses was too Humane in the relaxation Some Judicious Expositours think there was too much natural infirmity in Aaron and too much condescension in Moses to pass by the aberration It is left as no precedent for them that sin pervicaciously It is a dangerous thing to innovate any thing in Church-rites That which is Apostolical is Apophthegmatical and ought to be taken up as Valueable and immutable If the Church be Built upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles then I can Pronounce nothings well grounselled which do want their Fundamental Institution A Foreign Church may have something that pertains to the building but I doubt there is something defective therefore I must say as it is in Ca●… viii 9. If she be a Wall we will build upon her a silver Palace and if she be a Door we will keep her in with boards of Cedar but 'till I finde in her a Wall and a Door I can bestow no great cost upon her to enrich her or adorn her Miriam may have breath in her but if she be stricken with a sore Leprosy she is half-dead whiles she liveth Sic ego sentio si alii non consintant unusquisque abundet sensu suo I do not say but that there are rare parts and singular endowments there but I cannot call any thing perfect without a just calling I am not certain whether th●…e can be right Baptism lawfull Preaching a due Administration of the Lord's Supper without a true Priesthood I fear it much and I have just grounds for my jealousie I like her Profession well I would I could like her Polity aswell that I might say with the Apostle I rejoyce beholding your order together with your stedfast Faith Col. 11.5 Privileges Principles an accurate Wit Fancies of men confederacy with them that seem holy will not do all no the law is strict God is a Jealous God a little Leaven may corrupt the whole lump he that is unjust in a little hath his disparagement there can be no exactness without a general Perfection Loth's Wife was turned into a pillar of Salt for the cast of an Ey Moses was debarred entrance into the Land of Canaan for striking the Rock when he should but have spoke to the Rock The High-places were enough for a grievance Oh! if we feared the opening of the Books or the appearance before the white Throne we would leave palliating and descanting and conform to the Rule Yea cry out To the law To the testimony for Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up Therefore if the Foreign Church can shew her Consanguinity of Government from the Blood of the Apostles I shall acknowledg the kindred but otherwise my heart may shake rather then I can shake Hands with her I may piety her but I cannot embrace her I may pray for her but cannot magnify her I cannot pronounce her sound but onely send her to the Physician and she must be cured by the right Party I cannot allow her a College of Physicians to consult with for then she may spend all her mony upon Physicians but her Bloody issue will never depart from her till she hath touched the hem of Christ's garment In the state she is in I have no Vindication for her let other Advocates if they will justify her but I have thus much charity to wish her to repent and reform and if counsel do not prevail my bowels shall yearn for her but my toung cannot say to her All-hayl But for the forreign Church sick or sound we will leave her to her self and to her medicinal Artists about her which warrant her good constitution for our selves let us praise God for our health and seek to preserve it Let us assure our selves that there is nothing more requisite in a visible Church then a just government without this there is neither peace beauty order or purity of the Ordinances If every calling of the Nation ought to be justifiable how much more the Ministery Else a man shall suspect every Church Duty which he doth communicate in and be afraid whom to acknowledg as a true Messenger from God Almighty A great matter to sanctify a Nation is a sanctified Ministery I mean a sanctified Function for all Sanctification is but sorcery in respect of the external conveyance of it which doth not flow from a right Spring-head The wind I know bloweth where it listeth and I have nothing to do with the secret motions of God's spirit but for a publique assurance right Ordination is the best confirmation yea the most Orthodox ratification Away with Topical reasonings give me a Demonstrative argument that which is Apostolical to men is Characterical Jannes and Jambres had an art of inchantment Prophets that cause the people to err and bite them with their teeth can cry A Vision though it be a lying divination False Apostles can transform themselves into Angels of light The star called Wormwood hath a brightness in it The beast that came out of the earth had two horns like 〈…〉 There is no trusting to appearances and pretences the high satisfaction must be a justifiable undoubted commission Oh! that the King's Daughter who is to have her rayment of Needle-work should wear any thing about her that is not True-stitch that the Temple should be overlaid with any thing but pure gold What is comfortable in any Church where the Squinancy is in the throat where the Sermon-Bell is riven where there is a suspicious supposititious Ministery a lawfull Heir a lawfull Spouse a lawfull Officer are not more necessary then a lawfull Ministery Was God angry with them which went and were not sent and will not fury arise in his face against unauthorised Messengers Men must be put apart and separated for this Calling Rom. 1.1 and be allowed of God which are put in trust with the Gospel 1 Thes 2.4 And be Ordained Preachers 1 Tim. 2.7 Are the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven to be put into all hands is every one to be a Steward in God's Family no Unto me is this Grace given to Preach the unsearchable Riches of Christ 3 Ephes 8. How else is the Gospel a Mistery or this Function an Ordinance The sons of Scaeva met with claws and were rent to purpose because they would be dealing with that which they had no Authourity to meddle with And do these scratches terrify none though the Devils be quiet for a while are not their Talons to be feared in another World Is the Gospel a Feast and may every one invite Guests no Wisdom hath her Maidens to send

get gains we have defiled Sanctuaries and polluted the very Table of the Lord we have rifled our neighbours houses and stained the earth with our Brethrens bloud we have seized upon the Lords portion and cast lots for Christs Garment we have revived ancient heresies and speak blasphemy as familiarly as if it were our Mother tongue we have expelled many a worthy Patriot from his lawfull inheritance and chased many an eminent Minister from his just Cure St. Steven in these dayes would have been stoned and Iohn Baptist beheaded what one precept have we not made a breach of What one Law have we not violated if some have not the sins of the Publicanes yet they have the sins of the Pharisees what example of Jew or Infidel is not some way imitated we have equalled the most lawlesse yea overpassed the deeds of the wicked Bern. Multi habent scientiam pauci vero conscientiam we are a people of much knowledge but of little conscience of much seeming devotion but of little reall sanctity for as they of old cryed the Temple the Temple yet profaned the honour of God casting men out of their houses and saying let God be glorified so we have committed all these things with our Bibles in our hands and the name of Christ in our lips as if the Scripture must give dispensation and the Saviour Patronage to all our impieties Holy Writ the holy Redeemer were they ever so disparaged Oh the sin of the house of Iudah is very great we have filled the Land with sin from the one end to the other Satans seat seemeth to be set up amongst us we have caused God to abhorre the excellency of Iacob we have scandaled our profession and blasphemed that worthy name by which we are called Is this the smell of the rose of Sharon the tast of the wine of Lebanon the lustre of the pearl the fruit of the noble vine The chastity of the Virgin daughter of Iudah the milk of a Churches breasts no the botch of Egypt the stench of a dead carkass the skin of a viper the forehead of a Leper the head of a Leopard If the flesh had been our Church and Nature had been our Laver and Hell had given Lawes and the devil had been our Prophet could many have been worse livers Well if this be your State as excuse it if you can will ye still cry peace peace a Lady sure for ever To morrow shall be as this day and much better No so many sinnes are like so many pioners to dig down this glorious structure though it were settled upon a foundation of brass Much we have suffered already but all that may be but a warning the fatal stroke may yet be behind God may send in his black horse famine to starve us to death or his red horse war to dash out our brains he may send in pestilence after the manner of Egypt to make our Countrey but a common burying place he may send earthquakes to shiver in pieces the Nation or inundations to wash this Island into the salt sea he may bring in a foreign enemy to put yokes about our necks or stir up male-contents to be domestick Executioners Sueton. Antidotum adversus Caesarem is there any antidote against Caesar any preservative against divine wrath Virgil. no God hath mille modos mille nocendi Artes a thousand wayes and means to work destruction They are not our Banks or our Bulwarks our Mounts or our Magazines our Castles or our Cannon our ●ourts of Guard or our Camps royal that can protect us against his justice Though ye have kept your heads whole in many dangers yet if Iupiter altitonans He that rideth upon the heavens as an horse come to back his warlike steed and shake his glittering sword ye dy without remedy Oh therefore dread his power and presume not too much upon his patience for ye have sinnes enough to kindle the wrath of a just God to incense the displeasure of a long-suffering God God will never enter into a League or conclude a lasting peace with wilfull sinners no he may stay till ye be gorged with vanities till the sinnes of the Amorites be full but then he will be as quick in punishment as ye have been in provocation incorrigiblenesse will bring in inexorablenesse contempt confusion judgement will enter into the Land if there be transgression in the Land For the transgression of the Land Fourthly this should teach us to know that Sin is the misery of the Land A man cannot imagine a greater damage or infelicity to a Nation then sin Sin is a shame to the people nay sin is a bane to the people Man suffereth for his sin Ah people laden with iniquity As if sin were a horrour to behold an anguish to think on which cannot be spoken of without passion nor mentioned without an Ah. It is sin that causes all the groans and yells and wasts and bloud-draughts in a Land We transfer them to other causes and cry out of other motives as the recklessness of friends and the rage of enemies but when we have declaimed against a thousand inducements and seducements our chief indignation ought to bespent against sin here is the Ionas that hazards the ship the Achan that troubles the whole Camp Iuvenal Sat. 2. dedit hanc contagio labem it is this contagion which causeth the malady of the times Be sure that whensoever judgement enters into a Nation Horat. 1. Ep. Iliacos intra muros peccatur extra that all the walls within and without are stained with sin A peccato venit ira Dei miseria hominis Aug. de pec mer. rem c. 23. From sin comes the wrath of God and the wretchednesse of man Impute not therefore these fatall Accidents to turbulent Spirits or violent rapines to the deformity of government or decay of trading for they proceed properly from the instigation and exasperation of your own outragious enormous unbridled and unreformed impieties the misery of the Land doth come from the transgression of the land For the transgression of the Land c. Fiftly this should stir up men to a sense of sin For oh that there should be transgression in the Land and that we should have no feeling of it yet how hard a thing is it to bring any to a lively apprehension of their apparent published and stigmatized errours I have brought in a large Transcript of Transgression but I doubt that the only use which will be made of it shall be for reprehension not apprehension I shall be counted rather too prying and pragmatical then men stand forth peccant and criminal Ministers are usually turned off rather as Oratours then Convincers or as Remembrancers then Preachers the fruit of a thousand Sermons end without any serious application or passionate remorse How hard a thing is it to strike a sinner to his knees to humble his haughty brow to open his