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A30009	Salus populi, or, A nations happinesse a sermon preached at the assises holden at Winchester, Iuly 22, 1658 / by Edward Buckler.	Buckler, Edward, 1610-1706.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5351; ESTC R30256	14,145	31

hee is a wise man that can tell what to do without better security then Anarchy can aford him The best men have peevishnesse enough to call for a huc usque and what shall limit them if the Lawes do not and for the other sort Lions Beares Woolves Doggs Swine Mad men if there be no Heire of restraint to chaine up and muzzle these who can live T will be good newes if you can tell where the honestest man in a Nation shall have innocency enough to save him harmlesse If these Horses and Mules have no Bitts and Bridles they will fall upon us upon our persons estates consciences liberties religion everything neither will anything in the world but Order and Government be able to releive us Our strength and our riches will be vaine things to save us they must let it alone for ever The riches of a Nation will quickly be quartered and plundred into a morsell of bread and the strength of it imployed to selfe-destruction A potent people if a lawlesse one have onely this to brag of that they neede no Forraigne Contribution to their Overthrow Suis ipsa Roma viribus ruit Rome it selfe in such a case had onely weight enough to presse her selfe to death And when her Lawes were asleepe her Watchmen waked but in ●aine N●x una suis non credita Muris She durst not trust ●er selfe one night within her own walls Tyranny is by all men lookt upon as a monstrous beast but if it stood with Anarchy in competition for a wisemans vote It would doubtlesse carry it and though the c●oice be hard rather then to have none deputed in a State to hear us Absolom himself were better be Master of his wish Oh that I were made Iudge in the Land Those Tonatick spirits that have pretended it to be their duty to destroy all Magistracy and Order have yet found it to be their Interest to set up something in the stead of it and rather to make a King of Iohn of Leyden then to continue headlesse 2. How monstruous this would make a people and all their Concernments what a 〈◊〉 of parts gifts persons into one anothers places and imployments it would bring for●●● let me draw you a Picture of it 1. In the Greater world if the Earth should be enamell'd with Stars and fruits and flowers should grow in the Firmament of Heaven if the lesser lights should rule the day and dispose the greater to the Government of the night If the Sun should be pluckt down to walk upon and a peice of dirt stuck up to shine in the place of it if men should be necessitated to carry burthens upon the Pismire and to learn wisdome of the Asse In chaos antiquum confundimu● with how ugly a face would Nature looke 2. In the lesser world man if the Head should be degraded to be trod upon and the Heeles claim supremacy over the whole if the eyes should be transposed into the Elbowes and the shoulders take upon them to give lig●t unto the body c. you have the blessings of Anarchy and the issue of their design who blasp●eme Government and fall down and worship disorder and confusion out of which he that shall undertake to extract Religion or Righteousnesse will have a hard taske of it 2. Use of Exhortation 1. To All whom it calls to our 1. Gratitude 2. Prayers 3. Care 1. To our Gratitude for that degree of this Happinesse in provisions for Religion and Righteousnesse which God hath given us the possession of I shall have no need to tell you How much that is you are not an Auditory that are strangers in England Some things I shall mention What apprehensions some of you may have of them In sensu composito upon the account of their Neighbourhood to other things I am not to enquire In sens● diviso if you consider them alone I am very sure of your acknowledgments that they are worthy of thanks Ex gr. That your Law-makers shall be persons fearing God and of good conversation That no man that is an Anti-Scripturist a denyer of Ordinances A common reviler of Religion or of a●y person for professing it a Sabbath-breaker Swearer Curser Drunkard Tavern or Ale-house haunter shall have any thing to do in that great affaire That the cheif Officers of State and Iudges will be such as these will bestow their approbation upon That both as to Legislation and execution the persons cheifly interressed are under the most sacred Obligation that is imaginable To uphold and maintaine the true reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the purity thereof as is contained in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and to encourage the profession and professors of the same and all this to the uttermost of their power and to discharge their respective trusts in order to the preservation of the Rights and Liberties of the people and the good Government peace and welfare of these Nations Now much we 〈◊〉 suppose a considerable number of persons of the choicest Character and of the highest pretences to Religion and Righteousnesse biasable to the production of what this Constitution can by no means be interpreted into or must acknowledge our share in the Blessings of the Text ta call for thankfullnesse Perhaps a comparative glance upon other Nations may the sooner perswade us that 't is our duty to pay it In some of which you may see in the Market-place on the Lords day as great an Assembly in the Afternoon as you were able to see at Church in the morning In some the Chiefe Magistrates Tap-house in every great Town inviting the people to be drunk Cum privilegio to increase the publick Revenue In some Offices of all sorts bought and sould at as dear a rate as Land in England at 20. yeares purchase where the common people how industrious soever dare hardly own them an ability to provide themselves cloathes or victualls In some intolerable burthens imposed at discretion to the finall desolation of diverse Families And I could tell you more of this were not this enough Now whatever the Blessing be if God hath not dealt so with other Nations may be found in the premisses our Hallelujahs must be the Conclusion Psalm 147. Ult. If any say many things desirable are yet wanting I have nothing to reply but this that a principle that is able to suspend our t●ankfullnesse upon any such account will not give us leave to bl●sse God for any thing till we come to Heaven It calls us 2. To our Prayers for a continuation of what we have and a supply of what we yet want T●a● these Nationall blessings are of Gods disposing we cannot doubt without the hazard of our C●ristianity nor that the dispenseth them as Blessings in a way of Prayer The Heathens could say Dij Quibus Imperium hoc steterat That Empires had their foundations above hence was Iupiter called Salutaris and Stator as their supposed Author

of Stability and Safety If Christians beleeve so much of God they will send him their petitions 3. To our Care Of what of every thing whereby Religion and Righteousnesse may thrive amongst us especially of maintaining the Nurse of both Peace Peace with God that we make not one bridge of our Sins Peace amongst our selves that we make not another of our Folly for their passage from us Pray consider what t is that hedgeth in the blessings of the Text before and behinde T is Peace Peace before at the 3 verse A city compact together not divided and subdivided into more Parties and factions then they knew where to have names for but as another Translation reads it at unity in it selfe and then Thither the Tribes go up and Thrones of Iudgment are setled Peace behinde at the 6 verse at least Rogate pacem A prayer sent to Heaven for it that these mercies might continue This to All 2. To those that are by Office to attend the businesse of this day as you would contribute to the Nations Happinesse afford your respective contributions towards t●e advancement of Religion and Righteousness by suffering no breach upon either of them to escape that just recompence of reward which the Lawes have provided for it First For you may Lords the Iudges God forbid you should be supposed without serious apprehensions upon your Spirits 1. That God sits with you Psalm 82. 1. and is present for more purposes then one as Testis to see all you do and with eyes that cannot look upon iniquity -as Iudex to passe his Sentence upon all yours and what a holy care should be taken that the Bench be not divided nor any occasion given for Luthers Deo gratias aliter hic conclusum est aliter in caelo And as vindex to make good if there be cause the title you find him cloathed withall in Psal. 94. 1. A God of revenges 2. That you cannot be too zealous against the obstructions of a peoples Happinesse the Happi●●ss● of all the people in t●r●e great Nations 〈…〉 so many thousand soules con●●r●ed in 〈◊〉 religion and righteousnesse which you are enga●ed to take care of That if a destructive a mis●●eivous rape by restless and incorrigible spirits be made upon their blessings Optimum misericordiae genus est occidere 3. That as much as in you lies you provide for the Honour of God of the supreme Magistrate of your selves of the N●●ion in providing for the safeguard of religion and righteousness 1. Of God for the blaspheming of whose name if occasion be given by a peoples wickedness it is doubtlesse by their impunity 2. Of the supreme Magistrate When Iovinian was voted Emperour by the Army he told them he was a Chirstian and would not be a Leader of Pagans The more conformity can be wrought upon a people the more of glory will be cast upon their Governours T is not the lowest title of Iesus Christ himself that he is King of Saints 3. Of your selves God will honour those that honour him 1 Sam. 2. 30. Aristides for his care of Iu●●ice was called Graecorum faelicitas How much more shall you be celebrated as our bl●ssings whilst you care for that and r●ligion too 4. Of the Nation w●ose Statutes how righteous soever will ●ot leave upon them an impr●ssion of glory unless their judgements be of the sam●Character and 4. Lastly That you have no way else to answer the end of your institution to be the Ministers of God to us for good Ro. 13. 4. Secondly For you that are to present misdemeanours against the blessings of the Text you will I hope so discharge your oaths and trusts that neither Religion nor Righteousness shall have any cause to complain But I shall crave leave to tell you 1. That Religion will if you know any of her Ordinances lost or profanely misapplyed her duties disturbed her solemnities rayled at her great glory and ornament The late Act for the better observation of the Lords day despised or neglected or find her suffering in any of her concernments that the Law hath taken notice of and say nothing she will complain And 2. So will Iustice and Righteousness if you conceal any one Delinquency against it especially their male-administrations who have taken an oath and a Commission to dispense it and I t●ink'twere better you stood charged by all the Bills of Inditement that will be exhibited this Assizes then that the cry of these against you should enter into the ears of the Lord of Saboth Interest hath been a great word amongst us for diverse years and it is so still and a national interest is sometimes talkt of The great interest of any Nation is to keep God with them I shall conclude with a repetition of that exhortation which the Doctrine we have been considering presseth you with viz. that you would all of you contribute towards the entertainment of God with us by contributing to the safety of Religion and Righteous●ess If these fail God must be gon● and ask t●e Prophet what a woe he will leave behind him Hos●a 9. 12. If Religion fail where shall God walk For his way is in the Sanctuary Psalm 77. 13. A●d if Righteousness fail with whom shall he converse To be sure the Throne of iniquity shall have no communion with him Psalm 94. 20. To provide as much as in you lies against these the failing I mean of Religion and Righteousness is both your duty and your interest that the Nation may be happy in the blessings of the Text the Lord delighting to dwell amongst us and to be in the midst of us less then this we cannot have and more we need not to make us happy FINIS Exod. 25. 22. Deut. 16. 16. Amos 5. 7. Cic. 2. offic. Aug. in loc. Ainsw. in Deut. 4. 1. De Civit dei l. 5. c. 25. uni es in l. 5. c. 21. 1 Tim 2. ●2 1. Sa. 15. 4. Johnson Geography p. 165. 207. 236. 475.