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A38431	Englands repentance Englands only remedy ... in a letter written by a minister in London, in answer to one sent from a worthy member of the late Long Parliament.	Minister in London.	1659 (1659)	Wing E3041; ESTC R1986	6,953	12

Righteous art thou O Lord and just are all thy judgments Now Sir I have shewed Englands disease and distemper it remains that I direct the cure and remedy and that I say is Repentance true and hearty General and Universal Repentance Englands Cure and Remedy Let the Ministers of God lift up their voice and cry Repent England repent repent let all that wish well to England pray that God would pour out a Spirit of Repentance that from Dan to B●ersheba all Israel may return and seek unto the Lord and to David their King Sir Repentance is the end and errand of all Afflictions Isa 27.11 Men cry out of doing the Work of God nor do I deny it in all our strange revolutions only I desire it may be noted it is Gods strange work speaking his displeasure and summoning his Peoples Repentance a relenting heart a returning spirit shall no sooner be effected but these sharp rods will be rejected God will walk contrary to a stubborn People Levit. 16. until their uncircumcised heart be humbled but no longer for then his end is effected Repentance doth engage divine return for he hath promised that when ever he speaks against a Nation to pluck it up or root it out if that Nation repent he will repent Jer. 18.8 He ever meets relenting Ephraim with Repentance for inflicted judgments his method is to give Repentance and Remission of 〈◊〉 Je● 31 18. The greatest good intended for Israel is contracted into the promise of repentance the Sun doth not more certainly follow the morning star then the return of Gods presence doth attend repentance Nay Sir in this case repentance is an actual re-enjoyment of blessing not only a quality disposing to it but an act putting into the possession of it as your Armies late repentance for their backsliding put your Members actually into the House to rule and govern and their counter repentance put you out again so the repentance of your pretended Parliament and the People of England puts lawful Governors into their proper places and sixeth Authority in its right Center which sin unhingeth and expelleth You may observe Israels Repentance was an actual and ardent Contest to bring ●●me the King Repentance breaks open the Bar of Sedition and Rebellion which shutteth out lawful authority will but God give Repentance the Restitution o● Englands Government will be very feasable and speedy For this Repentance consists in two parts 1. To abide for rightfull Governours however expelled and at present excluded and not to be for any other Magistrate by any act of Allegiance First part of Repentance or acknowledgment of Loyalty strike not hands with consent not to any self-created Governours by Pride Perfidy and Rebellion slipping into a Chair of State play not the wanton with any self-advancing Absalom be not seduced by every seditious Sheba If proud men have power and profaneness to catch a Scepter and stamp Authority upon themselves let men maintain their Chastity deny their Allegiance court them not as rightful Governours Mens giddy unconstancy is ●he 〈◊〉 that n●●●risheth Rebellion resolved chastity is the rebuke of adul erous attempts if with Mephib●sheth men cannot follow their exil'd David let them bid● in their widow-hood and retain their Loyalty until her●●●●● According to Nature and Scripture a ●●ople may better be without ary Prince then strike hands with a usurpt● for i● that is sorrow but in this is 〈◊〉 I should Sir wish that 〈◊〉 and blind affection may not engage any to commit lewdness with any the Members of Englands late Husbands body let not any the Members of our Collective Body now beheaded and bemangled cheat us with the claim of Allegiance by pretence of Relation and cry of a Long Parliament but rather let these Members be dispersed throughout the Tribes of Israel as evidences of that unheard of violence and unparallell'd cruelty which hath been acted on our Espoused Lord. Englands Subscription of sinful Engagements and shameful Addresses to unlawful Powers hath been the breach of her chastity let us abide for lawful Government when we can do no more evidence our integrity and assert our duty and relation when we cannot enjoy our right The 2d Act of Repentance to be done is to return unto the Lord Second ●a●t of Repentance and to David their King Return to God is the formall act of true Repentance Sin and Repentance have the same object though some sin is more immediately against God yet all sin is a transgression of his Law the same God that said Thou shalt have none other Gods before my face said also Thou shalt honour thy Father and thy Mother and Thou shalt not commit adultery Israels Rejection o● Samuel was a Rejection o● the Lord as light as men make o● Civil Right and Order it is Gons direction in the second Table of his Law The complaint of the Penitent for any sin is unto God Against thee thee only have I sinned seeking to the Lord will spur a seeking unto David their King sence of God offended engageth a return from all sin not only from last but first acts o● violence done unto Authority not only the interruptions made on you in 1653. but those chiesly made by you in 1648 and that with fulness of Resolution to backslide no more a return to God will awe the conscience and obviate all the difficulties and discouragements of Repentance danger sinfully created by rebellion shall not deter repentance because it is a return to God ready to forgive let me say to England as God to Israel If thou wilt return return unto the Lord who enjoyned your duty Jer. 4.1 whose law hath been violated by your impiety unto the Lord to whom you sware in the day of your distress who is a God of Jealousie and will avenge the quarrel of the Covenant sad is the Repentance which is but an exchange of sin or of sins object a bewailing of one rebellious act but maintaining and proceeding in a series of Rebellion violence and sedition Sir whatever Souldiers do Saints must not thus return Israels return to God must be with a return to David their King by David is generally understood the Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ nor do I deny it only Sir I wish it may be noted the Messiah is called David for Relation and Succession sake because the same seed and rightful successor of David as the Pharaohs of Egypt and Caesars of Rome he is their King not only as the Messiah but by a lineal discent from and lawful succession to the Crown of Israel so that a return to David their King is mentioned with an allusion unto their Apostacy from and Rebellion against the House of David which must be repented in their return for they must embrace their Lord Jesus not only as the Messiah but as their natural Prince and lawful Soveraign and therefore Calvin crieth out Aliter vere ex animo Deum quaerere noli

ENGLANDS REPENTANCE Englands only REMEDY Religiously propounded in a Serious Resolve of this ENQUIRY Q. What is to be desired by all such as wish well to England In a Letter written by a Minister in London in Answer to one sent from a worthy Member of the late Long PARLIAMENT Entred according to Order London Printed by D. Maxwell 1659. Honoured Sir YOurs of the 18th instant I received whereby I discern your sense of the sad hand of God upon these Nations in the many sad Revolutions to which they have been subject And now you seem studious of the way of its recovery in which I rejoyce Though Sir your Enquiry doth a little amaze me not so much for the matter as that you should press me to it in this juncture of time You well know Sir I have not declined to let you know my thoughts of all the late transactions of those who called themselves The Long Parliament Did I not much presume on your Faithfulness never to use it to my damage however God deal with you I might burn my pen and paper for fear of a Treason and High Court of Justice But I will not fear to write at his request to whom I have often spoken freely and yet met with the fidelity of a Friend Sir your Enquiry is serious and seasonable and calls for a better Resolution then I can render It is this Quest What is to be desired by them that wish well to England I understand your Enquiry as grounded on the present sad state of the Nations affairs and so my resolution is as of a Minister of God that of Israel Repentance promised in Hosea 3.5 Afterwards shall Israel return and seek unto the Lord their God and unto David their King is the unum necessarium one only thing to be desired for England as her sovereign Remedy against all her maladies by the hand of God inflicted on her On serious observation of England I cannot but judg her the parallell of the ten Tribes in sin and sorrow and wish she may precede them in a serious and seasonable Repentance Methinks Sir the Prophet Hosea his Prophetical Marriage of an Harlot and leaving her a long time with this charge To abide for him and not to play the Harlot Hos 3.3 or be for any other is a lively Emblem of Englands state and duty England Sir as Israel have gone in the way of Jerobeam and have sinfully against all Natural Civil and Religious bonds Englands Disease cast off and shut out their Lawful Governours and Established Government left them by their Progenitors and under which she long flourished unto the Enriching of her self Envy of her Neighbours Nations and Encouragement of the Reformed Churches And that after many Declarations Protestations Vows Oaths and the Solemn League and Covenant for the defence and preservation of the Kings Majesties Person and Posterity the Priviledges of Parliament and the Liberties of the Subject and that Sworn in a day of Extremity when they seem'd to be in danger and men were Jealous the subversion since effected was intended Nay and after a vast expence of Blood and Treasure in the defence of them and when under an Obligation inviolable and never to be dispensed withall wherein we have sworn to God Not to suffer our selves by any comminations perswasions or terrors whatsoever directly or indirectly to turn aside to the right hand or to the left or to make defection from this Cause Yet have our Nation to the Scandal of Religion Reproach of the Nation and Blasphemy of God and Provocation of his Justice with Israel made defection from their Lawful and Natural Prince nay and altered their unalterable Government at the Lusts of men subverting very Foundations Only Sir I must be free to let you know that in two things Englands defection hath been more vile then that of Israeis in that it was made by a violent base unjust extrajudicial barbarous Regicidee with an hypocritical pretence of Justice Secondly In that Members of the Parliament have been to themselves an H●rod Ascalonite to violently break up their own Sandedrin and Guido Faux to blow up King Lords and Commons in Parliam●●t assembled to the everlasting blemish of the Protestant Religion and in the room thereof have been subjected to usurpation and self-created Governours with whom most of the Nation have concurred and to them consented And for the support of this Usurped Magistracy Calves have been set up at D●n and Bethell all falshood in Religion Tolerated the Ministry laid common who will becomes a Priest unto the Lo●d So that Sir Schism and Sedition Rebellion unto Regicide Perfidie and Perjurie is become Englands Guilt and impiety written in such legible and indelible Characters that all men must say She is become an Harlot and see Repentance absolutely necessary to prevent her ruine Nay Sir give me leave to tell you Englands sin like Israels hath been pointed out by her Sorrows Englands Distemper for she having shamefully shaken off her Rightful Governor and Government hath been prostituted to the Lusts and Ambition of particular men and proudly trampled on by Military insolency in so much that our very Bell men can reproach us as we lie in our Beds Shall I Sir make bold to insert a Bell-mans sound which I heard with my own ears It was this Whilst you securely Sleep I Ring my Bell Which lately hath Rung out your Freedoms Knell Your Souldiers now your Sovereigns are become Your Laws and Liberties command by sound of Drum Nor is it strange for they read no Commission Regard no Bonds but prosper by Transgression By Pride and Perjury these Saints most rude Have Cut off the King and Parliament subdu'd Your eyes have seen 't vile Slaves yet in this season You are Rid like Asses and not Rul'd by Reason Oh Sir how many sad and shameful revolutions have passed upon us and yet we are full far from Settlement Authority like a Tennis-Ball hath been cast up and down for him to catch that catch can and hath been tossed between a republican pack and single Person whilst both are plain and palpable usurpers for indeed in nature and by Gods just judgment Revolution is the constant Attendant on usurpation the Globe of Magistracy must roule up and down whilst off its Pin and from its Center it only resteth in right subjects and now we are covered with confusion and left without King any lawful nay without Prince any unlawful Governors without any establishment in Chair or State Civil and Religious order and this was the punishment of Israels now is of Englands adultery the estate of her widow-hood the time of divine desertion for Civil Order is Gods presence in the world and Religious Order his presence in the Church The very heathen conclude from the confusions in the world the Gods have forsaken the Earth so that Sir he must have no Religion who seeth not in Englands case to conclude and cry out