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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92320	England's backwardnesse or A lingring party in bringing back a lawful King. Delivered in a sermon at Waltham Abbey Church in the county of Essex, at a solemne fast. / By Thomas Reeve D.D. preacher of Gods word in that parish.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R687; Thomason E1056_3; ESTC R208035	33,106	49

ENGLAND'S BACKWARDNESSE Or a lingring PARTY In bringing back a lawful KING DELIVERED In a SERMON at Waltham Abbey Church in the County of Essex at a solemne fast By THOMAS REEVE D. D. Preacher of Gods Word in that Parish Aegrè facimus facimus tamen LONDON Printed for William Grantham at the black Bear in S. Paul's Church yard near the little North Door 1661. To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of Southampton Lord high Treasurer of England and one of his MAIESTIES most Honourable Privy Council length of dayes and increase of Honour Right Honourable and admired Peer WHat is man if but meer man where grace doth not sanctifie what is natural wisdome but a subtil Cacodaemon we may see it in this Synopsis of Davids troubles what variety was there of strange prodigious Wits the Prototype was in Davids time the Antitype hath been in our time There was an Absalom that took up arms against his natural Father and what have we had but Absalom amongst us for these many years Subjects which are political Sons appearing in an hostile manner against their natural Soveraign the true Father of the Countrey we have had the chariots horsmen prepared men persons of servile spirits and complying dispositions to run before the Designer yea the trumpets of sedition have been blown and the popular perfidious cry hath been heard Absalom reigneth in Hebron and our Land hath been filled with as many Spies Intelligencers Face-triers Speech-latchers the vermine of corrupt Commonwealths as ever Israel abounded with in Absaloms dayes And as Absaloms rebellion began with glorious pretexts of religion and reformation so have not we been sprinkled with the Rebels holy Water what was there in this Nation for a great while but paying of vows in Hebron Lectures Fasts Self-denying Ordinances and telling the people that the Form of Government in this Nation was distempered but if any had a cause or suit and they would repair unto them they would do them justice Thus all the engines of execrable policy were set on work And as in those dayes there was a Zibah that betrayed his dear Master M●phibosheth so have not we had many a Zibah Yes what have we had but infinite treacherous servants and supplanting neighbours which to gain the estates of renowned Noblemen and worthy Patriots have used all manner of undermining practises and blemishing informations Si sat sit accusasse quis erit innocens If a bare accusation be enough to make a man guilty who shall be innocent yet a meer aspersion was enough for a Sequestration if this stratagem hath cost me three thousand pounds how many Millions have there been drained by these hellish contrivances from many innocent and eminent men in this Land And as there was a Shimei that cursed David and had no better terms then bloody man and Son of Belial and telling him that the justice of heaven did pursue him and that he was taken in his mischief so have not we had as cursing a generation Yes what was the spittle of many mens lips but sirnames and nicknames Malignants Delinquents limbs of Antichrist hellish Fire brands Cyprianus was called Caprianus and Athanasius Sathanasius no scandalous names they thought were ignominious enough to avile us revile us and reproach us to the people and this by men that professed the spirit of meekness and knew that it was not lawfull to say unto a brother Racah and did they not pronounce upon us and say that we were taken in our mischief judged from heaven and that the hand of the Lord was lift up against us Oh what adoe was there with the righteous cause and of vengeance printed upon our brows by the stigmatizing finger of God Almighty These were a people of high revelations and seemed to be Secretaries of State to the hidden Councils and Decrees of the great God That party carried it in that height as if it had been Master of the Ordinance to the Lord of hosts or been the very Council of War in heaven by authority to sentence poor Malignants as they called us to be shot to death And as Ahithophel was the busie active man in that rebellion so have not we had an abundance of Mercurial brains and dangerous Craftmasters in this Insurrection such as have advised Absalom to lye with his Fathers Concubines in the sight of all Israel I mean to counsel our State Masters to do the most nesarious detestable abominable things which ever the Sun beheld yea to plunder rifle imprison gibbet to make their own countrymen Vagabonds at home to sell them for Slaves beyond sea to break in pieces the great Seal nay the Crowns and Scepter to rase Palaces to demolish Castles to set up Eunuch Parliaments Hermaphroditical Committees Cyclopical High Courts of Iustice to seiz upon Church-land to expel the most reverend Churchmen out of their just Cures Oh how have we had Anabaptistical and Phanatick principles of State delivered as the fundamental Laws of the Kingdome these Ionadabs these wily men these Ahithophels were accounted as the Oracles of God in those dayes And did this rebellion go on onely with a State-vapour or a daring bravado no as in Absaloms dayes the battle was scattered over the face of the whole Countrey and there fell twenty thousand men and the wood of Ephraim devoured more then the sword so our treason was it not a most satal and destructive attempt to the Nation how many pitched battels were there fought what horrid slaughters were there committed as if here and elsewhere there had been nothing but slaughterhouses to be seen What corner hath not been sprinkled with bloud how many mournful Families hath this war caused we might justly be called Acheldamah The losses of precious treasure is grievous but the losse of mens precious lives is an astonishing dismaying Spectacle Now my honourable good Lord what shall the result of this hideous passage be but to conclude with Samuel that Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft 1 Sam. 15.23 For if men had not been bewitched it could never have entred into the hearts of men or Christians or especially such Christians as seem to defie Iesuites for treason and rebellion to perpetrate such barbarous things upon their natural Country and Countrymen Some say there are no Witches and some say there are no Rebels those that are called Witches there are that say they are but Venesitae Poysoners or Ventriloquae Speakers through the belly so those which some call Rebels are but such as have a rare art in a new way to take away the enemies of State can speak through the belly in a mysterious way to cry up the liberties of the people or if they be Witches they are to be called but Sagae the prime Wits of the time or White-witches that do more good then hurt But I doubt they will be found Maleficae black Witches and their very practises will declare it 1. as Witches are discontented people so these are Malecontents