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A87586	Parliament physick for a sin-sick nation. Or, An ordinance of Parliament explained, and applyed to these diseased times. Containing a catholicall medicine for all natures and nations, but especially, a generall receipt for all the sickly people in our English-hospitall, and Welch-spittle, compounded after the art of the apothecary, and according to Parliament prescription, as hereafter followeth. Wherein thou mayst see as in an urinal-glasse, the dangerous state of thy English mother, and the genius of the reforming physitians, in seeking her speedy cure, and lasting happinesse, unto all succeeding ages. / By Philo-Parl. Imprimatur, Ja: Cranford.	Joceline, Nathaniel.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1644 (1644)	Wing J757; Thomason E45_13; ESTC R21825	121,637	146

Kingdome A true friend is a Magazine of much good suppose thy old friend hath some defects this new friend may prove more defective it is not with a friend as with a garment or a ship the newer the better this Rehoboam Solomons son found to be too true for his profit 1 Kings 12.6 c. when he forsook the counsell of the old men or Sanhedrin that had stood before his father to give advice and did choose and follow the counsell of young men a cabinet counsell against the great Senate Graves antiqui Senatores Pet. Mart. Et a conciliis fuerant Jun. which then was like our Parliament now in many regards as you have heard before do but read this chapter through and it will give thee a good hint for these Parliament-forsaking times All the world knoweth and England cannot but beare witnesse that Englands Parliament hath been Englands friend many generations Jewel def Apo. part 6. p. 522. even in the time of Popery yea even then the Pope his holynesse was clogged with Parliament Conditions And why we should now think that the Papists will rather defend the Protestant Religion in England then the reformed and reforming Parliament now sitting Monstrum horrendum Britannieum to me is no little wonder diverse come over into this Island to see strange sights I think there is none like this new wonder which many would perswade England the world to beleeve in these dayes to wit That a Delinquent and Popish Army should fight for the due execution of the strict Lawes of the Kingdom and the maintenance of the Protestant Religion in England yea and that against such a parliament as I am perswaded is the glory of the Christian world Ovid never fained such a Metamorphosis and the Legend of lies never fabled its like Certainly this is one of Satans lying wonders 2 Thes 2.9 who is a great friend to Antichrist 〈◊〉 en●m Satanae omn●a agat Heming Obj. as appeareth plainly in that verse and in this Yorke designe I should like well of your admonition may some man say were it not that the now present Parliament doth go about to bring in an alteration contrary to the minds and votes of the Bishops when they were members of the House of Lords I will give you the answer of Bishop Iewel to Master Harding a Papist in his time Sol. Jewel d●f Apo. p●t 6. p 521 522. whose words are these You see me herein to bewray some want of skill the wise and learned could soon have told you that in the Parliaments of England matters have evermore used to passe not of necessity by the speciall consent of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops as if without them no statute might lawfully be enacted but onely by the more part of the voices yea although all the Arch-Bishops and Bishops were never so earnestly bent against it And Statutes so passing in Parliament onely by the consent of the Lords Temporall without the consent and agreement of the Lords Spirituall have neverthelesse alwayes been confirmed and ratified by the Royall assent of the Prince and have been enacted and published under the names of the Lords Temporall At S Edmunds Bury Anno Do● 1296. Habitorex cum suis ●aronibus Parliamento Clero excluso statutum est In provistone de Mart. Anno Dom. 1272. Read the Statutes of King Edward the first there you shall finde that in a Parliament solemnly holden the Arch-Bishops and Bishops were quite shut forth and yet the Parliament held on and good and wholsome Lawes were there enacted the departing or absence or malice of the Lords Spirituall notwithstanding In the Records thereof it is written thus The King keeping his Purliament with his Barons the Clergy being shut forth it was enacted c. Likewise in the time of King Henry the third yea and that quite contrary to the expresse decrees of the Church of Rome Likewise in the time of Rich. 2. Anno 11. cap. 3. From whence Christian reader thou hast not onely an answer to the former Cavalier-cavill but also a learned confutation of the late Protestation of the Tower-Bishops but no more of this matter Give me leave therefore O England once more to perswade thee as thou lovest thy selfe and tenderest the welfare of thy posterity forsake not thy own friend and thy fathers friend I meane the Parliament of England which hath protested as deeply and ventured as magnanimously for the good of King and Kingdom as ever any did since King Inah his dayes and King Elfreds Regiment THE SECOND PART CHAP. III. A Preparative for this Physick THat flourishing Kingdoms have been ruined by impenitent going on in a course of sinning the sacred Story doth plainly tell us And how neere to such a ruine our sinfull Nation now is the present lamentable face of it doth too apparently shew Parl. Ordin P. And though we should feele the heavy strokes of God yet seven times more it is our duty to accept the punishment of our iniquity and to say Righteous art thou O Lord and just are thy judgements Yet because the Lord who is just is also mercifull and in his infinite mercy hath left the excellent and successefull remedy of Repentance to Nations brought neere to the gates of destruction and despaire O let not England be negligent in the application of it Humble addresses of a penitent people to a mercifull God have prevailed with him They prevailed for Niniveh when the sentence seemed to be gone out against her and may also prevaile for England Thus far the Preparative In which Preparative are severall Ingredients The first Ingredient is Necessity and that in a twofold regard Necessitie 1. Because Englands sicknesse is a mortall or deadly disease which is Impenitencie argued by these words That flourishing Kingdoms have been ruined by impenitent going on in a course of sinning 2. In regard of the neernesse of the mortality and ruine of this impenitent Kingdome implyed in these words And how neere to such a ruine our sinfull Nation now is the present lamentable face of it doth too apparently shew From whence naturally ariseth this Aphorisme That Impenitencie is a Nation-destroying sicknesse APHORISME 2. Impenitencie is a Nation-destroying sicknes Isa 6.10 11. Ier. 29 2 Kings 17. from the 7. to the 19. ver Ier. 8.6 Rev. 2.5 For the better understanding of this Aphorisme consider three things First consider what impenitencie is It is a going on in a course of sinning without repentance This description is in the beginning of the Ordinance Wherein consisider these parts 1. It is a sinne 2. It is a course or trade 3. It is a going on still without repentance for as Christ did destroy the works of the devill 1 Iohn 3.8 so doth Repentance destroy the worke of Impenitencie it is quite contrary to it Secondly consider the grounds of this Aphorisme in generall and these are in number sixe 1. Because it is a great sinne

but all must confesse that they have contributed toward the great stock of National sins and so have increased the treasure of wrath against these dayes of wrath And therefore since according to the language of the Holy Ghost we are a sinful Nation and laden with in-quity and that from the sole of ●he foot to the head there is no soundnesse in us we may justly expect the desolations that are denounced against so great and generall a corruption And as it is our d●●y to humble our selves and to give glory to God the f●●r cher of all hearts by confessing all sins So ough we to be affected and humbled with deepest sense of sorrow for those most crying sins which now we finde by too sad experience to have a more immediate influence upon the destruction of a Kingdom Some of which are Idolatry and Bloodshed That of Idola●ry as it was the sin of our Ancestors so it is the spreading sin of these latter dayes while by a general connivence and almost toleration it hath been several wayes fomented and incouraged the grievous effects whereof this kingdom now begins to feele from multitudes of armed Papists and their abettors And the kingdom of Ireland far more heavily hath felt being brought almost to utter ruine by the intestine wars of Romish Idolaters And for that o her crying and cruell sinne of bloodshed that cals aloud for vengeance besides many murders not expiated and the blood-guilty pardoned did it not go hand in hand with that abominable Idol of the Masse in the dayes of Queen Mary and some of her predecessors when many hundreds of deare Martyrs and Saints of God lost their precious lives in flames and prisons And though severall acts by which that innocent blood was shed have been repealed by Parliament yet to this very day was never ordained such a solemne publicke and Nationall acknowledgment of this sin as might appease the wrath of that Jealous God against whom and against whose people with so high a hand it was committed Now that all the sin and misery of this polluted and afflicted Nation may be bitterly sorrowed for with such griefe of heart and preparednesse for a thorow Reformation as God may be pleased graciously to accept It s required and ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Part 7. E. that every Minister and Preacher of Gods word in the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales in their several Auditories and Congregations especially upon the fast dayes Part 8. N. shal most earnestly perswade and inculcate the constant practice of this publick acknowledgment and deep humiliaton for these and all our national and crying sins and likewise the necessity of a personal and national Reformation and shal publish this Ordinance concerning the same That so at length we may obtaine a firme and happy peace both with God and Man That glory may dwel in our Land Part 9. T. and the prosperity of the Gospel with all the priviledges accompanying it may crowne this Nation unto all succeeding ages The parts   In this Parliament Physick for a sin-sick Nation consider these parts As appeareth in 1. The Physitians The Lords and Commons P 2. A Preparative for this physick It s a discovery of the necessity goodnesse of this physick and possibility of a cure A 3. The Patients They are 1. the Kingdome of England and the Dominion of Wales R 4. The Physick it selfe It s Repentance which is divided into 3. parts 1. Confession 2. Humiliation 3. Reformation L 5. The time when it is to be taken It s speedily E 6. The maladies or distempers of the Nation They are infinite in number and hainous in nature amongst which 20. are nominated as chiefe M 7. The Apothecaries who are to compound this physick They are all Ministers and Preachers in the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales E 8. The shops where this Nationall physick is to be had It s to be had in publike Auditories Congregations N 9. The ends why this physick is prescribed They are three as 1. Peace with God and man 2. Glory 3. the prosperity of the Gospel for afterwards T 10. The motives to take this physick They are many secretly contained in this Ordinance as hereafter by Gods assistance and your gentle patience may more clearly appeare   PARLIAMENT PHYSICK for a Sin-sick Nation THE FIRST PART CHAP. I. The Physitians are the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament IN explaining and applying the ten fore-named parts of the late Parliament and Physical Ordinance I purpose God assisting to observe three things that I may avoid confusednesse tediousnesse and unprofitablenesse The first is Order the second is Brevity the third is Plainnesse therefore after the example of Hippocrates I intend to summe up the chiefe Doctrinall Points into briefe Aphorismes or generall Heads in Evangelicall Physick and then apply them to every sin-sick member as may be most sutable to the work in hand which is a Nationall cure which thing is much desired by that great Colledge of Physitians and by me an unworthy and unskilfull yet a well-willing Apothecary to that most Honourable and Nation-curing Assembly APHORISME I. The Parliament of England is a Colledge of State-Physitians It will be needlesse to spend much time in the proof of this point because so much hath been lately written concerning it Master Pryn. Master Bridge as may satisfie any rationall man that will but seriously and without prejudice Polyd Virg. an Italian Archdeacon of wels in Ang hist l. 11 p. 188. Hen. 〈◊〉 study the point Yet give me leave to adde one testimony out of an impartiall Historian who lived long before these disputing and truth gain-saying times and was as little a friend to a Reforming Parliament as any of his function are in these times My Author saith that from the reigne of Henry the first the Parliament of England had such a lawfull and firme power conferred upon it that whatsoever was to be consulted on tending to the well-governing and preservation of the Kingdome that was to be referred to that Councell Moreover he saith that if any thing were either decreed or done by the command of King or people all that was accounted as nothing of no force except it were approved on by the authority of the parliament Furthermore he saith That if any thing were to be taken from or added to the ancient Statutes that ought to be done by the sentence of the Councell Not to be tedious he affirmeth That nothing could be established but what the major part of both Houses then sitting did like of Something else he saith which I leave to thy owne private examination and serious meditation From whence collect these Parliament Positions making good the fore-named Aphorisme and present practice 1. Position That Parliament power is an ancient power Ab Henrico id institutum jure manasse dici possit Reges ante haec tempora non consuevisse

a sickly posterity after their owne image Gen. 5.3 So is sinne contrary to nature created regenerated and restored to its pris●nat perfection in some measure Eph. 4 24. 2. A disease doth vitiate and paire the actions of men Primo viti●ns actionem quare cum actio vitiata non fuerit morbi nomen non meretur Galen and this it doth two waies especially as the learned Physitian faith 1. by corrupting an distempering the first qualities Secondly by dissolving the Union betwixt the humours of the body So sinne doth corrupt the qualities of the soule and dissolving and breaking the Union betwixt the faculties of the mind doth corrupt and make worse the powers of the soule and body and hence come all vitious or sinfull actions therefore originall sinne is called originall corruption In Psal 51.5 Hugo Hieron Glosa Grego lib. 12. Moral and from this originall corruption and pravitie of nature floweth all the corruption in the world 2 Pet. 1 4. corruption in the world through lust Psal 51.5 David discovereth the fountaine of corruption in his life and actions to be his conception in originall corruption and sinne God created man righteous but man found out many inventions to corrupt and undoe himselfe Eccl. 7.29 3. A disease doth weaken the body so doth sinne Rom. 7. Morbus imbecillitas me exanimat Cic. A●tic lib. 11. Ex morbo pravitas membrorum deformitas Cicero Paul could not doe what he would he wanted power Rom. 7.18 4. A disease doth not onely weaken but also deforme the bodie it doth deprive the lovely face of its beauty c. So doth sinne like the Pox deforme a man that was most amiable in his first creation it hath robbed him of the beauty of holinesse sinne is Deformitie 5. Every disease is deadly if it be not cured Morbus morti proximus though some are more mortall then others So is every sinne mortall Rom. 6.23 6. A disease is an enemy to the whole body though it be but in one part Morbum esse 〈◊〉 corporis 〈◊〉 Tull. 〈◊〉 4. Tus● so doth one Achan trouble all Israel Joshu 7. Adams sinne did corrupt the whole world Gen. 3. Rom. 5. Davids numbring the people did wrong to his Kingdome CHAP. XXII Application of this Aphorisme THe Consideration hereof is of use by way of Information If Englands sinnes and diseases be infinite never wonder England is so sick and ill at ease as it is the Lord helpe us but rather stand and wonder that its no worse with the Nation then it is this day The wages of one sinne is death yea all kind of death the merit of the least sinne is the greatest punishment Englands sinnes are not onely infinite but hainous in nature more heavie then the sands on the Sea-shoare yea they are aggravated with many circumstances and are subjectated in the whole Kingdome there is not one man that sinneth not No not one Psal 14. And therefore stand and admire O all yee Nations at Gods favourable dealing with England we with Capernaum have beene exalted to Heaven and therefore have deserved to be brought downe to Hell because of our Impenitencie Ideo vos caedā durissimis flagellis ut ingratis convenit Lyran. Mere. Math. 11 23. God must say to us as to his people of old Amos 3.2 You onely have I knowne of all the Families of the earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities Because you have beene more ingratefull to me then others that have not enjoyed so many mercies from me Therefore I will punish you more sharpely then any other Nation But blessed by God we cannot find by his actions that he hath said such words against this Land and Nation If Englands sinnes be Englands diseases then that Parliament that Armie that Discipline that are most against sinne and sight most against Poperie that Parliament that Armie and that Discipline are most sutable to Englands necessities and are likely to be the best Physitians and Surgeons to cure and heale a wounded and sin-sick Nation for when the causes are removed then the effects will cease * Quapropter in adeundis periculis consu●tudoö miranda medicorum est qui leviter aegrotantes leviter curant gravioribus autem morbis periculosas curationes ancipites adhibere coguntur 〈◊〉 Amb. Cal. If Englands sinnes be so many so great and dangerous as you have heard then blame not that Great Colledge of Physitians for their using more then ordinary Remedies for so desperate a cure as the Kingdome hath put into their hands It s the usuall custome of Physitians so to doe in dangerous diseases and doubtfull cures If every sinne is a disease Venienti occurrite morb● then deale with every sinne as with a dangerous and mortall distemper Stop it in the beginning runne to the Physitian acquaint the learned Doctor with it and follow his direction this is the next way to have a sound body and a Kingdome in conjunction Smiling sinnes are flattering diseases when with Judas they kisse us and cry Haile master then take heed to thy selfe they will give thee up into the hands of death as Judas did Christ into the hands of P●late If this Aphorisme be true which doubtlesse it is then see from hence a ground for Christian-stricknesse and precisenesse as the world calleth it Sinnes are distempers distempers are dangerous to the sicke partie and infectious to others The plague of the heart which is sinne is like the plague of Leprosie its dangerous and infectious Levit. 13. And therefore we are to shunne grosse sinners and not to come nigh their dwellings Prov. 4 14 15. Eph. 5 11. 1 Cor. 5 11. It s dangerous to sit at the same table and drinke of the same cup with them Now as my Author saith Peccator ver● leprosus est primo enim in corde corruptusest d●inde tetrum foetorem emittit insuper ali●s inficit dignus est qui ejiciatur Ferus in Num. 12. a sinner is like a Leprous man in divers regards First because he is corrupt in heart Secondly because he stinketh like a Leper he hath a most grievous stinking breath Thirdly because he doth infect others Fourthly because he is worthy to be cast out of the Church and societie of the Saints whether he be then fit to come to the Communion judge yee Now if it be commendable to shunne infectious companie sure its praise-worthy to keepe thy soule from spirituall infection as much as thou canst Lastly Solemne League and Covenant 1643. p. 5. be exhorted to approve of the Solemne League and Covenant betwixt the three Kingdomes to endeavour two things of great moment for the cure of this Leprous-Nation The first is to endeavour the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdomes of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the Example of the best Reformed Churches Secondly to endeavour the