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The true Englishman, humbly proposing something to rid us of the plot in the state and of contentions in the church wherein is shown how our King may be the happy healer of nations / by a Philopolite ; and published by his neighbour, Philotheus.
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him with trembling and with fear rejoyce VIII Lest he be angry kiss the Eternal Son Happy are they who thus have done And there have plac'd their chief desire Vnto your selves and him return For if his Anger once take fire Those Flames which should but only warm will burn Good Poesie and sense are quickning things therefore not amiss in me now and then to call in the Doctor who excels therein to help where there is so great need One Psalm more there is I cannot part with being most apposite to my purpose it is that for or of Solomon who you know was a King Which Psalm our Poet in his Paraphrase hath contrived to express my hearts desire i.e. the happiness and glory of our King's Kingdom it is Psalm 72. I. Great God Thy Judgments to our Sovereign give And let his Throne like thine abide May the Young Prince before thee live And on his Enemies Necks in Triumph ride Put on his Head thy Righteous Crown And to the Father's glories add Thy own II. Then shall He judge the People and dispense That Justice which he has receiv'd To him the Poor shall look and thence Have both their Miseries pitty'd and reliev'd The Needies cause He shall maintain And on their Enemies turn their wrongs again III. So shall the barren Cliffs with shouts resound And all the little Hills rejoyce The Vallies from the lower ground Shall thence receive the Image of the Voice Sweet Peace on every Hill shall reign And Justice once more guide the humble Plain IV. Whilst time can measure it His Rule shall last And when even that shall be no more When Time it self expir'd is cast I'th'Vrne that had all dust but his before No Ages left to count it by It shall be measur'd by Eternity VI. Peace and Her fruits shall prosper in his daies And under his Auspicious Reign The Palm shall flourish and the Bayes And Justice to the Earth return'd again To Heav'n no more be forc'd to go But with him keep her residence below VII His far-stretch'd sway Nature alone can bound Which shall from Sea to Sea extend As far as there is any ground And only where the World finds hers have end Then up to Heav'n his Fame shall flie And fill the Mighty Circle of the skie VIII Black Ethiopia at his Feet shall bow Her neck for him to tread upon Honour'd enough if thus he shew Acceptance of the Footstool for his Throne Down in the dust his Foes shall lie With Heads more low than once their thoughts were high IX The Western Continent and farthest Isles And both the Indies Gifts shall bring To him they shall present the Spoils Of Sea and Land as Vniversal King All Kings before him shall bow down And do for Theirs just Homage to his Crown X. Kingdoms opprest shall his Protection crave And needy States unto him sue Th' Opprest he with his arms shall save And with the Needy his Old League renew Redeem their Slaves defend their Right And shew their Blood was precious in his sight XI Thus shall he live and reign and thus receive The Tributes which to him are paid Some Myrrh some Frankincense shall give And Gold which shall like Stones be common made And the due service of each day Shall be to praise that King for whom we pray XIII And when to God he shall resign his breath Yet in his Name he still shall live Above the Pow'r of Grave or Death And to the Immortal Verse a Subject give Which of his happy Reign shall sing And count that Land so which has such a King XIV Bless Him whose Words these Miracles obey And who must all these gifts bestow To Israel's God let Israel pray That from his Spring such streams may ever flow For ever bless his holy Name Nor bound with less than Heaven his mighty Fame There is no hurt I hope in this Transcription it is edifying unto me as is all his Book and what I thereof bring is the more pleasing because so far I am sure I offer what is worthy of thy acceptance I am now near concluding my Discourse having no other remain in my thoughts than some few Directions which shall be given in the next Chapter CHAP. VI. SECT I. IN order to our being what I have hitherto designed in this Discourse I shall propose to some Directions 1 More general 2 More special 1 The General Direction shall be to Four things 1 Look we diligently lest any root of bitterness be springing up in us These are so opposite to what I have been proposing that they be the only troubling and defiling things these will occasion any man to fail of the Grace of God for they be poyson and death to Love What natural name they have St. Paul and St. James will tell you the one names it the law in our members the other Rom. 7. James 4.1 our lusts in the one is pointed to us its Commanding power in the other its being Brutish and in both that it is a warring thing in war against Reason and against the Soul of Man against the direction of God's Spirit and then against every body else The looking diligently and honestly within you will soon inform you what it is and what names I should here give them Of all these bitter roots none to a Nation are so certainly and so speedily mortal as those of affecting to be flattered Revenge and being without natural affection in the Ruler or the Governours subordinate to him Suspicion Jealousies or Fears and affectation of Change and an Opinion of having Political Science in the People I descend not to other particulars and say no more of these because the next Direction if followed will surely cure all at once 2 Let us be willing to be truly Religious or Divine in Intellect and Will in Affection and Practice i.e. that the whole of us tend to God and be given to him So that upon All which is either Naturally or Providentially ours we write with our own hand i.e. most heartily This is the Lord's I know God works in us both to will and to do but how so as that we likewise refuse not to work He stands and knocks and we must open or he comes not in Psal 24. Lift up your heads O ye Gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting Doors and the King of Glory shall come in View this King of Glory until ye be enamour'd of his Divine perfections search or seek until you find him within your selves i. e. to be so far as we can like unto God and out of the real sense of this likeness in our selves to love and admire him This is the true and the highest Worship Man can exhibite to his Maker And to be pure in this of Religion our Will is also requisite i. e. that we throughly consent to be in due moderation and rule over all the joys and pleasures of our Members to bear a strict hand
Or in the words of St. Paul Coloss 3. ver 12 13 14 15. Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and Beloved bowels of mercy kindness humbleness of mind meekness long-suffering forbearing one another and forgiving one another if any man hath a quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you so do ye And above all these things put on Charity which is the Bond of perfectness And let the Peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also you are called in one body and be ye thankful By all which we shall be as the pictures and resemblances of God prized and valued by him we shall shew his Spirit hath sanctified us and is given unto us and by the most excellent Bond we shall be united indissolubly one to another and tyed to the exercise of all Graces not only as our duty but delight We shall hereby be perfectly skilled in all necessary and perfecting knowledge particularly the unspeakable Love of Christ the knowledge of which is a Science of great concernment to us far beyond all other Sciences for hereby our hearts will be enflamed with Love to God will be fortified against temptation to evil and will be filled with the Vertues which are most Divine Now the God of Peace or which delighteth in the Peace and Unity of Christians that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepheard of the Sheep through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and eternal Spirit three Subsistences or Persons and but one God be glory for ever and ever Amen Postscript I Am not ignorant of Exceptions the more Curious may make against the management of this Discourse being wrote by one who is more willing than able to do well As 1 That I have started many things but have not pursued them as I ought 2 That I have insisted too little on the Explication of things i. e. as Divines are wont to say The Doctrinal part Answ 1 I intended to have delivered my whole mind in two or three Sheets to make it as little labour to me and charge to others as I could 2 I conceive that they who under God are to help us do fully understand the matters I do here only point to So that it may be here if ever said A word is enough to the Wise 3 I more doubt the Rectitude of the Will in applying or choosing unto Practice than the capacity of the Meanest to understand the things I have proposed unto 4 The Nature of some things required my stop to farther proceedure into them and others are explicated or fully stated already by some of greatest comprehension and ability in our Church In special the late excellent Bishop Wilkins in his Discourse of Natural Religion out of which I took one part of the Analysis pag. 31. and Isaac Barrow D. D. in his Sermons Mr. Baxter in his Cure of Church Divisions c. and the most Worthy Citizen of London Mr. William Allen in several of his Treatises Also that Great Man Edw. Stillingfleet D. D. now Dean of St. Pauls in his Irenicum From whom I expect de novo as great a Healer as was his Weapon Salve His Temper his Wisdom and Goodness I know are disposing thereto rather than to self-Vindication or Conquest over his Antagonists 5 Which is enough alone I have not the ability or leasure of other men and do reach in great part my design if I hereby excite some of Ability to be doing that so it may be well done Lastly The Pair of Extreams in our Church may see their Sin and their Recovery from it by what I have wrote in the first and third Chapters Provided they afford them more thoughts as they ought if they will give any than I have given words to them The like may I say to the Pair of Extreams in our State For thereby men may see their station in this Kingdom the Constitution they are under and their duty therein part of which is to be Faithful and Constant thereunto King-Flatterers and Republicans or Self-Designers know themselves to be so and a Prince needs no more to find them out than his own Observation of them in their daily mean towards his Person or Government To the latter more especially in two things 1 In Suggestions to a Variation in that Constitution Wherein the Prince is already Supream and unto which he hath sworn Adhesion 2 In Proposals to Things less acceptable to his People and which the King cannot but see if he looks into any thing are not necessary to the maintenance of the Government or his true Greatness therein These two or such are alwaies Casts of the Office of the Flatterer or Leveller in his Kingdom So that a more particular account of this matter would have been as too tedious so almost needless Sincere Obedience to God and Charity or as I have said Doing our own Business and Love have Natural and Moral tendancy to Knowledge and Wisdom i. e. to the seeing and to the well-managing of all things so that he who is Upright shall not fail of Science requisite to the knowing and doing of his duty in the station God hath set him He hath Infallibility nearer or more secured in God's Promises to him than the Pope and Conclave at Rome have they being not so good Men. Besides so far as any one proposeth to Vertue or Grace he doth propose as to all Wisdom and Knowledge as hath been said so unto all that is neceslary to cure all Maladies For Vertue in the Blossom and Fruit being of the same nature with that in the Root Peace and every thing prosperous or truly desirable thence must come Contrary hereunto is Sin of which St. James saith Chap. 1.14 15. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own hearts lust and enticed Then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death Most fully to this purpose is Prov. 14.14 The Backslider in heart shall be filled with his own waies and a Good-man shall be satisfied from himself In short Men must have and Nations will find as they are corrupted and lapsed or as they be restored and renewed by Grace I will conclude with the words of St. Paul Gal. 6. ver 7. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap Which is most true of Kingdoms and Societies of Men. Now of Obedience to God of vigour or sincerity therein and of Love I have spoken though little yet I hope what may be understood and what a good Heart will improve to every needful purpose in his Converse with God or Man If the Antidoter or any for him be displeased at me I will not be overcome of that Evil but endeavour to overcome