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A92321	England's restitution or The man, the man of men, the states-man. delivered in several sermons in the parish church of Waltham Abbey in the county of Essex. / By Thomas Reeve D.D. preacher of Gods word there.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R689; Thomason E1056_1; ESTC R208033	132,074	175

your pride from your backs your lusts out of your members your riots out of your palats your blasphemies out of your lips your oppression out of your hands and your malice out of your hearts that ye would know your sins and bewail them reflect upon them and renounce them that ye would say we have sinned we are greived that we have sinned so often and do vow that we will sin no longer that ye might say we have once been at Church and heard one penitential sermon that here we have met with conviction and will carry home conversion oh that it might be said that ye came blind but go away seeing that ye came remorsless and goe away contrite ye came guilty and go away innocent oh I stand waiting to see a little water in your eyes a little shame in your cheeks a little smiting upon your breasts a little turning of your feet oh I stay for a circumcised ear a rent heart and a renewed life Do it for the love of your souls do it for love to your Countrey for the land that hath been stained with transgression for the land which hath suffered for transgression and for the Land which may perish by transgression Though a great part of the Land should be impenitent yet have ye repentance unto life pacifie Gods wrath for your selves and sacrifice for your Countrey so if greater judgements should be reserved for the land and this Nation which will not be reformed must be weather-beaten again yet ye may have an hiding place from the storm that if the destroying Angel should smite on all sides your sprinkled door-posts may be past over that ye may be taken like the two legs or the piece of an ear out of the mouth of the Lion or plucked like a brand out of the fire Oh therefore search and try your ways and turn again unto the Lord if iniquity be in your hands put it far away leave not an hoof in Egypt spare not one Amelekite but put the whole cursed race to the edge of the sword loath your selves in all your abominations turn from every evil way throughly amend your wayes and your doings I would I could convert the whole Nation howsoever I do desire to renew you let it be the fruit of my Ministry the priviledge of the meeting the blessing of the day Oh remember that there is no such refuge as repentance nor no such Sanctuary as submission God cannot be angry with you if ye seek his favour by humiliation or howsoever ingratiate your selves into him by reformation It is sin that is Gods professed adversary take away this and there is not a frown in Gods brow nor a fret in his brest his razor is laid aside his vial of indignation is set by his thunderbolts fall out of his hand Attonement with the land if there be the amendment of the land because judgement to the land if there be the transgression of the land For the transgression of the Land PART II. Now let us come to the sad disease Many are the Princes thereof Baynus Rhemus Cope hold both Kings successively and several Governments to be here understood but R. Sal. Mercer Salazer with many others do understand onely seveveral Governments because of the Antithesis between many Princes and the man and so insist onely Polyarchy to be here intended Some thinke the meaning to be that God for the transgression of the Land did take away Prince after Prince which maintained the same Government and if I thought that this were the true sense my Observations should be these 1 That sin is the great blood-sucker 2 That Princes are not exempted from judgment 3 That till God be appeased for the transgression of the Land there is a succession of misery 4 That the heaviest judgment upon a Nation is the destruction of Princes 5 That Princes above all others ought to look to the transgression of the Land because it is most fatal and Epidemical to the Throne 6 That the sins of that Land are heinous which do take away Princes by heaps But I find by many judicious Expositors that this is not the meaning but that by many Princes there is to be understood several sorts of government brought into that transgressing Land Following their opinion from hence observe that many Princes are a judgment It is an heavy thing when the Bramble Thistle and Briar have the sole reign Iudg. 9. then the foot of pride doth strut in authority Psal 36.11 then the Leopard doth watch over the city Ier. 5.6 what are the people but the sheep of slaughter when God doth break his staffe of Beauty and staffe of Bands and rule them with the instruments of a foolish Shepheard Zach. 11. A Nation punished with variety of Governments is like the monstrous and prodigious Beast which had seven heads and ten horns Rev. 13.1 the several plagues in Egypt were scarce more grievous then several governments in a Nation then in stead of just Princes Ziims and Ohims and Satyrs and Iims and Dragons dwell in the Palaces Isa 13.21,22 Sure I am there are many sins where there are these many Princes Barnsf de populi improbitate l. 12. Pandect Crin de populi improb Brunfelfius saith that popular government is a pestilent government and so saith Crinitus Pausan in mes Pausanias saith he never saw it make any great progress and there are several instances given of variety of miseries which have come from that imperfect turbulent disordered and distempered government Plut. in Lacon Lycurgus would have no government counted happy in a Common-wealth which a man would not allow in his private family If no man can serve two Masters then doubtless no man can serve many Princes for many Princes are like many Empiricks which practise so long upon the weak patient that little vigour is left in the body When God takes away lawful government from a Nation he doth even take away peace from that people Cicero pro domo sua crebra tempestatum commutatio ex plebis colluvie For when the Crown and Diadem is removed then God overturn overturn overturn and the Nation shall be no more as it was till he come whose right it is and God doth give it him Ezek. 21.26,27 Many Princes are a cakexy which turn all the nutriment into ill humors till the good habitude be removed yea they are almost like many evil spirits afflicting and tormenting the Creature till the body be dispossessed of the Devil called Legion Tully saith that there is nothing where these governments are permitted but several changes of tempests Plato in Axiocho Plato saith that rage and rapine do abound where the government doth arise from the dregs of the common people Herod l. 3. Plut. in Nicia Seneca in Consol ad Helvid c. 6. Liv. Decad 4. l. 8. Herodotus saith that a violent torrent of sorrows and unbridled insolency doth accompany such a government

into a dry skin and travayl thy self into a Cripple that dost think that thy warded hands shall fetch in an estate and that thy sur-beaten feet shall stamp up a fortune Alas thou art in a Frensy troubled with the Simples yea thou art out of thy wits for not onely he that maketh hast to be rich shall not be innocent Prov. 28,20 but he that with an evil eye maketh hast to be rich shall come to poverty Pro. 28.22 Poverty Not power but poverty not plenty but poverty goodly industry that bring nothing but poverty with it a very Nonsence might shew as much wit for here is hast to hindrance hast to heaviness hast to hurt hast to hardship sure I am more hast then good speed more hast then happinss for the man doth make hast to be rich and he doth make hast to be a begger Either hee himselfe shall end his dayes in a Clinke or become a Parish Charge or his heir shall turn vagabond or dy in an Hospital Therefore travail not too much to be rich but cease from thy wisdome Proverbs 23. thy bruitish wisdome which thou mightest have learned of crafty Wolves and subtill Foxes all the beasts of prey have such ripe heads every Borough and Den could have taught thee this skill What now then is the Gather-good the standing stable rich man Can plotting and projecting pushing and pinching ever perpetuate meanes No God doth devide such Ho he that coveteth an evil covetousness to his own house to set his nest on high to escape from the power of evil he hath consulted shame to his own house Habakkuck 2.9.10 Not same but shame shame Yea shattering for the stone out of the wall shall cry and the beame out of the timber shall answer it Wo unto him c. Habakkuck 2.11,12 the stones of his own walls shall yell down his greatness and the beams of his own timber shall rattle down his house he shall fall with a shrike and come down with a vengeance a Wo and how can it be otherwise for will God ever suffer men to sacrifice to their own yarne when they have fished in estates or kiss their own hands when they have catched meanes No he will make them sacrifice to the true Deity and kiss the right hand or else he will spred the dung of their sacrifices upon their faces and beat their kissing lippes black and blew for making Numens of their rotten yarne and their filthy fingers their rich gayns shall never prosper for God will blow upon them what they have gotten shall be put into a broken bag their wealth shall melt away like the fat of Lambs though there be no end of their travaile yet there shall be no fruit of their travaile though with timely labour and broken nights rests and many a parsimonious meal they have forced in a livelyhood yet all shall be in vain It is in vain to rise early and to go to bed late and to eat the bread of carefulness Psal 127.2 In vain Then why do they not call their selves vain Wizards for do not Sooth-sayers much after this manner is it not a kind of conjuring up estates and fetching in maintenance by familiar Spirits Are not the arts of Worldlings next to the black art There is little of God in them and I am afraid too much of the Devil though they do not consult or compact with him yet their works are the works of darkness and they have the depths of Sathan they are malefici Now will not all these Magicians end miserable Creatures and all these Witches worse then the white Witches end needy wretches Yes ye shall see them stand with stamping feet and staring eyes to see their goods wither away like the grass upon the house toppe and their riches take them wings and fly away Oh pains mis-imployed Oh time mispent Assure your selves whatsoever heads they have gathered together for the present they shall not purse up much at the last reckoning Have ye not presidents of this yes dismaying examples Adonibezek which for a time cut off Thumbs and Tooes to get means at last eat his bread like a Dog under the table Shehnah the great Tre●surer Esa 22. who h●d crept into Court and thrust Eliakim out of his place and by cunning artifices had raised himself to an height of greatness insomuch that he rode in his Chariots of glory yet at last he was driven from his station and saw Eliakim clothed with his own garments and he himself was sent to wander in a foreign land and to roll and turn like a ball in a strange Countrey Zimri that by subtile policies was come to an high degree of command for he was Captain of half the Chariots of the Kingdom by which means he deposed and destroyed his own Prince yet had Zimiri peace which slew his Master No he reigned but seven days and at last burnt himself Haman that was the wonder of his age the Darling at Court who had the Kings ear and the Kings seal at command yet at last he had his face covered his goods were confiscated and he himself ended his life upon a Gibbet Cic. l. de divi Accius Navius which had gotten infinite wealth under Tarquinius Priscus yet at last he came to be so poor that he fed Swine Pont. l. 2. c. 5. de fort domest P. Scipio after all his pomp died so poor that he had not money enough to defray his funeral charges Bons l. 10. c. 3. Telephus the great Soldier and waster of Countries at last had not stock enough to buy himself necessaries but went up and down the streets with a Basket begging relief Nero that had the most sumptuous Palace which ever was beheld which was called the Golden House yet at last he was adjudged by the Senate to whipped to death Sueton. and flying from his Court he could get nothing to eat but black bread nor nothing to drink but puddle water and having neither friend nor enemy to dispatch him trying the points of two Poniards at last he was his own fatal Executioner Sejanus that was the great Favourite of Tiberius Zonarus and under him ruled all for a while throughout the Empire yet at last he had his head strook off and when his body had layn three days unburied it was cast into the Tybur Attalus which had committed horrible outrages in Africk Cuspinian and gained great spoil being taken had his right hand strook off by Honorius and his left hand by Constantius and after he had been exposed many dayes as a publike Spectacle of scorn and horror at last he died ignominiously Cedrenus Phocas having by art and treachery seized upon the Palace of his good Master Mauricius and killed his wife and children before his eyes and afterwards in a most barbarous manner murthered him flowing in all the delights and pleasures for a time which such a vast Empire could afford him was at last taken by