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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42487	Kakourgoi, sive Medicastri slight healings of publique hurts. Set forth in a sermon preached in St. Pauls Church, London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermen, Common Council, and companies of the honorable City of London. February 28. 1659. Being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God, for restoring the secluded Members of Parliament to the House of Commons: (and for preserving the city) as a door of hope thereby opened to the fulness and freedom of future Parliaments: the most probable means under God for healing the hurts, and recovering the health of these three Brittish kingdomes. By John Gauden, D.D.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G361A; ESTC R215531	65,440	132

Seraphick men have gotten power and place and plenty and palaces O now all is peace peace And the better to colour over the overthrow of three flourishing Nations which from the pile of three united Kingdoms are fillipped to the cross of an ill sodered Common-wealth some men must by all means pretend to set up as John of Leyden and his Complices did the Kingdom of Righteousness the Throne and Scepter of King Jesus Which is justly esteemed a Kingdom of peace being seldom or never advanced by an active war but only by a passive yet is this a principall decoy to impose upon vulgar people for who will not seem willing and forward to submit to Christs Kingdom that he may rule and reign But we are not such children nor have so learned Christ as to expect his Kingdom to be of this world though in it yet not after its methods of the sword but by the word of Truth and spirit of Patience thus came the King of Sion the other by the sword of blood is a rare project for Muncer and Knipperdolling for Hacket and Arthington when they can be merry in peoples miseries with populus vult decipi decipiatur people have a mind to be deluded and t is fit they should be so when credulous people will believe in any spirit an hundred to one but some lying spirits and deceivers false Christs and false Apostles will come among them who shall make them believe light is darknesse and darknesse light that good is evill and evill good that their iron Chains are Bracelets of gold that factious Conventicles are purest Churches that Synagogues of Satan are the truest Jews or children of Abraham that partiall Conventions and Senates sifted and purged affronted and bafled by tumultuary or armed force are full and free Parliaments Which name and thing of Parliament every sober and understanding English man justly venerates and highly esteems in their due and only true constitution so Parliaments are justly honoured as ●●os corona gentis the cream flower and crown of a Nation the anchor and center under God of Laws Liberties Lives and honours of all that is dear to us in this world yea of our Religion too A Free and full Parliament is the very Pall●dium pacis publicae the best preserver and restorer of our peace publick health and all honest interests the most august and honourable Assemblie in the world Quo s●l illustriorem non aspicit as Bishop Andrews calls it in his Tortura Torti pag. 291. the best tempered constitutions of spirits and humors of power and counsel in a Nation the oracle of publick wisdom the magazine of publick strength the source and fountain of publick order and Authority the treasure of our Riches the sanctuary of true Religion the ark in which the Church of England is embarqued the Conservatory of both sanctity and civility the best Umpire of our civill differences the most equanimous Censor and reformer of manners the grand Trustees of Church and State when so full and free as becomes men of conscience and honor Who would not submit their honor estate liberty life all things temporal to such a Judicature of his Country-men such Arbitrators of the publique choise But to cry peace peace to the body when the whole heart is faint when the whole head is sick when the very brains are ●eaten out when the vital and best spirits of a Nation are almost expired and exhausted of when the military and pretorian insolence shall stand over the Senate or Parliament as Hercules with his clud over Hydra's many heads This Partiality is such a tyrannous Imposition on reasonable men as if they were commanded to believe and declare that a part is equal to or more than the whole that glow-worms are brighter than the Stars and Meteors or Comets more benign than the Sun and Moon that all the wisdom and piety of a Nation were contained in a Knapsack as the holy Ghost was carried in a Cloak bag from Rome to Tre●t Men need but count the pole or tell noses to tell what a Free and full Parliament means which comprehends all the Representatives and Trustees chosen by the Nation besides the Peers who were the great council to the Prince Peace as health includes the good constitution of the whole but chiefly of the most noble principal parts peace of Church and State at home and abroad will be far from that Nation whose publick counsels are at variance and their chief Councellors are either Fighters against themselves or Oppressors of one another ●o serve some partial which must needs be a Sinister base and bad interest for no counsel is good in or out of Parliament which is not for the publicks good in which every legal and just interest is contained Indeed it s a meer cheat put on the poor patient the daughter of my people when vain and empty words of peace peace are used and yet either the sword or the exactor or the oppressor devoureth every way and every day when God and man his word and the violated Laws peoples sad experience and tired patience their exhausted Estates and daily Alarms proclaime there is no true Peace no honest and just no safe and secure Peace which indeed is not to be expected while such Witch-crafts are imposed and such wicked purposes partially and violently promoted utterly to deceive undo and destroy a people which brings me to the fourth particular Fourthly The {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lye or Fallacy which the Spirit of God by way of Irony expresseth they have healed thus they pretend and brag but lightly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} super leve ut leviculum tanquam rem ni●ili {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} LXX despicientes vili-pedentes cum illusione Syr. cum ignominia verbis mendaciorum suorum Chald. Thus Translators and Interpreters render the word variously but to the same sence arguing the little respect of Piety Honesty Equity and Charity or Humanity which was in these vain-glorious and ungracious Healers who either wanted Skill or Will or Power and Influence or due Authority or they were slighters and Contemners of the publiques Health only intent to their private Wealth and advantages They never searched the bottom of the Nations great crying sins Disorders and Sufferings nor applied seasonable just and meet Remedies to either yea they festred and enflamed the Lighter hurts to grievous Ulcers small Faults Offences mistakes Differences and Jealousies which did arise in Church and State they either dressed these scratches with Vinegar and gall only with sharp and picquent corrasives without any lenitive or moderation or else by a dilatory negligence and supercilious carelesness they let publick distempers and hurts run on till they were less capable of any cure or patient of good applications Yea and by a superfluity of wanton cruelty they either widened the wounds and made their probes

tumors when touched though but gently to fly upon those that are next them and cry ●loud O you hurt me when the hurt is within and from themselves Sound parts will endure free and rough healing such as are unsound do most want it and therefore if we will be faithful to God to our own souls and to our hearers we must not flatter their sores to their ruine but rather chuse to heal them though at present we be thought to hurt them nor shall our labor of love be in vain either in the Lord or before good men who at length will find by experience that the wounds of a friend which let out the putrified matter of painfull tumors are better than the kisses of an enemy which do insides cicatricibus cuticulam obducere skin over with unfaithful scars the ill searched and ill purged vnlcers of mens hearts and lives saying peace peace all is all will all must be well in Church and State when bona fide or mala misera experientia in true but sad trial and sence of things there is no peace inward or outward to him that goes out or him that comes in no peace religious or politick civil or ecclessiastial foraign or domestick either to the Estates Liberties Laws honors or lives of men nor yet to their opinions doctrines devotions and consciences in any rank or degree but as the Prophet Isaiah complains The whole head if we have any head i● sick and the whole heart is faint from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises and pu●rifying sores they have not been closed nor bound up nor mollified with ointments Yet there are that have cryed amain Peace peace men that are either so merry or so mad in our common calamities as to command us to call our sicknesses health our wounds salves our slavery liberty our divisions union our deformities reformings our unset●ledness settling our sands and quag●●i●es rockie foundations our wars peace our oppressions ease our Commonwo a Common-weal The Prophet seems thus to complain That either Physitians of no value {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} many and unskilful Empiricks have unfaithfully tampered with us and dum vulnera publica in lucra privata vertunt while they make private gain by our publique pains they have turned ipsa remedia in morbos our very remedies to new diseases and have kept us long uncured under pretence of cure or else we are by the venome of our own inbred and malignant humors become incurable as immedieabile vulnus ense recidendum a gangreen only fit for the saw and sword and such indeed do our proud and dead flesh or proud minds and dead hearts rather portend our case to be whilst so many tough obstructions so many high inflammations such new tumors and cruel biles daily arise of various interests such a constant fall of ill humours sharp and undigested not onely upon the outward and grosser or more Mechanick parts of of the body Politick but also upon the most vital and noble the head and heart where the counsel and courage the strength and wisdom the best blood and spirits of the Nation are or ought to be contained and exserted to the publick welfare Although as the woman in the Gospel we have spent all or most or much of our substance on Physitians and their attending Chyrurgeons on Counsellors and Soldiers yet we do not find our selves any whit the better still we are scared and threatned by our sins which are Gods discontents and our utsettlednesses which are the Nations discontent and sufferings with daily breakings out and angry tumors with new purgings and loathsome potions with lancings and blood-lettings with cutting off and cauterisings which will not heal restore close and redintigrate the body but maime and defame and cripple it for ever To prevent which successive miseries or the like from the daughter of my people here in England as much as in me lies I have sought to improve the sanctity and solemnity of this occasion this thankful and hopeful opportunity of future mercies be presenting you with my meditations on this Text because it is not onely querela defallacia medieorum medelae mendacio a just complaint of the falsity of Physitians and inefficacy of the past applications which some Medicasters had with great vapour and confidence applied as bold Mountebaks are wont to do when they wound their slaves to shew their skill in healing them But farther the text is monitio de vera medendi methodo a dirction for the right method and an honest way of curing an afflicted Nation It doth not only deplore the publique maladies but denotes their right remedies which may easily be known and followed if the healers were but honest For the hurts are not so fatal necessary and unavoidable that men should despaire and sink under them Saying There is no hope it is in vaine to wait on the Lord any longer God hath condemned and decreed us as poor diseased and desperate creatures to lie always in the Hospital under sores and pains expecting no cure but that of death and utter dissolution If it were so God would not here and elsewhere greivously reproach and perstring those cheating undertakers those false Quacksalvers these wanton and cruel Leeches who did not want skill and knowledg of what would heal Church and State in Law and Government in true Religion and Justice in Mercy and Humility Which are the best balsoms of both and clearly revealed to them by the Lord but they wanted honesty and fidelity therefore God pleads against them is there no balme in Gilead is there no Physitian c. Why then is not the hurt of the daughter of my people re●overed The question Is there no Balm is a ve●ement affirmation a Satyrick 〈◊〉 There are ways and means parabiles ad manum sufficient easy apt obvious and at hand to cure the wounds or bruises or tumors or hurts of any Nation if men did not either wilfully shut their eyes against them and refuse to use them or if God had not for their hypocrisie fraud baseness justly blinded their eyes and hid from them the things belonging to their own and the Nations peace by leaving them to the mists and clouds of their own partial covetous and ambitious lusts Then indeed nothing is to be expected but dayly recrudescentia ulcera relapses and recruitings of our wounds until God gives us Physitians of better eyes and hearts that may both wisely discern our maladies and both speedily and faithfully incounter them with seasonable and fit remedies To which posture of providence we are prone to hope that we are this day restored by the valour honour and integrity of those who now have the conduct of power and counsel I pray God we may have cause seri● gaudere to rejoyce long and in good