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heaven_n	day_n	light_n	rule_v	3,304	5	10.4231	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30009	Salus populi, or, A nations happinesse a sermon preached at the assises holden at Winchester, Iuly 22, 1658 / by Edward Buckler.	Buckler, Edward, 1610-1706.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5351; ESTC R30256	14,145	31

hee is a wise man that can tell what to do without better security then Anarchy can aford him The best men have peevishnesse enough to call for a huc usque and what shall limit them if the Lawes do not and for the other sort Lions Beares Woolves Doggs Swine Mad men if there be no Heire of restraint to chaine up and muzzle these who can live T will be good newes if you can tell where the honestest man in a Nation shall have innocency enough to save him harmlesse If these Horses and Mules have no Bitts and Bridles they will fall upon us upon our persons estates consciences liberties religion everything neither will anything in the world but Order and Government be able to releive us Our strength and our riches will be vaine things to save us they must let it alone for ever The riches of a Nation will quickly be quartered and plundred into a morsell of bread and the strength of it imployed to selfe-destruction A potent people if a lawlesse one have onely this to brag of that they neede no Forraigne Contribution to their Overthrow Suis ipsa Roma viribus ruit Rome it selfe in such a case had onely weight enough to presse her selfe to death And when her Lawes were asleepe her Watchmen waked but in ●aine N●x una suis non credita Muris She durst not trust ●er selfe one night within her own walls Tyranny is by all men lookt upon as a monstrous beast but if it stood with Anarchy in competition for a wisemans vote It would doubtlesse carry it and though the c●oice be hard rather then to have none deputed in a State to hear us Absolom himself were better be Master of his wish Oh that I were made Iudge in the Land Those Tonatick spirits that have pretended it to be their duty to destroy all Magistracy and Order have yet found it to be their Interest to set up something in the stead of it and rather to make a King of Iohn of Leyden then to continue headlesse 2. How monstruous this would make a people and all their Concernments what a 〈◊〉 of parts gifts persons into one anothers places and imployments it would bring for●●● let me draw you a Picture of it 1. In the Greater world if the Earth should be enamell'd with Stars and fruits and flowers should grow in the Firmament of Heaven if the lesser lights should rule the day and dispose the greater to the Government of the night If the Sun should be pluckt down to walk upon and a peice of dirt stuck up to shine in the place of it if men should be necessitated to carry burthens upon the Pismire and to learn wisdome of the Asse In chaos antiquum confundimu● with how ugly a face would Nature looke 2. In the lesser world man if the Head should be degraded to be trod upon and the Heeles claim supremacy over the whole if the eyes should be transposed into the Elbowes and the shoulders take upon them to give lig●t unto the body c. you have the blessings of Anarchy and the issue of their design who blasp●eme Government and fall down and worship disorder and confusion out of which he that shall undertake to extract Religion or Righteousnesse will have a hard taske of it 2. Use of Exhortation 1. To All whom it calls to our 1. Gratitude 2. Prayers 3. Care 1. To our Gratitude for that degree of this Happinesse in provisions for Religion and Righteousnesse which God hath given us the possession of I shall have no need to tell you How much that is you are not an Auditory that are strangers in England Some things I shall mention What apprehensions some of you may have of them In sensu composito upon the account of their Neighbourhood to other things I am not to enquire In sens● diviso if you consider them alone I am very sure of your acknowledgments that they are worthy of thanks Ex gr. That your Law-makers shall be persons fearing God and of good conversation That no man that is an Anti-Scripturist a denyer of Ordinances A common reviler of Religion or of a●y person for professing it a Sabbath-breaker Swearer Curser Drunkard Tavern or Ale-house haunter shall have any thing to do in that great affaire That the cheif Officers of State and Iudges will be such as these will bestow their approbation upon That both as to Legislation and execution the persons cheifly interressed are under the most sacred Obligation that is imaginable To uphold and maintaine the true reformed Protestant Christian Religion in the purity thereof as is contained in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and to encourage the profession and professors of the same and all this to the uttermost of their power and to discharge their respective trusts in order to the preservation of the Rights and Liberties of the people and the good Government peace and welfare of these Nations Now much we 〈◊〉 suppose a considerable number of persons of the choicest Character and of the highest pretences to Religion and Righteousnesse biasable to the production of what this Constitution can by no means be interpreted into or must acknowledge our share in the Blessings of the Text ta call for thankfullnesse Perhaps a comparative glance upon other Nations may the sooner perswade us that 't is our duty to pay it In some of which you may see in the Market-place on the Lords day as great an Assembly in the Afternoon as you were able to see at Church in the morning In some the Chiefe Magistrates Tap-house in every great Town inviting the people to be drunk Cum privilegio to increase the publick Revenue In some Offices of all sorts bought and sould at as dear a rate as Land in England at 20. yeares purchase where the common people how industrious soever dare hardly own them an ability to provide themselves cloathes or victualls In some intolerable burthens imposed at discretion to the finall desolation of diverse Families And I could tell you more of this were not this enough Now whatever the Blessing be if God hath not dealt so with other Nations may be found in the premisses our Hallelujahs must be the Conclusion Psalm 147. Ult. If any say many things desirable are yet wanting I have nothing to reply but this that a principle that is able to suspend our t●ankfullnesse upon any such account will not give us leave to bl●sse God for any thing till we come to Heaven It calls us 2. To our Prayers for a continuation of what we have and a supply of what we yet want T●a● these Nationall blessings are of Gods disposing we cannot doubt without the hazard of our C●ristianity nor that the dispenseth them as Blessings in a way of Prayer The Heathens could say Dij Quibus Imperium hoc steterat That Empires had their foundations above hence was Iupiter called Salutaris and Stator as their supposed Author