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A38431 Englands repentance Englands only remedy ... in a letter written by a minister in London, in answer to one sent from a worthy member of the late Long Parliament. Minister in London. 1659 (1659) Wing E3041; ESTC R1986 6,953 12

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ENGLANDS REPENTANCE Englands only REMEDY Religiously propounded in a Serious Resolve of this ENQUIRY Q. What is to be desired by all such as wish well to England In a Letter written by a Minister in London in Answer to one sent from a worthy Member of the late Long PARLIAMENT Entred according to Order London Printed by D. Maxwell 1659. Honoured Sir YOurs of the 18th instant I received whereby I discern your sense of the sad hand of God upon these Nations in the many sad Revolutions to which they have been subject And now you seem studious of the way of its recovery in which I rejoyce Though Sir your Enquiry doth a little amaze me not so much for the matter as that you should press me to it in this juncture of time You well know Sir I have not declined to let you know my thoughts of all the late transactions of those who called themselves The Long Parliament Did I not much presume on your Faithfulness never to use it to my damage however God deal with you I might burn my pen and paper for fear of a Treason and High Court of Justice But I will not fear to write at his request to whom I have often spoken freely and yet met with the fidelity of a Friend Sir your Enquiry is serious and seasonable and calls for a better Resolution then I can render It is this Quest What is to be desired by them that wish well to England I understand your Enquiry as grounded on the present sad state of the Nations affairs and so my resolution is as of a Minister of God that of Israel Repentance promised in Hosea 3.5 Afterwards shall Israel return and seek unto the Lord their God and unto David their King is the unum necessarium one only thing to be desired for England as her sovereign Remedy against all her maladies by the hand of God inflicted on her On serious observation of England I cannot but judg her the parallell of the ten Tribes in sin and sorrow and wish she may precede them in a serious and seasonable Repentance Methinks Sir the Prophet Hosea his Prophetical Marriage of an Harlot and leaving her a long time with this charge To abide for him and not to play the Harlot Hos 3.3 or be for any other is a lively Emblem of Englands state and duty England Sir as Israel have gone in the way of Jerobeam and have sinfully against all Natural Civil and Religious bonds Englands Disease cast off and shut out their Lawful Governours and Established Government left them by their Progenitors and under which she long flourished unto the Enriching of her self Envy of her Neighbours Nations and Encouragement of the Reformed Churches And that after many Declarations Protestations Vows Oaths and the Solemn League and Covenant for the defence and preservation of the Kings Majesties Person and Posterity the Priviledges of Parliament and the Liberties of the Subject and that Sworn in a day of Extremity when they seem'd to be in danger and men were Jealous the subversion since effected was intended Nay and after a vast expence of Blood and Treasure in the defence of them and when under an Obligation inviolable and never to be dispensed withall wherein we have sworn to God Not to suffer our selves by any comminations perswasions or terrors whatsoever directly or indirectly to turn aside to the right hand or to the left or to make defection from this Cause Yet have our Nation to the Scandal of Religion Reproach of the Nation and Blasphemy of God and Provocation of his Justice with Israel made defection from their Lawful and Natural Prince nay and altered their unalterable Government at the Lusts of men subverting very Foundations Only Sir I must be free to let you know that in two things Englands defection hath been more vile then that of Israeis in that it was made by a violent base unjust extrajudicial barbarous Regicidee with an hypocritical pretence of Justice Secondly In that Members of the Parliament have been to themselves an H●rod Ascalonite to violently break up their own Sandedrin and Guido Faux to blow up King Lords and Commons in Parliam●●t assembled to the everlasting blemish of the Protestant Religion and in the room thereof have been subjected to usurpation and self-created Governours with whom most of the Nation have concurred and to them consented And for the support of this Usurped Magistracy Calves have been set up at D●n and Bethell all falshood in Religion Tolerated the Ministry laid common who will becomes a Priest unto the Lo●d So that Sir Schism and Sedition Rebellion unto Regicide Perfidie and Perjurie is become Englands Guilt and impiety written in such legible and indelible Characters that all men must say She is become an Harlot and see Repentance absolutely necessary to prevent her ruine Nay Sir give me leave to tell you Englands sin like Israels hath been pointed out by her Sorrows Englands Distemper for she having shamefully shaken off her Rightful Governor and Government hath been prostituted to the Lusts and Ambition of particular men and proudly trampled on by Military insolency in so much that our very Bell men can reproach us as we lie in our Beds Shall I Sir make bold to insert a Bell-mans sound which I heard with my own ears It was this Whilst you securely Sleep I Ring my Bell Which lately hath Rung out your Freedoms Knell Your Souldiers now your Sovereigns are become Your Laws and Liberties command by sound of Drum Nor is it strange for they read no Commission Regard no Bonds but prosper by Transgression By Pride and Perjury these Saints most rude Have Cut off the King and Parliament subdu'd Your eyes have seen 't vile Slaves yet in this season You are Rid like Asses and not Rul'd by Reason Oh Sir how many sad and shameful revolutions have passed upon us and yet we are full far from Settlement Authority like a Tennis-Ball hath been cast up and down for him to catch that catch can and hath been tossed between a republican pack and single Person whilst both are plain and palpable usurpers for indeed in nature and by Gods just judgment Revolution is the constant Attendant on usurpation the Globe of Magistracy must roule up and down whilst off its Pin and from its Center it only resteth in right subjects and now we are covered with confusion and left without King any lawful nay without Prince any unlawful Governors without any establishment in Chair or State Civil and Religious order and this was the punishment of Israels now is of Englands adultery the estate of her widow-hood the time of divine desertion for Civil Order is Gods presence in the world and Religious Order his presence in the Church The very heathen conclude from the confusions in the world the Gods have forsaken the Earth so that Sir he must have no Religion who seeth not in Englands case to conclude and cry out