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to the repentance whereof Restitution is required Oh when a man hath not onely devoured Widdows houses Matth. 23.14 but also they have passed the first and second Concoction in his sttomack yea when they are become blood in the Veins yea sinews in the Flesh of his Estate Oh then to refund to mangle and disintire ones demesnes this goeth shrowdly against flesh and blood indeed But what saith the Apostle flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdome of God Yet even this Devil may be cast out with Fasting and Prayer Matth. 17.21 This Sin notwithstanding it holdeth VIOLENT POSSESSION may by those good meanes and Gods blessing thereon have a firm Ejection XLI A Free-will offering WHen Iob began to set up the second time he built his recruited estate upon three bottoms 1. Gods blessing 2. His own industry 3. His friends charity Iob 42.11 Every man also gave him a piece of money and every one also an Ear-ring of Gold Many drops meeting together filled the vessel When our patient Iob plundred of all he had shall return again certainly his loyall subjects will offer presents unto him though they alas who love him best can give him least Surely all is not given away in making the golden Calfe but that there is some left for the businesse of the Tabernacle But surely those have cause to be most bountifull who may truly say to him what David said humbly to the God of Heaven Chron. 1.29.14 Of Thine Own have I given unto thee XLII A good Anchor ISaac ignorantly going along to be offered propounded to his father a very hard question Gen. 22.7 Behold the fire and wood but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering Abraham returned God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering But was not this Gratis Dictum of Abraham Did not he herein speak without-book where and when did God give him a promise to provide him a lamb Indeed he had no particular promise as to this present point but he had a generall one Gen. 15.1 Fear not Abraham I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward Here was not only a lamb but a flock of sheep yea a heard of all cattel promised unto him It hath kept many an honest soul in these sad times from sinking into despair that though they had no Expresse in Scripture that they should be freed from the particular miseries relating to this War Yet they had Gods Grand Charter for it Rom. 8. 28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose XLIII Eyes bad not object I Looked upon the wrong or backside of a piece of Arras it seemed to me as a continued Non-sence there was neither head nor foot therein confusion it self had as much method in it a company of thrumbs and threads with many pieces and patches of severall sorts sizes and colours all which signified nothing to my understanding But then looking on the Reverse or right-side thereof all put together did spell excellent proportions and figures of men and cities So that indeed it was an History not wrot with a pen but wrought with a needle If men look upon our late times with a meer eye of Reason they will hardly find any sence therein such their huddle and disorder But alas the wrong side as objected to our eies whilst the right side is presented to the High God of Heaven who knoweth that an admirable order doth result out of this confusion and what is presented to him at present may hereafter be so shewed to us as to convince our judgements in the truth thereof XLIV Ever Never WE read Psalm 55.19 Because they have no changes therefore they the wicked fear not God Profanesse is a strange Logician which can collect and inferre the same conclusion from contrary premises Libertines here in England Because they have had so many changes therefore they fear not God Iacob taxed Laban Gen. 31.41 Thou hast changed my wages ten times I have neither list nor leisure to enquire how farre our alterations of Government within these few years fall short of that number But it is a sad truth that as King Mithrydates is said to have fed on poyson so long that at last it became ordinarie food to his bodie so the multitude of changes have proved no change in many mens apprehensions being so common and ordinary it hath made no effectuall impression on their spirits Yea which is worse they as if all things came by casualty fear God the lesse for these alterations XLV Hear me out I Must confesse my self to be what I ever was for a Commonwealth But give me leave to state the meaning of the word seeing so much mischief hath taken covert under the Homonymy thereof A Common wealth and a King are no more contrary then the Trunk or bodie of a tree the top branch thereof There is a Re-publick included in every Monarchie The Apostle speaketh of some Ephesians in the 2. and 12. Aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel That Commonwealth is neither Aristocratical nor Democratical but hath one sole and single Person IESUS CHRIST the supreme head thereof May I live if it may stand with Gods good will and pleasure to see England a Commonwealth in such a posture and it will be a joyfull Object to all who are peaceable in our Nation XLVI Mons Mobilis I Observe that the Mountains now extant to fall under a double Consideration Those by Creation Those by Inundation The former were of Gods making Primitive Mountains when at the first his Wisdome did here sink a vale there swell a hill so to render the Prospect of the Earth the more gratefull by the alternate variety thereof The second by inundation were such as owe their Birth and being to Noah's floud when the water lying long in a place especially when driven on with the furie of the wind corroded an Hollow and so by consequence cast up an Hill on both sides For such Mountains of Gods making who either by their birth succeed to Estates or have acquired them by Gods blessing on their lawfull industrie good successe may they have with their wealth and honour And yet let not them be too proud and think with David That God hath made their mountain so strong it cannot be moved but know themselves subject to the Earthquakes of mutability as well as others As for the many mountains of our Age grandized by the unlawfull ruine of others swoln to a Tympany by the Consumption of their betters I wish them just as much Ioy with their greatnesse as they have right unto it XLVII Not invisible A Waggish scholler to say no worse standing behind the back of his Tutor conceived himself secured from his sight and on this confidence he presumed to make antick mocks and mouths at him Mean time his Tutor had a Looking-glasse unknown to the scholler before his face wherein he