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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

he should fight a good fight 1 Tim. i. 18. and a prophecy that forbad him to Preach with Saint Paul the Gospel in Asia Acts xvi so by the laying on of the hands of Prophets he might at first be called to the Ministery so Primasius Oecumenius upon the place say expressly and say not onely that he was called to the Ministery by the Prophets but that he himself was a Prophet For the thing it self Theod●ret in Tim. ● ● is clear that Timothy received that order by Divine Revelation and Saint Chrysostome Hom. 5. in 1 Tim. c. 1. saith that as the Holy Ghost said Separate me Paul and Barnabas so was Timothy chosen yea he saith it was a common custome or ra●her a general Blessing that in the infancy of the Church the Prophets named what Ministers should be chose● Tunc quia ni●il fi●bat humanum Sacerdotes ex Prophetia veni●bant Quid ●st ●x Proph●…ia ex Spiritu Sancto And Eusebius l. 3. c. 23. s●i●h ba●…a● n● John at Ephesus and thereabout made many Ministers so somewhere supplying the Clergy with such as the ●pi●it m●…d ●…drawing lots for such as the Spirit signified Seeing 〈◊〉 so many Expositions are given of this intricate Place and that by ●he 〈◊〉 learned which ever wrote Presbytery which in these days is asserted can scarce finde in Scripture a root from whence it should branch No as the lay Presbyter from 1 Tim. v. 17. may say I was never here grafted so the Spiritual Presbyter from the 1. Tim. iiii 14. may say I was never here planted yea they may be fellow-Mourners and sob together saying We that would have all things attested by Scripture have not a clear Scripture either for the one's Binding of hands or for the other's laying on of hands for these onely places are nonely places neither pregnant nor perspicuous But to leave the Lay Presbyter as one saluted by the way and to talk a little more freely to the Spiritual Presbyter as the person to whom this conference is intended Can Presbytery of it self create a Ministery Scripture doth not affirm it will Antiquity avouch it I doubt not or without doubt it will nor Epiphanius saith that Aerius the Arian was the first which gave Presbyters power to ordain Ministers but saith he this cannot be for the order of Bishops doth beget Fathers to the Church but Presbyters do but onely beget Chidren by the laver of regeneration and not Fathers or Doctours Episcoporum enim ordo Patres generat Ecclesiae Presbyterorum vero non potens generare patres per lava●cri regenerationem generat filios Ecclesiae non tamen Patres aut Doctores Et quomodo pos●ibile erat Presbyterum constituere non habentem manuum impositionem aequalem Episcopo Epiphan Haer. 75. how is it then possible that a Presbyter which hath not the power of imposition of hands should be equal to a Bishop Oecumenius in c. 5.1 ad Tim. saith that where Saint Paul commandeth Timothy to lay hands rashly on no man he treateth of imposing hands because he wrote to a Bishop as if it were peculiar to him Saint Chrysostome saith that onely in laying on hands Bishops go beyond Presbyters and have that onely thingmore then the Presbyter Chrysostom Hom. in c. v. 1. ad Tim. Saint Jerome saith the self same in his Epistle to Evagrius The Councel of Antioch saith that the Bishop shall have power within his own Diocess to ordain Presbyters and Deacons C. Antioch can 2. The Councel of Nice saith the Ministers of the Paulianists must receive imposition of hands from the Bishop of the Catholick Church C. Nicen. c. 19. And is there not reason for this when Bishops are the direct Successours of Apostles for if Christ said that I will be with you to the end of the World Matthew xxviii 20. the Apostles being dead where is Christ's perpetual Providence if there be not a perpetual succession the Ministery in General cannot prove this for the Apostle's were superiour to the seventy Disciples so there must be some to represent the Apostles which must be superiour to other Ministers and that the Bishops are those persons it may appear because they have often the honourable title of Apostles James the Bishop of Jerusalem who was not James the son of Zebedee for he was one of the twelve Apostles but James the Just who is usually called the brother of the Lord being no immediate Apostle but a Bishop Com. in Es for his very office sake is called an Apostle 1 Gal. xix and by Saint Jerome called the thirteenth Apostle Theodor. in 1 Tim. 3.1 Theodoret doth call Timothy the Bishop of Ephesus an Apostle Ruffin de adult lib. Orig. Clemens is said by Ruffin to be almost an Apostle and by Clemens Alexandrinus he is expressly called Clement the Apostle Ignatius by Saint Chrys encom Ignat. is stiled both Bishop and Apostle Rab. Ms in Tim 4. Rabanus Maurus saith that Bishops ruled whole Provinces being call Apostles Theodor. in 1 Tim. 3. And Theodoret saith that those which they now call Bishops they did formerly name Apostles I know it is Objected that the Apostolical Order being extroardinary it is not perpetual but that is not so for the calling of Aaron was extraordinary at first yet it was perpetuated in the succession so likewise the calling of the Apostles for though it be not perpetual in respect of that which was extraordinary as the gift of tongues healing and discerning of Spirits yet it is in respect of the ordinary offices else I cannot see how any Minister could at this day Preach or administer the Sacraments For as inferiour Ministers do derive from the Apostles the use of Preaching and Sacraments so do Bishops both these and Jurisdiction and the power of Discipline But it will be said that a Presbyter and a Bishop in Scripture is all one and so a Presbyter hath as much power in the Church both for ordaining and exteriour regiment as the best Bishop parcius istis Credat Judaeus Apella If it were so I am but a Presbyter and no Bishop and would faine be at work next to the creating of a race of Penitents I would be creating a race of Preachers and next to wrastling with Principalities and Powers would be delivering up men to Sathan I do not know but my heart might be as Ambitious and my hands as Pragmatical and my tongue as Devouring as any others but I read that we must not stretch our selves beyond our line nor be many Masters lest we receive the greater condemnation James iii. 1. The Lord will be sanctified in them that come near Him Levit. x. 3. No man must take this Office upon him but he that was called as Aaron was Heb. v. 4. I finde no calling for these things therefore I have no comfort in them nor courage towards them Pride is odious in a Lay-man it is execrable in a Clergy-man all men must

readier passage for them to break in amongst us then by your old corruptions If we would preserve the Man of understanding and knowledge can there be a surer means of prevention of misery then by taking the right Antidote against Transgression For can Transgression be prolonged and the State prolonged no Contraries do expel each other If the distemper be continued the disease may renew Our incorrigible sins may endanger your Majesties Royal person and shed your Royal bloud I do not fear so much the Malecontents at home or the Machivilians abroad as these Miscreants of impiety and impenitency Some call their selves your Majesties good Subjects some your best Subjects I would they would try their degrees of comparison by a superiority of repentance Repentance what should we repent of Some think onely of carnal sins but carnal sins are onely greater for turpitude and infamy Tho. Aq. 12 q. 72● art but spiritual sins are the most hainous for deordination and irregularity and that in respect of subject object and motive Well both the black and the white Devil had need to be dispossessed Your Majesty therefore did wisely to publish your pious Proclamation to call home all to a religious life I call it a pious Proclamation because if men had listened to it they might have been made not onely happy but holy under you A divine sentence was in the lips of the King when that was sent through the whole Nation it is a rare thing to hear a King upon the Throne to teach all the Kingdome virtue such a King may be sirnamed Ecclesiastes such a motion is able to sanctifie a Land especially when it is not onely mandatory but exemplary edged with as much piety as authority whereby all your people might ascribe to you your attributes of Gratious Soveraign and Sacred Majesty Your Majesty have done your part freed your own soul and endeavoured to cleanse ours But I beseech you my dear and dread Soveraign what operation have you found by that Masterpiece of your government how many Royal Converts have you to rejoyce in If you have I will say that Majesty doth carry some Soveraignty with it and that your Crown is not more glorious then your Scepter awfull you are then a potent King and have true loyal Subjects then all Nations will flock hither more to see your virtue your efficacious virtue then ever they did to hear the wisdome of Solomon and say that here do dwell the people of holinesse and that you do reign in a Kindome of Saints which is not onely your proper Territory but your proper Sanctuary a Temple which you have consecrated by your own graces yea then as Cyprus was once called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the happy Island Knolles Turk hist so we shall be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the religious Island Doth your Majesty find by experience that your physick hath wrought and that your Patient hath voided his ill humours is your Court purged is your Land cleansed hath the Goddammee-Blade filed his blaspheming tongue hath the riotous Carowser left drowning himself upon dry land hath Felix given over his groping for bribes hath Shebah laid down his trumpet have the Monichangers pulled down their Tables what are all rough places made plain and crooked things made streight Who hath heard such a thing who hath seen such things shall the earth be brought forth in one day or a Nation be born at once Es 66.8 Oh regenerating King then Oh converting Proclamation If men be thus really renewed it is pity that they should be reproached with any of their former errours for none but a sordid spirit will gather up that filth which repentance hath washed away When the bond is cancelled the former debts are no more to be required the reformed man is no more to be called a scandalous person for then what comfort should any man have in his change or in striking the mortifying nail into his brest it is as great a sin to censure a Penitent as to flatter a Libertine Repentance doth give the exequies to all former crimes mortified crimes are to be buried aswell as dead corpses There are none but Necromancers which will call up the spirits of the deceased to work their Magicall ends withall there are none but ravenous dogs which will satisfie their greedy appetites with such Carrion for what can God or man require more of the greatest Sinner then reformation Were it unpriestly unchristian unmanly in me to call any man Rebel who is become a Loyal Subject or him an Heretick or Schismatick who is turned Orthodox in doctrine and discipline then how ungodly and inhumane is it in any to call them profane who have declared themselves Converts Mary Magdalen Peter and Paul would never have been called Saints by these spiritual Murtherers of reformation but repentance hath so rinsed a Penitent that he is never after to be called filthy P●nitentia revocat omnes defectus restituendo hominem in pristinam gratiam Dignitas amissa per peccatum restauratur per poenitentiam Aquin. 3. q. 9. art 3. for it is an expulsion of all former defects and a restitution into a state of grace The dignity that was lost by sin is restored by repentance If your Majesty therefore doth meet with such esteem them and embrace them prize them and prefer them they are the lustres of your Nation and the Supporters of your Throne But I doubt that your Majesty upon due search can find few of these Proclamation-men they may read and magnifie but not loath and cleanse That Witch of Religion I am afraid did more good with his redhot iron then you can do with your Imperial Edict They which make a foul shew in the flesh and they which make a fair shew in the flesh they whose course is wholly sinne and they whose cause is wholly sinne antiquum obtinent Now are these likely to fortifie your Title or to establish your greatnesse no God send you better Champions three righteous Saints were better then Myriads of such Heroes they may have the brawny arms of Giants but they have no good sinews their sins will never suffer them to fight with a conquering hand If they will not expresse their selves truely vertuous how do they reverence your person or cordially desire your preservation no they do but live under you to confirm their interests and in effect care not whether you live or die prosper or perish if they did they would shun those transgressions which they know will cause the bloud-draught of Princes If they will not wash I will go to the Laver my self and endeavour to cleanse my self and as many as I can that there may be a race of your Proclamation-births to guard your Royal Person in all exigents Thus beseeching your Sacred Majesty to cast your benign Princely eye upon these unpolished Sermons which are principally intended to second your Proclamation blessing God Almighty that he hath restored

you who had honour and greatnesse in his eye and to ascend this Mount he did not care what craggy places he did climb He would get the best of men as esteem made them to countenance his drifts but he never troubled himself to have the worst of men known so to be to be Actors in them Saints or Miscreants it was all one to him if they would serre pedem Virgil. lend a foot to stir about his projects Oh from what a mean beginning did he raise himself to that sublime celsitude He once purposed to have drained in the Fennes but the Flag of defiance being hung out he sought for booty in the Up-lands from the wasting himself into a Spend-thrift he fought himself into a Prince after the decocting of three Mannors he cast three Kingdomes into the Cauldron to boil toothsome diet for his greedy and insatiable appetite And to attain to this what loftinesse did he express how did he set up his crests was there ever a poor Abject more turgid and supercilious Claud. in ●rat Levantibus altè Intumuit rebus Who was his companion who was his compeer No he was not onely disdainfull but defying not onely proud but prodigious Quas gerit ore minas quanto premit omnia fastu Stat. 1. Theb. He had a blazing beacon in his forehead his face flamed like Mount Aetna he had lightning in his eyes and thunderbolts in his lips And what rare Artificers had he Virgil. 2. Aeneid Ille dolis instructus arte Pelasga he could weep when he intended to devour pray when he meant to sacrifice men's lives seek God as he called it when he resolved to engage with the Devil And by these policies and hypocritical impostures what a woefull government was there under him there was nothing to be seen but Taxes sessments confinements confiscations depopulations decimations chains dungeons halters bloud-axes Ye may know him by his kindred Consorts Confidents Counsellors Collegues Chapmen Chaplains Secretaries Emissaries Judges Guards and Life guards except it be in the bottomlesse pit where can there be found such a swarm of Locusts And for his manners setting aside a few inchantments of pretended holinesse can ye imagine a man almost more stupendiously evil Tarquin the proud was not more arrogant Nero the cruel not more mercilesse Caligula the shamelesse not more impudent a greater enemy to Orthodox men then to the Blasphemers of the faith and a greater friend to the Iewes then Christians a man very tender of an oath and yet maligned them that would not be perjured an hater of Popery and yet a bosome-Friend to the most Jesuited person in the world One wholly composed of ambition and insolence fraud and fury subtilty and savagenesse so bent upon his own will and inflexible in what he had resolved upon that at last he became violent in his designes and desperate in his attempts vexatious at home quarrelsome abroad a Firebrand to his Countreymen a Fiend to his neighbours the great Boutefeau and incendiary of the whole earth how did he rage in the Baltick sea in the Streights upon the coasts of Barbary and in the Atlantick Ocean No honours or Titles were sufficient for him he would have been Emperour of the British Isles and had a Navy floating to go fish for new Isles as far as the Bay of Mexico A man that at last was so severe to his enemies and bitter to his friends and jealous and suspicious of all that he become a general odium for he was flattered but by a few hated of most dreaded of all The onely comfort of the Nation was this that the Land in a short time was rid of him and after all his vauntings and rantings violences violations vexations and victories inexorabile fatum Virg. 2. Georg. Subjecit Manibus Irae Thyeston exitio gravi stravere Hor. 1. Car. Ode 16. He breathed out his turbulent spirit and proved mortal How he dyed is a doubt what became of him after death is a great secret I confesse I heard that he was Canonized at his Funeral and seen very nigh to the elbow of Christ but I question whether that Preacher were a true Seer I cannot tell whether every Peter hath the Keys of heaven to let in Saints I believe the whirlwind was a truer Prophet to foretell whither he was carried Gone he is and his name is not worth the recording nor his Skin the owning Exiit Tremebundus who doth follow next After him follow another Prince who had in him no great bane nor no great benefit who had not time enough to do evil nor wit enough to do good which did only talk and make offers and drink healths and promise a golden age with leaden feet but alas he was bliteus infrunitus saplesse and senselesse uselesse and giftlesse he had in him more pretence then prudence or courtesie then courage Quicunque aspiciunt mente carete putant Ovid. 1. Fast He knew not how to rule nor how to bring in another to rule perhaps well-minded but his drifts ill-managed he could neither shake off his fetters suppresse mutinies order his Councel discipline his Army confirm his interests countenance his adherents apprehend overtures lay hold on opportunities hear them which gave him faithfull advice be true to them to whom he had plighted his faith stand by them which had promised to live and die with him A man not master of his own word nor commander of his own sword but fickle and mutable timorous and pusillanimous false and faultring And so like a man shaken in the brain and brest he sealed away his own authority leaving as little power to himself to preserve his person as money to pay his debts and went out as the fable of the Age and in stead of a Prince turned Petitioner 4. After him came a stern Prince indeed a limme of the old Giant not the Giant but the Giant 's Elf Minume Durgen There wanted something of the magnitude but nothing of the mischief of the old Sire Had this Prince continued long what rents and ruines would there have been the age found him grimme enough for the time the old dragge-net was cast to catch leveys the old forge was at work for new State-rules and the old Gibbet was setting up to dispatch persons ill-affected yea there would have been not onely laying men in chains of iron but hanging them up in chains of gold a most black and bloudy raign there would have been if hirtus hispidus this rough-skin'd Prince had been long-liv'd but this high-metalld Ruler because he would command Commanders in modelling a new Army brought the old Army to draw upon him and to drive him far enough Farewell for a time another Prince must take the chair of State 5. And who was that One all clad in steel armed cap-a-pe who being in bright harnesse kept a fearfull ratling and clattering for a while Mars was then the predominant Planet