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A92320	England's backwardnesse or A lingring party in bringing back a lawful King. Delivered in a sermon at Waltham Abbey Church in the county of Essex, at a solemne fast. / By Thomas Reeve D.D. preacher of Gods word in that parish.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R687; Thomason E1056_3; ESTC R208035	33,106	49

Martae suo Lyrnessia maenia vidi Ovid. Ep. 3. We have seen the wals or glorious Cities levelled by the hands of their own Natives their own Country-men have been Pioneers and Batterers to work their own desolation nay such a City Quam neque finitimi valuerunt perdere Marsi Minacis aut Etrusca parsonae manus Horat. Epod 16. Which neither our neighboring Enemies nor our most spightfull full outlandish foes could ever destroy these have brought it to ruin Oh what wastes and spoiles have there been in England and Ireland It would make a Barbarian lament to see how the Houses of Ivory have perished and goodly dwellings have been made possessions for Bitterns and Cormorants and Scritch-owles yea a land that was once as Eden the garden of God hath been since left desolate like the wildernesse sure I am that Ovid. Ep. 2. Luxuriat Phrygio sanguine piguis humus Many a Feild hath been fattened with the blood of the slain and massacred Now oh yee wilde Furies how long will it be before we shall see these wofull skars of your blinde and mad rage healed up No tumult may root up that which moderation cannot in a long time replant The Foole may cast firebrands and Arrows and say Am I not in sport But the wiseman cannot extinguish the burnings of these firebrands nor cure the piercings of these Arrows which the foole hath been the Author of Multi laedunt nemo succurrit nemo opitulatur Hugu Many men hurt but few succour or help When Jehoshuah the high Priest stood before the Angel to procure remedy for Jerusalem Sathan stood at his right hand Zach. 3.1 So when some would redeem a Church or State out of thraldome there are Adversaries enough to continue her miseries and increase her bonds How many soft bowels and State-building hands are there in this land Speech cost nothing and siding with a party is not very chargeable many men will subscribe their Names be Confederates with the just cause and vaunt vapour as highly as the best but it is an hard thing to get a Commonwealth Offering from them No they which are worth thousands and have no charge of Children yet they will give away all that they have to strangers or some new created kinsman rather than bestow ten Talents upon the Publique their Natural Country that hath bred them and fed them and stocked them and bestowed all their Honours upon them get not a Legacy from them in their last Will and Testament His Epitaph will be this Hic jacet Triparcus donec farcae sub hoc tumulo condiderunt here layeth self-thirst till the Destines laid him under this Tombe-stone Therefore seeing help doth come in so slowly let not damage be so rife let this Boutefeau of Nations leave casting of his Bals of wilde-fire Vermine are not beloved every one hate a Woolf and a Crocadile Nimrod the mighty hunter hath no good report it made the tears to spring out of the eys of Elisha to look but upon the face of Hazael who should slay young men with the sword and dash in pieces Infants against the stones and rent in pieces women with childe Thou may est count thy self an Hector by these things but thou art but a Mastiff for What is thy servant a Dog that I should do such things Thou hadst better be a Dung-hill carrier than to lay Cities in heaps or be a Fox-hunter then a Kingchaser for when David is driven from Jerusalem Absalon doth play mad prankes and thy poore Conscience is subject to the advise of Achitophel thou silly wretch doest thou know no God but thy Commander then see thy Captain General and his Zanee at his elbow Art not thou a rare Swordman under Absalon and Achitophel Give over thy trade therefore for poore blinde soule thou art doing that that the childe that is unborn shall curse thee for yea that after ages shall defie thee and execrute thee for For thou hast nothing in thy mind but wastes and ruines pulling down of Nobles and frighting and pursuing Kings but of the Nation Egregiam vero laudem spolia ampla thou wouldst faine have a great name for vilany and be egregious for that which is prodigious and execrable But when thou hast done all thy mischief who shall make satisfaction for it We know thy Venomous heart in the state that thou art in very well thou hast nothing but poyson in thy breast but who shall pull out the stings that thou hast left in other mens sides Thou art bad enough thy self and it is an hard thing to finde good men enough to redresse that which thou hast left deploreable The best are not very forward to promote good things no that which some have damnified others will hardly repair him whom some have driven away others will hardly bring back no they are the last usually in such a work Wherefore then are ye the last to bring back The King Now let us come to the person of quality to be reinstated The King It was not to bring back a Patriot or a Peere but one more Pretious than all the Potentates of the Nation one worth a whole Land a King From hence observe that a Nations Lustre is a King So long as a King is wanting there is an eclipse in the Hemisphere but so soon as he is brought back the whole Dominion doth shine If Agar wept so for want of water and Saul went so sorrowing up and down for the want of his Fathers Asses then how great may be the National dolour for the want of a King A Land without a King doth seem to be without ey-sight for that thou mayest be unto us in stead of eyes Num. 10.31 and unarmed for Kings are the sheilds of the earth Psal 47.9 and without day-light for a King is the Light of Israel 2 Sam. 21.17 and without her Capitall member for a King is the head of the Tribes 1 Sam. 15.17 and without motion for he is the breath of the Nostrils Lane 4.20 put all the grandees the high and mighty Ones of a Land together yet can they match a King in Stature no he is higher than Agag Num. 24.7 the rest are but Hillocks these are the Mountaines of Israel Ezek. 36.1 these are so great that they are called Dignities 2. Pet. 2.10 The foundations of the Earth Ps 82 5. they are the shepheards to the sheepe Num 27.17 Nursing Father which bear the children in their Armes or cary them in their bosomes Num 11.12 They are kind of bright Spirits in a Nation for David is called an Angel of God and Cyrus an anointed Cherubin yea the Deity it self hath not a clerer reflex upon earth then a King for I have said ye are Gods Is 82. very Extracts of Gods Power Superiority and Authority The earth hath not a Nobler object of grandeur then a King for Excellent Majesty is added to him Dan. 4.36 Oh how great is Eminency Excellency