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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91559	The cure of the kingdome, an old fashioned sermon treating of peace, truth, & loyaltie. A discovery of the diseases of the state, with a direction to the true, certaine, and only means for the recovery of health to this distressed nation. / By R.P. ...	R. P.	1648 (1648)	Wing P97; Thomason E465_10; ESTC R144	13,906	22

Creed and the Lords Praier they are lost So that our Church now travelling of this new birth of her now Reformation may with Phineas his wife cry out in her paines and call her issue Johabod that is where is the glory for the glory is departed Let us goe from the defaced Church and looke into the distressed world and see how the cry goeth there In every trade and calling there is a continuall crying Is it not now with us as Job observeth in a great snow signasti manus thou hast sealed up the hand of every man Iob 37. 7. As the hand is to the body so is money to everie trade and calling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the instrument of instruments what use or exercise can wee make of our trades when the warres command a great part of our monies and the Dearth a constant Waiter upon warre doth claime a second part I doubt the third part will be little to trade withall Lastly for the two last circumstances Matter and Manner All men are to desire Peace and Truth by all meanes and in all matters how soever they be handled whether they be matters of Difference or of Reference or of Conference First of Difference and reference When a Difference is ended by reference or Judgement without Peace and Truth there may finis causae non querela an end of the cause but not of the quarrell So for Conference if that be without Peace and Truth we are in some respect in worse condition then the Devils they though they lie to us yet they lye not one to another though they divide us by warres sects and schismes yet Satan is not divided against Satan Should we not abhorre to have our conversation worse then an hell upon earth the best meanes to represse these evils and to procure Peace and Truth in our dayes after true humiliation for sinne and earnest prayer unto God for mercy to avert his judgements from us is to call the King home to his wonted houses of abode that he may sit on his Throne of Majesty and rule his people under Christ with the Scepter of Righteousnesse and move in his proper sphere of Princely power The King is Pater patriae the Father of the countrey When the Master of the Family is long absent and that his stay exceedeth the expected time of his returne it causeth a dampe in his good servants a disorder in the bad what fallings out will there be in the Family what wishings amongst the servants O that our Master were once come home Indeed the Masters absence is a great cause of difference amongst the servants Wee are loath to beare hard commands from our fellow servants but when the Master commeth he commands all and all are quiet Indeed were the Master a Tyrant unjust unquiet harsh and cruell then the servants might wish his absence But for this our Master he is wise just meeke sober honest And I thinke I may safely say of him as it is said of Edward the third He was such a King as that none of the Kings before him had more vertues and fewer vices This Kingdome for want of this King amongst us is fallen into many dangerous disorders and distempers as there was sometimes when there was no King in Israel Iudg. 6. 6. This Kingdome is sicke and hath the symptomes of many diseases upon it as 1. A bloody issue in warre 2. The falling sicknesse in the fits of the monethly taxes 3. The Palsie in the Excise which commeth of the weaknesse of the sinews All the Land shaketh 4. The Ague which either turneth to a burning Fever which causeth a Phrensie or madnesse or into an Hectick Fever which consumeth to destruction There is a greater evill in this Land then all these and that is the Kings evill Let that be cured and we shall easily find Physitians for all the rest All the rest are rooted and grounded in this evill Now none can cure this but the King onely Onely his prayers his presence his stroakings nothing else can doe it Why should we languish when we may have health let us desire his comming to us let us long for it let us pray for it let us endeavour it which being effected the Son of Righteousnesse will come along with him with healing in his wings to cure the distempers of this distressed Nation This he grant who is our health and our salvation for his sonnes sake who hath borne our infirmities and cured our sicknesses even by the pretious Oyntment of his Holy Spirit to whom even God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be all Power Praise Might Dominion and thanksgiving both now and for ever Amen FINIS

will regard nullum jus no right at all If we could pull this whole chaine to us it would be of more value then a chaine of Diamonds If we could lay hold on Righteousnesse that would draw Peace after it Peace would draw Truth unto it and Truth would draw downe the Mercy of God upon us and open the bowels of Mercy one to another And this for the third Assertion viz. It is good that Peace and Truth be coupled together So I come to the fourth Assertion the continuance of the blessing In my dayes The Ancients reckoned the time of their lives by dayes to shew the shortnesse of the time and frailty of life Iob 42. 1. Job died an old man full of dayes Gen. 47. 9. Iacobs life a pilgrimage of a few evill dayes Psal 90. 12. Moses prayer Teach us to number our dayes A day is a perfect modell of mans life A day hath a morne a noone and an evening so hath life if it be drawne out to the furthest period My dayes that is the time present of my now being the dayes past are not my dayes they are gone they are not the dayes to come are not my dayes they are not yet There t is but a small interim betwixt those two dayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8. 18. The Passions or Passages of a point of time This time of My dayes is of so small extension It is an axiome of Devotion spirituall graces are to be asked without exception because God hath made an absolute promise to give them but temporall blessings with a condition and limitation if it be his will and for our times So we aske bread for the day and Peace for our dayes Wee need bread every day and Peace in our dayes And who knoweth but these warres and troubles of these times are come upon us for spurning at that holy suffrage of our Church Give Peace in our time O Lord. To conclude the point let all those that are peaceable in the Land and have a true sense of the miseries of these dayes and desire that better dayes may come unto us subscribe to the truth of this Assertion and take it into their prayers in their best devotion That Peace and Truth may be in our dayes And so I come to Application which is the life of Preaching and chiefest thing that I propounded to my selfe when I first purposed to treat upon this text of Scripture This text may be fitly compared to Eliahs cloud which was at the first sight but as the breadth of a mans hand but looking a while upon it it grew to that greatnesse and extension as that it covered the whole Heavens So this text is a small sentence if you looke into the number of the words But if you shall take it into a serious consideration you shall see it grow into such a cloud of matter as that it shall over shadow the whole hemisphere of our conversation and showre a blessing upon you to comfort you in these evill times sad condition We looke upon it as appliable to all circumstances Time Place Persons Matter and Manner None of all these can have his due praise or true comfort without it For the three first circumstances Time Place and Persons In all places there is a complaint of these times by all persons excepting those that desire to fish in troubled waters and that make a gaine of others sufferings These sacrifice to their nets and burne incense to their drags because by them their portion is fat and their meat plenteous Hab. 1. 16. These like the Idolatrous silver-Smiths Act. 19. 24. Cry up Diana's magnificence because it brought great advantage to their craft and imployment But how many cry against them 1. The cry of an impoverished Citie where trading fayling Poverty commeth like an armed man upon them 2. The cry of the Countrey which is eaten up With what a dejected countenance and repining indignation shall the Husbandman looke upon his crop when he shall thinke thus with himselfe Barbanus has segites shall the stranger consume all my labours After taxes and excises and such like payments then cometh quartering like the Locusts after the haile and eateth up all the residue of my increase Have I not ploughed all day and brake the clods of the ground and made it even that I might cast in my principall wheate and Rye and Barlie Longi perit labor irritus anni Behold I have laboured in vaine and spent my strength in vaine and for nothing Let us come to our Churches we looked that a Reformation would have swept all cleane but we see it farre fouler then before They sought to sweep away Ceremonies and superstition and have fouled it with sacrilege and confusion They pretend to pull down Popery and have set up heresie and so while they thought to put the Pope out at the Fore-door they have let in the Devill at the Back-door We thought that text of Scripture would have freed our Churches from annoyance Luke 19. 24. Yee shall keepe my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary But see how farre they are prophaned In our entrance into it we may see the Font sons regenerationis where the spirit of God moveth upon the water for our sanctification hath beene made a trough to water horses and broken downe in many places as if they desired to renounce their Baptism And to goe a little further and see for the other Sacrament we see no Shew-bread upon the Holy Table The Communion which was in the Primitive Church administred commonly every Lords day In many reformed Churches received once every moneth and upon Injunction of the highest powers to be administred thrice in the yeere at the least is now in some places scarce named once in seven years In some places they have it it may be once or twise in two or three yeare and that in the countrie about Harvest and that too upon the grumbling threats of the Parishioners why should he have his due and we cannot have ours And so they justly cause the people to renue the Prophets lamentable complaint Lament 4. 4. Pueri quaerunt panem non est qui frangat eis the children cry for bread and there is none to breake it to them To goe a little further and see how the Sanctuary is robbed of all her ornaments the two golden Candlesticks the two Testaments are indeed there but the Candles are seldome lighted We have had two Chapters read out of both Testaments but now it is well if there be one But commonly especially in great Assemblies a Psalme is sung of the new translation and then the new light is set up whereby as some have professed to their hearers they can tel them as much of the mind of God Almighty as the Prophets or the Apostles or Christ himselfe could And for the Arke of the Covenant with the memorable Monuments the Tables Aarons Rod and the Pot of Manna their Paralels the Commandements the