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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Arrowes that they may not be once more levelled at our breasts we deserve new Judgements yea the most confounding and State-shivering plagues What will we out-trespass our first crimes out sinne the Many Princes Wretches that we are that neither Gods holy Lawes nor the Kings most pious Proclamation our Religion or our loyaltie the sense of our former miseries or the apprehension of such a memorable deliverance the honour of the Church or the preservation of the Nation the derision of Adversaries or the fear of hell can draw us to a more rectified behaviour but we talk as if we had Baltasars tongue in our heads and look as if we had Sodoms cheeks in our faces and live as if we had Pharaohs heart in our bosomes there is a Riot upon a Mercie and a rage in sinne men only take the oath of Allegiance but care neither for the honour nor safetie of the King keep Chappel but regard neither God nor his Ordinances consent to the thirty nine Articles but live as if they had not a Principle of Religion in them talk of Orthodox Ministers but are most Heterodox Gospellers it is anguish to think of it shame to consider it astonishment to behold it Oh when will ye see your Impietie When will ye confesse it When will ye weep for it When will ye desire absolution from it When will ye wash away the stain of it I invite you this day to Repentance How many Hearers have I If ye be not deaf listen to the most necessary Doctrine Saint John Baptist prepared the way to Christ by it Saint Peter set up the Gospel with it it is the entrance into a Church and the joy of Angels the lustre of Faith and the preservation of Kingdomes the leaping out of hell and the writing our names into the book of Life What affiance have we in God what true Christianity have we without it we are but sinners of the Gentiles as it were yea it is well if the men of Niniveh do not rise up in judgement against us Our consciences are but the suburbs of hell without it for there is still the guilt of nature upon us and the Kingdom is but the shooting-mark of Vengeance being void of it for there is the Transgression of the Land What sinceritie is there in any of us if we be not Penitents No I am but an hypocritical Teacher if I do not crucifie my known corruptions and ye are but counterfeit Hearers if ye do not purge your consciences from dead workes Oh therefore I beseech you all by the curse of Nature and dread of Judgement by the shame of sinne and the fame of Conversion by the state of Adoption and peace of conscience by the efficacy of Faith and the evidence of a supernatural life by the Union with Christ and the communion of the Spirit by your living preparation and your dying confidence by the quickning of your own soules and the saving many a soul from death by the blessing of your own Families and the preserving a whole Kingdom that ye hate sinne and sorrow to Repentance that ye have a broken spirit and circumcise your hearts that ye take unto you words and take away all grievances that ye pronounce a vow and obey from the heart that ye hear the Voyce behind you and stretch out your selves to that which is before you that ye leave not an hoof behind you in Aegypt nor suffer a spot to remain in the flesh that ye instantly and intensively and unfeignedly and perfectly kill all your corruptions and clear all your convictions so may ye not only burie all the curses in your bosome but interre all the miseries of the Kingdom that as the transgression of the Land brought in Many Princes so the Repentance of the Land may for ever keep them out I never found my heart so awakened to the work as now and would to God that being rowsed my self out of slumber that I could raise you out of your dead sleep The Lord knoweth who are his would to God that this were the day of his finding them up and acknowledging them for then what glad hearts and a joyfull Kingdom might ye make the men living and the children unborn might bless you Oh therefore hear God the King the ruined Families and the repaired State call upon you to put an end to the transgression of the Land An high blessing is entered into the Land welcome it dedicate it with repentance ye sinned before and ye see what were the effects of your sinnes sinne no more and ye may see and foresee what will be the fruit and vertue of your repentance Remember that the rod is taken off your backes the rasour removed from your heads the vials of wrath set by the threshng instruments of iron layd aside your many Princes are gone and are ye to be as miserable a people as ever no your dayes of sorrow are past your bitter griefes are ended if ye want not repentance ye will want no welfare ye are like to be the happiest people in the world Tempora phoebea lauro cingentur Ovid. 4 de Trist Eleg. 2. We are entring upon Triumphs Hunc laetum Tryiisque diem Trojaque profectis Virg. 1 Aennad A day of generall joy to all farre and neere is dawned For God hath cast out the many Princes and brought in a lawfull King And what can such a King do more then the many Princes alas they had brought the state even almost unto an end but a King and such a King shall cause the State to be prolonged We that were stung with many fiery serpents have now our wounds healed up we that wandered many years through the wilderness are now come to the banks of Canaan we that have outlived the judgement of many Princes are now come co have the blessing of one Man oh looke upon the Man and looke up to God which by his omnipotent hand hath brought in such a Man Virgil 4 Aenead ipse ante alios pulcherrimus omnes He is the aimable Ruler Hor. 1. ca. Od. 12. nil majus generatur ipso The earth can scarce be conceived to have brought forth a more eminent Prince Doubtlesse heaven had much in his bringing forth and bringing in None but such a Father could have begot such a Son none but such a God could have created such a Prince he hath much of the spirit of God in his affections and much of the providence of God in his Settlement Surely it was God that brought in such a N●hemiah to repair the broken walles of Jerusalem such a Moses for the deliverance of all the Israelites We were for many yeares as bondmen but now saith the Lord will I bring back the captivity of Jacob and have compassion upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for my holy name Ezek. 39.25 Released captives where are your Hymns yea where are your shouts what do ye come dumb out