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England's glory begun in I. Restoring our religion. II. Rectifying our coin. To be compleat in III. Reforming our manners.
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1698
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Wing E2967; ESTC R215027
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ENGLAND'S GLORY Begun in I. Restoring our Religion II. Rectifying our Coin To be Compleat in III. Reforming our Manners Tit. II. 14. Who gave himself for us that he might Redeem us from all Iniquity and Purge us to be a Peculiar People Zealous of Good Works LONDON Printed for Rich Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1698. TO THE Two Honourable Houses WHEN in good Repair as at this present you are the Object Britannia's Eyes are most intently fixt upon beholding with Joy and Admiration With Joy because she can make her Addresses with so much ease and freedom With Admiration because you can perform your Undertakings The Third House comprising both as the Heav'ns the Terraqueous Globe is the Royal Pallace of the British Monarch whose Master conveying Life and Lustre from the King of Kings compleats our England's Glory And unto this your Access is as free as ours is unto you Britannia thus lives and moves the Almighty God having given her so excellent a being And here 's a most happy Union of all the Three composing that Noble Body the King and his Subjects Barons and Commons The good Constitution of health in this Body has been very illustrious now of late unto this Age as much or more than to our Ancestors tho they have seen several happy Reigns Therefore are the Eyes of all Europe upon our Britannia as a Body of the finest Fabrick and most Curious Composure Even Majesty it self making long Voyages to see a Solomon As the Queen of the South came from far unto Jerusalem so the Emperor of the North is come to London The Queen of Sheba came to see that Prince who built the first Temple The second Tabernacle then which now is building deserves certainly the most Royal hand and the most Wise hearted amongst the Princes of the Earth being so much more Excellent than the first as unseen are more than seen things Spiritual more than Temporal Glory an house not made with hands more than the stateliest Pile of Building upon Earth the Gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. It is not Temples made with hands which delight the Holy one of Israel But those of Mens Spirits and Bodys cleansed by the Holy Ghost and prepar'd Typified by our Lords sweeping out the Defilements of Jerusalems Temple Therefore the CHVRCH OF ENGLAND before she saith Take not thy Holy Spirit from us Begs that God will make clean our Hearts within us Plainly evincing that an unclean heart does no more then bable in that Petition for the Spirits residence Now if these three houses wherein dwells the Government do begin to make such Preparation The Countrey will also certainly be made sensible of their Duty And then we shall hear that blessed Proclamation Prepare to meet thy God O Israel The Essentials of a Leet seem to be such as by the Romans were called Fasti where the Praetor might keep a Court which was not done without these three words spoken Do Dico Addico Do I give way to Actions Dico I speak the Law Addico I Judge matters and Men. Now in this method of Governing the Poor the Power of a Governing Leet is Restor'd to the Decenners or Freeholders c. Viz. Dico upon VIEW I speak directing and advising to Industry Addico I appoint such a daily Task to he performed Do give Information to the Magistrate of the Poors Carriage and Behaviour England's Glory c. ENglands Peace calls for Englands Gratitude If that be not forthcoming her Peace can't be lasting If we go to Individuals too many are against the Nations Peace And therein against their own and the Peace of their posterity But when People willfully Impair their own sight it 's but just with God to strike them with a Total Blindness If we can't perswade yet we may Pray for our Enemies as our Master did Lord forgive them for they know not what they do It is but sad in some places if we go to Individuals therefore we rejoyce in our Representatives the Honourable House of Commons in our Nobility the upper House of Parliament in our King the Happy head of that Fair and Beautiful Body To the Bon Repos whereof it 's every Subjects Duty and Interest to contribute For hereunto the Almighty hath brought us by the Councel of a Wise and Faithful Parliament and the Conduct of a just and Valliant King Not only stiled so but upon Tryal found so And is not this indeed He that never Broke his Word I can't be of their Opinion therefore who would have us like none of our Friends and Neighbours But that whilst they are keeping strong Guards we must Disband ours Would not this in us look more Vain after the Worlds experience of thousands or years then if it had been done by our Fore-Fathers who lived when Moats and Castles were first invented This truely I do believe that as we are the very Conduct of Common prudence is sufficient to secure us against any hand but that which is above us And that is the only Hand to be fear'd now we have Peace with us and time before us should we neglect Reformation of that Evil habit of Idleness in the Poor which like Tares has been sown and coming up whilst England has been sleeping And that too in the day time after the Debauches of her Revelling Nights Negligent Masters do but rarely meet with Industrious Servants But now that God hath blest us with a Prince that delights in the Noblest things TO DO GOOD TO MANKIND And not like those narrow Souls who tho they leave the rest of the World in darkness would be drawing all the very Sun-Beams to their side of the Globe without Pity or Commiseration unto others every true Englishman surely will consider how the very Heavens now smile upon Great Britain and Ireland c. Ay and more then any other Parts of the World tho some others have a great share as presaging that these Beloved Isles who have been Honour'd and own'd more then other places both in the first spreading of Christianity and in every Reformation since shall now again lead the Van When the greatest Reformation of all is approaching And this brings to mind that Prophetick Poem upon occasion of the Death of the Earl of E x and which hath its Prediction as followeth His l ed Acts thy Freedoms Birth shall Cause Secure Religion produce wholesom Laws No more the Poor the Rich one shall devour No more shall right yeild to oppressive Power No more shall Rapine make the Countrey Groan Nor Civil Wars shall Reign within the Town The Iron Scepter and the Tyrants Hand Shall cease henceforth to bruise thy happy Land Rome's Hocus pocus Ministers no more Shall cause Mankind their Jugling Priests adore Thy Learned Clergy shall confound them all And they like Ely 's Sons unpitied fall Dark mists of Errors then must fly away And Hells Delusions shrink from the bright Day Truths sacred Light