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A42487	Kakourgoi, sive Medicastri slight healings of publique hurts. Set forth in a sermon preached in St. Pauls Church, London, before the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, Lord General, aldermen, Common Council, and companies of the honorable City of London. February 28. 1659. Being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God, for restoring the secluded Members of Parliament to the House of Commons: (and for preserving the city) as a door of hope thereby opened to the fulness and freedom of future Parliaments: the most probable means under God for healing the hurts, and recovering the health of these three Brittish kingdomes. By John Gauden, D.D.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G361A; ESTC R215531	65,440	132

Seraphick men have gotten power and place and plenty and palaces O now all is peace peace And the better to colour over the overthrow of three flourishing Nations which from the pile of three united Kingdoms are fillipped to the cross of an ill sodered Common-wealth some men must by all means pretend to set up as John of Leyden and his Complices did the Kingdom of Righteousness the Throne and Scepter of King Jesus Which is justly esteemed a Kingdom of peace being seldom or never advanced by an active war but only by a passive yet is this a principall decoy to impose upon vulgar people for who will not seem willing and forward to submit to Christs Kingdom that he may rule and reign But we are not such children nor have so learned Christ as to expect his Kingdom to be of this world though in it yet not after its methods of the sword but by the word of Truth and spirit of Patience thus came the King of Sion the other by the sword of blood is a rare project for Muncer and Knipperdolling for Hacket and Arthington when they can be merry in peoples miseries with populus vult decipi decipiatur people have a mind to be deluded and t is fit they should be so when credulous people will believe in any spirit an hundred to one but some lying spirits and deceivers false Christs and false Apostles will come among them who shall make them believe light is darknesse and darknesse light that good is evill and evill good that their iron Chains are Bracelets of gold that factious Conventicles are purest Churches that Synagogues of Satan are the truest Jews or children of Abraham that partiall Conventions and Senates sifted and purged affronted and bafled by tumultuary or armed force are full and free Parliaments Which name and thing of Parliament every sober and understanding English man justly venerates and highly esteems in their due and only true constitution so Parliaments are justly honoured as ●●os corona gentis the cream flower and crown of a Nation the anchor and center under God of Laws Liberties Lives and honours of all that is dear to us in this world yea of our Religion too A Free and full Parliament is the very Pall●dium pacis publicae the best preserver and restorer of our peace publick health and all honest interests the most august and honourable Assemblie in the world Quo s●l illustriorem non aspicit as Bishop Andrews calls it in his Tortura Torti pag. 291. the best tempered constitutions of spirits and humors of power and counsel in a Nation the oracle of publick wisdom the magazine of publick strength the source and fountain of publick order and Authority the treasure of our Riches the sanctuary of true Religion the ark in which the Church of England is embarqued the Conservatory of both sanctity and civility the best Umpire of our civill differences the most equanimous Censor and reformer of manners the grand Trustees of Church and State when so full and free as becomes men of conscience and honor Who would not submit their honor estate liberty life all things temporal to such a Judicature of his Country-men such Arbitrators of the publique choise But to cry peace peace to the body when the whole heart is faint when the whole head is sick when the very brains are ●eaten out when the vital and best spirits of a Nation are almost expired and exhausted of when the military and pretorian insolence shall stand over the Senate or Parliament as Hercules with his clud over Hydra's many heads This Partiality is such a tyrannous Imposition on reasonable men as if they were commanded to believe and declare that a part is equal to or more than the whole that glow-worms are brighter than the Stars and Meteors or Comets more benign than the Sun and Moon that all the wisdom and piety of a Nation were contained in a Knapsack as the holy Ghost was carried in a Cloak bag from Rome to Tre●t Men need but count the pole or tell noses to tell what a Free and full Parliament means which comprehends all the Representatives and Trustees chosen by the Nation besides the Peers who were the great council to the Prince Peace as health includes the good constitution of the whole but chiefly of the most noble principal parts peace of Church and State at home and abroad will be far from that Nation whose publick counsels are at variance and their chief Councellors are either Fighters against themselves or Oppressors of one another ●o serve some partial which must needs be a Sinister base and bad interest for no counsel is good in or out of Parliament which is not for the publicks good in which every legal and just interest is contained Indeed it s a meer cheat put on the poor patient the daughter of my people when vain and empty words of peace peace are used and yet either the sword or the exactor or the oppressor devoureth every way and every day when God and man his word and the violated Laws peoples sad experience and tired patience their exhausted Estates and daily Alarms proclaime there is no true Peace no honest and just no safe and secure Peace which indeed is not to be expected while such Witch-crafts are imposed and such wicked purposes partially and violently promoted utterly to deceive undo and destroy a people which brings me to the fourth particular Fourthly The {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lye or Fallacy which the Spirit of God by way of Irony expresseth they have healed thus they pretend and brag but lightly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} super leve ut leviculum tanquam rem ni●ili {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} LXX despicientes vili-pedentes cum illusione Syr. cum ignominia verbis mendaciorum suorum Chald. Thus Translators and Interpreters render the word variously but to the same sence arguing the little respect of Piety Honesty Equity and Charity or Humanity which was in these vain-glorious and ungracious Healers who either wanted Skill or Will or Power and Influence or due Authority or they were slighters and Contemners of the publiques Health only intent to their private Wealth and advantages They never searched the bottom of the Nations great crying sins Disorders and Sufferings nor applied seasonable just and meet Remedies to either yea they festred and enflamed the Lighter hurts to grievous Ulcers small Faults Offences mistakes Differences and Jealousies which did arise in Church and State they either dressed these scratches with Vinegar and gall only with sharp and picquent corrasives without any lenitive or moderation or else by a dilatory negligence and supercilious carelesness they let publick distempers and hurts run on till they were less capable of any cure or patient of good applications Yea and by a superfluity of wanton cruelty they either widened the wounds and made their probes

which was made up of an admirable temper constitution untill sins tumults violence and warre cast us into these Feavers Convulsions and Confusions with which we have wrestled for many years Indeed your City ows some Reparation and now payes it to the whole Nation not only for the advantages it hath from all parts but for the disadvantages which all have suffered not from the ill intentions but from some tumultuating dispositions which as Porpusses were pregnant in your sea of people when our troubles first began I hope God hath prepared blessings for you and by you for the whole Nation by opening your eyes humbling your hearts disposing your minds and exciting your spirits to thoughts of Justice and Piety of Repentance Restitution and Peace We have had wounds and hurts enough slight healings and strong Delusions too many It is high time if it be Gods time to speak comfortably to Zion to tell her Her Warfare is accomplished to pour in the Balm of Gilead by sober and equanimious Counsels to bind up by orderly just power what hath been long broken to make up the grand defects in our Government and to lay foundations of future peace and happiness in Righteousness and Truth That the enemies of our reformed Religion and this renowned Nation may not rejoyce in our continued miseries and say So would we have it I have sought to do my duty if some think I have overdone it I must crave your patrociny to assert that which by your acceptance seemed to be your sense as well as mine and is as I hope the sense of all honest and judicious men For men that are fanciful fanatick we need them not to make us happy I am sure they have made a shift to make us very miserable And if God had not in mercy set bounds to the rage of that sea and the madness of that people they would have made your City an heap of ashes and our Countrey a field of Blood It will be your Wisdom Honour and Happiness to keep in the bounds of just moderate religious and sober Counsels to aim at legal honest and tried wayes of settlement to chuse and use such Physicians as you find most able and faithfull so will health and salvation break forth upon you and the three Nations which is the earnest prayer Of your humble servant in Christ J. GAUDEN Books written by Dr. Gauden and sold by Andrew Crook at the Green-Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1. HIeraspistes A Defence for the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England 2. Three Sermons preached on publick occasions 3. Funerals made Cordials in a Sermon preached at the Interment of the Corpse of Robert Rich Heir apparent to the Earldom of Warwick 4. A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Dr. Ralph Brounrig Bishop of Excester Decemb. 17. 1659. with an account of his Life and Death 5. A Petitionary Remonstrance in the behalf of many thousand Ministers and Scholers A SERMON PREACHED Before the Lord Mayor Aldermen c. of London IER. 8. 11. For they have healed the hurt of the Daughter of my people slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace BEing called to this publick service by the piety and civility of this great City Right honorable and worthy Auditors I could not well tell how to avoid it because it seemed so good a work nor yet upon so short warning how to accept of it being so great a work if either I regard the importance of the occasion which looks like a door of hope opened to the healing of these Nations and composing of their sad distractions by the counsels of a full and free Parliament and by the assistance of regular and orderly power Or if I consider as I ought in prudence the difficulty and danger of touching though in order to heal the old sor●s and sistulating ulcers of this Church and State which are now vetustesceutia mala annosi morbi inveterate dolors obstinate evils and pertinacious maladies not onely impatient to be touched freely and searched throughly but are prone to plead as the Divels in the Gospel who had possessed the poor man now a long time against all health and recovery Many men like Canters and Lazars are in love with their wounds and ulcers getting their living more easily by keeping their sores open raw and running than if they should quite heal them up I am further conscious not only to the touchiness of the times and the tenderness of many mens minds who are onely for lenitives and oyles for soft smooth and supple applications even to their most desperate hurts but also that my own native parrhesia or freedom of speaking which is both customary and consciencious not that I affect unseasonable severities of speech and such rudeness under the pretence of freedom as rather exasperates the wound and inflames the humor than purgeth allays or easeth them But I profess to chuse not to preach at all rather than to preach timorously or precariously Ut Lugdunensem Rhetor dicturus ad aram as if I should ask men leave to be honest or were afraid to speak the Word of God to them When I am called to speak in Gods name I must be Parrhesiastes as well as Ecclessiastes I am to do it as a workman that needs not to be ashamed either for his ignorance or cowardise or indiscretion whether men will hear or forbear the whole counsel of God must be delivered in its season so as becomes the words of soberness and truth for the Church or Pulpit must not be a sanctuary for insolency or a burrow or a retreat for rudeness No however men may become our enemies for speaking the truth yet it is better so than to have God our enemy for smothering it when it is just and seasonable and such it is when necessary and soveraign to heal the hurt of a Church and State It hath been my fate frequently to offend some men when I have been most intent to serve them by Texts and Sermons which I thought most apt useful and innocent When I preached at the Court Anno. 1640. upon that Heb. 12. 14. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see God When before the long Parliament at its first convening upon Zach. 8. 19. Therefore love the truth and peace When at another great and epidemick Assembly upon 1 Cor. 3. 19. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God Of all three though wholsom and innocent Texts and I hope accordingly handled yet I heard some unpleasing Ecchoes and reflexions the sore and itching ears of some men in all ages are such that they will not endure {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} healing or sound and wholesome Doctrine though the pain riseth from the soreness and inflamation in themselves and not from the plaister or hand which honestly applies it yet they are prone as in fell boles and acute

same proper blessings every day they may very well use the same words and petitionary Formes as Christ did thrice in his Agony For Gods immutability is not weary of any holy constancy nor delighted with any novelty but that of a new heart and new spirit which I hope and pray he would give both the Physicians and to the Daughter of my people That neither the later may be miserable by not being well healed nor the second blameable for healing onely slightly and superficially which is the fault here laid to the charge of some persons and leads me to the fi●t Particular proposed namely 5. They that is Those publick persons who of right ought or in fact do or in their action may manage the Affairs of the Church and State who have Councels power and Authority interest and influence fit to advance the publick welfare by correcting the distempers and reducing all to a due constitution of health They that is 1. Those Princes or Kings Judges and Chief Magistrates who being themselves vicious or Idolatrous or Hypocrites or vain turning Piety into Policy and Religion into reason of State not onely infect the people by the contagion of an impious example but are willing the people should be as bad as themselves That for their enormities being followed by their Subjects they may seem less by the Imitation and as it were Approbation Kings that rule their people not by Law and Justice but by will and Passion more for their own pleasure than the Publick Wellfare that are great Oppressors staying as well as ●lee●ing their people yea breaking their bones and eating their flesh Ruling men not as rational creatures of the same Creator nor as brethren in the same Saviour Sons to the same Father of their Country but as meer Slaves and Vassals forgetting that every King hath a King in heaven above him to whom he is subject and must give account not onely of the hurt he hath done and the wounds he hath made on the soules and bodies the estates and consciences of his people but also of their Health and good he hath left undone when it was in his place and power like the Sun in the firmament or as a little God among men to have been {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a Catholick good to Church and State that thousands might have been blessed by them in this world and to eternity blessed God for them Not only the hands but the mouths eyes of Princes are healing of their peoples evils if they will but rebuke and reprove frown upon and discountenance evil doers Mens sins and Accounts enlarge according as their influence and relations ampliate which carry their obligations with them to God and man Great place and power are of all things most to be avoided if they onely serve to aggrendise a man● sins either of omission or commission for to augment his Judgement and Eternal torment ● Those subordinate Counsellors and inserior Magistrates who are under the command of man and more of God these heal slightly when they are not men of Integrity fearing God and hating Covetousnesse but orafty Complyers with the inordinate lusts and passions with the illegal commands of either Princes or people contrary to their oaths so by flattery or faction to make way for their Ambition and gain by the undeserved favour of either or dividing one from the other by a most unnatural wa● and jealousle such as please man rather then God and love themselves more then their Country or the Church such as prefer their bodies and Est●●es before their Souls and put the healing● of the Church and true Religion in the last place or Rear of affairs and when they professe to heal the Irreligion of others by severe Acts and Ordinances against Adultery S●earing Proph●nes● debauch●ry drunkennesse corruption injustice c. yet themselves are higher by the shoulders than the most of the people in these and other enormaties As if Peers or privy-Counsellors or Counsellors of State or Parliament-men had a Priviledge to sin more or to repent and suffer lesse than other men Nothing weakens the credit and Authority of any publick Lawes so much as when the Law-givers least observe them or are the first that break them like Physitians that prescribe strict diet to their Patients but themselves indulge all manner of Epicurisme Here every one is prone to retort Physician heal thy self The best things are commonly done by the best hands Religio Medici Conscience is here required as well as his Science They will hardly do their Country good who care not either to serve God or to save their own souls Men should make conscience of private actions much more of publique adventures which are of grand consequence as the undertakings in war and not to be done rashly slovenly slightly and indifferently Nor may publick Counsellors or Ministers of State like Achitophel think they do wisely or safely because they go with the vogue and stream of times with the winde and tide or humor of some people in their prevalent Factions discontents and clamors by which vote Christ himself was crucified Mark 15. 13. Common people in their Paroxismes or fits of discontent like sick and pained patients are ill Dictators to their Physitians who must advise better for them than they would for themselves else they will heal their hurts very slovingly slowly and ill-favouredly to their own sin and reproach as well as others pain and charge Nor is it enough for Aarons excuse to say The people are set upon mischief when they would needs have him make them visible Egyptian Gods to go before them under the figure of a golden calf to be instead of their true and invisible God publick Persons and Honorable Counsellors as Joseph of Ari●●thea must not go quâ ●tur sed qua eundum as peoples fury or the prevalent Factions drives them but as the Word of God and the Lawes of the Land direct them else they shall beare not onely their one but the iniquity of their people who sin and suffer unwarned and naked hurt and unhealed upon the account of such cowardly Counsellors and corrupt Magistrates or Ministers of State all whose wisdomes will come to nought and they will at length like Achitophel be snared in the halters of their own twisting 3. Those Priests and Prophets those Pastors and Teachers those Bishops and Presbyters who are in Publick Place and sacred Authority as to the things of God the matters of Religion and mens souls good These heal slightly when they do the Work of God negligently when they skin over scandalous publique sins as Ely to his Sons with soft reproof when they sow pillows under Princes Parliaments and peoples elbowes when they fear the face and offence of men more than of God when they are workmen that need to be ashamed their Lives and Actions confuting their