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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

THE CVRE 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. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Coll St. Jo. Cant. 2 KING 20. 19. Is it not good that Peace and Truth be in my dayes Printed October 1. 1648. The Cure of the KINGDOM 2 KINGS 20. 19. Is it not good that Peace and Truth be in my dayes THese are the last words which the Pen-men of holy Scripture have left in writing as memorable in the History of Hezechiah King of Judah Successor to David and Solomon in the Kingdome and heire unto them both of what was excellent in them both The most commendable thing in David was his Integrity of heart 1 King 15. 3. It is said of Abiah His heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David his Father was The most memorable thing in Solomon was his excellent wisdome 1 King 3. 12. Loe I have given unto thee a wise and understanding heart so that there was none like thee before thee neither after thee shall arise any like to thee Hezechiah was a follower of them both in these most excellent gifts 1. Of David in uprightnesse 2 King 18. 3. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord according to all that David his Father did 2. Of Solomon in wisedom foure whole Chapters of the Proverbs 25 6 7 8. were copied out by the men of Hezechiah probably at his appointment What things may we not expect to come from such an one who proposed to himselfe such worthy pattern It is yet to be remembred that they were the last words which are upon record of this wise and upright King verba novissima verba notatissima The last words are commonly most memorable most carefully observed and most commonly reported Et dixit moriens nothing maketh a deeper print in the memory of a man then the last words of a dying friend Lastly they were cygnae a cantio his Swans song after the terrour of a mighty Thunder-clap of an imminent judgement in the two former verses Vers 17. Behold the dayes come that all that is in thine house and that which thy Fathers have laid up in store unto this day shal be carried into Babylon nothing shal be left saith the Lord. Vers 18. And of thy sonnes that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and make Eunuches in the Palace of the King of Babylon In these distresses the stay of his state and the summe of his comfort was that notwithstanding these Judgements were to come upon his Kingdome yet Peace and Truth should be in his dayes In this memorable speech there are chiefely two things to be observed 1. The Manner 2. The Matter 1. The manner of speech is delivered by way of Interrogation Is it not good 2. The Matter is a Rejoycing for the continuation of these two blessings Peace and Truth I spare to run into any subdivisions or to take notice of unnecessary circumstances or by-observations the words hastening to so usefull application that as Saint Bernard speaketh of another text Antequam panis frangitur ecce fragmenta Me thinks every one should be ready to gather up the fragments before the bread be broken and to make some application of the text unto himselfe before I have made mine Analysis or resolution of the words into their severall parts First of the manner of speech by way of Interrogation Is it not good The Rhetoricians make many kinds of Interrogations as being used many wayes We take notice only of three 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By way of Inquisition to get understanding as Mat. 11. 3. The Disciples of Iohn said unto Christ Art thou he that shouldst come or doe wee looke for another 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By way of Temptation to get an advantage Gen. 3. 1. Yea hath God indeed said yee shall not eat of every tree of the Garden 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By way of Exaggeration to get an unavoidable concession unto that which is demanded Luke 17. 17. Are there not ten clensed where are the nine This Interrogation may well sute to the last sense viz. by way of exaggeration or vehement affirmation when we aske of those things whose truth is knowne and granted In this case an Interrogation is not a doubtfull question but an earnest affirmation or full resolution Tremelius renders the Text thus Quod futura sit pax stabilitas in diebus meis bonum est that there shall be peace and stability in my dayes it is good The Prophet Esay in his repetition of this speech maketh it a resolute Proposition Esay 39. 6. Moreover Hezechiah said It is good if Peace and Truth shall be in my dayes So then it is resolved upon the question that It is good that Peace and Truth be in our dayes And this resolution doth resolve it selfe into foure assertions or asseverations First That Peace is good Secondly That Truth is good Thirdly That it is good that Peace and Truth should goe together as they are here coupled together by this Band or copulative conjunction And Peace and Truth Fourthly that it is good that this blessing of united Peace and Truth should continue all our dayes Is it not good That which the Psalmist makes the common quere of all worldlings Psal 44. Who will shew us any good The same is common to all men in the world all enquire after good every Art Science and endeavour of man saith the Philosopher hath this ayme to attaine to some presupposed good Arist Eth. 1. The name of Good is so attractive as that it draweth all mens hearts after it with incredible desires this is the Load-stone of our affections the Pole-star which doth direct the whole compasse of all our actions this is summa summarum the summe of all summes in which are summed up all the particulars of pleasure profit honour health wealth life and liberty all are cast up in this grosse summe of Good None are wise but they that seek it None are happy but they that find it The Philosophers who had their names from the wisedome they sought had many opinions touching Good some placing their chiefe Good in pleasure some in riches some in honor against whom Seneca argues most divinely thus Aut ista bona non quae vocantur aut homo foelicior deo est either those are not good things which are so called or man is more happy then God Hee hoardeth up no riches neither is he taken with the delights of carnall pleasure nor blowne up with the vaine titles of ambition The true wisedome teacheth that there is but one Good Deus optimus maximus the good great God he is sons boni the Fountaine of good Neither is there any good that is not from him