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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

reason of these uncivill unnaturall and unreasonable warres I hope will be easily drawne to subscribe to the truth of this first Assertion that Peace is good The second Assertion or Asseveration is that Truth is good Mans excellency consists chiefely in two things Ratione Oratione in Reason and Speech one word in the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth comprehend them both And one vertue in practise Truth doth crowne them both The want of it in both doth make a totall eclipse of mans glory For the first take Truth away from the understanding and Reason doth wander in darkenesse and so a man becoms like a bruit beast that hath no understanding And for the other take Truth away from Speech and then it were better for us to be as beasts dumbe and could not speake at all for so we should not sin so oft in word The want of truth in the one makes us like the beasts The want of truth in the other maketh us like the Devill Truth is lux mundi the Light of the world and as he affirmeth of friendship solem e mundo tollere videntur qui amicitiam e vita tollunt They take the Sunne out of the world that take friendship from the life of man may more truly be affirmed of truth They take the Sunne out of the world that take truth from the society of men Without it we groape in darkenesse Esay 59. 10. We see nothing we know nothing we can doe nothing without it we can doe nothing against it 2 Cor. 13. 8. We can doe nothing against the truth but for the truth Which words are to be understood according to that Christian axiome Quod quisque debet id potest Every man must have a reguard to what may be done de jure and not what is done de facto Presidents of fact ought to be no leading cases in matter of right vivendum legibus non exemplis We must live after the Lawes of God not after the examples of men The Law is spirituall men are carnall sold under sin If wee would have our waies well ordered we must looke unto what God hath commanded and not what men have acted Here what the Lord saith Zach. 8. 16. These are the things that ye shall doe Speak ye every man the truth unto his neighbour execute the judgement of truth and peace in your Gates And let none of you imagine evill against his neighbour and love no false oath for these are the things that I hate saith the Lord. A question is commonly moved whether a man is alwaies bound to speak the truth St. Paul ordereth the case aright Eph. 4. 15. Speak ye the truth in Love Truth without Charity is malicious Charity without Truth is blind O how happy should wee be if wee had these two to goe along with us in all our wayes to order our conversation aright in the feare of God! But alas both these are gone from us Truth mourneth for that what she feared is fallen upon her and that is to be hidden And Charity is gone up to heaven there to complaine that she can find no entertainment here upon earth And now that Truth and Charity are departed there are eome into their roome lying and falshood hatred and malice and all uncharitablenesse We may fitly condole the condition of our times in the words of Jeremyes complaint Jer. 9. 1. O that my head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weep day and night for the slaine of the daughter of my people verse 3. They bend their tongues like bowes for lyes but they are not valiant for the truth upon earth verse 4. Take yee heed every one of his neighbour and trust not in any brother for every brother will supplant and every neighbour will walke with slanders verse 5. They will deceive every one his neighbour and will not speake the truth they have taught their tongues to speake lyes and bave taken great paines to doe wickedly And here we have a passage made unto the praise of truth by the consideration of the odious and common practise of lyes and untruth As the world did sometimes groane under the burthen of Arianisme So this Land may now groane under the burthen of lying This Country is come now almost into the condition of Creete 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all Lyers Tit. 1. 12. In times past we took notice only of three kinds of lyes They were Jocosa Jests Officiosa excuses or Malitiosa Slanders But now the sin hath taken such roote and the practise so farre spread that it doth dilate it selfe into many branches First Printed lyes I have knowne it hath been said this is true I saw it in Print but now This is Printed ergo suspected Secondly There are Pulpit lyes when leaving the fathers and antient expositors of Scripture they stuffe their Sermons with relations out of newes bookes fraught with untruths from the father of lyes Thirdly Propheticke lyes which are now in great price Those that were in times past but three halfe penny lyers and after two penny lyers are now come to be six penny lyers Surely their lyes are more or lyes are of more price then in times of yoare Fourthly Paliat or covered lyes and that is either when truth is thrust into some dark corner by Equivocation or led aside by a slye distinction Equivocation encites a man to make a lye to himselfe A subtile distinction doth animate him to maintaine a lye to another For Equivocation There are some that have hid the truth in the darke corners of the Covenant when unusquisque abundat suo sensu But this is strange to be observed in it They that first made it a Solemne League and Covenant have since declared it to be but an Order transient and like an Almanacke to last for a yeare and is now out of date Againe those that were most prest to Plunder those that refuse to take it were such as did refuse to take it themselves They bind heavy burthens and grievous to be borne but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers Mat. 23. 4. Christ the truth calleth such Pharises I cannot see then but they may be called lyers that call them Saints Againe as truth is hid by Equivocation so it is led aside by a subtile distinction Notwithstanding so bad but some will thinke to make it good Nothing so false but some will seeke to make it true by distinction The Law saith Thou shalt not kill When we lament the slaughter of thousands of our brethren It is no butcherly slaughtering but in their dialect brave execution Againe the Law saith Thou shalt not steale When we complaine that our horses and goods are taken away by force and violence It is answered This is no theft but Plundering and both these are maintained good by a distinction framed at the Jesuits forge They say they may doe these evills in ordine ad

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