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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

vengeance of God when they have deserved it by such wicked Counsels and Actions as cannot be carried on but with the Devils maxime Scelera sceleribus tuenda continued injuries and cruelties to the daughter of their people to Church and State to their brethren and Countrey men yea to their fathers and posterity But our hope is that God hath by his sore rebukes and defeats of some who trusted too much in their swords spears in their own Armes their horses legs taught others more wisdome justice and modesty yea and stirred up such a spirit of Christian valour moderation and honour in some gallant Souldiers of more just Principles and nobler Spirits that they will not rest till they have put the hurts of the daughter of their people which are now chronick or inveterate of many years continuance and very deep reaching from head to feet into such a posture of healing and into such healers hands as may be best able and honest on which account as these Souldiers who can do nothing against the truth and Law against Church and State but for them will deserve great honour and rewards from the Nation and its Parliaments full and free So people must blame themselves if they chase for Healers or Physitians such men as are neither for wisdom and skill nor for courage or conscience nor for honesty or vertue nor for good example or reputation or yet for wellgotten estates of any value or publique interest nor ever probable to heal others since themselves are sick and sore either of fear and guilt or of Schism and Faction or of superstition and sacriledge or of Rebellion and Anarchy or of the itch of novelty and mange of popularity or of the plague of immorality and debauchery From such Healers both Civil Sacred and Military so unhealed so unwholesome so infectious so destructive to Church and State to Law and Gospel to Justice and Religion good Lord deliver the daughter of my people 5 Lastly Not only these unskilful or unfaithful or unwilling persons of publique influence are blamable for not healing the hurts of a Nation when they have authority and opportunity as well as power or for healing so slightly that things are never the better nay worse and worse But further there lyes no small sin and blame upon the Patient the people or community First when they are not conscienciously careful what Physitians or Surgeons they make choice of and put themselves with their lives estates liberties and lawes bodies and souls into their hands but adventure upon every pragmatique Emperick and confident Undertaker Next when this is done commendably as truly I am prone to believe it was in the first Elections of the long Parliament if they could have quietly kept tog●ther without tumultuating factions and fatal divisions for people then not to acquiesce as they ought under God in their skill and honesty onely following them with such modest Petitions as are necessary and such complaints as are comely also with their prayers to God for a blessing But for the populacy then to cluck into parties and conspiracies according to the cunning of some Agitators for novelty and factors for troubles then to break out into tumultuary rudenesses and seditious menaces and at last to become dictators to their Physitians and like gonty feet to threaten the head and shoulders and hands if they be not cured of their anguish after their own fancy not after the Rules of Art and Law of Health ● These are so far from being Healers that they are the greatest hinderers of their own and others publique health in the world yea the venome and acrimony of these fretting and turbulent humors sub●idy diffused among the divided vulgar and by their means re-infused into the publique hurts and real grievances cannot but strangly increase the malignity of distempers throughout the whole habit of the body which {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} pestilent and depraved state of the generality of the people divided and distracted like Demoniacks or possessed with fears and jealousies with envies and hatred with hopes and other unreasonable passions is much harde●●o be c●red and more dangerous to the publique than the disaffection or inflammation the discontent or ambition of any one part of the body which is easily corrected or counter-ballanced with the Antid●te as it were of all other sound parts which are far the major number When therefore a s●ok Nation hath done its duty in the choice of its ●●ealers The way is to ass●●● the Honor and Authority of those orderly Physicians not to suffer any intruding Empyricks or extruding Mountebanks by fraud or force to drive these away that way may be made for their cruel activity and unsatiable gain It will prove an endless and costly cure which permits it self to every one that hath a minde to be tampering The best way is patiently to submit to their own Parliamentary choice and to Gods dispensation by their means In this way there is hope if people can be still they may see the Salvation of God Patients will make mad work if they may controle and ●●dgel their Physitians Although it is possible that the crying sins committed in a Nation may be such that no 〈◊〉 means can cure its sores and ma●ms especially if the noblest and most vital parts of the body being cut off or grievously w●●●ded there be a clamor of blood unjustly ●●ied crying to heaven for vengeance which vengeance if a Nation will hope to escape and be healed they must be sure not to ad●pt the sin by after 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 But rather so publickly to 〈◊〉 ●● in 〈◊〉 of R●pentance as it may not be imputed to the whole Nation and then Posterity As the desp●ra●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His ●lood be upon us and our childre● in the 〈…〉 ●● christs being put to death by envy and faction by popular clamors State policies when against all justice of God and man yea against the s●nce and conscience of Pilate none of the juste●● judges he was condemned to dye to gratifie a popular and military importunity to which some Scribe● and Pharises Hypocrites together with some covetous and ambitious Priests had exalted the credu●o●s and cruel common people who are pron● to 〈◊〉 in the Tragick executions and 〈◊〉 of their betters and Superiours a● a kinde of victory over the others greatness and a levelling of eminent honor to their own meanuess and ●a●eness 6. But ●t is now time for me in order to give way to the pains of my learn'd and reverend Success●● and to avoid the tyring of your patience at the first Stage when you are to g● a second ●● is time I say for me to bring up the Ro●● and to present you in the Sixth particular with the 〈…〉 s●●andi methodus the true method of publick cures of healing the hurts of the Da●ghte● of my people in Church or State For

in honor and conscience in Reason of State and for the repute of the Reformed Religion from whose face such black and bloody stains must be washed if ever she will appear lovely to the world and not as the Whore of Babylon who was drunk as well as besmeared with blood All the inventions and projects of making supplies and amends by some other Commonwealth way is no better than getting a wooden leg or hands of clouts instead of such as are natural or as ● bolster of g●ats hair instead of David The body cannot have ease or orderly motion or beauty and complexion till every part is restored to its place office and proportion 2. When the venom and core of the main distempers is removed the next work of a wise Physitian and Chyrurgeon is Sana Medicamina applicare to follow the Patient with wholesom medicaments as are 1 probata approved upon the file of long experience 2 propria specifica as apt proper and specifick as can be had considering the genius and constitution of the Patient also the original continuance and progress of the disease cures are by contraries those medicines will most certainly help which most encounter the principal causes of our maine disease and are proper antidotes against the malignity of our sores It is but the capricious and ridiculous conceit of some fine men who want employment to send this now languishing State of England and the other two adjacent antient and united Kingdomes to Mars his hill in Athens or to the Lacedemonian Sparta or to the Roman Capitol or to the Venetian Arsenal or to the State-house of the low Countries and so to send the Church to Geneva Edinbrough or Amsterdam as if we were Churches or Nations of yesterday in our bibs and swadling clouts to be dandled in the laps of such dry nurses and this in order for sooth to learn some unwonted models of civil and Ecclesiastical Government which like new garments will hardly fit for they will be either uneasie because too straight or unhansome because too loose Doubtless in Governments that Scripture Proverb of Wine holds true the elder is the better if it have not lost its spirits especially when not onely time and use but great wisdome had proportioned it to the true interests of the Nation and of all estates in it which follow much the genius of the people if they be either soft slavish and pesantly as in some countrys or robust manly and generous as in England the first will easily croutch under any burthen and truckle under any prevalent power the second is hardly contained in any bounds but those that are Soveragine and Imperial by way of monarchical yet legal Majesty which having something in it neerer the Divine Idea than any other way of Government by the perfection of wisdome guiding power and power assisting wisdome is onely fit to govern those Nations whose high spirits are impatient to be ridden by their equals much more to have their inferiours to become not only their rivals but superiours When the Cappadocians had leave to be a Province or popular State under the Roman Empire they refused the freedome and craved the favour of having a King to rule them as they ever had time out of mind professing the temper of the people was such that they would not be subject to any but those in whom Majesty was so concentred by the Laws and customs of the Nation that they could without shame and disdain pay an homage as subjects to them Herein experience hath been and will be our teacher but then it will be and hath been as Hippocrates begins his Aphorisms {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a costly painful difficult and dangerous experiment and if at last it do not fit the Genius temper and desire of these Nations so as to ease them of their terrors and vast charges of civil War to free them of the fear of Enemies at home and abroad to settle them in such peace and plenty as many yet remember they injoyed before the flood of our civil wars to open the obstructions of trade and those veins of industry by which the body is maintained by the secret circulation of commerce as of the blood if all these Symptomes Concomitants or effects of health do not follow the essayes of new formes of Government alas what do we all the while but keep the daughter of our people upon the rack of paine and expence using a kind of a State Strappado by which to bring the armes to hang backwards rather than forwards so as they can neither lift up themselves to their head nor yet defend and help the body or themselves so by a dreadful convulsion to bring all things of antient order honor and beauty in the nation to the distractions and deformities which must needs attend such novelties as are not proper for the publique nor practicable without continued force and endless charge 3. Their healing medicines must be plenaria Catholica such as may in time do the work compleatly yet with leisure and discretion For momentary cures are onely miraculous So as carefully to preserve the good spirits und humors to strengthen the sound parts yet remaining to follow the grand crises of the disease and the indications of health which way evil humors are easiest discussed breathed out or purged still conserving the two main principles pillars and supports of health life and subsistence in the body politique the radicale humidum as I call it which is plenty by trade and industry that there be no crying out nor complaining by those whose mouths cannot eat if their hands be idle 2. That calidum radicale the sacred fire or celestial flame which Prometheus is said to have kindled in mankind which shines in reason and religion in Justice by good Laws well executed by Magistrates and in devotion by the holy publique worship of God solemnly discharged by able and autoritative Ministers both which are the grand designes of good learning which is the souls school for improvement and education during its minority or absence from its Fathers house till it comes to vision and fruition which sets it beyond all learning but that of the Fathers glorious example No civil laws can be wholesome for the publique which do enterfeer with true Religion which either rob God or his Church or his Vicegerents and Ministers or his poor of what is their due nor can any Ecclesiastical laws be healthful which cross the civil laws and authority so as to bring in licentionsness injuriousness rebellion or any thing that is for Doctrine fanatick or for practice injust and immoral all which like poysonons touchings or unwholesome feedings are destructive to the publique health The perfect healing of the Church and Religion as Christian and reformed whose divisions hurts and deformities are many will hardly be done without calling those spiritual Physitians together after the primitive pattern

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

Instructions and their doing making their Doctrine to blush when they heal publick Enormities or calamities by I know not what novel Inventions and magick spels of fine words which are no better than the powder of a post compared to the approved Catholick prescriptions of 1600 years which were soveraign for Clergy and Laity to preserve order and unity soundnesse of doctrine and ins●andalousness of manners in the Church of Christ under Christian Kings and Queens who were bountiful nursing Fathers and Mothers to the Church of Christ and the Clergy yet not by the Dominion and pomp luxury and tyranny of Bishops nor yet by the Factious and refractory humours of Presbyters much less by the schismatick saucinesse of people who cast off both Bishops and Presbyters but by the fatherly gravity prudence and Eminence of godly and Reverend Bishops by the brotherly assistance and son-like subordination of sober and orderly Presbyters by the service and obsequiousness of humble and diligent Deac●●● and by the meek submission of Christian people to the Care Monition Councel and respective Superiority of every order as sheep to their Chief Shepherds and their Assistants o● Attendants Divide this chain of Church-Union Order and Communion in vain shall we talk of bealing the Flock of its scabs and scratches or hurts I confess that I own and ever shall do Primitive Episcopacy with Presbitery so that as St. Paul speaks in another case Neither of them should be without the other in the Lord Neither of them oppressed or extirpated but so regulated and incouraged as I believe all moderate and learned men desire if it be my fault and Errour that I prefer this Holy and Catholick Composition before any other late simple receipts of Church Government by which to heal any Church Truly I ow this my Judgment to all the Councils to all the Fathers to all the Church-Historians to be best witnesses of truth in all times who have unanimously conspired to lead me into this Opinion agreeable to the word of God the Example of Christ the practice of the Apostles and the parallel Customes of all Churches which is besides mightily confirmed in me by the misdom Piety and Prosperity of this Church under good Bishops since its Reformation which none in the world exceeded for health and happiness for sound and sincere Christians till some mens itching and scratching too much even till the bloud came and others either not applying seasonable Salves or else sharper Remedies than perhaps were necessary or prescribed by the wisdom of our Church and Laws have festred the ●urts and sores of Religion that they now feem almost incurable till such ●●nds are by Gods goodness applyed and such Medicines used as are most proper for a sick and diseased Church which hands and Medicines I cannot think ought to be Secular but rather Ecclesiastick Such in a free Synod of learned Divines should as a Colledge of spiritual Physicians advise and prepare for there is as much need of calling for free Synods as Free Parliaments The want of the former G. Naz. deplores as the occasion of so much Faction and Vexation in the Church in his times Lay-men though learned able and honest have enough to do in Lay-matters Churchmen have nothing left them to do as to Secular Councels or State Concernments and therefore ought not to be excluded from their proper sphere Church affairs being the best skilled of any men else they are ill imployed in the things of God for the searching supplying and healing the hurts of the Church and true Religion in its Doctrine Discipline Order Unity and Authority That maxime is true of the Clergy as well as of other Orders of men Unicuique credendum est in sua arte Every man is most to be credited in what he is most skilled I am sure as to the point of Physitians no people that are wise and would be healed in good earnest but are carefull to get the best and ablest unless they undervalue their health and lives and to save charges will venture to dye Fourthly They that is Those Souldiers and Military men Chief Commanders and Others under them these heal but sleightly when either they will be as the Clowns all-heal the onely Professors of State Physick and undertake all cures in Church and State or else they think and act as if there is no such way to heal soundly as to make greater wounds and bruises by irreconcilable distance preposterous power and violent impressions even on those that both commissionate them and recompence them They are Iron Heads Brazen Faces and Stony Hearts who crye that Might gives Right And all power is of God though unjustly gotten and so used against the Word of God and the Laws of the Land such a commission the Devil may boast of as well as any evil doers but little to the comfort of either when mens will is their onely warrant in Law and sad successes their onely security in Conscience when Souldiers make their backs and bellies the Commonwealth putting their Interest of pay and power into the ballance against all others when they are but as the dust of the ballance to the weight of the Nation for numberand estates When men of War know not the way of peace but onely to avoid it seeking to make themselves necessary by keeping the wounds open and the sores raw of a Nation pleading necessity and native Liberty and I know not what Good Old Cause or Metaphysical godly interests unknown to our Lawer or fore-fathers and it had been happy if we never had known them Lastly When Military men are injurious rapacious and insolent lovers of themselves more than of God or the Church or their Countrey when they look more to their Guns and Pistols than to God or godliness to their swords than to his Word and to the Riddles of Providence more than the Rules of conscience resolved to sacrifice the daughter of their people as Agamemnon did Iphigenia or Jephta his on the Altar of the Military interest These will be smart and chargeable beatens of the hurts of the daughter of their people when they shall be such as prepare Wan●● against any that speak of Peace when such as esteem the speedy healing of their Countrey to the publick peace to be their greatest hurt when they grow so desperate as they had as live be damned as fairly disbanded though in order to the publick ease and tranquillity When as no good Souldier that either fears God or loves his Countrey or reverences the Church or hopes to save his own Soul but will most seriously strive to avoid the latter and most willingly submit to the former without the sin of Rebellion or Mutiny being content with his wages and more that his sharp work is at an end and no more need of cutting and lancing remembring that it is not multitude or Power or Armies or 〈…〉 that shall keep injurious and dissolute Souldier● from the