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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67637	Suspiria Ecclesiae & reipublica Anglicanae The sighs of the Church and common-wealth of England, or, An exhortation to humiliation with a help thereunto, setting forth the great corruptions and mseries [sic] of this present church and state with the remedies that are to be applyed thereunto / by Thomas Warmstry.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing W891; ESTC R27115	155,583	724

had it we did not prize it nor esteeme it as we ought to have done neither did we walke worthy in any measure of so great a favour from thee our God But under the covert and shadow of this thine holy Ordinance we have conspired against thee and have committed great impieties to the dishonour of thy Name And by these our sins we have most wickedly forfeited our title and interest in such thy goodnesse which forfeiture of our sins thou hast most justly taken by letting loose the spirits of sedition and Rebellion of division and faction like tempestuous whirlewinds upon the face of these Nations which have overturned the frame of rule and order amongst us and have battered downe the Throne of thine Annointed and changed our happy Monarchy into Anarchie and confusion and in the ruines of this thine excellent Ordinance the wastes and decaies of all other blessings are befallen us the purity the order and beauty of Religion the equall and upright administration of justice Innocency of life and honesty of conversation All the obligations of naturall civill and Christian endearements the offices of love neighbourhood and charity and together with these our outward peace our safety our security our plenty our Trade and Traffique our liberty and what not have received their great and deplorable impairements by that great eclipse of Soveraignty in these Kingdoms and now we are become as the fishes of the sea as the creeping things that have no ruler over them spoyling and devouring and destroying one another raging and madding and suming against one another thrusting one another out of their rights and possessions reproaching and defaming and worrying one another with such monstrous and mercilesse cruelty as is not to be found amongst the most savage and wildest Creatures in the world much lesse is answerable in any degree either to the meeknesse of Christians or the sobriety and equanimity of reasonable men and Christians This O Lord is the sad and wretched condition that we are in And unlesse there be some timely remedy our house that is thus divided must needs fall and our Kingdome that is thus set against it selfe must needs be brought unto utter desolation But Lord who is it that can cure us of this our great and manifold malady Who is it that can water the dying root of this our Tree That can repaire the mouldered foundation of this our Building It is thou only O Lord our God that canst do it unlesse thou help us nothing can helpe us unlesse thou be mercifull unto us we shall have no mercy upon our selves Lord we are falling into the precipice of destruction if thou catch us not with the Armes of thy mercy we shall be broken and dashed in peeces we are overwbelmed in the floud of our fins and miseries if thou hold us not by thy heavenly hand we must needs be drowned and choaked in the deluge send downe thine hand from above and deliver us out of the deep waters Thou canst whensoever it shall please thee put a stop unto our raging calamities and snatch us out of the jawes of that ruine which hath seized us Let it be thy heavenly pleasure we beseech thee to looke downe in thy tender pitty upon the great confusions and desolations of this Kingdome and to command some deliverances for us we are here before thee O Lord God as a company of poore weatherbeaten sheepe scattered upon the mountaines without a Sheepheard ready to become the prey unto every wilde and savage beast Oh thou great Shepheard of the sheep seek thy flock and gather them unto thy selfe we are before thee like a poore tossed and tottered Vessell without a Pilot ready to dash in peeces upon every wave and to split upon every Rocke to be made the mockery the game and the pastime of these violent and contrary winds that are risen amongst us Lord save us or else we perish O restore our Shepheard unto us and enfold us againe within the defence of that happy Monarchy which thou hadst placed over us Yea Lord be thou both our Shepheard and our fold to keep us safe under the guarde of thy providence that the evening Wolves and the ranging Bears may no more ravish and devoure the poore people raise up againe the Throne re-embellish the Crowne and cement and strengthen the broken Scepter of this Kingdome that Piety and Justice may be revived and Peace and Prosperity with all other blessings may be restored unto this Nation re-enforce we beseech thee those wholsome Laws and constitutions which have been heretofore the Conduits of so much security and happinesse unto this Land A bolish we beseech thee all unlawfull and usurped power and cancell all Arbitrary unjust and Tyrannicall Ordinances and set up that true and legitimate Government againe in this Nation which hath heretofore been so fruitfull in blessings unto our Land Give wisdome and fortitude and the spirit of Government unto thine Annointed and all those that shall be sent of him that they may be able to weild this thy great Ordinance and to mannage it to thy glory and the good of thy people to the punishment of evill doers and to the praise of them that do well And put the spirit of subjection and obedience into the hearts of the people of this Land that they may yeeld a willing a conscionable and cheerefull submission thereunto as unto the Lord and not unto men looking upon the Authority of the Magistrate as upon a sacred streame flowing unto them from the heavenly fountain of thy divine power that they may reverence it and as an instrument of thy mercy and great goodnesse unto them that they may embrace it that no unquiet or distempered motions may hereafter be raised amongst us in this Nation from private and wicked interests or from ambitious turbulent spirits to disturbe the happy peace and tranquility of thy people through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for the King O Lord thou righteous Judge of heaven and earth who hast committed all power unto thy Son Christ Jesus both in heaven and earth and hast revived the rayes of his supreame Authority and Majestie unto Kings and Princes whom thou hast ordained to be the Rulers and Governours of thy people to the end that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty We beseech thee looke downe in mercy upon the Person of thine Annointed our gracious King the light of our eyes and the breath of our nostrils who suffereth at this time for the sins of us and these Nations under the cruelty and oppression of seditious and wicked men Consider his Enemies how many they are and what a tyrannous hatred they beare against him Consider O Lord how low they have brought him what great bondage and affliction they have laid upon him how they have imprisoned his Person robbed him of his revenue killed and massacred his Loyall and faithfull People bereaved him

God Wherewith they were wont to be cheered up and beautified Because none came to the solemne Feasts which were laid downe as it were in the time of the captivity And doe not we see the like sadnesse and mourning solitarinesse in the wayes of our Sions which lead unto the holy Mountaines and Sanctuaries of the Lord whilest the solemne Feasts and Memorials of the Holy Saints of God are abolished which were so many Schooles of Holinesse unto the people calling to their minds the excellencies of the Graces of those eminent and resplendent Lights of Piety for their imitation and the Memorials of the most glorious mercies of the Lord are rejected even of the Incarnation the Nativity the Passion the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ Jesus and of the Glorious Fruite of all The sending of the Holy-Ghost with so many Treasures of divine Graces and mercies to the enriching of the Church which were of such excellent use not only to stir up the people unto thankfulnesse or to revive the comfortable sense of Gods mercies in their hearts whilest they were so often and in such solemne manner presented unto their apprehensions by the Church but were also so many blessed opportunities gained to draw the people together unto the solemne Exercise of Religion toward God and of Christian Love and Charitie to one another so many dayes of mercy to the poore beasts and toyling servants And were of excellent use for the instilling and preserving of the Fundamental Doctrine of Christianitie in the hearts of the people Which served in stead of an easie Catechisme unto the simpler sort whilest if they were but wise enough to know what day went over their heads they could not be utterly ignorant of the great Mysteries of Salvation An use of solemne dayes which God himselfe ordained partly for that very purpose in the Church of the Jewes See Exod. 12.26 27. and so warranted sufficiently unto us And which indeed is of great necessitie in regard of the great ignorance and ineptitude that is in many for the apprehension of the profound mysteries of Christianitie Which being so great strangers unto Nature and their naturall apprehensions would not so easily have been entertained by them but that they were by this Ordinance of the yearly solemnities of the Church made familiar unto them by custome which being as it were another nature facilitated by use the admission of that high and misterious knowledge unto their soules These these alas are all now cast away as if the Church could not be reformed unlesse Christ Jesus and his glorious mercies were forgotten amongst us I deny not indeed but those daid● were much abused by some unto loosenesse and licentious Liberty But then it had beene true Reformation to have sought the remedy of those miscariages and to have reduced those daies unto their proper and holy use by making more strict rules for the direction and restraining of men unto the right observation of them and so to have retained them to the honour of God and edification of his people in the due exercise of the workes of Piety towards God charity and love one to another and of mercy and release to our poore Beasts and Servants But alas if the matter be rightly examined I doubt we may find that the Workes of Piety Mercy and charity are only cast away and the licentiousnesse and lawlesse liberty of those daies is still retained at least that there is no such watch set against the latter as against the former And I can hardly forbeare to tell you that it is the right method of the devils Reformation to cast away the good and retaine the evill They winnow with Sathans Sieve that shake out the good Gorne and retaine the Chaffe and offall so hee would have winnowed S. Peter no doubt so some have now winnowed the flower of our Church This whirlewind-Reformation of ours hath even blowne a great deale of the Wheate from us by casting out the holy Ordinances of God the beauty and Order of his Service together with the Government of the Church and instead thereof hath left us I know not how many great heapes of Chaffe of Corruptions Confusions and Depravations amongst us which are ground and ministred unto the poore deceived people who whilst they expect Bread to nourish them finde Huskes to choake and destroy them I confesse heretofore there was some Chaffe in our heapes which did deserve a winnowing but with a more moderate wind But we had better have eaten the Wheate and the Chaffe together then to have had the Wheate taken from us and so much Chaffe left us in the stead of it I should be too voluminous in this sad Subject should I draw out the Paralells of our Evils and those of the Jewes Through the whole Booke of the Prophets Lamentations should I shew you every face of our miseries in those waters of Marah or bitternesse Those flouds of affliction wherewith they were overwhelmed I might tell you of the Exaltation of the Adversaries of each Church The prosperity of their Enemies Ver. 5. But they themselves will no doubt bee your remembrancers of that Of the Princes of our Nation as well as of theirs yea the King himselfe as we all know amongst the rest become like harts poore chased Harts hunted up and downe by the bloud-hounds of our times like Harts that finde no pasture and gone without strength before the pursuer Vers 6. I might present this poore Church neglected in her Afflictions bemoaning her selfe unto you because none of you will bemoane her In the sad Dialect of Ierusalem there ver 12. Is it nothing unto you all yee that passe by Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger c. And set her before you like poore forsaken Sion spreading forth her hands whilst there is none to comfort her ver 17. I could tell you but what need I of the Sword that hath been bereaving abroad and of the Plague or death that hath been destroying at home v. 20. Chap. 2. ver 1. c. The cloud of Gods Anger wherewith Sion was vailed The casting downe of the beauty of Israel from heaven unto the earth That is from a state of happinesse and glory to a state of misery and contempt The Lords forgetting of his footstool his swallowing up of the Habitations of Iacob the throwing downe of the strong holds of the daughter of Iudah the polluting of the Kingdome and the Princes thereof treading them as it were in the mire in his fury The cutting off the horne That is taking away the strength and glory of Israel The drawing back of his right hand from before the Enemy That is the withdrawing of his protection and defence and his giving of them over to the fury of the Adversary The burning flame and the bent bow The powring out of fury like a streame or floud