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A85121	A plain-dealing, and plain-meaning sermon, preach't in the parish church of St. Nicholas, Bristol, April. 6. 1660. Being the day appointed by the Parliament for publique fasting and humiliation for the sins of the nation, &c. Together with a prefatory epistle, and subsequent vindication both of the sermon, and author. Wherein (besides an apology for home and plain-preaching) you have something offered to allay the heat of thier stomacks, and to temper the tongues of those, who (being ignorant in scripture) reproach and revile Presbytery and Presbyters. With some hints at Satans subtlety, and the mischief of those people, who brand zeal for God and truth (in free, home, and faithfull preaching) with the reproachful names of anger, passion, and railing.	Farmer, Ralph.	1660 (1660)	Wing F443; Thomason E1025_5; ESTC R208684	39,155	50

as wilfull and reiterated sins and wickednesses If you still do wickedly you shall be destroyed both you and your King You did wickedly before and what became of your King was it your wickednesse or his Many of you will not say it was his And if you still do wickedly the next King for ought I know may fare as he did therefore take heed of sin Beloved I propose this one thing to you it was either the sin of the King the Father that brought the evill upon him or the sin of the People or both together If his own sinne then the judgement was just upon him as to God though not in them who did it But if it was the sin of the people let me ask you will not that which ruin'd the Father ruine the Son If you still do wickedly you shall be destroyed both you and your King Surely Kings Princes and chief Magistrates are least beholding to drunkards to murderers to prophane persons to unclean lascivious persons to those that wallow in the stinking puddle and nasty dunghill of sin Kings and Princes are least of all beholding unto them for they draw down judgement upon the whole Nation These persons though they look for a morning of joy and gladness upon the Nation yet will surely bring a dismal night of sorrow notwithstanding their expectations And therefore Come let us return unto the Lord that as he hath torn us for our sins so he may binde us up and as he hath broken us for our transgressions so he may heale us upon our returning Here 's incouragement which is the second part of the Text. Of which a little Friends none but he that smites us can beale us none but he that tear's can binde us up All other Physitians all other Chyrurgions they are but meer Quacks and Empericks We may say of them as Job of his friends Job 13.4 Ye are forgers of lies ye are physitians of no value And beloved have we not found it so in our State Mountebancks who have set up their Stages that they might pick our Pockets and made us bow down that they might ride over us Have we not found that of David verified Men of high degree are a lie and men of low degree are altogether vanity Are they to be trusted in Is there any more weight in them then in the dust of the ballance O let us return therefore unto the Lord for he hath broken us and he will heale us he hath smitten us and he onely can binde us up He hath here promised it if we return as before unto him And beloved consider this as God wounds and smites by his instruments so he also heals and binds up by instruments The enemies of Gods people God makes use of as the rod in his hand to chastise and correct his Children for their sins and he also raises up instruments to deliver them from their sufferings In Esay 58. there you have a promise made that the just and righteous shall build the old waste places shall raise up the foundations of many generations and shall be called the repairer of the breach the restorer of the paths to dwell in Do you look for happy dayes in England Would you have the Old waste places built and the breaches repaired Why then see what the Lord requires of you Read that place fore-quoted Isa 58.6 Is not this the Fast that I have chosen c. This is a day wherein you fast and humble your selves to seek establishment Well will you see what Fast the Lord requires Loose the bands of wickednesse undo every heavy burthen let the oppressed go free and that ye break every heavy yoke It is to deale thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house When thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine owne flesh Then shall thy light break forth as the morning and thine health shall spring forth speedily c. And vers 12. They that be of thee shall build the old waste places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations c. Though our government hath layn in the dust these many yeares and though we have had a dark and black night upon us yet God can cause our light to break forth as the morning he can raise us up some to build our waste places to be repairers of our breaches and restorers of paths to dwell in But I say the promise is to good and righteous men These are the men if any that must lay the foundations not prophane loose wretches enemies to all righteousnesse the Lord in mercy keep such out of that great Assembly of Parliament And if any get in the Lord in his wisdome find out a way to cast them out again Beloved nothing but justice and truth and righteousnesse and mercy can heale a broken Nation let us then this day and every day else beg of God that he would graciously be pleased to be present with and to sit President in and over that great Councel of the Land that they may break off every yoke and take off every heavy burthen and keep off all unjust yokes and heavy burthens that any whatsoever would impose upon us That so that great Assembly may be a repairer of our breaches and a restorer of our paths to dwell in Let us pray that both they and all we may be more carefull to bring King Jesus into our hearts then K. Charles into his Throne Not as if I looked on these two as contradictory opposite or destructive the one unto the other But thus I tell you King Jesus is to be preferred before any mortall creature whatsoever And if he that shall rule be carefull to rule according to Truth and under King Jesus If God and the great Council of the Nation shall think fit Let him come and welcom But sirs let me tell you King Charles cannot save your soules but if King Jesus rule in your hearts he can and will save you What would it advantage you if all of you had your hearts desire here If things go even as you would wish and yet when Death comes you should be drag'd to Hell to endlesse torments what would it advantage you Be not then so mad as to pursue worldly concernments or worldly comforts with such eagernesse But above all seek and pursue after things of everlasting concernment And I tell you no mortall King can save your souls and therefore let us most look that King Jesus his reign and government may be established over us See his sweet and gracious government Isa 32. begin Behold a King shall reign in righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in judgement and a man shall be as a hiding place from the winds and a covert from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry land as the shadow of a great rocke in a weary land c. Ther 's a description given of

eternally But that King Jesus will assuredly save them if he rule over them I hope you will not say this is a crime if you do the Lord make you wiser And this I think is all you have to charge me with in this matter and how wisely justly charitably Christianly let all wise men judge Confident I am what I delivered might have been spoken even in the Kings presence and he would not have been offended What would these captious hearers have said had I used such plain language as was spoken unto him at his Coronation in the Coronation Sermon Coronation Sermō preacht at Scoon Ian. 1651. by Mr. Rob. Douglas Printed at Aberdeen 1660. That his Father set himself in a hostile way to overthrow Religion Parliaments Laws and Liberties and in page 27. of the same Sermon they charge his Grandfather King James with foul defection and that he peresecuted faithful Ministers and that he laid the foundation whereupon his Son our late King says he did build much mischief to Religion all the days of his life And he tells him that the guiltiness of the transgression lies upon the Throne and Family and that is one of the sins for which he had professed humiliation very lately and advises him to take warning And in his Exhortation to the King page 32. he tells him There is too much iniquity upon the Throne by his Predecessors who framed mischief by a Law such Laws as have been destructive to Religion grievous to Gods people and page 36. he may say it freely That chief cause of the judgement upon the Kings House hath been his Grandfathers breach of Covenant with God and his Fathers following his steps in opposing the work of God and his Kirk within these Kingdoms He says They have broken the Covenant with God and men have broken Covenant with them Most cruelly and perfidiously says he they have invaded the Royal Family and trodden upon all Princely Dignity And therefore charges him in Christs name not to break Covenant if he do he assures him The Controversie is not ended between God and his Family but it will be carried on to further weakning if not to the utter overthrow of it Here 's plain dealing now what would our men have said to this matter Surely never a villain in England would have preached such a Sermon and yet such foolish sots have we in England to say so of a Sermon that hath none of all this nor any thing like in it But now Sirs to convince you of your perverseness and to let you see how like you are to those noxious creatures the Flies that flie-blow wholsome meat so are you It is usuall with them if there be any bruised place they are sure to light upon that first and there to sucke and feed themselves But if there be none they flie-blow so long till they have made it fit for their purpose So do you flie-blow discourses For whereas you charge me to be against the King and his coming in did I not say It was a judgement that we were removed from our ancient foundations And what could I mean or did I mean But the changing our government And did I not quote that place Isay 3. to the end of vers 8. as a dreadfull judgement most sadly fallen upon us And did I not afterwards say That as we had been under that curse and judgement so we might see that blessed morning promised to Gods people in the same Prophet Chap. 1. ver 25 26 27. Do but read the places and let any man say what could be thence intended And did I not pray for the hastning of that happy morning And when I quoted that place in 1 Sam. 12.19 to the end did I not in express words say That that place in all things did not run parallel with our condition But that in something it was pertinent to my purpose which was in the later part onely in that the peoples wickedness would destroy themselves the King and Kingdome And did I not in plain words say That that portion of Scripture held not parallell in that very particular in that it was said they sin'd in desiring a King with more to that purpose as you may see in the Sermon And did I not say That if it were the late Kings own sins which I did not nor dare I determine that brought that judgment upon him it was not just in them who did it And when I advised you to be more careful to bring King Jesus into your hearts then King Charles into the Throne did I not expresly and in these significant words say That the one was not opposite contradictory or destructive to the other But onely that King Jesus was to be prefer'd before him And that if he King Charles be minded to rule for him and under him did I not say If God and the great Council see it fit let him come and welcome Well the Lord forgive you and make you wiser and more discreet and bonest And I cannot passe by but must reprove you for one most abominable lie of some of you That I should pray in my Prayer That as the Lord had delivered us from one Devill so he would deliver us from another and that hereby I did mean the King Good Lord what a lying malicious Devill hath possest these people No these and such like prophane and ungodly wretches in an humane shape are the Devils I prayed against I prayd That as the Lord had graciously in a good measure delivered us from the devil of Hersie and blasphemie so that he would also keep us and deliver us from the Devil of prophanenesse And the God to whom I prayed knows that these ungodly wretches are all the Devils I prayed against and no other not having any thought apprehension or imagination of the King in this particular And so much to my first charge 2 Now for my second in which I shall be brief My Sermon say some drove all at this The bringing in of the King would bring in all prophanesse But did I any where say so Truly I needed not Prophanesse is in already in the Nation nor did I thinke the King would bring it in and I hope he never will But this I think all the ungodly and prophane people in the Nation have a very great and strong desire of the Kings coming in as hoping to have as much liberty to be prophane and to exercise it as they had before Oh! how hath the Parliament Acts and Ordinances hampered and chained and fettered these beasts They cannot swear or be drunk but they must pay for 't Taverns Innes and Ale-house must be shut on the Lords day all day long that they cannot tipple be drunk They must not walke in the streets nor in the fields on that day under a penalty and many of them have been sued and indicted for it and the like And oh How like wilde Buls in a net have they fretted and vext

times and were able make observation know it If you don 't others do And are not these grounds of unsettlement And upon a special solemn Fast such a one as this especially wherein we sought to God for establishment and settlement would it not be proper that these things and such the like might and should have been remembred and mentioned the more to consternate our spirits and promote our humiliation But you see I did not I lightly past it over in Generals Oh! But you said since those three eminent persons professors of those three most noble Professions Divinity Law and Physicke suffered upon the Pillory like Rogues and Cutpurses in such an opprobrious and disgraceful manner That the K. and his party never prospered did I say so and did I not say true Did not their Cause go every day backward I say their Cause the King and Bishops for they I meant I put them both together There is a saying In nomine Domini incipit omne malum And every man that was acquainted with the Transactions of those Times cannot but acknowledge that that was the source of all our miseries So dangerous a thing is it for Clergy-men to leave their Calling and turn Courtiers Men whose riches lie in their heads will be alwayes tampering 'T is good therefore they be kept to their proper businesse For say was it not a pretence of conformity and uniformity in Religion that began all our quarrell Not that I think an Vniformity an evil what ever others say but rather a good and by all good wayes to be endeavoured and I suppose till then we shall not be well setled And sure the quarrell began there I could wish the settlement began there For upon true judgement I speak it though it be a shame and a matter of sadnesse Most of the troubles and combustions in Civil States have been either begun or fomented by men of our profession I mean of the Clergy and was it not so with us Our first War intended was it not against the Scots and wherefore was it who began it Was it not called generally Bellum Episcopale the Bishops War I put the King and Bishops together with respect to this The Bishop could not begin a War I mean arm the people without a King And the Bishop having so great a power and influence upon the King prevail'd with him to raise Armes against them the Scots And the immediate Prodromus and forerunner of this War was it not the most horrid and reproachful standing of these eminent persons upon the Pillory I do professe the persons and every thing considered it was the saddest sight next to the Kings beheading that ever especially for many generations was seen in England I saw not the latter but I did the former And I well remember Mr. Burtons words when upon the Pillory Marke it says he little do we know what this dry tree pointing to the Pillory may bring forth And speedily after the next news from Scotland was If the Englishman loose his lugg the Scot would lose his cragg meaning against the rage and tyranny of the Bishop For having dealt thus barbarously with these three so eminent persons he then thought the terrour thereof would have daunted and cowed the Scottish Nation when as this did but heighten their indignation and raise greater opposition against him Yea but were not the Scots too blame in this matter It may be so but I know it not for I am not acquainted with the Laws Rights and Constitutions of their Kingdom and therfore I say no more to it But I ask this question Was their not entertaining Episcopal Government and the Service-book a sufficient ground to embroil two Nations two Christian Nations in War to shed the blood one of another And if for conformities sake with England Scotland must have a Service-Book why could not our own English Service-Book serve the turn but there must be divers alterations more conform to Romes language then in our own Liturgie of which Mr. Prins Book to that purpose can give you information But the Scots abhorrid it as Swines flesh and it would not down with them And no doubt could they have been beaten into it to have dined on it we should have been forced to have supt on it with them But hereupon on goes the War against them And how well this Holy War was like to succeed you may guess by the beginning for even those rude and ignorant Souldiers who were led against the Scots to kill them into conformity in our own Countrey as they past along towards Scotland in despight of their Commanders broke into divers Churches pull'd down and burnt the rails about the Communion Table and tore the Surplices and the Common-Prayer Books These things were notorious not done in a corner It would be too much beyond my de sign to mention all that followed Plain it was nothing prospered after And is this now such a hainous offence to say so Or was it not rather a matter to be acknowledged as a sin to be confest and for which deeply to be humbled and to repent of I might have mentioned the cruel usage of Dr. Layfield who at the instigation of the Bishop after a long imprisonment in the Fleet was whipt from thence to Westminister where raw as he was he stood upon the Pillory his nostrils slit and burnt in the cheeks or forehead But did I charge this evil or any other upon the King as the cause either of his or our suffering Nay did I not disclaim that bold presumption in the words even immediately foregoing saying Whether's sins were greater ours or our Princes God the Judge best knows For what am I that I should step into his chair This I concluded on and I think none can deny it If our sins had not been universal the judgement would not have been so general And I do profess I dare not judge the Kings sins to be greater then the peoples because he drank deeper in the judgement But if I had charged the sin of the King upon himself or his Father why should these men pretend to be so angry it would not have been to reproach him or triumph over him but to have been humbled with him and for him as well as for our selves for our pardon reformation and amendment So that I hope this is not to speak against the King or his coming in And I suppose they will not shew themselves my Reproachers I mean so ignorant or sottish as to say That I spake against the King or his coming in by telling them that their Wickedness might be a means to destroy both him and them For which I quoted that place 1 Sam. 12.19 and so on Much less did I speak against the King in advising them to be more careful to bring King Jesus into their hearts then King Charls to the Throne and telling them That they may be undone with him yea and by him both temporally and