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judgement_n	bring_v	case_n	king_n	1,800	5	3.6781	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84319	An eye-salve for the city of London: discovering unto them the great engagement that lyes upon them in point of duty and interest, to joyne speedily with the kingdome for the restoring of His Majesty, and the re-setling of the lawfull government and peace of this nation. / By a lover of peace and truth.	Lover of peace and truth.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3937; Thomason E445_7; ESTC R201958	14,736	22

loves you best Oh the wonderfull searching power of the word of God! how it laies open the treacheries of mens hearts that falling downe on their faces they may worship God Is not this your very case the men of Israel that were not so deeply engaged in the rebellion they are forward and ready to bring backe their King their eyes are opened by the strange judgment upon Absalom They begin to acknowledge now that they were seduced and abused by his glosing promises and false entertaiments They remember now the goodnesse of David and the manifold benefits that they received by his Government and they were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israel saying the King saved us out of the hand of our enemies and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistims and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom and Absalom whom we anointed over us not God but we is dead in Battle now therefore why speake you not a word of bringing the King back and is not this now in the hearts of all the people of the Land upon the matter at this time but Judah sits still being bound like some of you in the fetters of their evill conscience and high impieties But what does the good King his heart yerneth after Judah all their wickednesse could not extinguish his love unto them and herein he was a man after Gods owne heart He sends to Zadok and to Abiathar the Priests saying speake unto the Elders of Judah saying Why are ye the last to bring the King to his house seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the King even to his house Ye are my Brethren ye are my bones and my flesh wherefore then are ye the last to bring the King back He takes this unkindly no doubt the King will take it unkindly But yet Judah is perswaded for so it followeth he bowed the hearts of all the men of Judah even as the heart of one man so that they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy Servants so the King returned and came to Jordan and Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the King to conduct him to Jordan They get the honour of it at last from all the men of Israel oh let your hearts be bowed also let this blessed example worke upon you let one that heartily wisheth your good that longs for your preservation prevaile with you Come though I have been perhaps a little irksome in searching your wounds yet I have balsome for you if you will be healed You have highly offended God in violating that Authority that he hath set over you Yet despaire not he is ready to forgive if you be but half so ready to seek it at his hands Humble your selves and returne and you cannot faile of mercy It is his glory to passe by great iniquities You have committed great offences against a gracious King this aggravates your sins but withall it is an encouragement to your conversion He is a gracious King He that is so glorious in patience under obdurate Rebels cannot but be abundant in meeknesse to relenting Offenders and if he had the liberty as David had doubt not but he would send to you as David did unto Judah Imagine you heard him expressing himself unto you out of the bowels of those tender compassions that are in him Ye are my Subjects ye are my children ye are my bone and my flesh so deare and precious are ye unto me I long for your good I am ready to pardon all I pity your errours you have been abused as well as I. My armes are open to receive you let not your armes be engaged against me I am willing to forget all former miscarriages let God be glorified in all only persist not now now you see how both I and you have been wronged I never meant you ill your jealousies were your oppressours not I why then are ye the last to bring back the King Feare not but that you may more oblige him by your returne unto him if you doe it speedily and doe it heartily then ever you dis-obliged him by your departure from him You have been the occasion of many oppressions and of great ruines to the Loyall people and to your Country but you may now if you please make amends for all and our Christianity engageth us to accept it from you Be not jealous of your friends let not vaine feares affright you from your share in so glorious a work as is the restoring of your King and Country the re-establishing of Religion and Peace in this Church and Nation Do that which God requires and leave consequences to him Nourish those Serpents no longer in your bosomes that have returned so many Stings for the warmth you have afforded them when they are in need of your help then they fawn upon you but when they can but think themselves able to subsist without you or to maintain themselves against you then they scorn you and oppresse you and affront you and destroy you take heed of those friends that are held unto you onely by the chaines of their owne necessities when they are made strong enough by you to break those chaines they are like enough to find other chaines to hamper you withall Consider well what it is that makes them flie unto you now is it not to hide themselves under your gownes from the present storme that they know not how otherwise to avoid let them not buy their safety by engaging you unto ruine Remember how you have been paid for your former services whilst they had their dependence upon you then you were their White Boies their Darlings their Patrons then you had the Militia the Tower and all But when they thought themselves strong enough without you to deale with you what then then that Army which you fed and nourished and supported is brought against you Then your Works are demolished Then they ride in triumph through your City Then they scorn your Presents Reject your Remonstrance making enquiry after the Authours of it to bring them unto punishment Then they deprive you of the Militia and the Tower Imprison your Lord Mayor and Aldermen Slaughter your Apprentices and most wickedly solemnize a day of Thanksgiving for their Murders Take away your Chaines to expose you to the rapine of the Souldier Remember the instability of their Votes one while when they are low putting power into your hands and then upon a small shadow of success ready to retract it again Remember the Affidavit you had lately of the pious resolutions at Windsor against you and the worthy repair you have had for it Consider well the fallacies and the reserves of their late Ordinance and how little trust they repose in you therein rest not your selves upon such false friends that change their Adherences as the weather changes In their Adversity they are for you in their Prosperity they are against you If you make them

prosperous then is it not to make them your enemies and yet they say your Common Councell hath taken them into protection well are you resolved to make them your Masters if you are I doubt you will find them costly ones Let me ask you seriously will you be content to maintaine them in a Warre against the whole Kingdome against the Scots the Welch the Irish Take heed you are like to find it a chargable undertaking you know what it cost you when you had many more to contribute with you you will find it something more to maintaine it alone when your enemies are multiplied and your friends and assistants have left you and are decreased Beware you engage not your selves to an utter ruine It will be much cheaper and easier for you to recover your peace then to procure your destruction and which doe you think is the better merchandise Restore the King and you may repaire your Honour preserve your Lives secure your Estates re-inforce your Trade re-establish your Religion If you will play the other game of Rebellion remember your stakes all these wil be put in the mouth of danger and what think you of your souls will they be safe And what think you of your liberty have you not sworn to maintain the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome doe you not see what liberty grows at Westminster remember the work there upon Tuesday the 16 of May those vesperae Westmonasterienses those Westminster vespers when so much cruelty was used against your Neighbours for but so much as petitioning for Peace What freedome is left us if we may not so much as aske our freedome what security can we have either of our lives or liberties under them who take away our lives for but asking our liberties Is this the freedome you have fought for and purchased at so deare a rate with the waste of your Estates and Consciences I hope all the Kingdome will be sensible of this liberty for shame awake and joyne with your Country to redeeme your King and your selves from slavery Let it not be the dishonour of our Nation by your meanes that the Scots were faine to be the Redeemers of our KING Prevent the coming in of forraine Nations lest they fall in love with your treasures and make you pay deare for that which you would not have at a cheaper rate I must tell you whoever doth this work without you you of all men are like to be their Pay-masters Well doe not make your selves uncapable of pardon do not heap judgments upon your selves How long halt you between two Opinions if Mammon be God serve him If the Lord be God serve him If Fairfax be King serve him If CHARLES be King restore Him You know what right the King hath to you but who made them at Westminster or Windsor to be Kings over us what title can they plead to Governe us or how come you or we to be their Subjects have they it by election who chose them to be Kings have they it by succession where is their royall pedigree have they it by conquest it's like they would have it so But by their leaves the matter is yet in question and you and we are the wretchedst slaves alive for ought I know if we will admit it when it is so easie to prevent it Give me leave to deale plainly with you as a friend The truth is you are look'd upon as the great obstacles of the happy recovery of this Nation As the prolongers of the present miseries thereof the great question hangeth upon your resolutions Whether this Nation shall be engaged in another bloudy War or no If you will be honest and Loyall you may prevent it by Gods grace and make a speedy end of our calamities by restoring the KING and re-establishing the Lawes it wants but your fiat under God and it is even done already And thereby you shall bring honour upon your selves and endeare unto you the hearts of your Soveraign and this whole Nation and procure the peace of your owne consciences by discharging so great a duty unto God If you will still persist in your cowardise and wickednesse notwithstanding all this warning and admonition which you have received be sure you be able to answer for all the bloud and ruine and destruction that followeth and that you know how to secure your selves from that great share of it that is like to befall you And take heed of the saying of the Prophet to Amaziah 2 Chron. 25.16 I know that God hath purposed to destroy thee because thou haste done this and haste not hearkned to my councell And remember what message Mordecay sent to Esther Esth 4. v. 13. Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape c. for if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jewes from another place but thou and thy Fathers house shall be destroyed c. Consider of it in time and be wise you will in the end find the French saying to be true C'est la grand finesse du monde d'estre honeste it is the finest trick in the world to be honest this is the best husbandry and the best policy Go therefore speedily in the first place humble your selves to God for what is past aske his pardon resolve upon amendment Let there be a Common Hall of your City called it is just it should be so in a matter of so great and generall concernment joyn your selves together as one man send to those at Westminster to require the enlargement the restitution the re-enthroning of your KING according to the splendour of his Royall Ancestors and the re-inforcing of the known Lawes and legitimate Government of this Land together with the Liberties of the Subject by Disbanding those Forces that tyrannize over all If they refuse peaceably to doe it you know what you have to doe The God of Heaven direct you and work upon your hearts to his Glory and the recovery of this poor Church and Nation Farewell A Post-script SInce I writ this advice unto you I have heard that there are divers Listed in your City to Engage with the Rebels against the Loyall Subjects of Kent and Surrey c. a word or two therefore to thē if you shal go on in any such employment take this along with you That as you engage your selves against your Oaths your Covenants your Protestations against God and your King and your owne Country for the maintenance of Tyrants and Oppressours and for the shedding of Innocent bloud and for the destruction of your owne Liberties So you must expect a reward answerable to your worke to be abhominated by the people of the Kingdome and if God for your sins shall suffer you to prosper in so wicked an enterprise remember that such prosperity is the way to destruction and damnation and if hereafter you suffer the greatest share of that slavery which you now shall fight for against those that stand for you and the Kingdomes Rights you will pay dear for so bad a bargain but it will be a just returne upon your base and traytorous enterprises FINIS