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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

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

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} sive MEDICASTRI SLIGHT HEALINGS OF PUBLIQUE HURTS Set forth in a SERMON PREACHED In St. Pauls Church London before the Right Honourable the Lord Major Lord General Aldermen Common Council and Companies of the Honourable 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. Ezek. 21. 26 27. Thus saith the Lord Remove the Diadem and take off the Crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shall be no more untill be come whose it is and I will give it him Restat ut 〈…〉 ciores pluribus ce 〈…〉 hoc uno ●ta●t popularia imperia abter cas●●ra H. Gro. Hist. Bar. 1. 17. pag. 1●0 LONDON Printed for Andrew Crook at the Green Dragon in Pauls Church-yard 1660. Aleyn Major A Common Council holden the 29. of February 1659. Ordered that the thanks of this Court be given to Dr. Gauden who preached Yesterday before them at St. Pauls Church And that he from this Court be desired to print his Sermon SADLER To the right Honourable THOMAS ALEYN Lord Mayor of the City OF London THE Court of Aldermen and Common-Counsel AS by your Desire I was induced to preach the following Sermon so by your Order in Common Council I was requested to print what I preached I have obeyed you in both and supererogated in the later adding something prepared but omitted for want of time and a respect due to your expectation of a second and better course ●n that Festival This I have done not only as compliant with your Christian Commands but as solicitous to conform all my endeavours to the publick Good of your City and our common Countrey In wch a great part of the Church of Christ and many precious souls as well as mens bodies Lives Liberties Honours and Estates are embarqued All which have for our sins been long engaged in a tempest of War and sea of Blood nor have they been able to make any fair Port or happy Haven these many years since they lost their Pilots and Compass their Kings and Parliaments by the various Euroclydons of mens passions Lusts and Interests which have tossed them to and fro with every wind made great waste of all that is precious for Religion Justice and Honour besides Estates and Lives of men in the three Kingdomes threatning all either with speedy and utter Shipwrack by forreign Invasion or an everlasting storm by domestick confusions untill the unexpected and undescerned providence of God began to open to your and the Countryes prayers some door of hope by the prudent valiant and succesfull Conduct of the present Lord General Monck from whom all good men expect all good things nor can he deceive them without deceiving and destroying himself and his Countrie Your gratitude to God for this seasonable dawning of Mercy which seems to bespeak a great calm occasion'd your solemn Convention that day and my preaching to you In which work you cannot wonder if I endeavoured to shew my self a Work-man that needed not to be afraid or ashamed being very sensible with you of the great many and long hurts of the daughter of my people both in Church and State I then declared them to you I deplored them with you I proposed the methods of cure to you as fully as the time would permit and as freely as became my duty to my God and my conscience As I would not injure any man or fester the times so I abhor to flatter them which is the greatest injury a Preacher can do to Church and State Some I hear were offended the fate of Christs of John Baptists and of Saint Pauls preaching at the plain dealing I used which possibly was from their own rawness and soreness more then from my roughness or sharpness As I aim to do things faithfully seasonably so decently and discreetly Nor do I think I am to learn those Censorious Catos how to preach any more than they will learn of me how to buy and sell or how to fight and war No man may wonder if I dare to reprove those sins which some dare to do or approve but dare not hear of or repent The parrhesie or freedom of my speech as a man a Christian and a Preacher was such as became my feeling of the publick miseries my desire of the publick tranquility and my sense of that fidelity I ow to God to my Countrey to you and to my own soul Thest are not times to palliate and speak smooth or soft things Never age had fouler humours or prouder tumours more felt and more painfull more hard and less mollified These I would help to cure that so we might recover publick health together with out wits and reason our Laws and Religion our good Conscience and Government our Peace and Unanimity all which we have lost since we lost our heads in Church and State Our full and free Parliaments consisting of King Lords and Commons in which the soule and life the honour and happiness of these Nations are bound up And no part of it is more concerned then your famous sometime flourishing and still populous City in whose happiness the whole Nation will be happy and in its misery all must be miserable Since London is not only as a ponderous Byas to the great bowl which draws all parts towards it But it is as the Mistresse Lady or Queen to which every Village City and Countrey of the Nation as officious Hand-maids study to present all manner of costly comlyness not only feminine as the superfluity of peace and plenty but also masculine for London is like Pallas furnished as with men of Counsel and Conduct so with Treasure and Strength with all sorts of Armes and Aminition Being Camera Imperii Britanici The Metropolis of the Brittish Empire a vast Magazine of men money a nursery of all Arts Mechanick Ingenuous and Military a great entertainer of Learning and a noble encourager of Religion wanting nothing to make it self and the Nation happy if it have such heroick minds and honest hearts as become so rich so great and so Christian a City 'T is true like pl●thorick bodies great care must be had how ill humours yea and good ones too are put into motion since the first cannot well be long kept in nor may the second be purged out The first threatning dangerous inflamations the second no less dangerous Eva●uations Here Prudence Order Moderation Conscience and Unanimity are required besides Zeal and Courage in order to recover your and our former health in Church and State