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A92320	England's backwardnesse or A lingring party in bringing back a lawful King. Delivered in a sermon at Waltham Abbey Church in the county of Essex, at a solemne fast. / By Thomas Reeve D.D. preacher of Gods word in that parish.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R687; Thomason E1056_3; ESTC R208035	33,106	49

Summity Sublimity Pr●pollency Praepotency It is said of Moses that he might be set out as the principal of the Jewes that he was as King of Joshurn when the heads of the people and the Tribes of Israel were gathered together Deut. 33.5 and of Job to shew his potency that he chose out the peoples way and sat as chief and was as a King in the Army Job 29.25 as if there were none above a King or a King were above all Seeft thou a man diligent in his way he shall stand before Kings and not mean men Pro. 22.29 as if all were mean men in comparison of Kings and there were no greater honour upon earth then to stand before Kings He that endeavoured to set out himself with the greatest honour could say no more then I am the son of antient Kings Esa 19.11 The Church can have no joyfuller news then of a King comming unto her Rejoyce oh daughter of Sion behold thy King commeth unto thee Zach. 9.9 Is there a sadder judgment that can light upon a Nation than the want of a King No They shall say we have no King because we feared not the Lord Hos 10.3 As if God then had punished them to purpose laid on a braining blow strook out their right eye cut their very heart-strings in pieces when he had deprived them of a King Well this is the greatest punishment and can there then be a greater blessing happen to a Nation then to enjoy the presence of a King No Oh tower of the flock the Strong hold of the daughter of Sion unto the shall come the First Dominion the Kingdoms shall come unto the daughter of Jerusalem Why dost thou cry out It there no King thee Micah 4.8 9. confesse that there are several sorts of Governments Democracy the Government of the People Aristocracy the Government by Nobles Oligarchy the Government by a few as the Decemviri the Triumviri in Rome and of later times amongst us when the Pettitoes of a Parliament stood for the Representatives of a whole Nation yet when all Governments are reckoned up Monarchy is the chiefest and best Wretched we that knew Kings so well and lived so happily under them yet for our execrable and incorrigible sinnes have drunk of all waters been under the Army of all Empericks have tryed the paces of all Hackneys been sucked by all Horseleeches been scourged with all the whips of the Coriection-house and possessed as it were with all Devils yet now we have had experience of all these which of all these besides Monarchy are so good that they can have our good word No I doubt that they deserve rather a Sarcasme than a Panegyrick Let men if they will preserve the skins of those Scorpions which have stung them and lay them up for Reliques Some Humourists and brainsick people may doe so but I believe that the greatest part of the Nation are not so taken with them that they will write Encomiastickes and sing Paeans to the honour of them no Difficile est Satyram nonscribere it is hard thing to keep patience at the thought of them The land in general Ora indignantia solvit speak of them with indignation and detestation and good reason for their consciences that they brought in new Oathes a Directory Lay-Elders for their estates they brought in the blessed excise Monthly Taxes and descimation after Composition all new new that old England from the first foundation of Government never heard of before can a worthy Patriot of the Land think of these without anguish no Alcides magno errore percitus he that hath any regard to his principles or priviledges cannot but with a kind of diserutiation and vexation decest these innovations both in Religion and Government For my part I am holy for Monarchy not only because of the Unity Moderation and Majesty that is in it for these may be the Topictes of politicians as if every States-man had a measuring rule in his brayne to line and level to draw out what Government he doth think most convenient for himself but principally in respect of divine Authority For I finde that God first set up this Government in the Father of Family and afterwards he promised to Abraham that Kings should come out of his loynes Gen. 35.11 And therfore Jacob prophecied by inspiration that the Scepter should not depart Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet till Shiloh come Gen. 49.10 yea Balaam as bad a prophet as he was pronounced to the honour of Israel That the shout of a King was amongst them Num. 23.21 and was it not foretold that in the time of the Gospel Kings should be their Nursing Fathers and Queens should be their Nursing Mothers Es 49.28 were the children of Israel ever in a worse case then when they were without a King No it was threatned as a curse that many dayes should passe in Israel without a King Hos 3.4 and when this happened what wofull effects followed every man did that which was good in his own eyes Judges 18.13 21. Then there were nothing but setting up of Teraphims robbing of houses and outragious lusts as in the Levites wife This Government is so requisite that very Heathens have magnified it Nil Monarchia melius Nothing is better than Monarchy saith Herodotus Herodot l. 3. Monarchiae multum attribuunt ut optimo generi Isorc ad Nicor Men attribute much to Monarchy as the best kinde Thucydides could say Vt plures apparere siles frodigiosum est sic plures Monarchas As it is a prodigious thing for many Suns to appear so it is to have many Governours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let there be one Lord and one King saith Homer in his first Illiad Thucid l. 6. in conc Alcib Nulla communionis humane curatio majori mitiorque quam regin saith Polit. in Polit. There is no Government of humane Society greater or milder than Kingly I could abound in many more Authorities but here is enough both from the Law of God and the light of Nature to shew that the most Conscionable and Comfortable Covernment is Monarchical Sure I am we may in this Land with wringing hands and bleeding hearts think of the pernicious Nefarious flagitious practises and outrages in the interval that Monarchy was interrupted and other Governments took place enough for us forever to abhor all Legislative Powers but that of Monarchy Therefore let who will honour the Ring-taile Ospray Ostrich Vultur I honour the Eagle There is no Government like to Kingly And it is a Lunacy a Phrensie no to desire the best and choose the best and replant the best as it was in Judah when a King driven out from them not to bring him back Wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the King Application I could make several Applications of this point as first to shew that mans nature is wilde for he must be kept under by Government there must be a King Secondly

they had been so deep in Rebellion in entertaining Absalon and advancing his cause applauding and anointing him that they were ashamed and afraid ever to look David in the face Treason is a black crime it will ever have some of her swartinesse seem upon it some of her foot will be cleaving to her sides it beginnes in passion and is accompanied with consternation it is first Male-Actor and doth continue a Malecontent if it hath followed Absalon when he was living when he is dead all affection to his cause shall not dye with him no after men have been full of horrid plots and practises they are ever after full of horrid conceptions and suspicions Oh if the right King should come to his Throne what shall become of our Estates what shall become of our heads they which have deserved ill are troubled with a Megrim in their braines they are never quit of their feares and jealousies they think that all are as fierce as they have been and as cruel and mercilesse as they have been perfidious and treacherous See it in this staggering and lingring Tribe of Judah they could readily joyn with the Usurper but when they should do right to their lawfull King clausis cunctantur in aedibus omnes they sit musing in their houses with their doores shut they cannot shew their heads they cannot stir their feet Let who will speak Judah is silent let who will gather hands Judah will not subscribe let who will go Judah will stay at home the Tribes of Israel make mentions but Judah is deaf the Tribes of Israel express their desires but Judah is dumb the Tribes of Israel prepare for the journey but Judah is lame Alas poor distrustfull delaying Judah Quae tantae tenuere morae What made thee thus to protract the businesse Sure I am thou art very tardy and slow-paced thou art as the best of the Tribes and yet the last of the Tribes last in the League and Leaguer neither thy Presents nor thy preparations thy Messengers nor thy Waggoners are ready the general cry cannot awaken thee the general offer cannot incline thee Ten to one is nothing to thee thou standest by thy self when all others stand against thee stand before thee thou mayest come in in time but it is at thy leisure with a great deal of pausing and hesitating thou art the hindmost and thou art the last Thou dost not appear of thy self no thou must be sought and wrought upon thou movest not a foot till thou beest sent unto thou sendest not a Message to the King but the King is enforced to send a Message to thee Stiffe Judah that thy King must bow to thee Is this haughty Judah that thy King must Court thee Is this Subject like after thy high Treason is not this a kind of petty Treason to abuse Majestie and to make thy Soveraign a Petitioner a Sollicitour this may be thy stomach but it is none of thy dutie it may be thy arrogancie but it is none of thy Allegiance thou mayest face it out to the world but thou wilt never answer it to God Almightie it is pride it is disloyaltie Yet thus Princes are constrained divers times to be supplicants and to bend to such as ought to bend their knees to them Kings may connive at this but will God pardon it What to have Leigmen lofty Lordly men Is there a more shamefull sinfull thing then to see imperious Inferiours Lusty Subjects no were they Peeres or Dukes they might blush to see it in their garbe and tremble to put it into their account If Davids heart smote him that he cut off a lap of Sauls garment then their hearts may grieve them that trample the Robe of Majesty under their feet It was a good speech full of judgement full of honour of him that said A King ought to come into his Kingdom upon his feet and not upon his knees for may eve●y man boldly challenge his right and must a King beg for his right Matchiavil may have such a principle but I find no such fundamental rule in my Bible doubtless it hath more in it of the aspiring Spirit then the inspired spirit Yet my good King here in my Text happen how it will at Doomes-day is necessitated to how and stoop to send and seek to use informations and instigations to get into his Throne De facto it was so though De jure it ought not to be so Yet for the present David is enforced to employ Messengers and those none of the meanest even the reverend Priests yea the most reverend High Priests Zadoc and Abiathar to consult and contest with them why they should be so refractory and stiff-necked with their King and indeed at their conference they might do something but out of their own consciences before they did just nothing Well what Arguments do they use Such as were pregnant and convincing First they press them upon the point of honour whether it stood with their reputation to neglect such a memorable Duty would they stand out when all others yielded No They would be dishonoured by the Generality For that the King should come home it was a common bruit a National vote The speech of all Israel was come to the King even to his house v. 11. But for fear that this should not effectually perswade they fetch a stroke with the great hammer they leave the argument of fame and come to the argument of shame telling them That they would be accounted more then unreasonable and unjust even inhumane and unnatural if they did it not For they told them that they were not only of his Countrey but his kindred they were his brethren his bone and his flesh he was born amongst them and drew his linage from them therefore if strangers will do so much then shall men of the same blood not joyn with them Yes For consanguinity sake they shall be the first and not the last Wherefore then hath David the least kindness from you wherefore are you in the rear to do a good office to your native King wherefore are ye the last in bringing back the King Ye are my brethren my bone and my flesh wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the King In the Text consider with me these particulars 1. An Expostulation Wherefore then 2. The persons reasoned with Ye 3. The unseasonableness of appearance the last 4. The action of moment discussed to bring back 5. The person of quality to be reinstated the King First for the Expostulation Wherefore then From hence observe That man is not Lord Paramount over his actions but he is to be brought to an account wherefore is it said That every man shall kiss the lips of him that giveth a right answer Prov. 24.26 if man were not to answer for himselfe This is meant not only in respect of counsell but likewise of convention God saith in point of Religion Declare that thou mayest be justified I say 43.26 And