more like slaves under hard Masters than like the Sons and Daughters of a fatherly Prince or a free and legal Polity much as poor Hospital wretches who are condemned to live always under the hands of Physicians and Chyrurgeons kept down by Janisaries and daily terrified with either taxes or instruments of pain or menaces of death Certainly as qui medice so qui militariter vivit misere vivit It is a kiling and dying life to live always under the Chyrurgeons lance or the Soldiers sword The Hurts of a Nation may be distinguished into those that either disaffect the body and outward man by Tyranny Injustice and oppression contrary to the known laws good constitutions and venerable customs of a people which are the native and self-healing balsom of those great bodies pressing upon the estates properties liberties limbs lives and honors of mankind when either Superiors like the disaffected head distill too sharp and corrosive humors upon inferior parts or these send up by a kind of circulation or exhalation pestilent fumes and vapors of mutiny and rebellion against their Heads and Superiors jealous of and envying each others welfare also withdrawing that natural assistance from each other which is indeed the support and health of the whole These hurts are very dangerous and ought to be speedily composed to such an harmony as is a tolerable state of health by adjusting every one their rights assigned to them by that Law which so takes care and provides for the publick order beauty and welfare of all that it permits no one private interest like a wen or leech or Incubus to oppress dreine and destroy anothers for as in Nature so in States the whole cannot be well at ease if one part be grievously pained or pierced There are sometimes horrible rapes committed upon the daughter of a people while vile and violent men sons of Belial to satisfie their own inordinate lusts of revenge covetousness pride or ambition apply by force or fraud or both to obtain that power and place that favor and preferment in the publick which they dispair to get in fair and honest ways of worthy industry and merit These are like the incestuous ravishers of their own Sisters or Daughters or Mothers men that have much of Cateline in them nothing of the true Christian nor are they to be envied if they prosper for a time in their wicked devices and indeavours since this is all the shadow of greatness they shall ever enjoy while for a moments glory among a company of poor mortals they venture eternal debasement among the Devils where such great sinners shall be greatly tormented nor will their prosperity procure their impunity though they dye in peace yet they descend to an eternal war which is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} never to be ended by peace or truce nor yet by annihilation or extinction There are also grievous hurts which may bebefal a Nation as to its very soul and better spirits that is its intellectual powers and excellencies of Religion and Learning of rational and ingenuous improvements most worthy of men of Gentlemen and Christians These hurts are when true Religion which is founded on Gods Word confirmed by the testimony of the Church of God in all ages fortified by good Laws regulated by good Discipline or Government and supported by honorable encouragements when this is either corrupted in its soundness of doctrine or overgrown as the head with a scald by superstition or broken by faction or bafled by vulgar insolency or persecuted by misguided zeal or oppressed by inordinate power or robbed of its just maintenance or discomposed in its due order and government or despised in its best Preachers and Professors or run out to the itch and scratch the scabies pruritus disputandi as Sir Henry Wotton calls it of disputing and jangling which breeds uncharitable and empty formalities tending and ending in prophaness and Atheism extinguishing truth and love sound faith and sincere charity which are as the oyle and flame of the lamp of Religion in any Church and heart these are most dangerous distempers and hardly to be cured or recovered unless such speedy cordials and antidotes be applied by wise Magistrates sober Ministers and sincere Christian people as may recollect refocillate and restore the power of godliness and spirits of true Religion by dissipating and expelling those noxious and pestilent oppressions with which either Princes or Peers or people or preachers have pressed upon true Religion by covetousness or ambition or Sacriledge or Schism or popularity or love of Novelty or Sedition to the great disgrace of true Religion and the best Ministers of it both Fathers and Sons It is observed by Guildas and others who give account of our English subversions by Saxons and Danes when we were Christian and civilized but they Heathens and barbarous that nothing more presaged the deluge of those miseries which followed such invasions than the great contempt and oppression to which the Clergie and Religious Orders were brought partly it may be by their own sloth and luxury but chiefly by the prophane insolency of all sorts of people who were content to have all Religious cords broke asunder that they might enjoy the full sway of their licentious humors Again when good learning which is a most officious useful and comely handmaid to Religion when humane Arts and Sciences which are beams or strictures of divine wisdom when studies of good Laws and due administration of Justice accordingly which are the vital spirits of a Nation when these are vilified and outraged by the vilest people by Jack Straws and Wat Tilers whose ignorance makes them enemies to knowledge as darkness is to light being like Mastiffs the feircer for those dark kennels in which they are bred and kept up When this ill kind of men cry down like the Ephesine rabble with dust and clamor more than any shew of reason all Schools of Learning and Vniversities that they may run after false Prophets and Dreamers whose simplicity is so impudent to pretend inspirations and new lights to so eagle-eyed and quick sighted a people as the English are till their delusisions and folly are manifested These are as rough Satyrs a kind of robust wilde men who trust more either to their limbs and sinews or to their wit and cunning than to their consciences or our Laws for the getting of their living aiming to live more like beasts by rapine than like civil men and good Christians by honest labour and ingenuous industry Nor are they small hurts which the teeth of such Foxes and tushes of such Boars have given to any Church or State where they have for a while prevailed being much fitter for Mahometan conversation than Christian profession for there among Turks only force or fury makes men considerable for they think that their Princes and their mad men are highly favoured and most familiar with God and his Angels
and convulsions to weakness and consumption As a Father would be affected to see his tender Daughter thus used and abused which cannot endure pains like the hardier and rougher sex of Sons so is God and so his Prophet and so is every good man and woman to the Church and Country whereto they are so nearly related God is so concerned and touched to the quick that his bowels are turned within him he deplores himself as if he were a miserable God while his people his sons and daughters are miserable either by their sins or sufferings God hath his sympathies with them his repentings toward them his returns with tears and kisses for them as a compassionate and good natured parent hath toward his daughter when he hath been forced to use her hardly and hath in his anger either wounded or bruised and hurt her The kindnesses that in mankind are humane affections in God are Divine perfections None can be so good-natured so {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the good God is if we were not cruel to him and our own souls he could never be other than most kind to us for he doth not afflict us willingly We compel him to be froward by our frowardness and to break upon us by rebelling against him we bruise our selves by dashing against that rock which would be our refuge and shelter we wound our selves by running upon that sword which would only be our defence God never ceaseth to be our Father till we cease to behave our selves as his children From the blessed God the best men learn and derive this tender love care compassion and indulgence towards the Daughter of their people both in civil and sacred relations the concernments or interests of both are great endearments to gracious souls hence as other Prophets so specially Jeremiah becomes a man of sorrows his eyes run down night and day with rivers of tears nor can he be comforted while Sion is afflicted Though he be wel-nigh drowned in his own tears yet he wisheth Jer. 9.1 O that my head were a fountain of tears His bowels his bowels are pained within him by that coarctation or compression which great grief fear and horror makes upon by the retirings of spirit and blood the lactes and smaller bowels which are near the heart he is weary of life which doth but daily torment him with so many sad spectacles such dreadful diurnals such unwelcome news of breach upon breach such a dying and self-destroying Church and State all things growing worse and worse and no remedy Still he the alarm of war and sound of the Trumpet The Church and State Physicians are wholly for corrosives and no lenitives for fraud and force not for Reason and Law they pretend necessity and pursue providences till they are in a wilderness of woe and confusion far from peace health salvation and establishment which are the effects and fruits only of Righteousness and Justice of Reason and Religion Hence the Prophet with vehemency demands and demanding he deplores and deploring he reproacheth the folly and defect the stupidity and cruelty of those in power Is there no balm in Gilead is there no Physician Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered The best of the Heathens had very quick strokes upon their heart strings by the love and care they had of their Countries they thought it dulce decorum pro patria mori most worthy of a good man not only to live but also to die for his Countries safety and honor It argues minds without natural affection not to have compassion for their Country and more for their Church They must be Clyclopick monsters of brutish Barbarity who can like Cannibals feed on the flesh and drink the blood of their Country and neighbors of their kindred of their parents and of their children yea of their very daughters who have a priviledge and plea from their sex for greatest tenderness The daughter of our people in respect of our posterity and descendents from us whom we leave to succeed after us in our lands houses and estates is also our Mother and Parent communis parens if we look backward as we are derived from our forefathers Patria est mater filia our Country is our parent or mother also our child or daughter in different aspects and so requires different respects First Of reverence as to our majores progenitores Father or Mother that begat and bare us Secondly Of Indulgence as to our daughter or posteri which derive from us In both that love and kindness is expected and by the Law of Nature which is Gods Law so commanded that they sin highly who are so cruel as either to sacrifice their sons and daughters or their Fathers and Mothers their Church and Country root and branch to the fires and flames of civil Wars and dissentions begun and continued by their sinful cruelty and tyrannous hypocrisie Can a Mother forget her childe or a Father cast off his Son or sheath his sword in the bowels of his daughter without the just imputation of madness and inhumanity Judge then what men yea what Sea-monsters they are that can be studiously designedly and industriously cruel to that Country wherein they were bred and to that Church in which they were baptized to deform the beauty and destroy the blessings of peace plenty order good Government and true Religion left them by their Progenitors and to leave to posterity nothing but poverty and pain terrors and wars blood and confusion hypocrisie and cruelty fanatick fury and military insolency nothing but either oppression or Anarchy either the cries of the oppressors threatning pillaging and exacting as grievous tax-masters or of the oppressed mourning and deploring their sad condition in vain while either the cords of unrighteous decrees do binde a Nation captive to the lusts of unreasonable and merciless men as to the rack and torture or such daily executions of violence exasperation and rigor as fills the land with discontent blood and tumult the daughter of his people daily appearing as the slain wallowing in their own blood and her voyce is as the groans of a deadly wounded and dying man Fourthly and lastly this denomination or title of the daughter of my people imports as the happy estate of any Nation that is thus under Gods eye and tender care also under the protection or guardianship of wise Governors of just and lawful Magistrates who carry themselves as Nursing-fathers and Nursing-mothers to Church and State yea as kinde Husbands and indulgent Spouses to their beloved Brides or Wives So it shews how sad desolate and helpless yea how dangerous and exposed to miseries both of dishonor and death and all manner of hurts incident to any Church and State the condition of any people is that is not under Gods care or is deprived by their sin and madness of good
Governors of lawful Magistrates of able Ministers and Pastors such a Nation or Church is as a poor weak helpless daughter that is an Orphan or fatherless without any friend father or husband to defend and take care of her she becomes as a forsaken virgin subject to all those insolencies and indignities to which her own weakness and the power of others lusts may expose her nor can she have any safety health honor security or handsom subsistance and defence until she be restored to the care and protection of those who under God deserve to be and by law are Patres patriae the true Fathers of the daughter of their people All others that usurp on a nation are as unjust so hard Fathers Fathers in law because without and against Law having neither the Law of God nor man for their usurped authority nor the Law of love and tenderness in their stony hearts but as Physicians who unsent for obtrude their visits and practice more for their fee and gains than for any love to their Patients welfare are most welcome when the patient is soonest rid of them whose project is rather to protract and perpetuate their patients afflictions than to recover them nor are they afraid of killing them further than their gain may dye with them and their pragmatick humor have less mischief to do But I have done with the first particular the import of this stile and compellation the daughter of my people thus God and thus the Prophet thus all good men and all good Christians are wonted to speak and think and act to love to pitty and to pray for their country both Church and Srate What I beseech you must they be who wound her with the wounds of an Enemy and smite her with the strokes of a cruel one as if all their policy and power served to no other use but to execute animosities and exercise antipathies against their country to eat out as the generation of vipers are vulgarly said do the bowels of their mother who pray not for the peace of Jerusalem but seek to make a prey of her both in peace and war in things sacred and civil condemning her to everlasting enmities wars divisions confusions taxes and exactions which cannot be removed till health is restored nor can this be till the great wounds and wide breaches made and continued yea enlarged by some are closed and drawn together till there be a redintegratio continui et reparatio disjuncti restitution of all noble parts that are necessary for the publique integrality and unity its order and beauty its honour and safety Which what they are and how to be done I leave to wise honest and impartial men who have counsel to guide their prwer and power to execute or put in practise their good and healing counsels in spight of all the Leeches and Empiricks that would hinder publique health that they might from the open Orifices of their bleeding Country suck more advantages for themselves and their parties to the ruine of the whole Secondly Having visited the Patient and finding it to be our near relation as a Sister or Daughter or Mother even our Country and Church It is time for us to consider its hurt or affliction to see what it ails what that plaga or vulnus or laesio or morbus is wherewith it is so pained that it cannot rest night nor day Our work is not only to behold her a far off with silence and stupor as Jobs friends in her grief and anguish but either to apply suitable remedies or at least such prayers and words of comfort {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to her heart as may shew our pity and compassion which is some relief to those that are in bitterness of soul The Hebrew word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} whence our English shiver may well be derived is rendred by the LXX {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and by the Latin contritio which properly imports some injury or hurt inflicted ab extra from an outward agent by violence so as to wound or bruise or batter or break or tear any thing that causeth solutionem continui separation or dissipation of parts which should be united and in whose right union is ease as in their dissolution or dislocation is pain But the latitude of the word may well extend to the larger scope and intent of the place and complaint which is not only upon the account of outward force and violent impression made upon Church and State against all Reason Justice and Religion but as in bodies natural so in these politique both Civil and Ecclesiastical there are many kinds of hurts or maladies incident to them both from within and from without There are besides vulnera or flesh wounds and ulcera which are inveterate sores and gangrena gangreens which are deadly if not speedily cured or cut off there are pustuli venemous tumors or angry biles which arise from some putid or corrupt humors in the body also running issues and fistula's which are most at ease when they have some vent and most dangerous when suddenly and indiscretly stopped these are hurts too and very grievous ones when times are such by the discontent of mens minds by the dissolution of their licentious manners by weakening the authority of Laws and overturning the course of Government in Church and State ut nec morbos nec remedia ferre possint that either the pertinacy of customary disorders and prevalent mischiefs or the petulancy of people overgrown with epidemical and tolerated diseases will not endure fit remedies yet are undone if they linger under their distempers uncured Sometimes a body grows plethorick and is hurt by its excess of humors crude and indigested which are prone to gather together and fall on any weak and disaffected part there to ferment and inflame to high feavors and very great anguish of the whole so is it in a Nation when either over-peopled to an indigence and idleness through want of work or when grown luxuriant by long peace and plenty which runs to sottery in many and at last to the armed man poverty whose free quarter pressing on people provokes them to discontents and so to design publique troubles quia multis utile bellum because they have nothing left them but their carkasses and their swords dig they cannot to beg they are ashamed fighting is their only fortune Otherwhile a Nation may be too much exhausted by war by exactions and oppressions by decay and want of trade so as it becomes consumptive weak and languishing either the humidum radicale native moisture oyle and balm of competency is wasted for want of encouraged industry and commerce or the calor naturalis the spirits activity and generosity of a people are as the modern Egyptians quite extinct being either sottishly idle or so cowed and over-awed that they are crest-fallen and below any gallant actions and designs living
{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the harmony and orderly constitution of all the humors and parts of the body That nothing necessary for the well-being of the whole be wanting That all grand defects be supplyed That what is weak be strengthened what is dislocated be restored to its place That there be no dividing of what should be united That what is divided be gently closed and composed That there be no such redundancy or overgrowing of any humor or tumor in any part as to rob and weaken others or to swell and exceed in themselves or to deform and inflame the whole In brief the true and safe method of healing effectually the hurt of the daughter of my people is 1. Medicos optimos accersendo By calling to her help wise and worthy Physicians as I have formerly touched men of skill and experience of Honesty and Ability of honor and conscience who prize a publick Good Work above any reward and think it the highest temporal reward to do their country good in which they serve their God and their Saviour the Church and State they must be Physitians that are not by much study and practice run out to Atheism as some corn in lusty ground doth to straw and halm but such as know what belongs to Religio medici the piety of a Christian as well as the mystery of a Physitian my meaning is people must take special care in their choice of Parliament-men that they be not Mechanick or Mercenary or Military obtruders of themselves who have much to get and little to lose by troubles whose fortunes and estates must be vampt and mended by their practice upon the Church and State But such Gentlemen of quality and repute for wel-gotten and wel-used estates that they may deserve to be esteemed Heads and Fathers of their Tribes and not the Tails or Posteriors as the Scripture speaks to the reproach of some publick persons Such in whom the Country may have sufficient caution and security for their love of Justice Order and Peace by what they have to venture and lose in tumults wars and oppressions Commonly desperate minds attend desperate fortunes and the motto of such is Quocunque modo rem and oportet habere The multis utile bellum hoped advantages as Lucan observes in the Cesarian and Salust in the Catalinian and Appian in the other Civil Wars is the spark fewel and bellows for the most part to civil perturbations private not publique interests are usually looked at For how can it be that the full and found parts of the body Politique should hope to mend their condition by war any more than men that are well and not delirant or raving in a Feavor and madness should by bruising and beating and cutting and wounding themselves and all that are near them expect to make themselves more strong or more comely 2. When the Patient hath done himself so much right as to get good Physitians able and honest for the publique care Their work is First Morbum decernere vulnera perscrutari to find out the true disease to search the wounds througly and impartially yet with as little pain and disorder to the Patient as may be with a clear and judicious eye with a gentle but faithful hand with a tender but honest heart neither Physitians passion nor compassion must divert them from doing their duty It is the first step and a good advance to health to know truly what the hurts and disease is herein to be only conjectural or over-confident or fearful or perfunctory or palliating or complying not daring to search and discover the pudenda vulnera shameful wounds and lethales morbos deadly diseases which are discerned in the Patient but with smiles and fair words with healing questions with Physical or Anatomical lectures about Government as with lingering lenitives and petty cordials to supple and skin them over to silence and smother them with crying peace peace till we have done our work which is to undo you and all men but our selves or for State Physitians so to regard by a superpolitick policy the several partial novel and pretended interests that have been or are on foot as to take in among others even that of the very disease as if it were to be considered other ways than to be cured as if it must be continued tolerated and indulged yea and fed as a Wolf or Cancer in the body or brest with good nourishment least it prey upon the whole body This is for Physitians to be afraid and overawed by the Malignancy and predominancy of the disease at this rate Grex totus in agris Vnius scabie perit porrigine porci the whole herd or flock must be infected the patient will be like Gehazi condemned to an eternal plague and Leprosie of civil dissentions and oppessions of war and its black consequences Physitians after this course must turn very fools and become parasites to putrefactions if they dare not own or cannot attaque either the sourse and head of the disease or the streams and potency of it what do they meet and sit and consult or rather constult together they had as good cast their caps as thus lay their heads together when they have no mind to do the work nor courage to go through with the cure Not but that all great and noble cures not miraculous are the children of time and discretion for a while the sons of Zerviah were too hard for David and Solomon did not those acts of remarkable Justice against Joabs and Shimeis and Abiathars factious Priests insolent Soldiers and cursed cursers until the Kingdom was strengthned in his hand but this is certain as Christ did not raise to life Jarus his daughter till the Minstrils were all turned out So nor can the daughter of my people be recovered to firm and sure health till all pretended Civil Interests are by degrees either satisfied if just or crashed quashed and removed if not consistent with our Reformed Religion also with the Laws of the Land and the fundamentals of our excellent Government which are the true principles of publique health and till all Religions or Ecclesiastical pretended Interests are so tried and examined for many say they are Jews that are not and cry up their new Church ways when they may be but factors for the Synagogue of Satan vaporing of Christ and the Spirit when they are Antichrists and full of unclean spirits till I say all these on all hands be faithfully reduced and subjected to the grand interest of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ which consists in Justice and true Religion The measure of the first is our Laws enacted in full and free Parliaments The rule of the second are clear truths of Scripture which set forth the facienda morals necessary to be done by all to all men the credenda mysteries of Faith necessary to be believed also the special practiques of Christian