The Preface. Church ò Common-wealth might rejoyce in till the Sun /ball be no more. o hadwebut fuck Princes, Nobles andGentle- men, as were thus Zealous and Studious of Goodworks, and wholly DevotedandDedicated unto God , what a Refernh- lance /heuld we have of Heavenor Earth ? How then wouldour Princes andNobles be both Lovedand Honoured , when their Addiaednefs to God didmake them fo 'Divine ? HowHonourable then would our Parliamentsbe , and ;how chearfullyMould weflock togetherfor their Eloaion ? How .dear would ourfudges andCountrey vfagif rates be toall that haveany thing ofpiety or humanity in tdsem. Kings thenwould reign in Righteoufnefs, and Nixes Rule in judgement ; and a man fhould be as an hiding place from the wind, and acovert fromthe Leaspet ; as rivers of water in adryplate, as the fhadow .of a great Rock in a weary Land : And the eyes of them that fee fhould not bedim, and the ears of themthat hear fhould hear- ken ; the heart alfoof therafh fhouldunderftand know- ledge , and the tongue of the ftammerers fhould be ready to (peak :elegantly. ] Ifa. 3i. 1, 2, 3, 4,5, what help then /hould cminiflers have in their work, and the fouls of all the peoplefor their-happinefs ! andwhat a (hak- inagwouldSatans Kingdomfeel?Then neitherfeducers fhould have tbis pretence, nor the feduced this temptationas now they have, to call their various Modells of Republicks by fuchfplendid names, and to think chrift Reigns when they Re.gn ; or that it is the only Government , tohave all t #be Governors, or to have thegreateft Liberty to be bad. .No formswill reform us andhealour maladies, till we in e heal- edandreformedwithin. Leadwill not be Gold , what form Tamer you mold it into. Andthough fornewaies may be more effectual to reftrain the evil, and improve the good, that is among them, yet _Hill the wickedwill do wickedly. The TheSwordfifhandthe Threfherwould be the Tormentors tf) of
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