England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the only way to prevent destroying judgementsEngland's preservation or, a sermon discovering the onely way to prevent destroying judgements

Name: England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the only way to prevent destroying judgements
Author: Obadiah Sedgwick

England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the only way to prevent destroying judgements: preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their last solemn fast, being on May, 25. 1642. By Obadiah Sedgwick Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that house.England's preservation or, a sermon discovering the onely way to prevent destroying judgements: preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their last solemne fast, being on May, 25. 1642. By Obadiah Sedgwicke Batchelour in Divinity and minister of Coggeshall in Essex. Published by order of that house.

Obadiah Sedgwick 1600?–1658London: printed by R. B. for Samuel Gellibrand, 1642

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1. Moral evils will not be cured, but by contrary qualities: A state (like water though for a time heated, yet will slip back to coldness) will warp about (after a while) to its corruptions, if care be not taken for its perfecting and preservation too:

1. Morall evills will not be cured, but by contrary qualities: A state (like water though for a time heated, yet will slip backe to coldnesse) will warp about (after a while) to its corruptions, if care be not taken for its perfecting and preservation too:

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2. Again, though a Nation be somewhat less miserable, because evil is removed, yet it will not be happy till good be planted; you shall find, besides this, that the soul of the public state will answer that of the person: To whom as the presence of (Nocivum) what oppresseth him is a burden, so the absence of (Honestum as they speak) what is convenient will certainly prove a complaint: Both Religion and nature instruct us in this, Religion puts men on for holiness, as well as pulls men off from sinfulness; and nature hath ingrafted in it not only (Abyssus) depths of distastes against apprehended evils, but also (Hiatus) vast desires, for all throughly apprehended good: Neither will it receive satisfaction ⟨p. 32⟩in the one without the other: Yea ordinary policy can discern (in a Common-wealth) as great an aptness to tumult where convenience is with held as there is to impatience, where misery is felt: shall I add one thing more? That in all public changes and alterations, these ever go in the thoughts of the vulgar (yea of all) Confident expectations that some other thing must succeed in the place of any thing that is removed, (especially in matter of Religion where corruption is discerned on all sides) the ordination and plantation of which, if public authority doth not take in hand, you shall find that ordinary heads will presume to do, the which what confusion it will make amongst people, and future difficulties to your selves, I leave to your Religious wisdoms to consider of.

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