King Charles the II. HIS RESTITUTION. 
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The best Cure for ENGLAND'S CONFUSION; OR A most Sovereign Salve for healing the Sores of the three NATIONS.  
BEING AN ALARM To the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Commonalty to bend and lend their Hearts, Heads and Hands unanimously for the speedy and peaceable Restitution of their Liege, Lord and KING to his Crown and Dignity, and recovery of thei● Native Country from ruin and slavery; By certain Prophecies and Texts of holy truth properly applicable, and even parallel to the present times and occasions in the Nations.  
By Ed. Mat. a Cordial Lover of his KING and Country.  
O ye Children of Israel, turn again in as much as ye are sunk deep in Rebellion.  Isa. 3.6. 
Fear the Lord and the KING, and meddle not with the seditious, for their destruction shall rise suddenly.  Prov. 24. 21, 22. 
Nullus est casus pro dignitate, et libertate patriae non ferendus.  Cicer. Phil. 13. 
LONDON; Printed in the Year, 1660.   

A Sovereign Salve for healing the Sores of the Nation.  
'tIS storied of Croesus' King of Lydia, that when a dumb Son of his, saw a Traitor ready to stab his Father, he conquered the natural impediments of speech, and distinctly cried out, kill not the King. That which wrought this wonder, was the power of natural affection, by the operation of an extraordinary Sympathy. Surely they are chargeable with a more than brutish (even insensate) stupidity and want of affection and Sympathy, who will not now use, what nature ordinarily affords to all (speech at least) yea employ the primest powers and faculties of soul and body, not the tongue and pen only but hearts, heads, and hands also, to rescue their dear mother, their native Country from ruin and slavery and restore the Father thereof, their liege Sovereign Lord and King, to his just rights Crown and dignity, and preserve both from the destructive designs and Traitorous attempts contrived and intended against them. An honest Heathen will not be bribed by the offer of immortality to do his Country injury, ne immortalitatem contra patriam acceperim.  
'tis a fire in bones and I cannot suppress it, etc.  
David's zeal on this occasion is to be desired if I forget thee O England, let my right hand forget etc. if I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, yea if I prefer not the good of my King and Country to my chief joy, Psal. 137.5, 6.  
This duty puts the pen into my hand, and (without paint of Apology) presseth me (though least able of any) to declare how dangerously the State's Empirics practise upon the Bodies Politic of great Britain and Ireland; making it (as the evil one) their main work to propagate the since of their rebellion unto others, otherwise well affected loyal & fainthful to their King & Country: and their poisonous pills are guilded with the pretence of piety, the public peace, and safety of the people; whereas sad experience too truly shows, nothing is produced, but oppression and slavery, confusion and calamity both in Church and State to the three Nations; a flourishing glorious Commonweald is pretended and promised, whilst a common woe and misery, is the sole fruit we find of these golden promises. And the principal design of the contrivers hereof, being to make themselves Masters of those, that deserve better servants than themselves, to continue an unlimited command and domination over the Nations, exercise an arbitrary power over the people, forcing them by an Army (which the people must also maintain) to submit to their insupporable oppressive taxes and impositions; assuming to themselves, the disposition of all the wealth and treasure, places of profit, trust and honour in the three Kingdoms, yea arrogating a power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the freeborn people thereof.  
By this time, I hope 'tis clear day, even their eyes whose unwillingness to believe it, made them as blind as Bartimeus, are now open and awake; to see how sadly a settled happy Government is subverted our lawful liberties infringed, our fundamental laws contemned and everted, and freemen made vassals to vile usurpers, so that we may take up that sad lamentation with Jeremiah, Lam. 5.5, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16. Our necks are under persecution: we are weary and have no rest: Servants have ruled over us, none would deliver us out of their hands. The Princes are hanged up by their hands: the faces of the Elders were not had in honour. The Elders ceased from the gate; there is no law nor form of Government, the joy of our heart is gone, our dance is turned into mourning. The Crown of our head is fallen, woe now unto us, that we have sinned, ver. 12, 14, 15, 16. Our Idolatry of a pretended Parliament and rebellion against our King, hath brought this woe upon us whiles we waited for our vain help, our eyes fail for in our waiting, we looked for a people that could not save us, Sam. 4.17. There the Prophet sets forth a twofold cause of Israel's destruction, their cruelty and their vain confidence in an arm of flesh, which is cursed. Jer. 17.5. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and Isa. 31.1, 3. Woe unto them that stay upon their horses and trust in horsemen: the help, and the helped shall fall and fail together.  
The Breath of our Nostrils, the anointed of the Lord was taken in their nets, of whom we said under his shadow, we shall be preserved, our good King Josiah is slain by them ver. 20. doth not the Prophet speak of our times think ye? I am sure 'tis a perfect parallel of our present condition. And not unlike to this, is that of the Prophet Isaiah, where a Chaos like confusion is described. The Nobles thereof shall call to the Kingdom, and there shall be none none, and all the Princes thereof shall be as nothing, Isa. 34.12. etc. Intimating that there shall be neither order, nor policy, nor state, nor Commonweal, a sad presage for any place or people: yet this hath been the portion of these Nations, for almost twenty years' last passed.  
God by his Prophet Zachariah sharply chargeth Israel, as justly he may England, with great ingratitude, which would not be ruled by his most beautiful order of Government, nor continue in the bands of brotherly unity; and therefore he breaketh the two staves of beauty and bands; the beauty of orderly Government, & bands of unity, Zech. 11. Not unlike that judgement denounced against Israel, for the wild Grapes: I will take away the hedge and fence from the vineyard, Isa. 5.4.5. etc. So the Foxes of the Wood and the Boars of the Forest may devour & destroy. So here the Lord menaceth them with merciless destructive Governors, who should consume them without any remorse, thinking they did no evil. They that possess them slay them, and sin nor: and they that sell them say, blessed be the Lord for I am rich: Zech. 11.5. etc. Their own sheephards' spare them not: A just judgement, upon them that spared not their mild and gentle Ruler, therefore oppressing Hypocrites are set over them; who have the name of God in their mouths, but in their do deny God; attributing their gain to God's blessing, which cometh of the spoil of their brethren: and for those and such like accounts have days set apart for public thanksgiving.  
The Children of Israel (saith the Prophet Hosea) shall remain many days without a KING, and without a Prince, and without an Offering, and without an Ephod, and without Teraphim, etc. Hosea 3.4 signifying that they should have neither Religion nor Policy, Ecclesiastical nor Civil Government, and their Idols wherein they trusted should be destroyed, as the margin renders it. Hath not this prophecy had full accomplishment in England? hath not that Beautiful and flourishing Government both in Church and State settled, and famous throughout Christendom, been not for many days only, but many years broken and interrupted? and the Idolized Parliament the cause thereof, and many other doleful breaches in the Nations, often also dissolved, and now totally determined, and infamously branded with an odious name of unfavoury reproach? and their pillars of power, their arm of flesh shrunk up, and like Jeroboams hand withered, most of their principal Officers cashiered, etc. who seethe not the hand of God herein? none but digitus dei hath done this.  
The Prophet proceeds in the next verse to prescribe a cure for this confusion, vers. 5. Afterward shall the Children of Israel return, convert, and seek the Lord their God, and David their King, and shall fear the Lord, and his Goodness in latter days. The accomplishment hereof is at hand, The Lord hath touched the hearts of the People, and now after they have tasted the bitter fruit arising and growing from the root of Rebellion, which beareth nought but the wormwood of woe & wretchedness, and the gall of grief and oppression, they feel and find the want of their gracious KING, and of an happy Government under him, and resolve to return from Rebellion, and call home their banished, and restore their lawful KING CHARLES, the most renowned Prince in Christendom to his rightful Throne and Dominion.  
The same Prophet proceeds, cap. 10. to show how the great disposer, in whose hands are the hearts of both King. & People, hath changed the Subject's hearts; so that in stead of their former crucifige's, they are now ready to receive their King with hosannah's and Allelviahs, and to make Recantation of their rebellion; their heart is divided, and now are they found faulty: for now they shall say we have no King: because we feared not the Lord: is not our condition correspondent to Israel's in that respect? may we not say truly, that the want of the fear of God hath been the cause we have so long wanted our Kin? g behold saith the Lord the voice of the cry of the people; is not the Lord in Zion, Jer. 8.19. in England? Is not her King in her? why have they provoked me to anger? intimating that, as an argument of his displeasure, hath nor the Government been tossed and tumbled from hand to hand, and none stands, still remains unsettled? Hath not the Lord divided the hearts of the people and still continues a spirit of division among them, that they shall not unite, until he come whose right it is to rule these Nations? Set up what Governors or Government you can, with all your turning devises, contrive to resist your true King, there is a mean, mean, etc. ordained for prevention of all your designs. The hand writing on the wall shall set you on shaking, so that all your powers and policies shall fall and fail, a tremor cordis shall possess you, trembling of soul shall cerify you, and God shall blast all those unjust enterprises, that tend to the resistance of the King's restitution, with a triple defeat and disappointment. According to that of the Prophet Ezek. 21.27. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is and I will give it him.  
But hereof more in the next, this being but the first of seven stars, which (by divine assistance) shall be set forth to shine as bright beams and illustrious rays of the Sun like glory of this right Royal Plant of Renown.  
FINIS.