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A34836	Wit and loyalty reviv'd in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times / by Mr. Abraham Cowley, Sir J. Berkenhead, and the ingenious author of Hudibras, &c.	Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.; Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679.; Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6697; ESTC R35660	25,788	40

following be recommended to their Consideration in the Work of the Day 1. To Bewail 1. All our Court Sins 2. Our Bishops Sins 3. Our Monks Sins 4. Our Common Prayer Sins 2. To Divert 1. Westminster Hall Judgments 2. Our Old-Baily Judgments 3. Our Tower-Hill Judgments 4. Our Charing-Cross Judgments 5. Our Tyburn Judgments Lastly For Deliverance from the Hand of Dun that uncircumcifed Philistine That the said Grand Comissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have Power to build Churches and Chappels in any place or places except upon such Ground where Churches or Chappels do already stand in regard of the Inconvenience of setting up Altar against Altar And forasmuch as the Custom of reading some part of the Holy Bible before Sermon comonly called First and Second Lessons hath been found fruitless That therefore the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers may have power to appoint instead thereof the Annual reading of those Sermons preached by many of the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers before the Parliament upon special Occasions of Thanksgiving and Humiliation from the Year 1641. to the Year 1648 Which said Sermons may be called the Homilies of the Separating Churches That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers may have Power to require Mr. Gilbert Millington and Mr. Luke Robinson the lame Evangelist to deliver up all such Articles Orders Books Papers and other Writings as were transacted before the late Committee for Plundered Ministers and likewise all such as were passed and transacted before Mr. Philip Ney and some others of the now Grand Commissioners and Farmers and heretofore called Commissioners or Spiritual Tryers to the end the said Articles Orders Books and other Papers may be Printed and Published and may be kept at the said Office upon Record for ever and appointed to be the Book of Canons of the Seperated Churches All this being done we may upon Scripture Grounds expect that the Door of Hope may yet be open to Us and our Children after us to see the Travel of our Souls and to set us into the Promised Land and to reap some of those Clusters of the Grapes of Canaan which with so much Labor and Toyl of Body and Mind were planted especially in the Years of 1641 42 43 44 45. by many of Us and other Precious Saints and Ministers of the Gospel who are since fallen asleep and have we hope reaped the Fruits of those Labors the Lord having in that day put a mighty Spirit into Us and set us as Watchmen upon the Towers of Israel to cry mightily Curse ye Meroz curse ye bitterly Grant that those Heart-breaking Labors of Ours those King-destroying Labors those Kingdom-ruining Labors those Gospel-scandalizing Labors those Church-subverting Labors those Soul-confounding Labors of Ours may never be forgotten but may be written as with the point of a Diamond upon the Heart of the King upon the Hearts of the Bishops upon the Heart of the Parliament and upon the Hearts of all the People from Dan to Beersheba that so in God's good time we may receive our Reward Seven-fold into our own Bosoms and that the Generations to come may hear and fear and do no more so wickedly So prays S. Butler The Round-Heads Resolution WHereas we are through our great Ignorance and Obstinacy grown to a most Seditious and Malignant head and the Horns of that Head though of a main length not able to support our Arrogant Faction as appears by our last being soundly slash'd and bastinado'd by a mad Crew called the Cavaliers and whereas a great part of Us have shut up our Shops because we could no longer keep them open which kind of shutting up proceedeth commonly from our vast Expence in White-broths Custards and other Luxurious Dishes provided for the Edification one of another And whereas the Multitude called True Protestants endeavor to hold up Bishops to maintain good Order Discipline and Orthodox Preaching in the Church Learning and Arts in the Universities and Peace in the Common-wealth all which is nothing but Idolatry Superstition Profaneness and plain Popery And further whereas we who are nothing properly but Round heads and Fanaticks are in most scandalous manner termed Holy Brethren the Zealots of the Land and which in sincerity we never were or ever will be And sorasmuch likewise as the prophane World of True Protestants are a stiff-necked Generation and will not yield unto Us the Preheminence of Doctrine and Religion not withstanding the many Senceless two hours of those Spiritual Trumpets of Our Faction the Sanctified Clergy-Lecturers or of Our more Divine Lectures of our Supreme Shee-Lecturers whose Bowels do even earne for the getting in of the Saints unto Us and have as it were even a zealous lusting after Us. And forasmuch as the Religion professed by Us in the purest and most decent as appears by the great Love and Community betwixt the Brethren and the Sisters the Conveniency of the Woods Saw-pits and Dark Places the putting out Lights and defying those Tapers of Iniquity which cause us to behold our own Wicked Deeds the gooly Bigness of the Ear with the shortness of the Hair which hindereth not the Sound of the Shepheards Voice but easily heareth him call to a great Feast amongst the Rich Saints the length and sharpness of the Nose which not only smelleth the sweet Savors of the Holy Plum-broth but also promiseth an eager Appetite to some good Work towards the Younger Sisters the roundness of the Band the length of the Dublet and the shortness of the Breeches being a habit correspondent to the Pictures of the Apostles in the Geneva Print the mightiness of our Faith which is able to remove a Church into a Wood the Transparency of our Charity that is so invisible that neither the right hand nor the left ever knew it the Multitude of our Good Works which no man living can number the Godly Works of our tautological Prayers and the Zeal thereof which brings us even to Divine Consumption whereby we look like the Prodigal Son at his return home or the Priests in the Arras the defying of all Fathers Bishops and Doctors Conformable Persons Canonical Robes Ecclesiastical Gestures and Utensils all Learning liberal Arts and Degrees as the raggs of Superstition the dregs of Popery are abominable in the goggle eyes of a right Round-head and yet this simple Innocent Profession is scorned and baffled and by whom But by Scholars and such as profess Learning which is no more necessary to Religion than a Publick Church which verily is but a Den of Thieves when we are absent All which Grievances do stand with much reason and therefore are utterly against our tender Consciences and never were allowed by any Synod of More-fields or Westminster That therefore which we do now resolve to maintain and desire have confirmed and never to alter'd till some new toy tickle us in the Pericranium which will be very shortly is 1. That our Religion Tenants and Mannors before-mentioned be established and maintained against all Reason Learning Divinity Order Discipline Morality Piety or Humanity whatsoever 2. That the very Name of Bishops shall be a sufficient Jury and Judge to condemn any of them without any further Evidence or Circumstance 3. That if any man whatsoever having knowledge in the Latine Tongue being a Popish Language shall presume to think he can save a Soul by Preaching he be excommunicated both in this World and in the World to come unless it be some certain Lecturers of whose approved Rayling and Ignorance we are well assured and have known to stand six hours on a Fasting Day 4. That the Felt-maker and the Cobler two innocent Cuckolds may be instituted Primares and Metropolitans of the two Arch-Provinees and the rest of the Sect preserved according to their Imbecillities of Spirit to such Bishopricks and other Livings as will competently serve to procure fat Poultry sor the filling of their insatiate Stomachs in which regard Church-Livings had more need to be increased than diminished 5. That no man whatsoever who bears the name of Cavalier may be capable of making any of the Brethren a Cuckold unless he cut his Hair and alter his Profession but be excluded from the Conventicles as the King's Friend and a Reprobate 6. Lastiy That there be two whole days set apart to Fast and Pray for the Confusion of all that are not thus resolved A Caveat to the Round-Heads I Come to charge yee That slight the Clergy And pull the Miter from the Prelat's Head That you will be wary Least you miscarry In all these factious humors you have bred But as for Brownists we 'll have none But take them all and hang them one by one Your wicked Actions Joyn'd in Factions Are all but aims to rob the King of his due Then give this reason For your Treason That you 'll be rul'd if he 'll be rul'd by you Then leave these factions zealous Brother Least you be hanged one against another Your Wit abounded Gentle Round-head When you abus'd the Bishops in a Ditty When as you sanged You must be hanged A Timpinee of Malice made you witty And though your hot zeal made you bold When you are hang'd your Arse will be a cold Then leave confounding And expounding The Doctrine that you preach in Tubbs You raise this Warring And private Jarring I doubt in tinte will prove the Knave of Clubbs It 's for your Lying and not for your Oaths You shall be hang'd and Ketch shall have your Cloaths FINIS Parallel'd in Holy Cheats In Publishing False News as Legends In Mental Reservations In allowing Perjuries In an unintelligible Worship Both hold Justification by Works the one by Good the other by Ill Works Free-will one holds belongs to all men the other only to Parliament men They agree in interlining Scriptures and Creeds In Implicit Faith One believes Purgatory hereafter the other erects a Purgatory here The Assembly of Divines as infallible as a general Council One fasts Frydays Eves the other all Sundays Both have their Reliques Both claime to succeed St. Peter The one for Church Musick the other for Singing without Musick Both boast their Miracles Each hath a several Transubstantiation Both Infalible in Cathedra Both for deposing Kings the one by fair means the other by Foul. Their Avarice Their Ambition Lord Privy Seal Pennington Their Tirany The Counterfiet grivances of the Kings Reign compared with the Royal ones of their Usurpation viz. 1642.