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St. Paules-Church her bill for the Parliament as it was presented to the Kings Matie on Midlent-Sunday last, and intended for the view of that most high and honorable court, and generally for all such as beare good will to the reflourishing estate of the said church. Partly in verse, partly in prose. Penned and published for her good by Hen: Farley author of her complaint.
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Farley, Henry.
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STC 10690; ESTC S114668
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the rest Monopoly For well I wote Much-ill proceeds thereby It wrongs the STATE and sokes the Subiects drie Hardens mens hearts all good b I doubt it hath a little choked mens good deuotions towards me designes doth choke And such as pinch doth to reuenge prouoke A thing inhumane that one Christian Brother Or fellow Subiect should deuoure another And for my Soueraignes loue to me last Lent Vpon a Holy day diuinely spent Loue him good Lord and let him plainely see It 's much the more for his great loue to mee That so his Highnesse may without Omission Most royally proceed in the Commission By Him appointed for my Restauration Vpon my humble Plaint and Supplication For neuer came more honor to a King Then my repayre will to his Highnesse bring Nor can a worke be of more note or name To raise Him and His seed Immortall Fame O let them be as Heauens bright shining starres That are my Friends his true * I haue 70. Commissioners and 40. almost are of the Parliament I hope one good Phinees among them will stand vp in my cause Commissioners And such as seeke to frustrate his Decree Darius a Ezra 6. 11. 12. c. Sentence light on them for me Or turne their hearts that they may rightly know I am thy House so builded long agoe With State with Honor and Endowments plenty Though Woluish times and Men haue made it scanty For buriall of the dead for pious vses And not for b Gods House was wont to be had in reuerence but I and my Courts are made a place of Sir-reuerence and as base as any Laystall c. Prophanation and abuses That so men may haue better conscience To vse me like Gods house with Reuerence And let those base prophane and idle Rout That daily passe with burthens in and out Those that c Such as I here meane loue neither Mother Churches nor reuerend Fathers They make a faire tall shew of Faith but as Maypoles they grow slenderer and slenderer till they come to bee Weather-Cockes and then their Faith turnes with euery winde and so be like the Tree that was hewen downe and cast into the fire hauing neither Roor Rinde Sap Bough Branch Leafe Blossome or Fruit of good Workes c. deride me with their scoffes and Songs That wish my downefall with their spitefull tongues Those hollow vpright Maypoles that doe hate To see their Mother Church be fortunate Those that haue suckt my Brests till all is drye And yet are backward me to dignifie All that pollute my sacred Courts and Walles Know there 's a scourge for them whense're it fals O whip them soundly that abuse thy Temple That others may be warn'd by their Example Heare me thy Sion from thy Sanctuary Helpe me O God make haste and doe not tary Sic Opto sic Oro. This is another Prayer or Petition for the King Prince c. and directed to the Prince of Princes O Christ the Sonne of God Alpha and Omega Ruler of heauen and earth Orderer of all things Light of lights Very God of very God Sauiour of the world Preserue the King and Prince I was cured of the Kings Euill by his gracious comming and I hope if he come once more I shall be cured of the Wolfe and Dropsie and preserued from feare of the falling Sicknesse Restore my Fame Iustifie my Friends Nullifie my Foes Cure all my euils and infirmities Endow me with plenty Prosper great Britaine Send peace to all Christendome And the God of peace c. make you perfect in all good workes c. So be it Amen This is a Petition to the Kings Maiestie onely I hope to see the 26. day of March to be celebrated as a holy day for euer at my Crosse for a Thanksgiuing to the Lord that he stirred vp the heart of my good King to visit me to take course for my good and then will there be 3. holy daies of great solemnity togither viz. March 24 Coronation day 25. Anunciation day 26. Visitation of St. Paules I Humbly beseech Whereas vpon the 26. day of March last past being then Mid-Lent Sunday it pleased your Maiesty after the royall solemnity held vpon your Coronation day and the Anunciation of our blessed Lady c. to visit me with your Sacred presence in an honorable Assembly and to declare your Kingly loue towards my Retriumphant estate by your own gracious speeches and by the diuine Oratory of my Reuerend Diocesan at that instant and soone after by a most Noble Commission c. For the which all people my good Friends that haue heard thereof doe heartily honour and applaud your Highnesse as a second Salomon That likewise it may please your Maiesty now in this holy time of Lent or some other time in the Interim of this high and most Honorable Court of Parliament at this present holden to renew If a competent summe were in cash and Scaffolds setting vp and a Register appointed for a record of mens Beneuolences as in Sr. Thomas Bodleis Library I should not feare the wanr of money during my Reparation or euer after your pious fauour towards mee by gaining some little beneuolence to set on the worke as a free Offering or gift and for redresse of my intolerable wrongs by some penall Lawes and seuere punishment of the offenders And I shall continue my praiers for your sacred Maiestie your Princely Posterity your long peaceable and prosperous Reigne and for that Noble Reuerend and Worthy Assembly by the helpe of my Well-willers to the worlds end And this poore man who hath beene my voluntary seruant these 8. yeares by Bookes Petitions and other deuises euen to his owne dilapidations will according to his bounden duty approue himselfe your Maiesties loyall Subiect and my faithfull Proficient during life c. St. Paules her Conceipt after this Petition OF many Molehils Mountaines may be made By many Springs great Riuers we doe see By many hands a Burthen's light t is said That for some few too waighty seemes to bee So many hands might make quicke worke of mee Though hard it seeme at first most Royall King Yet once begunne t' will proue an easie thing And rather benefit then losse For so shall many worke and pay their debts And what rich Subiects giues poore Subiects gets No Money goes out of Thy Land thereby Or from the Chamber or Thy Treasury But all to offer freely at a Chest One little free Beneuolence to begin will be more prosperous then 1000. forced Collections or Taxations What gifts they please as at a Mariage Feast So Mites to Millions at the last may rise And I be made a Princely Edifice Here followeth a Petition written in my name and presented to the King two dayes before his Maiestie came to visit me viz on Friday the 24. of March 1619. But the Master of Requests then attending tooke it away from his Highnesse before he
beautifie the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem c. 2. Chron. 24. 8. 9. 10. c. And at the Kings commandement they made a Penny Royall or the Kings Royall Penny or gift Chest and set it without at the gate of the house of the Lord and made a Proclamation through Iuda and Ierusalem c. And the Lords and all the People reioyced and This may be called Angelica when Angels are so offered brought in vntill there was sufficient c. 2. Kings 12. 9. 10. 11. 12. But Iehoiadah the high Priest tooke a Chest This is as I take it Bursa Pastoris or Shepheards purse or the Clergies Chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the Altar on the right side as euery man cometh into the Temple of the Lord c. And when they saw there was much money in the Chest the Kings Scribe and the high priest came vp and told the money c. and gaue it sealed into the hands of them that executed the worke and such as had the ouersight of the house of the Lord. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance And so the workmen wrought and the worke amended through their hands and they made the house of God as it ought to be and strengthned it So Iehoiadah Thus farre extends the pious branches of the good herbe called the Shepheards Purse waxed old and died full of dayes c. And they buried him in the City of Dauid among the Kings because he dealt well with Israel and with God and his House Here followeth Mother-Time gathered by the good King of our time and sent to the Reuerend Kingly Bishop Physitian or Father of this Mother-Church as an Herbe of most excellent vertue to cure all her diseases viz. Psalme 102. verses 13. 14. THou shalt arise and haue mercy vpon Sion for the * This sweet Mother or Mountaine Time may also be called the precious ointment vpon the head that ran downe vnto our Aarons beard yea euen to the skirts of his Clothing or yet more properly like the Dew of Hermon which by a diuine Sermon fell vpon our sacred hill of Sion Time to fauour her yea the set time is come For thy seruants take pleasure in her stones and fauour the dust thereof A Parallel of present time with time past Or of a good King liuing with a faithfull good King long since deceased IN the 18. yeare of the reigne of our good King Iames a Ouer England France and Ireland it pleased his sacred Maiestie to visit me poore Church and soone after to send the Gouernor of his City with diuers of his Nobles Reuerend Fathers and Elders to suruey my wants and to returne vnto his Highnesse all my diseases and corruptions and their causes that so he might like a most excellent b Supreame head gouernor in Church and Common-wealth within his Maiesties Dominions Physitian next vnder God take course for my cure And so in the same yere he called a Parliament intending first to purge the land and the Temple and then I hope to send his Nobles c. againe that shall neuer cease till I bee totally cured and most beautifully repayred This may then be worthily paralleld with the noble acts of that famous and faithfull King Iosiah recorded and renowned in the second Booke of the Kings the 22. Chapter and in the second Verses 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. c. Verses 8 9 10. c. Booke of Chron. the 34. Chapter For in the 18. yeare of his Reigne when hee had purged the Land and the Temple of Heresie This is heauenly Hysope and Corruption c It should seem this was at the end of a Parliament which was a heauenly conclusion of one good worke and a most sacred beginning of another Nota quaeso c. he sent Saphan the sonne of Azaliah and Maasiah the Gouernor of the City and Ioah the sonne of Ioahaz the Recorder to repaire the House of the Lord his God c. And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest they deliuered the money that was brought into the house of God which the Leuites that kept the Entries had gathered of the hands of Manasseh Ephraim and of all that yet remained in Israel and of all Iudah and Beniamin and they returned to Ierusalem and they put it in the hands of them Men did not then come like Beares to a stake to such a businesse but like poore beggers to a xijd. dole Happy was hee that could doe any thing which might dignifie and set forward the worke that had the ouersight of the house of the Lord and they gaue it to the Laborers that wrought in the house of the Lord to repaire and mend the House euen to Masons and Carpenters gaue they it to get hewed stone and timber for Couples and for Beames c. And the men did worke c. And the Ouerseers of them to courage them forward were Iahath and Obadiah Leuits of the Children of Merari and Zechariah and Meshullam of the Children of the Kohathites which all could skill of Instruments of musicke And ouer the bearers of burthens and ouer all that wrought in whatsoeuer workmanship were there Scribes Officers and Porters of the Leuites c. Thus farre the Posie of heauenly Herbs and Flowers gathered out of the Garden where millions more might haue beene culled for my purpose but I hope this is enough to him that delighteth in sweet Odours of piety and good workes And to that end I will pray as followeth This Prayer or Petition is for the King Prince c. and directed to the King of Kings O King of Kings and Lord Omnipotent Direct protect King Iames in Parliament Make all those wholesome Lawes he treats vpon T' approue him still a second Salomon A blessed Peacemaker Churches Amender And in Great Britaine long true Faiths Defender That euery Pen may write a sacred Story Of all his Noble Acts done to thy Glory And Sinne corrupt and base may out of hand Be purged quite and cleane out of the Land His Sonne likewise thy Sonne O God so guide him That all good hopes and haps may still betide him And as he is a Prince of prudent carriage So blesse him Lord in Single life and Marriage Make him thy Iem of Iems thy Pearle of Pearles Next to his Maiesty our Princely Charles Thy conqu'ring Champion when he goes to Warres As he is Conqu'rer at the Tilting-barres And thy strong Sampson valiant in the Field That he may fight and kill and ne're be kild Blesse also all his noble Lords and Peeres His Bishops Burgesses and Knights of Shires And giue them Ioy Prosperity and Health That doe their best for Church and Common-Wealth O let not any man be so vnholy From henceforth for to beg a * I meane such as are helpfull to one Subiect and hurtfull to all