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A95952	Brittish lightning or suddaine tumults, in England, Scotland and Ireland; to warne the united Provinces to understand the dangers, and the causes thereof: to defend those amongest us, from being partakers of their plagues. Cujus aures clausæ sunt veritati, ut ab amico verum audire nequeat, hujus salus desperanda est. The safety of that man, is hopelesse, we, may feare, that stopps his eares against his friend, and will the truth not heare. Mors est servitute potior. Grim-death's fierce pangs, are rather to be sought; than that we should to Babels-yoke, be brought. VVritten first in lowe-dutch by G. L. V. and translated for the benefit of Brittaine.; Britannischen blixem. English	G. L. V.	1643 (1643)	Wing V5; Thomason E96_21; ESTC R20598	42,972	73

and all manner of Seminaries that have so done their indeavor to turn England from their Religion that they have heartened or won many thousands to the papish religion to the unspeakable weakening of our state trouble of the reformed that were where they were mightie oppressed by them yea must suffer great distresse without being heard therin when they came to complaine of it to the clergie where the favour not withstanding was continually on the papists side N. There hath been then a great fall in England for I have allwayes heard that every man was compelled to come to church and attend upon Gods service so that none were excused no not the greatest and that there were very strict orders against the Papists made in divers Parliaments so that I heare wel that it hath gone amongst you as it doth amongst us for the more is the pittie there were many times strict Proclamations read against the breaking in of papistrie but notwithstanding papistrie is openly set up in the middest of us for they have their formall churches with stooles benches Altars ovals quiers Candelsticks cupps in sundrie cities as also in the countrie and they say service at the sound of our bels going openly thereunto the Priests are knowne amongst us preaching against this goverment that it is unlawful exhorting the people to helpe the King to his land will absolve no man in shrift but such as hold the king for the lawfull Lord of the land goe publike processions with an hundred at a time place crucifixes in the church-yards at the graves of the dead come to torment the people of our religion upon their death-beds with their Idol and oyle Yea they have their whole church-goverment amongst us and have divided the whole land amongst Bishops Arch-Bishops Deacons Arch-deacons every one knowing his Iurisdiction they have also given all the civill offices unto certaine persons and when they dye then they confer them upon others againe upon hope that though now they be but titular yet ●hat once they shall have the reall possession therof So that if any change through any stir or other waies should come which God prevent each should know his place and office both in Ecclesiastical and civil affairs that so they might at once over rule the land E. You wondered that it went so in England but I wonder exceedingly that it should go so amongst you for while you give such liberty to the papists you put the souls of the inhabitants yea the whole church and land in a scale and suffer your sworn enemies that are bound by oath to the King of Spain and the Pope to set up a goverment in your goverment Who if it should go ill but in the least or that there were any likely hood to make the King of Spain master would strait fall off so that you foster an Adder in your bosoms N. You are in the right and all good Patriots understand it so it hath also sundry times appeared to be so when the land was in any trouble as when the enemie was in the valle all papists prickt up their ears spake exceeding bouldly said openly out now shortly it shall be our time and the further the enemy brake into the land the boulder they were as also when we lost Schenk-Scans and that the enemie meant thereby to come in the countenances of the papists were then cheerfull and yet when there cometh any bad newes you may easylie perceive with which fide they hold although peradventure they should be no more the better for it than wee as it appeares in manie places yet their hate is so great that they would willinglie wish to perrish them selves so that we might but perrish with them yea they are yet so bould in some places that when any godly preachers are somthing zealous to bridle their insolencies they dare send word to such persons that they should consider how it now goes in Ireland yet not withstanding these deadly enemies of our state are winked at because they blinde the eies of the Officers and great ones with great guifts and yearlie pensions as they them selves do say that they are beholding to no man for their freedome but their monie by which means they cannot be effectuallie proceeded against notwithstanding those Remonstaunces given against them by the church so that the Synods were necessitated to leave it to God and protest before all the world that they would be free of the sowles by this meanes lost having done according to their places what they could as also from that distruction which shall certainlie come upon the land therby if not speedily prevented Whereunto I pray God the Lord to stirr up all Corporations and their particuler members to take the redresse of these thinges into their hands and not to let it hang upon the officers or a few persons as it is here and thereunto the great advantage of this cause E. Yea I heare then that thinges go ill not onely in England but that in this matter it stands ill enough amongst you also although you have no Bishops to let such mischiefs break in but hold this for certaine that the whole heap of papists if they can master us and it hit right shall be quicklie a tip toe against you for I have latelie seen a letter out of the Netherlands to one of our papists which earnestlie stirreth ours up to use all meanes possible to become masters and to advance poperie assuring them that they with the helpe of England should be here strong enough to make them selves masters both of land and Religion therfore their breaking in groweth and increase of such is not to be slightlie esteemed for they can all wayes at a start be seconded by your neighbor enemies if they but make them selves masters of one passe or other so as they can not do with us because they must fetch all assistance from beyond Sea N. You say right and I know not how our goverment is so besotted that they do not better consider it for every one knoweth that there cannot be a more hurtfull nor dangerous enemy than that within especially if it be one with a powerfull enemy without and therefore God open all eyes to see it You have now told me much concerning the designs of the Bishops and the means they used to bring in papistry but tel me now once wherin the malignant Courtiers and other infected statesmen were the cause of the stirs in England E. You well remembred what I told you in the beginning that the Bishops and the malignant Politiks besides the papists have occasioned all our heavinesse for it is certain that the Bishops have spoiled all in the church and together with the Politiks have turned all things up side down in the common weal also N. How understand you that together with the Politikes I think not that the Bishops had also the care of worldly matters E. How have you not known that O yes the Bishops

Brittish LIGHTNING OR Suddaine tumults in England Scotland and Ireland to warne the united Provinces to understand the dangers and the causes thereof to defend those amongest us from being partakers of their plagues Cujus aures clausae sunt veritati ut ab amico verum audire nequeat hujus salus desperanda est The safety of that man is hopelesse we may feare That stopps his eares against his friend and will the truth not heare Mors est servitute potior Grim-death's fierce pangs are rather to be sought Than that we should to Babels-yoke be brought VVritten first in lowe-dutch by G. L. V. and translated for the benefit of Brittaine Printed in the yeare 1643. The Translator to all his loving Countriemen EXperience teacheth that a skilfull physitian standing by beholding a patient and asking him of his paines and order of his bodie findeth the nature of the disease sooner than the partye himselfe that groaneth vnder the burden of it The same we finde often times in cases Ecclesiasticall and Politicall we can sooner see an others blemish than our owne imperfections The reason is becaus mankind is generallie negligent in self-examination I must ingenuously confesse I can not say so of the author of this dialogue the verie cause of his publishing it witnesseth the contrarie and proveth him what soever he be by calling a feeling member of his owne bodie and a good freind to his neighbours For though I have sene manie excellent remonstrances resolutions of questions c published by the High court of Parlament in England whom I take to be vnder God the Physitian of the land and their well-willers which have most exactly layd out the sicknesse of their body with the causes and cure which must have the preheminence yet so soone as I first began to read this considering that it is the worke of a stranger and composed in a method and style most pleasing to some capacities I thought it might helpe to the information of my poore Countriemen in the estate of their bodie politicke that knowing their disease they might being humbled for their sin which is the cause flye unto him for cure who changeth the times and seasons shaketh the mountaines and maketh the earth to tremble and the great ones to hide them selves when he is angrie who maketh the warres to cease and sendeth peace into the habitation of the righteous If in the publishing hereof I shall doe my Country anie profitable service I shal be bound to give God thankes for his mercie and the acceptation of it shal be my reward In the meane time whither this profit or no my prayers shal be incessantly to the Lord that England may not be a seate of warre but that therein may flourish the Gospell of peace which bringeth downe the loftie spirits of men making the wolfe to dwell with the lambe the leopard to lye down with the kid and the calse and the young lyon and the fatling together and a little child to lead them c. Isa 11 6. yea causeth them to beat their swordes into plowshares and their speares into pruning hookes Isa 2. 4. c and that he who is the King of Kings Lord of Lords by whom Kings raign Princes Rev. 19 16 Pro. 8 15 Pro. 24 1 decree Justice who hath their hearts in his hand turning them as the rivers of water which way soever it pleaseth him would be pleased to make the King a nursing father and the Queen a nursing mother unto Isa 49 23. his Israel Holland this 20 of the first moneth according to our new computation 1643. The AUTHOR To the READER MY Lords and you the honest Inhabitants of the united Provinces That star with a tail seen in the year 1618. was a warning and type of a rod that should come over all Christendome whereupon followed those bloody effects those horrible warrs lamentable wastings barbarous destructions of countreys and cities the ruine of so many costly buildings of so many gentle men so many inhabitants men and women young and old in Germanie And ô that we could yet see the end the bottome of the cup of indignation but the rodd flourisheth still the destroyer is yet busie the hand of God is stretched out still there is yet too much chaffe to hang away the fanne the silver is yet too unclean to blow out the refyneing fire The inhabitants and those that are fled from Germany must by the weight of their miseries and plagues be brought to a better minde to farther reformation to a greater feeling of and sorrow for their past and present sins before there can be any hope that the rod of Gods wrath wherewith they are now oppressed shall be cast into the fire That earthquake not long since felt in the year 1640. was a token of great commotions and mighty shakings of the Kingdomes of the earth for a little before and shortly thereupon was concluded the revolt of Cathalonia the falling-off of Portugale the stirres in Scotland the rebellion of the Ireish those civill uncivill warres great alterations unexpected tumults in England amongst which none more neare none more fearfull and dangerous to us than the rebellion of Ireland which had its originall and rize in England from the great ones from the Papists from the enemies of our religion and state seconded by our deadly enemie the King of Spaine plotted by the Jesuits executed by the barbarous Ireish who are already growne such profitiens in the schole of those murdering Iesuits that they according to their disposition and counsell strive for the prize who can invent the cruellest manner of torments for the Protestants cutting of their privie-members eares fingers handes boareing out their eyes stripping some wives naked and that in the presence of their husbandes and bruitishly abuseing others ripping infants out of their mothers wombe and presently dashing them against the stones exerciseing many other cruelties which are published and dispersed farre and neere in print to the amasement of all men upon our fellow-members that are of the same covenant and faith with us Doe not then these miseries touch us which are executed on our bodie and that so neere yea the civill warres in England are yet more dangerous for us where the friends members citizens inhabitants subjects of one Kingdome professors of one faith Manasse and Ephraim strive one against an other They there are our confederates bretheren friends antient assistants neerest neighbours There wrestleth the King against his subjects the head against the members the master against his servants There the defender is become a Spoiller the Sheepherd a destroyer Eden an Adamah Cunaan a wildernes There a long-lasting misse-used peace is changed into an unexpected wasting warre There may we now see worne in the place of plush velvet silkes sattines costly apparrell chaines of gold and pearle harnasse swordes bandaleers musquets There may we beare now in stead of Luxurious wantonnesse danceing masking viols fluits harpes

shall be maintained the Inhabitants defended and brought into their former rest the lawes and priviledges established reformation in Church and common wealth shall powerfully proceede to the adorning of the State Our common weal shall be by that means secured and the malignants restrained Let no man then contribute to the suppressing of the Parliament especially let not us Netherlanders for the foundation of their warre and ours is all one they have maintained us therein with their goods and blouds we must not helpe to suppresse them els God shall suppresse us the inhabitants would protest against us before God and the world and God would see and search it Let us not imploy those soldiers which are in our service to help the papists there to suppresse both them and us Let us not transport the armes of the land and leave our selves naked for that is our Capitall Let no Inhabitant to satisfie his covetousnes further or assist them for shall we not then put a knife into their handes to cut our owne throats But be well informed concerning the drift of the King and Parliament and then you shall quickly see whose side you must take that you shall finde in this Brittish Lightning which sheweth the unexpected and suddaine tumults of the Kingdomes with the causes thereof Read with consideration and judge right The Brittish Lightning or suddaine tumults in England Scotland and Ireland for a warning to the United Provinces Englishman Netherlander N. WElcome Sir when came you from England E. I came thence but just now as you see I have my travelling clothes yet on N. I am glad I have met you here I have a long time expected your coming that I might once heare how all things go E. How should it goe bad enough there is no Kingdome more miserable than ours it stands all in confusion N. How can that be for 't is but a little while since that all your Kingdomes were alone at peace when the whole world was at wars I have also heard that you have had the negotiation of all kingdomes states in your havens whereby everie one among you became rich and wealthy E. 'T is so we sate as it were in Abrahams bosome dwelling among our owne people had good things under our fig tree we ate the fat we dranke the sweete knew of no evill yea we feared no mischance not knowing from whence it should come upon us seing that we dwell in Ilands that have the sea the sand the rockes our ships Saylers for our defence whereby we became a carelesse people N. I have also alwayes heard the same therfore I wond'red so much when you told me that your kingdome was the most miserable of all kingdomes when notwithstanding all Kingdomes in Germanie France and elsewhere are in exceeding bloody warres to the ruine of many thousand soules E. You are in the right that Christendome is in a lamentable condition where the blood of men is spilt like water so that many countries cities and towns are wasted burnt and destroyed yet their warre is not to be compared with this of ours N. How have you warres from whence is it come upon you you are alwayes provided in peace with all Kingdomes I have heard of no breach and how can any man come with soldiers into your land seing you are so mighty within both in men and ships This is very strange newes to me E. Well! but how can that be that you have not heard of our warres when the flame thereof is gone up into heaven and the sound thereof to all parts of the earth have you no better intelligence yes we are at wars but not against our enemies without but within it is a civill warre that scourgeth us which is the most miserable for 't is neere us the one Kingdome against the other the father against the son one citizen against the other N. What doe I heare mine heart trembleth Are you come into our place where we were once when here in our land the one city stood up against the other the one province against the other each using soldiers and guards against the other so that our land our church our liberty hung on a silken thred yea we should have consumed one an other had not Gods blessing and the wise and couragious counsell of Prince Maurice prevented it Oh! I bemoane with weeping eyes those that are in such a condition E. Yea our flourishing Kingdom is now in the highest disunion 't is Ephraim against Manasseh Manasseh against Ephraim we heare of nothing but warres and rumours of warres All trading traffique and prosperity stands still Citizens are turned soldiers in all places you may see the houses provided with armes every one standing as it were sentinel not knowing from whence they should expect their enemies for the one brother the one Citizen doth not trust the other N. But how freind Come you with such tydings my heart bleeds to heare it who should ever have thought it how speedily can the Lord GOD raise an adder out of our owne bosomes that shall eate us up Why doe men then gape after present friends strength rivers aliance mighty people for men may have all these and yet notwithstanding fall into the greatest calamities E. You say well for but three yeares agoe there was not the least appearance of any unquietnesse When the servants of God forewarned us of the plagues that hung over our heads every one asked from whence they should come Such preachers as spake of heavie tydings of great punishments that should come upon the Kingdome were accounted for raylers loggerheads melancholly persons puritans whose words the land was not able to beare N. Oh friend it goes just so also amongst us When our teachers warn us and foretel us as they many times doe that our quietnes shall be turned into unquietnes our mirth into sadnes our riches into poverty our blessing into a curse that there are heavy plagues hanging over our heads that we shall not escape the tempest of Gods wrath but as is to be feared we not taking example by the punishments of others shall drinke out the dregs of the cup of Gods indignation then they make a jest of it no man believes it accounts it an impossible thing as long as we have so many valiant soldiers both by sea land stand in such alliance have such a Generall But as you told us concerning England so maie they well lay it to heart for it was a great deale more unlikely to come on you than upon us but tell me I pray how came you into this warre how began it first who and what were the causes thereof E. That can not so Suddainly be related but if you please to accompanie me to my lodging where I may shift and refresh my self a little I shall willingly spend an houre with you for I perceive you have compassion on our estate therfore I will presently lay open all

and that the King condescended so far unto them that they also would then be ruled by the Kings religion to give him content and hereby have they blinded the eyes of the King and brought him so far that he in stead of hindering this bringing in of papistrie hath judged it convenient and maintained it by his authority to the grief and astonishment of all the godly and joy of papists N. What! were the Bishops such lads to deale by such false practices then 't is no wonder that all the honest men in England care not for them but tell me yet again were they also papists in their forme of doctrine or was it onely in the outward ceremonies and worship E. You can easily imagine whither it be possible that any man can come so neer the popish Religion in the outward worship with such zeal for those Idolatrous institutions without beeing one with them indoctrine also It is very true that the Bishops and their adherents will not go to church with such a cloak that they should be thought papists in doctrine they have kept that a longtime hid but the oulder they grow the more their painting falls off and the more their Esaws coate is worne out So that all men by little and little begin to see what was hid under it so that they could not alwayes play behinde the curtain as also was not their intention but they have now and then begun to appear on the stage and made it apparent that their mouth was reformed but their heart papish N. You say true for he that is a true protestant he will hate even the garment spotted with the flesh she that is not a whore in her heart will not put on a whorish attire he that is a right Reformed one will not be burthened with such traditions he will not touch tast or handle them as being brought in according to the institutions and doctrines of men much lesse he will defend them himselfe appoint them be zealous for them more then for the truth it self But I pray you tell me yet wherein have the Episcopall Clergie manifested that they are one with the papists in Doctrine also E. There can plentifull proof be given of that for they have not onely caused these foresaid things to be observed as indifferent but they have with the papists placed holinesse therein as by this appeares seeing they compell the people to do reverence to those things for when the bare name of Iesus is uttered then must every one bow also no man may approach to the meanest of those Altars which they have set up and named by the name of the mercy seate the place of Gods gif●s without bowing three times before it and then fall upon his knees They have consecrated and hallowed their Churches Chappels pavements of the same the pulpit cups church yarde and many other places pretending that without this consecration the places are unholy and unclean and therefore no service might be performed therein till that were first done yea if by any occasion they were never so little defiled then they were pronounced unclean till they were again purified by the Bishops Who may not from hence cleerly see that their faith concerning humane traditions is all one with that of the Papists N. You are in the right for such administrations are altogether according to the faith of papists so that I hold it for certain that the Bishops and Iesuits understood one the other in their doctrine also but tell me I pray is there yet any thing els whereby we may Iudge that they were papists in the faith also E. O yes for I scarcely know any thing exercised in papistrie which may not be found amongst them They administer the L Supper upon an Altar and they must receive it kneeling they administer Baptisme out of a font with a crosse on the fore head of the childe they have had that forme of confirmation whereby the Bishops must consecrate the children they have made marriage purely Ecclesiastical as depending on the bishops who have forbidden Mariage at some certaine times and almost half rhe year and unlesse their consent be gotten either by favour or mony none must Marry yea some Clergie-men amongst them may upon no condition Marry tho it be against the mindes and allowance of their parents and friends They have caused the Holy dayes to be more precisely observed then the Saboth forbidding all work therin upon great penalties They pray over the dead They make women after childbirth to appear in the church with white consecrated garments and then they are purified and many more such like things according to the papists institution are very precisely enjoyned by order from the Bishops N. You move my heart so that I am at the Highest pitch to hear such things of the goverment of Bishops I have alwayes thought England to be the most reformed land in the world because I have seen so many excellent bookes that were penned in England against all such popish institutions for the advancing of the doctrine of salvation and the purity of worship and therefore I can not enough wonder that so many unclean things should bear such sway there E. It makes you wonder and it hath made us many times exceeding sorrowfull and to fear unlesse God speedily prevent it that we should shortly see all our land papists which we may perceive by their generall bent that way for in the universities they began openly to defend that we must pray for the dead yea it was preached in London at Pauls Cross there are bookes written of it as also that the Pope is not that Antichrist that men may very well be saved in the papish Religion as the Arch Bishop made it manifest to the Queen therefore he hath forbidden to pray for her any more that God would convert her and open her eyes as being a Papist They have publikely taught that men may be saved by their good workes and that with the approbation of the Arch bishop as from hence may appeare when he perused the Lithurgie of the Scots in the place concerning good workes it stood that they were not causa regnandi the cause of our salvation but via regni the waye to salvation which he caused to be put out and willed them to exhort the people to good works simply without such distinctions where hence we might easily perceive what he bare in his buckler as he hath also approved the foresaid bookes and by all meanes countenanced the pen men therof From all which it cleerly appeareth that they were right Papists both in faith and doctrine N. This cuts deepe and is something more than Caeremonies by such stalking we often see that the catt leaps quite out of the sack and that they were altogether Papists and would have made the whole land papists They must without doubt have had great correspondence with the papish Clergie that have so infected them E. You have read