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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54446	To the suffering seed of royalty, wheresoever tribulated upon the face of the whole earth the salutation of your brother under the oppressive yoak of bonds, in Rome-prison of madmen / John.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1661 (1661)	Wing P1634; ESTC R3509	5,749	8

TO THE Suffering SEED OF ROYALTY Wheresoever Tribulated upon the Face of the whole Earth THE SALUTATION Of Your BROTHER Under the Oppressive Yoak of BONDS in ROME PRISON of Mad-men JOHN LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at 〈◊〉 of the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmill in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grand 1661. To the Suffering Seed of Royalty c. IN the Everlasting Bowels and Spirit of Love Unity Pitty Compassion and Mercy I truly set my whole Mind Soul and utmost Strength unto the Weight of Your Yoak bearing your Burdens in breathing and burning flames of the Righteous Zeal of the Temple of the Lord God and for your sakes am a man of sighs sobs sorrows tears cryes groans and of supplications and prayers night and day in my poverty and weakness pleading and wrestling with the Most Strong and Mighty One for you all in this the day of your Temptations and sore Tryals that you may stand on the Foundation of the Heavens which was before the Earth and the slippery places thereof were created or manifest that whilst your Enemies watch for your downfal ye may walk as Mighty men and whilst they seek for your haltings you may run seven-fold more swift in the Race and whilst they seek to cast you down to the ground you may mount up into the Heaven of the Glory of God as with the Wings of Eagles and Angels and whilst they think they have you in woful places you may live as in Princely Palaces cloathed with soft Rayment fed with the Bread of Saints and delicious Meats of Angels consolated with the Harmony of Heaven and crowned with Diadems of Glory Surely I have cryed aloud aloud aloud even with a lift up voyce unto my God saying O my Lord God of all Mercies is not Israel thy Son and Jerusalem thy only Daughter or Was Israel of old in the ancient dayes of Moses Joshua and the rest of thy Servants like unto Sion thy Son in this the day that thou hast made him a People Though they murmured against thee and repined in the times of their straights yet thy Mercies failed them not in the time of need And canst thou forsake or forget this thy Chosen Generation which trust in thy Power to the utmost and in the deepest straits are ready to say in their hearts Our God is the best of thousands and more amiable and desirable than all besides Him that is in the Earth or Heaven Can thy Righteous Soul forget to be merciful and remember no more to be compassionate unto the languishing distresses of thy own poor and tender sucklings and little ones which cannot stand without thy help nor walk without thy assistance Shall the Enemy say Lo they were alwayes as a bruised people as if the Countenance of God had never been towards them and now his fury is fallen down flat upon them Oh Lord why shall the sluces be alwayes open to the floods and thy plants to the storms of the winter If I have found grace or favour in thine eye O Lord my God accept of me if it be to be nayled hand and foot on a Crosse or torn asunder with wild horses Oh but what could the destruction of my flesh please satisfie or give content to the Will of the Holy One in for thou requirest the heart which I offer unto thee with the body and its tears and the deepest groans of my heavy soul for thy Israel that Thou in thy Sion mayest be glorified who art ten thousand times more unto me than all thine Israel is And for this cause of thy Glory in Sion and Jerusalem knowest thou not that I could willingly dye with a heart broken indeed with unspeakable grief and sorrows Surely my God thou seest and knowest it in whose sight O that I could be accepted to the thing indeed even for Israels Ransom for then should my sorrows be joys unto my soul and with gladness would I flie unto grief as a shaft that is shot to the mark But alas alas I am a Child and a Fool before the Eternal God and what am I to speak to His Majesty but that surely He hath Mercy and His Compassions can in no wise fail And behold the God of Heaven rent me as a Rag with his Power and tore me as a Paper with his Word and clove me asunder and even ground me to dust and pouder and melted me as Wax and made me run down as a River of water for He hath power over hearts and can make contrite as he pleaseth and broken as his Power moveth whose Goodness answered me saying I am God even the Lord God of all Dominion and Supremacy which holdeth the Covenant of Compassions and Mercies who changeth not but am as yesterday so this day yea and for ever and ever who speaketh unto thee Israel is my own Seed he is begotten of mine Eternal Love and born of my choicest Affection and therefore let Israel the Son of my bosom and Love of mine own heart know that though a father might cast out the son of the seed of his loyns born in his own image and though a mother might hate that the fruit of her womb should at all be suckled or nursed Moreover though Man and Beast might grow out of all natural kind and the Earth Seas and Rivers and all that in them is become wholly unnatural in their kinds yea if the Heavens with the Sun Moon and Stars could be changed from their glory and no more be seen as Lights yet cannot I alter mine Affection nor turn the tender bowels of my Love from Sion my first-born and Jerusalem my only daughter but I who have begotten formed and created him in the womb do hold the Treasures of Mercies in store for him and the Eternal Riches of all Compassions to be revealed Yet a little and it shall be in mine appointed time wherein I will magnifie mine Eternal Glory to his most exceeding and surpassing Joyfulness even for ever and ever And therefore though I his tender compassionate Father have led him into the Wilderness to be tryed and tempted that he may be throughly cleansed sanctified and purified yet lo I am walking in the midst of the Trees of the solitary places among all his Tents speaking comfortable things unto Sion my Son and Ierusalem my Virgin-Daughter for this is the place wherein I will allure her and that with the promise of Certainties and not of Flatteries for I am the righteous and faithful God of Heaven whilst I speak unto Sion O Sion my Son and Ierusalem my Daughter appear ye as my Off-spring and as I live saith the Lord I will appear as your God I have born the Iniquities of all Ages bear ye therefore a little in this Age that ye may be known to bear my perfect Similitude and Image in your Age. And then behold I thy God who can bear all things but not thy bruises nor suffer the Oppressions that are on thee for that thou art tenderer