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A96785	Vox pacifica a voice tending to the pacification of God's wrath; and offering those propositions, or conditions, by the acceptation, and performance whereof, in some good measure, a firme and continuing peace may be obtained. It is directed to the King, Parliaments, and people of these islands: By Geo. Wither Esquire, (a commander in this war) heretofore their unheeded remebbrancer [sic] of plagues and deliverances past; and their timely forewarner of the judgments now come. He hath disposed it into six books, or canto's, whereof foure onely are contained in this volumne; and the other deferred to be hereafter published, as there shall be cause.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3210; Thomason E1242_1; ESTC R202399	111,848	215

neither is nor was nor shall be done Vpon your selves you many mischiefs bring Which by a prudent-Stoutnesse you may shun For when you make an unexpected pawse You weaken your Assistants and your Cause You act not out your parts as if you thought A Tragedie in earnest now were plaid Or that upon the Combat to be fought The Triall of your whole estates were laid For to advance a frivolous designe To please a knave that is a friend in show To feed some lust whereto they do incline Or shun the fury of a feared Foe Advantages you daily fool away Which by no humane pow'r can be recal'd Eternitie you venture for a day And when you might with brasse be double wal'd You seek to fortifie the Kingdomes Cause With paper-works with rotten sticks and strawes Those Places and Imployments whence arise The greatest profit rarely are confer'd With conscionable care of their supplies By faithfull men but thither are prefer'd Those rather whose chief aimes are how to make Their private Fortunes and to that effect Know how to move and how to give or take To gaine themselves advantage and respect Yea though there be suspitions and perchance Good evidences too that some of these The Cause of your opposers will advance When they an opportunitie may seize To Offices of Trust you these commend Before your suffering and deserving Friend Who their estates have now increased most But they who for the publike ventur'd least Whose paiments and preferment● more are crost Then their who to their power have serv'd you best In what Committees now or in what Shires Are not this day a multitude of those Whose faithfulnesse undoubtedly appeares Disabled and discourag'd by their Foes How gen'rally do you in ev'ry place Begin well-known Malignants now to trust With your Affaires And suffer with disgrace True Patriots from imployment to be thrust And by this madnesse how are you betraid How open to destruction are you laid They who were first in Armes for your defence Who first their Free-will-Offerings to you brought And have continu'd faithfull ever since Ev'n they are now unserviceable thought Contrariwise they who at first refused To lend you aid in Person or in Pay They who in word and deed your cause abused And are unfaithfull to you to this day Ev'n they have now insinuated so By helpe of their Protectors And of these So over-confident you daily grow That your best friends you ruine and displease And on your selves a greater hazzard bring Then all the armed Forces of the King For those accursed Vipers are with you So intermingled in your consultations Nay rather so incorporated now In private and in State negotiations That by a miracle it must be done If any good Designe to passe be brought Or for the publike-safetie be begun Which will not e're performed come to nought And if you are not pleas'd to have it so Why did you and why do you still permit Those men whom faultring if not false you know In Counsell ev'ry day with you to to fit And why for those do you your Friends neglect Vnlesse your own perdition you affect Why else when Forts or Forces to command On which the Publike-safety much depends Do you commit them rather to their hand Whom neither proofe nor likelihood commends To such a Trust Why not unto their care And keeping rather who have courage showne Of whose fidelitie good proofes appear And whose experience hath been wel made known This could not be but that you do preferre Your sons your nephewes and your friends before The Publike-weale or els perswaded are That your Destruction will afflict the more Vnlesse your own devises help undo you Or some who are both near and deare unto you How can there be among you those foundations Whereon your Peace or Safety may erect While most men for their own accommodations Designments to the Publike losse project And while to compasse their desired ends They do not onely mischief and delude Themselves their kindred neighbourhood and friends Or mis-inform the brainlesse multitude But by their cunning also do contrive Those Engines which good Discipline deface The State into unstable postures drive Raise jarres and jealousies in every place And spread abroad the Devils Axioms too The unitie of Doctrine to undo These Engineers your power infeeble more And weaken more your hands then all yet done By other adversaries heretofore Since this unhappie Warfare first begun These while to build among you they pretended As partners in the work of Reformation Have secretlie their private Aimes befriended With hindrance to your wished Restauration Sanballats and Tobiahs you have had Who by dissembling with you to unite Have rent you from your selves and thereby made Both Parties feel the common Foes despight To be each others whip and make the Truth A theame of scorne in everie drunkards mouth There are so manie failings in the best Such needlesse and such wilfull breach of Lawes So carelesse are you of your Faith profest To those who have been faithfull in your Cause So hath your Falshood and your follie blended Both right and wrong both good and ill together That both must be opposed or defended Or els you must declare your selves for neither And whether with the one or t'other side You shall partake or for a Newter stand No humane wisdom can for you provide A being with true safety in this Land So little wit hath ordered this Place So little honesty so little grace And these great mischeifs rose from giving way For every man at pleasure to deface Those Out-works which though faultie were a stay Not uselesse till some better came in place For he that would prevent an inundation By false-built Sea-banks lets not every one Teare down the Piles and breake the old Foundation Lest that which he would make might be undone Nor for a Cobler or a Fidler sends But men experienc'd in such works doth call And with such warinesse the fault amends That no disaster may mean-while befall And that the Old-worke and the New-worke may Begin and end together in one day You thus proceeded not but with more heat Then prudence hurrying on in hast you tore The wharfage down ev'n while the floods did threat To drowne the fields and Billowes rent the shore The furious Souldier was with commendation Permitted to reforme as he thought fit Forbidding or affording toleration According to the modell of his wit And he that was not mad enough to run Their wildgoose-chase and set the world on fire To suffer by suspition streight begun And forc'd was from imployment to retire As not right principled or drawne aside By Balaams wages or unsanctifi'd And these Reformers not enough content To carve out Discipline as they shall please And Doctrine too will on the Government Vnlesse it be prevented shortlie seize For having no Foundation like a feather Which from the bodie of a Fowle is torne They to and fro are turn'd with everie

both becometh so dismaid That he receiveth benefit from neither But hazards Soule and Body both together So while you laboured at once to heale The desperate Diseases which of late Endangered both Church and Common-weale Such longings then your double-zeale begate To cure them both together and so strove Your Zelots that from both at once they mought The Cause of their distemperatures remove That great Confusions upon both are brought Yea both of them are now exposed more To scandals losses errours perturbations And hazards of destruction than before That whether now you seek their preservations Together or apart you shall not yet Obtaine that blessing which you hope to get For you must first be cleared of the sin Which hinders from enjoying your desire And that which lately might have cleansed bin With water must be purged now with fire Yea since your follies and your sins have brought Those great Confusions both on Church and State For which the meanes that might their cure have wrought Are now too feeble and will come too late Since into such a Chaos all is changed That all endeavours usefull heretofore Have daily you from Concord more estranged And made your mischiefes and your sorrowes more No ordinary-course can set you free From those distractions wherein now you be This being knowne and in what great distresse You plunged are to you it appertaines With penitencie humbly to addresse Your suits to him in whom your help remaines And ere you make approaches to his Throne There must be as was told you some purgation From those omissions and those deeds mis-done Which make your prayers an abhomination The Zimri's and the Cosbi's of the time Of whose uncleannesse and whose impudence You talk of yet but as a Veniall crime Or laugh at as a triviall offence Must with more zeale more speed receive their due Or else their sins GOD shall avenge on you For these are so impure that in their Sin They are unsatisfi'd unlesse the same H●th with some circumstances acted bin Which proves them double-guiltie without shame They are not pleas'd in Simple-Fornication Vnlesse thereto Adulteries they add Nor seemes that now sufficient violation Of Chastitie unlesse the Crime be made Yet more abhominable by beguiling Some Innocent or else by offring force The Bed of Honour with bold vaunts defiling Nay there is found among you if not worse Vncleannesse more unmanly and more strange Adult'ries by consent and by exchange But these are the defilements of your Peace Where yet they have not felt the rage of War Where yet the Course of Justice doth not cease And where great shewes of Pietie yet are And if such impudence may there be found If there you so corrupt already grow Oh I how do those Vncleannesses abound Where cruell Outrage her grim face doth show Sure words are insufficient to expresse The Rapes the Ravishments and loathsome sins Where War gives way to all Vnrulinesse And Tyranny and Lust the conquest wins When sin and impudence is acted there Where Justice on her seats doth yet appeare Behold this day ev'n whilst with Desolation The Land is threatned you have now let in A crying witkednesse which to this Nation Was ever thought so hatefull to have bin That though among the Jewes a Law they had Inflicting Death upon it you have none Because a Law is verie rarely made Concerning things unlikely to be done Who would have thought there being neither Beare Nor Wolfe nor Lyon on your English ground To seize upon your little Children there That many Beasts and Monsters should be found In humane shape to steale and beare away Your Infants whilst before your doores they play Who would have thought that for so small a price So many could so quickly have been got To joyne in perpetrating of a Vice So horrible and yet abhor it not That their hard hearts could heare poore Children crie Vpon their fathers or their mothers name Till peradventure in an agonie Of extreme passion livelesse they became Or which is worse preserv'd them to be sent To Bondage whilst their Parents almost wild Were left in everlasting discontent By musing on their lost-beloved-child This Crueltie hath in your streets been seen Thus high have your corruptions heightned been In these sad times while GODS afflicting hand Lies heavie on you and with sword and fire Pursues through ev'rie Corner of the Land And reall Penitencie doth require In stead thereof the People now begins To grow more daring and to practise crimes Beside the old or Epidemick sins Which were unheard of here in former times Blasphemous Heresie among you growes Like Sprouts at Spring-tide from a new lopt tree And so detestable are some of those That pious men afraid to name them be Lest they who love the sinfulnesse of Sin Should thereby let such mischiefes further in Death was the punishment which for this crime Was judged by the Law of Moses due And well it would become you at this time That Law among these Nations to renue And if you should observe how little sense Of Perjurie men seeme to have of late And what bold use is made of that Offence To serve the will of Malice and of hate Or with what ease Oppressours thereby may And sometimes do not only ruinate And honest Fame but also take away As well their pretious lives as an estate From Innocents Death would not seem a Law Too strict to keep those Wicked ones in awe The Land through Oathes and Curses also mournes For some have learn'd new oathes and imprecations Not heard of heretofore and GOD returnes On their owne heads their wished-for Damnations In Cursings they delighted and they soke Like Oyle into their bones They took a pride In wishing Plagues and lo as with a cloke Therewith now wrapt they are on ev'rie side You lov'd not Blessings but when you enjoy'd Peace plentie health and safetie you despis'd Those Mercies and behold they are destroy'd That they hereafter may be better priz'd You long have partners been in ev'rie sin And now each others Hang-men you have bin When ev'rie neighb'ring house is in a flame You store your owne as if no danger were In Honestie 's and in Religion's name You credit get and publike Robbers are To lye and to be perjur'd for the Cause Of GOD your King or Countrey is a gin To catch Opixion whereby most he drawes That is most bold and impudent therein By some pretence to benefit the State Religion to promote or aid the King You colour your oppressions slander cheat And put in practice almost any thing You by a shew the Gen'rall to preserve Particulars unmercifully starve You wrong the meaning of your Parliament When their estates you seize who are their Foes To their undoing who are innocent And blamelesse though the Creditors of those And were it our Designment to accuse Particulars as to informe and warne In gen'rall termes that they who yet abuse Their power more humanitie might learn

an Act sufficient to confer For my Recruit the personall estate Of any trait'rous Rebell-Commoner Vntill a time return in which men may Have Justice done them in a legall way Why are false rumours rais'd and entertain'd As if I manie thousand pounds had got Whereas of hind'rances by me sustain'd To me the tenth as yet returneth not How comes it that attendance nigh two yeare Procureth me although my wants be great No pennie of two thousand pounds arreare Nor an imploiment that affords me meat Why speed I thus And wherefore notwithstanding The remnant of my ruines forth I laid Thereby to keep my souldiers from disbanding Is nothing in requitall yet repaid But sleights and slanders yea though use I pay For manie hundreds of it to this day Indeed my house GOD hath refurnished And of his Love to give me outward showes Hath cloath'd my Bodie and my Table spred As well in spite as presence of my Foes Yet when I shall account how I have liv'd Of what I have been hindred since these wars How much was lost how little is receiv'd How my successive-wants supplied are How my engagements ev'rie day encrease How destitute my Wife and Children be Of outward Portions and how mercilesse This world hath all my life time been to me They who their favours have on me bestow'd Shall find no cause to grudge the Mercie show'd And though as some conceive I have obtained A full repaire and therewith somewhat more Than my bare losses what had I then gained Respecting all my damage heretofore Against those Traytours to the Common-Good Who now apparent Enemies are found Nigh thirtie yeares a Combate I have stood So long ago I to these Iles did sound A warning Trumpet So long have I borne The frownes and furie of the wanton Court The Prelates malice the despitefull scorne Of wealthy Fooles and of the vulgar sort Yea though I know a path applauded more I took the course I knew would keep me poore And why should any man be discontent That for my damages and service then My charges paines and close imprisonment I now have bread and clothes like other men Why is a trifle thought too much for me When one sleight Officer can in a yeare Cheat up a Sum that shall sufficient be To pay my damages and my Arreare Why grievous doth it seeme that out of that Which was by him possessed who compli'd With those who robbed me of my estate A part of my great losse should be suppli'd He having spoyl'd my Friends of ten times more Than ten times that small part he should restore Since we for Traytours and for Cut-throats here And for their wives and their malignant brood Provisions make when Converts they appeare Why should there not of raiment and of food For us our Wives and Children some supplies Be likewise made yea since they were the Cause That on our backs the work so heavie lies Of holding up our Liberties and Lawes Why are we poorly cloth'd while they are brave By whose unfaithfulnesse we are undone While we want bread why should they fulnesse have By whom these wars and troubles were begun And till a Restauration may be had Of what we lost why should they rich be made Since by our Adverse partie our estate Is given and possessed Since we are Assured of their everlasting hate So long as we have either peace or war Or Being in this life yea since our Cause Is knowne unto us to be just and right Since for our Conscience Liberties and Lawes Against oppressing Tyrants we do sight Since to avenge the Saints we do oppose Not meerly Cananites whom for their sin The Land would vomit forth but also those Who without cause this war did first begin Why should we not out of their Barnes be fed By whom we have been robbed of our bread Nay since our Charitie doth portions give To feed their wives and children while among Our Adversaries in that course they live Which this unhappie Warfare doth prolong Why should not we and ours as well as they Be cared for since with a willing heart We bore the heat and burthen of the day And from our duties mean not to depart Why is our equitie and our discretion So small that till our losses be repai'd We suffer for a trifling composition Their whole estates by them to be enjoy'd And their full freedome who for ought we know Are here but Spies or Agents for the Foe He whom that true Repentance bringeth home Which makes a reall Convert to the State Not for his Lands but Conscience sake doth come And such an one if we redintegrate When of his penitence good proofes appeare Of Charitie both to our selves and them An honourable Evidence it were Which no man should repine at or condemne But when we unadvisedly shall part With large Possessions for a Person which Brings to us neither wit nor honest heart Nor Pow'r nor any thing to make us rich But poorer and it may be weaker too How reasonlesse is then the thing we do When we receive to Mercie those who seek No more but how they their estates may save To compasse by that match what are we like But an estate to lose and find a knave They strength receiving from our false-ones here Restrengthen them and are so knit together That we who to this Cause most faithfull were Are much disabled by their coming hither And what advantage had we lost I pray If of those few who reconciled seeme None had return'd what lost we if you weigh How uselesse to that partie they did seeme From whom they came while they continued there And what they are to us now they are here Who shall at last our private losse repay If this course hold who shall the charge sustaine Of all our future detriments but they Who of the cost already do complaine Why should a perjur'd Commoner or Lord Who peradventure did but stay behind That some advantages it might afford To those departed suffred be to blind The Publike Eye in favour of our Foes Defraud the State And in our competitions Sleight and affront us for the sake of those Who wilfully endeavour'd our perditions And only come for ought yet knowne unto us That at our cost they safely may undo us When of my goods the Foe had me dispoil'd For doing faithfull service and when I To seek an habitation was compell'd And had provided for my Family By publike Order why neglected so Was I and mine That knowing not else where My wife with her big belly to bestow I was displac'd and forc'd to habour there Where desolation dwelt And in that place Why was the wife of him that plund'red me There setled why to my disgrace Must I the second time removed be And made a Shuttle-cock or Tennis-ball For ev'rie Foole and Knave to play withall As I have hope to live and see an end Of these Distractions and as ere I die I hope to see our

without limitation they are feee To do what may by Parliaments be done And that is ev'rie reasonable thing Which to their weale and safety may belong And their abilitie to passe may bring If to Divinity it be no wrong And whosoe're in these extremities Perswade that they should take upon them lesse Vnto the publike peace are enemies Yea they deferre or marre your happinesse By weakning of their hands who are your friends And strengthening his who now your spoile intends Let them not therefore act as if they had But halfe a power or seemed to be lame Or as if they a Parliament were made To be no more but only so in name With prudent conscience and with confidence Let them proceed in what they undertake And in what e're pertaines to their defence On just resolves let them no haltings make Through want of presidents For power they have To make new presidents as well as they Who liv'd before them And if they will save Their Countrie and themselves this is the way Since in an extarordinarie Cause True Reason binds as firmly as the Lawes And though it greatly grieve you as it ought Yet suffer not the absence of the King To foole you with so frivolous a thought As that a diminution it may bring To their authority For wheresoe're He bideth when his Parliament shall sit The Kingship vertually is alwaies there And cannot possibly divide from it The Person of a King may ramble forth As his own fancie hurries him about Or do things derogating from his worth Or die or from the Kingdome be cast out And yet the Kingdome and the Kingship too Continue still as they were wont to do The life of Bodies-naturall indeed Departs out of them when their head is gone And thereunto no other can succeed To make it live or not a headlesse-one So 't is not in this Bodie-politike The vitalls of it in the body lie Not in that head-ship and though it be sick When that falls from it yet it doth not die A King is but a substituted-head Made for conveniencie And if thereby The bodie seem to be indangered If Power it hath it hath Authoritie To take one off and set another on Aswell as at the first to make it one And when that Body shall be represented As this hath been according to the Law Or shall be by necessity convented Therein resides that Soveraignty that Awe And Rule whereto the Lawes of GOD and nature Injoyne obedience and not in that thing Corrupted which was but that Creatures creature And which to serve it was first made a King When therefore GOD injoynes you to obey And honour Kings these duties are not meant To those who from their Kingships run away But rather to th'essentiall Government Of whatsoever kind by Law ordain'd Or by a strong necessity constrain'd For were it otherwise the pride and lust Of an injurious Arbitrary power Would all men out of their possessions thrust And all the freedomes of mankind devoure Let therefore neither fear nor flattery Prescription or vaine custome make you cleave Vnto an accidentall Majesty And that which is substantiall quite to leave At this time chieflie take a speciall care As of what verie much conduceth to Your Peace and Safety that as now things are Your just advantages you let not goe Lest by a faint and conwardly endeavour You loose your freedoms and be slaves for ever And yet take heed that zeal to Innovations Nor private fears nor hopes incline your minde To subjugate these Kingdoms or these Nations To Governments of anie other kind But rather use your utmost diligence To rectifie those things which are amisse In that which is establish'd and from thence Cast out or purge whatever therein is Repugnant to those Charters which by grace Or nature were confer'd And let your care Be so to settle it that place you make The Throne of CHRIST among you up to reare Lest when his Kingdome comes you els be fain To pull your new-devices down again Take likewise heed that you no meanes neglect Whereby the King may be reclaim'd and won GODS honour with your safetie to respect And do the duties he hath left undone For by rejecting him how just soe're The Causes be you shall delay the peace Which is desir'd And make your quarrell here With much more difficultie to decrease But if your industrie shall win him home And he return sincerely to his charge It shall a blessing to these Isl●s become Your honour and your joy it shall inlarge And as CHRISTS Vice-Roy he shall sit upon A righteous and an everlasting Throne Walk therefore prudently in this straight path And turn not to the left hand or the right That pow'r which GOD to you committed hath Improve for him according to your might Him in the reasonable-meanes attend With Faith and Patience that he may at last Your King new-moulded back unto you send Your King new-moulded back unto you send Or him out of his ruin'd Kingdome cast If possibly he can his course repent GOD will restore him yet If you amend Then all these Troubles and this grievous Rent Shall in true Peace and sweet agreements end If both conforme Both shall true Peace enjoy If both be wilfull GOD shall both destroy But heark my Scribe I heare a dreadfull crie Of wounded men and therewith as it were The shouts of those that have a Victorie Of much concernment Therefore go and heare What now is done For somewhat hath been wrought From whence if well it shall improved be Enlargements of those meanes will forth be brought Which may effect what thou desir'st to see As soone as thou hast Information had Of what is rumoured and duly weigh'd What profitable uses may be made Of that which either hath been done or said Retire thou hither and give eare again To that which to your Peace doth appertaine The fourth Canto The Contents While here our Authour doth recite His Musings after Naesby fight The VOICE returnes and doth begin To shew us what must usher in Exiled Peace Then told are we How kept our Vowes and Covenants be How we reforme and fast and pray What Thankfulnesse we do repay What must in generall be done What by each Jndividuall-One What course both King and State must take E're they their Peace with God shall make What he expects from ev'rie Nation From ev'rie Towne and Corporation And ev'rie House in some degree Before our Peace renew'd will bee WHen from attention to that Silent-tongue heard Which without words reveales what you have I came abroad the Streets and Temples rung Of Victories and Signalls there appear'd Not only of a valiant Resolution In those that conquer'd but of some divine Disposure of them too for execution Of that which GOD himselfe did fore-designe The scornfull Adversaries rushed on To Policie and Strength themselves commending The LORD of Hosts our Friends reli'd upon With Prayers fighting and with Faith defending And lo GOD

Name For by Interpretation 't is as much With you as if yee said Hearing-the-Witch As Simon-Peter and the Sorcerer Long since contended whether of the two Should get possession of the Peoples eare Ev'n so those hearings at this present do As Simon-Magus untill Peter spoke Had so bewitch'd the common-people then That for the POW'R of GOD they him mistook So Formall-hearing now bewitcheth men So it is idoliz'd and some have thought When formally that Dutie they had paid The Holy-Ghost might for the same be bought But as then Peter of the money said Their Hearing with them perish who suppose That GOD his Graces for such wares bestowes You of this itching this bewitching Hearing Have had Experiments and at this day There are such bitter fruits therof appearing That you had need be watchfull and to pray That GOD would please to sanct●fie the eare And circumcise your hearts that you may know When you the Witch and when you Peter heare That you in Grace may edified grow And that this Information make you not Respectlesse of that Hearing or that Preaching Whereby that Saving knowledge may be got Which no man hath but by the Spirits teaching And that you so may Heare that GOD may blesse Hearing with Faith Faith with Truth-full-Peace Take heed unto your Prayers that they reach not Their length that Widowes-houses do devoure Take heed unto your Preachings that you preach not The Spirit weak and raise a fleshly-power Take heed in Giving thanks you do not say In heart when GOD hath victories bestowne That of your Foes his hand did thousands slay And that there fell ten thousands by your owne Vnto your Fasts and your Humiliations Take likewise heed lest by your negligences Those Duties may be greater aggravations Of your but seeming-sorrow'd-for-Offences And take heed lest hypocrisie may breed Obstructions in you of due Taking-heed If truly you desire a happie-Peace Repent your false Repentance and in haste Your suits with true sinceritie addresse Before the Day of mercie shall be past Reforme your Publike Fasts and let them show Ev'n in the Out-ward-man so truly sad That others may your inward-sorrow know And by the same so sensible be made Of what you feele that it may make them find A change in their owne hearts and by that change Become to pious dutie so inclin'd That them from Vanitie it may estrange And ev'rie day one thus draw on another To Penitence till all repent together To make this dutie further to extend And grow more generall you shall do well Vnto your Adversaries to commend And unto those who in your quarters dwell This motion That since both of you professe One GOD you might assemble on one day To meet before his Presence to confesse Your wickednesse wide open there to lay Your Causes And for judgement to referre Your selves to him For such an introduction A meanes to draw you somwhat nearer were And to remove it may be some obstruction Which hinders Peace or els to bring that on By which your work the sooner may be done If they that have the better Cause think fit With some such meek and pious invitations As they might frame for this end to admit That day whereon their Foes humiliations Pretended are it either shall allure Your Adversaries to that Penitence Which will a speedy amity procure Or aggravate so greatly their offence That GOD shall quite reject them as if they Refused your Appeal or to abide His Doome and did intend some other way Or by some other Censor to be tri'd And what event will thereupon ensue It were a needlesse matter to fore-shew When all are thus assembled on one day Or els of all so many as GOD's grace Shall make therewith content For though it may To you be somwhat yet nor Time nor Place Are in respect of Him considerable Yea when you in his presence shall appeare To this effect as he shall you inable Fall down before him with all meeknesse there Together then with seriousnesse begin The Fast anew In true humiliations Let all bewaile their errours and their sin Till in their mournings and their Lamentations The famous mourning equallize they shall Of Hadadrimmon in Megiddo Vale. Let joyntly People State and King unite In penitence as they in sinne have done Themselves let them for all their sinnes indite Their new and ancient sins before GOD's Throne And forasmuch as in this later-Age And in this place he seemeth as it were To bring all things again upon the stage Which heretofore in action did appeare Yea since they who will heed it may behold All that concernes th' Estates or conversation Of Saints or sinners in GOD's Word fore-told Epitomized in this Generation Let not his warnings both by Word and Deed Be frustrated through want of taking-heed Remember to be waile your Gentilismes Your Babylonish-whoredomes heretofore Your ancient-heresies and moderne-Schismes That GOD for these may judge these Isles no more Observe and well observe it that because You govern'd lesse by Law then by your will That GOD almost depriv'd you of those Lawes And that because your projects to fulfill Or to promote your carnall-Policies Morality and Piety by you Were made but stales the worlds old-Heresies And Heath'nish-manners are sprung up anew To interrupt and marre the publike-Peace For your dissembling and unthankfulnesse Remember that like Israel you have spar'd The Canaanites that should have been destroi'd That like rebellious Saul you had regard To Agag and forbidden spolles enjoi'd Remember how you stagger'd off and on Betwixt the LORD and Baal in ancient-time And how farre you in later yeares have gone To repollute these Islands by that crime Remember that like Judah you have made Confed'racies with such as are GOD's Foes Though warnings counsells and commands you had To shun their friendships who the Truth oppose And mindfull be how you on them reli'd Whom Egypt and whom Asbur typifi'd Remember that you have like Solomon Though you had his example to beware Been carelesse those Alliances to shun Which both pernitious and forbidden were For all this Empire guiltinesse contracted As well by heeding not to have prevented What by your Kings and Peeres of State was acted As in not having yet this sin repented Repent that as in Judah by her Kings You have by halves reform'd Religion too Call therewithall to mind what fruit it brings The work of GOD with negligence to do And humbled be for ev'ry other sin Whereof these Isles have jointly guilty bin Let those three Parties which have made this day These Islands wretched by their great Transgressions And chas'd their Glory and their Peace away Make jointly and asunder their confessions For all have much offended ev'n the best Are guiltie of enough to have destroi'd The temporall well-being they possest And all their hopes of what may be enjoi'd Let luke-warme Newters those poore-spirited Degenerated Britains without heart Who as ignobly have demerited As those who persecute the guiltlesse