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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66772	A proclamation in the name of the King of kings, to all inhabitants of the isles of Great Brittain and especially to those who have hypocritically pretended to justice, mercy, honesty, and religion (as also to them who have lived in open prophaness and impiety) summoning them to repentance, by denouncing God's judgements, and declaring his mercy, offered in the everlasting gospel / warrantably proclaimed and preached by Geo. Wither ... ; whereto are added, some fragments of the same authors, omitted in the first imprinting of the book, intituled Scraps and crums, and a few which were collected since that impression, and during his imprisonment.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3181; ESTC R12240	34,610	74

Will make deep stamps on some of you Wo wo ere long to C. C. C. To P. P. P. P. P. and P. Like Wo to S. to M. and L. For they have made this Earth a Hell Wherein unless Christ quickly comes Few Good men shall have resting rooms And little Faithfulness will here Be found when he shall next appear But Time hath almost wheel'd that round Wherein the seventh Trump will sound And then shall Righteousness alone With Pow'r and Glory fill the Throne That JESUS who when by his Birth He was first visible on Earth Much troubled Herod and with him The City of Jerusalem And is that Universal Prince Of whom all Tyrants ever since Have been afraid will come ere long To set that right which now is wrong And put an end to their Oppression VVho charge his Subjects with Sedition For though some slighted them when they were seen His Harbengers have here already been IX A brief Reproof of them who take pleasure in Scandalous Invectives whereby others are personally defamed THere is a mangie Humour and an Itch At this day very troublesome with which Most men are so infected that unless We find a speedy cute 't will so increase And leave so few from this Contagion free That we shall all appear meer Scabs to be Now there is nothing more delights the ear Than when it shall those vilified hear Whom they affect not whether they are blam'd Without just cause or worthily defam'd Especially if those in ought dissent From their Opinions Although eminent For many Virtues and with them agree In all things which with Truth essential be And since our Diffrences did us divide Few men there are of note on either side Of good or ill desert but right or wrong They so aspersed are by Pen or Tongue And Truth if spoke so blended is with lyes With fraud or else with Ambiguities That if what is in Pamphlets published Should be hereafter by our Children read They 'l think this Age if they do credit it Had neither Honour Honesty nor Wit So scurrilous and so malevolent Are their Invectives and so impudent There are of Truths and Falshoods put together Such medlies made without respect to either And misappli'd in such a barbrous wise Mens Persons or their Cause to scandalize That whether they did wickedly or well They in their outward Fames are parallel And frequently by seeming to intend That which may their Antagonist befriend A Foe disguiz'd destruction doth devise For them whom he pretends to patronize Shews make of Peace where they bear no Goodwill And those to save whom they intend to kill This Bitterness and Falshood multiplies Those Discords and those Animosities Which have thus far undone us and this course Will make that which is bad grow daily worse Until it shall exasperate this Nation Beyond all means of Reconciliation For till there shall as much respect be shown To other mens Good-names as to our own And we are pleas'd to hear good spoke of those Who well deserve although they are our Foes We never shall be Friends nor friendship merit From any till we qualifie this spirit 'T is gentle speaking that appeaseth Wrath A bitter language no such virtue hath Yet let none think this means to usher-in A Reprehension of reproving Sin Or that it well beseems not any man To render Vice as odious as he can For no debasement can make Wickedness More ugly than essentially it is Though just Reproofs have not allowed been Where persons are more aim'd at than their sin Their Practice Justice doth to none allow Who at their Neighbours from an unseen Bow Shoot poysned Arrows and Bandetti-like The Passengers from such a Covert strike That none can truly know how they are nam'd Or where those dwell by whom they are defam'd In taxing Vices let nor Tongue nor Pen Act sparingly but spare alone the men As much as possible unless they shall Ingage themselves by quarrels personal Against the Truth Then spare them only so That thereby Truth may not receive a blow A causless Scandal nor a Lie admit Though thereby Truth may some advantage get For she or they will honour lose thereby Who think to do her service by a Lie Some Good-men not a little to their shame I fear are this way otherwhile to blame As much as they whose refuge it in Lyes And care not by what means they gain their Prize For when that an Impostor doth express What some-way suiteth with what they profess Oft-times by that Wile guilded Pills are swallow'd As wholsom which are poysned and unhallow'd And them deprive who are deluded so Of outward peace and Peace of Conscience too Take therfore heed of those who by their mingling Truths with apparant Falshoods and by gingling Some Silver among Counters may by shows Of their befriending that which they oppose Obtrude upon you somewhat that is evil Relating unto things Divine or Civil At least to make you hearken with content To what brings undeserv'd Disparagement On other men For all things baneful prove Wherein there 's want of Prudence Faith or Love X. A Disclaim by way of Advertisement of a Paper falsly imputed to this Author THere are Verses printed on one side of sheet Intituled The Wheel of Time turning round to the Good Old Cause which many who know not me nor my Principles nor my Writings from other mens have ascribed unto me who do abhor publishing any thing without my Name which may be scandalous especially to individual persons either by name or by marking them out in such manner that the Vices I reprove can be justly appropriated to them and to no other Neither did I ever purposly compose ought which might endanger the publick Peace or hazard the quiet of private persons whereof that Paper is suspected And indeed I conceived it at the first view to have been the composure of a malicious person who thereby intended to make those in Authority jealous of some Innovation intended by sober and conscientious men who I hope will make patient suffering their Refuge in all their Probations Therefore as soon as I had perused it I wrote these following Verses on the backside thereof and gave it unto a Friend to communicate thereby my sense thereof to others if he pleased He that divulgeth ought without a Name Which individual persons doth defame Although the Truth he writes deserveth blame Yea he that without soberness and reason Speaks what is true and speaks it out of season Against the Dignity of Truth speaks Treason Yet Saints may by oppressions now and then Be so provoked for they are but men That they may thus offend by Tongue or Pen. If it be so let him who forth hath sent Those Lines his folly heartily repent For they portend an Evil-Consequent G. W. XI To them who object it as a fault that this Author hath written several Poems since he resolved to write no more I Sometimes think my work is done and

true I am as mad as they Who think so and take the nearest way To my destruction for a windy puff Which in a moment will be quite blown off And leave me comfortless in that condition Which threatens inavoidable perdition But these will find their error when they know By tryal from what Root my Actings flow And that I had in what I have exprest A nobler Aim than meer self-Interest Or any outward ends although in them My own well-being I shall not contemn I am not ignorant that whatsoever I actively or passively endeavour To honour GOD or for my Countries good May to my dammage be misunderstood Nor that most men mis-censure what I 've writ To be Composures without fear or wit And that if I should be thereby undone Which likely seems I may be thought upon With very small regard alive or dead Or any way at all be mentioned Except by some few who perhaps will say I fool'd my Liberty and Life away But should I minded be when I shall have My portion among other in the Grave What greater share shall I have in that Fame Which after Death might memorize my Name Than they who in Oblivion lie forgot Where Pen nor Tongue their Actions mention not In my time sixteen persons I have known Who did my Christian and my Surname own And one of them oft guilty prov'd to be Of Crimes imputed falsly unto me By those who knew us not and he whilst here He lived had in my repute a share But after few years none will know among All these to which of us those things belong Which we have acted Nay though ten times more I had deserv'd than any heretofore Made memorable by a glorious Fame A feigned person who no real Name Or Being ever had save what perchance Was thereunto ascrib'd in some Romance May seem to be more honour'd by that fiction Than any who attain'd the high'st perfection In Piety or Morals For I 've seen Some Readers with such Legends to have been So far transported that it them could move More sighs and tears compassion honour love Esteem and admiration to confer On those Idea's than bestowed are On real Suff'rers who did undertake To do and suffer freely for their sake And what a trivial prize or purchase then Is an esteem or vain applause of men My Actings have expos'd me during life To hazards losses much reproach and Grief And what shall I the better be or worse When I am dead whether men bless or curse Speak well or ill that I should quite destroy For such toyes what in life I might enjoy By being silent I preserv'd from blame Might be and more esteem'd than now I am If I could for advantage swear and lie And flatter Fools and Knaves in Elegy Sure he who shall observe as I have done What scorns and what despights I 've undergone What I have felt and what I do fore-see Will probably on Earth my Wages be Yet thinks I run these hazards for vain Fame Must like wise either think that mad I am Or that I 've only learned in the School Of long Experience to be more than Fool. But though most are deceiv'd in their Design And in their thoughts I am not so in mine I know my Work I likewise know that End Whereto it doth or at least ought to tend And therefore hope that till my lifes conclusion I shall be kept from such a gross delusion He that for GOD's Cause or for his Elects Pretends to do or suffer yet expects More honour or ought else than his just share With them who of the same Communion are Expects more than his due Exceeds the bound Of that self-self-love which in true Saints is found And what he acts or suffers no Reward Can merit for he forfeits his Reward All that he shall endeavour on that score When Rich he thinks to be will make him Poor And by what he expected to be fam'd He shall become contemptible and sham'd GOD's Mind I therefore study to fulfill Seeking no Pay but what and when he will And knowing that 's my Aim much care I not What in this world he gives to be my Lot I no more value Praises than Reproach And whether in a Carr or in a Coach I ride to my last home I little care So with a quiet Conscience I come there If well in life I use them 't is no matter How far asunder men my Limbs do scatter Or in what Publick place they set my Head To terrifie some fools when I am dead For ev'ry part of me will meet together When GOD shall pleased be to call me thither Where CHRIST now sits inthron'd and whither he Ascended to prepare a place for me I prize nor Life nor Death but as thereby I more or less GOD's Name may glorifie And whilst my own heart knows this to be so I care not whether 't is believ'd or no By any man uless that to infuse The like mind into him it may conduce If I have acted for a worthless prize Learn by my foolishness to be more wise If I have aim'd to suffer or to do For such ends as I should do ye so too Because then what you heretofore of me Misdeem'd will thenceforth your advantage be And no more harm to me than that man found Who had an Vlcer cured by a Wound VI. A Meditation occasioned by considering the manifold Temptations to distrust in GOD whereby his best Servants are otherwhile proved and exercised THe best of men some failings have and I Not only many through Infirmity But flowing also from those Negligences Which very much have heightned my offences Because I know what pow'r to me he gave To do those things which I neglected have Especially when my Distrustfulness Hath made me doubtful of GOD's Promises Who to assure them hath vouchsafed both A written Word and seal'd it with an Oath And also new experiments which may Ascertain it vouchsafeth ev'ry day David the most couragious Combatant Against such-like Temptations did oft want That Confidence which was by him profest And thereby hazarded his Interest In GOD's free Promises By Saul said he One time or other I destroy'd shall be And what was promised had so outright Forgotten in his carnal pannick fright That to GOD's Foes he for protection ran The part there acting of a frantick man And of a drivling fool yea worse than so Dissembled then yet scap'd with much ado That Course whereby he thought to be assur'd Of safety an indangerment procur'd Beyond all former hazards for he lost Not only Goods Wives and all hope almost Of Rescue but was also like to lose His Life and to be ston'd by some of those In their distemper who inrag'd became To see their Habitations in a flame Their dear'st Relations captiv'd and to those Inslav'd who were their old malignant Foes In which strait if GOD had not him befriended Whom he distrusted there his Life had ended There