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A67537	An encovragement to warre, or, Bellvm Parliamentale shewing the unlawfulnesse of the late Bellum Episcopale : as also the justnesse of this present expedition for the defence of this kingdom : with the illegall, rebellious, trayterous, barbarous, and bloody proceedings and intentions of the cavaliers : lately published at the request of a friend / by John Ward ...	Ward, John, fl. 1642-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing W776; ESTC R13934	10,549	21

God our King our liberties t' enjoy But all hopes else are fled and they alone Next under God or surely we have none Are left to be a means to bring this late Apostate Land to a reform'd estate O then let every one that knows the prize And worth of such a Parliament be wise And not discert them But let every one Call former Racks and Impositions Into their memory O let them call Those Popish Rites and Innovations all That burdned many a conscience to their mind And seriously search if they cannot find Their spirits greatly eas'd and then consider So many unjust Courts cast down together The vastnesse of whose arbitrary power Did many a loyall Subjects state devour And spoil them of their Liberties which we Without a Parliaments authoritie Had nere attain'd and call to mind the cause Why they were call'd wast not because the Laws Were trampled on When all things out of order Were rudely cast on every severall border Throughout the Kingdom and when civill warre Did threat our former sleighted peace to marre Had they not been our freedoms lives estates Had been a prey to Popish Runagates And think upon the call that brought them hither To sit so long a time in parle together When all the Kingdom was distracted so God mov'd the Lords they to the King did go In humble manner him petitioning That heede convoke a Parliament to bring An end to these distempers and possest Him with the justice of this their Request And furthermore advisde his Majesty That that alone would work an unity Or else confusion would straight way step in And all to ruine and destruction bring The King approv'd and granted their Petition Call'd for a Parley with all expedition To settle peace betwixt the Lands divided And t'have things controverted and decided Twixt King and Subject that exactions might Be eas'd that long against all Law and right Have been imposde and that Religion So long exposde unto derision Might have just vindication gainst all those That have been known to be her godlesse foes We see the cause then why the Parliament Was call'd together and for what intent Their call st●n●s good in point o● Law we see From God and Man King Peers and Commonaltie So 's their continuance too the King hath seald Their sitting which is not to be repeal'd Till Church and State have past and overcome These Agu●s Feavers and Consumptions That make them sick to death When these are cur'd The Court may be adjourn'd yet they assur'd They have discharg'd their duties and the Land Shall evermore to them obliged stand For their good service and all thought to be Too mean to answer their Fidelitie Let these considerations work upon Th' affections and desires of every one That do desire to lead a Christian life And to live free from civill warres and strife Or that desire that wholesome Law should be The Rule whereby to judge indifferently As they their God Laws King selves Liberties Wives children Countrey and their substance prize Or any thing that unto them is deare I' th City or i' th Field or anywhere O let them stand couragiously for those That have stood so for them against their Foes Have not our Worthies for us sacrifizde Lives Honours States and what so highly prizde For our enlargement What conspiracies Devises plots and Hell-hatch pollicies By Jesuites and Papists have been laid And all to have their good proceedings staid Against their lives what threats have been belch'd out Against them by that superstitious Rout. What scandalous aspersions have been cast And what grosse sensures vulgarly have past Their candide Reputations to bespot With some pretended ignomimous blot As if they trayterously should undermine Our government Politicke and Divine And set an Arbitrary Course of power To wrong the King in 's right and to devoute The Subjects state and overthrow the right Of King and Subject by their lawlesse might How have our Anti-sabbatists and those Arminian sottes true Reformations foes In our corrupted Springs of Litterature And at our Innes of Court and I am sure In many other places though of late Th' are growne more wary in their common prate Spoke ill of Reformation and all such i th Parliament that stand for it so much Yea how have they by every Rusticke Swaine And Ignoramus that can scarce speake plaine And tollerable English been defamde Miscallde abusde and barbarously nick-namde If any shall presume to say I lie I le bring the world this truth to testifie For scarce is there that Citie Towne or place Where some have not endeavoured their disgrace Nor i st unknowne t'th' Houses for themselves Heare of the rude behaviour of these Elves By Information and perhaps the times May come when such may answer for their crimes But yet have they been daunted or dismayde At what these envious Spirits did or said Have they given ore the worke they had in hand Can any say that slavishly they stand In feare of any No whose there will say He that dares rouse a Lyon from his Prey And force wild Beasts to fly from den to den And fright them that they dare not turne agen Feares any Colours Who can say of them That worthily have playde the parts of men Of noble Spirits but that they should be Spoke of with honour thought of reverently They have not flincht a step out of the way Although these Curres have held them at a bay But as the spiritfull Horse no notice takes Of the shrill noyse that every Mongrill makes Have in their pious course persisted still Promoting good not fearing any ill So let them still proceed till they have run The race of Reformation that 's begun So let the Spirit of grace and wisedome be Redoubled on their heads in each degree So let their courage be encreased and so Let them Romes power in England overthrow So let their legall Orders be obeyde And all their black-mouthd enemies destroyd So let the Lord of Hoasts himselfe as he In all things hath been with them formerly So finish what 's begun and though their foes Be twenty times in number more then those That came against King Asa let the same Dismall destruction then overcame Those Aegyptian Nigers seize upon These bloudy minded Villaines every one And if no other way to publicke peace Be found but civill warre or we must cease To be a priviledgd people and must yeeld Base Tyrannizing Cavileers the feild Without resistance and like conquerd slaves Crouch to their yoke outlawes and Banckrupt knave Whose mercies are but Heathenish cruelties And their best acts murthers and robberies O then Great Britaine every where be ready To oppose such deeds so tyrannous and heady Assemble all your strength with joynt consent To fight for God the King and Parliament T is time yee Westerne Counties that have beene So backward and remisse now to begin To stand upon your guard now yee are made The seate of warre O let it not

AN ENCOVRAGEMENT TO WARRE OR BELLVM PARLIAMENTALE SHEWING The unlawfulnesse of the late Bellum Episcopale As also the Justnesse of this present Expedition for the defence of the Kingdom With the Illegall Rebellious Trayterous Barbarous and bloody proceedings and Intentions of the Cavaliers Lately published at the request of a Friend by John W●●d Trooper under the E●● of 〈…〉 ford Bellum Parliamentale Bellum Episcopale Th 〈…〉 winds and as the 〈…〉 carri●● away Iob 〈…〉 Quadra Senatus Nitimur in Votitum sed quo rapit impetus aureo Pellimur haud valleat niti fugimusque retrorsum TO HIS VVORTHY AND MVCH ESTEEMED GOOD Friends Mr. John Millington Mr. Peter Goodwin and Mr. Samuel Clark Sirs THough I be already much obliged unto you for former kindnesse and am like to remain so engaged My Lot being so like a blank in respect of outward abilities that I am unable for the present to return you a onely a verball satisfaction Yet I beseech you to let me run so much further in your debt as to be pleased to shew my Infant Muse that favour as to read over these few of her childish expressions she being yet in the lowest form and to speak mildly of them that so she may with the more celerity march to the head of this Ages Hellicon Which when she shall once attain assisted by your favour she shall never care for the hardest sensure that any of Zoylus Faction can passe upon her but shall be gratefull to you and remain Yours J.W. AN ENCOVRAGEMENT TO WARRE WHat oddes is twixt this Breach and that late plot Laid by the Prelates gainst the harmlesse Scot What difference I say i st not the same In its Effect save 't hath another name That done by Popish Prelates but this bears The name of Popish Lawlesse Cavaliers That onely gainst the Scot but this is made Th' English Scottish Irish Liberties t' invade At once and strike the Parliamentall power Of the three Kingdoms dead even in an houre That power whereby the freedome of these Lands In their perfection strength and union stands And which once lost we all must presently Turn to that old Aegyptian slavery What could the Prelates then aspire unto That Cavaliers now'l not attempt to do Was not the Quarrell then and now all one The aymes of both gainst true Religion Did not the Prelates then as these do now Perswade the King the Scots would overthrow His just Prerogative because they would Not by their Romish power be contrould Because they would not as the Scripture saith Make them as Lords and Rulers of their Faith And did they not in our dread Soveraignes name As Rebels all the Covenanters proclaim Cause their heroick Spirits would not yeeld The Episcopall Liturgy the field And though free born cause they would not consent To slavery far worse then Banishment And in a word because they would not be Enthrald to that hard yoke of Popery And do not these French prosolites endeavour To make divisions that may last for ever Twixt King and Subject Mis-interpreting All Messages that passe betwixt the King And his great Councell Making such construction Of grave advice as needs must bring destruction And though they understand the sence of Laws Yet cause themselves have broke them and because Th'intend to live as out-laws and as men That never mean to live by Law agen Therefore they wrest them from their proper sence Stamp them with false interpretations whence The King being once postest therewith proceeds Such fears and threats of civill hostile deeds Hence t is so many fruitlesse words are spent In vain betwixt the King and Parliament Hence t is the king declares the Law to have Another sence then Parliament conceive Hence t is so many sleight and so contemne The Parliament and speak so base of them And their proceedings hence the misery Of England doth most necessarily Its pedigree derive and till Misprisions Disunions Alienations and Divisions Twixt king and Parliament united be And right constructions made yea till we see These spirits of division sever'd from His Majestie and quite casheerd and gone England will not be England but will be And so remain Babel perpetually But when these base Malignant spirits are Through Gods free mercy and the tender care Of our good Parliament scatter'd disperst As those were that for Scottish blood did thirst When th' head of that same Serpents brood is broke And their deceitfull Projects want a cloak To carry their hid poyson in and when The Prelates lordlinesse is laid agen As low as when it first began to spring Twards that Exorbitancy that t was in Till these few Moneths last past yea when the Land Shall freely stoutly valiantly stand In every part from Beersheba to Dan United in their Members as one Man For Christ and for the Gospel and for all Just Rights and Priviledges both great and small For our dread Soveraignes just Prerogative Neither to adde thereto or to deprive Him of a haire that 's due to him the one Is to detract from him that weares the Crown The other wrongs the Subject and likewise For priviledge of Parley Th' Liberties And Rights of Subjects And to stand unto Each promise made in our late solemne Vow Which he tha● does refuse O let him be For evermore Anathema for me Then shall our Brittish Island that hath been The Receptacle yea the common Inne Where all Idolatry and Superstition Prophanenesse Armenisme and Sedition Atheisme Oppression Blood and Crueltie Extortion Persecution Briberie Excesse Oaths Blasphemy and every sin With great applause hath been persisted in Be as the Holy Land like Israel The people shall be blest that therein dwell This City shall be like Jerusalem Each town like Sion fair And as for them That dwell in Countrey Villages they shall Them Christs belov'd Redeemed people call Then shall Rome's pride abate then shall the three Distemper'd Kingdoms be at unity Then shall we praise our God and serve our King Unanimously without murmuring When these Sanballets and Tobiahs shall Enforced thereto let us build up the wall Of our own peace and safety and shall say That a more just and honorable way Then setling the Militia cannot be Thought on t' advance Brittaines prosperity And their destruction which already they Know to be true and therefore plots they lay To crosse it but I trust shall never be Of such considerable ability To perfect their Intentions for where ere Hushais good counsell is receiv'd even there Achitophels rejected is and then We know the common end of such wise men But since it is our present miserie By such lewd sonnes of violence to be Opposed and maligned yea since it is To question Parliamentall priviledges Their chief endeavour yea and to disdain And scorn that power that in them doth remain And scoffe at their proceedings as they were Objects too base for them to flout and gere And since there's left for us no other way Our

be said Amongst those Rebells that your slacknesse lost The Victory and so much bloud hath cost As may be shed in such a civill warre Meet them 'i th face and drive them back as farre As they can flie for Sea and when they can Shun you no farther cast them every man Into the Ocean Or if shee disdaine Such base degenerate Spirits t' entertaine As Britaine hath spude out O then to show How unworthily they got the overthrow And how unworthy they themselves have made As not to get roome t' have their corpse layd In Brittish ground Let them on Gibbets hang Till th' aiery Foules consume them every one And as for those that by the Sword shall fall Let none of them obtaine a Grave at all Let dogs and ravenous Wolves if such were here And Vermin with their Intralls make them cheare Untill their paunches burst that so the guilt Of all the causelesse bloud that hath been spile May be tooke off and may no longer stand Upon the generall score of all the Land Th' Almightie will destroy them certainly Before us if wee be not backwardly And fearefull to oppose them God hath quite Forsaken them yet he for us will fight If we will fight for him These are the times When God will visite Rome for all the crimes Shee hath committed since the Brothers twaine Strove which the Regall Power should obtaine Now must must they pay for all the Christian bloud That for almost two thousand yeares they shed Now must they pay for all their blasphemies Their oaths their curses and Idolatries This is the time that all the Popish powers Must be exilde this English Coast of ours This is the time wherein the Lord hath said Babell is fallen ●uinde and destroyde This is the time wherein that Whore of Rome Must to perpetuall desolation come And God hath made us instruments whereby To bring to passe that ancient Prophecie Therefore may we returne glory and prayse And honour to his Name that in these dayes These hard and Iron dayes hath honoured us To be his people fight his Battles thus Who when all power authoritie and hope Of any good was frustrate voyde and broke Revivde our drooping Spitus and translated The Ruledome of the State from such as hated Justice and Right to such as are ambitious To honour good men and correct the vitious And hath infusde a Spirit of life and power Into these livelesse catcasles of our And hath stird up the body of our Nation To speake for stand for fight for Reformation Against a crew of Rebell Cavileers Composde of Popish and Arminian heiress Whose Maximes are the bloud of Kings to shede And then affirme't a meritorious deede Whose purer Language is in peeces small To teare Christs body bloud heart nailes and all With horrid Oaths and fearefull Imprecations Provoking God to hasten their damnations Whose best expressions are to breath out threats Whose perjurde practice is to breake all threats T' abolish Lawes and bring poore people under Their slavish yoke or the Popes dreadfull● blnders Our Ancestors did long desire to see These times and yet could not permitted be Yet did rejoyce to thinke that bloudy Rome Should once to finall desolation come What they esteemed therefore of such weight Though in reversion lets not rudely sleight That see it now approaching t is no small Nor common mercy to see Babells fall Such faire occasion comes not every day To right our selves le ts doe it whilest we may For now both heaven and earth together joynes To purge the base corruptions of these times Occasions bald behinde time once past over Not all the Indian gold can ere recover Then you the Thousands of our Judah goe Sheath all your Swords i th bowells of your foe Be cloathd with Valour let your resolution Be bent to bring all Traytors to confusion Let not faire words entice you but let flie As thicke as haile 'gainst such an enemy Breake thorow their guiltie ranckes and overthrow That Common-wealth of Rebells at a blow That that vast treasure they so long a time Have whorded up to use in this designe And all the Armes they have so slily got And kept so close as if they had them not Their Horses Pistolls Swords and Carabines Their Muskets Pikes Callivers Magazines Of Powder Shot and Bullets and what ere From France or Spaine or from the Hollander Hath been transported hither to helpe out To ruine us at such a civill bout Wee as our due may seize on for a prey When they be slaine or run for feare away That the surviving part may once againe Their Freedomes Lawes and Liberties obtaine That when this corrupt generation shall Be cut by heavens bright Sword of Justice all The next ensuing age may quite forget And scorne those rites that wee admire at yet And may set up the true Discipline and Order Of Jesus Christ in every Brittish border Now you whose forward Spirits Countreymen Affect the Justnesse of our cause yet when You heare that odious name of Cavalier Opposing you that mazes you with feare That traytrous bloudy branded name casts downe Your drooping Spirits equall to the ground So that for feare of such an Impious crew Y' had rather shave like part from all your dues And priviledge then seeke how to obtaine Your Freedomes Lawes and Liberties againe Y' had rather loose all that you doe possesse Then take up lawfull Armes to seeke redresse How plainly doe such Cowards shew to be Given up to base pusillanimitie Scorne then to be afraid of such a name Which unto them is but a brand of shame And not of honour Can a worthlesse name Crowne them with glory or our deeds with shame Thinke you Shall arrogated Titles make You such a just and pious cause forsake Can painted shewes true substances exceed Can livelesse Statues doe a manly deed Or does the Spirit of Valour rest on them Because base swearing domineering men Y' are all deceiv'd the valiant man is that Hath fewest sinnes to be affrighted at T'rue Souldiers will n'ere use violence Nor fight but to secure their conscience Thy are no prophane swearers nor will curse Or ban when things are bad to make them worse Nor will they cry God damne them or them sinke Nor over-charge themselves with too much drinke Nor will they civill war seeke to preferre In hopes that they may all prove Conquerers But doe abhorre all Motions that may lead To the execution of so base a deed But being once debarde their proper right And finding that their liberties by might Are torne in pieces and their freedomes made A life of bondage though they have assavde All wayes for their enlargement doe prepare Unwillingly to tight themselves by warre 'Gainst their injurious enemies which showes Our preparation 'gainst mad-capt foes Is upright just and legall cause wee stand To hold up the foundation of the Land From Suddaine ruine and to fortifie Our Lawes against the rage of tyranny