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A96763	Prosopopœia Britannica Britans genius, or, good-angel, personated; reasoning and advising, touching the games now playing, and the adventures now at hazard in these islands; and presaging, also, some future things, not unlikely to come to passe. / Discovered, by Terræ-Filius (a well-knowne lover of the publike-peace) when the begetting of a nationall-quarrell was first feared. Expressed in two lections, or readings.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1648 (1648)	Wing W3183; Thomason E1149_2; ESTC R204086	62,569	119

keep his own sphere Lest if above their Circles they aspire Like Phaeton they set the world on fire Or aid those Comets which already glare Prodigiously to breed combustions here VVose mischievous effects you may in vaine Attempt perhaps hereafter to restraine Till to the snuffe they blaze or till they shall To quench their thirstings all your blood exhale This mischief to prevent let ev'ry wit And ev'ry Pow'r subordinate submit To that which is supreme ev'n unto that VVhich for the present is predominate For publike safety And let that abide On Principles whic neither may divide Or wound it selfe lest on it selfe it draw Contempt from them who thereof stood in awe And that contempt so weaken them at length That they with losse of honour lose their strength For you have felt as well as heard it told VVhat of Divisions hath been said of old Your present postures give occasion may To some of doubting whom they should obey How far forth their obedience must extend How long they shall uncertainely attend The hatching of that Government which must Continue fixt and whereto they may trust VVhich questionings and doubtings though good reason Hath made them in these Islands now in season Enfeeble much your Pow'r and do beget Though seemingly the people do submit Ill consequences which will still be worse Untill you settle on some certaine course Especially if they suspect that pow'r Intendeth not their benefit but your Delay not therefore that which they expect And till a settlement may take effect Or till they better know what doth pertaine To your new cunb and also to your reine With kindnesse mannage them and condescend To what may for their satisfaction tend In all just seeming Rights till they may see That by your pow'r their peace preserv'd shall bee And then if your Authority to own They shall refuse so make your courage known That none may dare blaspheme or scandalize Those needful Pow'rs and lawful Dignities Which are above their Censures least you farther Their Plots who have no hope but in disorder Since better it becomes VVisemen to dye In Order then to live in Mutiny Mark those among you who whilst they pretend Your Power and your Proceedings to befriend Impair them underhand by driving on Designs destructive to what should be done So many Marks upon them do appear Declaring to what Party they adhere That well they may be known And they to whom These are discover'd find what will become Of You and your Affairs unless you shall With speed and wisely them in question call Your greatest Foes and they who most may wrong you Are some who dayly Counsel take among you Your Adversaries as the Prophet said Are men of your own Houses who have playd The parts of Seeming Friends Of these therefore Take heed and seek to cast them out of door Before they cast out you Which were they stronger Deferred would not be one minute longer When you have purg'd your Houses till which day All will be spoke in vain that I shall say Take my advice for it is genuine And that whereto your Genins doth incline First to Debate and then to Question bring The Government and what concerns the King Which being prudently resolv'd upon Will save you twenty labours in that One And make if you perform as is profest An easie passing thorough all the rest In your Debates discover not that spleen Or Virulency wherein may be seen A purpose nor to give nor take content But so contest that when ye shall assent There may on you be seen the fewer scars Of your unhappy and uncivil Wars And that it may appear your strife hath bin Not that your VVill but that the Truth may win Yet lest whilst you are forced to contest You may destroy the noblest Interest By dull Indifferency or want of zeal Look to the safety of the Common-weal As to your chief Alligance For a King Who makes a claim although the claimed thing Be due yet if he so exacteth it As that it publike danger may beget Becomes a Traytor to the Royall Trust In him repos'd and merits to be thrust Besides the Throne if therein he persist To prosecute his private Interest When ye are certain what should be prefer'd From prosecuting it be not deter'd Or from a stout ingagement in that Cause Whereto you are obliged by the Laws Of GOD and Nature For a work begun With Courage is as good as halfway done Let not the foolish fears or superstition Of earebor'd slaves the Foot-stools of Ambition Who Idolize and deifie their Kings As more then mortal and unbounded things Let not these fright But well examine you What to the People what to them is due That so your Friends who see your prudency May be preserved from Apostacy Consider wisely how with him you deal Who of these Vessels was esteem'd erew hile Both Master and Chief owner that nor he Nor you may ruin'd or dishonour'd be By any practise which may not befit Your Wisdom or your Justice to permit Force not each other into such a Streight As that there may from thence be no retreit Or means left for th' one Party to prevent The others fall although he should repent But as indeed you hitherto have done Him as the Publike Father look upon And though his Parasites have him inrag'd By causeless Jelousies and far ingag'd Against your Lives and Freedoms yet assay To shew him all the Mercy that you may Vlisses did spontaneously assent To be inchained that he might prevent The Syrens Charms and you without just blame Have done and may yet do to him the same Who hath already been by their inchanting So charm'd that very little now is wanting Of his and your destruction By his own And others faults distemper'd he was grown And thereby hath indangered no less His own Safe-being then the Common-Peace And while destructive Courses he shall take You are oblig'd to stop and pull him back Though his Seducers grow inrag'd thereby And term you Traytons for your loyalty Yea you may still restrain him and thereto Add more if need require it should be so Till GOD by his especial grace hath broght him To shun the Course which evil Counsel taught him Or left him so that wilfully he shall Without your fault by his own Projects fall I will not counsel that ought less you do Then Salus Populi constrains you to For though the Sheepish Ront more think upon Things present then on what is past and gone And seem to have already so forgot Late grievances as if they thought it not So great a plague to be inslav'd for aye As present weights to bear though but one day Yea though the most part of the Common rabble So sottish are and so irrationable That out of fear lest others should enslave them They would inslave themselves and those that save them Yet must not those on whom the Land relies Benummed grow with such stupidities For 't is

may more befall Unlesse the pow'r of God prevent it shall Let him observe to what despised things Below the honour not alone of Kings But of Inferiour Persons he is brought By seeking that which he in vaine hath sought By list'ning to bad Counsell and by still Pursuing those beinnings which were ill Let him impartially resolve in mind To what conditions it hath him confin'd What heights of Glorie it hath cast him from To what a depth of Troubles he is come What meanly-qualified Groomes of late He hath been faine disguis'd to personate What triviall Fellowes he is forc'd to feed Ride and converse with yea let him take heed From what sleight Jockies and what Scatter-wits He seeketh aid and thereby nothing gets To further his Designes nor ought but Lies Rodomantadoes and such Vanities Nay let him mark it once and then againe What beggerly Companions he is faine To fawne upon to humour bribe and woe VVith promises of wealth and honour too To serve his ends when thereto they can add No more then from a Porter may be had Except it peradventure be Returnes Of ruine on themselves and on him scornes Let him examine by himselfe alone VVhat he commited hath or left undone For which this Change befalls him And not dream That these afflictions have pursued him For other mens transgressions altogether And let him seriously consider whether There can be hearty penitence or no For wrongs without some satisfaction too Let him examine if a sacrifice Of words and protestations may suffice For bloodsheds and those many robberies VVhich on his Person and his Partie lies Or whether he and his Prerogatives VVere ever worth so many thousand lives As they have cost or whether when to make His last accompt he cometh GOD will take So triviall an answer as to say His will and pleasure they would not obey But rebells were who did that power resist VVhich he doth claime of doing what he list As his Vicegerent and as he was taught By those whom he to be true Prophets thought Let him consider what best guards a Throne And keeps him safest who doth sit thereon By whom Kings raigne why they at first were made And for whose sakes authority they had That he may not suppose GOD did provide His Kingdome only to advance his pride Or to inflict an heavy curse upon VVhole Nations by inslaving all to one Let him consider in what infamies A Tyrant lives in what ancertainties Feares doubts and dangers and with what esteem Content and peace he weares his Diadem VVho raignes as knowing that he had his Crowne More for his peoples sake then for his own And let him kick away those Parasites Whose Counsell to Oppression him invites Or foolishly perswades him to improve Pow'r wealth or pleasure by the losse of love And thereby makes him labour to enjoy That pow'r which will at last himselfe destroy Let him consider soberly if he In honour or in conscience bound may be Himselfe for those to hazard who pretended His Honour and his Rights to have befriended Whereas it may by many a circumstance Be made appeare that at their owne advance They chiefly aim'd or to preserve the Lot VVhich they had by his Grace already got For to prevent approaching Beggery Some strengh'ned him in acts of Tyranny Some to disturb the waters that in them They might be thriving Fishers under him And very few what e're they counterfeit To him adhered but to save or get Or though their love ingaged them yet none Is bound to more then can by him be done Nor is it just that he himselfe should lose Because he wanteth pow'r to save all those VVho stood with him ingaged Nor would they Desire it if they lov'd him as they say Let him not trust to those fanatick things VVho dote upon the Accidents of Kings And sleight their Essence For as hitherto These by their aid did but themselves undo VVithout his benefit so shall it be Hereaftet till their errour they can see There is no help in humane policy Nor any way but down-right honesty To his security or to redeem Their happinesse who have assisted him For ev'ry course and politike designe That shall be drawne out by a crooked line VVill but beget new mischiefs and inforce New projects whose effects will still be worse Till spight of pow'r and fraud long swords and daggers He stand enrowl'd among the Royall-Beggers Or with those Kings who from their honour fell Because they sleighted those who wish'd them well Let him not fancy that their seeming love VVho Court him yet will worth regarding prove Though daily more and more they shall repaire To kisse his hand or fill the emptie aire VVith acclamations or although they may Upon his birth or Coronation day Make Bonefires ring the Bells drink healths unto him And such like triviall and rude honours do him For herein these act but a sensuall part Delightfull to themselves without a heart Some to expresse their present discontent And dis-affection to the Parliament Some for self-ends some out of levity And many other they well know not why Seem zealous of his honour who would soone Repent what they now covet should be done VVere he restor'd unto them with that mind VVhereto as yet he feemes to be inclin'd And they who do this day Hosanna crie VVould say perhaps to morrow Crucifie The common People rather live by sense Then reason and so quickly take offence At present suff'rings that they oft are pleas'd To cut their own throats that they may be eas'd And when it shall distast their Fantasies VVill tread on what they did Idolatrize If therefore he would in their love confide And gaine from them Affections which will bide He must protect them from receiving wrong In things which to their Freedomes do belong Of their proprieties he must take care And that their Persons and their purse he spare Till he shall need them and untill they see How for his honour and their good 't will be For they will then be forwarder to give Then he shall be to ask or to receive And when just cause the same occasion may Fling for his sake both goods and lives away Let this be then his aime and his intent VVhen God shall joyne him with his Parliament VVith Justice let him round impale his Throne And set before it like King Solomon A guard of Lions that may keep away Those Apes Baboons and Foxes which assay Thereon to make intrusions or devise How to invade him with such flatteries As may delude him and divert him from Those Duties which his Dignitie become All his Prerogatives likewise let him So mix with equitie so circle them With pious Charmes and so confine and awe His Vassalls by Example and by Law That in all times to come nor he nor they Who shall succeed him find occasions may To dim his glory or his pow'r to shake Or on the Subjects right a breach to make So

shall the people their just claimes enjoy So you who do each other now destroy Shall in each others happinesse delight And raise your Mountaine to a glorious height What can he more desire then to excell Among those people with whom all is well Whither can he aspire but to possesse On earth the chiefest earthly happinesse And what can he have lesse then he now gaines By seeking more then to a King pertaines But lest what his good Genius would advise He may by meanes of their deceits despise Who have the Jannes and the Jambres been By whose enchantments he continues in Obduratenesse Let him take speciall care Of those false Priests and Prophets to beware Who sooth him up with lies and make him dream That by endangering his Crowne for them He should preserve it and that to provide Large meanes to feed their gluttony and pride Is to promote GODS glory let him not Believe those truthlesse vanities a jot Though some good men have heretofore been fed With Babels portions and unforfeited Preserv'd their innocence with much ado Yet now those dainties have corrupted so This Generation that there 's cause to doubt Their Charmes And therefore let him shut them out From heart and eare what ever formall shew Of Sanctity they make in outward view Believing that their chiefe intentions here Are to repaire their breaches or endeare And sweeten to the ruine of this Nation Those Philters and that cup of Fornication Whereby their Scarlet Mistresse giddifies All those who listen to her Witcheries Let him above all others take good heed Of these deceivers adde this to his Creed Concerning them ev'n this that they are not Gods Prophets that GOD owns not for his lot What they so call and that though him they raise Above the Moone with attributes of praise It is but for the service of the Dragon Their Lust their great Diana or their Dagon That they so Court him yea though they adore The seat he sits on as divine or more And canonize him as it were for one Who all his Predecessors had out-gone In piety because he stourly stands To keep them with full guts and idle hands Let him him not be deceiv'd nor thinke so glorious So honourable or so meritorious What he would do for them if he were able For Jesabel did feed at her owne table Eight hundred Prophets and appear'd no doubt In her owne way as bounteously devout As he would be yet did her superstition VVith other sinnes occasion her perdition And they were but false prophets whom she fed VVho shortly after likewise perished Hypocrisie and superstition may Be sooner flattered by such as they Into stupendions-bounties then you see The best men can by true devotion be And this the Sacrifices Altars Groves Shrines Idols Temples and that Bounty proves VVhich hath been dedicated unto men To Angells and to Devills now and then Then let him nor their Praises prize nor feare Against their claimes that covenant to sweare VVhich is establish'd by his Parliament Their mischievous encrochments to prevent For though they have made captive his esteem Not only to their callings but to them Nor they nor that once theirs now sold and bought Are so divine as they would have them thought Yea though these call it sacriledge in those VVho to discharge the publike debts dispose VVhat was of late employed but to feed Bel and the Dragon and would scruples breed VVithin his conscience making him beleeve That GOD is rob'd if others do receive VVhat lately they possest and have too long Usurp'd already to the publike wrong Let neither King nor people be afraid Or what by these Impostors hath been said To save their Kitchenstuffe and that their back Hereafter may not their soft raiment lack Let them not fearfull be to sell or buy Those portions in their great necessity Unlesse they sell or buy them with a mind To prey on others rights or are inclin'd To have them though they think it may be sin And whether right or wrong be done therein For such a man himselfe doth guilty make Of Sacriledge though but his own he take A true Disciple doubtlesse may injoy Things carnall and whilst them he doth imploy As he is bound none ever grudges him Their use nor doth him in their use condemne But when his own false int'rest to advance He shall mis-name it Christ's Inheritance Or otherwise shall mis-imploy the same Against Truths Friends and honor of GOD's name He forfeits what he had Moreover know That Christ whose service they pretend unto Bequeath'd them no such Lordships as they claime Nor Salaries like those at which they aime But giving them Commission whom he sent His work to do injoyned them content VVith his allowance strictly charged them To trust to none for wages but to Him And to expect their Labours hire from none Or any where but where the work is done But see how great a difference now appeares Betwixt these Priests and Christ's Commissioners So impudently they do now presume The Titles and the Wages to assume VVhich were forbid so largely they provide Not necessaries onely but for pride For luxury and for magnificence Beyond the limits of a modest Prince So loose are their deportments and so vaine Such Ruffians and Buffoones they entertaine Of common faults and of each crying sin So manifestly guilty some have been So peevish are they so uncharitable Amid their plenty so inhospitable So ignorant they have been otherwhile And their Apostleships do so defile That to suppose CHRISTS Officers were such As they appear were in effect as much As to professe his Kingdome were become Terrestriall and his Court indeed at Rome And he who shall receive these in the name Of CHRISTS Disciples will receive but shame 'T is pitie that their Bounty who were Nurses To piety at first and who their purses So prodigally empti'd to endow The needy Saints should so perverted grow And that men were so gracelesse in their use Of Blessings as to lose them by abuse Yet just it was that they who did suppose GODS bounty not enough their owne should lose And that gifts which he gave not and which may Pervert his purpose should be tooke away At least when their possessors do begin To turn what flow'd from vertue into sin And how could you employ their vast wealth better Then to discharge that wherein you were debter By their default who sought to have destroy'd Your Birth-rights by that wealth which they enjoy'd Since Offrings made to GOD and which to owne He doth accept may be on men bestowne In times of need when mercy justly cries To be prefer'd before a Sacrifice Thus did without reproofe the Jewish Kings Buy otherwhile with Dedicated things Their Kingdomes peace and purchas'd uncontrold Their Liberties with sanctified Gold So with their wealth by whom your wars begun To pay the Souldier you have justly done But that your King more plainely may espy His disobligement to the

then so far forth as they durst Releev'd them in their hunger and their thirst Cover'd their nakednesse and them convei'd From those by whom they should have been betraid To Townes and Ports wherein they might avoid That rage whereby they had been els destroid If these withdraw themselves and back recede From them whose hands in blood were deeply di'd Receive them unto mercy that you may By justice therewith mixed take away That Kingdomes guilt and put a difference Betwixt the smaller and the great offence That they whom other men did hurry on Against their wills to be with them undone May find a passage out of that distresse Which they are in by others wickednesse And that repentance may not be without A comfortable hope of some good fruit To ev'ry sinner when he shall endeavour A reformation at what time soever By this course you shall make the freer passe For your owne selves unto the Throne of grace By this course you shall greatly weaken those Who are your willfull unrepentant foes And strengthen much their hands who have been true To GOD unto their Countrey and to you It may be too fullfil'd shall be thereby That ancient well knowne Irish Prophecy By which unto that Nation 't was foretold That there would come a time wherein they should Weepe ore your English Graves For some no doubt Already tears of pitty have pow'rd out Ev'n when they saw the cruell butcheries Of guiltlesse Englishmen before their eies And now shall ore their Graves for their offence Shed teares againe through heartie penitence Let those dissenting Parties and those Factions Which long have multiplied your Distractions Leave of those many names of separations Of scorne and disesteem which in these Nations Do now abound and wherewith you provoke Each other and whereby the peace is broke And malice nourished for they prolong Your discords by a still-renewing wrong Let not all those who term'd of late have been Malignants find that name still set between Themselves and others when they have assaid To make amends and their redemption paid For by that Bar you keep the Breach unclosed 'Twixt them whose quarrells might els be composed For such of them as only were misled In judgement have not thereby forfeited Their honestie as all those men have done Who wilfully and knowingly went on Nor halfe so much as those who have compli'd With both sides or been false to either side Yet trust them not with pow'r till you have tri'd Their truth and till your Peace is fortifi'd Let Innocents defend their reputations As freely as Knaves make their accusations Good turnes vouchsafe to honest men sometime As willingly as you do mischieve them For to undo a man you soone give ear Have tongues to speak and leisure time to hear Within an houres warning but before You heare him for his good a year and more Yea sometimes three four five consumed be Yet neither end nor hope of end hath he Let those who for your service fit are knowne Both by abilities and courage showne Those who for you their lives have hazarded Contributed and lent their childrens bread For your sakes brought themselves and families From plenty to extreme necessities Through want of that respect which you should show them Till you have means to pay them what you owe them Let those not like old shoes be hurled by As if they were not worth your memory Or fit for nothing when malignant Jacks Who laugh and jeer at you behind your backs Can fill so manie places and grow rich Whilst better men lie starving in a ditch If spent your Treasure be then let them share In your Imployments till you abler are To pay them what is due So you shall ease them So you with hope of better shall well please them So you in life and health may them sustaine Till you have need of honest men againe For when their Countrey wants help these are they Who will not faile her though them faile she may Take these last words among you where they fall And as occasion make them usefull shall For your confusion so confoundeth me That want of method may excused be Where all is well intended and where nought Is more then may be profitably taught Let those among you who desire to plead For Christian Libertie take serious heed They make not passages which may let in Licentiousnesse and Liberty of sin Let them not seek to rarifie Devotion To nothing but an incorporall notion Lest if no place for shadowes they allow They never come their substances to know Lest if too far away from Formes they fly They fall into some fowle deformity Or lest when they think purest light to see They blinded by an over-weening bee And you who thinke that by a Law-Divine There is one outward forme of Discipline To be observ'd of all men and but one That can be lawfull which by you alone Is now in practise somewhat bear I pray With such as cannnot yet approve your way To be infallible or give consent To make essentiall what 's indifferent When you possesse the Wheat brawl not for Darnell Fight not for shells when you enjoy the Kernell If to the true Foundation they adhere Against their buildings be not too severe For if the Structures they erect thereon Be Gold and Silver they have wisely done If Straw and Stubble theirs will be the losse The Fiery-triall will consume the drosse And they themselves though from perdition free Will in themselves enough afflicted bee With love and kindnesse seek to bring them in Who by misse-teaching have deluded been With patience and long-suffring wait upon Your Brethren as on you your GOD hath done And if their errors be but imperfections And not of malice let your good affections Be exercis'd thereby and then perchance Your Charity shall cure their ignorance And sooner win them then your indignation Severitie or bitter provocation Compulsion often formes an Hypocrite But never makes the will or heart upright And he that would not vaine conclusions try The consciences of men to rectifie Must act by somwhat which is more divine Then torments or a Formall Discipline Speak not in Tempests when vou would reforme GOD oftner comes in Calmes then in a Storme Ill words corrupt good manners and there flowes From jeerings brawlings from your brawlings blowes And many times the woundings of your swords Break not the peace so much as bitter words Provide therefore as wisely as you may To take provoking speeches quite away Especially among those who pretend The Cause of GOD and goodnesse to befriend For they who cannot their sharp tongues restraine Professe and talke of Piety in vaine Yea they who are Truths Champions with their tongues And want true love have done the greatest wrongs Let not your Supreme City over-swell That Mediocrity which heeded well Would more secure her safety more enlarge Her honour and diminish more her charge Though she be great let her not seek to

sleight it stones would silence breake To rouze them from their slumbers or to tell Succeeding-Ages how and why they fell When all was vanish'd and I left alone Intending what was willed to be done A feare surpriz'd me and a shuddring took me Which with a long continuing trembling strook me And my weake heart began to be afraid To doe what I resolv'd and thus it said Observ'st thou not the madnesse of this Nation The rage and fury of this Generation And how like Swine before whom Pearles are throwne They tread the givers of good counsell downe And tear them into pieces by their scornes Because they then expected Barley-cornes For ten to one ev'n some in whose defence These truths are spoke will want intelligence To understand them so and foolishly Charge thee with standring that Authority Which thou dost honour and which as this day Things go can saved be no other way Hast thou nigh fourty yeers been vext and greoved By this dull Generation unreleeved And having for it ventured thy life Vndone thy little children and thy wife Left them nor house nor lands nor cloathes nor bread Nor ought wherewith they may be comforted In that contagious sicknesse which this day Hath driven all thy comforters away Yea spent all in their service and wilt thou Having obtained words and paper now Which promise restauration hazzard all Those hopes by that which hereby may befall Hast thou full five yeers ●oyl'd and tired been To struggle from the mischiefs thou wert in With much-much difficultie got at last Acknowledgements of what forborne thou hast And probability that thou perchance Maist get one halfe by giving for advance The other moiety And meanest thou To lose it all againe by doing now What this Illusion doth intice thee to And everlastingly thy selfe undo For nothing spoken for the publike good Will to thy benefit be understood By such as hate thee And thou well dost know That thou maist more be mischiev'd by one Foe Who to the publike faithfulnesse pretends Then benefited by a hundred friends Take heed of this temptation thou hast done Thy share this way Now let the world alone Provide for thine owne safety and thine ease As others do write those things that may please And thou shalt then be freed from those disgraces That thou hast suffred there will then be places For thee as well as others and thou then Shalt favour'd be as much as other men Thy peace is made already not a tongue Doth move against thee And thou shalt ere long Of all thy dues be fully repossest If thou wilt let the world doe what she list When thus my owne corruptions from within me Had spoke from my good purposes to win me Another Voice as coming from behind me Thus whispered SON of EARTH give ear mind me Resist thou that suggestion let it bee But as a Serpent on a stone to thee Which finds no entrance For it is the seed Of that old Serpent whereof to take heed Thou hast good cause since if his head prevaile To enter he will slip in to the taile And thou a poor flea-biting to avoid Maist with the stings of Vipers be destroy'd Feare not those Bug-beares wherewith fooles are frighted Nor prize those toyes wherewith such are delighted Fear not the cruell Tyrants of the times Nor tast their dainties lest thou act their crimes Feare not thy Family shall be unfed For he that gave them mouths will give them bread He that alreadie hath five years maintain'd thee Since thou hadst nought left likely to maintaine thee Five moneths and kept thee all that while aflaot In storms though thou hadst neither Oar nor boat He can aswell preserve thee now as then With nothing therefore seeke to him agen Think not thy selfe alone or without friends For thousands favour what thy Muse intends The well-affected Members of each House Yea all among them who are generous Will favour thy endeavours and be glad That in these times an English-man they had Whom neither hopes nor fears could make affraid To speake what he thought pertinently said For publike safety whatsoere he lost Or whose designe soere was thereby crost He that in times past did secure thee from Thy foes will do the same in time to come For that thou maist believe he will do so Already five successions in a row He hath destroy'd who causlessely had sought Thy ruine Some of them who lately brought A mischiefe on themselves now rooted bee From dwelling where they persecuted thee The sixth is also ripening to be sent To follow them unlesse they shall repent They whom thou fear'st if thou shalt constant be In good resolves will be afraid of thee For GOD shall put the feare of thee on those Who to thy principles and waies are Foes Or else at least they shall still slumber on And let thee speake in vain as they have done Discourage not thy selfe as if thy paine In these indeavours would be quite in vaine For GOD will make thy weary Pilgrimage Bring some advantage to this present age Or to the next To this work thou wert borne And when thou to thy Fathers dost returne It shall not grieve thee that thou hast bestowne More time for publike good then for thine owne Thy Faculties were not confer'd on thee For no Imployment nor imployd to bee In flattering fools nor as at first it was To praise the fading beauties of a face Or play with those affections which infuse The vaine expressions that pollute a Muse But to provoke to vertue to deter From vice all chast affections to prefer GODS Judgements to declare his righteousnesse To magnifie his mercies to confesse And whilst thou to this purpose art imploy'd Fear not to be undone or be destroy'd For by undoing thou shalt be new-made By thy destruction safety shall be had And if this Generation shall pursue Thy love with hatred or with-hold thy due It shall be one addition to their doome To be the scorn of ev'ry Age to come This reconfirm'd my Spirit and I found My heart with fearlesse courage to abound With resolutions I was fortifi'd And throwing all my owne affaires aside Which most concerned me I to write begun What I had heard and now the worke is done My Conscience is discharg'd my heart is eas'd And therein come what will I shall be pleas'd Terrae Filius To the Parliaments IT is not feare in me nor it is shame Which makes me at this time conceal my name But humble modestie and consciousnesse Of that knowne frailty and unworthinesse Wherewith my Person outwardly is cloth'd Oft makes my selfe ev'n of my selfe so loth'd That not without good reason I suspect My purposes may find the lesse effect If ere you tast the fruit I let you know In whose poor Garden GOD hath made it grow For many times the best wine pleaseth not Unlesse we like the Drawer and the Pot. A homebred Simples vertue few will owne A Doctor seemes best