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A79269	Zions thankfull ecchoes from the clifts of Ireland. Or the little Church of Christ in Ireland, warbling out her humble and gratefull addresses to her elder sister in England: and in particular, to the Parliament, to his Excellency, and to his army, or that part assigned to her assistance, now in her low, yet hopefull condition.	Calver, Edward, fl. 1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing C318; Thomason E562_19; ESTC R206135	12,830	29

fault is ancient these are passing by 's Or doors left ope before you had the keys But now you are in trust in like condition Your care already may prevent suspition That when you have possession in your hand Of this rebellious and revolting Land You will proceed in what you have begun And no good action shall be left undone That heavens agreeing with your resolution May by your means be put in execution And in especiall that your care will be So far extended in respect of me That you will use all diligence and speed To sow this Land with uncorrupted seed Will plant a plentious Ministry herein And far more faithfull then before hath bin That every cornet of this continent May have a watchman from your confines sent Or that some happy nursery of wits May here be founded as indeed besits From whence as from a sacred foord may flow Such streames of knowledge and such seed to sow This voyd or rather this corrupted Isle That it in time may prove a fruitfull soyle Or second Canaan where may safely dwell The seed of Abraham sonnes of Israell Without disturbance by the native part The sonnes of Belial or the Romish art This famous Founders I ●xp●ct●● s●y If ●●●vens again shall give you here the d●y L●● in a pl●nteous Ministry and sound In lif●●nd Doctrine pious and profound D●●ssenting not in judgement as of lat● Consists the safety both of Church and St●te And when an able Ministry is plant●d As it is sit such maintenance be granted As may both keep their spirits up from filling And adde a glory to their sacred calling So it is needfull on the other side That it relates not to excesse or pride For what especially but the desire And avaritious longing to aspire And be above all moderated scope Did first incite and now hath set the Pope Upon the head of Emperours and Kings Yea climbes above all sublunary things But you that do these weighty causes pond●r And whose especiall charge th●y do lye under I need not question that you will be just And wise and watchfull in your charge in trust Not onely in relation to that hand That made you great and put you in command But also in a serious respect So many eyes upon your acts reflect That almost all the Christians of this age Are gazet on the Actions of your stage And lastly in regard unto the cry My elder sister in your armes and I Within your trust upon our knees do make That you will not our case in hand forsake But speed and prosecute it in that kinde And blessed manner that you have design'd And that division that same bane of Peace And foe to vertue do not make you cease That work you have begun and so far wrought Untill it be unto perfection brought To His Excellency the Lord FAIRFAX MOst Noble Champion Englands chief Commander Who in the tedious dangerous Meander Of Englands winding waving desperate waies In wars intestine have got through with praise And brought those swelling raging roaring Seas Through Gods assistance to a calme and peace For which your Kingdome and therein my sister That through your labours God hath late so blest her Are bound to write your name in gold so pure That time nor envy may the same obscure But after ages may so happy be To read your worth which we are blest to see And now you have those craggy mountaines past And gain'd a valley well secur'd at last Whiles friends at house are singing your deserts Your care is how to succour other partes A truly worthy Generall indeed Whose actions are so generous at need That no good motion can have your deniall To ayd where Christian quarrels are in triall Of which brave Warrier I have cause of boasts Or c●use to blesse you and the God of hostes Who in my g●eat nec●ssity and gri●fe Have out of pitty thought o● my reliefe That I who long time have been forc'd to shifts And d●iven for safety to the rocks and clifts Am now in hope I shall ere long disclose And shew my selfe in presence of my foes Your foes at home are forced now to sooth And out of fear do give you language smooth Dissembling in your presence sugred Notes Hiding like Aspes the poyson in their throates Which in your absence they are bold to v●nt With secret friends to your disparagement And if they could advantage finde and place Are ready yet to spit it in your face Whiles such as are your foes abroad no doubt In your disgrace are ready to speak out And do proclaime their malice and invite All others they confide in to unite That it concernes you to have Argus ey●s To foresee dangers and their plots surprize But heavens upon the other side I know Do ayd you and the better part below Are on your side and do esteem you dear And out of doubt are ready to appear With help and hearts united to assist And take your part in whom they have bin blest And therefore fear not such as shall oppose You yet have made them all subdued foes That have adventur'd to resist your hand And out of question shall do whiles you stand In the defence of Truth and right although The world should joyn to work your overthrow And for that strength you have assign'd to me Your force thereby shall not enfeebled be The heavens herein will make supply no doubt Whose case to aid you send a party out For God himself doth still assistance lend To aid all such as in his case contend And what brave Joshua can be judg'd hath bin The cause that since you did your task begin You have so prosper'd and atchiev'd such fame That Europe wonders and admires the same But onely that the active hand of heaven By which successe and victories are given Hath still gone with you in each enterprise In an especiall and most pow'rfull wise To withstand which in any time of trouble The arm of flesh is but like straw or stubble To withstand fire or like a drop of rain Let fall to still the raging of the main To order battells and give victory Is the prerogative of the most high To shew his greatnesse who is strength indeed That so no flesh should glory in their reed Onely amongst men where he doth affect As instrumentall he doth some select To fight his battells and infuseth skill And care and force to execute his will Which in your person doth appeare at large He having granted to your noble charge The greatest work for latter times that yet The heavens did to a humane hand commit And in the same hath hitherto no lesse Renown'd you with miraculous successe I long indeed have sighed for relief And fill'd the aire with ecchoes of my grief In hope the winds would on my woes so smile To beare the sense thereof into your Isle But long I look'd for what I long'd to heare A sweet return of what the windes

ZIONS thankfull Ecchoes from the Clifts of IRELAND Or the little Church of Christ in Ireland warbling out her humble and gracefull addresses to her Elder Sister in England And in particular To the Parliament to his Excellency and to his Army or that part assigned to her assistance now in her low yet hopefull Condition Printed for Richard Harper at the Bible and Harp in Smithfield 1648. The Messengers humble Presentation REnowned Christians what I heere present As from a persecuted Sister sent By my rude hand to your judicious eye Please to accept and graciously survey 'T is neither hyperbolicall nor newes From either Turkes Antipodes or Iewes But Ecchoes sounding what you ought to know The state of Zion in a Land you owe Her sighs her suits in the same made known Her thankful spirit for your kindnes shown And hopes of comfort by you late assign'd And blest assistance to relieve her minde As in this humble tender you may view In her owne language Characters full true Which I her servant though the most unmeet Am thus injoyn'd to offer at your feet Which Heavens make powerfull in your hearts so be 't EDVVARD CALVER Zions thankefull Ecchoes from the Clifts of IRELAND To her Elder Sister in England OH thou my English eldest sister deare Who hast tooke notice of my troubles heere These times of sorrow and hast had a heart To yeeld me succour which thou hast in part But wanted power to make thy purpose knowne By reason of distractions of thine owne Thou hast againe recal'd my cares to minde And such assistance to my ayd assignde That if that malice doe not it prevent I may be happy in your blest content But thou that hast this blessed helpe assignd Wilt not I see by a contrary winde Be beaten off thy purpose when I see The winds againe doe with thy will agree No no deare sister thou hast more respect Unto my case then to my cares neglect Thou wilt not so our sister-hood betray Nor doth thy safety stand with my decay Our heavenly Father in his tender care Doth to his children like affection beare And hath us ti'd by his most sacred lawes We one should venture in anothers cause But I have sin'd t is true but I repent And teares have vertue to dissolve a flint But teares distild from tender childrens eyes They stir the fountaine where compassion lies God such affection to his children beares That out of question he bewayles their teares And in his time will also still their cries And grant their suits and wipe their watery eyes But in his wisedome he for us thinks meet We should have heere much bitter with our sweet His grapes must be the most exactly prest His wheat must be with greatest labour drest His Dove must live where Ravens and Vultures flie His Lambs must feed where Wolves in covert lie His Lillies must amongst the thistles grow His Rose of Sharon with the briers blow Ishmael and Isaac must be kept alive Esau and Jacob must together strive And therefore it is policy divine That Isaac should with Israel combine And be united in a mutuall band Who have such potent forces to withstand Besides our concord and our mutuall care They are the garments we are bound to 〈◊〉 By Heavens injunction that we may thereby Appeare we doe belong to the most High Whose children heere are clad in peace and love To make them fit to dwell with him above Where faith and hope and patience shall surcease But love and peace and unity increase Faith hope and patience are our we●pe no heere But Love the spirit that gives life and cheere And we shall fayle in all our other parts Unlesse that sacred fire enf●ame our hearts But wherefore Sister should I goe about To bring thy love and care of me in doubt When as I see thy love is so divine Thou canst not from that principall decline To the Parliament of England AND You whom God who passeth all selectors Hath made his choice of to be our protectors To labour to defend us by your Lawes Who have besides some intrest in our cause I blesse the Heavens that you have heard our cries Which have beene earnest with you for supplies And out of sacred sympathizing care Have tooke in hand our low estate to rear And still are acting and in counsell sit To adde more comfort to our causes yet Like brave and Christian Senators in trust That feare no danger in a cause so just Most brave resolve ride on and prosper still And what you have so well begun fulfill No doubt but God who set you such a hard And tedious taske hath set out your reward And will bestow it on you if not heere Yet when it shall to all the world appeare Indeed t is true your weighty labours call For great rewards which yet have beene but small Unlesse reproachfull language and disdaine With deadly hatred may be counted gaine For this from millions hath beene all your pay Unlesse what force from such hath fetcht away Whose tongues envenom'd with malignant spight Have breath'd out vapours to obscure your light Infusing into foolish peoples braines That stead of freedome you procure their chaines These and too many such like scandals base Have vented beene to further your disgrace By such as have beene enemies and stood Against the progresse of all Christian good Nay these reproches have so publique bin And so inticing to suspect herein That many Christians and good Christians some Have so suspitious by this meanes become As if they had deluded bin because Their expectation could not brooke a pause And wait with patience for those things which will Be worth a wonder if an age fulfill Nay in this nature I my selfe have bin Too much forgetfull pardon me therein Poore wretch because that in my state of griefe I had not from you as I wish'd reliefe But notwithstanding many speeches faire I still lay under notions of dispaire I grew impatient and was much inclin'd To many perturbations in my mind One while resolving that you were my friends And would declare unto no other ends But loo'd upon me with a melting eye And were resolv'd that I should have supply And to my comfort would your selves inlarge Both out of pitty and your speciall charge Another while these hopes of mine were shaken And I begun to think my selfe mistaken And that you did not as I hop'd respect me But either did delude me or neglect me And that the voice of people in this kind So common was not all malignant winde Thus like the Phoenix feeding on the ayre 'Twixt heaven and earth twixt hoping and dispair My thoughts were restles and my time was spent In various musing upon the event When I consider'd what you had begun And had already for my comfort done Together with your promised supplies My heart got comfort and my hopes did rise And hourly look'd you should my ayd renew By every wind that

from your confines blew But when alas I look'd and look'd again And yet at last I saw I look'd in vain No colours for me on my coast displayd But windes and tides came empty still of ayd Whiles what I had already did abate Through the increase of such as do me hate Who still persisting and my life pursuing With Oathes combining to effect my ruine My heart oft fainted and my fears got ground And sometimes cast me into such a swound That I did almost all beliefe refrain Of ever seeing good day here again And that it was but trusting to a reed To wait for help of mortall men at need Whose strength was like their promises but fraile And at most need most likely then to faile Thus like a Turtle mourning for her mate Or like an Orphan in a helplesse state Or like a Captive in a Tyrants hand Or like a Virgin in a Bruitish Land In forced silence with my face obscur'd Through tears distill'd and griping woes indur'd My life hath long time in sad discontent And fears and cares both night and day bin spent Thus worthy Patriots passion hath bin strong And caus'd me sometimes to conceive you wrong And look upon you with a frowning brow Neglecting what I had more cause to know Which were mine owne infirmities my sin In viewing which I have too partiall bin When under heavens correction for the same I layd on others not my selfe the blame Nor did I duly as indeed I ought Regard the task wherein at home you wrought How hard it was how difficult and vast And through what care and dangers must be past How many hills and mountaines leveld be Before you could have passage unto me Besides my elder Sister in your hand Must be secur'd before you tooke in hand To state the yonger in her freedomes fit Which would another tedious worke beget In these respects I was indeed too blinde The wofull sense of present griefe of minde So far my senses and my soule opprest That I thought little of insuing rest But you whose judgements are p●ofound and wise And foresee dangers you have cleerd my eyes And made me see and sensible in fine That you did never pu●pose to decline Or slight my cause but only were with-held Or by a strong necessity compeld To rest content till Heavens should permit Both time and opportunity most fit But now so soone as that eternall hand Which turnes and orders all things at command Hath set his wheele of providence some stay Within that Nation where you doe beare sway You have unto your everlasting fame To my rejoycing and unto the shame Of such as have most wretchedly bely'd you Assign'd me by that providence that guide you So brave an Army such a strong supply To ayd your part heere and my cause to try That if brave Worthies heere may be no want Of those supplies you have beene pleas'd to grant I doubt not but my cruell foes ere long Will prove as weake as ever they were strong And flie as fast and faster out of fight As ever they did gather and unite For though the Heavens have us'd them as a rod Yet in their hearts they fighting against God He hearing his afflicted ones complaine Will cast his tod out of his hand againe And make it knowne his children are belov'd Though by the wicked for their good reprov'd This is most certaine therefore you that have So kindly sent to rayse me from the Grave And give me life and freedome once againe In spite of all my enemies disdaine I blesse you for it and beseech you still Persist therein and now the worke fulfill And let not such impediments prevent As spring from meere sinister discontent But let the dread of the divine displeasure Which is concern'd heerein in such a measure Exalt your thoughts above such triviall causes As may incite you unto needlesse pauses That God whose hand did ever so appeare To ayd at home will not be absent heere Your case is still the same it was before And your engagements equall if not more What though your foes be numerous alas Heavens by your hands bring miracles to passe And though the worke you have to overcome Doth threat to shake the very walls of Rome And seems a Writ of Priviledge now hurld Amongst the Saints throughout the Christian world Yet feare not t is not multitudes nor art Can rout that side with whom the Heavens take part Let not your hearts then nor your hands decline That worke shall prosper which is Heavens designe You have a warrant that will beare you out In any Christian worke you goe about Especially that worke above the rest Suppressing of the Antichristian beast And you whose wisedomes have so well beene try'd In circumventing of this man of Pride You having courage need not counsell'd be Which way to act to set me soonest free Yet out of feeling of my former woes Admit me leave to shew what I suppose Hath beene a speciall or the master plot Whereby the Papists heere such part have got The watchfull souldier that doth centre keepe When foes are waking will not be asleepe The skilfull boatsman that would make to shore The windes not serving plies his Oares the more The Garden-dresser that sowes tender seeds Takes the more labour to prevent the Weeds The prudent Husband that hath Corne to sow On grounds are doubtfull the more seed doth throw And when with care he hath bestowd his cost He still doth labour that it be not lost Even so this many an unhappy yeare The Romish seeds men Seminaries heere Have beene most active diligent precise By art and labour what they could devise To sow this Land with their corrupted graines And through their subtle and uncessant paines This worke hath so far prosperd in their hands That crops are plenteous in the very sands But to the scandall of the English care Good seeds men in this Nation have been rare And that amongst the English too a shame That English Christians who desire the fame Of the Professors of the truth indeed Should take so little paines to sow good seed For want whereof so many grounds lie wast So many soules are barren or at least Let lie as Land that hath on purpose been Designd the foe to sow his tares therein Nor lyes this blemish only here no doubt But partly upon such as sent these out Those Pilots that sat at the helme to guide They should this Charge with more repect have ey'd They should as well have took the work in hand For to convert as to subject this Land Have sought to save the precious soules of men As well as seise the substance was therein And questionlesse the want of this same care Of gaining soules converting people here Hath mov'd that God who gave us this possession Thus now to bring our holding it in question But herein you that now are at the sterne I meane you not this doth you not concerne This