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A66752	Ecchoes from the sixth trumpet. The first part reverberated by a review of neglected remembrances, abreviating [sic] precautions and predictions heretofore published at several times, upon sundry occasions, to forewarn what the future effects of divine justice would be, as soon as our sinnes were full ripe,if not prevented by timely repentance : most part of the predictions have been already seen or heard verified, both by the author yet living, and by many others, who observed at what times, in what manner, upon what persons, and in what places they were literally or mystically fulfilled : collected out of the said authors printed books, who conscienciously [sic] observed on what divine prophesies the said predictions were grounded, as also God's late frequent intermixture of judgments and mercies, to reclaim this generation.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1666 (1666)	Wing W3155; ESTC R38724	102,560	226

withdraw They who of thy Grandure stood in aw Shall say in scorn Is this the Valiant Nation Which had throughout the World sush Reputation By Victories on Land Alas are these The men who were once Master of the Seas And grew so powerful yea that petty Nation Which seem'd scarce worthy of thine indignation Shal slight thee too and all thy former fame Will be forgot or mention'd to thy shame Mark how GOD's Plagues were doubled on the Jews When they his mild corrections did abuse Mark what at last upon their Land was sent And look thou for the self-same punishment Lest he in anger unto us protest That we shall never come into his rest For we have followed them in all their sin Such and so many have our Warnings been And if GOD still prolong not his compassion To us belong the self-same Desolation Then wo shall be to them that heretofore By joining house to house expeld the po're And Field have unto Field incorporated Till Villages were nigh depolulated For desolate their dwellings will be made The Lord shall in their bowels sheath his blade And they who have by their oppressive wiles Erected Palaces and costly piles Shall see the stones and timbers in the wall Arise against them and for vengeance call Then wo shall be to them that early rise To eat and drink to play and wantonni●● Still adding sin to sin They the distress Shall feel of hunger thirst and nakedness And be the servile slaves of them that are Their Foes as to their lusts they captives were Then wo to them who darkness more have lov'd Then light and wholsom counsel disapprov'd For they shall wander in a crooked path Which neither light nor end nor comfort hath Then wo to them who have corrupted bin To justifie the wicked in their sin Or for a bribe the Righteous to condemn For as the Chaff a Wind shall scatter them Their bodies on the Dunghil shall be cast Their finest flow're be dust their substance wast And all the gawdy Titles they have worn Shall but augment their sorrow shame and scorn Then wo to them who when they were afraid Of mischiefs threatned sought unlawful aid Or setting GOD's protection quite aside On their own strength and wisdom have reli'de For he their foolish hopes will bring to nought Till all they fear shall be upon them brought And all their wit and strength shall not suffice To heave that burthen off which on them lies Because fore-warnings they do neither heed Or mind till GOD to execution doth proceed And of his long-forbearance careless are Till in consuming fire he shall appear Yet we still set far off the evil day In dull security we pass away Our precious time and with vain hopes and toyes Build up a trust which every puff destroyes And therefore still when healing is expected New and unlook'd for troubles are effected We wisht for Parliaments and them we made Our GOD for all the hopes that many had The mischiefs which we feared to prevent Was by the wisdom of a Parliament Well Parliaments we had and what in being Succeeded hath but greater disagreeing With greater Grievances then heretofore And reason good for we depended more On second causes then on him who sends What to our evil or well-being tends Know then that should our Parliaments agree According to our wish should our Kings be So gracious as to condescend to all Which to the Publike Weal propose they shall Ev'n that Agreement till our sins we leave Shall make us but secure and help to weave A Snare by whose fine threads we shall be caught Before we see the mîschiefs thereby wrought Whilst for self-Interests we chiefly seek By Parliaments the King shall do the like Yea till in mutual Aides we can agree And our endeavourings unfeigned be In labouring for a Christian Reformation Each meeting shall beget a new vexation In the 191 folio and in many following leaves the Prevarications of persons in several other Callings having been mentioned the Author added this and much more in relation to the Clergy Nor came the Priests and Prophets much behind The worst of these but passe them in some kind For though a learned Clergy now thou hast And knowledge is here lately much encreast Though ' likewise I believe thou hast in thee Some Pastors from a just reproof as free As any Nation hath yet thou hast more Prevaricators now then heretofore A heap of Teachers entertain'd thou hast Resembling empty vapours or a blast That breaths no comfort What GOD never meant They preach for Truth and run e're they are sent The Peoples wounds they salve with pleasing speech When there 's no peace at all of peace they preach Or like Dumb Dogs consume their time in sleep And some so look that they affright the sheep Like hungry Curres they alwayes gormundize Yet never can their appetite suffize In bribing and in hunting for Promotion More is their zeal and much more their Devotion Then to discharge their Duty They delight In flat'ries and the fawningst Parasite In all the Courts of Europe cannot prate More heath'nishly or more insinuate Then some of these c. There is no Avarice that theirs exceeds No Malice that a Mischief sooner breeds No Pride so surly as the Clergy-pride Except among the Beggars when they cri'de They who a few years past would half have broke Their Kindred to have purchas'd them a Cloke And in poor thred-bare Cassocks came to preach Beneath an Vnder-Curate and to teach The Children of a Farmer for their meat And scarcely worthy seem'd so much to get Ev'n some of these have so well acted out Their parts of seeming honestly-devout And have so quaintly humoured and pleased The present times that they at last have seized On what they aim'd at and now over-pe're Their Heads by whom they first advanced were And if you mark how proudly now they bear Their lofty heads how insolent they are How barb'rously ingrateful unto those By whom they from the Dunghil first arose How they at least neglect if not contemn Their old Friends and betwixt themselves them What distances they set unto their Kin How harsh and how ill-natur'd they have been How peevish they are grown and how unquiet How choice in their Attendance and their Diet If it were well observed with what strain Of Pride and Loftiness they entertain Their Brethren of the Clergy when they are By their own Officers call'd to appear Before their Lordships with what Pope-like phrase They seek to terrifie and to amaze Their humble Suppliants how on those they play Who their Superiors were the other day Were these things heeded with some passages Which name I could as worthy heed as these A man would hardly think that these had been Those Priests whom they a while before had seen So beggarly and so expos'd to scorn But that they had at least been Prelates born Few could have else thought that these men

deni'de By your endeavourings it shall not wrest My thoughts for any private Interest To murmur at it so you will befriend My Suit so much to bring it to an end That from your Labyrinths I may retire And be again at leisure to enquire What will become of me and what of Them Who take the Courses which good men condemn For to retreat and gotten ground to yeild Is otherwhile the means to win the field And he that would turn Floods another way Must dig his Drain before he builds the Bay He that hath Money to promote his Ends Needs neither strain his Wits nor tire his Friends He that hath Friends his Matters to contrive May though he have nor Wit nor Mony live He that hath Wit and wants the other twain May live but not without some want and pain He that hath two of these and wanteth one Cannot be very rich or quite undone He that hath all of these might be a King Were he ambitious to be such a thing And he that is depriv'd of all these three May be as happy as I seem to be SE DEFENDENDO Imprinted without Date THis was an Apology written by the Author in Prose to vindicate himself from such Aspersions as had been injuriously and without any probable Cause cast upon him by Malicious Detractors as well to hide the unjust dealing with him as to disparage his Endeavours relating to the Publick Service It contains many particulars which being timely well heeded might have prevented such mischiefs and disadvantages as afterward befel and continue to this day The date is not mentioned in the Imprinted Copies But the time may be well enough known by the Contents The matter is such as cannot be abreviated without dismembring and making the whole invalid and therefore the Book is referred to their perusal unto whose hands it may come JUSTITIARIUS JUSTIFICATUS Imprinted without Date THis is also an Apologetical Discourse the imprinting whereof is very well known to some For it was burnt by the hand of the Common Hangman and the Author though he neither published it nor intended the distributing thereof to any but Members of Parliament to whom cognizance of the Cause most properly pertained was both fined and confined for it neither being called to answer for himself nor having knowledg of his Impeachment until sentence was past against him But this Innocency was so well known to the greatest number of the most consciencious Members of that Parliament whereby he was censured that though the Accusation was brought in early in the morning upon a day set apart for debating a Cause relating to the Scots so many of the said Members then present so abominated what they perceived to be then intruded that the whole day was spent before the Authors Enemies could prevail against him So many of them also had been ear and eye-witnesses of an impudent injustice whereby he was oppressed by their Committee of Examinations in another Cause that it occasioned the Voting down of that Committee within a day or two afterward And the same Parliament upon better Consideration having also made trial of the Authors patience in suffring about the space of a whole year discharged him both from the said Fine and Imprisonment without his Petitioning or Mediation for it For at that time his Friends by Gods Providence had a seasonable Opportunity to move on his behalf there being a considerable number then present who were jealous to do Justice and discharge the Trust reposed in them by their Electors This is all that shall be inserted touching the contents of that Book because there are persons therein mentioned by Name whose failings he desireth may be forgotten in hope they are as truly to him reconciled as he is to them VOX PACIFICA Imprinted 1645. THis was a Voice tending to the Pacification of Gods wrath and to make some such Proposals as might help to reconcile those by whom the Common Peace was infringed and offered many particulars to consideration which are stil as needful and as much neglected now as at that time It consists of four Cantoes containing about 200 Pages two Cantoes more being intended but not finished be-because the Author thought his labour would be quite lost here are inserted a few particulars in hope it may invite them to whose hands the Book comes to peruse it at large In the Page before the Title and engraven Frontispiece the meaning of it is thus exprest A Trumpet sounds a Parlee to this Isle And over it a Hand displaies the while A Flag of Peace that this new Sign at door May draw you on to see a little more We hung it forth that these besotted Nations May heed the seasons of their Visitations And grow more careful to conform their wayes To what this Voice and their known duty sayes Though yet the most our words no more have markt Then if a Cat had mew'd or Dog had barkt c. The Epistle before the said Book intended to the King Parliament and People thus begins Not to Petition King or Parliament Or court the People suit with his intent Who sends out this nor is he come to crave Your Favours or your Patronage to have It is almost too late and 't was too soon At this time therefore he expects that Boon From one who better knows him and from whom This Voice doth both to sight and hearing come He had he alwayes thus resolv'd had lost Less labour and escaped with less cost He hath no will to flatter if he had To flatter at this time were to be mad And peradventure also he hath now As little cause as mind to flatter you Yet that the same affection may appear With which by him you alway served were And that he may not give a just offence By seeming careless of the Reverence Belonging to your Grandure he professes That meerly for the sake of these Expresses The freedom of bold Language he assumes c. The News he brings though thus declar'd it be Will warrantize the Speaker to be free And if it be despised he conceives Some will ere long grow bold without your leaves To make you hear with ruder Complements A blunter Language and to worse intents For dreadful things are murmur'd and unless Men more conform to that which they profess You 'l find at last he dareth without fear To speak more Truth then many dare to hear What ever he or his rude Language seems Your persons none more loves or more esteems None seeks your Honour or your Safety more Then he doth now or hath done heretofore None oftner his own blame hath ventur'd on That others might not wholly be undone He hath no aim herein at ought which tends To his own personal or private ends And thus professeth he that you might grow The more advantag'd by believing so And that his purposes no other are Then he professeth plain it will appear To men of Ingenuity and Wit Who weigh what 's

do now suspect Except the Willow and the Oak foresee What for their mutual weal should acted be Whereby they frustrate may a grand Design Which is on foot both States to undermine And they who thereunto first Movers are Shall of that Blessing reap the greatest share Observe this well If you hereafter fee Which peradventure may permitted be The Red-Cross from its former height decline And for a time the Half-Moon Northward shine With an ill Influence upon the Seas Beyond the Pillars of great Hercules And not be retrograde till it hath more Effects that way then ever heretofore Expect some consequence will then ensue Which many who yet dream not of will rue But losses are sometimes a gainful prize By oversights men grow to be more wise And they who heed not now what doth concern Their welfare will perhaps more wisdom learn When more Experience makes their Judgment stronger By suff'ring loss and shame a little longer We on this side the Water are not yet Confus'd enough that order to beget That must reform us and shall here therefore Pursue self-interest yet more and more Till such as are in Pow'r vouchsafe to hear The Counsel of their slighted Ingineer The Old Robe with New Cloth will patched be Though Rents thereby still wider made they see Till every Rag is quite worn out and then They with a whole Robe shall be cloth'd agen And they who own it be secured more And much more dignifi'd then heretofore When they who would effect it make their choices As well by Lot Divine as humane voices Whereto self-seekers never will agree Till by some streight it shall enforced be But when this comes to pass there will appear A new Light shining in our Hemisphear That will disperse the Clouds and Fogs which make So many cross each other and mistake The way to safety Then we shall perceive Our Opposites desire to interweave Their Interest with ours and if sincere They shall in what will be produced here Partake and both together then possess Each other and the world in Christian Peace Till he appeareth to ascend the Throne Who must unite all Nations into one Then shall the glaring Comets which have seem'd Fixt Stars and so by many are esteem'd Ev'n they of greatest magnitude down from Their heights be cast and more despis'd become Then Gloworms or those rotten Chips that glare In darkness as if real lights they were Then every single Person shall be brought Unto his Test and that which he hath wrought To trial comes moreover they who now By spoiles and by oppression powerful grow Will then become the scorn of every one Whom they opprest desp●s'd and trampled on Then they who large Indulgencies contrive For others that themselves they may forgive Who cunningly at fast and loose do play Who take to morrow what they give to day And make their seeming favours means unto Those mischiefs which their malice could not do Who Spider-like weave Cobwebs with pretence To catch the Flyes alone which give offence When none but harmless Bees their Engines take For Wasps and Hornets passage through them make They who do sacrifice unto the dead That wherewithall the living should be fed Who justifie the wicked in their way And unto death men innocent betray These then and all such like shall to their doom With horror fear and with amazement come Page 33 it thus follows Then from the buried Oxe will forth arise A swarm of thrifty Honey-making Flyes That shall with sweetness and with plenty store These Islands from the Midland to the shore And spread their Floating Hives on all the Seas 'Twixt both the Tropicks to th' Antipodes To make Preparatives for that which brings Into one body all dispersed things Some other things of no mean consequence I do foresee approaching not far hence But so obscurely that I cannot say Without all doubtings whereto tend they may For far beyond my apprehension lies The Chain of those remote Contingencies Which draw on future things because my Glass Through which the notions of them are to pass Is so defective that they do perchance Misrepresent them in some circumstance Yet by the enlightnings which the Sacred Writ On Sanctified Reason doth beget If we well heed consider and compare What things have been with such as present are To GOD and Men relating we of some Things future may aright inform'd become The Perpetual PARLIAMENT Imprinted 1650. IN this Poem the Author having More Poetico expressed a Contemplative Vision preparative to what he intended he thus proceeds pag. 44. By what hath represented been By well consid'ring what I had seen By spelling out what ev'ry Character Holds forth to evidence those things that were Thereby intended I found out therein Where that great Work must first of all begin Which may make up our breaches when thereto Our selves we settle as we ought to do I saw that on a future settlement And constitution of a Parliament Upon a just Foundation laid with speed A means of Restauration might succeed That introducing therewith which might bring Into right Order ev'ry other thing Our outward Weal promoting if we take That course whereof proposal I now make I am likewise perswaded ev'n without So much as any shadow of a doubt That by this Parliaments misconstitution We are uncapable of that fruition Which we expect that for the most part thence Proceeds the cause of all our Indigence And that this Parliament is naytheless The Chief if not sole means of our redress Ev'n this which many at this day do seek To bring by disrespect into dislike And to a nullity as if thereby They had no hopes of our recovery For by this Parliament GOD would effect The future Settlement they do expect If they too long delay'd hot the pursuit Of an impartial rational Recruit Although the Body of it being made Of Members which among them long have had And yet hath over-many so corrupted That they have not alone much interrupted Their activeness who discontinue sound But now are also likely to confound The whole at once by seeking how to please Their Lusts or Friends yet we might maugre these Restored be by those who have been just And to their utmost pow●r perform'd their trust It is from those that we denominate This Parliament in them is lodg'd our Fate Conditionally yea whatsoe're they seem This is as things are that which must redeem Our Honour lost and if then it shall Dissolved be down will their Structures fall Not to be rais'd without the cost of more Then hath been spent upon it heretofore But as they are what prudent man can think It will be long ere totally they sink For while they shall endeavour to subsist Without preserving of their Interest Who chose them or permit their dissolution With our late hardly gained Constitution Which now without enforcement can by none Effected be but by it self alone They shall henceforth for ever be unable To gain a

been The Prop of him that 's call'd the Man of Sin All this may be and if thou strive to go The way that open lies it shall be so Oh! lose not this advantage for a Bubble Which in vain hope begins and ends in trouble And lastly be it known not by event Which may be to thy future detriment But by Precaution that if fail thou shalt Without this Peoples obstinate default Of what they justly from thee may expect Who art advanc't their Freedom to protect Or shalt abuse thy Pow'r them to oppress Or leave them unreliev'd in their distress So that they shall be forc'd to cry and call To GOD for aid he hear and help them shall Search what 's misdone and though their former sin Hath great and full of Provocations been He for the present time will pass it by And on thy failings onely cast an eye Avenge their Cause call thee account to give Of all those favours which thou didst receive Of that late Mercy too among the rest Which did occasion what is here exprest And with much indignation cast thee down When to its height thy confidence is grown There were several Addresses made to Oliver Cromwel and his Son Richard by this Author whilst they exercised the Supream Power amounting to above Two Quires of Paper in which were many Seasonable Precautions and Remembrances to them tendred with a sober boldness as also many Predictions of what would succeed if they neglected what was thereby precautioned which are now observed to have been verified But these being delivered sealed up into their own hands and not imprinted are all omitted in this Review Verses to the King's Majesty Written immediately after His Restauration and imprinted Anno 1662. IN the sixth page the Author thus proceeds with what he had begun I had presum'd a personal Address Long since but difficult is an Access For such as I appear who hazard blame And disrespect enough where I now am Because that which to do my Conscience calls Is by some numbred among Criminals In that regard this Paper must make way For gaining an admittance as it may And will perhaps presented be by some Who shall have entrance where I must not come I cannot write strong lines with swelling words Whose Elegancy scarcely room affords For sober sence nor muster up their Names Whom History or whom Tradition fames For brav'st Atchievements since time first begun And then say You have all of them outgone And think my foolish Words may add unto Your honour more then your own Deeds can do Or that there 's any wise man who gives Creed To what they in a flat'ring Poem read It it is not in the Pow'r of any other By Pen or Tongue to clear up or to smother Your true Deserts for in Your Self that lies Which either them be clouds or Dignifies No other thoughts I entertain of You But such as I may think and you allow Yet to extol Your Worth I shall not dare Till I know truly what Your Virtues are For though to Flat'rers all Kings seem to be Of like Desert they seem not so to me I 'le serve You faithfully in what I may And You as King love honour and obey I would conceal not publish Your Defects If I knew any and give due respects To all Your Merits but I will not own One Line that praises them till they are known For till I know I give but what is due I am a Lyar though my words be true Since equally both good and evil things Are famed of the best and worst of Kings A stranger likewise You have been long time To most of Your own Subjects in this Clime And I was neyer where I did behold Your face since you were two or three years old What good soever therefore I aver Of You I shall but seem a Flatterer Yea You Your Self would think so should I add Those Virtues which You know You never had And Praise which is ascrib'd to any one I●n that mode is a little less then none But little credit also hath a Poet To celebrate Your Worth when he shall know it Or counterpoise or silence Contradictions Since most esteem his Writings to be Fictions And You would have more honor then from them By these blunt Lines if they had Your esteem I therefore so shall study to encrease Your Honour that I may not make it less And whatsoever I can say or do Although You give a Countermand thereto I 'le say and do it when I shall be sure Your Life or Peace or Honour 't will secure And if this be a fault I do intend To be thus faulty till my life shall end I know well Royal Sir who 't is that sayes To please great men deserves not meanest praise I see how 't is approv'd and what they gain Who can that thriving Faculty attain Yet I shall wave that Art and will assay To do You honour in another way By giving You occasions to express Your Justice Mercy and Your Prudentness That You Your Self may make the World to see Your Virtues more then words can say they be To that end much might in my Caese be shown But rather for Your sake then for mine own Is this Address yea rather to prevent What may be Your Harm then my Detriment I 'le therefore wave that too that no self-end May frustrate what I chiefly do intend c. Page 20 it thus follows lest my good intent To You some future Casualties prevent I will so far forth as my Chain doth stretch And my own shortned Arm and Hand will reach Exhibit such Expedients as from time And other Herbs I 've suckt within our Clime And wanting better Gifts will offer You This little Cluster of those Grapes which grew Upon my Wither'd Vine for though they are But sow'r Your Kingdom yeelds none wholsomer If you shall seasonably press out the Juice And then assume it without prejudice This Time is Critical the wayes be rough And many of those Chariot Wheels flye off By which Your Marches expedited seem'd And lost Advantages must be redeem'd Lest when You think that they are come to hand Your main Expectances are at a stand Or put so far back that You may survive Your hopes and Your own happiness outlive I wish it otherwise and know it may Be as I wish if you the means assay Not giving ear to those who will withstand Your good and that which GOD hath now in hand I have discharg'd my Conscience and so shall What ever for so doing doth befall And hope that will not wholly be despis'd Which now shall be in faithfulness advis'd To those men do not over-much adhere Who think all Wisdom lies within their Sphere For Honours Riches and Self-Interest Have made wise men as brutish as a Beast Heed other while what Common Fame doth say As well as what Your Courtiers whisper may Lest You be ignorant of many things Whose cognizance is pertinent

Or nourishments of Pride But be remembrances to show The folly of that deed By which man fell and fell so low As those base Rags to need The Second Temporary Hymn A Temporary Hymn for the First Day of the Week commonly called the Lords-Day or Sunday GReat Lord of Time great King of Heav'n Since weekly thou renew'st my dayes To thee shall daylie thanks be giv'n And weekly Sacrifice of Praise This day the Light Time's eldest born Her glorious Beams did first display And then the Evening and the Morn Did first obtain the Name of Day 2 The Depth with Darkness then empal'd That out of which the World was made And which deep Waters thou hast call'd Upon this Day beginning had And as upon this Day it was In which Creation first begun So on this Day the work of Grace In ev'ry circumstance was done 3 For on this Day thy Christ arose And Victor over Death became This Day he conquer'd all his Foes And put them to perpetual shame Upon this Day it pleased thee Thy holy Spirit down to send That men with Gifts might furnish'd be Thy Gospel's Preaching to attend 4 This day therefore we set apart For holy Rest and holy Rites And ev'ry sanctified heart To celebrate this day delights Except thereto compell'd by need Works for the Body we forbear That in those works we may proceed Which for the souls health needful are 5 Therefore that now to thee oh Lord A due Oblation bring I may Thus to thine Honor I record And sing the Blessings of this day So let me sing so mind them still And all my life so thankful be That when my Course I shall fulfil I may acceptance find with thee 6 Discretion grant me so to know What Sabbath-Rites thou dost require And Grace my duty so to do That I may keep thy Law intire Not doing what should not be done Nor ought omitting fit to do Nor over-burth'ning any one With more then thou enjoin'st them to 7 But let me rest my body so That to my Soul I do no wrong Or in Devotion heedless grow What to my Body's rest belong That both in Soul and Body Lord I may still hallow ev'ry day According to thy Holy Word And have true Rest in thee for ay The Third Temporary Hymn For MONDAY THis Morning brings to mind oh GOD Thy forming of this Airy Sphere And spreading of that Orb abro'd Wherewith we now surrounded are It was the Fabrick which thy hand Vouchsaf'd upon this day to frame And bounding Waters under land From those which are above the same 2 This Airy Firmament both keeps All breathing Creatures here below From suffocation in those Deeps Whereon till then no wind did blow To us this Firmament convayes Those Dews and Show'rs which oft we need And all those pleasant Summer-dayes Whence Profits and Delights proceed 3 Yea by this Firmament we gain The Vision of refreshing Light And thereby do as well obtain The use of hearing and of sight For this dayes Workmanship oh Lord I praise thee now and humbly pray That I may thankfully record Thy daily Blessings ev'ry day A Personal Hymn for a Soveraign PRINCE BY me or by my Father's House Deserv'd it could not be That I or any one of us Obtained this Degree But GOD who dealeth forth his own As him it liketh best On me those Honours hath bestown Whereof I am poffest 2 Great hazards many undergo Such Titles to acquire Yet neither find content below Or means of rising higher What therefore can I less repay To him whose Gift it is Then otherwhile to sing or say Some such like Hymn as this 3 Let me O Lord my Diadem Unto thy Glory wear And be a Blessing unto them Who my Leige People are Let not thy favours make my heart To swell with wanton Pride Or from those Precepts to depart Which ought to be my Guide 4 But make me still in mind to bear From whom this Throne I had And that they my own Brethren are Who Ruler I was made Yea cause me evermore to heed That I and they are thine Although to serve the Publike need Their Goods and Lives are mine 5 Since ev'ry Subjects Cause to me Should equally be dear In Judgment let the poor man be As precious as the Peer And lest for them we snares may make At my chief Council-bo'rd Lord let me dayly Counsel take From thy Truth-speaking-Word 6 Those Traitors chase out of my Court Who dare pervert the Laws Or cause me by a false report To wrong an honest Cause And let thy Judgments them devour How high soe're they stand Who shall abuse my Royal Pow'r To hinder thy Command 7 Within my Realms let no man dare My Statutes to gainsay And let me live in as much fear Thy Laws to disobey So I and they whom thou on me For Subjects hast bestown Shall in each other blessed be And keep Sedition down 8 Preserve to me my Royal Dues And Grace vouchsafe me still My just Prerogative to use According to thy Will That evil men may dread my frown The Righteous comfort find And I obtain a better Crown When this must be resign'd Here ends the First Part of this Review to which a Second Part shall be added as GOD enables and permits A POSTSCRIPT THE uncertainty and changeableness of all temporal things make us accordingly mutable in our Purposes And whereas the Author of the several Books here abreviated intended a Retirement to a solitary Habitation in the place of his Nativity upon such Considerations as were expressed in the Preface of this Review his Friends resident in and near London not approving thereof have perswaded him to the contrary by making it probable That future Inconveniences would be thereby rather multiplied then diminished Now therefore by considering therewithall That where GOD's Judgments are most visible his Mercy will be there as much evidenced to all who love and trust unfeignedly in him he resolveth to continue where he is until he can stay there no longer lest he may bury himself alive by removing far from them by whose Charity GOD hath hitherto preserved him There are Faults escaped in the Imprinting or Transcribing of this Review which the Author 's late Sickness disabled him to take notice of The Readers are therefore desired to correct and amend them according to their own discretion The Names of those Printed Books heretofore written by GEORGE WITHER out of which this First Part of this Review of Neglected Remembrances Precautions and Predictions was collected mentioning the years in which they were the First or Second time Imprinted BRitans Remembrancer Imprinted 1627. pag. 1. The Author's Motto Nec Habeo Nec Careo Nec Curo Imprinted 1618. p. 47. Campo Musae or Field-Musings Impr. 1644. p. 49. The Dark Lanthorn Imprinted 1650. p. 57. The Perpetual Parliament Imprinted 1650. p. 69. The Author's Emblems Imprinted 1634. p. 78. An Interjection being a sudden Ejaculation cast in at the Collecting of this Review p. 85. Vaticinium Causuale Imprinted 1655. p. 100. Verses to the Kings Majesty Imprinted 1662. p. 103. A Thankful Retribution Imprinted 1649. p. 109. Boni Ominis Votum Imprinted 1656. p. 115. A Si Quis or Queries Imprinted 1648. p. 119. The Author's Petition Imprinted 1648. p. 125. The Tyred Petitioner Imprinted without date p. 128. Se Defendendo Imprinted without date p. 132. Justitiarius Justificatus Impr. without date p. 131. Vox Pacifica Imprinted 1645. p. 132. Carmen Expostulatorium Imprinted 1647. p. 146. Letters of Advice Imprinted 1644. p. 152. A Cause Allegorically stated Impr. 1657. p. 159. Mercurius Rusticus Imprinted without date p. 161. What Peace to the Wicked Imprinted 1646. p. 163. An Address to the Members of Parliament imprinted 1657. p. 175. Halelujah or Britan's Second Remembrancer imprinted 1641. p. 183. FINIS