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A85581	Great Brjttajnes distractions: or An alarum to awaken all good subjects; shewing them the cause and cure of their present evils. And briefly answering some false frivolous objections, made by one of the chiefe rabbies of these times. With an exhortation in the conclusion to all good subjects, for to put in practice their just duty. Written by a true lover both of God, his king, and countrey.	True lover both of God, his King, and countrey.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1666; Thomason E128_32; ESTC R3654	5,337	9

For Tell me deare Soule who ere thou art Art thou in holy Writ denominated to be a creature made after Gods owne Image Then let me tell thee Gods owne command is Honour thy Creator Wouldst thou gladly learne to honour Him O then obey and put in practise his Coelestiall commands Be subiect vnto thy Prince for Kings are Gods Annoynted heere on earth and not he that knowes the will of his heavenly Father but he which doth it shall receive the reward I pray God direct all Christian hearts to put in practise this and all other their iust duties Then shall we have no grounded reason to take up Armes and imbrue one anothers hands in each others bloud Then shall we have no hopelesse hope either of our Kingdome or our owne particular safety Then shall we have happy Testimonies that if we will yet returne to God by a contrite sorrow for what is past God out of the riches of his accustomed mercies will cause Peace to be within our walles and plenteous within our Pallaces Lastly Then shall all the people vnanimously yeeld a due Loyalty to their Soveraigne Lord the King and the good King like an indulgent father seeke all Auspicious meanes dexterously to preserve his people Thus breifely and plainely I have made apparent unto you one cause and a great cause of our present distractions intimating unto you how originally it tooke its first breath essence and being from our neglect of duty both to God and the King in not awefully fearing the one and readily and cheerefully honouring and obeying the other I have also prescribed you a coelestiall Cordiall for the cure let every one in Gods name make use of it and I dare confidently affirme that it will produce peace and plenty unto us peace at home and peace abroad peace Temporall and peace Spirituall plenty of good workes and plenty of good rewards O then deare soule hast thou through negligence lost yesterday yet through double diligence gaine tomorrow 't is never too late to mend and never too soone to beginne And thus much I recommend breifly unto you all out of a Christian desire prudently to direct I dare at least say most safely to admonish you all I should now give a Period to this unpollished peroration but that mee thinkes I heare some factious Rabby a man too well knowne in this age too much favoured and indeed famous onely for his infamous life and doctrine who hath more piety in his tongue and outward shew then in his heart impudently beginnes to teach you another kind of lesson I animated you to seeke after peace but hee roares cut amaine crying aloud Arme Arme turning himselfe this way that way and the other but never the right way I gave you wholesome advice to feare God and honour the King hee makes it more is the pitty the summe totall almost of his discourse to deswade you from obeying your lawfull Prince and so by consequence instigateth you to commit treason both against God and Gods annointed Nor feares hee to teach you this lesson againe and againe hee hath taken Sanctuary already and will not I feare quit himselfe of his Pulpit this two houres nor stops he where many lose themselves At Arme Arme after which Alarum hee casts himselfe so furiously about to the people as if hee had meant to cast away his owne armes No hee hath found out many waighty motives and reasons to spurre on many of his Auditours which in one halfe houre hee had preacht almost fast asleepe feare and jealousies possesse his brany and hee is fully resolved ere long they shall enter into the minds of his Auditours for which end hee roares like a Lyon and cries amaine plots plots unheard of plots Popish plots At the report of which his Auditory awakes and beginne to prick up their eares to give attention to his frivolous seditious discourse These even these though none such ever were hee avoucheth to bee true and unlesse you will take Armes now to defend your selves these plots menace your utter ruine And thus hee poysons not a few of his auditory Stayes hee here no yet further hee goes and impudently affirmes that Bishops are Limbs of Antichrist decent Ceremonies are superstitious hee counts order in praying as the Church hath set downe unto us as Papisticall nay the Lords prayer is abomination in his mouth Stayes hee here surely no further to enliven you in this cause hee dares tell you your life your liberty your religion all that is neer or deer unto you is now at stake except you fight or at least assist with your purses this cause Desire you to know your enemies why they are at hand I am sure at least they are in his mouth who who are they marry hee le tell you they are those damned Cavaliers he is sure they are damned And I am sure he said so there is nothing wanting to compleat their damnation if you will beleeve this grand Assertour in truth this uncharitable Christian but that you reciprocally resolve to cut them off and so send them immediately into Hell where he leaves them in his own imagination and having wasted away two houres takes his leave of his Pulpit I will not take upon mee to judge what may become of this man in the World to come because sacred writ commands mee not to judge least I bee judged Let him that condemneth another take heed least hee bee condemned But sure I am these and the favourers of such as these men are who ever they bee next to our sinnes are the onely cause of our woes our miseries our distractions And as they are justly odious in the sight of God who greets with a heavenly blessing the Peace-maker saying Blessed bee the Peace-maker c. So hee denounceth nothing but judgement and direfull curses to fall on the contentious man who sowes discord as tares to poyson and hinder the good seed I will close up all in a word My deare Countreymen and truly deare if deare in the sight of God as I hope and wish you all ever may bee God hath pleased to blesse this Nation above all others with all manner of blessings for many yeares past as I told you before Vnder one Soveraignesse and two Soveraignes the latter of which God long preserve hee being the mirrour of all Christian Princes unexampled for his piety unparallell'd for his free acts of grace and mercy and one who so long and no longer desires the blessing of the Almighty to him and his Royall posterity and his good Subjects lawfull assistance as hee shall maintaine their religion in the purity of it their estates liberties and lawes for the safety of them their lives and their posterity And so long beloved Countrey-men I dare sacrifice my life for to maintaine the assertion if a just and necessary occasion should invite mee thereunto wee are all bound to defend his Royall Person Crowne and Dignity against any power whatsoever that shall labour to hazzard the one or infringe and debilitate the other And if it should fatally fall out that our King on his part should not performe his Royall and sacred word for the word of a King is and ought to be as sacred as is his Person which as yet I deeme a kind of impiety the least to doubt of then when hee breakes on his part which fatall omen God avert wee have some colour though I cannot truly say any just and lawfull cause to keepe from him any of his just rights which wee are bound by the law of God to render unto him by the law of this our Nation and finally by the oath of Supremacy Allegiance and the late Protestation and in the name and feare of God I dare confidently assure you that if you all faithfully resolve actually to performe this duty God will restore you aboundantly to your former happinesse and multiply his mercies on you and your posterity Yea though the malevolence of some Sectaries those who are indeed the true Malignants maugre their spight and spit their utmost venome God dispose every one of your hearts as may be best for his honour and glory your King his Kingdome and every one of your owne safety FINIS

GREAT BRJTTAJNES DISTRACTIONS OR An Alarum to awaken all good Subjects Shewing them the Cause and Cure of their present Evils And briefly answering some false frivolous Objections made by one of the Chiefe RABBIES of these Times WITH An Exhortation in the Conclusion to all good Subjects for to put in practice their just duty Written by a true lover both of God his King and Countrey London Printed 1642. GREAT BRITTAINES DISTRACTIONS OR An Alarum to awaken all good SVBJECTS GOd never leaves Man untill Man first leaves God Punishments are but the sad Concommitants of sinne if every soule would avoid the cause any soule needs not dread the effect Sinne my deare Countreymen hath caused distraction as a just revenge to fall heavy on us Let every one examine privately his owne heart And I dare boldly say it will evidently and manifestly appeare that this Hell-poysoning venome Sinne hath too much taunted his soule and brought upon us this present evill and hence comes it to passe that as the shaddow attends the substance so a deluge of miseries waite upon a multitude of enormious sins crying as it were for Vengeance Vengeance Yet see see beloved and justly Ponder and Admire Heavens Sacred Mercy though our Nation hath beene swift in sinning for these many yeares past Yet our good GOD hath beene slow in punishing Witnesse those Halcyon Daies those Nestor Yeares I had almost said even Heavenly ones that we have many of us sweetly enjoyed for these threescore yeares and upwards I might adde more under that Mirrour of Women kind the ever truly Famous Queen ELIZABETH under that renowned Monarch King IAMES of ever blessed memory and in a word under our most happy and Vnparalled example of all Princely and Heroique vertues our Illustrious King CHARLES untill these three last yeares of His present Raigne And then O then and I feare Woe ere long me thought I perceived a blacke Cloude teeming in the North in which were not darkely seene Armed men of which I should remember to expatiate my discourse but that I cannot and ought not to forget that there hath by Royall ascent passed an Act of oblivion touching that unhappy businesse Only this from the inward of my soule I doe wish there never had beene such a president or being That like Apes our Brittish had not too greedily persued to soone to imitate them Then should I have had just cause to have held my peace in peace and no way have had so undesired a Subject to treat of as is said unhappy distraction of which least I might seeme too much to distract you with a bare Denomination of it onely my subsequent Discourse shall more fully and lively Portraiture it unto you Distraction is nothing else but a strange Metamorphosis or a sad change of welcome joy into unwelcome sorrow of smiling peace into a frowning warre or if you please a drawing in of men into a maze of confusion if it preoccupate the understanding it is enough to hazzard the utter confounding of it if the republique subvert and ruinate it if the minds of men do allienate them from their duty and lastly if it have seized upon the heart of the subject 't is unfortunately all-sufficiently able and powerfull to withdraw him from his due loyalty yea even to soveraignty and I feare it doth too many yea too too many in a word 't is a frenzy that so captivates poore man that hee oft doth hee knowes not what and lesse cares more is the pitty against hee knowes not or will not at least know whom And doth not our British Nation groane groane yea even to death almost sorely vext and miserably tormented withall the severall species and kinds of distraction City Countrey Court Nobles Gentry Poore men Good men Clergy men Lawyers Physitians Finally all sorts of men are spiced with this distemper some more some lesse yet all in some though in a different measure no sex no age but a taint of this malady Goe into the City and there you shall heare a numberlesse number of all sorts of people lamenting at a dearth of Trading Visite the Countrey and there you shall finde the abler Sort complaining that they cannot get money for their Commodities Poore men they want monie to buy Commodities and worke to gaine moneyes Frequent the Court and then you will there finde a world of Distractions caused for that they cannot bee made Masters of a world of Possessions The Nobles they emulate each the other I wish I could justly say not envy one another The Gentry are doubtfull they shall hazzard the losse of what they have The poore man is as much perplexed how to get wherewithall to subsist Good men are distracted for to see Vice so much promoted Vertue contemned and Clergy men many of them God forbid I should thinke or say all are more sorely perplexed for feare of a diminution of their yearely revenues then an alteration in Religion Lawyers are molested for want of Clients and Physicians enforced to have Patience instead of Patients Finally all sorts of men all Sexes are distempered sorely for feare of what will become of all But what hath caused this Epidemicall disease I shall not positively take upon me to afirme but onely probably lay open unto your view what my conjecture is if I Augurate aright you have cause to side with me yea and to thanke me If amisse I pray excuse me Undoubtly This unfortunate distraction or fraction shall I call it for it hath indeed broken already too many since God in his justice hath permitted it to fall amongst us For that we have broken and fallen from his Commandements I will not Commemorate at large the crying sinnes of our Nation Pride Envie Whoredome Drunkennesse Ingratitude and a Thousand such like Diabolicall vices Nor will I particularize any mans frailety onely this I must deale plainely with you I cannot but with unspeakable sorrow of heart condole abundantly to see how our good and gracious God as well as our pious and Religious King is lesse gratiously treated with by many of us then iustly beseemeth such who carry the name of good Christians and loyall Subiects Witnesse our neglect of due obedience to Soveraigne power Witnesse our undervaluing of holy men and holy exercises I meane such as efficaciously endeavour to invite and presse us to Feare God and Honour the King Not such who however pleasing to the times or plausible in outward shew in their Doctrine vent little else but malice and Sedition making it their inauspicious emulation and ambition to draw the hearts of men rather to themselves then to GOD or their good King Gods annointed and the place where Divine Oracles should bee enucleated a place where Gods Word is wrested to their owne ends to maintaine that which I should iniure Truth and wrong my owne Iudgement if I should brand with any better appellation then Schisme Faction yea down right Treason Treason against God Treason against the King