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A56077 The Protestant address on His Majesty's calling a free-Parliament 1688 (1688) Wing P3818A; ESTC R35129 1,189 1

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The Protestant Address ON HIS MAJESTY'S CALLING A Free-Parliament NOW English Braves the utmost point have gain'd That Magna Charta or the Laws contain'd The great supporter of our Liberty The Mighty Sanhedrim Select and Free The true Dispensitory of our Laws Shall clear our Jealousies and plead our Cause To stop the Current of a civil-Civil-War What more cou'd Heav'n or a Just King declare When Pagan Darkness had o're-cast the Land Loud Storms did Rage with a prevailing hand Amid'st the Clouds of Lightning and of Smoke In a slow Voice the God-like Monarch spoke England Rejoyce hence Banish all Despair Thy Crys are heard Thy Breaches I 'll repair What Lords and Prelates oft Implor'd in vain Without Petitioning you now Obtain Tho' Prayer prevails 't is not th' officious Saint But the Gods Bounty condescends to grant He spake and strait the Storm did disappear The Cloud disperst and all the Heavens were clear The chearful Voice of a Free-Parliament As swift as Lightning thro' the Nation went The grateful Summons reacht the Belgick Band And did extend thro' all the spacious Land Beyond Domestick ev'n to Foreign Powers The Joy and Terror of the Neighbouring Shores. Let France alone dread the Eternal Voice Whil'st Holland joyn'd with England does rejoyce A Parliament What Charms does that imply Our Lives our Laws Religion Liberty Whatever else to English-Men is dear As in its proper Region center here The Nerves of War the Sinews of our Peace Redresser of the Nations Grievances The great Catholicon a Compound sure Which does to each Disease apply a Cure To Purge the Land o' th' Roman Legion A Bolus for the Whore of Babylon Asserter of the King and Peoples Right And with Success can Crown the doubtful Fight 'T was This when false Achitophels took place And many a Loyal Peer was in Disgrace When Pagan Blindness did the Night begin And Priests from Tyber like a Stream broke in 'T was This the very Name of Parliament When Factious Tumults Rag'd and Discontent To the appeasing of the Lawless Crowd Restor'd the Day and did disperse the Cloud A brighter Sun and a serener Sky Succeeds the Storm and does our Peace imply When Foreign Streams the Land had over-flown The fatal Sword was in our Bowels drawn When Orange with his War-like Troops came o've The Belgick Lyon did begin to Rore When to his Aid lost Macklesfield did run To be Reveng'd or to have Justice done Ev'n then a Parliament such are these Charms Allay'd the Fury of the Belgick Arms. Encircled here we 'll fear no other Blows Their Swords their Hearts engag'd in the same cause The bare Proclaiming of a Free-Election Brought the Invading-Foe to our Protection What Mysteries are here A Foreign Prince England Invades for English-Mens Defence A Formidable Army in the Rere With many a Noble Potentate and Peer Shamburg Nassaw and Staremberg the Great Whose very Presence is a sure Defeat Their Arms inur'd to Conquest will lay down No violation to the British Crown Come only to Espouse the English Cause The Protestant Religion and the Laws By Reason not by Combat to perswade Against the Foes that wou'd those Rights Invade This Sovereign this sole Expedient Is founded in a Legal Parliament May this Conjunction of the higher Sphears Dispel our groundless Jealousies and Fears And may the wond'rous Year of Eighty Eight In England once again set all things Right FINIS LONDON Printed for H. R. in the Year 1688.