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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52160	A new and true mercurius: or, Mercurius metricus A true relation in meeter (on the behalf of scepter and miter) comprising sundry of the most sad and bad transactions, occurrences and passages in England, Scotland and Ireland, for the space of twelve years last past. For the true information and reformation of the people. Or, sober sadness, and plain-dealing, in a few plain, sober, and sad country rhimes, concerning these sad and heavy times, conducing to a real, personal and national reformation in three sinful lands. To which is added the authours twelve years extream melancholy, with the vvoful effects thereof in him, and the best remedy which he used for the removal of them all. Also a joyful and thankful commemoration of His Majesties happy return to his three kingdoms. By William Mascal above forty years ago Fellow-Commoner of Clarehal in Cambridge, now a poor deacon according to the canonical ordination of the late most famous orthodoxal Church of England.	Mascall, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing M903C; ESTC R216688	16,008	31

Which presageth war is no signe of peace Much less of Britains unities increase Made by King James some will with might and maine * Whose peaceful motto's were these faciam eos in gentem unam Quae Deus conjunxit nemo separet et beati Pacifici contra●iorum contraria est ratio meledicti bellifici his jugantur Sectifici praesertins Quakerifici What they have got by force by (r) Vict armis force maintain O Lord protect us by thy saving grace And make us all timely to seek thy face By true submission to thy holy laws And shedding blood no longer call thy cause Of which my thoughts are we have had too much God grant we never more have any such As touching that which is already spilt Forgive good God the sin and eke the guilt Iuly 6. 1657. Vpon the County troops LO now each County hath ' its proper (ſ) Some put their trust in Chariots and som in H●rses making flesh their arme and so make their Gods their Gods Gad The (t) Protectours of no vice shop● in these reforming times Vice-Protectours of three nations sad Opprest with Taxes and excises great Under the colour of a zealous heat Of perfecting a blessed reformation Whose product is a cursed toleration Thus are three Kingdoms made a most free state When every one is bound to pay his rate Yea thus three lands must maintain their own (u) The loss of King and Bishops the late true grand-defendors and Champions of our late truth and Peace harms By new devices and by force of arms Thus are we brought and kept still in great thrall Till god shew mercy and release us all He makes us all of one mind and agree In his true faith and sincere pietie He in his best time truth and peace ussend With power of grace our ill lives to amend That time God hasten for his dear sons sake And for such blessings great us thankfull make The grand troubles of our English Scottish and Irish Israels Morsus sacerdotales nunquam tales The Priestly bitings never such As have of late prevail'd too much Gal. 5.15 If ye bite and devour one another Take heed that ye be not consumed one of another THe (a) Chiefly the disobedient and gain saving Presbyterial Cle●g● gainsaying the Episcopal for then own gain Presbyterians have such biters been That they have left us neither King nor Queen To rule three lands in godly quietness And them to save from such as them oppress Nor godly learned Seer in his diocess To guard the Pulpits always more or less From such erroneous and newfangled Teachers As were from time to time contentious preachers Of Schismes and War which at the last beat down The Loyal Myter and the Royal Crown No Bishop no King said King James of old Too true we find it Crown and Miter sold Both which main Pillars are of Church and State And their great use their (b) a 〈◊〉 ●egis quam finendo want hath shewd of late For since their sad pretending liberties Each man doth what seems right in his own eys Nor truth nor peace established in our gates (c) The God of 〈◊〉 rule Mars ruling still our now new ruling States Lord though we bite and still devoure each other Yet lets not be consum'd one by another But grant that truth and peace may setled be That we from Taxes and keen Axes free Thy great and holy name may glorifie By giving thanks until we all shall dye We all are causes of our most sad breaches By our (d) By foll●wing too much the devices and des●res of ●ur own hearts by leaving undone those things which we ought to have done and by doing those things which we ought not to have done Thus we Omitteemen and Committee-men are the workers of our own ruine perditio tua exte 〈◊〉 devices and (e) Self interests neglecting the best interest namely interest Omnium recte agere self-ended reaches God then give true repentance to us all And us deliver from our (f) Spiritual and corpotal armed thrall May 1. 1649. Mala nova Mater Ecclesia mala novae Ill news O Mother Church ill news MOst Orthodox (a) Amos 5. Archbishops Bishops Peans and Arc●deacons according to the Canonical ordination of the late most fan ous Orthodox Church of England Priests silenc'd a sad story And (b) Who if they were well sifted would not be found so well gifted gifted brethren they get all the glory By their new-fangled teaching which yet alas Is often times as brittle as the glass They babble by which must be twice run out Before they finish what they are about Two hours i th Pulpit not one in the text At which long speaking many men are vext Some call them Gospel opportunities Yet oft times Belzebub that Prince of flies Flies closely in and father of all lies By them doth broach errours yea blasphemies Yet these be such great Saints as do not need Gods ten Commands Lords prayer or the Creed Apostolique the three fundamentals And of Gods Temple the (c) Old Englands liturgie and Rubrick is better then the new-brick wherewith the new-lights build their new Churches supporting walls Without which three no Ghostly house is built But all their labour lost and vainly spilt Then all ye new lights take this light from me That ye out of the old way of Preaching be Then take St. Pauls a Master builders wise Advise first all your hearers Catechise In those three above said Fundamentals Which as is said be the supporting walls Of each Ghostly Edifice strong and sure Which will them constant make and long endure All the strong blasts of all false doctrine winds Which else will shake much their unstable minds Thus are your meetings like to be in vaine Sith ye and they receive much chaff for grain Yea by assembling you 'l (a) 2 Tim. 3.13 wax worse and worse For for a blessing ye receive a curse Vpon the sifting of a Parliament Without the Common-wealths due free consent STrange dead is the head yet some members live Which to their head a deadly blow did give Who sit and act in Parliament again Though dead and buried be their Sovereign Yea this they do without the Countries choice Wherein each freeman is to give his voice Since then they sit with out a lawful call 'T is like three Nations will to ruine fall How then will they effect that reformation Which hath been promis'd (b) Both in the long and often since the long Parlament Heb. 12.12 long unto the Nation How can that be a Reformation good Whose base base was Kingly and Priestly blood Then lets all repent and make our (c) Episcopall and presbyteriall paths straight Turn back toth ' years forty four forty eight Accept again of Scepter and of Miter And bid adien to Mars that bloody fighter That truth and peace may once more meet together And