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A96763	Prosopopœia Britannica Britans genius, or, good-angel, personated; reasoning and advising, touching the games now playing, and the adventures now at hazard in these islands; and presaging, also, some future things, not unlikely to come to passe. / Discovered, by Terræ-Filius (a well-knowne lover of the publike-peace) when the begetting of a nationall-quarrell was first feared. Expressed in two lections, or readings.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1648 (1648)	Wing W3183; Thomason E1149_2; ESTC R204086	62,569	119

and others too By taking on you more then you can do Lest when attendance much expence and trouble Hath made the losse and suffrance more then double They grow impatient and you come to tast The fruit of their impatiency at last Give Order how to cure those imperfections Which have been heretofore in your Elections Lest Members may among you be emploid By whom the Publike-Body be destroid Let not the Father there beget the sonne Though this in Bodies Naturall be done Let none among you be admitted in By Marriage or being near of kin Or to the Kingdames just dissatisfaction For being of this Sect or of that Faction As if among you some to purchase meant Inheritances in the Parliament And others aim'd by Parties to endeavour The keeping up Divisions there forever Let it be so no more if you can Order That such an injury proceed no further But let the Burroughs and the Shires be free To make their choice as they inclin'd shall bee According to their customes till it may Be better done by some new lawfull way That when for Trust-breach any blamed are Their chusers in that blame a part may beare If they hereafter for their private ends For fear or love shall chuse their Foes or Friends Their Land-Lords Kinsmen Lawyers or whom ever They shall not think will faithfully endeavour To serve his GOD the People and the King With single heart in ev'ry lawfull thing Consider how in giving a reward The person more then merit you regard How often that hath been for private ends Procur'd and with relation unto friends How Offices and Places are bestowne How some have two or three and others none Who better merit four if there were any Who could be capable of halfe so many And would ye well observ'd that this is done As if ye fear'd as if ye car'd for none Nor how the people who upon you cry For bread observe your partiality In giving that to one who hath no need Which would a thousand Starvelings cloath and feed Refuse no just complaints that men may see You sensible of their oppressions bee Yet to your selves assume not any cause Which is determinable by the Lawes In other Courts unlesse they prove corrupt Or till some difficulty interrupt The course of Justice there And so provide To try in course what is before you tri'd That you undoe not e're their cause have end Those who with Proofes and Counsell must attend The sad Petition which the poore man brings Sleight not nor make them but meere pocketings Till they are quite worne out or quite forgot Unlesse perchance your store supplies you not With tinder for Tobacco and so brings To memorie againe such triviall things More mind your promises of doing right To grieved men when you thereto have might And let them see that your devoiur you do As far as God enables you thereto Consider how you Legacies bestow Before you pay those debts which yet ye owe Ev'n debts for which the Publike-Faith doth lie At Pawne and is dishonoured thereby Debts for which your poore Creditors have laine In prison till their Freedomes to obtaine They sold their Freeholds when they had no more To live on and had sold their goods before Debts which they lent you in your greatest feare And borrowed for you when distrest you were Yea Debts which they who sent then lent you too Their lives the publike services to do And could have lost them with more joy them they Now live to see by seeing of this day How easily to some doe you afford Beliefe to their availe on their bare word When in the selfe-same case you are not moved To do the like for others who have proved What they aver'd by vouchers no not when It hath been prov'd by Oathes of honest men Consider how to some you do allow Their dues with interest who well enough May respite it and yet the same deny To him who felt extreame necessity By loosing part by lending of the rest By borrowing more for you on interest Now four yeares due and which before he shall In likelihood be paid will eat up all And let it be consider'd if it may What t is to take his liberty away To fine him to permit that through the land He for conspiracy defam'd should stand And suffer much more by their impudence Who misinform'd you of his innocence And all for nought but for informing you What he was told what he beleev'd was true What he produc'd his author for with proofe Of Part and circumstances too enough To make all probable yea more for what His Covenant oblig'd him to relate And what his sirst Relator did aver And will do still in each particular Should I propose here as considerable So many things to you as I were able I should as tedious in the same become As many times Committees are to some I le therefore sum up all in wishing you Of those things which you know to make reveiw And see if these come short in any thing Of those who heretofore misled the King Or if their falshoods or misinformations Were greater causes of his abberrations Or more dishonour to his Government Then these have been unto this Parliament Whose Pride Ambition Malice Arrogance Whose Avarice Selfe-love and Ignorance Whose Insolence or Cowardice of late Have caus'd so many to abhominate Them and their courses and nigh turned all Ev'n all things both Divine and Temporall Into a Chaos 'T is not as is deemed And as perhaps it hath to many seemed 'T is not the City which hath lately made Those tumults and those uproars you have had 'T is not the Army whence your mutinies New plots and new divisions do arise And whereby mischiefs daily do encrease To cause a new adjournment of your Peace The Parl'aments dishonour separations Between the late united British Nations And if it may be possible to bring The people of both Kingdomes and the King Into a further hatred of each other It is not your Dissenting-parties neither Those whom ye call Malignants who were able So weake to make you so dishonourable And in so bad a plight as you are in If your owne Members had not faulty been Nor had your City or the Army moved In any course which might not be approved If they had felt no influence upon them From higher Pow'rs which thereunto had won them Nor had so many men right well-affected And by whose purse and pow'r you were protected Been drawne into misactings and mistakings Which falsly are misconstrued forsakings Of their first love but that the policies Of some among you drew before their eyes Those mists and practised those juggling sleights Which kept the safest course out of their sights And what that was or what that yet may be Few have discover'd by ought I can see But were it knowne you could not rectifie Those things among you which are now awry Till you reforme your selves for well ye know

Prelacy Which comprehends those Boutefeu's by whom He and his people are almost become The ruine of each other Be it knowne These were at first no creatures of his owne Or of his Predecessors though they gain'd A legall Oath by them to be maintain'd As part of holy Church and though a while They sate among the Peerage of this Isle But they were first created to promote The Kingdome of the BEAST and to devote Their services to him in raising high In making strong and large his Emperie Or in debasing Kings and how they did Performe that service you in Stories read Now when for bloody tyranny from hence That Tyrant was expell'd by Providence These also if they had not been befriended Had into banishment their Chief attended But they pretending to a Reformation Perhaps to keep possession in this Nation For their grand Signior and to bring to passe What now of late almost effected was Obtained grace And proving to be fit For their ambition who aspire to get An arbitrary pow'r they did arise Almost to all their former dignities And grew so active and so wise became In praying of the Kings and their owne game That here as plainely as in France we see There 's no such Tyrants as where Prelates bee And he perhaps did mean the self-same thing Who us'd to say no Bishops and no King They were advanc'd like Jeroboams Priests But to preserve usurped Interests Upon the people and to help encrease Those claimes which Tyrants covet to possesse By falsifying Charters and Commissions From Sacred Writ to justifie oppressions And Jurisdictions to that end they had To force when wit they wanted to perswade Then to oblige the more and that they might Be like to Jereboams Priests outright They from the poorest and the basest sort Of people rose to highest place in Court This is their Jus Divinum whatsoe're Their friends or they would make themselves appeare Which by clear demonstration I make good And not by tales of Tubs and Robin-Hood Thus what they were and what they had to do And what at best their pride hath brought them to I have declared that your King no more May cheated be by them as heretofore Or think that Law or Conscience him obliges To keep up their usurped Priviledges But thereby know that if he shall delight In that which is indeed the Royall-right He their vaine services no more will need And joy that from such Flatt'rers he is freed If any shall object that he hath tooke An Oath on their behalfe that might be spoke Aswell of Kings perhaps who tooke away Old Idol-Priesthoods For 't is likely they Vow'd their protection when the policy Of Jereboam rais'd his Hi'rarchy To six the Kingdome But no Oaths oblige Which in unlawfull actions would ingage And his Oath is not broke by him who tooke it When that which made it lawfull doth revoke it If it be said those things to God were given Which they possest What then in earth and heav'n God is the sole possessor of all things And whatsoever any takes or brings Hath neither more nor lesse nor doth allow That any place on earth or portion now Of things meere earthly should be made appeare More holy or more his then others are For man intitling GOD to mens estates Is but a Priest-cheat which he greatly hates When you give more to GOD then he commands His Thanks is Who requir'd it at your hands Nor doth he those Oblations ever prize Which from a superstitious ground arise Nor counts a charitable deed made void When gifts abused better are imploy'd Oh! let not then his hazzards to preserve Their temp'rall claimes be more then they deserve Let him not tire himselfe to change a boot Which he may weare with ease on either foot Let him not by his undue care of these Which were the chiefest cause of his disease Against his own just Int'rest make him erre By seeking their advancements to preferre Before his own well-being Let him not Permit their formall wisdome to besot His understanding so that he shall scorne This Counsell or continue to adjourne Compliance with his people in those things Which are the Cement betwixt them and Kings And will be so approved maugre that VVhich to deceive him they both print and prate Let him not trust to their inchanting Spells Nor to the braine of their Achitophells For if faint or false-heartednesse in those Who for the Publike his attempts oppose Shall not for private or by-interest Betray the cause and trust they have profest GOD at this present time will lower bring The tyrannizing pow'r of Priest and King Nor King-craft Priest-craft nor the policies Of all who preach or fight up tyrannies Shall long prevaile though to support each other All Europes Tyrants should unite together But GOD when they suppose to reach the tops Of their designs will frustrate all their hopes And cause them to perceive that he intends To prosper that whereto they are no friends Before that day from all equivocations From all close ends and mentall Reservations Let Charles begin a resolute retreat Else MARK this when sev'n years he shall compleat Among the Beasts with Nebuchadnezar Th' event of his demurrers will appear And he who yet a Leadstar might become Of just Dominion to all Christendome Shall misse the best advantage offred yet To any King who on his Throne did sit Though clouds rise in the South and in the North There is a Doome-conditionall gone forth To be reverst or stand as he shall now His want of prudence or his wisdome show As when the Sun ascends to run his race From his ecclipsed honour and disgrace He now may rise whereas if he passe by The present offred opportunity He may perhaps begin the fatall dance Which ev'ry King must foot who doth advance Himselfe above his bound He may now make Their expectations frustrate who yet take An old prediction in that sense which he Would be unwilling so fulfill'd should be For through these Islands this Tradition goes That He who made the English Damask Rose Or els some other being curious growne To know the future fortune of his Throne Receiv'd in hieroglyphick-wise exprest Their Portraitures who when he was at rest Should in his Kingdome after him succeed VVith words in Latine Verse thus Englished A Man a Child a Furious One A Maid a Fox a Lion None Vir Puer c. I would not any much should trust or feare Such Prophecies yet when events appeare To answer unto that which was foretold Wise men should make what use of them they could Seek how they might extract ev'n from the Devills Deceits an antidote against his evills And so direct their actions that his Charmes And cheating riddles may not do them harmes Lo that prediction is this day fulfild Six as it was fore-typifi'd have held The Scepter of that King and now there 's none Who either weares the Crowne or fills the Throne Nor

Foul springs above make filthy streames below But why should I complaine of you so much Alas you were at first begotten such The Fathers of your being in this Nation Were an unsound corrupted Generation And did beget a Representative As like themselves as ever man alive Begot a child with members crooked lame Blind deaf and dumb into the world you came And such they have continu'd ever since Theirs therefore is the Fault their 's the offence You that are lawfull Members have enough Been plagu'd and troubled with such rotten stuffe And rather should be pitied and aided In helping you to purge them then upbraibed With their defects I therefore have appear'd That you of those obstructions may be clear'd Which interrupt and that whilst there is time You may regaine your honour lost by them That I might likewise help bring back unto you The peoples hearts and make them firme unto you By shewing them their errors and how they To late lost happines may find their way And having found it how they may persever By GOD's assistance in good waies for ever My purpose therefore in what followes now Is joyntly to prefer to them and you Some things considerable that may lend Assistance unto that which I intend If good effects this takes your cares and feares Are likely to be shortned many yeares For know GOD promises and threats are all Contingencies and but conditionall If you continue mad the plagues will last If you repent they quickly will be past Let envy one contribute thereunto A true endeavour his owne part to do In what I 'm borne for I will do my best And when that 's done GOD shall performe the rest The restauration of this Parliament To their due reputation to prevent The bondage of the People and to bring All things to right betwixt you and your King Is that wherein I have with good intention Imploid long time the best of my invention Yet there appears no likelihood to me Of saving any one of all the three From hazzard or from plagues that linger shall But by a reconciling of them all And I conceive it will deserve more thank To play the Artist then the Mountebank Who leaves the course that 's naturall and sure To raise his credit by a desp'rate cure He that by way of Chymistry would act And her Three Principles hope to compact Into one Body ere he compasse shall His end must first prepare each Minerall Secundum Artem taking that away Which hinder their incorporation may And adding that which doth unite their natures So he that would this Trinity of creatures Make up againe in one must do the same And now about that royall work I am Which if I keep a rightly tempred fire Will bring forth that production I desire VVith Salt of true sincerity and reason Your hearts and understandings I would season VVith Sulphur of true Magnanimity Or Courage with the perfect Mercury Of Christian Prudence I would temperate And so essentially incorporate These throughout all your Faculties that none Should hinder that which I am driving on And therefore have prejected a conclusion Wherein I 'le first begin with an Infusion Oh lend me but some water from your eyes Wherewith to make it and it shall suffice Lament Lament your errors and begin To see what great distractions you are in Of those Precipitations take more heed Whereto you now are hasting on with speed Observe how busily in selfe-destroying And raising works against a free enjoying Of your owne Peace you are Consider on Your purposes and that which you have done And mark if either those things you pursue Or yet intend are like to profit you Whilst ev'ry man though better be profest Aimes but at his owne single interest By most among you that is least intended Which he in outward seeming hath befriended By making show of things that should be done For publike profit you so carry on Your private interest that very few The generall advantages pursue Yea King Priest People Commoner and Peer So wilfully to their owne claimes adhere That they will much indanger all together And prove like fire and fewell to each other If GOD prevent not by a selfe-denying And by a more considerate complying Give heed to those Predictions which foretold Upon good grounds what now yee do behold To be fullfil'd and which behold ye may To be fullfilling on you ev'ry day And think not though you them or him disdaine VVho spake them that they were foretold in vaine Mark how all Parties and all Factions run Those courses wherein others were undone Whom they impeached and condemned too But some few mouthes before for doing so Remember and consider since this War Did first begin how many changes are To be observ'd How inconsiderable The meanes and Persons were who did enable Your weakned Parties and oft gave them life When they were stooping almost past releef And think it possible there may befall Another change when you seem sure of all Because you neither credit what is told Nor heedfull are of that which you behold Remember and consider what fair hopes When an assurance almost crown'd their tops Have unto nothing vanish'd what brave showes Of Martiall fortitude against your foes Of zealous faithfulnesse unto the State And piety to GOD have fail'd of late And left benighted an ascending Fame Before 't was noone within a Cloud of shame And think how possible it may be yet To see new stormes before the sun be set For that which hath been you againe may see As long as in the selfesame round you be Remember and consider in what fear You have been in what things then vowed were What Holinesse you seemed to pretend VVhat cause you then protested to befriend VVhat Warnings and what caveats have been given By judgements mercies yea by men and heaven VVhat private and what publike fasting daies What times of giving solemne thanks and praise Have celebrated been without that fruit Which either with Humility may suit Or with true Gratitude and when you see How full of filthnesse your best works be Think what your worst may prove and what event Will follow them unlesse you shall repent When these things you have thought upon then mind Whereto your promises have you design'd What fearfull Imprecations you have made What wonderfull protections you have had What witnesses there are of what you do VVhat forraigne foes what foes domestick too Expect advantage And such things as these VVhen you have thought on with due seriousnesse Think also what may thereupon redouud If falshood in your hearts be likewise found And when you have provoked GOD and men What plagues and horrors will surprize you then Remember and consider with what lyings VVhat perjuries what falshoods and complyings VVith wicked men and meanes you have assaid To perfect those Designes which you have laid How every Faction takes delight to jeer At their owne shame and to relate and heare VVith merriment

the same For if they make the letter to extend Beyond the true intention and the end Of what was covenanted and so weaken That Interest for which the same was taken They are deceivers and worse hypocrites Then were of old the cunning Gibeonites Let therefore that stout Nation well advise Among themselves wherein the diff'rence lies Betwixt the Kingdomes lest perhaps it drawes A mischief on both Nations without cause And bring on those ingagements which may lose The love the peace the honour and those dues Which now are claim'd make them lose their blood And Countrey too as far as it is good Let them not think that their accommodation The profit or advantage of one Nation Prefer'd should be in any thing at all Before these Islands weal in generall Let them seek nothing but what Iustice may Allow them lest she take both that away On which they seiz'd and therewith all the rest Which formerly was lawfully possest For Iustice more secures and more enriches Then policy although that more bewitches And neither wealth nor honour can be lost By honesty though somtime she be crost That Nation have done well to think upon The bringing of the King back to his Throne If from right Principles the motion came But on them it would bring perpetuall shame If thay recall'd him without penitence Of those faults for which they first drove him thence For that they quarrell'd with him first none doubt And they were with the last who pull'd him out That people is too wise to call him home Ere he shall truly penitent become And by some satisfying expiations Hath perfectly secured both the Nations For if he bring the same heart back they know He will as soon as he shall able grow Avenge himselfe on them as upon those Who were the first from whom his troubles rose Let them not give their friends just cause to lay That to their charge which Foes of them do say Their Brethrens portion let them not envy Or looke upon it with an evill eye Nor let our English haughtily despise Their Northerne Brethrens kind compliances Or sleight their friendship or puft up with pride Their want of superfluities deride But by how much more GOD hath seem'd to blesse Their Clymate with a greater fruitfulnesse So much the more respectively let them Be carefull that they no way do contemn Their Lot lest GOD for that in gratitude Justly permit some other to incrude On their inheritance and make them glad To seeke worse habitations then they had Yea let both Nations strive with all their mights To fortifie each other in their Rights And be assur'd that which of them soever Shall first to break their late sworne League endeavour Shall both be ruin'd and if both make void Their solemn Vowes then both shall be destroy'd Let both remember well that Covenant Which they have sworn and how much yet they want Of perfecting their Vowes to God and Man That they may keep them better if they can Know you have entred into leauge together Not to insnare but to secure each other And that your Treaties were not to get more From one or t'other then they had before But that thereby they stronger might be made Against him who did all their rights invade Know that your Covenant was not contrived That Christian liberty should be deprived Or make that for a Jus divinum go Which neither was nor can be proved so Or to compell men to renounce admit Or to accord as those or these thought fit Or as the best reformed Churches had it Ought further then GGDS word authentick made it It is not possible that any Nation Should make a vow upon consideration To pin their Faith upon anothers sleeve Things to professe which they cannot beleeve To practise what their consciences abhor And what they find no lawfull warrant for But sure their meaning was men should assay To get the truths perfection if they may Till otherwise they find it to adhere To those as truths which truths to them appeare That from compulsion all men should be free Where doubtings are till they decided be And that their vow injoyned none to do More then their pow'r and place oblig'd him too Let both remember that they vowed have The Person of the King from harme to save His honour to preserve and what belongs To him of right from violence and wrongs But this remember too that when you made This vow you likewise resolutions had That therein his protection should extend No further then you thereby might defend The Kingdomes priveledges and maintaine Those rights which to the people appertaine For els you shall betray your greatest trust And prove but hypocritically just Remember you have vowed to endeavour To bring to publike triall whomsoever You shall discover either to divide The Kingdomes or to make the people side In factions and that you have vow'd to strive As you are able that they may receive Due punishment And mark if you have bin As faithfull as you promised therein Halt not 'twixt two opinions as ye do If Baal be to be serv'd let it be so Either you have a pow'r or you have none If none why act yee still as ye have done Either your King or you deserveth blame If you have traitors been repent the same Acknowledge it submit implore for grace And let him take againe his pow'r and place If he as much demerit as you say Do not your trust and your own lives betray But quit your selves like men and do your best To vindicate their cause who are opprest If both be faulty then let both amend Lest both be quite destoyed in the end If you have drove the naile unto the head There clinch it let no more be done or said For why should this brave Island be destroid That in the mean time some should be imploid Thereby to raise themselves and to prepare Well-feather'd nests perhaps some otherwhere Those evill Counsellers which late appear'd To be about the King may now be fear'd To be among your selves and they of whom The King was made most fearfull to become Have now compli'd with him and justly may King People Scotch and English if they weigh What hath been done shake hands and well agree For they are all as like as like can be Come come repent together and forgive For there 's no other means in peace to live And when you are forgiving let all share A part of Mercy who repentant are Let our seduced Irish who among The rest are yet involved in the throng Of murth'rous Rebells but have guiltlesse bin Of their inhumane and loud crying sin Find some Gate open whereby they might gaine An entrance your forgivnesse to obtaine Upon repentance and on evidence Produced differencing their offence For some of them assisted to their might Their brethren in their terrified flight Against destroiers and in secret stood Betwixt them and the seekers of their blood Some of them