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A06196	Vox clamantis. Mark 1. 3 A stil voice, to the three thrice-honourable estates of Parliament: and in them, to all the soules of this our nation, of what state or condition soeuer they be. By William Loe, Doctor of Diuinitie, and chaplaine to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1621 (1621)	STC 16691; ESTC S108813	47,008	92

limits of the loyalty and alleageance of good subiects for I meane hereby such Cleriques and Laiques amongst vs as are poysoned with the Cup of the Whore of Babylon albeit they receiue great immunities both of life limbe and liberty from our dread Soueraigne King but they must attempt both by open violence and sulphurious Gunpowder and by what not to ensnare the whole frame and fabrique of our common-wealth euen to the vtter ruine thereof and for no other cause if the most intelligent amongst them be consulted but for that our dread Soueragine King will not admit a tolleration of Religion as they tearme it a hodge-pot of Gods seruice as if his Maiesties owne wisdome his prudent Sanedrim and the experience of our State could not ascertaine his Maiestie that it is impossible for this entire Nation of ours to beare a Lipsicum Interim a Sphinx Augustana a Pandora Francofordiana a Cothurnus Neoburgicue or the like in all which there must needes be a fearefull Amnesty of the integrity of Gods true and reall worship But leauing reuolted Israel let vs returne to staggering Iuda for GOD will search euen his owne Ierusalem with lights And if Iuda become hypocriticall in her selfe and critically looke onely vpon reuolted Israel and taxing it forget their owne obliquities then these Iudaites will bee like those witches called Lamiae that see onely Extramittendo For it seemes by this accusation that both Court Church and Common-wealth were all in one predicament They were all become Birders and Fowlers Hunters and hauers and therefore they had deuised Nets and Snares trammels and trickes to effect their proiects and purposes I haue alwaies hated Chams vnnaturall and cursed disposition to make bare pudenda parentum But it is lamentable and a thousand pitties that in high places which are as the Sunne-risings of a State there should be any such persons like Nets and Snares that for Quid dabitis will bring Ideots and Asses into the Church of God That there should be temporizing and Cassandrian great ones which bend their wits to nothing else but like Iesuites to seduce the simple and like Machauillians to supplant the great that oppose them That there should be such great ones in Church or Court that should thinke that all the World was borne for them and they for no body such Iudges that should be basely and scandalously obnoxious and such Lawyers that should be dishonest and insatiable But blessed be God our good Iosiah the King hath reasonably well purged his house Church and Common-wealth of such dangerous nets and snares Time would faile me and my senses would be stupified with teadiousnesse if I should take vpon mee to enumerate all the nets and snares in Church and Common-wealth notwithstanding all his sacred Maiesties care to purge them all the wholesome Lawes ordained by Parliament to restraine them all prudent and pious courses endeuour to reforme them yet that there should be chicken-Iustices Knights that like Kites feede on the garbage of their Countrey Iudges who like Druggists and Apothecaries giue Quid pro quo Hab for Nab this for that Or to number the time-seruers time-sellers the false-ballancers the Simoniakes and such like All which enormities proceed of nothing else but from a Conscience morgaged to the World which beeing like to a ship-mans hose or a large bowling-alley a Franciscan sleeue-hand resolued with the Neopolitane that if euer a man will be rich he must turne his backe vpon God or with the Florentine who was wont to say that three things bred him all his wealth an Iron arme to take any paines an Ants belly to liue pinching basely and a dogges soule to make no conscience of any thing Whereupon as the Prophet saith These worldings sacrifice to their owne net and burne incense to their drag because by them their portion is fat their meatplenteous What heart vnlesse it bee a heart of flint doth not relent to heare the grieunaces in streets and high-waies that brother makes against brother and neighbour against neighbour the summe whereof I may instance in the words of the Psalmist who complaineth That there was priuily laid a snare for him and without cause they hid their Net in a pit yea without cause had digged for his soule And what say the wicked in all this The Lord hath forgotten it he hideth away his face and will not see it These are the deepenesse of Sathan and the bellowings of hell Yet in all this these madde fooles doe lye for I haue heard the prayers and prayses of the godly Draw mee saith one out of the Net which they haue laid for my soule Our soule saith another is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowler the snare is broken and wee are deliuered And doe we thinke that God doth not heare the cries of his children Yes assuredly GOD saith to the fooles Deale not so madly and to the vngodly Set not vp your horne you shall he slaine all the sort of you yea as a tottering wall shall yee be and as a broken hedge Woe vnto thee that spoylest and thou wast not spoyled and dealest treacherously and they dealt not treacherously with thee When thou shalt cease to spoyle thou shalt be spoyled and when thou shalt make an end to deale treacherously they shall deale treacherously with thee Yea God hath his nets also for such Fowlers and Hunters I will spread my net vpon him and he shall be taken in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon to the Land of the Caldeans yet shall be not see it I will spread my net vpon them I will bring them downe as the Fowles of the Heauen I will chastise them as their Congregations hath heard He will raine vpon the wicked snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cuppe Yet after all this if they doe deferre to turne vnto God God hath his great draw-net in the end of the world For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the Earth And this draw-net is already cast into the Sea of the World and shall gather of euery kinde which when it is full the Angels shall draw it to shore and shall sit downe and gather the good into vessels but cast the bad away Euen so shall it be at the end of the World the Angels shall come forth and seuer the wicked from among the iust In that day what wil become of those that haue beene snares in the Church abusing their knowledge to filthie lucre that studie Bodines Commentaries Lipsius Pollitiques and Machiuells Prince and such like Quod-libets more then the holy Scriptures What will become of them that haue beene nets and snares in the Court by scraping Monopolies proling proiects and cruell cursed stratagems What will become of all the fry and rabble in the Common-wealth who become nets and snares vnto one another

and nearely concernes all degrees in Court Church and Common-wealth that they attend as well to the ripping vp of their sinnes and to the Denuntiation of Gods Iudgements for the same as to the Promulgation of Gods mercies that all Estates hauing a sence and sight of their iniquities may breake them off by repentance and obtaine pardon by Iesus Christ our Lord. No voyce nor rebuke of God or good men laying forth the hideousnesse and horror of sinnes neuer so often to the view of the conscience can preuaile with the mighty hunting Nimrods of this World to restraine their rage and furious madnesse but still they make their greatnesse in Church Court and Common-wealth baties and guiles for their gaine and glory God of his endlesse boundlesse and bottomelesse pity compassion and mercy for Christ his sake doth fauourably and fatherly premonish before he punish A STILL VOYCE TO The Three ESTATES of Parliament O ye Priests O ye House of Israel O House of the King IVdgement meant and menaced to all the Estates of Israel not yet sent out and inflicted is the maine of this Propheticall WATCH-VVORD The Vials of Gods Wrath prepared for them but not yet poured out the bow of Gods Indignation bent the arrowes of his Anger made ready the sword of his Displeasure sharpened the Axe laid to the roote of the Trees and the Fanne of his Fury taken into his hand yea all the Instruments of his Iustice on the string against the faces of all conditions and rankes of men how many how mighty how high or how holy soeuer they be that will not returne vnto God and breake off their sinnes by Repentance Iudgement awarded from the Throne of God not from Popular Discontent or from intermedling busie-bodies or giddy-headed Statizers It is Gods voyce by the Ministery of his Prophet vnto Priests Peeres and People It is no Anabaptisticall Enthusiasme no singular spirit of Prophecie It is a cleare and plaine denuntiation of Gods Iudgements intended and menaced It is no sottish fanaticall fancy like that of Iohn the Taylor of Leyden Nipper-doling or the rest madde men of Munster no damned dreame like that of Dauid George the Basilian Monster no cursed phrensie like that of English Hacket the Northamptonshire Maulster nor yet any perplexed prediction of Pererius that Hieroglyphicall principall of the Ignatian frie but this is the euident voyce of God which discouereth these miscreants and the like to be Verè ignes fatui Commets Meteors and Monsters in Church Court and Common-wealth and the dizzy conceits that proceede from them to be most apparant fopperies most palpable and pisculent vntruths In the feare of God therefore Men and Mortals set before your eyes a paralell of times pourtrayed in this Text and feare the menaces of Gods Iudgements knowing that if Gods right hand lay once hold of Execution and strike who shall escape the blow Let not the blessed peace we enioy in our Israel marre our manners corrupt our bloud or settle vs vpon our lees as many were in the time of this Prophet Iebusitzs Edomites Ismaelites and such like make themselues merrie with God and sleight his Iudgements yet wee see disconsolate Saul when hee felt God to depart from him desires Samuels prayers Heathenish Foelix trembled at Pauls Sermon which treated of iudgement to come and foolish Ahab being terrified with the Prophets words of Iudgement walkes softly and makes outward semblance as if hee had truly and inwardly repented If the worst natures shuddered at Gods Iudgements menaced onely shall not the best bloud truly feare God and tremble Shall not the Beasts of the Forrest quake when the Lyon doth roare In this Watchword God threatneth his owne people yea all estates of his owne people by an old Prophet not by a young Schollar as Paul speakes to Timothy but euen by one that had beene threescore and ten yeeres a Prophet during the raignes of fiue Kings The forme of speech vsed in this Watchword is iuridicall by way of Proclamation Declaration and Commination The Proclamation is a generall Summons set out by Exclamation and Iniunction The Exclamation citeth the parties O ye Priests O ye house of Israel O house of the King The Iniunction enioynes them what they must doe that is Heare this Hearken and giue eare The Declaration sets forth the cause of their summons which was their sinnes It also further discouereth the quality of their sinnes by Nets and snares the height of their wickednesse by the altitudes of Mizpah and Tabor and the horror of their enormities by the aggrauation of these words Reuolting Sacrificing and Profundity The imperious insolency of their preuarications appeared in that they were incorrigible for they not onely sleighted the Ministery of the Prophet sent from God but despised euen God himselfe who as the Context saith had beene a Rebuker of them all Lastly the Commination is a Commonition or Watchword that Iudgement was toward them all for their great and grieuous enormities See the summe of all this in a view It seemeth that great was the Cataclysme of the exorbitant sinnes and transcendent transgressions of those times For all the Estates are summoned none excepted none exempted Their sinnes haughty haynous and heauy to the whole Land growne in sublimity like vnto Mountaines deeper then hell in their profound subtilty and the actors of them growne incorrigible Hereupon is Iudgement awarded toward them all that as there was a parity in their preuarications so there should be also paralels in their punishments But I had rather you should heare an Explication of the particular sinnes of that time from the Prophets owne mouth in his owne words The sinnes of the Church-men of that time were as the Prophet saith That they refused knowledge they forsooke the Law and did eate vp the sinnes of the people Whereupon grew the Prouerbe vsual in that time Like people like Priests The Commons had no truth in them but swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring they broke out and bloud touched bloud The Courtiers had lost their hearts with wine women and wantons they were couetous and cryed Bring Bring they did oppresse the Comminalty they flattered others and suffered themselues to be abused by flattery Thus you see in the very words of the Prophet to what a height of presumption the sinnes of all Estates were growne how they all were become Nets and Snares one to another in these enormities heare now the menaces of Gods Iudgements toward them all in the words of the same Prophet Iudgement was toward the Church-men They should weepe for want Thornes and thistles should grow vpon their Altars and in the end should be so confounded that they should call and crie to the hilles and mountaines to fall on them and couer them Iudgement was also towards the Commons God should poure his wrath on them like water and his displeasure should be as moathes and