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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78408	The Cavaliers new common-prayer booke unclasp't. It being a collection of prayers and thanksgivings, used in His Majesties chappell, and in his armies. Upon occasion of the late (supposed) victories against the Parliaments forces, and for the future successe of the Cavalier forces. Published by his Majesties command, to be duely read in all other churches and chappells within this his kingdome, and dominion of Wales.		1644 (1644)	Wing C1578; Thomason E8_18; ESTC R2412	15,148	16

earnestly for it for rather then they will confesse an overthrow they heartily beg for more of the same sauce leave us not we beseech thee till thou hast accomplish'd the great work thou hast so apparently taken into thine own hands to extirpate you all both root and branch Amen Passe by our personall sinnes of murder and robberie you meane O Lord though they cry loud louder then all your Drums and Canons heare them not but look to the righteousnes of our Cause as app●ares by the ill prospering of it which is confusion and destruction See the seamlesse coat of thy Son torne by the Prelates scandalous Priests and Papists the Throne of thine Anointed trampled on it stands yet firme and untouch't in the House of Parliament thy Church invaded by Sacriledge as you think in the removing of Popish Jmages Pictures Coapes Organs and Surplices and thy people miserably deceived with lies by Aulicus Naworth Digbies and Nicholas letters and the abominable untruths in this book of Mock-Prayers and Thanksgivings See it O God as see it thou dost to your shame and confusion and Vindicate what thou seest upon the heads of those who lead these wretches to destruction that is your selves in seducing and forcing silly and ignorant people to fight for your unrighteous cause and Popery till by their frequent overthrowes which you have had above fifty times if nothing else can possibly reduce them which will not reduce you untill you be totally wasted and consumed and scarce a man of your party be left alive thou hast scourged them into obedience so inflexible is your obstinacy that a whip of Scorpions will not bring you to it and tamed these enemies of thine and ours into a desire of Peace which hitherto you have repudiated unlesse it be upon your own terms to command all as madly and illegally as you did before this Parliament began that so having at last subdued their hearts which is the best of Victories your proud and loftie spirits must be tamed else there is no good to be done thy David may returne to Ierusalem in Peace let it be without his Army and evill Counsellours which you would bring along with him and thy people once more ioy under his Government which God grant may be according to his word and the lawes of this land blessing thy goodnesse which hath wrought this for us no victory for you there I am sure through the Mediation of thy Sonne Jesus Christ to whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit be all praise and glory world without end Amen Reader observe well these shamelesse Prelaticall prayers which are stuffed with such abominable lies that even stink in the nostrils of God and man and you may have cause to wonder how these men dare bring such sordid trash before the presence of Almighty God and the face of a Christian Congregation and to profane Churches and Chappels therewith which they account holy and sanctified places This is Sacriledge in the highest degree and yet their zeale can brooke it better then to have those places cleansed from the ragges and trumpery of Popery and Idolatry A Thanksgiving for his Majesties late great Victory over the Rebels in the West O Most glorious and powerfull Lord God without whose aide and influence all our strength is weaknesse and our counsell folly that influence is taken from you and so by your own confessions your counsell is folly witnesse your many plots and stratagems against the Parliament and City of London which by Gods mercy and goodnes have been still discovered and prevented VVee thy unworthy servants your wicked actions have alwayes shewed you to be such in a gratefull commemoration of thy frequent and often repeated blessings God suffers his Sunne and rain to shine and fall on the evill and unjust Mat. 5.45 with humble and unfained hearts offer up to thee the Sacrifice of praise the Sacrifice of the wicked is abomination how much more when hee bringeth it with a wicked minde Pro. 21.27 calling Heaven and Earth to witnesse with us that it is thy power alone by which we stand 'till the appointed time of your down-fall thy strength by which we prosper so it seemes by the multitudes of ill successes you have constantly had Particularly we magnifie thy holy Name O God for that late great Victory wherewith thou hast graciously blest our Soveraignes Forces in the VVest witnesse the notable Overthrowes they had at Newbery and Alrezford c. where thou gavest not the day to the strong nor measured'st out successe according to the numbers but madest the weak chase the mighty and an handfull overthrow an Hoast most true for how many repulses had your great and strong Armies by the small and weake Garrisons of Lyme and Plymouth shewing by an evident testimony of thy presence in those two aforesaid towns that the Arme of flesh strives in vaine when the Arme of God doth fight the battell that made you run away and leave your sieges of those places In pursuance of this thy unspeakable goodnesse we humbly begge of thee O Lord to continue in all our dangers the like speciall assistance to us as you prayed for more vengeance after those overthrowes and repulses so you have received it to purpose since neere York to break the Speare of the disobedient there you lost 5000. men 10000. Armes and melt the hearts of the Rebellious into water the rest of that Rebellious crew had such watery hearts that they ran away some by land and some by sea to Hamburgh and left Yorke to be taken by the Parliaments Armies to strike the mindes of the perverse as that Army of Ruperts was stricken with such feare that they ran out of that City by night to shift for themselves with a true touch of that Conscience which they go about to stifle your Consciences are seared they need no stifling and a true sence of that dutie to thine Anointed if you had that sence you would not strive to undoe him and his Posteritie and Kingdomes which they labour to forget you have gotten it indeed else you would not doe so that we thy miserable and distressed people may no longer groan under those heavie Judgements you have violently drawne them downe upon your selves and this miserable distressed Nation which our sinnes have pulled downe upon us a full confession but where is your repentance and amendment since but may at last be re-united and knit in the happines of a long wish't for Peace which you reiect by further contumacy and rebellion and with one mind in the same true Religion worship thee the onely God you meane with your Ceremonies of cringings Altars and will-Worship and obey our King whom thou hast set over vs in what he shall command in Justice Equity and Righteousnesse grant this O mercifull Father for thy deare Sonnes sake who raigneth with thee and thy holy Spirit world without end Amen Observe Reader That these Prelaticall Prayer-mongers and their