That they should dare a seeming shâ—w to make As if they did all for Religions sake When true Religion never yet durst take Up Arms against Gods annointed and forsake The word of truth Religions onely stay Which doth command all Subjects to obay Their King And rules he ill or well They must not dare against Him to Rebell When Heathen Kings the Christian world did sway For them the Christians did most humbly pray And low obedience to their Thrones did yeeld And herein they Religions Law fulfill'd Th' Apostate Iulian had his Armies He Of Christians there might many thousands see Of force sufficient him to have depos'd Obedience yet their Christian hearts inclos'd To datelesse shame he makes himself a debter Rebelling 'gainst a Christian King none better But Christians now unto Religions shame Rebellion shrowd under Religions Name And do by this their foule and vile transgression Most fouly wrong the Protestants profession Shall Protestants such as be of thy Faction Gainst holy truth maintain each Popish Action Hast thou a Bull sent from the Roman Sea That makes thee bold to plead Rebellions plea Is this the way to keep out Popery Accurs'd is all your foule Hypocrisy A door most wide to let Romes Popery in Is opened by thy Hands The more 's thy sinne Both Church and Common-wealth to over-throw No other fruit forth from thy Root can grow Thy factious Teachers in thy mind have bred That error which hath thee so much mis-led Yes without doubt for of them there 's a swarm Whose stinging doth both King and Kingdom harm A faithfull Minister as Christ should Preach And not repugn what Christ himself doth teach Give unto God that which is Gods do this And unto Cesar give what Cesar's is Christ King of Kings in him 't is Gods Command Who are they then that dare against him stand Whos'ever shall against his mandates speak With Rod of Iron he 'l them in peeces break To give to God what 's Gods they vainly trie Who what is Cesar's Cesar doth deny For God and for my King good Subjects say And so indeed good Subject should obay And with this truth our Humane laws comply Gainst God our King his Crown and Dignity Offenders sinne Enditements fram'd are so The Guilty found from Barre to Gallows go And whether then think you should they be sent Who with full purpose of their wills intent Rob God himself when they his Churches spoile And 'gainst their King keep a Rebellious coyle In Robbing him of all his proper own By Sea and Land Ships Castles Towns all known Unto his Crown most justly to belong Offenders when endited for such wrong Must they not needs thereof be guilty found In this leâ— Law the following sentence sound The Danger such what is 't that hope doth bring But onely this the mercy of their King Our King so good and mercifull to see Shall he without all mercy used be By Subjects â—Tis a work so mercilesse No Tongue nor penne can to the full expresse And use Religions name for their excuse No heathen story can the like produce Now sure that man doth make his shot the worse Which makes Religion but his stalking Horse Earl Manchester wilt thou a gunning go Among those gunners workers of our woe What folly nay what fury makes thee then To rank thy self among the worst of men Whose foul dishonour Trump of Fame hath whirld With shames report even round about the world Although some Lords their lost Estates when viewing Will raise themselves upon their Countreys ruine 'T is not thy cause an Earls Estate thou hast And never did'st thy substance vainly waste By any loose or riotous expence No no thy breeding baâ—â—es thee that offence Yet now thou do'st a fouler sinne commit And do'st thy God thy King and self forget When impiously thou fully do'st intend In this bad Warre thy whole Estate to spend Didst thou but spend on wanton vanity Thou then should'st be but thine own Enemy But spending it upon Rebellions part To King and Countrey Enemy thou art But see thy self consult with thy own mind Who will not see then such there 's none more blind Search the Records and truth of History And learn to know and that for certainty What shew so'ere may varnish thy intent Thy actions are with high Rebellion bent Against thy King and thou shalt find them then To be against the Laws of God and Men If so thou do thy judgement then advance And be not led by impure Puritants Now though I know they Calvin do alledge And on their part his reputation pledge I will make bold in that which I have read To shew his words to no such sense will lead His Institutions Fourth Book neer the end Last Section saving one his words are penn'd Whose entrance Orthodox divinely sings The Soveraign power of annointed Kings His Song in Magistracies name he sets And willingly the name of Kings forgets Democracy 'gainst Monarchy doth stand Geneva so mis-led their Calvins hand As man might Calvin into error fall The Proverb is wise Bernard sees not all And Calvin to himself hath got this gain His vertues pride and Avarice did stain But when to change his note he doth begin A peradventure brings his matter in And of the power of three estates he speaks And thereby all the Laws divine he breaks For this I 'me sure he can no warrant bring That Subjects may bear Arms against their King For any cause what 's ever they pretend As private ones may not therein offend So no Authority of Subjects must Or can allowed be their King to thrust From lawfull Rights belonging to his Crown Kings do not grant a power to throw down Themselves nor raise they any Court so high Themselves of Kings to make no Kings thereby The power of Kings though Calvin's fourth Book speaketh i th' former part yet in the last he breaketh What he before with weighty reasons taught And they who have by him occasion â—ought To make his words with force and power be bent Gainst present state of Englands Government To King and State they proudly offer wrong A question then may stay their clamorous tongue Where is the King that rules by Tyranny That down doth trample his poor Comminalty Our good King Charles his Commons to content Hath given them a Trienniall Parliament A Royall favour never given before Should we not therefore love our King the more And those last Acts made with our Kings consent Are powerfull Objections to prevent And shew his Subjects that in Royall love He would from them all grievances remove The Commons and those trusted by them then May find just cause to rest contented men And Calvins words not spoken to his praise Can give no cause Commotions up to raise To make such Laws our King is well content As may consist with Monarchs Government And now my Lord our noble mind to move With fervency desired Peace to love Your Honour may
Church will plead And those who will not his commands obey He all of them will in his presence slay This Church is Solomons delightfull Bed For whose defence His Warrâ—ers expert bred About it stands and will defend it well As valiants for his chosen Israel In Arms they watch their Armour shining bright Because of fears which may be in the night There Legions of Angels pitch their Tents Right glorious is the strength of that defence Which keeps the Church In it Divisions bred Shall ne're divide the Body from her Head There is a time in which her Warres shall cease The unity of Spirit in bond of Peace Shall then be kept when Subjects and their King Unto their God shall thankfull Praises sing And wouldst thou Brown be of that Heavenly Quire A better spirit must thy soul inspire Then that thou now dost breathe with For above Know that there is no roome for such as love And live in wayes of Blood and Rebels are To God and his Annointed Such are farre Out of the way to Heaven I must thee tell It is thy Case thy wayes lead swift to Hell Thy soul is sick unto the death O take Some course that may thy Soul right healthy make I once will be thy Doctor and will give Thee a Receipt which us'd will make thee live Ith'state of Grace a Christian sound and right To God-ward and thy King That when the night Of death shall come thou shalt thy Saviour see Unto thy endlesse joyes embracing thee And here because the Trade thou best dost know Is that of Wood-monger I will thee show To make a Faggot which shall do the deed And work a perfect cure in thee with speed A Faggot of full length and equall size It shall be and beyond all wordly prize Take thou Repentance Faith Hope Love with these Take Peace these to the purpose will thee please Faith joynes with Truth Hope will not them forsake Loves joynes the sticks and Peace the bond doth make Which binds the Faggot strongly up together Such Faggots make for London send them thither Lud's people move of thee to buy their wood Wood-mongers Wharf hath none that 's hall so good Full sure I am were it their hearts desire Of Faggots of this kind to make their Fire It would their cold and frozen joynts refresh And make them new and hearty joyes expresse Their Gates they 'd open and their Bells would ring And Bonefires make to entertain their King And curse the day that they seduced were Against their King and Countrey to appeare In Arms They then would learn to hate That Factious Crue which hath abus'd the state Yea they would deeply then abhorre themselves Because they have been such ungracious Elves To forward this Rebellion Such a Crime Each circumstance considered no time Before did yeeld the like Then out of hand Knock off and do not like a Rebell stand Against a King thou know'st right gracious is A King so prompt to pardon thine amisse He for his Peoples good so deerly loves The thing call'd Peace that every stone he moves To gain it Then unto thy King coms in And let Rebellion be no more thy sinne Peace is a Lady beautifull and sweet Who wooes her winnes her and doth blessings meet Which Crown the Christian heart for she doth bring That which will make us here and eversing And therefoâ—â— let all Christians undertake To follow Peace for Iesus Christ his sake The seventh Song Say not to whom for that 's already said By him to say who will not be afraid LOrd Say how well thy own bru'de Ale doth taste And thou shalt find it sharp and sowre at last When thou thy Generall and thy Colonell Fines Do reap the guerdon of black Treasons lines Say Say no more nor of Religion bost A Rebell Schismatick th' art at the most For true Religion never yet durst take Up Arms 'gainst Gods Annointed and to make Rebellion seeme to be a Lawfull thing For Subjects to rebell against their King Was this the Roundnesse of your Round-heads plot Roundly 'mong Rebbels to cast in their lot The Brooks whose streames your blotted hopes did nourish One Muskets shot spoil'd all that painted flourish And shew'd the fall of those whose foul intents Are masked up in Gospell Ornaments As Sathan shining in an Angels light Such is the glory of an Hypocrite And such is thine thy base Hypocrisie Will close thy name in endlesse infamy Woe woe be to thee thou hast brought a shame On thy Religion and Professions name Then what thou dost there 's no more shamefull thing Then let it shame and shames confusion bring As recompence upon the heads of those Rebels who are our Kings and Countreys foes To what is said who more can any say How to prevent the coming of that day When all the Sayes shall say and saying think The sowrest dreggs of their own Ale to drink It true repentance could possesse the mind Then Gods Annointed they should suâ—rly find As God himself most ready to forgive Say so so do and in so doing live Or else run on in Treasons villany And dye a death that dyes eternally FINIS * Joshua 6. 4. Seven Trumpets of Rams-Hornes Judges 7. 16. Gâ—deons 300. broken Pit hers 1 Sam. 17. 49. Young little and unarmed David with a Stone and a Slinge to overcome and slay the triple armed Gyant great Goliah Iob. 20. 6 7. * In the Reign of Edw. 2. * 41. H. 3. In the time of that mad Parliament at Oxford called The Assembly of Rebels This King Hâ—n 3. Reigned 56. yeers and saw the fall of all his Enemies And his Sonne Edw. 1. Reigned wondrous happily and by his Subjects was supplied most bountifully and never contradicted by any Parliam So may it be with our K. Charles Amen * Edward the 2. Imprisoned in Berkley Castle and there cruelly murthered and Richard the second Imprisoned in Pontefract Castle and there murthered Both these Kings were deposed by unlawfull Assemblies which were not rightly to be called Parliaments Ipsa dies mater quandoque noverca est * William of Nassaw Pro Deo Pro Rege pro Grege pro Lege * See Heylins Geography of Brittish Isles pag. 510. English men for that they wonneth them to drunkennesse to Treason and to rechlesnesse of Gods house first by Danes and then by Normans and the third time by Scots whom they holden least worth of all they shallen be overcome Then the world shall be unstable and so divers and variable that the unstablenesse of thoughts shall be betokened by many manner diversity of Cloathing * Odi Sophistam qui sibi non sapit Brownists Greenway Barrow Penry Penry flies to Scotland They will have Kings unto them subjected Kings Supremacy Two sorts of Brownists The first sort They Rule against our Church Their Reverend Fathers Their zealous Prayers They raile against Bishops The singular piety of Roman Bishops in the first 300. yeers Bishop's Subject to the Emâ—perour Boniface the Pope the first Roman Bishop that exaâ—â—d himself above all other Bishops The number of the Beast 666. made up in him How Boniface came to be Vniversall Bishop by Phocas Many Papists good Suâ—jects The Authâ—rs disaffection to Popery Our Laws of Force to keep out Popery * The false Scandall of Bishops bringing in Popery * His Majesty unjustly Scandalized for intending to bring in Popery a Though the late Roman Bishops have erred from the Truth yet the Bishops of the Church of England have stoutly defended the Truth b Our Princes have stood for it King Edward Queen Elizabeth King James King Charles Olâ—â—Romes Religion and our now-Religion all 〈◊〉 Brownists except against the Churches set Forms of Prayer And are answered Num. 10. 25. â—0 Num. 6. 22 to 27. The compilers of our Common-Prayer Book Brownists despise the Lords Prayer Barrow Brownistâ— against wholsome Ceremonies They ought not to seperate from the Church for things indifferent The second sort of Brownists Burton Bastwick Prynne Great undertakers Rebellion upon meere Iealousies The Princ's Care to keep out Popery The upholding of true Religion pretended by the Rebels but truly performed by King Charles The Rebels intent to root out Papists The Schismaticks of all three Kingdoms joyn to make up this Rebellion Scotland must begin it Rebellion in Ireland The Moneys gathered for suppressing the Rebels in Ireland converted to maintain Rebellion in England The Rebels pretend maintaining the Laws a cause of taking up Arms The Subjects Right destroyed by this Rebellion Seditious Ministers the summe of their Sermons This Rebellion would root out the honourable that the common people might rule What is to be done to restore Peace Pope Urban the 8. Protestants and Papists to live lovingly together The French Cardinall Romes Church was as ours now is * That is to say Divisions
'cause they all foresee The dolefull State of Englands miserie By this accurs'd Rebellion The whole Nation With speed now Posting unto desolation If thou good Subject bee'st remove those fears That make the Land powre out such bleeding tears 'T is more then time this fearfull storm to cease And nothing can â—ffect it but a Peace A happy Peace will both Ecclipses clear And Sunne and Moon in glory shall appear Each brightly shining in their proper spheare And then they will a glorious Peace uprear When Cynthia as a Servant unto Sol With one consent a happy union shall Twixt King and Subjects make and clouds disperse That be or shall be to our Peace averse This to effect Sir William reach thy hand And for thy King with resolution stand For Peace for Peace our Gracious King doth call Peace is that precious Pearl will please us all T is that will make both Church and State to flourish Blest be each Soul the means thereto doth cherish And blest art thou Sir William Waller when With heart and mind to this thou say'st Amen Amen Amen to this Amen say I Amen say all that love His Majesty The Fourth Song My Muse doth now make hast into the North To taste a Messe of Scottish ill made Broth And dine her self with Plummery and Keale Although she makes a very hungry meale And sooth to say and not at all to jest Shee 'l tell you whom she findeth at that feast BRave Limping Lesley Rebels welcome Guest Thy rough and boistrous blast blows North North East A Wind that 's good for neither Man nor Beast And yet inclos'd in Concave of thy brest Like Eolus thou send'st it forth from thence And mak'st thereby a raging violence Which doth produce a fearfull bleeding work All to uphold thy factious Scottish Kirk And bring a proud and up-start Presbytrie To Rule and sway in Englands Monarchie And in this work to further thy intâ—nt A Factious Force from England there is sent So that the Factious in both Kingdoms are Against their King met in Rebellious Warre Working therâ— by each Kingdoms fatall fall And this to do th' art made a Generall Doth Scotlands Kyrk thy actions look upon Allowing Ill that Good may come thereon Gods word then sure is not the Rule whereby They order all their seeming Sanctity All of thy Kyrk condemn I must not dare Among them sure some Learn'd Divines there are Some that are just and good and holy men With all my heart I love and reverence them But for the most the Swing of their intent Is unto Schisme and Faction chiefly bent The Brethren of the Parity are they Which in Rebellions Warre do bear most sway And for a true religious work allow it None of the Faction dare to dis-avow it Thou of that Brother-hood a Brother art And stand'st though halting strongly on their part Say not thou art a true Religious man Thy best is but a Rebel-Puritan Thou giv'st a mocking taunt to Purity And art but pure Religions Enemy Who plainly shew'st by thy Rebellious Course Thou hast no more Religion then a Horse Did ever Pure Religion teach this thing That Subjects might raise Warre against their King For any Cause or seeming good pretence No true Religion unto such offence Doth warrant give That false one doth of Rome Unto whole Tenent thou doest closely come Thus as the Devill to the Collyer cryed Like unto Like So thou with Rome dost side I care not though thou take my words in Snuffe I will not fear to give thy Pride a Cuffe Thy self thy words thy works all rude and rough Are Bastard-like base mis-begotten stuffe But in the wisdom of thine own conceit If thou dost think praise on thy Actions wait Then must I tell thee out of Wisdoms School That thou art left more hopelesse then a Fool The wisest King that ever Scotland bred Whose judgement was with understanding fed In things Divine to cleer each rais'd-up doubt There was like him in all the world through out Not any King It was his full intent To state both Kingdoms in one Government That Scholler like King and King of Schollers He The English and the Scottish Church did see Both of one Faith and that they might agree In Discipline with fuller unity Considering our English Form was found More pure then that of Scotland and more sound His whole endeavours he did then incline That Scots might use the English Discipline And to that end our Service-book he sent To them that they therewith might be content Which if with Ours it did not full agree Upon Complaint it should amended be And rightly judging that Episcopy Was bâ—st agreeing unto Manarchy He laboured that Scotlands Church might have Their learned Bishops godly wise and grave By this one Form of Discipline he knew Both Churches should be one though they were two And might appear full strong in their defence When in them both there was no difference But that blest work most proudly was withstood By those that were the Factious Brother-hood Whose malice did mischievously contrive Their Bishops all at once away to drive And in despight our Service book they throw Out of their Church A better yet I trow Nay more I dare 'gainst any undertake Those Factious Fooles could not can ever make Scarce one so good Of one thing I am sure The Scriptures Test it will throughout endure Here now begins Rebellion forth to break And Rebels mouths most lavishly do speak Gainst Gods Annoynted and belch out this lie That he did mean to bring in Poperie A thing which never came into his thought As knowing wel what works proud Rome hath wrought Yet now he finds his factious Subjects all Are in their works Rome-like Tyrannicall And thou proud Generall a man accurst If not the worst of all yet next the worst Do'st as a Chiefe in their Society Uphold this work of damn'd Impiety And with thee joyn our English Schismaticks The bratts of Hagar full of mocking tricks Our Mother-Church you all most proudly scorn As Hagar Sarah and each Isaack born Of hâ—r blest womb each childe of promise must With you as Off-scummes out of doore be thrust None are a Church but those of your new faction Lo how you joyn with Rome in this your action And this your monstrous buiâ—ding up to reare Against your King you proudly Arms do beare For why such sonnes of Desperation Can give themselves a Dispensation Two famous Kingdoms thus confounded are By Civill most uncivill barbarous warre The secret plot which did this work contrive Got life long since though then not seen alive To Luds great Town was sent from Edens land The Contract which fast joyned hand in hand This factious Crew by Vow and Oath to make This rue-full warre which dangerously doth shake Of either Kingdom their most strong foundation And threatneth both with direfull desolation For now ye see the Scottish Covenanter His Covenant dares to English Lords preferre
he no Brownist is No Is he not He is as bad or worse As now appears by his Rebellious course Though Brownists from our Church do separate They cannot thereof overthrow the state So dangerously as those amongst us staying Who still appear our Churches Peace betraying Here the Triumviri which first begin To lead the way unto Rebellions sin Are Burton Bastwick and their brother Prynne The stinking Sink of honoured Lincolnes-Inne These three the Church and Common-wealth would sway All men of greatest Understanding They Would seem to see all dangers imminent And seeming ones with mischief to prevent These lay their Plot upon which ground now stands The Armies of Rebellions armed hands I know them all and for them have been sad To see that they no more discretion had In every thing that counsell is not just Which thus prescribeth To be sure mistrust Mov'd by meere jealousies the more 's their guilt They throw down Out-works where no Fort is built For what they saw they should not so have spoken The Lyon sleeps when yet his eyes are open There was a care Romes Popery to withstand Even in those things which then were tool in handâ— Yet they crie out Saile not too neer Romes Gates Lest Popery prevaile thus talk't these Mates Those that would in the way of Truth prevaile Must sailing unto Heav'n by Hells Gates saâ—â—e And yet their course in all things wisely steere As Rocks and Shelves and Sands they never feare The Churches Ship in this worlds Sea thus sailing 'gainst Rocks Shelves and Sands shall be prevailing And those that thus in sailing wisely strive At last in Heavens fair Haven shall arrive But they so ill a course like wise-ones took As on a Dangerous Rock the Ship is strook And must into a generall shipwrack fall If this Rebellious Warre continue shall In which thou Brown a great Commander art And Brownist art in taking of their part But all this while I cannot but admire What things they are these Rebels do require Is it the true Religion to uphold This to defend our King is wondrous bold His Royall person into th' Field to bring And to his Subjects say Behold your King Compleat in Arms Religion to defend And for the same his dearest blood to spend And in this Cause Prince Charles with valiant spirit Doth nobly seek true Honours fame to merit And in th' atchievement of this glorious work We may behold the Princely Duke of York This sight but seen should make Rebellion cease And move all Subjects to embrace a Peace So often offered by his Royall Grace Why should not this in every Heart take place If in this warre the Royall blood be spilt Can England ever wash away the guilt What is your ayme All Papists out to root Is this the mark whereat your minds do shoot This but suspected Papists on their Guard Would stand and so your Market might be marr'd They do not want the best Intelligence There 's not a Kingdom but they hear from thence And whatsoere against them is debated Is by some speedy means to them related And sure it is that they did understand Three Kingdoms Schismaticks joyn'd hand in hand A strong Rebellion by degrees to raise Whose first beginning should be Scotlands praise And in that work although most closely arted The Papists knew they chiefly should have smarted Have been destroyed every Mothers Child At best should be perpetually exil'd This Myne perceiv'd a Counter Myne was wrought Which to effect in Ireland first was brought Not Papists there they Schismaticks did call As here not Schismaticks were Papists all First Irelands Myne did spring and up were blown The Protestants of English Nation Thus did this bloody Warre take its beginning From Web of woe our Schismaticks were spinning For Papists Now when Ireland thus brâ—ke forth Resolved to go on by Vow and Oath Our Parliament was trusted to addresse Some present means Rebellion to suppresse And Moneys raised were to this intent That presently an Army should be sent To Ireland but then suddenly did break Rebellion forth here mongst our selves to speak The Truth contrived long before Rebellion here increasing more and more By Moneys here for Irelands cause collected An home-bred sad Rebellion was protected Which spareth no mans lively-hood nor life But strikes at all and still doth grow more riâ—e Wherein our good King Charles hath saddest share His sorrows being deep beyond compare His Royall Heart from grief to grief proceeding To see that all his Kingdoms lye a bleeding Herewith when as my mourning Muse had met Teers from my eyes my blotted Papers wet The more because Our King still offer'd Peace Yet Rebels would not from Rebellion cease What hearts have they whence do they draw their might 'gainst King so good can any subject fight But next unto pretens'd Religions cause They say they fight for to maintain the Laws Of Englands Kingdom and the Subjects Right For these they bring their Armies forth to fight O shamelesse boldnesse that dares this averre When all the Kingdoms Laws by this their Warre They overthrow so much as in them lies T' uphold the Kingdoms Laws His Majesties Great Care is known he nothing more desires The Magna Charta's that which he requires Should stand in force of Englands Laws the ground And in that Magna Charta there is found A solemn Curse which doth most sharply speak 'gainst those who shall our Laws foundation break Though not pronounc'd at our Great Courts down setting Yet still it speaks a Curse on those begetting Who shall our Kingdoms National Laws destroy And Childrens Children may that Curse enjoy But this Rebellion Subjects Right doth seek As it the former doth for both alike Are over-thrown by it The Laws maintain The Subjects Right by Law the Subjects gain Their just propriety in every thing This to uphold our just and righteousse King Commands his Judges wherein if they faile The Law doth then against themselves prevaile Faine would the King at White-Hall Palace be That thence he might his Reverend Judges see In Order each unto their Courts to passe O what a singular blessed sight it was For Christ himself doth say Kings reign by me I Judges make my Justice to decree The King and Judges out of this way kept The Kingdom is of her just Laws bereft Who are they then that Subjects Right debarre The King or those that 'gainst the King make Warre Admit some wrongs 'gainst Law the Subjects grieved Were they not by our Gracious King relieved In those last Statutes which he pleas'd to make But now for making Laws new wayes we take The Subject dares against his Soveraigns will Make Laws what Age can president such ill That lawlesse man the Antichrist of Rome Within the bounds of Law will never come Divine and Humane Laws he breaks them all And Ruleth by a power Tyrannicall He standing on high terms doth
proudly say That he will never any King obey His will is that which for a Law shall stand The greatest King must yeeld to his Command That Court whose pride unto such height is Tric't Is sure therein a very Antichrist And every one of Antichrist a Limbe Who hoyseth Sailes and doth his Tacklings trimme Like men of Warre such Actions to defend As do against his King and Countrey bend Your Preachers your seditious Preachers are The Whelps that crie up this Rebellious Warre And say if the Kings party overcome Woe to us all the Kingdom is undone And Popery then the upper-hand shall have This this deer Brâ—thren all the Papists crave Withstand them then prevent our misery Which will be wrought by Papall Tyranny Our Laws will all be then quite overturned And Christ's deer Flock with fire and Fagot burned Let all good Christians then as Scripture saith With might and main strive to defend the Faith Religions Cause is that we have in hand This to defend 'gainst King and Keâ—sar stand Gods word doth warrant that in Cases such We cannot shew our love and zeal too much Such lies they do with monstrous zeal expresse And non-sence words and that in great excâ—sse They box their Desks and Pulpits bottom stamp Are drawn awry as with Convulsions Cramp If loud and fast their lying Tales they tell Thâ—y 〈◊〉 Chuâ—ch men Prâ—â—â—h most monstrous well These are the zealous men for so they 'r call'd That have 〈◊〉 so dangerouâ—â—y â—enthrali'd These and thâ—â— followers full of zeal Igrant But all true â—nowledge and discretion want And hence it is they in their zeal desire To set and see the Kingdom all on fire Yet some thing else Rebellion goes about Which is to root our Kingdoms Honour out The many headed Beast sole Rule would have Our Honour then lies buried in that Grave A Noble people once the English were And did aloft their Honour Nobly beare And shall we now dishonourably choose New shame to get and Antient Honour loose From best to worst from Monarchy to fall To Oligarchy bafest Rule of all Brave Noble mindes in England Nobly bred O're us to Rule Let not that Hydra's head King Charles advance to 's Honours him restore And state this Kingdom as it was before With this let all most wisely be content And strive no more for change of Government Their seeking so the thing for which they sought Hath a most miserable ruine brought Upon this Land The Kingdom rent and torn Is like a City ruin'd and forlorn Those things which did her Glory best adorn Rebellion spoiles and makes of them a scorn Those two most famous Vniversities Fair Englands Beauty and her Starre-bright eyes From whence there did such glorious Lights arise As that the splendour of their glorious shine Did spread it self through every Zone and Clime In all the world Is 't not a wonderous sight To see as now that Sunne-like shining light To be Eclips't whose once most heavenly rayes Was honoured with such deserved praise Those goodly Halls and Stately Colledges The Seed-plots of the liberall Sciences The fountain-heads of every pleasant spring About whose Banks did all the Muses sing Where Schollers liv'd and some so wondrous rare As might for learning with the world compare From whence was wont into the Church to flow Those blessed means which made her glory grow And bring forth fruit of greatest dignity A Reverend Grave and Learned Ministry Who being Orthodox with Spirit bold The Truth 'gainst Romes false Doctrines did uphold But now our Church whoso but looks upon her Shall see her rob'd of all her pristine Honour And Schollers are enforc't to lay aside Their learned Books and for themselves provide As Souldiers furnished in compleat Arms To shield themselves from present threatned harms And save their lives and all their Colledge-Lands Out of the reach of Rebels spoyling hands No Heathens yet would once dare to deface Their Idol-Gods nor to the ground to raze Their Pagan Temples But we now farre worse Then they have rob'd our God and brought a curse Upon us all which may cradicate Our Kingdoms Glory and so leave her state As wholly ruin'd waste and desolate And this to do Rebell on doth not stay But runneth on even in the ready way For next the Church what did our Kingdom grace They seek to spoile and utterly deface The Innes of Chanâ—â—ry and Innes of Court Where Englands Gentry used to resort And study there that they might wisely learn All points of Law with Judgement to discern Those Houses where the Ancients ruled so As all did in a comely order go And able were a King to entertain With Honours due unto his Royall train These all our Honour greatly did augment They did in them a kind of state present Which did the glory of our Land advance Now spoyled by Obnoxious Ignorance Laws Divine Humane Civill Common all Are troden down by force Tyrannicall T is then high time we should our sinnes repent For they are cause of all our punnishment But now because a present bloody broyle The Peace of England doth destroy and spoile What may be done a Peace for to restore To King and Kingdom nothing wisht for more Why This to do I nothing will invent But what I learn by actuall president Romes self it seemes doth now desire a Peace And that all Warres in Christian world may cease Since Gregory the first Surnam'd the Great Vrban the 8th who sate in Romes high seat Of all their Bishops was the very best His like was never found among the rest And this I think of him that suâ—e he would Have been a Protestant if that he could He doubtlesse lov'd a Protestant in 's heart And would not 'gainst them take the Papists part In Germane Warres he nothing would decree On either part but wish't they might agree For whil'st they striv'd each other to confound No Peace could grow out of so bad a ground Experience taught Romes Church this Truth to know When as their Priests did seeds of Treason sow And thereby spoil'd the Protestant Estate And did Reformed Churches ruinate The Plots whereby they kept so great a coyle Themselves thereby at last did chiefly spoile A Peacefull way Romes Bishop then intended Which was of all the best to be commended In outward form the Papists well may stand With Protestants affording friendships hand Each unto other That French Cardinall Who sought a Peace most wisely to enstall In that French Kingdoms Royall Government About that work he with such wisdom went As that by him the Protestants protected Their Faiths Allegiance never was suspected For they themselves did as good Subjects bear Unto their King He had no cause to fear Them any whit at all For as was meet They ready were down at their Soveraigns Feet To lay their lives their Countreys Peace to gain For this they would themselves to th' utmost strain There now when Protestants and