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A66752	Ecchoes from the sixth trumpet. The first part reverberated by a review of neglected remembrances, abreviating [sic] precautions and predictions heretofore published at several times, upon sundry occasions, to forewarn what the future effects of divine justice would be, as soon as our sinnes were full ripe,if not prevented by timely repentance : most part of the predictions have been already seen or heard verified, both by the author yet living, and by many others, who observed at what times, in what manner, upon what persons, and in what places they were literally or mystically fulfilled : collected out of the said authors printed books, who conscienciously [sic] observed on what divine prophesies the said predictions were grounded, as also God's late frequent intermixture of judgments and mercies, to reclaim this generation.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1666 (1666)	Wing W3155; ESTC R38724	102,560	226

will encrease thy sorrow and thy shame And thus it shall be kindled when the times Are nigh at worst and thy loud-crying Crimes Almost full ripe the Devil shall begin To bring strange Crotchets and Opinions in Among thy Teachers which will breed dis-union And interrupt the visible Communion Of thy establisht Churches In the steed Of zealous Pastors who their Flocks did feed There shall arise within thee by degrees A Clergy that will more desire to fleeze Then feed their Flocks A Clergy it shall be Divided in it self and they shall thee Divide among them into several Factions Which will both rend and fill thee with distractions All of those in appearance will pretend GOD's glory and to have one pious end But under colour of sincere Devotion Their chief aim will be temporal promotion Which will among themselves Dissentions make Wherein all sorts of people shall partake As to the Persons or the Cause they stand Inclin'd through every quarter of the Land One part of these will for Preferment strive By raising up the King's Prerogative Above it self They shall perswade Him to More then by Law or Conscience he may do And say GOD warrants it His Righteous Laws They shall pervert to justifie their Cause With blushless impudency they shall dare Ascrîbe to Monarchs things which proper are To none but Christ and mix their flatteries With such like Attributes and Blasphemies As Heathens did to make their Kings believe That whomsoever they oppress and grieve They do no wrong and that one though oppressed Should seek by their own Laws to be redressed Such Counsel shall thy foolish Kings provoke To cast upon thee Rhehoboam's yoak And they not caring or not taking heed How ill that misadvised King did speed Shall multiply the causes of distraction And then shall of those Priests the other Faction Bestir themselves They will in outward shows Those whom I last have mentioned oppose But in their aimes agree with lowly zeal An envious pride of heart they shall conceal And as the former to the King will teach Meer Tyranny so shall the other preach Rebellion to the People and then strain The Word of God Sedition to maintain Oh! therefore be thou watchful and when here Those Lambs with Dragons Voices do appear Repent thy sins or take it for a token That such a Bulwark of thy Peace is broken As if it be not soon repaired all The grandure of thy Glory down will fall Beware then of those Prophets who will strive Betwixt thy Prince and People to contrive A Breach and what event soever come Thy due Allegiance never start thou from For their Oppressions though we may withstand By pleading Laws or Customes not a hand Must move against him but the hand of GOD Who makes the King a Bulwark or a Rod As pleaseth him Oh take therefore good heed Ye Subjects and ye Kings what may succeed By those Impostors of the last beware Ye Subjects for their Counsels wicked are And though they promise Liberty and Peace Your Thraldom and your troubles they encrease Shun oh ye Kings the first for they advise What will your Crowns and Honours prejudice When you suppose their Prophesies befriend you They shall but unto Ramoth Gillead send you Where you shall perish and poor Micha's word Though disesteem'd more safety will afford This Author hath been censured as having deviated from his Principle expressed in the last foregoing Caveat when upon their Command he took up Arms with the Long-Parliament But he declared by the Motto in his Cornet Pro lege Rege grege that he purposed nothing contrary thereunto or against the King and he is also sufficiently vindicated from that aspersion by what he long since published to justifie both his actings and intentions under that Power which was called and authorized both by King and people to regulate and settle their joint and distinct Interests After that and the rest of the foregoing Precautions and Predictions the said Author having considered this Nation and how it had parallel'd the Jews heretofore he proceeded to declare what would follow thereupon if they parallel'd them also in their final obstinacy fol. 269. p. 2. What here is mentioned if thou shalt heed Oh BRITAN in those times that will succeed It may prevent much loss and make thee shun Those mischiefs whereby Kingdoms are undone But to thy other sins if thou shalt add Rebellion as false Prophets will perswade When that time comes wherein thou likewise shalt In thy profession as to GOD-ward halt Then will thy King and People scourge each other For their offences till both fall together By weakning of their Pow'r and making way To their ends who expect that fatal day Then shall disorder every where abound Justice or Piety be rarely found Each man shall to his neighbour be a thorn By whom he shall be either scratcht or torn Thy Princes will to little condescend Save for accomplishing their own self-end Either in multiplying of their Treasures Or satiating of their fleshly pleasures Few Causes will without a bribe be tri'de Few Friends will in each other dare confide The Parents and their Children shall despise Hate or neglect each other She that lies Within her Husbands bosome shall betray him They who the People should protect shall slay them Old Age shall honor'd be by few or none The Poor shall by the rich be trod upon Such Insolencies almost every where Shall acted be that good and bad shall fear In thee to dwell and wise men to assume The Magistracy when that time is come GOD shall then call and whistle from afar Those hither who the most malicious are Of all thine Adversaries they shall from Their dwellings like a whirlwind on thee come Sharp shall their Arrows be and strong their Bow To thee their faces will as dreadful show As roaring Lyons They on thee like thunder Shall furiously break in and tread thee under Their Iron feet They shall devour thy bread And with thy Flocks both clothed be and fed Their Children they shall carry from their own To Countreys which their Fathers have not known And thither shall such mischiefs them pursue That they who seek the Pit-fall to eschue Shall in a snare be taken them who shall Escape the Sword a Serpent in the wall Shall sting to death and tho they have the hap To shun a hundred Plagues they shall not scape But with new dangers be still chas't about Until they shall be wholly rooted out The Plow-man shall be then afraid to fow Artificers their labour shall forgo The Merchant-man shall cross the Seas no more Except to flye hence to another shore The stoutest heart shall fear the wisest then Shall know themselves to be but foolish men And they who built and planted by oppression Shall leave their gettings to their Foes possession And yet GOD will chastise thee seven times more With seven times greater Plagues then heretofore For thy Allies their Friendship shall

follow And every thing that was a blessing to thee Shall to a Curse be turn'd which may undo thee Thy King who as a Father should have been And by whom Peace should be preserved in Thy Sea-girt limits shall not much befriend thee Nor then in thy professed Faith defend thee Thou haft at present goodly hopes of him Who lately did put on thy Diadem But know that until thou reformed art Thou shalt in his Deservings have no part His Princely Vertues to his own avail May prove but they to profit thee shall fail His Clemency shall seem to thee severe His greatest favours injuries appear And when thy sins are fully ripe in thee Thy King and People both alike shall be Thou shalt have Babes to be thy Kings yea worse Those Tyrants who by cruelty and force Of all their ancient Liberties will quite Bereave their Subjects They shall then delight In their oppressing them yet they who are By them enslav'd shall murmur and not dare To stir against them By degrees they shall Deprive them of their Priviledges all And force them as in other Lands this day For their own meat and their own drink to pay To such intents Their Nobles will become their Instruments For men reputed of the noblest Races Will be expos'd gradatim to disgraces Dispoil'd of pow'r and in their stead arise A Brood advanced by Impieties By flat'ry and by brib'ry and by that Which men of noble principles do hate Without desert from beggarly possessions And stemmes obscure they shall by their ambitions Mount Seats of Justice and those Titles wear Which honord most in those Dominions are And having gain'd these heights hope to make strong Oppressive Grandure by encreasing wrong For themselves these will unto those unite Who to such Dignities pretend most right With no less ill-deserving and by such Destruction will be hastned forward much For these will Kings abuse with tales and lies With feigned love and servile flatteries Perswading them that they may justly make Their Will their Law and at their pleasure take As warranted by their Prerogatives Their Subjects goods their persons and their lives And instrumental these will then become In practising to raise by some and some Their Monarchies to Tyrannies yea shall Abuse Religion Honesty and all And shall to compass their Designs devise What ever may effect them Truth or Lies Those grave deportments which do best befit The Majesty of States they shall omit Fawn or dissemble threaten rail or storm When they pretend Abuses to reform And in those High Courts wherein sober grave Admonishments or Censures men should have If they offend they shall be taunted there Or scoft or jeer'd though innocent they are For in those times which nearer are then some Do yet believe such Rhetorick will come In practice and Law Equity and Reason For their defence be pleaded out of season Folly will then seem Wisdom and go nigh To bring contempt on all Authority The Council-Table shall a snare be made They against whom no just complaints they had At first Convention shall be urg'd to say Such words perhaps ere they depart away As will expose their Prudence unto blame And make them guilty seem who guiltless came All that which from the People they can tear Exact or borrow shall be as it were A lawful Prize and taken from a Foe Few shall make conscience what they say or do Injurious to another so it may Fulfil their Lustings for the present day But to accomplish it they will endeavour Although they know it will undo for ever Their own Posterity and still persist In what will ruine their self-Interest This will by darkning their Intelligence Bring them to such a Reprobated sence And blind them so that when an Ax shall be Seen hewing at the Root of their own tree By their own handy stroaks they shall not grieve For their approaching downfal or believe Their fall approaching to assume that heed Which may prevent it till they fall indeed Thy Princes BRITAN in those dayes will be Like roaring Lyons making prey of thee GOD shall deliver thee into their hands And they shall act their pleasure in these Lands Thy Kings as now thou wallowest in excesse Shall take delight in Drink and Wantonness They who reputed are thy Noble ones Shall to the very marrow gnaw thy bones Thy Lawyers wilfully pervert thy Lawes They to the ruine of the Common cause Shall misinterpret them in hope of Grace From them who may dispoile them of their place That whereunto they are obliged both By their professed Calling and their Oath They shall to put in execution fear And leave them helpless who oppressed are Thy Prelates in the publick spoils will share Thy Priests in manners as prophane appear As the prophanest and their Prophesies And Preachings mixt with Heresies and Lies The truths they speak shall spoken be in vain So little knowledg shall with them remain That they shall cause the means of Saving-grace To be remov'd unto another place Mark BRITAN what I have yet more to say And do not slightly pass my words away But be assured that when GOD begins To bring those Judgments on thee for thy sins Which do portend a total overthrow Thy Prophets and thy Priests will slily sow The seeds of that dissention and sedition Which time will ripen for thy sad perdition They who in former times were of thy Peace The blessed Instruments will then encrease Thy sorrows and as when of old the Jews Their truth-presaging Prophets did abuse GOD suffered Impostors in his Name To preach those falshoods which at last became To them destructive So if thou go on To make a scorn as thou hast often done Of those who seek thy welfare he will send False Prophets who thy ruine shall intend Say nothing but what thou wouldst have them say To lull thee fast asleep in thine own way If any brain-sick-fellow whom the Devil Inspireth shall to thee intend what 's evil And heeding what thou art inclin'd unto Perswades to that which may at last undo Both Prince and People thou shalt like and follow H●s Counsels thou that cover'd hook shalt swallow Which will destroy both and thine ignorance For those disservices will him advance Whereas if he who truly seeks thy Weal Inspir'd with truth and with a sober Zeal Shall tell thee what concerns thy real good That Messenger shall stifly be withstood That Seer shall be charged not to see His Message shall displease and slighted be Instead of good respect he shall be sure A Prison or worse usage to endure To death perhaps condemned with disgrace Among disturbers of the Common-Peace But not unless the Priests thereto consent For in those dayes but few men innocent Shall suffer in that mode by ought wherein Thy Clergy hath not some way active been If ever in thy Fields which GOD forbid The blood of thine own Children shall be shed By Civil Discord they shall blow the flame Which

when perhaps you think the War is done The greatest Mischiefs will be but begun For as yet nor th' one nor th' other side Nor King nor People Commoners nor Peers Nor Flocks nor Shepherds have the Course yet tri'de By which you can be saved from your fears A Treaty might compleat it but before You venture that you must be fit to treat For then the Work were half way done and more And till that be no step you forward get In heat of Quarrels nothing done or spoke Can reconcile a Friends words move you not The more you talk the more the peace is broke Till you your lost considering Caps have got Till your hot blood is cool'd till rage is gone And Reason doth examine things alone Then peradventure c. See further Page 51. Until both parties do at least agree In all those Common Principles whereby Human Society preserv'd may be With Natures Rights and Christian Liberty All Treaties will be mischievous or vain To men adhering to the better course For by such Treatings Politicians gain Advantages to make your being worse Yea by that means these find occasions may To gain or give intelligence to make New Plots and Friends to hasten or delay As cause requires and other wayes to take For their avail which else they had not got And which true honesty alloweth not This Precaution is added Pag. 139. Take serious heed that zeal to Innovations Or causeless fears or hopes incline your mind To subjugate these Kingdoms and these Nations To Governments of any Foreign kind But rather use your utmost diligence To rectifie those things that are amiss In that which is establisht and from thence Cast and purge out what ever therein is Repugnant to those Charters which by Grace Or Nature were confer'd and let your care Be so to settle all that you make place The Throne of Christ among you to prepare Lest when his Kingdom comes you must be fain To pluck your new devices down again Take likewise heed you no just means neglect Whereby the King may be recall'd and wonne GOD's Honour with your Safety to respect And do the duties he hath left undone For by rejecting Him how just soe're The Cause may seem you shall delay the Peace That is desir'd and make the Quarrels here With much more difficulty to decrease But if your Prudency shall win him home And he return sincerely to his Charge It shall a blessing to these Isles become Your Honour and your Joy it shall enlarge And as Christ's Vice-Roy he shall sit upon A Righteous and an everlasting Throne Walk therefore prudently in this streight path And turn not to the left hand or the right That Pow'r which God to you committed hath Improve for him according to your might Him in the reasonable Means attend With Faith and Patience that he may at last Your King new moulded back unto you send Or him out of his ruin'd Kingdoms cast If his misactings timely he repent GOD will restore him and if you amend Then that which hitherto hath made a Rent Betwixt you shall in sweet agreement end If both conform both shall true Peace enjoy If both be wilful GOD shall both destroy c. See the 198th Page where it thus follows Let serious care be took and quickly too That her due Rights the Commonwealth enjoy That private men their duties better do Lest they by their divisions all destroy Let not those foolish Toyes who do besot Themselves with arrogance presume to prate As if a Parliament had them begot To be now Heirs apparent to the State Permit you not Religious Melancholly Phlegmatick Avarice or Zeal Cholerick Nor suffer an Excess of Sanguine folly To make both Church and State grow deadly sick Or rather mad and in their mad distractions To tear themselves into a thousand Fractions Let not your King and Parliament in One Much less apart mistake themselves for that Which is most worthy to be thought upon Or think they are essentially the State Let them not fancy that th' Authority And Priviledges upon them bestown Confer'd were to set up a Majesty A Power or a Glory of their own But let them know that for another thing Which they but represent and which ere long Them to a strict account will doubtless bring If any way they do it wilful wrong For that indeed is really the face And they but as the shadow in a Glass Moreover let them know this that if either They still dividing grow from bad to worse Or without Penitence unite together And by their sin provoke him to that course GOD out of their Confusions can and will Create a Means and raise a Lawful Pow'r His Promise to his People to fulfil And his and their Opposers to devour Yea bid both King and Parliament make hast In penitence united to appear Lest into those Confusions they are cast Which will affright them both yea make them fear And know there is on Earth a greater thing Then an unrighteous Parliament or King Because the Poem is large and hard to be gotten to supply that defect here are added the Contents of every Canto as they are in the imprinted Book The Contents of the First Canto First here is to your view prefer'd When where and how this Voice was heard What kind of Musings were the ground What Worlds and Wonders may be found Within our selves what safe Retreats From those Oppressions Frauds and Baits Which are without how little fear Of Terrors which affright us here How plainly there a man may see The Villanies that acted be For private Ends with feigned shows How general Corruption grows Why to acquaint you with this Voice GOD by so mean a man makes choice Then shews how our great hopes deceive us And prayes his aid who can relieve us The Contents of the Second Canto This Cantoes Preface being done The Voice to these effects goes on Tells how unworthy we are yet For Peace desired how unfit How vain how harmful Treaties be Till both sides in one Third agree And laying by ignoble Ends Use likely means of being friends Shews that the Peace which most pursue Will be nor permanent nor true Then that some Cures may be appli'de Declares what Parts are putrifi'de Which must be purg'd without delay Or cauteriz'd or cut away If we will ere it be too late Repair this weak this dying State The Contents of the Third Canto Here whether you be pleas'd or no This Author maketh bold to show That portion of his private wrongs Whose knowledg and recess belongs To Publick Interest that her eye May through his wounds her scars espye The Voice then speaks again and schools In him all other froward fools Who with impatiency do vent Their private wrongs or discontent And look their Trifles should be heard When Kingdoms cannot find regard It shews our Senate blameless is Of many things which are amiss And where the fault and fountain lies From whence our

IV. The Houshold Servants or dependants on such Peers as expect from their Creatures the promotion of their own Designs and Interest how repugnant soever to the General Good V. Courtiers depending meerly on the King or Queens Service for the enlargement and continuance of their Favour depend on that which they call Royal Prerogative and the more that may be improved to an infringement of the Subjects Right the richer and the more powerful these will grow VI. Chuse not such as are evidently Ambitious or Covetous for how prone these will be to sell their Countrey and Religion too for Titular Honors and Wealth we have had too frequent experience The Peoples Trust and Freedoms to betray To be a Lord is now the nearest way VII Elect not persons enslaved to Wantonness and impudently persevering in Carnal Vncleannesses for such will not onely give away your and their own Estates to satisfie their Lusts but betray also their Countrey and their Saviour to please their Dalilahs VIII Take heed of chusing men superlatively proud For they will be so puft up with their Legislatorship that after they have sate a while in the House you will hardly know how to speak unto them or of them without being questioned either for transgressing against good manners or for breach of their Personal Priviledges which they prefer before the Priviledges of the whole Nation IX Chuse not men over-much affected to Popularity or factiously oppugning Soveraignty for they will not be just or true to the Interest of King or People but so far onely as it may advan●e their own Will X. Chuse none generally reputed vicious in any kind for they will be open or secret Opposers of all Laws or Ordinances restraining Enormities and hinderers of bringing Delinquents to condign punishment XI Make not choice of Irreligious persons or such as are inclined to ancient Superstitions or modern Novelties for these will not willingly assent to the establishment of ought save what may advance their private Fancies For how can he affect true Reformation Who neither hath right Rule or firm foundation XII Make not choice of Children under Age for we ought not to commit the management of the most weighty Affairs of the Commonwealth to them who are not capable by Law of disposing their own Estates especially seeing the major part of Voices which an ignorant Child may help to make up will be sufficient sometimes to confirm a Resolution to the Publike Damage XIII Chuse not Persons Outlaw'd or so far endebted that they dare not walk abroad without a Protection for what can be more unjust then to let them sit as Law-makers who submit not to the Laws in force and to render the Fountain of Justice obstructive unto it self XIV Lastly Avoid the choice of those who make means to have themselves chosen for it discovereth so much arrogance and self-conceit that they are worthy to be rejected and doubtless they more intend that which may advantage themselves then to be serviceable to their Countrey The Deliverers of GOD's People in distress were such as modestly sought rather to put off then to intrude upon Publick Employments yea Saul was fitter to reign when he hid himself among the stuff then when he took care to be honoured before the people The cursed Bramble sought not to be chose The King of Trees till they did him propose There were also some Proposals and Caveats concerning those who are Electors and as touching the making choice by Lot to the perusal whereof you are referred in the Original Tract A Cause Allegorically Stated Imprinted 1657. THis was published among other things during Oliver Cromwel's Reign with an Appeal therein to all Impartial Censurers A Goodly Ship with precious Lading fraught Late in a dark night nigh to Land was brought Through many dangers much blustring weather GOD's Providence had safely brought her thither And by the Waters motions and the humming Among the Shrouds another storm seem'd coming The Place arriv'd at was a dangerous Bay From which into the Port two Channels lay Divided by a Quick-sand with great store Of Shelves and sharp Rocks upon either shore She had a choice Commander Merchants many Stout Seamen Pilots too as good as any With Passengers of all sorts among whom Some could had need been have suppli'd the room Of well-experienc'd Seamen and advis'd Such things as Prudence would not have despis'd But these among themselves divided were steer Through which of those two Channels they should One Party thinking that the safest way In which the other thought most danger lay And in the dark it could not well be seen In which the greatest hazard would have been Nor were they in less hazard to lye there At Anchor till the day-light did appear A poor old man was at that time aboard To whom GOD had been pleased to afford A Faculty to see things in the dark Which others could not view or did not mark He knowing what great streights the Ship was in And what their loss was likely to have been Call'd out to those there had chief Command And said There stands a Rock here lyes a Sand Another yonder and a Whirl-pool there Be very careful therefore how ye steer Bear up a little while into the Wind Although a shew of danger there you find And take heed that a causeless fear or doubt Makes you not over-soon to Tack about Lest in the way you strike upon a steep Sharp Ridg and over-set into the Deep First on the Starbordside a compass fetch Half way to yon Point to avoid that Breach And then upon the Larbordside again Wheel off and you the Harbour shall attain Thus spake the old man for although 't were night He saw as well as when the Sun gives light And they who had a willingness thereto Did that which he advised them to do The greater part not heeding what they heard Nor knowing their own danger grin'd and jeer'd And from the Hatches crept into the Hold Leaving the Ship to what befall it should But they who more desir'd to have their Will Then to be counsell'd whether well or ill Disdaining as it were to be advis'd Though for their weal by one whom they despis'd Did not alone pursue him with despight But with Oppressions also him requite Now therefore in what this man stands oblig'd To those let it impartially be judg'd And whether such as they deserve not all Those Plagues which now are feared may befall Till that Ingratitude they shall repent Which justly merits that sad Consequent This is a Case though heeded but of few To some known as exprest here to be true MERCURIUS RUSTICUS Imprinted without Date THis was composed in or about the first year after the late unhappy Warre between the King and Parliament in imitation of the Weekly Intelligencers then published being a Rustick Discourse offering between jest and earnest some particulars to consideration relating both to Civil and Military Transactions and hinted Notions then