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A83968	England's Ichabod, glory departed, discoursed by two Christian men, zealous for the glory of God, and true lovers of their nation: the one called Heraclitus junior, weeping for and lamenting the inevitable wo and desolation impending and approaching on his native country. And the other called Democritus natu minimus, laughing at the ignorance, blindness, madness, and inexorable stupidity of his own nation, overwhelmed in folly, sin, and wickedness, insensible of its own ruine and misery. Both of them paradoxically praising the Jesuites, and their spurious seed, for their policie, activitie, and dexteritie, in promoting their factions and projects. / By Heraclitus junior, and Democritus natu minimus, for Ri: Fosterschism.	Heraclitus junior.; Democritus natu minimus.	1651 (1651)	Wing E2982; Thomason E623_11; ESTC R201930	8,957	15

England's Ichabod Glory departed DISCOURSED By TWO CHRISTIAN MEN zealous for the glory of GOD and true Lovers of their NATION The One Called HERACLITVS junior Weeping for and lamenting the inevitable Wo and Desolation impending and approaching on his native Country And the Other called DEMOCRITVS natu minimus Laughing at the Ignorance Blindness Madness and inexorable Stupidity of his own Nation overwhelmed in Folly Sin and Wickedness insensible of its own Ruine and Misery Both of them Paradoxically praising the JESUITES and their spurious seed for their Policie Activitie and Dexteritie in promoting their Factions and Projects By Heraclitus junior and Democritus natu minimus for RI FOSTERSCHISM Isa. 31. 1. Wo to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horse-men because they are very strong but they look not to the holy One of Israel neither seek the Lord Matth. 12. 25. Every kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every citie or house divided against it self shall not stand LONDON Printed for Edw. Blackmore 1650. England's Ichabod c. Democritus MY love and affection to you most dear Heraclitus hath induced me to visit you that you and I may discourse a little touching these woful and doleful days wherein we live Heraclitus Welcome my most cordial and most constant friend I rejoyce in your presence so gladsome to me that if any thing would asswage my mournful tears your chearful society would do it But Sir it is too late I rather wish to be dissolved into Tears then to be revived with Mirth for the glory of England is departed Where is the glory of our Cities of our Academies of Trade and Merchandise either Domestick or with Forrein Nations of Equity Law and Justice of the Liberty of the People of the Freedom and Priviledges of the Nation in the whole Common-wealth Nay which is the greatest wo of all where is the glory of Religion and Sincerity Religion is nothing but Opus operatum a formal out-side Preaching and Hearing like the fig-tree cursed by our Lord Christ bearing no fruits of Charity Humility Obedience Justice and Mercy It is by some made a meer stalking-horse and a servant to Pride Ambition Covetousness whose entire and endeared companions and confederates gilded Hypocrisie and execrable Villany merciless Cruelty bloody and horrid Treason must be sometimes assistant to effect impious lawless designes And where will the glory of one of the most famous Cities of the world of London be if the Citizens lose Exportation of Cloth and Stuffs and Importation of forrein Merchandises as they have lost themselves in their Covenant made with God whereof there is a Table and Copie for memorial fixed and hanged up in most Temples in the City And then where will the glory of Clothiers Artificers and others whose Trades and Livelihoods depend upon manufacture of Cloth and Stuffs appear And where will the glory of the Nobility and Gentry whose revenues depend upon Sheep and Wool soon after be Last of all where will the glory of our Army and Souldiery be if they conquer not all Europe or at least quit themselves against the Power and Forces thereof For it appeareth manifestly that they have provoked most part thereof to be enemies to our Nation Woful will our Lamentations be I shall not be able to weep enough I shall even wish to be a Niobe that I might be dissolved into tears Tantum relligio potuit suadere malorum as the Poet Simon John Eleazar Prelate Independent Presbyter Scarce three men meet accidentally together of one minde men are so transported with fiery zeal for one of the three and so void of meekness of spirit that they become as fierce as Bellarmine and cry down all Arguments on the behalf of the other two although they be newly rouzed from the pillow of Bacchus and be inscient of the validity of what was or can be said Why hath Opinion distracted about Rule and Government brought these later evils upon us since the just shall live by Faith alone and not by Government Democritus I my self making the same observations which you do and being apprehensive of the Calamities and Desolation neer approaching and attending our Nation could as I am subject to natural passions mourn and lament also but since I am fully satisfied by consulting with the sacred Prophets that there is an inevitable Divine Decree in this vengeance of the Sword fore-appointed for the accomplishment and manifestation of God's infinite power and glory in purging his Church and bringing in a better people and in restauration of Mercy and Justice in the Common-wealth that Grief which would otherwise possess me is turned into mirth Yet if it may be asked by Prayer Let not O God the Parable and Curse of Jotham mentioned in the ninth Chapter of Judges be fulfilled and fall upon our Abimelechs and Shechemites of England Hearken ye men of Shechem famous Citizens that God may hearken unto you and not send an evil spirit amongst ye to stir ye up to destroy one another as Abimele●h did the Shechemites when they had raised him and made him their King after the bloody murder of his brethren the legitimate sons of Gedeon about seventy men Like noble Bereans read the Chapter and apply it And take notice of a few words uttered and predicted against our Nation and some famous Citie thereof above 1100 yeers since in the Reign of Vortiger printed at Frankfurt about 50 yeers since Viz. Vae perjuriae Genti qua urbs inclyta propter eam ruet Festinat namque dies qua cives ob scelera perjurii peribunt If that Astrologer who uttered these words amongst others whereof we have seen the completion in a great part and could if without controulment permitted fully demonstrate did now live he would laugh profusely at some modern Astrologers who gainsay them or speak slightly or dubiously of them although completed Heraclitus If there be a Divine Vengeance in this scourge of Division Faction Rapine and Bloodshedding why have the people severally murmured railed and clamoured some against the beheaded King some against the Parliament some against the City of London some against the Scots as the several sole causes of our unnatural and bloody Civil War Democritus Because they ignorantly and falsly conjecture that all things come to pass by Chance without Divine providence and governance many being so peremptory and stiff in Opinion and so puffed up with their own transcendencie of Piety and Singularity of spirit that they explode all Opinions but their own and all Reasons and Arguments against the same although valid and forcible as is evident in that that though they despise Government and all Dominion yet none more eagerly aspire to and hunt after high places of Domination both Ecclesiastical and Temporal And when they are invested in them none so rigid as Themselves who so much censured and condemned the Government of

Others to be oppressive and tyrannical And then they make ostentation and buz like the Fly upon the wheel This have I done whenas the coach-wheels and horses heels stirred the dust So by the help of Insinuation and subtil Faction ambitious covetous proud Boasters and singular Self-lovers are exalted to trample on their brethren Plurimis famam {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} avidè magis ambientibus quàm fervidè sincerè {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} annunciantibus One would be Paul another Cephas and the third Apollo and the itching-eared people love to have it so But what will they do in the end These men consider not that their own particular sins and the general sins of the Nation have drawn down God's wrath and indignation against us some daring to call our Covenant made with God filed of Record in our Temples An old Almanack which may be thrown in the fire at yeers end Heraclitus How might their Understandings be better informed and their Judgements rectified Democritus By none other means but first by reading the Scriptures and principally the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 45. vers. 7. and Amos Chap. 3. v. 6. and Jerem. Chap. 25 v. 15 16 26 27 29 31 32. and Chap. 3. v. 6. and Chap. 30. v. 24. and Chap. 34. v. 15 16 17 18 19 20. and Chap. 5. The whole scope of which two last-recited Chapters plainly parallel with our Times and Nation and Matth. 24 with divers other Scriptures as well touching the neerness of the end of the world in confutation of the Millenary Schism much availing for the Romane party and now boldly and busily broached by some of the prime Dissenting Brethren Igodown Oglethorp and others as also touching National Churches in confutation of Independencie and Singularity as Rev. 20. 4. and 21. 24 26. and Isai. 60. 3 5 10 11 16. and Rev. 11. 15. And secondly by comparing the last occurrences of Tumults and Insurrections when we had a King he then having no Councel nor Army and our present Home-divisions and Naumachies with the beginnings of our Civil wars when we had a King he then having an Host of men and Councel But now since we have no King who can be said to be the cause of our present broils rapine and spoils by Sea and Land but our own sins Cùm Anglia laborat saevire in semetipsam Even as when there was no King in Israel every man did that which was good in his own eyes as Judg. 17. 6. and Ch. 19. more at large Heraclitus The evidence thereof aggravateth my sorrow and increaseth my tears and much more when I read the fourth verse of the third Chapter of Hosea threatning judgement against the Israelites that they should be many days without a King or Prince c. Was it a judgement in the days of Israel and is it none in our days Our Laws have depended upon Monarchy although enacted which was our happiness if we had well considered it not by Monarchy alone but by Aristocracie and Democracie Therefore without all three our Laws are dissolved and we fall into Anarchy Is Peace ever to be looked for without Law If the Sword be our Law-giver shall we not become Assassinates and Heathens Where will Truth and Religion be Without them farewel Peace We feel with sorrow and smart that Inter Arma silent Leges And if there be neither King Law nor Religion What will become of Parliaments Our case will be the same with the Israelites when they had no King Every desperate man will dare to say to a Parliament-man as an injurious Hebrew said to Moses Who made thee a man of Authority or Judge over us But is there go balm left in Gilead Is there not one man left who by grave and seasonable counsel might discover the Incendiaries of our Divisions and the Contrivers of our Factions and Distractions and so divert the Deluge of Confusion and Slaughter ready to overwhelm our Nation Democritus It is daily done by zealous Preachers of God's Word in the Pulpit and by them and others in Printed Papers with solid and weighty Motives but with little effect For most mens hearts are hardened and their understandings stupified God hath stricken us but we have not sorrowed he hath consumed us but we have refused to receive correction we have made our faces harder then a stone and have refused to return We may now with Jeremiah the Prophet in his fifth Chapter Run to and fro in the streets of our English Jerusalem and behold now and know and enquire in the open places thereof if we can finde a man or if there be any that spontaneously executeth judgement and seeketh the truth and then hope that the Lord will spare the Land Where is the man who payeth his Vows to God Where is the Patriot of his Country fearing God and hating Covetousness Where is the Justiciary Do we not see almost every mans Self to be his own Country Many great men say they know the way of the Lord and the judgement of their God but these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds The sins for which most often and most severely God punished the Israelites were Idolatry breach of Covenant and Perjury Did God punish them for those sins and can other Nations now in being hope to be quit and go free We expected an issue of our miseries by the Sword but they are augmented and aggravated our hopes fail us What will become of that People in the end which repose confidence in their own strength of Charets Horse-men and Horses Jeremiah in his 31 Chap. vers. 1. telleth them what attendeth them God is the God of Order and not of Confusion Will not the Lord visit for these things Shall he not be avenged on such a Nation Heraclitus The consideration of these things draweth a flood of tears from me For it is most manifest that the English Jesuites by their secret and admirable policies and subtil insinuations under pretext of Tender Conscience their Bugbear work upon the easie mindes of the weaker sort of people who by how much they are more shallow in Judgement by so much are more obstinate and stiff in Opinion impenetrable and inflexible with any Arguments whatsoever Humane or Divine Amidst my sad and doleful tears I am the more astonished when I revolve this verse predicted of England long since viz. Corruet Anglorum gens fraude suorum which word suorum can have relation to or dependance on no words in the whole series of the Latine nouns but to one or two ending thus viz. ituum itiorum It irketh me very grievously that it should be said to some of those to whom belongeth the heading of those two imperfect words whose hearts are right for Church and Country against all obstructions that exitus will be exitium but as touching any amongst them who are inveterate rancorous and deadly enemies to the tranquillity peace and splendor of our