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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96766	VVithers remembrancer or, Extracts out of Master Withers his booke, called, Britains remembrancer. Worthy of the review and consideration of himselfe, and all other men.; Britain's remembrancer. Selections	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3186; Thomason E1121_1; ESTC R204099	4,796	15

VVithers REMEMBRANCER OR EXTRACTS Out of Master WITHERS his Booke CALLED Britains Remembrancer Worthy of the review and consideration of himselfe and all other men LONDON Printed in the Yeare of our Lord 1643. TO THE READER THere flie abroad cetaine Pamphlets in the world being Extracts of a Poem written by Mr George Withers called Britaines Remembrancer As if there were something in them to tell the world from the propheticall provisions of the Author of such things as are now to befall it It were yet some happinesse unto us if that Author on whom the severer sort of men look with some admiration might with his book be brought forth to let us see the just and true measure of our condition at this time which he hath there as prophetically as any thing else set downe with such remedies and advices as he thinks necessary for our recovery this were to give us some hopes yet to out-live our misery But since wee cannot for the present command him being in a posture of warre above our power wee shall however become master of his booke out of which some materiall passages are extracted That tanquam ex ungue Leonem wee may discover the sense of so popularly Magistrall an Author With mee I must confesse they prevaile c. Withers his Remembrancer OR Extracts out of Mr WITHERS his Booke called BRITAINS REMEMBRANCER WIth mee I must confesse they prevaile the more because I have had a great opinion of the pietie and spirituall irradications of the man otherwise to mee unknowne and especially of that worke of which this is part and in which he seemes to be warranted by a speciall calling to speak boldly of great matters and to censure where none else dares give any judgment What therefore he sayes is not to be contemned or else wee must as the Scripture commands us try the spirit whether it be of God Now since it is knowne that for a long time Master George Withers hath command of a Troope of Horse in the service of the Parliament and beene quartered at Maid-stone in Kent an act in the first motion and progresse of it without the commands of the King and expresly against his Proclamations since and hath executed some things in the County beyond the sense of his book at least and needing the omnipotencie of Peters chaire to make not barbarous words but actions good and to reconcile what hath beene there done and here written It is not only convenient but necessary for the advantage of the cause and other Christian respects that Master George Withers who hath given to many weake ones publique offence and scandall doe as publiquely and as becomes a man of such a sanctified and religious profession informe the world upon what grounds of conscience or reason he first undertooke such a charge And I have warrant to presse this upon him not only from mine owne scruples but his owne invitation expressed in the latter end of his Premonition to his booke If you find ought else that may be doubted of or for which I may seeme reproveable or needing advice Let mee christianly and charitably receive intelligence thereof And if I make not a reasonable defence I will humbly acknowledge and give the best satisfaction for my errors that I am able When this shall be done I shall be either converted or confirmed In either of which I shall adhere to truth in whose defence if I perish it shall be to mee a victorie In Pag. 195. 196. c. He is so large in reprehending of the seditious and schismaticall wayes of separation and commends so justly the heretofore happy government of the Church by Bishops that the Reader is to be referred thither for M. Withers opinion therein The reproofes he bestowes on London p. 207. 208. c. Are likewise too large t● be here insisted I desire the Londoners to have recourse to his book The Church revenues for the present need 218. a. b. Sequestred are to stand a while instead Of Temp'ralties And some themselves perswade That they will now be lay-possessions made But God forbid for he that shall bereave The Church of her inheritance doth leave A curse upon his children which shall stay Untill his whole descent be worne away In Pag. 219. a. He hath a proper Elogie of the vertues of that illustrious Princesse and her issue the Queen of Bohemia That illustrious Dame To whom I owe ev'n more then all I am Whether then is it fit the Parliament should trust him with a Troop of Horse lest if Prince Rupert should come into Kent he might be as good as his word 225. a Neither art thou solely He speaks of the Nation Despised and dishonour'd by thy folly But in those mischiefs which thy sinne procure Thy Prince a disadvantage doth endure His vertues are repulsed from that height Of Honour whereunto assur'd thy might Wer 't thou lesse wicked He whom as our eyes We seemed as but yesterday to prize He for whose absence we so much a In Spain complain'd And wep't pray'd vow'd whilst he remain'd Divided from us and at whose return We did so many piles to ashes burn Even he hath not received that content From us which he expected and we meant Some spirit of dissention loos'd hath bin Some sparks of discord have bin hurled in And blowne among us so that he and wee Not so well pleased in each other bee As both desire And should this flame encrease God knowes how much it would offend our Peace My Prince and Countrey 226. a. b. though perhaps I be Not much to them are both most deare to me ☞ And may I perish if to safe my life I would betwixt that couple nourish strife Or if for one of them I that would say Which might from others due take ought away to have power and ayme 226. b. To touch the Lords annointed I disclaime I have no warrant neither know I ought To reprehend him for although I mought For as my Princes faults I may not blaze So I am also bound as there is cause To justifie what vertues I doe heare To be in him and see in him appeare The Generall faults of others mine owne eyes Have seen and that 's enough to warrantize A generall reproofe but never yet In him beheld I what did not befit His person or his place much have I seen That rather hath an honour to him been And whatsoe're shall mutter'd be of some There reigns not any King in Christendome Of whom there was divulg'd a better fame Dr whom a royall Throne so well became And what is lately done to blot the storie Of his deserts or to deface his glorie Or wherewithall can any tongue traduce His actions which admitteth no excuse What if the people have expected more From hopes by them conceived heretofore Then yet succeeds What can from thence redound To prove his vertues and his wayes unsound Why may not this effect arise