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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96785	Vox pacifica a voice tending to the pacification of God's wrath; and offering those propositions, or conditions, by the acceptation, and performance whereof, in some good measure, a firme and continuing peace may be obtained. It is directed to the King, Parliaments, and people of these islands: By Geo. Wither Esquire, (a commander in this war) heretofore their unheeded remebbrancer [sic] of plagues and deliverances past; and their timely forewarner of the judgments now come. He hath disposed it into six books, or canto's, whereof foure onely are contained in this volumne; and the other deferred to be hereafter published, as there shall be cause.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3210; Thomason E1242_1; ESTC R202399	111,848	215

weather Else up and down still wrestlesly are borne And by these foolish Fires ev'n as you see By shining-vapours rising in the night Mis-led from safe high-waies poore people be To fall in Pits and Ponds by their false light So these and other have by their delusions Brought on these Nations mischieves and confusions And these confusions not alone befall The Civill State but have disord'red so Your Discipline Ecclesiasticall That Church affaires are out of order too Each one sets up their private Idoll there That man contends for this this man for that Some would have new things some for old things are Some would have somthing but they know not what Some care not what they have and some there be That would have nothing which might them confine In doing or believing but live free In ev'rie thing a perfect Libertine And most in such a posture do appeare As if the Towre of Babell raising were Some to no Congregation will repaire In which their duties are extemporarie As if because some call vaine bablings praier No man possest that guift in ordinarie Some do abhorre Set-Formes as if they thought The Spirit whereby they were first indighted Dispis'd the words which by it selfe were taught If more then once though with true zeale recited Some care not how GODS Fields are over-grown With Briars and Thornes some others are so strict That for his Vineyards they no place will owne But those from whence all weeds and stones are pickt As if they for a Church allowed not What hath a scarre a wrinkle or a spot A Militarie-Church was well exprest In ancient Hieroglyphicke by the Moone To shew that when her light was at the best And when her brightest glorie she puts on Some shadowes or some Waynings will declare That in this world she hath not her perfection And that the Sun from whom her beauties are Conveigheth light unto her by reflection Somtime that Sun doth hide his face away Lest men ascribe to Her what is His due Somtime her proper motions her convey Too high or els too farre beyond the view Of private-spirits And somtime from sight Earths Globe and somtime Clouds obscure her light Which many not consid'ring are offended Without a cause and indiscreetly marre That Beauty which to polish they pretended And 'twixt her Members raise intestine warre Some Weeds and Corne are in the blade so like That many Weeders have deceived bin And oftentimes good corne away do pick And make the crop at harvest very thin A spotlesse Church or perfect Disciplines Go seek at None-such For they are not found In any place between the Tropick-Lines Or any where upon this earthly Round Though some have shaped modells in their braine Of that whereto they never shall attaine On speculations these have doted so Which their own Fancies forme that they have lost The Body of Religion and let go That Forme thereof which must enshrine the Ghost And he who being in the flesh believes The soule of Worship can retained be Or known without a Forme himselfe deceives Yea others with himselfe deceiveth he And wanders restlesse in perpetuall motion In quest of empty-shades and to pursue Each flitting dreame and ev'ry changing Notion Which comes within his intellectuall view Till Pride upon his Fantasie begets High thoughts of his own light and in his brest Stirres up and kindles those distemper'd heats That keep the mind and body without rest And then perchance he to a meteor growes Which Fooles to be a Starre a while suppose But if you mark such well their new-borne-blaze Is quickly out and you shall see ere long Some Evills follow whereof they were Cause As well as Signes And take you this among Your Notes that when your Marches furious be Like Jehu's in Religions reformation And so pursu'd as if you said Come see Our zeale for GOD that but for ostentation Or for your own advancements you become So zealous and that when you execute GOD's mandates Jehu-like you for the same Shall tast of his false zeale the bitter-fruit That other men may learn his will to do For his owne sake and with due meeknesse too No few disosters had prevented bin If in the Worke now doing you had learn'd With whether part 't was fittest to begin Which might in GOD's own works have been descern'd For though this World in worth inferiour be To Man and though the Body be below The soule in value yet created He The meanest of these first And that may show How men should work For had Man been created Before the World or had the Soule been made Before the Body where had they been seated To exercise the Faculties they had Though noblest works should first be thought upon Sometime a meaner work should first be done A Common-wealths blest being doth depend Vpon the Church the Churches Reformation You therefore principally should intend And yet your zeale may merit commendation Though to reforme the Civill-government You first begin and waive a while the other If there shall happen some such accident As hinders the reforming both together Else peradventure while you are contriving Your Forme of Discipline there may begin A mischiefe not alone of Peace depriving But of a Countrey to professe it in And so with you it hath almost succeeded Because this freedome was not timely heeded For had you tim'd and ordered aright The Civill-Part and therewith brought along The Church-Affaires as by degrees you might The Work had prov'd lesse grievous and more strong Or had true Prudencie directed Zeale First to reforme some things pertaining to The safe well-being of the Common-weale Both had not been at once distracted so And yet in this the wisdome of the State Deserves no check but rather that Defection Throughout the Land which doth irregulate The Works in hand and keep them from perfection By multipli'd Obstructions and sometime By streightning and necessitating them For such is your corruption and your folly So false and hypocriticall you are So brutishly profane and so unholy Though you Religious-Nations would appeare That had your temp'rall grievances been eas'd And all those Priviledges been secur'd For which to be at cost you yet are pleas'd And many Deaths and dangers have endur'd Most would have hazarded nor life nor limb Nor Goods nor paines the Church to vindicate From her enthralments but to sink or swim Had left her in a deplorable state And therefore GOD permitted the pursuit Of Counsells which have brought forth bitter fruit Ev'n as a Worldling who hath spent his dayes In carnall Pleasures and hath partner bin With lewd Companions in their wicked wayes And in the practice of each crying sin When he doth feele the stroke of some disease Portending Death and that the self-same houre Those horrours on his conscience also seize Which threaten Soule and Body to devoure Desire of Life and fearfulnesse to die Distracts him so that heat once for aid Both from Physitians and Divines doth crie And having

bear Their sufferings well when they are so opprest If thou who know'st what comforts do attend A calme and patient bearing of the Crosse What blessing crownes the Meek mans latter end And with what riches GOD repaies his losse Art so inrag'd no marvell if nigh mad Some others grow who are as greatly pain'd And want th'experiments which thou hast had Whereby the wrongs may better be sustain'd Is this the power is this the strength of him Who somtimes thinks he could the world contemn Is this a time for thee who hast made show Of better hopes to scramble with the Boyes For Nuts and Apples wilt thou struggle now With Fooles and Slaves for bables and for toyes Contend thou not with Children in their play Nor strive thou their vaine longings to possesse From Micah take thou not his Gods away Lest they may bring thee to unhappinesse Endeavour what is comly to be done To reap the profit which to thee belongs Vse prudent meanes Oppressors pawes to shun Or to remove or mitigate thy wrongs And to that purpose having done thy best Be patient and to God commit the rest And to preserve this temper warie be Above all other times when their despight And envie shall be exercis'd on thee Who think the Publike-Trust belongs of right To so much by the yeare These have so long Inslav'd the people that themselves disgrac'd They do conceive if to do right or wrong Inferiours in Authority be plac'd And these have lately censur'd it unfit That with so reverend a thing as Wealth Such strangers now as Honesty and Wit Should called be to serve the Common-wealth Or lend a helping hand to save what they Have took a course to ruine many a day These value men according to the Rent Their Fathers left them and these cannot brook Without vexation and much discontent That notice should of other worth be took And therefore if it must be as these will If your besotted people have a minde To be oppressed to be fooled still And to be kept perpetually blinde Straine not thy selfe to helpe unlade an Asse That loves his burden nor his drivers trouble But let them and their silly creature passe Till they have made their scornes and mischiefs double For he that meddles with them nothing gains But kicks and evill language for his pains Cast quite behind thee what of their despite Or injuries to thee hath been reported Their open hate with secret love requite For evill let not evill be retorted Fret not thy self although thou see them jeer And Thee and thy Authority deride For most to whom their envy shall appear Will laugh to scorne their folly and their pride And as thou soughtst it not nor dost yet know By whom that seeming-honour was confer'd So whether thou continued be or no In thy imployments give it no regard For thou shalt sit ere long above their hate And their Commissions shall be out of date While thou remain'st amongst them do thy best To side with innocence and do not there Of wicked prophanations make a jest Curse those that curse or swear at those that swear Abuse not thy Authoritie or Place To favour knaves or put good men to sorrow Plead not for law this day in one mans case What for another shall be none to morrow Vse not thy power thy neighbours to enslave As manie do who bettet things pretend And when thou chargest others care to have That they against their Oathes do not offend Take heed thou mak'st more conscience of thine own Then others of their oathes have lately showne For some of those who fluently can preach Vpon the Bench as tho if need had bin They could the Parson of the Parish teach To do his dutie in reproving sin Even some of those at that time countenance Known Malefactors there indicted for Crimes then in charge and shamelesly advance In practice what in words they do abhorre When there they have inveighed at abuses Occasion'd by permitting an excesse Of licenc'd and unlicen'd tipling-houses And their suppression urg'd with earnestnesse Instead of what they would appear to do They seem to put downe one and set up two These are not pleas'd that an observing-eye Is plac'd among them And perhaps to prove Thy patience these their power ere long will trie But Thee to no distemper let it move This is a time of suffring and though men Are instruments each other to correct Yet GOD himselfe employes them Suffer then Without repining what he shall inflict Although thy foes oppresse and friends forsake thee Let no ill tydings make thy heart affraid From thy first principles let nothing shake thee What ere against thee shall be done or said But further what to Publike-peace belongs And leave thou unto GOD thy private wrongs For though it may be granted that if here Thou should'st illustrate all things which concern Thy usages but onely in that Shire Where thou hast liv'd thy Readers might discern In what condition manie others are Who truly serve the Publike yet take heed Lest following thine own suffrings over-far May tediousnesse or sleighting of them breed Be watchfull too lest by much musing on Thy personall affronts a selfe-respect May cause mis-censures to be cast upon The Publike Justice to her dis-respect For men opprest and griev'd in an extreme Look not alone with sullennesse upon Those Parties that are thought to injure them And on their own oppressions as if none Had borne the like but also as if cleare They from all blame in all their suffrings were And in a publike Grievance scarce a man Among a thousand searcheth out those things Which mis-befall so farre as they began To find the Fountaines whence the mischief springs Most men and thou among the rest for one Can spie out many others much to blame But few men heed what they themselves have done Whereby the Plague so generall became And whence soev'r it comes the Male-content Though in the Persons he the cause may find Fomes out his venome on the Government And to a change is presently inclin'd Whereas the mischiefe still the same will be Vntill there be a change in such as He. Ev'n some of you and manie is that some Who to the skies this Parliament have rais'd With whom it was almost a GOD become And such as never could enough be prais'd This Parliament in whose defence you stand Till all your pretions things are well nigh wasted Till warre hath marched quite through all the land Till bitternesse in all your sweets is tasted Till into pleces Families are torne Vntill with blood your wayes and streets do run Till Towns and Towers and Temples down are borne Till Prince and Peasant are almost undone Till Famine too beginneth to appeare Which in long Warfares bringeth up the reare This Parliament for which you suffer so And for whose preservation beare you would Ten times as much might you before-hand know What if it prosper'd not ensue there should Ev'n to

without Remedies And injure Strangers by their Franchises But also by mis-usage of their Grants And by their Pow'r do many times oppresse The poorest of their owne Inhabitants Enslaving them by wrongs without redresse For of those profits which conferred were As well their needy members to sustaine As decently that port and charge to beare Which to those Corporations do pertaine Most part is swallowed by a private purse Or spent in Feastings which is somewhat worse And when so bad a Corporation growes As to oppresse a Stranger or their owne He that their tyranny then undergoes Is irrecoverably overthrowne For to a Body-politike belongs No Soule And if no Soule what Conscience then And if no Conscience how can it of wrongs Be sensible when it had wronged men It doth consist of many and can raise The larger Bribe the sooner find a friend Or search out by what persons or what wayes It may him whom it profecures offend And which is worst when other enemies Time slaies This is a Foe that never dies Let therefore all your Bodies-Politike Lament their sins apart lest GOD destroy Those Priviledges which without desert And to the wrong of others they enjoy Among the rest let ev'rie Academ Lament apart till they are purged from Their great corruptions lest from out of them Your bane as from a poison'd Fountaine come For their pollutions one maine cause have bin Of all your present mischiefest yea from thence Proceeded not alone much of that sin Which hath desil'd these Isles But that offence And those divisions also which of late Have almost ruined both Church and State For there through want of prudent Government Good principles and pious education Your youth which were for knowledge thither sent Lost civill manners wit and reputation Thence was it that your Clergie-men became Such Roarers and such Tosse-pots as they were Their Life and Doctrine growne so much to blame Was first corrupted and perverted there There they were taught to fawne and flatter well For their preferment and how to become Fit Priests for Ahab Baal and … abel Or Pimps and Panders for the Whore of Rom●s GOD grant that for their sins they so may mourne That they to GOD and GOD to them may turne Let your Assembly of Divines ●●part Repent and mourne themselves examining What aimes what hopes what purposes what heart And what desires they to their meetings bring Let them consider whether none advances Traditions of their owne to be received And to be practis'd as Gods Ordinances Which are in truth not such to be believed Let them examine whether they do carrie A due respect to Christian-Liberty If they inforce those things as necessary Of which there is no true necessity And whether they have not removed hence What might have edifi'd without offence Let it be heeded whether they have care As CHRIST himselfe and his Apostles had What things the people and the times can beare E're they impose them lest they make them mad Instead of right reforming Let them trie Their spirits well and search if there be none Who dare pretend divine Authority For that which GOD commands not to be done Let search be made if any Discipline Hath been projected for a private end Or to advance a politike Designe Which needlesly weak Christians might offend Or which may causlesse jealousies increase Inlarge your troubles or deferre your Peace Let all their Brethren of the Clergie too In every Faction seriously repent And mourn apart This let them chiesly do Who look'd one way while they another went Let them consider whether they pretend not Great diligence and zeale to bring to passe That just and pious work which they intend not So much as that which therewith cover'd was Let them examine also if the while They cozen others others will not seek With falshoods their Deceivers to beguile And to requite their practice with the like Till all these Kingdoms and these Churches rue The pathes and vanities which they pursne For as they had designes upon the State Their aimes to further so have others had Designes on them whereby they have of late To wicked purposes advantage made Some to the Presbyterian-side adhere Some to your Independents But with those Who busiest in partaking do appeare Another Faction secretly doth close Which parts it selfe among them and thereby Spies out the strength and weaknesses of either Foments their quarrellings and doth comply As friend to one side yet is true to neither But covertly by means of those two Factions Increaseth publike dangers and distractions These by this craft have made the zeale of those On either side whose purposes are good The Kingdomes peace unheeded to oppose With such as openly the same withstood So that if Envie Avarice and Pride Whence sprung that Aconite that Clergic-bane Which hath your Clergie lately giddifi'd Shall not by penitence away be tane Your quarrells will perpetuated be And neither Church nor State nor Corporation Nor Families be from divisions free Now therefore in a true humiliation Let ev'ry one of them prepare his heart For his transgressions to lament apart Your Militarie-Men apart must mourne Aswell as these And therefore that they may With true compunction from their wayes returne Let them to heart their many failings lay Let your Commanders mourne for all those harmes Which have been suffred under their Commands By their neglecting of that Law of Armes Whereon the honour of a Souldier stands Let them bewaile the plunders rapes and murthers The Breaches of Lawes-morall and Divine The violences riots and disorders Commited tho of Di c And for their Avarice and their Ambition Whereby they do prolong your sad condition Let them not thinke that none so worthie are To be advis'd withall or of esteeme For Souldiery as they that boast and sweare Or arrogate to be what they but seem Let them not think they better may confide In Officers who have not so much braine To keep their legs from slaggering aside Then in a Souldier of a sober-straine Or that this War had e're the worse went on Had all been countenanc'd in their Command Who for the worke-sake ventur'd thereupon And did aswell as others understand The moderne-Discipline and therewith too Knew what the Greeks and Romans use to do Let them repent their treacherous complying With your professed foes their favour-showing To men suspected and their grace-denying Where be●ter trust and more respect was owing Let them be sorrie that the faithfulnesse Or at the least the prudence which they wanted Made publike charge and dangers to increase By Passes and Protections lightly granted And let their hearts of adamant and steel Be prick'd with such remorse and penitence That in themselves a loathing they may feel Of their inhumane spoiles and insolence Committed in that Countrey which hath bred them And on their friends who payed arm'd fed them Moreover let the Gentrie of the land Bewaile their many vanities apart The duties of their