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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64181	Mercvrivs Aqvaticvs, or, The vvater-poets ansvver to all that hath or shall be writ by Mercvrivs Britanicvs	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T481; ESTC R8378	14,007	22

eares that may have wherewithall to suffer Martyrdome long meales long graces to help digestion but there are so many of the Committee for Religion that watch over them that 〈◊〉 spaire of 〈◊〉 when the great serviceable Rabbie of the 〈◊〉 cannot be heard 〈◊〉 now when Sir Benjamin Rudyeard is turn'd Assembly man too I never look to sée our Church 〈◊〉 according to the ancient Primitive Form of Doctrine and discipline which is the same with the 〈◊〉 Religion her established 〈◊〉 I am informed that Gentleman 〈◊〉 Parsons 〈◊〉 with Brownisticall 〈◊〉 and cuts Episcopacy with sanctified-presbyterian 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 in holy water of the lake Lemannus There are 〈◊〉 bottles come lately to the new Assembly and more are dayly expected from the Close Committees own 〈◊〉 for the shaving from the face of the Church those superfluous excrements of Cathedrall Lands height Mounsieur Salmasius if the Schollers spell his name right Aquaticus tells you that the Parliament did give power to Marshall and Nye to contract with the Scots by new Covenants for the ruine of the English Nation if God prevent not For shal we thinke the Scots are such fools if they conquer to return back againe to their Whig and Scotch porredge Frost and snow and little wood from good fetherbeds gallant houses English beef ale and broad-cloth No Britanicus if that day once come the Brotherhood shall find their Brethren of Scotland will be the Elders and carry away the Land And is not this a more treasonable Act to destroy Trading advance Plundering and ruine the whole Nation only to secure the five Members which yet you see cannot escape Gods vengeance from a legall tryall rather then that of furthering an honest modest petition for peace Is not this to give power for licence and to take away all power and Lawes too as your party in all places where they come doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they only give power to them to impose new Covenants to another Nation but to contrive and suggest them as no Councell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the world ever did to such contemptible inferiours especially to those that are so little Scientificall 〈◊〉 knowing men But I must-tell my Merchants of London though they 〈◊〉 greedily trade into Scotland for the present whatsoever their 〈◊〉 and Lecturers tell them the Cavaliers are farre better to trade with and converse with then your Round heads and have a thousand times lesse barbarisme and inhumanity But they will beleeve this too lat He tells you of the Parliament that hath ordered the Assembly that have odrered their Deacon Sir Harry 〈◊〉 to carry Letters to Zurick and to 〈◊〉 up the 〈◊〉 and other parts that in case the Synod should be dissolved they may have a place assigned them to sit in safety to determine of rules that shall never guide the Brownists and Anabaptists two dayes together And it seems 't is high time when they have sent their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by their two Legats a Latere to the Family of Love their Brethren in Scotland when old Fines the Publican who hath sate so long at the Receipt of Custome so excellent at the contriving and managing a Rebellion as also at an 〈◊〉 of more contribution to the common Councell and a very worthy Patriot at a Project of Publick Faith Land in Ireland Newcastle Coles and Excise now begins as much to despaire of the successe of the Cause as of freeing Nath Fiennes or getting Goodwin that Arch-Socinian to be admitted into the New Assembly He tells you of Leslyes Warrants for transporting his fellow Rebells Reader this is Lesly the same man still who though he were honoured by His Majesty with the title of an Carle most unlike a Souldier and a Gentleman basely and ingratefully drawes his sword against his Prince to whom he was so obliged for his favour and Pardon He tells you of the Covenant Lesly administers to all that come over for you must know it was the old policy still to swear them for the 〈◊〉 Religion and it was long since 〈◊〉 on at the Cabinet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Sir Gilbert Gerards Parlour at Harrow o th' Hill that Brownisme be not named yet till the 〈◊〉 be a little more out of their 〈◊〉 by companying together and having Conventicles together where the Candle sometimes most unfortunately is put out and by bringing extemporary nonsense and Blasphemy in fashion to the dishonour of all Religion and the contempt of Common-Prayer but the Covenant begins I Ananias Bodkin resting fully assured that His Majesty labours to preserve His two Kingdoms of England and Ireland from ruine by Lawfull and 〈◊〉 courses will endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England to let up a new nothing not yet hatched at the Close Committee nor yet thought of by the assemlly or any Reformed Lecturer against all the forces now raised by Commission from his Majesty because they fight for the true Protestant Religion Lawes and Liberties and I will doe my utmost to destroy the Peace and quietnesse of this Kingdome of England by robbing fireing pillaging plundring killing and destroying Aquaticus 〈◊〉 a great Victory Sir William Waller had upon us at Basing house whence he carried no lesle then forty or fifty carts of our Wounded prisoners in Triumph and no lesse then foure or five hundred more dead Which made the Trained Bands so willing to returne home that they might proclaime the cowardise of the Cavaliers and the Valour of Sir William with weeping eyes to their Wives and Children And yet Aulicus conceits that they had the day though you carried home the men in Carts I know not how to distinguish upon daies and 〈◊〉 but I think it is not usuall to conquer and be routed both at a time but this is not the first Victory they have given thankes for witnesse Edge-hill Brainceford and 〈◊〉 three places in which they were 〈◊〉 beaten into a day of 〈◊〉 He tells you of wise Sir William 〈◊〉 Letter to the Irish Commanders to leave fighting and erpounded it as seriously as the Assembly will doe the Covenant or M. Marshall did this piece of Scripture The good man is perished out of the earth at the hideing of 〈◊〉 Pym where he did not as he ought divide the 〈◊〉 Scripture from the Apochrypha but tyed the Text and Sermon both together which was no Sabbaths exercise to the Auditors patience He tells you of the Letters which the Irish commanders returned to Sir William which because Britanicus hath printed according to Sir Williams Copy which he sent to the Parliament and not according to that which was sent to Sir William I shall forbeare to trouble my selfe and the Reader by making the man here eat his own words This piece is so extreame dull and heavk that t is a taske unfit for a Schooleboy to reply to But you must pitty the mans heavinesse for alas he tells us his Wit run all