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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

nigh he will not be comforted and will not depart till the most high shall behold to judge righteously and execute Judgement and when men will not believe that God is of perfect power then he sheweth his strength and amongst them that know it he maketh their Boldnesse manifest for indeed Truth is never ashamed to shew her face it is against her nature to be hidden or kept from the light Non ●mat verit●● angulos non ●i divers●ria placent but she is ever at home constant and ready to utter forth her self to such as seek unto her or will lend an care to her wise counsells the integrity of Truth is armed with such confidence as it dares speak and fears no reproof for the Divine sayth that Null●● reprehensor formida●dus est amatori ●eritati● Et ●ll● veritatis defensor esse debet qui cum rect●s●ntit loqui non me ●uit nec ●rubescit and the Humani●● could say Licet veritas in causa nullum patronum ●ut defensorem obtineat tamen per scipsum defenditur Nam magna est vi● veritatis quae contra omnium ingenia c●liditatem solertiam contraque fict●● omnium infidias se facile per seipsum defendit The contemplation of these things if it please your Majesty together with the strong operation of my Conscience doth still enforce me thus to expose my weaknesse to your Sacred censure but I confesse my Heart doth somewhat tremble Ne quid indecorum serm● meus resonet and it would afflict me much if my error and imbecility should be the least occasion to infringe or disparage the truth of that antient Adage Much experience is the Crown of old men and yet I am sure that the fear of God is their Glory and in regard of that I trust that I shall alwayes be as fearfull to offend as any man It is said that Audaces fortuna juvat but I desire that Truth Modesty may be my ushers into Favour and good Fortune if any attends me I have likewise learned that Sicut v●recundia laudabilis est in malo ita reprehensibilis est in bono bonum verò erubescere insipientis est And therefore I do not yet understand the reason why any of your Majesties Loyal and knowing Subjects that have still adhered to the truth by being the zealous and constant Assertors and Maintainers to their Power of all those good and wholsome Lawes both Ecclesiastical and Temporal that were in use and approbation in the time of your Majesties Royal and ever most blessed Father and in your prudent and pacifical Grandfathers dayes and have so deeply suffered for this their Fidelity should now admit of the least blush or be in any degree fearfull in the just vindication and applause of those religious just and beneficial Lawes or beat all ashamed to shew their reluctancy at the remissness of the true and due execution of the same But your Majesty is wise as an Angel of God and to your Divine discretion your loyal Subjects will religiously submit themselves and who is he that doth not much admire and praise the Lord of Heaven for your Majesties most rare and never heard of Clemency and Mercy wherein most superlatively you seem to exceed all the pious and potent Princes that ever lived before or in your dayes and whereby also beyond and above them all you come nearest to that glorious attribute of your Creator whose Power in specie you represent here on earth amongst us and whose mercy likewise is above all his works Your Majesty well knowes that by Mercy and Truth Iniquity is purged and that Mercy and Truth preserve the King and it is also not untruly said Quòd imperiū vi quod fit atrocius esse videtur quàm illud quod politia ●djungitur And yet as every good subject doth truly admire at your Majesties mercy even so is he well assured that your Majesty is truly and sufficiently instructed that Policy which anticipates Religion is too subtle to receive an approbation for good before the purest eyes of the Almighty God of Truth and this in all humility we likewise leave to your Majesties serious and religious contemplation And I am confident that it is a most transcendent joy and gladness to all your Majesties true Subjects and Well-wisheers to find your Judgement so surely setled both for Doctrine and Discipline in that truly reformed Religion so christianly professed and so lawfully established without intermission by a trine of your late most eminent Ancesto● for the same is so well digested into nutriment and hath made such a deep impression upon the hearts and consciences of most of the soberer sort of this our Nation as I believe that nothing but death it self can be able to expunge the prints thereof and I am as it were in a kind of extasie when my Fancy runs upon the conceit or the imagination of those ineffable and redundant rejoycings that the hearts of all honest and true bred Englishmen are at this present possessed withall when after so long bitter and rebellious Deviaons and so sordid prodigious and devilish Usurpations th●y be now so happy to behold the Royal Tribe of Judah so gloriously restored and so triumphantly advanced to the Regal Rights and most Illustrious Throne of their Royal Ancestors there to reign and flourish again in despite of Satan and all his envious instruments And when after so many miscellaneous ab●●rdities as have surreptitiously crept into the Church by means of the horrour confusion and deformity of the late disturbances We may now sensibly perceive the darknesse thereof so sorely felt to be dispelled the glorious light of truth shining forth in a splendid me●sure And seeing that Korah and hi● seditious company of Sectaries are in a manner swallowed up or vanished into nothing we may once again with comfortable Consciences and confident hearts expect to see and evidently to behold that sacred rod of Aaron to bud and blossome and to bring forth fruit afresh in due season which that it may the better be able to perform with the more vigor and sincerity I do h●mbly implore that the sweet influence of the dews of Heaven and of your Majesties good countenance and protection may continually and in abundant manner be shoured and diversly distilled upon the holy consecrated body thereof and the severall Members and Branches of the same and that they may soberly and religiously concurre and agree in such an Uniformity both of Doctrine a●d Discipline as shall most truly tend to the glory of God the honour and contentment of your Majestie the settling of a firm and constant Peace and Tranquility both in Church and Common-wealth the credi● and glory of their Divine profession the comfort and quiet of their Consciences and the Eternal Salvation of their Souls and Bodies which i● the summary intent and end of all true Religion Let us therefore remember the end and we shall not lightly do amisse and if I mistake it not

crucifie your King And had he dream't the Godhead was his Father Then shed his bloud he would have perisht rather But these did know the Father and the Son Were lawfull Monarchs of this Region By just succession and did make the Oath Of true Allegiance often to them both And their Successors yet they martyr'd one And forc'd the undoubted Heir from his Throne By which injustice they contend in vain To rob and kill their Soveraign once again A President beyond abomination And never heard of since the Worlds creation The Turk and Pope may lay the Bucklers by Scarce conscious yet of such base cruelty And therefore these flesh s●ends without compare In Antichrist may claim the greater share Such Cacodemons scarce were ever found In Affrick India or the Welk● round Whose bloudy base enchantments with outcries Proclaims their guilt to all posterities Whose iron stony hearts shall feel the fates Of all their sins as holy writ relates Whose Tyrannies shall tumble down and lye Prostrate on earth sans hope or remedy No rout nor rabble runs unto their aide The People will no longer be betraide With vizard false for now the time is come That Athal●ah's shall receive their doom That Davids tribe ●iumphantly may reign And Aarons sacred rod may bud again Yet let us only praise Johovah's power Who now in mer●y doth begin to showre His grace and love on such an Ethnick land So long hath stoop'd to the usurpt command Of Idols base with filth so overgrown Whom neither nature art nor law can own Whose treasons and exactions sprung from thence Renders them Tyrants void of common sense Whose damned projects and prophane desires May fear a doom as fierce as Sodom's fires Who●e horrid barbarous measure by them dealt Deserves more plagues than ever Aegypt felt Whose scourge the Devil would hardly undertake Were he not forc'd their Process for to make And who●e Religion had they power alone Would quite devest th' Almighty from his Throne No sin to Satan can be so coherent As murder of their King the Lords Vice-gerent But these have far endeavoured to excell In all their plots the Beelzebub of hell They outvied Lucifer whose highest aime Was with the Godhead but a share to claime But here their Soveraigns Kingdoms were too small To gorge these kites they must have life and all Because his Christian conscience was so loath To violate his Coronation oath And yield consent with wolvish Tyrants power The Church to rob and Common-wealths devo●● That painting proud Zidonian 〈◊〉 Just Naboth from his Vineyard did expell Spilling his bloud and yet upon pretence He had blasphem'd his God and Soveraign Prince But these o●e flowed in their outragious spleen Accursed Ahal and his bloudy Queen Enforcing most their freedoms to redeem Because they would not God and King blaspheme And made all feel their Tyrants raging rod That would not fight against their King and God Yet after all these bloudy-dy'd distractions This spawn of hell would justifie their Actions O horror never heard of damned Crue Can ever earth afford them vengeance due No sure there is decreed for such men A mansion dark in the infernal den Where they shall strongly guarded be about And dwell secure from being turned out Their Guardians there will constant be and ring In their sad ears the murder of their King And loyal Nobles Gentry and the rest Devour'd and to●n by that prodigious beast Be●●● in hell where Justice shall re●ound A just reward to every member round Where damn'd oppression of our royal race May spout sulphurious bloud into their face VVhere all the hellish mischiefs they have wrought Shall be revealed and to Judgement brought And execution as befits their sin Where torments endlesse ever more begin And where for all their jealousies and fears They shall have payment of their full arrears And yet if Grigg should misse of them his meed Tyburn again would wear a mourning weed Should it but I ose the guerdon of such Elves As would have all men Traytors like themselves That robb'd all Subjects of their goods and lands That durst withstand their devillish commands Who merit far more solid hempen frumps Than the poor senselesse sheeps and bullocks Rumps Hung up in figure where they pine untill The Saints they cypher do their rooms up fill O Lord that true repentance may prevent The just deserts of that mock Parliament Hath caus'd that name to scent as bad as hell Which yet in former Ages rellisht well And Oh that others might be struck with terrors And humbled for their sordid sottish errors The Lawyers purse deserves a sharp incision For acting Justice by Jack Cades Commission 'T is tenter'd law too rigid and too brief A lawlesse Traytor to condemn a Thief They 're none of Plowdo●s kindred nor of Cokes Such Doctrine's neuter unto all the books The Country Just asse Maior and Recorder How retrograde have they been out of order Intruding with the basest adulations To court Rebellion in her several statious But who at first refin'd these rural Wits Metropolis of all our frensie fits Th' Apostate Clergy needs must have remorse That us'd Religion like a stalking horse To drive on Faction with a dull designe The setled Hierarchy to undermine I hope they see that Schisme and fond division Hath made them emblems of the Worlds derision Deserve they not more than a moderate mulct That forg'd for Rome a season to insult On our Religion that was well before That hair-brain'd Rebels it in pieces tore When Presbyters nor Independents name Were no such pillars in our Churches frame All innovations both in Church and State Spring up too soon repented are too late A monstrous horrid wonder 't is to see That such as dare professe Divinity Should be with such a Lethargy beset The principle foundations to forget Such in a dark some labyrinth are lost As ●light the Father Son and Holy Ghost The Decalogue Lords Prayer and the Creed These new-come Teachers cannot say nor read Why do not these the word of God remain Beyond the fancies of a crazy Brain Hath not St. Paul such phantasies forbod As please the People and dishonour God Yet mock fasts and prophaner gratulations Were cryed up within these mole-eyed Nations To these the vulgar with devotion flocked Not once remembring God would not be mocked Or that their zeal of knowledge so bereft VVas but a loathsome sacrilegious theft Robbing of God of his divine applause To set a varnish on the Devils Cause For Truth did never yet approve it good To render thanks for shedding Christian blood Or when the wicked were resolv'd to sin They should with fasts and prayers first begin These were the Devils subtle sole inventions To mask and colour the obscaene intentions Of all his perjur'd agents plung'd in woe For temporizing and blaspheming so For calling darknesse light and bitter sweet For blazing Treasons without all regreet Who did not Conscience nor Allegeance tender But