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country_n	great_a	king_n	subdue_v	1,395	5	9.5973	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96775	A suddain flash timely discovering, some reasons wherefore, the stile of Protector, should not be deserted by these nations, with some other things, by them very considerable. It was first made visible, the fourth day, after the author heard it reported, that the Lord Protector, had waved the title of King. / By Britans remembrancer.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3195; Thomason E1584_3; ESTC R204088	37,311	75

can be made Whereto his free assent shall not be had And Really refusall he doth make In Christian prudence and for Conscience sake That he may give no cause of those Offences Suspitions Scandals and ill consequences Which may ensue And whereof Honest men Are much affrayd Why did he suffer then So long time in Debatings to be spent Since he at first discovered what was meant And did not interdict them to proceed That had been a dishonourable deed For in so doing he should have prejudg'd The Parlament them disimpriviledg'd And thereby some Experiments have lost Which are more worth than twice the time they cost Beside the matter is of too much weight Each way to passe till ballanced aright And you have heard it said what those men are Who Judge a Cause before the same they hear Thus far t is well But will he not at last When some few more fit Complements are past Accept what 's offer'd what he did is known But what he will do cannot be foreshown And we shall wrong Him as he should the State Have injur'd if we him prejudicate We may conjecture And if I may give My Judgement by the Symptoms I perceive He never will accept it till he shall By Faith and Reason be convinc'd in all And ev'ry Scruple which this day offends His Conscience or dissatisfies his Friends Beyond which he that ought would move him to Doth what no wise or honest man should do And would not care though he were quite destroy'd So his own Lust and Will might be enjoy'd If so then me he hath not yet deceiv'd In any thing which I of him believ'd Since first I heeded by what Point he steers What Rock on this hand what on that appears What most men are with whom he hath to do And why few know which way he means to go His Foes though with his Bullocks they have plow'd Have got nought thereby whereof to be proud And as I live I am thereof as glad As therefore many others will be sad And if I were as I have been a Boy I should make Squibs and Bonefires now for joy As many would have done had he compli'd With their desires whose Offer is deni'd For in his condiscending to be King He could have been at best no greater thing Than other Earthly Princes But hereby He may ascend unto a Soveraignty Which raiseth him nine Orbes above their Sphear To be inthroned where Immortals are And me it hopefull makes to see that Age Which Britains genius did long since presage In that Prediction wherein was among Some other things this following distick sung A King shall willingly himself unking And thereby grow farr greater than before For now fulfilled seemeth in effect What that vaticination did predict Although there should a Power elswhere reside To bring to passe what is by him deni'd Victorious Cromwell thou hast herein gone Beyond thy self and such an Act hast done As few or none in this or forraign Climes Have equalled in any former times A self-denial like this none but He Could teach who that he might our pattern be The Thrones kingdoms of this world did slight When he was born up thither where he might And did behold them spreading forth to view All their Inchanting pleasures false or true And from him onely could that grace proceed Whereby thou dost perform so brave a deed Thou often hast deserved Mural-Crowns For taking Castles with high walled Towns And making in subjection to thy powers Great Cities fortifi'd with Walls and Towers To thee for brave Achivements on the Maine The chief of Navall Trophies doth pertain Triumphant Laurell to adorn thy brows To thee is due for giving ovethrows To dreadfull Armies that had else inslav'd Thy Country which God by thy sword hath savd Thou hast subdued Kingdomes and great Kings Whereby their Crowns their Scepters all things Belonging to such Conquerors are thine As truly as the Clothes I wear are mine Yet these are slight and petty Foes compar'd To some with whom thou secretly hast warr'd And for those Conquests thou I hope dost carry A Tablet with a secret Honorary Whereby thy vertues fully be rewarded With Trophies of most worth though lest regarded These wayes thou wert Victorious heretofore And I will mention one great Conquest more By few observed Thou hast stood the Shock Of malice and detraction like a Rock On which the waves and billows of the Main Have spent their strength and foam'd out rage in vain I very often have observ'd the fell Feirce raging and three headed dog of Hell With his three double rows of teeth assay To tear thine honour and thy pow'r away With his foule tongues bespattering thy fame To turn thy blooming honour into shame I 've seen this Cur oft dog thee in the dark In hope to bite thee when he durst not bark And I have heeded by what sacred Charms Thou hast been hitherto preserv'd from harms This Helhound thou hast tam'd without so much As giving him a crust a spurn or touch Meerly by meekness and as passing by With disregard of causlesse injury And now he sometimes fawns on thee and those Who are thy friends and snarleth at thy foes As if he were appeas'd which I believe Is but a cunning dog trick to deceive And yet among those victories which lye Most visible unto the vulger eye This thy last conquest merits admiration Beyond the rest And with perseveration If thou maintain the same as thou maist do By his help who hath aided hitherto Thou hast thereby a pledge that God will never Forsake thee but thy guardian be for ever Thou hast already scap'd the best tride snare That Sathan or his agents can prepare For 't was the last of those temptations which He practis'd by our Saviour to bewitch And as when that grand-tryall had an end His Angels did forthwith on him attend Rejoycing in his conquest so will too For thine all thy most faithfull servants do Thou hast thereby so strengthned all their hands So cheered all their hearts throughout these lands Who prayd or feared for thee in this tryall That thou of nothing now canst have deniall Wherein their love may serve thee and they shall More fortifie thee than a Brazen wall More comfort thee than ought that can be had From any Title that the world shall add And thou at last shalt finde thou dost not lose One grain of what thou lately didst refuse By that refusall for thou shalt have more If not in kind in value than before Yea peradventure that in specie too When qualified no offence to do And when it hath been prov'd whereto thy mind VVithout dissimulation is inclin'd For t is not meer negation of that title VVhich is thy Test since that availeth little One way or other save as unto that VVhich brought it hath unto dislike of late Or as it may concern some past transactions VVhich have occasioned dissatisfactions In many of

this Nation or as thou Mayst scandalize them by thine actings now But that wherein thy reall proof will be Lockt from mens eys lyes hid with God and thee And whatsoever thou resolv'st upon Will either Well or else not well be done As unto those things they relating are Which unto God and Thee alone appear The washing of th' Assyrian in the water Of Jordan was but an indifferent matter Till made the sole condition of his Cure And doubtlesse had not that been in his pow'r He had been Cleans'd without it David's sin In Numb'ring of the People lay not in That simple Act but in the secret Pride And Disobedience which did then reside Within his Heart And when it shall appear That Thou from Guiltiness art that way clear And hast repented all those Humane failings Which have in ought obstructed thy Prevailings Then shall the gift-refused neither be A Scandall unto Others or to Thee Although accepted when thou hast resisted So far as Grace and Reason have assisted For should the Pow'r-Coordinate with thine O're-pow'r thee so that thou thereto incline Consenting to their Motives at the last Thy Conscience bearing witnesse that thou hast Complied there withall rather by force Than Choise to keep bad things from being worse Or if by strength of Reason swayd thou art To that Acceptance thou hast done thy part And shalt by yeelding pass another Trial As honourable as is this Denial Thou shalt be safe from all that was portended Shouldst thou by Levity have condiscended Or tempted been by Self-ness to forgo That Title thou hast owned hitherto And wilt be free from blame what ever shall Hereafter by the Change thereof befall For nothing shall amisse to thee succeed By what is not Thine but anothers deed No Reason bindeth any to withstand What Pow'r and stronger Reason doth command And when perhaps too God his ayde withdraws From thy assistance in this dubious cause To bring on them what 's due for their offence Who trust their own Wits more than Providence This I expresse here not to leave a Gap Whereby thou may'st from Just Resolves escape For God will find it out if there be ought To such a purpose lurking in thy thought But that thou may'st not fall into a Snare By things which in themselves Indifferent are Nor good nor evill but as unto that Which may be good or Evill they relate And to preserve thine Honour among those Who shall perchance their Expectations lose By what may come to passe yea to prevent That which may thereof be a Consequent To thee disserviceable I am bold To tell thee what my Muse to me hath told Which dictates otherwhile in Slighted rimes That which doth much concern these present times And would it may be had it not been Mine Suppos'd have been an Off-spring more divine But I my Musings now to those will bend Who may perhaps mistrust what I intend Although I have by this Anticipation Presented that unto consideration Which may be profitable if revers'd His purpose be on Tearms before rehears'd Yet least I may with one hand be suspected To pull down what the other had Erected I will not smother ought which I shall finde May justly fortifie him in the minde By him profest untill to drive him out Of his Resolve Those Reasons may be brought Which will be stronger lest some should surmize He without Cause deni'd what he denies Or lest my late Rejoycings may appear As Reasonlesse as many think they were My gladnesse of it flow'd from no respect Unto my self or fears of an effect By Kingship which my profits might impair For I have that way likelihoods more fair Than I have now if nothing it occasions To break our Peace at Home or by Invasions From Foes abroad nor can I scandal'd be Thereby through ought which will reflect on me But I rejoyced in it for the sake Of Him who did this Title undertake And for their sakes who Acted and Enacted Things whereby possibly may be contracted Great Scandals or which may a new expose My Country to be spoiled by her Foes For these and such respects as these together With what may be again transferred hither My Heart that was through fear of them grown sad Became through hope of their prevention glad For what a black Scene should we here have seen How many greeved hearts would here have been Had our Protector either been estranged From what he was or seem'd to be so changed As lightly to forgo his interest In that wherewith he had been so much blest Or should by others have been so deluded As to let that upon him be obtruded Which He himself disclaim'd and may bring back A King upon us with his Pedlars Pack Of Vanities which have been by this Nation Rejected by a solemn protestation And which are Trinckets as unseparable From most Kings as is from a Fool his babble For there is nought more likely in to bring Him that 's expelled then to make a King At this time and to make on that accompt Which is design'd that Title paramount Nor can there be for what our Foe intends A better ground-worke laid by all his friends These things I feared and my soul foresees That all those things may creep in by degrees Which to the Kingdomes of this World pertain Which may inslave the Saints of God again And which may in a short time reinvest With that pow'r which impowred Antichrist Unlesse it by his Mercy be withstood Whose wisdome can from Evil bring forth Good These things I fear'd and if a Parlament Can make a King which may these fears prevent Him and his Nobles if it can so bind That we may be secured in this kind And keep our Sov'raign and these Nations free From scandals which occasioned may be I should not only yeild on that condition To make a King but beg one by Petition Redouble that rejoycing which appear'd When of what was resolved I first heard And make my heart the first step whereupon He might set foot to mount up to his Throne Yea sing a Panegyrick in their praise Who mov'd it that should long out-last my daies We look for such a Government as shall Make way for Christ not that fantastical Fifth Monarchie whereof some people dream And Conquer would an Earthly Throne for him With Carnal weapons But that present here He may so be and so to reign appear As he hath promis'd and that Righteousness And Truth may ev'ry Throne on Earth possess According to that measure of his grace Which is apportion'd to this earthly place His Highness hath made progress in a path As far forth toward it as any hath Since Christ ascended if the Depths and Heights The Rugged passages and Narrow Streights Consider'd be through which his March he makes To bring to end the Work he undertakes He must now pass a Rock which will require An Ingeneer with Vineger and fire And cut a Passage which as by a