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A96767	Salt upon salt: made out of certain ingenious verses upon the late storm and the death of His Highness ensuing. By which contemplative object, occasion is taken, to offer to consideration the probable neer approaching of greater storms, and more sad consequences. / By Geo. Wither, Esquire.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1658 (1658)	Wing W3188; Thomason E1827_2; ESTC R204101	33,469	72

occasion'd many vvwayes 'T is granted that it may be so in some But not till twice seven years elaps'd become Without apparent wrong And that abuses Are this way offer'd for which no excuses May be allow'd some thousands living are VVho if need be thereof can vvitness bear VVhen Publick-Debts have many yeers been due And Creditors compel'd for them to sue Till they in Labour time and other Cost The Principal and so much more have lost The Shameless Officers instead of paying Put off the Creditors with this harsh saying 'T is an old Debt as if men did them wrong To ask for that vvhich had been due so long And that the way to right them vvho implore Redress for old wrongs vvere to do them more Nay there is so much falsehood and deceit In many that they make poor men to vvait From day to day from morning untill noon From noon till night Delay still spinning on Till many dayes and nights and weeks are spent As if to grant their Suits they truly meant Although they from the first hour did intend To give them flat denial in the end And usually when they speak fair and smile They pick your Purse or cut your Throat the while They who are guilty of such things and know That I and thousands know them to be so Will say perhaps I Rail but 't is no matter To Rail is somewhat better then to Flatter None but a Fool with term it Railing when Reproaching Vices we conceal the Men. None but a Brazen-fac'd-Offender dares Exceptions take to that which truth avers And none but Mad-men cast reproach on those Who chide them to prevent their overthows I will proceed to further Demonstration Of those Signes which portend a Desolation Strange Prodigies which not so oft have been In this our Clymate are now often seen By Looks or Language it is hard to know VVhom you may now repute your Friend or Foe They who have but one Head have now two Faces And two Tongues Both their Offices and Places The Members of the self-same Body shift Though neither of them hath the others gift The Little Toe although to be a Thumb It hath been rais'd will not content become Unless it may obtain that both the Hands Shall be subjected under his commands The Head 's cut off and though that in its stead The Foot may have admittance to be Head It quite forgetting what it vvas before VVill scarce be pleas'd unless it may be more Nay from Ambition Vermine are not free That nasty Body-Lice would Head-Lice be Those wicked Spirits that engender strife Among us more then ever are now rife Stupidity Distraction Giddiness VVith such-like many thousands do possess And haunted now our Habitations are VVith vvorse Hobgoblins then the Faires vvere To their own Principles but very few Save Enemies and wicked Men are true Those Changes which but rarely did befal Are in these Islands Epidemical The Servant rides the Master goes on foot And is his Servant's Servant too to boot The silly School-Boyes do presume to teach The Foxes pray the foolish Geese do preach And most things are so turned topsy-turvy That what looks best methinks is very scurvy Not onely those Aegyptians among whom We live oppressors of us are become But Brethren also strive yea Saints with ire Are so inflam'd that they can out for fire From Heaven on those who onely disagree From them in things that but indiff'rent be And we are told by one whom I believe VVhat it portends where such things we perceive By Natural Experience we have found That Instruments which yeild a diff'ring sound And Tones are Voices though they various be In Consort do melodiously agree So we should likewise finde these Differences In Judgement whereat we now take Offences VVould make true Harmony if we to Him Did leave it who knows how to order them And took more care then most of us have done To set our own Tongues and our Hearts in tune Our Friends in Forraign Parts and here at home Each of the other jealous are become And should there be a Breach no Mortal knows VVhether our old Friends or our elder Foes VVould prove our greatest Enemies or whether They would to mischieve us joyn all together Our New Allies are likely at our need To be to us but an Aegyptian Reed Or like a costly Armour by whose weight VVe are more tir'd then guarded in the Fight And somewhat sounds from them unless Fame lies VVhich an unpleasing Sequel signifies These things at least united do foreshew That some foul Weather shortly may ensue GOD also stands with Arm outstretched still The Sentence of His Justice to fulfil If we consult but with meer Human Reason VVhat 's likely to succeed at such a Season As this appears by loss of him alone VVho lately was removed from the Throne VVhat Counsels and what Cost it will require To keep so many Irons in the Fire As he hath left unwrought and what it would Cost more to let them lie till they are cold If vve consider That he was of late The Middle and main Pillar of this State The Atlas as the Attribute that 's giv'n By one hath term'd Him of our British Heav'n And into what Confusions it is thought All things at his Decease might have been brought Observing therewithal without concluding Upon false Theses or our selves deluding In what apparent Dangers we are left By being at this time of him bereft It may portend although the Sun shines yet A Storm will rise before that he doth set And yet we ought not so much to reflect Our thoughts on Him that we those things neglect Which more concern us or suppose that we Depriv'd of any such advantage be As is conceived for he had not gone But that the work ordain'd for him vvas done GOD rais'd him by Destroying to prepare A vvay for that which he intends to rear And to that purpose qualifi'd him so As they were vvhom of old he call'd to do Such Services and as it seems intended No further use of him when that vvas ended He saw the Pow'r vvhich vvas on him bestowne Imployed in Designments of his own Then re-assum'd it and they had been troubled Perhaps who pray his Spirit might be doubled On his Successor if GOD should have said AMEN to that for which they blindly pray'd VVe likewise as of late that Parliament From vvhom he took the Supreme Government So Idolized that vve thought too little Confer'd upon him by the Soveraign Title VVhich GOD permitted him to undertake And what his Army pleas'd of him to make To govern us vve long'd for such a Thing As other Nations have forsooth a King VVith all the former burthensome Aray Of Kingship which vvas lately took away Though he as much as Flesh and Blood could do Refus'd it vvith some perseverance too And not content to make him parallel VVith all who are recorded to excel In Vertues by Prophane or Sacred Story But

Natures Law and by GOD's Word To us belongeth may be then restor'd For GOD Almighty to no other ends Such Seizures by a Soveraign Prince intends Save when on wicked Nations he bestowes A wicked Prince for both their overthrows If to GOD's ends he Quadrate his Desire He shall become far greater then his Sire He shall do nobler things then ere he did More he shall Conquer then he conquerred Affairs which he of whom vve are bereft Both difficult and in confusion left He shall reduce to Order not alone Subduing Men and Realms as he hath done But conquer also those destructive Evils Which would destroy all and triumph o'er Devils Nay though he had been either by his Youth By Flatterers pretending zeal to Truth Or if he by a carnal Hope or fear Of Danger had been tempted to adhere To those Designs which under fair pretences May to the Publick Rights do violences Yet if he shall conform to GOD and them Whose Love and Counsel he should not contemn It shall by much a greater honour do him Then Scepters Crowns and Thrones can add unto him Yea if upon the day of his Probation He to the Supreme Council of this Nation Assembled lawfully and duly chose Shall rather hearken then give ear to those Who flatter him in secret they shall never Forsake him but his Servants be for ever It shall on him confer more Happiness Then I in words abm able to express VVin him more Love then can by gold be bought Bring in more Joy keep Terrors better out And whilst on Earth he lives secure him more Then if each single Souldier vvere a score And were my Life of value to be pledg'd For that Adventure it should be ingag'd Contrary-wise if he their Lore pursue VVho will perswade him that all is his due VVhich he can grasp or shall instead of Law Imploy the sword to keep Free-Men in aw GOD will arise and none shall need to strive A Remedy by Violence to contrive For if we vvait on him and sit but still Submitting patiently unto his Will Our Chief Oppressors he will cause to be Their own destruction and so set us free Or make our Foes our Friends and back restore All that was taken from us heretofore By such means GOD in former times releast His People who by Tyrants were opprest As doth appear by that which did befal In Babylon and in th' Egyptian-thral VVhere not a man made use of hand or tongue To free himself by violence from wrong Except by Prayers which although offence It gives to some is lawful violence And by some such means when GOD's time is come Our Bondage we shall be deliver'd from GOD hath a thousand wayes to break the pow'r Of twentie thousand Tyrants in an hour Yet may prove many Tooles till he finds one Or moe to finish what he hath begun If this turn Edge he peradventure may Take those again that have been flung away VVhich being purged in Afflictions Fire VVill now be pliable to his Desire Their Actings vvhom vve now impow'red see VVill shortly evidently signal be Of what shall follow But I fear th' event VVill not produce a happy Settlement Till our Trustees Elected shall appear For Conscience-sake more then for Belly-Cheer Or such-like by-respects by which we seem To have our Birth-Rights in a mean esteem And till GOD likewise hath by Lot a Voice As well as men both in the future Choice Of our protectors and of others too Who must help act the work that 's yet to do But this will be no pleasing Proposition To Avarice Self-seeking and Ambition There 's yet a Signe to which things fore-exprest Relation have more signal then the rest Which if it shall continue as it hath Continu'd will add Vengeance unto Wrath And what vain hope soever we may cherish VVe with our Prince and Government shall perish GOD where this grows predominant despises All Vows Tears Prayers Cries and Sacrifices Fasts and Thanksgivings For he findes them all VVhere this remains but Hypocritical This is that Signe which did in ev'ry Age Those irrevocable Fore-Dooms presage That introduc'd the final Desolations Of all those mighty Empires Kings and Nations VVhereof there 's little left now but a Name Preserv'd among us by an empty Fame For our Examples This is that which shook Their Thrones their Crowns defac'd their Scepters broke Yet this Signe is upon us at this day From us with speed remove it LORD away You look as men expecting I should show VVhat Signe that is Good GOD what do you know If this you know not Do you not behold That Signe by what I have already told Are you asleep Friends have you neither Ears Nor Eyes that undiscern'd this yet appears Do you not hear the Groans of Men distrest The Loud-loud Cries of those who are opprest Nor what a sad Complaint attested stands This day by many hundreds of their hands Have you not heard how Pris'ners do complain Nor seen what Tears are poured out in vain By Widdows and poor Orphanes see ye not What vast Estates are by Oppressors got To their undoing who their Lively-hood Their Fathers Husbands or their Brothers Blood Lost for the Publick see you not how sad Poor souls they are how lean and how unclad Have you not heard a Merciless-Decree Condemn the Just and set the Wicked free Do you not see that hundreds of Petitions Have many yeers made known Mens sad conditions Without Compassion and what dis-regard Befalls them who have merited reward Observe you not that they who made complaints Ev'n unto those who are esteemed Saints Finde them as sensless of their saddest moans As men hew'd out of Blocks or carv'd in stones And that Hypocrisie in GOD's account The worst of sins is now grown Paramount Have you not seen Blood as if water spilt And Black Designes with Golden Colours guilt Nor many foul Offences made appear As if they meritorious Actions were Perceive you not who joyning are together VVho give and take Pow'r to and from each other To re-infringe our Christian Liberty And by pretending Zeal to Piety Or Civil peace advance the Interest Of our old Foe the Seven-headed Beast VVith his False Prophet and invented have A Grin both Soul and Body to inslave Perceive you not that Importunities VVhich made one from his Bed and Children rise And mov'd a Judge who fear'd not GOD nor Men Prevails not now as it prevailed then And that Mens tender Mercies are become More cruel then their Cruelties to some Nay see you not this Signe more signal made By that which our Apostacies now add And that this day we do apparently Stand guilty of the great'st Apostacie From our first Covenants Vows and Protestations Then ever could be charged on these Nations Observe you not what foolish Prophesies VVe take up how of Fictions and of Lies VVe make us Refuges as heretofore They did whose Paper-Works we down have tore And how the lying Prophets and the