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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87084	A new remonstrance from Ireland, containing an exact declaration of the cruelties, insolencies, outrages, and murders exercised by the bloudthirsty, Popish rebells in that kingdome upon many hundred Protestants in the province of Vlster, and especially of the ministers there, since the beginning of this base, horrid, unnaturall and unparralelled rebellion October 23. 1641 in which is also particularly expressed the names of such ministers and others who have been murthered, imprisoned, famished, and otherwayes cruelly used by those barbarous, and inhumane rebells, by Daniel Harcourt one of the commissioners for the examination of the Protestants Grievances in that Province. As also a true copie of the commission granted to him by the Kings Najesty [sic].	Harcourt, Daniel.	1643 (1643)	Wing H692; Wing L1827; Thomason E61_17; Thomason E61_18; ESTC R19274	20,884	23

The Levites Lamentation IF ever Persecution merited a remembrancer Protestant bloud a condoler or cruell Rebellion a reprover this Irish cruelty and English calamity both which exceed the beliefe of any but the Actors and Sufferers might justly awake the pens of Eusebius Fox or the most famous Martirologers to record Jeremy to bewaile or the sharpest Satyrist to reprove Even now my heart bleeds for the bloud I saw and my inke seems not blacke but sanguine the horrid cries afresh awake affright astonish whilst I see the purple robe and hat wreaking in the bloud of the Lambe offered but Christ crucified to see the Popes Bull goring and men borne blinde cruelly massacre the sonnes of illumination the big-bond sinewy and grisly tyrant trampling on the feeble woman and unborne Embrio It drew tears from holy Elisha to see cruelty character'd in the face of Hazael 2 Kings 8.12 which makes him breake out Because I know the evill that thou shalt doe unto the children of Israel for their strong Cities shalt thou set on fire and their young men shalt thou slay with the sword and shalt dash their infants against the stones and rent in pieces their women with childe This day by the Romish Aramite was this Prophesie fulfilled Now is the greatest murderer held the most valiant as if valour consisted in a bel●…ine horridnesse and fortitude were the eldest son of fury Me thinks Nero the depraver of the Cesarian Monarchy at sight of this bloudy banquet should appeal to all Historians no more to list him for the Monster of men nay the bloudiest of Monsters for indeed the sight of other crimes maketh us often to lessen but not leave our owne The common stature exults at the sight of a Dwarfe as a Dwarfe would doe at Pigmies Satan having infused this poysonous a●…our into the soules of men that our ills are extenuated by the ills of others This I call pharisaicall frensie You shall see the Popes doctrine as dangerous as the Divells Religion must now be the Irish mantle for Rebellion A pretended plot of ours for their conversion or correction is by this counterplot of theirs made both our subversion and destruction This was the cursed pretende of those more accursed pretenders to stick the Ravens plumes in the wings of the Dove To make the mournings of that harmlesse olive-bringer the croaking omens of the Arke-deserting-Raven For such is the deformity of sin that none desires to be the ill he seems Saul at the threshold of his accursednesse begins with a blessing 1 Sam. 15.13 by a J●suiticall policy doe they wear piety like a perriwig trimly curld and combd on the deformed head of Rebellion and murder T is true that once Jacob desired to seem Esau but ever since sin like Rebecca hath taught the Esaus to seem Jacobs Judas learnt this not from so many as he hath taught it Our Saviour tels that under a pretence of long prayers we swallow widows houses O God since I cannot be what I would give me grace not to varnish my ills or cheat my salvation with a seeming sanctity How hardly is my pen drawne to this inundation of bloud I finde in my eyes the same stoppage that Basil the Great did who after he had read his text could not proceed for weeping my minde would gladly deviate from my intentions and they digresse from a more peaceable subject 1643. The Climatericall yeare of the English Nation in Ireland some well affected Christians sent divers abroad with Petitions for subscriptions to supplicate from the honourable Houses of Parliament which are the refiners of Religion and Laws a generall Reformation which was an Apostolicall act This net was not cast out by any save those that were truly Piscatores hominum Satan and Antichrist his first-borne as malitiously suggest that this arrow was shot not only at their spirituall good but temporall goods The man of sin imploying his Sodomiticall Seminaries Papisticall Prelates and Jesuiticall Incendiaries to sow these tares firebrands in the wombe of their Hecuba borne for the destruction or disquiet of their naturall parents and native Country Men borne in antipathy to Prometheus for as he was fained to have stolne fire from heaven to restore life into dead bodies they fetch fire from hell to bring death to the living not only by murdering the Religious but Religion as if the death of the spirituall life as well as the temporall were in one ballance or line with them that observe neither weight nor measure The Romish Salamander lives not but in fire nor can lesse flames then a Kingdome keep him surviving Now was it that God for our sinnes determined the English prosperity should be like Joshua's Sunne be a day permanent but retrograde like Hezechiahs it being the miraculous expression of his justice in ruining either the forgetters or contemners of his blessings Then began the despised blasts of Irish Rams-hornes to demolish the walls of Brittish Jericho's when by a judgement as terrible as their cruelty armed forts were surprised by unarmed men then ranne the Lion from the Hare the shaking leafe and trembling Partridge now terrifie the Oake and hawke the thistle and beards the cedar the base Lackey not running by but away with his mistris whilst innocencie and chastity become the reprovers of that life they would lose but cannot Judge of that great contestation between honour and life beauty and deformity and resolve me in this blanke list _____ for thy opinion if God ever shew'd or Nation ever suffered a greater judgement Acteon ruined and ravined by his pack of pleasures for indeed we had too much 〈…〉 Diana of Ephesus not the piety but the pomp of a church the silver shrines had too many Advocates most men exclayming but few besides profitable respects either desired a reformation or knew what a one to desire Thus was the golden Calfe prefferred to Moses Barrabas to Christ Garlicke to Manna Nature a prompt master having taught us to advance politick ends before pious As a period to our civill distractions fell these publicke and whilst many were distasting the present government God tooke away all the rejection of Samuel that made his publicke vindication cannot prejudice the election of Saul whom God deserted Thus God makes our curiosity our scourge Midas his wish shall be his famine Phaeton● desire his death and Jupiters diety the consumer of his concubine Them that would not quietly enjoy what they had shall unquietly dispose of what they had or would enjoy Civill dissentions and dislikes being terminated by a martiall or shall I say an impartiall sword The Church like Dianah is ravisht by lustfull Shechem as a punishment of her roving had she kept the tents of Jacob she had been free from his rage had we not like her erred from our paternall protection we had not endured their rapines T is just with God to expose them to all malediction that out of wandring fancie leave the ranges of the