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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87081	The clergies lamentation: deploring the sad condition of the kingdome of Ireland, by reason of the unparallel'd cruelties and murders exercised by the inhumane popish rebells upon many thousand Protestants in the Province of Ulster, and especially the ministers there, since the beginning of this bloudy rebellion. In which is also particularly expressed the names, and manner of the murthering, imprisoning and famishing of such ministers and others, by those barbarous and blood-thirsty rebells. Published as an incouragement to all true-borne Englishmen, to rise up as one man to resist those rebells, who are (by command from His Majesty) shortly to be brought over into England. By Daniel Harcourt, one of the commissioners for the examination of the Protestants grievances in that province. Published by order.	Harcourt, Daniel.	1644 (1644)	Wing H690; Thomason E49_8; ESTC R2085	24,763	32

text could not proceed for weeping my minde would gladly 〈◊〉 from my intentions and they digresse from a more peaceable subject 1641. 〈◊〉 Climatericall yeare of the English Nation in Ireland some well affected 〈◊〉 sent divers abroad with Petitions for subscriptions to supplicate from the ●●●●rable Houses of Parliament which are the refiners of Religion and Laws a ●●●●rall Reformation which was an Apostolicall act This net was not cast out by 〈◊〉 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 〈◊〉 temporall goods The man of sin imploying his Sodomiticall Seminaries 〈◊〉 call Prelates and Jesuiticall Incendiaries to fow these tares firebrands in the wombe of their Hecuba borne for the destruction or disquiet of their natural ●●●●rents and native Country Men borne in antipathy to Prometheus for as he 〈◊〉 fained to have stolne fire from heaven to restore life into dead bodies they 〈◊〉 fire from hell to bring death to the living not only by murdering the Religious 〈◊〉 Religion as if the death of the spirituall life as well as the temporall were in 〈◊〉 ballance or line with them that observe neither weight nor measure The 〈◊〉 mish Salamander lives not but in fire nor can lesse flames then a Kingdome 〈◊〉 him surviving Now was it that God for our sinnes determined the English prosperity should be like Ja●shua's Sunne be a day permanent but retrograde like Fle●chiahs it being the miraculous expression of his Justice in ruining either the forgetters or contemners of his blessings Then began the despised blasts of 〈◊〉 Rams-hornes to demolish the walls of Brittish Jericho's when by a judgement a terrible as their cruelty armed forts were surprised by unarmed men then ranne the Lion from the Hare the shaking lease and trembling Partridge now terrifio 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 〈◊〉 ruined and ravined by his pack of pleasures for indeed we had too much ●ied the Diana of Ephesus not the piety but the pomp of a church the silver shrines ●ad toe 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 preferred 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 out ●●rill distructions 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 Mid●● 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 〈◊〉 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 ro●●● 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 The just with God to expose them to all malediction that out of wandring fancie 〈◊〉 the ●anges of the sanctuary Athaliah was there slaine for destroying the 〈◊〉 royall which I spiritually conceive to be the integrity of a Church born and continued without the milke or meat of Canaanltish and adulterous traditions which being spurious slips cannot floursh nor have a longer prosperity then the g●●●d of Jonahs or the infortunate and earthy wombe that gave them conception Sin ripened like the pride of Gath desies the Host of the Lord of Hosts bathing the monstrous spearhead of his rage in the bloud of the chosen how feeble hath the fall of Adam made his haplesle posterity the glorious English long clad in the victorious spoyles of that barbarous people become the rebaters of their ●keins but not of their rage finding now how dearly the Israelites paid for their cruell mercy in not exti●pating the Idolatrous Canaanites those that policy left for hewers of wood and draw ●●s of water hew the flesh and draw the bloud of their masters thus humane policy is punisht by in humane impiety teaching us that all the purposes of flesh and bloud having not godlinesse for their basis have sandy foundations and that policy without piety is a damnable discretion The Dove and the Serpent should like those two kine of Bethshemesh at once be yoked to draw the Ark● of God from the possession of the heathens to the people of God or like Clea●●s and Biton to draw their mother to the Temple where observe the kins and brethren were rewarded by death the kine sacrificed to the true God the brethren to the false O God so blesse my pilgrimage that at my termination my last act may be best that so I may like M●●●hs sacrifice ascend up unto thee by an Angelicall convoy Those that sacrificed up the calves of their lips are now like beasts sacrificed The rude reed runnes through the hand that sustained it whilst the hoofes of untamed and untaught monsters trample on those heads that shod them all 〈◊〉 turning rebell either to civill or legall contracts Those Nationall tyes held sacred and Gordian of gossip or fosterer are denied by the brutish to the Brittish Hazael and Zimri murthering their Masters the act not disavowed but countena●●●● pardoned and applauded by depicted Jezabel that Romish harlot 〈…〉 sacrifice at the Temples dedication was here outvied in number but not 〈…〉 Beast was not offered but preserved for here the Minister was the chiefe sacrifice the Beast the sacrificer The Ram was not offered for Isaac but he for the Ram as if the gold had been more holy then the Temple or sacrifice then 〈◊〉 Eliahs once flew the priests of Baal but now Baals priests slaughter the somes of the Prophets nor place nor person is regarded but the Protestants are murdered in the very Churches as if Protestant bloud were only the hallowed water to sanctifie those places for their Idolatrous prophane damned and accursed Masses Certainly it may be feared that we did something that displeased God which 〈◊〉 called for his exploding Now are the fountaines of living waters the balme of Gilead the holy 〈◊〉 of the Covenant the sacred columnes of Gods word made the derision of the ●●●●ly whilst they are rent in pieces and dasht about the heads of the owners till 〈◊〉 drew bloud on their heads

and faces with these and the like opprobrious and 〈◊〉 pious speeches here you English dogs and hereticks you shall have Bibles 〈◊〉 Surely had not those holy legacies of the blessed Spirit been first by our selve ●●●●der valued it had not been in the power of those reprobates thus to have prophaned the holy food or the feeders thereon Their first expressions began in the ruine of our estates having first publisht 〈◊〉 correspondence with the Scottish our brethren whether out of an intent 〈◊〉 awaken their dislikes of these new insolencies or perchance conceiving they had not forgot our hostil preparations against them the foregoing years and therefore might hope to make them Newters at all which conceits I admire had they but conceived the irreconciliable distance between their Religions yet thei● 〈◊〉 pretence and disguised affection too much wrought in those dismall dayes in which every head wa s perplext if not darkened with distractions on that valiant Nation insomuch that one Barhome by title but by name John Mac. Culloh Captaine of a foot company with others advised me when I had kept my house seven weeks after the Rebellion began to fly for my life adding they were reasonably well secured by a Proclamation publisht by the Rebells by direction of thei● chiefe for the Scottish protection in returne of a favour done him in his infancy by a Scottish Gentle woman who either saved his life or liberty in his swathing bands And but that God determined they should mingle with us in that great confusion and effusion of estates and bloud I admire so wise a people and perspicuous in the darkest aenigm●s should be so deluded but where God intends an inf●mation all humane wisdome is emerged The deepest reaches of earthly knowledge have had as deep precipices none had a fearfuller fall then him the Scripture stiles as an oracle of God we the defeats of those great projects of Pharaoh and Herod that neither of their designes or wise intendments could suffocate the type or substance the penner of the Law or publisher of the Gospel the Scribe of the sacrifices or him sacrificed by the Scribes But this Romish Machiavilian plot tooke effect so the prevention of bloudy and helborne projects are seldome prevented nay nor suspected by those of a holy an upright conversation T is for the sonnes of darknesse to bring those things to light But our brethren paid dearly for the cruell mercy of the Irish for they staying after the English of which some were slain some stript and sent away were most of them man woman and child cruelly massacred The English are now left as God left his when they had first left him some ●●ying when none pursued sin addes to the stature of our feares for nothing makes men terrible even to themselves but their transgressions whilst the greedy pursuers seem like Mercury with winged feet to fly with a devouring sword to kill them already near death with the expectation of death whilst the enemies swords are as drunke with our bloud as they with our drink of both which they seem insatiable the thirsty earth not more greedily receives the early and latter raine then they of both liquors insomuch that one O Mallon was heard to boast inhumanely that he with his owne hands had murdered sixe and twenty English and Scotch in two dayes whereof there were twenty five Scottish O unheard of cruelty it is a wonder to me that this man should be borne by the common course of generation for certainly his sire or dam must needs be an Irish wolfe in whose bosome was harboured so little humanity Now doe these like those Philistims inflamed with rage and drink● their soules intoxicated more then their bodies with the cuppe of the Whores Fornications Revelat. 17.2 drawe out the poore Captives to death as if the best banquet were the bloudiest The sonne of Hagar now abuses the heire of the Promise now is disoculated Sampson that grindes his abused soule more then their meale brought forth to make pastime to the Philistims I knew one Bel of Muckamore near Antrim whose eyes they stubbed out to make him confesse his money then abused him and lastly murdered him tha● death which is terrible to our selves afford us delight if inflicted on others With what delight and pleasure can wee reade those cruell persecutions of Nero Domitian Trajan Adrian Marcus Aurelius Severus and the rest ●●may the bloudiest of our murthering Mary who drew the bloud instead of milke from the paps of her Nurse having such a Catholicke Spanish 〈◊〉 in het veines that the bloud of many English Martyrs could not allay The cruelties exercised at Merindol and Cabriers when the craggy 〈◊〉 exprest more mercy to the hunted martyrs then the flinty soules of their per●●●ters That damned massacre of Charles the ninth anno 1572. whose bloud issuing from severall parts of his body at his death fully exprest his belluine disposition Not King themselves profusely wasting or unmercifull exhausting the bloud of their Subjects shall finde exemption at that great and just Audit kept by Jehovah The highest deputations have the heaviest cares How soon is Saul lost in his new Monarchy These I say could we peruse with patience and pleasure The Spanish cruelty more heathenish then those on whom it was exercised in the Indies which were till now the grand patterns of abused hostility invasion and victory are so far unfit to parallell with the Irish inhumanity as they have lost our wonder The horse-leeches of Rome bloudily conceiving that Protestant bloud 〈◊〉 marle of their Religion and that nothing produces so rathe a spring to the Catholicke cause as the carcasses of purer professors when as it is the generall 〈◊〉 that the bloud of martyrs is the seed of the Church Sacks of wool are held the best foundations for bridges in the strongest currents as on those were built upon the martyred carcasses of our predecessors the Protestant Religion so 〈◊〉 that all those great inundations from the Apostolicall or rather diabolical 〈◊〉 could never overwhelme yet then was our profession but like to 〈◊〉 who though he was of the seed royall had Sauls possessions and eat bread at 〈◊〉 Kings table yet was he lame in his feet 2 Sam. 9.3 and I suppose his cure would have been more needfull and acceptable to him could it have been effected then either his possessions or honour God alwayes preserved his Church of which the Arke was a type which shall float over the world-drowned-shores to preserve a holy remnant and the earth swallow up those streams of poysonous malice vomited by the serpent against his love his dove his fair one all these persecutions could not so much as startle the English lethargy the evils that we expect are lessened if not prevented when as sudden alarms not only awake but astonish The great battells of Canna Marathon and those two daughter of Epaminondus Mantinea and Leuctra with those more famous where the