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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

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 that 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 nay the bloudiest of our murthering Mary who drew the bloud in stead of milke from the paps of her Nurse having such a Catholicke Spanish heat in her veines that the bloud of many English Martyrs could not allay The cruelties exercised at Merindol and Cabriers wher the craggy mountains exprest more mercy to the hunted martyrs then the flinty soules of their persecuters 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 is the 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 assent 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 surely that all those great inundations from the Apostolicall or rather diabolicall sea could never overwhelme yet then was our profession but like to Mephibosheth who though he was of the seed royall had Sauls possessions and eat bread at the 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 daughtes of Epaminondas Mantinea and Leuctra with those more famous where the Starres fought in their order and Kishon like a besome swept them away even so let thine enemies perish O Lord those great defeats given and received by the Turke and Christian the sword fire famine pestilence and desolation of the Jews with what other horrors have eradicated the Roman and Gretian Empires were by us perused with pleasure and yet now that a destructive insurrecton drawes his daggar at our throats death walking over our owne thresholds famine having entred to cling up our bowels fire to dissolve our beings and unkinde exile to shoulder us from our abodes poverty rushing like an armed man meager and pin'd visages meeting us at every pace wounded and mangled carcasses peeping out of bushes like ghosts from the grave Christians expos'd naked to unmercifull cold and mountainous wayes with not a fig leafe to hide their nakednesse poore women with childe brought a bed and dead in woods and caves in that unchristian manner that my pen dares not expresse but leaves their miserable condition to the consideration and commiseration of those that expect a happy deliverance heaps of slaughtered Christians to part of which the dogs had given sepulchre many hanged upon trees and boughes part of which we could perceive had been burnt before at these sights and many more horrid how are our resolves amated our courages que●d our resolutions daunted now doth poore Germany and our slight neglect of their calamities deeply possesse us the afflictions of Joseph are afresh bemoaned and the martyrdomes of the Apostles are now lamented and what is more the poverty of our Messias his teares pilgrimages s●ripes spittings contempt revilings agony and bloudy passion which before was read over as an ordinary story of Scripture and if read not remembred if remembred not lamented if lamented t was but a qualme of sorrow now are we sufferers in his sufferings Oh bitter miserie how sweet are thy lectures teaching sorrows are cordiall griefes and t is a blessed maim that heals the soule give me those wounds O God through which as a glorious mirror I may behold the mirror of glory Now began the famine of some to conclude that the violentest death was the best and the lengthned life the only miserable that the shortest way to the grave was the sweetest and that the last gaspe was most comfortable many searching for the pangs of death as the only Elixar to cure all diseases the feared winding sheet and insatiable grave proving now desired which was before horrid That heaven the seat of God under which we regardlessely walked is all the canopy is left the English the humble earth the footstoole of God and mother of us all on which we proudly trampled lets her wofull children lie on her bosome that fain would lye within it the woods and bogs becomming either out shelter or sepulchre the contemned food of the Irish sorrell watergrasse three leaved grasse weeds and water is now made our delicates The tender and loving wife repines at the nourishment eaten by the husband of her bosome whilst the infants complaints begets fresh throws in that breast which used but could not nourish it the mothers tears shewing a compassion but not a redresse happy were the infant could it have been cherished with tears as before with milke for the eye was wet to see the breast so drie fruitfulnesse is now held a greater curse to the forlorne English then sterility was to the Jews Jeremy thou mourning turtle of Sions sorrows I wish not a double portion of thy spirit but thy sorrow that I might be that silver trumpet that should publish to all posterity the calamities of those our brethren that did and do want those succours our