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death_n	bring_v	eternal_a	sin_n	6,141	5	4.9276	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64162	The conversion, confession, contrition, comming to himselfe, & advice, of a mis-led, ill-bred, rebellious round-head which is very fitting to be read to such as weare short haire, and long eares, or desire eares long / written by John Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T444; ESTC R1357	11,175	17

Boat and away as aforesaid Thus these provoking moving unbenefic'd Lecturers did fill me and the rest with such forcible undoing documents that we were all mad till we were undone and begger'd I ran with all speed and carried that plate and mony I had to the Guile-Hall where some crafty merchants like decoy ducks had brought in their plate first which was heaped and piled up to make a glistering show to draw and toll in such poor Widgeons and Woodcocks as my selfe to bring our goods and mony in And afterwards the Rich decoyes did take theirs away againe whilst we left our estates there having no other security but the most immense unlimitable inimitable universall inexhaustible and unvaluable Publique Faith Which Faith I have found by singular deplorable experience to be nothing kin to the symboll of the faithful 12 good men and true for their faith was and is a saving faith but I have lost all the goods and goodnes that I had by fixing my hopes upon the Rotten foundation of the Faith politick and publick Besides every good Faith or Creed hath 12 good Articles but this new Faith hath but two which two are true both without Contradiction which are give or lend with a good or an ill will and be cheated or begger'd like a foole or deny to give or lend and be imprisoned rifled and undone upon these two Maxims is this Faith grounded and will be proved Authenticall by 10000 witnesses and some of them have seald it with their bloods It was in disputation what trade or Craftsmen they were that first invented this new Rare detrimentall Faith some said they were Taylors that with the mysticall Sheeres of their Authority could cut the Common-wealth like Broad-cloath into what shape or fashion they pleas'd making such large shreds as may keep them and their Childrens Children warme till doomes day Some said they were the only skilfull Fishers in the world and that they went beyond Ovid in metamorphising for they had transform'd this Kingdome into a Sea and all the goods of the Kingdome were turn'd into Fishes which they catch'd with the Net of their Almighty power and dispos'd of as they pleas'd the Mashes of the said Net being so cunningly and strongly woven that the huge Leviathan or the mighty Whale the overgrowne Grampus or mounting Pork-pice could not breake through nor the small Pilchard the little Sprat or the least Minnow could escape for the Proverbe in them was verified All is Fish that comes to the Net But there was a third sort that said the Publique Faith was made by a company of Dyers that dyed nothing but false fading Colours scarce using any wood at all but Logwood and such sophisticated stuffe being their chief materialls which would not hold Colour but staine spotted shamefully so that the people conceiving themselves to be gulld and consend and the Diers taking notice of the peoples distast will give over dying of false Colours any more and doe purpose shortly to dye knaves in graine J am almost mad frantique lunatique besides my selfe out of my wits at my wits end or call it what you will J am not as I might could would should or ought to be in confiding what paines cost and perill J have undergone to make my selfe a beggerly Thiefe a Rebell a Traitor or any thing but an honest man and now too late I find that knavery is a deare purchase and that truth a good Conscience may be had and maintain'd at a cheaper rate then villany It greeves me to remember how often His Majesties Forces have taken paines to beat me and my Breathren into a little good manners yet I cannot chuse but rejoyce at a speech spoken by a valiant Vintner at the George at Queenhith he being one of the Trained-Band of London swore he would catch the King came purposely to Newbury Battell on wednesday the 20 of September last for that purpose but being well thwackd there and with the nimblenes of his feet got home againe he swore that he would never whilst he liv'd go any more a King Catching And thus by the sway and command which mother Midnight my wife bare over me and the false instigations of such Pulpiteers which she upon the paine of her scolding sealding hot indignation inforc'd me to heare and beleeve I grew to such a passe that I held the greatest Rebells to be the most worthy of places of Eminency and titles of Excellency and that they alone were the best Subjects and truest Christians that did most oppose the King the Law the Gospell and the Epistles too without all manner forme as followed for the first it is said I should have but one God which I find and know now to be he that brought all the Israelites out of Aegyptian Bondage under Pharaoth and hath also delivered and redeemed all true beleevers from the Eternall thraldome of our spirituall Aegypt from our slavery under sinne death and hell This God commands we should have no other Gods but him but J with my associates instead of serving him the only God serv'd no God at all Moreover my zeale was so hot that because superstitious services hath above 100 yeares agoe been used in our Churches because Romish Masses and too many idolatrous Rites have been said sung and frequently exercised long since in our Cathedralls and other Churches and Chappells therefore because they have been abused formerly I thought it convenient to disgrace deface demolish cast downe and ruinate all those famous Fabricks and magnificent Structures never remembring like a Rogue as I was that the Churches were not to blame for the abuses committed in them and that the holy Ghost did gratiously enter and dwell in a woman whom seven Devills had formerly possest Secondly whereas he commands no graven Image or any figure or likenes to be made and worshipped I like an ignorant asse presently beganne to teare spoyle and pull downe all Ornaments Ceremonies decent gestures and all things whatsoever was any way laudable or any memory either of Patriarke Prophet Christ Apostle Saint Martyr or Confessor all which we knew to be neither Papisticall or superstitious neither would any one that hath wit or grace either pray adore or confide in to or before any thing but to the Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and his blessed Sonne our gracious Redeemer We knew the Crosse in Cheap-side was a stately and sumptuous ornament to the City and it signified to all Nations of Christendome besides Turkes Iewes Pagans Heathens Infidells and Atheists might take notice by that and all other Crosses that we were not asham'd to be Christians or to maintaine the signe or memory of our Saviour Crucified Thirdly there hath no perfidious perjur'd people that have more prophaned or taken the name of the Lord in vaine then we have done I for my part did sweare and take the oath of Allegiance and after that I took the oath of Supremacy which oathes and

sleeve hath been their only ware eighteen pence being a Stationers price for a Coppy which presently the learned Author quaffes puffes and pipes away in fecundious Ale and Oderiferous Mundungoe I have called to mind that ever since we began to be Rebells and Schismaticks that we never gaind any Good or did any thing worthy the name of Well done But as our leaders have been mischievously Malitious and Treacherous so we have executed their damnable Inventions to ruine the Protestant doctrine our King and our selves and this is the sweet summe of all our detestable paines and profits Our Inventions and Actions have all been opposite to Piety and Humanity so that if there were no other argument to prove His Majesty to be Godly Good Gratious and every way a compleat unmatchable Prince for His innated virtues our Disloyalty our Aversenesse our Refractory stubbornnesse were sufficient proof of His transcendent Clemency and goodnesse for as lyeing Astronomers when they Prognosticate of a fowle day or an unseasonable Harvest are or should be asham'd when the weather falls out faire temperate and successefull so we with shame horror and terror of consciences may hang downe our wicked Round-heads and blush if we were not past grace when we doe but think how ungratiously undutifully and perfidiously we have dealt with so gratious a Soveraigne upon no other grounds but malicious ignorance If there were no other mark signe or token to prove the Office and dignity of Bishops to be derivative from Christ and the Apostles our opposition is Approbation sufficient that they have been are and ought to be beloved believed Reverenced and Honoured By which consequence it is apparent to all the World that those godly Members which His Majesty hath justly excluded out of his Grace and Favour whom we adore and admire as the Idolatrous Israelites did the Golden Calfe If there were no other demonstration of the foulenesse of their Guilt our servile our slavish our execrable obaying them and their unlawfull Votes is testimony sufficient to prove the Kings exception to be Reall themselves cauterized in their crimes and all we that have adhered unto them to be miserable uncivill simple poore abused cheated Rebellious Coxcombs As the Law of God is a glasse of death wherein men may see their Sin so is the Gospell a glasse of Grace where true penit●nts may see their Saviour And as the Lawes of this Land are in their due execution Rigorous and Terrible to such whose guilty soules tells them that they are plunged in horrible Treasons whereby they have precipitated themselves into the bot●omlesse pit of Despaire and by no means will dare to look the Law ●r Iustice in the face so a cleare and innocent man hath a Breast that is Law proofe he can sleep soundly and eat his meat in quiet and if it chance that he be questioned either by malice or information he cares not and the severest censure he feares not he bears his afflictions with magnanimous fortitude and whether he Live or Dye his sufferings are his Glory And were th●se Almighty Beggermakers those memorable Members and Commanders of our Miseries cleare right as they should be then they would never feare to put themselves to a fai●e and Impartiall tryall of the Law where if then they come handsomely of their accusers will be perpetually infamous and themselves will shine with such a Burnished splendor that shall daz'e the eyes and amaze the soules of their enimies and their memories shall outlast time and dwell in glory with Eternity Therefore my Brethren let me advise you to hearken no more to them they have coufened us too much already they have made us perfect in turning Markes to eighteen pence and Nobles to nine pence and all to nothing yet there is hope though your monies be gone yet you may have a small proportion of Wit left which guided by grace may make you turne a little honest and assure your selves that those who doe dye in this most Horrid and damned Rebellion against their Iust and Lawfull King they doe dye in as desperate a manner as those that murther themselves either by Hanging Stabbing Poysoning Drowning or any other desperate Way Returne God is Gratious and Mercifull despaire not the KING is full of Piety and Clemency FAREWELL FINIS