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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

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 recieved 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 queld our resolutions daunted now doth poore Germany and our right neglect of their calamities deeply possese 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 stripes 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 On 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 our 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 luxury devours She is no Nube that cannot finde one teare to cast into our Ocean of brine and lend a sigh to those broken hearts that sorrow hath rather made statues then men Suffer not the afflicted of the Lord to tread the winepresse alone lest when thy aloes are given thee to drinke thou findest none of Elishas salt to cure the brackishnesse Partnership in sorrow hath the power of mitigation and thou shalt have the praise if not to have relieved to have eased our pangs But whither am I transported Summons to griefe finde but deafe eares and a dead welcome every man desiring rather to go to a theater then a tribunall 〈◊〉 having as many assistants too many as tribulation too few Solomon is as little followed in these two Proverbs as in any better is the house of mourning then the house of mirth and the day of death then the day of ones birth but when he comes with an inviting exultation Eccles. 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thine heart cheare thee in the dayes of thy youth and walke in the wayes of thine heart and in the sight of thine e●es he shall have more followers then Darius or Xerxes th●● gripe or pleasure hath gotten Rome so many Proselites when Religion complies with Nature our corruptions are wooed and wedded to a glowe wormy happinesse The great Belshazzers in their greatest elevations finde their knees knocking and discerne the handwriting of death on their walls and those Nebuchadnezzars that prided themselves in their spacious structures as many there were that built with marble which contemned the corner stone are now sent amongst the beasts of the field not only for their abode but sustenance Those holy duties before neglected are now with a compulsive trepidation observed T is a miserable thing for a soule inur'd to sinne to be hurried into his devotions death at the heeles and hell in the eyes seldome produce any but distracted supplications when as he that dies dayly hath wrested the iron scepters out of the power of death and hell having an infallible interest in him that not only got the conquest but sung the comfortable soule-cheering insultation over both these till then indomitable tyrants Oh deah where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory Therefore Quid retrihnam but thankes be unto God which hath given us victory through our Lord Iesus Christ 1. Cor. 15.55 57. Now would those that had consumed a patrimony rejoyce to finde those h●●ks that none shall give them How gladly would the gripple hand receive that almes it hath de●ayned finding a sad returne of his uncharitable repulses That Dives that would not give a crumme demanded shall find a drop denied O God so inlarge my heart that I may give what I can and so enlarge thy mercies I may receive what I would It was no single arrow God shot in that Nation or us poore English for as if the sword had beene too blunt a sithe or sickle to mow both the wheat and darnell and a single punishment too favourable a scourge God sent the fire and lest that should be too sparing in consuming our sinnes that made us so combustible and not fully refine the oare from the drosse God sent the famine to devour

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