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A85350	Good nevves from all quarters of the kingdome; particularly from Gloucester. The more strange for the noveltie; first printed, and at that time when the adversary was storming that citie; and yet more strange, for its antiquitie, because assured us by a word, more stable than the earth or heaven; and by a letter of ancient date, sent to Hezekiah King of Judah. Wee have the same assurance also touching a strange destruction to the wicked, specially to those princes all, who have filled the land with bloud, that those shall not dye the common death, nor be visited after the visitation of all men, because they have done more wickedly then ever any princes before them. ... Published for the comfort of all the Godly, in all the quarters of the world, by speciall licence from their Court-booke, September 12. 1643.		1643 (1643)	Wing G1054; Thomason E250_9; Thomason E250_10; ESTC R212532	20,215	10

OXFORDS LATIN RIMES TVRNED INTO ENGLISH REASON OR Horrid Blasphemy made excellent Divinitie thereby to give the Righteous assured confidence for ever That though the Adversary seemes to command the meanes yet God commands the end and prayer commands God Therefore what ever the premisses are the conclusion will be glorious and the News very good from all those Quarters North South and West where the Adversary boasteth of his successe But from Bristoll and Gloucester best of all because there the Adversary hath blasphemed the Holy One and is mad with rage against His Holy Ones Then shall the Lord be jealous for his Land and pittie his people Joel 2.18 Thou hast seene it The poore committeth himselfe unto Thee c. Psal 10.14 Iudgements are prepared for scorners and stripes for the back of fooles Pro. 19.29 OBserving some picking in the dust-heaps others raking the channells in the streets and sinkes in the Kitchin where they have found precious matter sometimes most times that which hath recompenced their labour I must observe herefrom That no place nor person is so barren but may yeeld some fruit Nay nothing no not that dung which is most unsavoury because it is the corruption of that which is best but hath vertue in it more then is ordinarily conceived saith a great * Paracelsus sayes thus to an idle and useles person Thou art of much lesse use then is thy dung not worthy of that worst excrement in thy conceipt which thou voydest Quae Calcantur things we tread under-foot or leave there would be of good esteem if we knew the use of them this use is shewen to the world together with other excellent matters by Mr. Plats whom I know onely by his Bookes a man of precious use and abilities Schollar Let not the Reader then be discouraged at the sight of the Rimes which shall now be presented to his eye though indeed they smell more of the Pot then of the Poet and because probably they came from Oxford from whence wee can expect no good for there Sathan hath his Throne and Iniquitie hath been established by a Law True it is I have as vile an esteeme of the Verses and the Poet as he hath of his owne dung and yet sith there can be vertue extracted thence even out of that dung The Reader need not doubt but when I have raked them to the bottom I say to the bottom I shall finde some vertue there some excellent Truth uttered by him as a scorne and as through a Trunke but making very much for the establishment of the Righteous whom the fool scorneth I shall say more to the scorn for that is my maine scope no more to the scorners but this which is enough to make them tremble * Pro. 3.34 Pro. 29.8 Surely the Lord scorneth the scorners for they bring a Citie into a snare Nay they set a Citie on * In flammant sufflant fire The Lord will persecute them with his storme and take them away with his whirlewinde if they repent not So leaving the scorners I come to their scorne which is wrapt up in these Verses fifteen in number Extincta Castro fax pulchra novo est Nec nautae postea nec militi Sit noto Pharos Auster disparem Haud tulit Casum murus cui addita est Canina Litera mersa est suis Cum turmis nuper Leporis vado Euri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bristonia Leporinos Horrescens vortices Anglica Claudij timet Pares Vrbs Casus Haerois Teutonici Myrmidones astant magno cum duce Pacata Thule est nec Noto timor Popello aut Regi Nihil relictum est Brittannicum domare Caesarem Ni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preces gregis Haec Sphinges raptim Oedipo suo Julij 20. 1643. This last verse shewes the Poet to be a merry Greeke but in the close wee shall say of his laughter It is * Eccl. 2.2 mad In my translation I shall render the words first then the sense and meaning not to the Poets liking sure I have not learnt of the Devill his Master to play the fool or the knave or the mad-man I thanke God who hath given me more grace I have not sold my selfe to doe evill for then I could as he and the Court * Greek Latin Poets tell us of one Mercury a very infamous person a notable knave a cunning thiefe and a most notorious lyar not his like in all the world he was the Court-Mercury too which may satisfie the world touching the Court then and this fellow Syrnamed Mercurius Auli●us now Mercury upon the Ale-bench make songs of David I could for I know their way well enough give-up my tongue and my Pen to the Devills forge intreat him to sharpen them against the face of the Righteous The Devill would gratifie me so farre he would enable me as well as them natures bent being that way to lie and raile and blaspheme he would procure me also for doing him service some high degree in the Schooles good gaine to my purse haply some place or title of honour for such servants are in the onely ready way to rise in the world But then I should render my selfe a fool and a knave both and in every sober mans construction mad also as the newes from Oxford once a fortnight renders their Mercury there and as these verses render the Poet here All of the easiest construction especially the first because of the agreement it hath with the English wherein I had pretty skill ever since I could read latin for thus I could interpret this verse in Ovid Tacturos sydera summa putes Thou shalt put summer syder into tanckards Such a construction the childe makes here and yet he thinkes he hath proposed a Riddle which needs an Oedipus no it needs not for Extincta Castro fax pulchra novo est nec nautae postea nec militi sit noto Pharos Pulchra fax is the Lord Fairfax a bright starre indeed but of that anon and Castro novo is by Newcastle he meanes the good Earle there and his meaning is very proper for he hath no more sense of God and goodnesse then have the timber and stones in that Castle But we must not stifle the birth or the Poets witty conception which is this That the bright starre in the North is quite extinct now by New-Castle and shall be of no more use to Souldier or Mariner Auster disparem haud tulit casum As this in the North so the like disaster hath befallen the Roundheads in the South for Murus cui addita est Canina litera mersa est suis cum turmis nuper leporis vado I have plowed with the Poets heifer and can reade his Riddle Sure Murus is a wall So sure Canina litera is R as they say in Oxford where they make a noice like a dog and goe round about the Citie But here is a deepe conceipt for as Castro novo in the first

the like good service here which they have done him in Ireland yet these people have enough though but after their Adversaries allowance and they can though they are as Nehemiah and Daniel were * Neh. 1.4 2.1 sad faint and * Dan 8.27 sicke also because of what they heare and see yet they can recover themselves and rejoyce in their portion They have a God to goe unto when I have said God I have said All The wrath of man shall praise him The treachery of man shall advance his faithfulnesse as the weaknesse foolishnesse and wickednesse of man doth advance the power wisdome and goodnesse of God The Adversary with all their counsell and strength must fall before the hand lifted-up for it is lifted up to the most high God God of Hosts King of Saints They can pray unto him commit all their concernments unto the bosom of a Father who is then nearest to his Children the nearer danger is Prayers shall turn all this to the furtherance of the Gospel and the increase of the Churches joy The Adversary may have so much power as to restraine Sea and Land both and set open the gates of Hell against the Church He cannot restraine prayer which openeth the treasury of Heaven and commands God there as we shall see presently Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ He suffers his peoples adversaries to carve forth his Childrens portion and behold it a large portion The Adversary now has assigned a Sanctuary to the people of God a place of Refuge indeed a strong Tower the Name of the Lord the Righteous fly unto it and they are * Pro. 18.10 safe Nothing remaines now whereby to save these people from falling into the mouth of the devourer but the prayers of the destitute that is enough till that Refuge faileth the hearts of the Righteous cannot faile But that refuge never faileth In the Lord Jehovah is everlasting * Isa 26.4 strength an everlasting ground for everlasting confidence To establish the Righteous now evermore on this foundation That the issue or end will be good the wicked connot over-rule there the end is out of their spheare that God makes He is Master * James 5.11 there The King could pursue Israel with deadly hatred he could speak * Exo 15.9 proudly but he could not overtake Israel Another King as proud as the former could in his rage command the furnace to be heated seven-times hotter then * Dan. 3.19 Ver. 25. ordinary he could not command the end not make the fire burn there God over-ruled The servants of the Heb. 11.34 Lord quenched the violence of the flame What ever the Premisses are which the wicked have made how agreeable soever to their sense and reason yet they can do no more God will draw the Conclusion evermore by such a kinde of Logick as sense and reason the Philosophy of the world is not acquainted with onely God knows and in his favour he has made his Children know it given them assurance touching that matter and so they lye at Anchor in God confident under his shadow Resolved fully at this high point That God commands the end and Prayer commands God And this bids the people of God expect good newes from all Quarters yea out of the West also where the Churches Sunne seemed to set Behold then the Poet does belch out a double Blasphemy whence I shall draw a double Conclusion make it Christian Divinitie 1. That Prayers which the Poet accounts a nothing but i.e. a thing of no account are of high account with God and the great Confidence of the godly 2. That those he accounts mad people are the onely sober men in the world I will enlarge upon the first but first I will explain it Whereas I said Prayers are of high account with God and very efficacious to bring to passe all the Churches designes and to frustrate the Adversaries That is true enough there can be no mistake there for the Adversary meanes the Prayers of a destitute People theirs I say and he must say so too who have a Father to goe unto and an Advocate with that Father It is very notable If they have a potent Advocate with an Adversary they have an hope to prevaile but having an Advocate with their Father they can have no doubt Wee have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the * 1 Joh. 2.1 Righteous There can be no mistake there Prayers are very prevailing there is in them an omnipotency they command God therefore are prayers the great Confidence of the godly But here we must be informed prayers are so indeed not considered in themselves Alas no the good mans confidence must be that which is perfection it selfe compleat and perfectly perfect There is nothing so perfect but Jesus Christ and justification by him Therefore to build our Confidence upon Prayers considered as a dutie onely and no more is to build a Tower upon an Oaten straw This then is the meaning Prayers are a godly mans great Confidence as they close with a Promise and make the soule cling and cleave to Christ As prayer puts the soul into a sure hand the hand of a Mediator The Amen The Faithfull and true Witnes Rev. 3.7.14 He that is holy He that is true c. In that hand the Soul and all her concernments all her prayers touching that matter concerning her particular well fare or the Churches there the● are safe and thence they shall receive Answer in the fittest time a gracious yea a glorious end And so Prayers are a godly Mans Confidence And so much for Explication and Confirmation of the point Now we will read the Experiences of the godly in all ages touching this matter That we may see that which is of the vilest account with vile men is of the highest account with God and good men I gave my selfe to * Ps 109.4 Prayer sayes David i.e. he made prayer his worke when he was in a very sad and unsetled case Tossed up and * Vers 23. down as a Locust a very fit Emblem of the Church the tides and changes of her affaires up and downe then he gave himselfe to Prayer and this fixed him made him a quiet * Is 33.20 habitation who was before as unstable as a Grashopper and gave him assured confidence that the end must be good so he ends with praise I will greatly praise the Lord c. David sets downe two experiments he had made of this I will mention no more because these are most notable how he confounded strength and that Counsell all for warre which was as an Oracle 1 Sam. 17. While his mighty Adversary cursed David prayed closed with an Almightie Arme So his Adversary fell before his face and his owne sword cut his throat At another time a great Counsellour disserted David as the manner is when he saw that he gave himself