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A52160	A new and true mercurius: or, Mercurius metricus A true relation in meeter (on the behalf of scepter and miter) comprising sundry of the most sad and bad transactions, occurrences and passages in England, Scotland and Ireland, for the space of twelve years last past. For the true information and reformation of the people. Or, sober sadness, and plain-dealing, in a few plain, sober, and sad country rhimes, concerning these sad and heavy times, conducing to a real, personal and national reformation in three sinful lands. To which is added the authours twelve years extream melancholy, with the vvoful effects thereof in him, and the best remedy which he used for the removal of them all. Also a joyful and thankful commemoration of His Majesties happy return to his three kingdoms. By William Mascal above forty years ago Fellow-Commoner of Clarehal in Cambridge, now a poor deacon according to the canonical ordination of the late most famous orthodoxal Church of England.	Mascall, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing M903C; ESTC R216688	16,008	31

Which presageth war is no signe of peace Much less of Britains unities increase Made by King James some will with might and maine * Whose peaceful motto's were these faciam eos in gentem unam Quae Deus conjunxit nemo separet et beati Pacifici contra●iorum contraria est ratio meledicti bellifici his jugantur Sectifici praesertins Quakerifici What they have got by force by (r) Vict armis force maintain O Lord protect us by thy saving grace And make us all timely to seek thy face By true submission to thy holy laws And shedding blood no longer call thy cause Of which my thoughts are we have had too much God grant we never more have any such As touching that which is already spilt Forgive good God the sin and eke the guilt Iuly 6. 1657. Vpon the County troops LO now each County hath ' its proper (ſ) Some put their trust in Chariots and som in H●rses making flesh their arme and so make their Gods their Gods Gad The (t) Protectours of no vice shop● in these reforming times Vice-Protectours of three nations sad Opprest with Taxes and excises great Under the colour of a zealous heat Of perfecting a blessed reformation Whose product is a cursed toleration Thus are three Kingdoms made a most free state When every one is bound to pay his rate Yea thus three lands must maintain their own (u) The loss of King and Bishops the late true grand-defendors and Champions of our late truth and Peace harms By new devices and by force of arms Thus are we brought and kept still in great thrall Till god shew mercy and release us all He makes us all of one mind and agree In his true faith and sincere pietie He in his best time truth and peace ussend With power of grace our ill lives to amend That time God hasten for his dear sons sake And for such blessings great us thankfull make The grand troubles of our English Scottish and Irish Israels Morsus sacerdotales nunquam tales The Priestly bitings never such As have of late prevail'd too much Gal. 5.15 If ye bite and devour one another Take heed that ye be not consumed one of another THe (a) Chiefly the disobedient and gain saving Presbyterial Cle●g● gainsaying the Episcopal for then own gain Presbyterians have such biters been That they have left us neither King nor Queen To rule three lands in godly quietness And them to save from such as them oppress Nor godly learned Seer in his diocess To guard the Pulpits always more or less From such erroneous and newfangled Teachers As were from time to time contentious preachers Of Schismes and War which at the last beat down The Loyal Myter and the Royal Crown No Bishop no King said King James of old Too true we find it Crown and Miter sold Both which main Pillars are of Church and State And their great use their (b) a 〈◊〉 ●egis quam finendo want hath shewd of late For since their sad pretending liberties Each man doth what seems right in his own eys Nor truth nor peace established in our gates (c) The God of 〈◊〉 rule Mars ruling still our now new ruling States Lord though we bite and still devoure each other Yet lets not be consum'd one by another But grant that truth and peace may setled be That we from Taxes and keen Axes free Thy great and holy name may glorifie By giving thanks until we all shall dye We all are causes of our most sad breaches By our (d) By foll●wing too much the devices and des●res of ●ur own hearts by leaving undone those things which we ought to have done and by doing those things which we ought not to have done Thus we Omitteemen and Committee-men are the workers of our own ruine perditio tua exte 〈◊〉 devices and (e) Self interests neglecting the best interest namely interest Omnium recte agere self-ended reaches God then give true repentance to us all And us deliver from our (f) Spiritual and corpotal armed thrall May 1. 1649. Mala nova Mater Ecclesia mala novae Ill news O Mother Church ill news MOst Orthodox (a) Amos 5. Archbishops Bishops Peans and Arc●deacons according to the Canonical ordination of the late most fan ous Orthodox Church of England Priests silenc'd a sad story And (b) Who if they were well sifted would not be found so well gifted gifted brethren they get all the glory By their new-fangled teaching which yet alas Is often times as brittle as the glass They babble by which must be twice run out Before they finish what they are about Two hours i th Pulpit not one in the text At which long speaking many men are vext Some call them Gospel opportunities Yet oft times Belzebub that Prince of flies Flies closely in and father of all lies By them doth broach errours yea blasphemies Yet these be such great Saints as do not need Gods ten Commands Lords prayer or the Creed Apostolique the three fundamentals And of Gods Temple the (c) Old Englands liturgie and Rubrick is better then the new-brick wherewith the new-lights build their new Churches supporting walls Without which three no Ghostly house is built But all their labour lost and vainly spilt Then all ye new lights take this light from me That ye out of the old way of Preaching be Then take St. Pauls a Master builders wise Advise first all your hearers Catechise In those three above said Fundamentals Which as is said be the supporting walls Of each Ghostly Edifice strong and sure Which will them constant make and long endure All the strong blasts of all false doctrine winds Which else will shake much their unstable minds Thus are your meetings like to be in vaine Sith ye and they receive much chaff for grain Yea by assembling you 'l (a) 2 Tim. 3.13 wax worse and worse For for a blessing ye receive a curse Vpon the sifting of a Parliament Without the Common-wealths due free consent STrange dead is the head yet some members live Which to their head a deadly blow did give Who sit and act in Parliament again Though dead and buried be their Sovereign Yea this they do without the Countries choice Wherein each freeman is to give his voice Since then they sit with out a lawful call 'T is like three Nations will to ruine fall How then will they effect that reformation Which hath been promis'd (b) Both in the long and often since the long Parlament Heb. 12.12 long unto the Nation How can that be a Reformation good Whose base base was Kingly and Priestly blood Then lets all repent and make our (c) Episcopall and presbyteriall paths straight Turn back toth ' years forty four forty eight Accept again of Scepter and of Miter And bid adien to Mars that bloody fighter That truth and peace may once more meet together And

A New and True Mercurius OR MERCVRIVS METRICVS A true Relation in Meeter on the behalf of Scepter and Miter comprising sundry of the most sad and bad Transactions Occurrences and Passages in England Scotland and Ireland for the space of twelve years last past Ita subvertere seria Regem Legem gregem For the true information and reformation of the People OR Sober Sadness and Plain dealing in a few plain sober and sad Country Rhimes concerning these sad and heavy times conducing to a real personal and National Reformation in three sinful Lands To which is added the Authours Twelve years extream Melancholy with the woful effects thereof in him and the best remedy which he used for the removal of them all Also a joyful and thankful Commemoration of His Majesties happy return to his Three Kingdoms By WILLIAM MASCAL above forty years ago Fellow-Commoner of Clarehal in Cambridge now a poor Deacon according to the Canonical Ordination of the late most famous Orthodoxal Church of England LONDON Printed for the Author 1661. TO the Right Honorable and truely Noble Lady and Ancient godly Matron above Fourscore years old whose ancient days the Ancient of days make more ancient yet Grand-Mother to the Right honorable Charles West Lord de Lawarr the Lady Cicilie Lawar Dowager VVilliam Mascall a true honorer of her honour and of all that have relation unto that Ancient Noble and Religious Family humbly Dedicateth this his sad Malancholy Sober Sadness Vpon the † Pro Christa vis tolerata beat violent death of our late most gracious Soveraingne now made the most glorious Proto-Monarch Martyr of England Scotland and Ireland Charls the first LAment Lament Lament that bloodie stroke Which God permitted when his anger shook Three Kingdoms all at once whereby their (a) who preferred the sufferings of innocence pefore the spoiles and triumphs of violence and is now amongst the noble Army of Martyr p●●ising God with his celestial TE DEVM King Deprived was of Life that pretious thing Hee now is free but free among the dead And three Realmes want their gracious Sovereign head His earthly body in the earth doth rest His soule with God which makes him truly blest To change earth for heaven is a glorious thing Lo thus King Charls is made a glorious King Renent repent O England full of blood And make thine eyes an everflowing flood Of Penitentiall tears for that horrid deed Is flown to heaven with more then winged speed And cryes for (b) Gens luet est seclus Parliament and nationa● si●●●● require Parliament and National punishments vengance to thy most just God Who suffered hath a Covenant breaking rod To scourge three nations thus when they greatire Good Lord is past then cast it in the fire For truth and peace pray all true Christian men Till God the faithfull AMEN say amen Lord say amen when thou shalt see it fit And take away our sins that hinder it That truth may flourish and our wars may cease Which thou O God command thou Prince of peace And make us all true Hallelujahs sing To thee our Lord and our celestiall King Feburary 14 1648. Taxes and Axes Upon His Majesties overthrow at Worcester Septemb. 3. 1651. TAxes and axes still do make us grone Yet we rejoyce when we should rather mone To see three Kingdoms thus laid in the dust God giving way to mans outragious lust Remove this cup of blood Lord send us peace And truth and make true Charity increase In Christendom Chiefly those Kingdoms three Which to one Christian King belonging be Least that they (c) Ieremiah 25.27 spue and fall and rise no more From those three Realms keep thou that judgement sore And grant them truthand peace once more at last Before they be quite desolate and wast For this let all true harted Christians pray Till God the AMEN please Amen to say Thanksgiving is the best thanksgiving St Math. 3.8 Bring forth fruits meet for repentance TO turn from sin to God is true thanksgiving And not our (d) Isaiah 1.15 Manus nostra caedibus plenae bloody and ungratefull living Then turn us Lord and let us sin no more And us deliver from our bondage sore For thine own glory and the Churches good Stop thou the current of all Christian blood And us vouchsafe once more a King on earth And with him truth and peace (e) Ba pacem domine usque quo domine usque q●o and Godly mirth So shall we sing and praise the evermore Who for thy Church all blessings hast in store October 24. 1651. A prayer made in the name and behalf of the (f) Marte et atae Satana By martial rights and by the Devil slights wofully torne divided distressed and distracted nations England Scotland and Ireland MAke us O God make us to seek thy face By true repentance and renewing grace And shew to us thy smiling face again As formerly thou did'st in Kingly reigne For many calme and quiet years together Which now alas are turned to stormy weather Whereby thy Church sustained hath great loss Quakers cheat many with their (g) Tim. 1.4.1 Doctrines of Devils whom many shall believe in the last time Demoinbus credent supremo tempore multi devilish dross For schisms errors yea blasphemies increase Through want of our late discipline and peace That government again then Lord us send Which peacefull was and did thy faith defend In thy good time give us this (h) Benefit multis à principe benefit And grant us all grace thereto submit That truth and peace may flourish in our lands Again by thy best all-disposing hands And make us all give the true thanks and praise By holy living all our future daies King Mary Mary and Army make an Anagram for in both words the letters are the same OR Old Englands new German like Munster Monster A Monster strange in three Lands never seen An * Manent lites dum regannt milite● 〈◊〉 remain while Souldiers reign Army reigns without a King or Queen Vpon the thirtieth day of January 1648. OLd Englands bloody January day When Church State to spoil some took the way The thirtieth day of January last Into a Model new three Realms were cast By a mad mode of modellizing things A King beheaded to make Subjects Kings Charls the Defender of the true Faith slain King Mary ruleth with its martial traine Queen Mary liv'd a Quinquennie of years Yet never slew so many Lords and Peers As have been slain within these fifty days By Armed State-Grandees thereby to raise A Reformation from that (a) They build up Sion with blood Mich. 3.10 bloody (b) A most base basis and most unchristian foundation of a Christian reformation never to be for gotten no not after all the bloody actors in that Tragedy be dead and rotten base A woful sad and miserable case If three Kingdoms must be reformed thus From such Reformers Lord

deliver us But now behold they I make us a free State Far from this freedom full of strife and hate Where these things are there 's every evil work Under which freedom thraldome great doth (c) Latet anguis in herba lurk Lord keep us from such States as bring confusion And send us Monarchy in the conclusion Restore to us our Truth and Peace again By causing Charles the Second for to reign In these three Kingdo as where his Father late Did govern peaceably both Church and State Till civil War and a most factious fact Not worth the name of House of Commons act Bereft him of his Soveraignty and Power In a most dismal and most fatal hour Contrary to a most Religious Oath Of preserving him and his thus was troth Violated by men of greatest trust And so his Kingly power was laid 'i th dust Notwithstanding their good Kings great (d) Voted to be satisfactory concessions His foes went on still with their great transgressions From whence arose a new light never seen In Brittains sphere neither King nor Queen To govern us according to Gods Law But we are forst of such to stand in aw Who lately were our fellow Subjects sworn To preserve our King and eke his free-born People all free from slavery and thrall Yet now behold we are their bondslaves alle Make Truth and Peace Lord once more kiss each other That we may live in godly love together And for those blessings great give thee true praise By striving thee to glorifie always By living alway in thy ways most just Till we shall all return unto our dust And our souls praise thee for eternity In heaven that place of true felicity March 14. 1648. Saint Hieroms judgement concerning Malignants Vpon the ejecting of the sequestred though neither ignorant nor scandalons but most Orthodox conscientious and truly Religious Ministers of Gods most sacred word FRom the first of the first month fifty five Scarce any (e) For Doctrine and discipline according to the Canonical constitution of the late most famous Church of England Orthodox divines shall thrive For many of them as (f) In sore soli non insoro ●●li Malignants shall Loose their (g) As good almost lose their lively-heads as their liveli-hoods livings Ecclesiastical They are protected well liberty given To make them poor if not to beg are driven The ready way to cast Religion down Is to remove the Miter and the Crown These two great evils in the (h) Ianuary 10.44 the 30. of Ianu. 1648. same month done Needs then to ruine must three Nations run When they are (i) Moses and Aron ita subertere serit down which stood up in the gap Expect no welfare but some great (k) To Church and State mishap God of his Mercy great protect us all And free us from inward and outward thral Malignant be content with what thou hast Till such (l) Saint Hierom the only Presbyterian of his time calls them Maligna●s which Maligne and Oppugne their King See his translation of the ●t Psalm ab insurgentibus in me Maligs antibus audiet auris m●● Malignant stormes be over-past God giveth all and he takes all away Then with his dealing be content I pray January 14. 1655. A prayer for the enlargement of Gods Kingdom LOrd let thy gratious Kingdom come Throughout thy specious Christendome Let none of those that bear the sway In any Land give any way To an unlawful toleration Of (m) Nenes novae Dogmata sallant false Worships in any Nation Chiefly of the most wicked (n) Who contemn and condemne the two great Ordinances of God ordained and commanded in the fifth precept Magistracy and Ministry without which their is no safety in this world nor salvation in the world to come Quakers The chief Mases and Aaron-shakers Lord hear thy Churches devout prayers And stop the mouths of all Gain-sayers Grant Truth and Peace and Unity With perfect love and charitie That we may greatly Glorifie Thy great name till we all shall dye And live with thee eternally In Heaven where 's true felicity Strena Parliaments The Parliamens New-Years-gift For the Glory of God and three Nations good Sober and plain dealing Counsel to the great Counsel of the Land the High Court of Parliament A short exhortation tending to a real * Reformatio seria vera nunquam sera reformation in three sinful Lands Adjuvate Patriam Take ye the Counsel that is now in hand And for the welfare of your Country stand ALL ye who in this Parliament do sit Hearken to what each member doth befit Strive to heal the wounds given to Church and State By an intestine bloody War of late Give to them both what doth to them belong Help them to their right who have suffered wrong And head a right three late beheaded Land Which for help implore your hearts heads and hands Rebuild our Sions strongest wals now down The loyal Miter and the Royal Crown These things if done by your more Yeas then Nays God shall have glory great and you much praise Consult and act as Gods word doth require That Church and State may have what they desire Truth and firm peace for both which both do call So God be with you and perswade you all To do both these and all such righteous things As he allow's who is the King of Kings Heare then and redress Church and State complaints And do Gods will who is the Kings of Saints The * Rightly so called because it brought the blackness of death ●orescoreserens upon their own most gratious ●nd dread Sovereigne without whose g●atious aspect and ravour they could not have been a Parliament black Parliament much increas'd our crosses Let this prove white and so repair our losses January 1. 1654. Three late famous Kingdoms depravated by being deprived of their Supreame Magistrate and Minister Sublato Episcope tollitur Rex said King James OH what will now become of three poor Nations When King and Priest remov'd are from their stations When some unjustly did behead them ●oth And that against a most Religious Oath That 's a * Not the good old cause much less our good Gods cause as it hath been too too long miscalled wrong cause which wronged Church and State And brought King and Priest to that deadly fate When such black deeds must needs make reformations And lay-mens Preachings Gospel propagations When out Church festivals are laid aside As Christmass Easter and our Waitsontide When we are led astray by Satans sleights Which cheateth many with Mechannick lights Who without call to Preach and to baptize Often do breach their self conceits and lies The publique meetings some will not abide But to the private will both run and ride When Sacraments want due administrations And blasphemous sects obtain tolerations * Haec patiere Deus will God suffer such intollerable tolerations and abominations When

Martial men do cause our Parliaments To be dissolved and their good intents Of doing good to Church and Common-weal Do nul this makes more wounds not any heal When Sword-men meet to make such meetings void T' is to be fear'd three Lands will be destroy'd For these sins with their many aggravations Do call and cry for ruine to the Nations If we repent not but in sin proceed * The God of mis-rule who now three Lands doth rule amiss Mars predominant we afresh shall bleed Since topsie turvy all 's turn'd upside down In Court City Country and Market Town What then remains but sadly to lament Our sinful lives and truly to repent The Lord our God who is the God of order Order all things aright in every border Of Church and State throughout all Christendom And so preserve them for the time to come May. 4. 1659. The chief Fomentours of all our Martial blows and woes PRresbyterian and Independent bitings Have been the cause of many bloody fightings Whereby our late good Sovereign lost his head And a Protectour ruleth in his stead Who came to reign not by the * Not by his right hand of Commission but by his left hand of permission Herbert our Church Poet in his title of providence grace of God But conquering sword which is his angry rod Lord burn this rod of thine in thy best season And Crown his head who ought by * Divine and humane right and reason To sway the Scepner in those Kingdoms three Which to him only now pertaining be That truth and peace may flourish in our Coasts To thine own glory who art Lord of Hoasts And thy Churches good for which good men pray Till thou the AMEN please Amen to say Englands Geneva Scottish Innovation Produced hath a Sottish (a) Exesa Dco santiis Toleration VVHen men may do what 's right in their own eyes Creed Gods command Lords prayer they despise (b) Contrary to Gods express command Nahum 1.15 O ludah keep thy solemn feasts and why not O England Scotland and Ireland Church Feltivals by some are laid aside As Christmas Easter and our Whitsuntide These blessings great are counted now so small They be not worth their Lip-ful annual If with their mouths men will not give God praise Their hearts to such a work how can they raise But tongue and hear-thanks should go both together Chiefly in stormy and tempestuous weather Our Church and State both being now therein Not to give God both is an hainous sin No formes of Service now esteemed be Yea Gods own word we much despised see For when some Preach the Bible they pass by And in the Pue let it unclasped lye Not a Chapter read nor Psalme for the day But to the Pulpit up in hast away And there they speak sometimes above two hours Till tediousness the fruit of both devours Lord turne our Church into the late pure veins Orthodox free us from th'erroneous braines Of lay-pulpiters that yet once againe Both truth and peace three poor lands may obtaine These blessing grant us for thy dear sonssake Till thou thy whole Church shalt triumphant make The right prevailing way of (a) Which will indeed produce spiritual and corporal gain regaining a King Truth sirme peace and Godly discipline St. Mark 11.24 Therefore I say unto you what thing soever ye desire when ye Pray believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them Aske and ye shall have What in faith ye crave USe then this means all (b) All Royalists and Loyallists who long for their King and list to be Loyal to him well affected men For King Truth Peace and Bishops once agen Petition God and Courts of Parliament Which for the good or Church and State are sent That he in his time would have mercy on us And take away his smarting rod upon us As heretofore (c) Against the Bishops the highest office of Godssacred Ministry petition caus'd our crosses So let them now help to restore our (d) Chiefly the Scepter and the Miter those two main Pillars of Church and State losses Repent Pray and Believe as Christ hath said And ye shall obtaine be not then dismaid Lord give Grace Truth Peace (e) In Church and Common wealth settlement again And bless us once more with a (f) And make him not only a citular but also a tutelar King next to thy self who art King of Kings unto his three Kingdoms The Royal Stuarts bear to God true heart Stuarts reign May 1. 1649. Schismaticall and verball reformations Produce and bring forth reall desolations Oh how three nations do to ruine run By errors broken and by Sects undon Behold the Presbyterian reformation In creasing sects and Schismes throughout each nation Now seethe new lights in their (h) T is called by some Generation-work sure it is not Regeneration work generation Acting all by their own new light and fashion Not rul'd nor guided by Gods holy word But all reforming with a conquering sword The sword the sword alone is their cleare call Proceeding from our Armyes (i) Ensis Cromvelienss Non voc at ensit Ye tit is better to be Cavalire then a Cromwelliere Exitus acts probes General King Queen and Bishops with their lands are gone Yet taxes and excises still go on Those who to pay them all are yet most willing For every penny let them pay a shilling These reformatours they want money too And so they will till they us quite undoe They will not from oppressions set us free To worke this good effect no Act shall be Much less mean they for to breake every (k) Isa 58.6 yoke Or to make good those good laws which are broke But to make our burthens (l) Graviora scremus more heavy still To bring to pass theirown designes and will Then God in his time truth and peace us send With power and grace our ill lives to amend That time he hasten for his dear Sons sake And for those blessings great us thankfull make June 24. 1653. Vpon the inauguration of Oliver Cromwell Who from a Martial Anti-regal Hector Is now advanced to be (m) June 26. 1657. dic Veneris Lord Protector AStrange new (n) No Royal Exchange a gracious King the true faiths defendor instead of a Tyrant Protect or exchange an unheard of thing His highness made much higher then a King Who never was Knight of the royal Garter Much less th' eldest son of a (o) O dies quando vectris Charls the first Regal-Martyr He was attended with keen (p) Signifying thereby the protecting of his mine une Common-wealth and yet no wealth in its Commons swords out drawn No godly Bishop in his pure (q) Signifying puritie of Doctrine and conversation the old Vrim and Thummim with the conservation of them both by the arme and power of their godly discipline which now alas is broken white Lawn

we at length be freed from stormy weather Which hath continued above twenty years To the great loss of Peasant and of Peers Good God in thy good time have mercy on us And throw away thy rod now long upon us Give true repentance and amend us all Free us from ghostly and corporeal thrall June 21. 1659. Vpon the dissolution of the long and (a) Too strong for Moses nd Aaron the Seepter and the Miter both broken by it St ange Scepter Scepter and Miter broken sad things to be spoken strong Parliament Fit via vi vi armis OR Patience perforce IN April last a stormy Martial shower Stormed (b) Corvintus dissolutus a●ssolutus est ●er dissoluti●rem con●ertum assembled men of their great power They then had calling it a Parliament Of enacting laws with Saint like intent To reforme all things amiss in each Nation Yet still we see a dayly Pejoration Then mend us Lord and send us better days Grant truth and peace and thine be all the praise June 24. 1653. Upon the rising in Cheshire against this present self-Parliament called by themselves and is stiled by some the restitution restauration Of Taxes Excises and her insupportable payments and resurrection of the long long since dead in its head black and bloody one which God forbid that so much innocent and precious blood of Kingly Priestly Royal and Loyal should a fresh be shed no more of that for the Lords sake SOme countrey men can now no longer bear Their heavy (b) ●im vi repo●lere bellum bello debellare burthens therefore do adhere To some who (c) Dum bellum geritur pax queritur by force will do what they can Out of their duty unto God and man To ease them and to restore truth and (d) Pax quaeritur bello said ●ur late Protector Oliver of cursed memory for his cursed toleration and for his wicked Sequestrations and deprivations of many Orthodox learned and godly Ministers of Gods most sacred word peace That love and Piety may yet increase God say Amen to this ev'n so be it By what means and when he himself thinks fit The Israels of England Scotland and Ireland being indeed all three now the Lands of Gods justire for their most bloody National Parliamental unnatural and unchristian sins are yet in Martial Booths Tents and Tabernacles till it please God himself who only is the Lord of Hosts to restore and settle in them truth and firm peace which time he hasten if it be his blessed will through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Amen June 24. 1659. Vpon the reviving of the long dead black Parliament BLack will be still black for this Parliament Sent for by Letters not legally sent Is not white nor right without the right summons Of choice Countrey-men for an house of Commons Not in each country (a) Whereby three Nations may be guld call'd one two or three Btu all in (b) Without General or Major General general as they ought to be All that were long ago lawfully called in the long Parliament as well the unjustly secluded Members as those who were and are of the Anti-Episcopal and Anti-Regal faction which made a fraction first of the Miter and then of the Scepter A right good Parliament for the right good old cause which is really and not verbally Gods cause is that whose members are right and upright right in their opinions or opinations and upright in their conversations June 24. 1659. A Deaths head OR A short Memento mori for all sorts of people Death comes unawares hasting like a Post And will be seen before foreseen of most Sumus fumus sumus cinis Et cinis erit noster finis HIgh and low old and new Potentates Remember death knocks daly at your gates We all are dust end shall to dust return Then let 's (a) Vita repente fugit● Therefore let us repent sme mora in lac gratiae hora. repent lest that in hell we burn Lord make us make our ways good just and ev'n That after death we may inherit heaven WILLIAM MASCAL (b) Ordained by Episcopal authority to be a publique Reader of Gods most sacred word of our godly Liturgy and holy Homilies of our Mother the Church of England Who is a (c) Such ill Lecturers following Hugh Peters not St. Peters divining together with Souldiers ●oblers Tinkers and several other mechanick hetrodox publick and private Speakers had almost cast down all the orthodox godly learned Preachers and right dividers of the word of truth Lector at S. Marth'as-Hill No Lecterer who oft hath lectur'd (d) By their much abusing in the late ●●●estine wa● two text of hole Scripture Curse ye Meroz c. Iudges 5.23 Cursed be he that keepth back his sword from blood I● 8.10 ill Thus endeth a metricall though no poeticall true narration of things done in three late famous Kinghoms whereby they are for the present undone and that chiefly by the superfluous wealth of London whose money and treasure was the sinews of an intestine War which caused many to commit many new sins The good Lord our God forgive us all and in his due time send us all true Grace Truth and firm peace through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ Amen Amen Amen A Prayer for true piety the best remedy of extreame melancholy DEliver me O God from Satans ginns And give me true repentance for my sins With power to forsake them all and grace Of new obedience and to seek thy face By doing always what thou wouldst have done And by beleiving in thine only son By doing good and by eschewing evil By renouncing the world the flesh and devil As I did long agoe in baptisme (a) Votum baptismale Ecclesiae Angl canae vow O make me O my God O make me now That Covenant to keep and not allow My self in any bosome sin but bow Unto thy will revealing in thy word Which shall great joy and gladness me afford Lord bless the means against my melancholy Which I shall use and make me truely holy The woful effects of extreame melancholly With a Prayer for the removal of them TOo much melancholly produceth folly And dead 's mens heart to duties chiefly holy It makes his spirits all so dull and dead That he can neither speak pray write or read To any thing he hath such small desire That he can neither make his bed or blow his fire It makes a man to fear where is no fear And angry oft for nought unfit to bear Whatever God doth send with patience It moves him often times his soul from hence To send and rid himself of vital breath Before the time God calls for it by death Yea it incites a man to desper ation And hope which is the helmet of Salvation It strives to take from off a sinners head And him to leave amongst the (b) Omne peceatum