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england_n	bring_v	day_n	king_n	3,356	5	3.5633	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27129	A grievous lamentation over thee O England or, the greatest part of thy inhabitants, who have withstood the day of their visitation : with the word of the Lord to thy rulers and teachers, who continue persecuting and oppressing the dear children and people of the Most High ... / ... William Bayly.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1529; ESTC R16359	5,403	8

A Grievous LAMENTATION OVER THEE O ENGLAND OR The greatest part of thy Inhabitants who have withstood the Day of their Visitation With the WORD of the LORD to thy Rulers and Teachers who continue persecuting and oppressing the dear Children and People of the Most High whom he hath raised in thee and sent to warn thee that thou mightest have repented and been saved from the wrath to come which now shall speedily overtake thee Through one born within thy borders William Bayly And he spread it before me and it was written within and without and there was written therein Lamentations and Mourning and Wo. Read Ezek. chap. 2. throughout O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings and ye would not Behold your House is left unto you desolate verily I say unto you All these things shall come upon this generation Matt. 23.36 37. LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. A grievous Lamentation over thee Oh England c. OH England England Is it thy Lot to be the hissing and the astonishment of Nations Hath 7. daies past over thee thou yet remainest as the Beasts of the field without understanding Must it needs be that many of my Children must shake of the dust of their feet against thy Rulers and Teachers and turn to other Nations who shall rise up in judgement against thee because in thee mighty works have been done which if the same had been done in Tire and Sidon Sodom and Gomorrah they would have repented Niniveh shall rise up in judgement against thee who repented at the preaching of Jonas for behold a greater then Jonas hath preached in thy streets But what shall I say must the day of thy visitation pass over thy head and the Summer be ended and thou not saved Must thou be made an example Oh England to the whole earth Must the noise of thy fall and ruin make the Nations afar off tremble and to be awakened and fear before the Lord and seek after his salvation Must the report come from thee that must strike the earth with amazement and cause the ears of them that hear it to tingle Oh England England what shal I do for thee My bowels my bowels My heart is pained within me and I am in sorrow and distress for thee as a woman in Travell How often hath the Lord of Hosts of late sounded in mine ears that thy visitation is nigh over Thy visitation is nigh over or else I must say as Jeromiah did the Lord hath deceived me Oh England how oft have the pleasant showers of the visitations from on high descended upon thee but where and amongst whom doth the fruits appear to the praise and glory of the dresser Is not thy heaven brass and thy earth become iron Are not the clouds returning after the rain in thee Is not the Sun and the Moon and the Light darkened in thee And is not thy golden bowl broken and the wheel at the Cistern and art not thou going to thy long home and the mourners about the streets Must thou die without knowledge and be buried in the sea of misery Must thy name become a Proverb and thy remembrance an astonishment what nation was like to thee in the days that are gone what oportunities hast thou had of being made the praise of the whole earth But now thou art become hardened as if thou were raised up that God's power and wonders might be made known upon thee Must thou indeed be destroied as God overthrew Egypt Is Sodom thy sister Must the plagues and the judgements that are written come upon thee Must thou fall as the handfull after the Harvest-man and to be cut down as the grass before the Mower Must not just Lot whose soul is vexed with thy unlawfull deeds be first delivered Must not Noah be in the Ark before the flood comes Then shall the destroyer pass through thee as a Gyant to run his race and thou shalt be destroyed with a sore destruction what Lamentation shall I take up for thee O England How have my bones bin as shattered my sinews as torn in the remembrance of thy day How doth my belly tremble and my lips quiver at the feeling of the sence of the burthen that is coming upon thee Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way-faring men that I might go from this People and leave them Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night then should I be eased How deep is the sence of thy Calamity entred into my soul which makes me stagger like a drunken man and as a reed shaken with the wind Oh my soul why art thou so disquieted for this people why dost thou not cast off their burthen and be still Why dost thou meditate their terrour in the night seasons Why art thou as as a bird ready to hasten into nations a far off Why doth thy life draw as with a cart-rope into the uttermost-parts of the earth Is thy native Country become a strange Land Or dost thou love strangers more then these Oh that I might know why thou weepest thus in secret and art become as a sorrowfull woman Hast thou lost a son or dost thou desire a son like Hannah What aileth thee Oh my soul that thou thus travellest night and day in sorrow as a mother to bring forth or as a child that crieth for its mother Do none of thy brethen partake of thy burthens and do not their bowels feel they distresses yes surely Is it not because I did once love thee O England and because I now pity thee seeing thy dreadful Doom that I thus weep over thee How art thou fallen O Land by thine iniquity Even thy Kings and thy Rulers thy Teachers and thy Leaders thy Judges and thy Captains thy Mighty men and thy Mean men the Master the Scholar the Mistris and her Maid the Buyer and the Seller O the Darkness such as was in Egypt which may be felt O the hardness of heart like an Adamant harder then flint O the blindness the born-blindness that is in thee and covering thee as a garment O the Pride and fulness lifted-upness impudency and height of Ambition that is in hee Can it be higher or can it be uttered by the tongue of man O thou Lucifer that thus dwellest actest and reignest in thy Children God's eternal judgments shall be upon thee and his vengeance shall consume thee and the day is at hand O the wantonness Stubbornness prophaneness lewdness crookedness cruelty hypocrisie deceit and oppression that is in thee O thou England Thou hast killed the Prophets of the Lord stoned and persecuted them that he hath sent unto thee O that thou wert not blinder then the Sodomites and darker then Egypt and deafer then the Adders and