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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93101	The times displayed in six sestyads: the first [brace] a Presbyter, an Independent. The second [brace] an Anabaptist and a Brownist. The third [brace] an Antinomian and a Familist. The fourth [brace] a Libertine and an Arminian. The fift [brace] a Protestant and eke a Papist. All these dispute in severall tracts, and be divulgers, as of truth, so fallacie. The sixt [brace] Apollo, grieves to see the times so pester'd with mechanicks slavish rimes.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel).	1646 (1646)	Wing S3170; Thomason E365_10; ESTC R201251	10,214	25

Profane Liberty Envious Hipocresie Iesuitecall Pollicie Three Grand Enimies to Church and State Sins captiue grace abuser Couenant beaker soules deceiver Voyd of zeale filld with sin Given up to die therein To pretious truthes an enimie Filld with pride and cruiltie And fills larg Tracts with fowle disgrace Of truthes deare ones that hir imbrace Till Ante christ shall ruind bee Great combustions wee must see With errors shall the world be led But christ his spouse himselfe will guide The times Displayed IN SIX SESTYADS The first A Presbyter an Independent The second An Anabaptist and a Brownist The third An Antinomian and a Familist The fourth A Libertine and an Arminian The Fift A Protestant and eke a Papist All these dispute in severall Tracts and be Divulgers as of Truth so Fallacie The sixt Apollo grieves to see the Times So pester'd with Mechannicks lavish Rimes Scribimus indocti Doctique Poemata Passim London Printed and are to be sold by I. P. at his shop neer the Sessions house in the old Bayly 1646. To the Right Honourable Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook VOuchsafe great Lord that art our Nations pride In whose rare Vertues they alone conside To be the Patron of my humble Muse Who doth thee onely her Maecenas chuse This work displayes the times therefore t is meet I should present it humbly at thy feet Who art no sever of the times but thou Will serve thy Nation and thy help allow For to maintain their Priviledges and be A propogator of Gods veritie To thee therefore great Lord this work I give That I and it may in thy favour live Your Honours most obedient Servant S. SHEPPARD An Anagram on the Name of the Right Honourable Philip Herbert Earl of Pembrook EARLE PHILIP HERBERT Anagram Pear help all Libertie Pear help all libertie Great Lord we finde How well thy Name hath suited to thy mind When England was in danger slav'd to be Then thou great Lord didst help all Libertie And by thy circumspect and prudent wit Sawst evill coming and diverted it To thee therefore a trophie I will raise And sing in Verse that aye shall last thy praise THE TIMES DISPLAYED IN SIX SESTIADS THE FIRST SESTIAD The Argument An Independent and a Presbyter Their severall Tenents each do here prefer And while they pro and con do argue we May judge of both and which most erreth see INDEPENDENT AND have we spent our bloods to gain no more We are as wretched as we were before When as the Lordly Prelates ruld the Land Making Gods Truth to stoop to your command O thou immortall Rector when shall we Be as we ought and have our conscience free From mens Injunctions PRESBYTER See mans nature is Never contented though he be in blisse He would have yet more joy why knowst thou not Or hath thy shallow memory forgot What great immunities are purchased Since the great little Prelate lost his head Are we not free from Papists lordly Reign Who ruld Charls onely called Soveraign Is not the throst of Inovation cut Are not our Enemies in pinsolds that Are not those Courts that rackt the Commons purses Receiving oft their silver with their curses Abolisht i● not that some fatall court Star Chamber cald where six Lords could extort What they would from the Common now put down And in the stead mercy and Justice shown Are not all envious suckers Independent He whose this My utter enemy I ween it is As the ill boding Scrilch-owl I do hate Thy speeches tell me art thou Consecrate An Elder whom I may dechipher thus Hodie Clericus cr●● Lui●us Thee and thy tenents I abhor and hate As errors do all mischiefe properate Perhaps thou art an Expactant luch there be Who waite Election in the Presbytery I hold the Rule of your Archi-synagogie To be a cruell Rigorous Tyrannie Your high Sanhedrim by which you undertake Your Fellow Commoners meer slaves to make Your great Assembly is above all power And what you please you turn and change each houre So that I de rather chuse a slave to be And vassaild to the Bishops Hierchie Then unto you subjected pray whence rose Your Reformation but from Knox and those Seditious ones Melvill and Lisley and Peter Carmichael who once did stund In open opposition gainst all Law In ordine ad Spiritualia Presbyter O Thou deluded that art enemie To God doth not the sacred verity Confirm and eke command the Church should be Guided by a Judicious Presbyterie Thy Allegations are most false and naught Such as the Feind into thy mind hath brought Thou art a Libertine and wouldst have none To govern thee but thy false heart alone Woe be to England hadst thou thy desire Whose thoughts are swords whose actions are fire To ruin thine opposers praised be To the Almighties Sacred Maiestie Our prudent Parliament do now proceed To settle Independent What they have decreed Thei l finde when they have setled it most sure T is built on sand and cannot long indure Presbyter Well go thy wayes let Sathan and his crue Theu most of your wicked ends persue God will preserve his Church and maugre all Will have his own will to be principall After so long obseurity he now Is pleasd unto his servants light to shew The true light of his face the government He gave to his Apostles with intent They and the true Church ever should observe Which having purchasd grant Lord nere swerve There-from but us and ours imbrace it may Untill the last and dreadfull Judgement day The end of the first Sestiad The Second Sestyad The Argument An Anabaptist and a Brownist here Vnmask themselves and make the filth appear The while the one contendeth for himself Averring he ought not baptize his elfe Till hee s of age the other worse deluded Saith Godhath England from the Church exculded Anabaptist After so long a night of woe and sorrow Behold a fair and delicious morrow After so many years when we opprest Were fin'd imprisoned and could never rest For the Beast Image the hated Bishops now We openly and without dread avow Our tenents dipping maids and wives each day Their naturall concupicence to allay And although some we drown those drowned so Doe but by water unto heaven go And Brow I le not beleeve the Church of England is A true Church making my assurance this When Bishops and their government did stand And Popery was used in the Land By singing cringing worshipping of tables Christning of bells with many other Fables T was then an * The Brow nists hold our church to be Antichristian Heretical that becaus we have no Church they are to sever themselves from us that without civil authority they are to erect a Church of their own Antichristian Church and now They seem those errors for to disavow Instead thereof the English Parlament Set up a worser fiercer Government The spawn of Bishops now must rule I gather The wandering issue of a