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A14301 The Newlanders cure Aswell of those violent sicknesses which distemper most minds in these latter dayes: as also by a cheape and newfound dyet, to preserue the body sound and free from all diseases, vntill the last date of life, through extreamity of age. Wherein are inserted generall and speciall remedies against the scuruy. Coughes. Feauers. Goute. Collicke. Sea-sicknesses, and other grieuous infirmities. Published for the weale of Great Brittaine, by Sir William Vaughan, Knight. Vaughan, William, 1577-1641. 1630 (1630) STC 24619; ESTC S111506 55,728 158

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and Heresie GOD keepe vs all as from Apostasie Abbaes Streams Abba Father the Voyce of the Spirit in the hearts of Gods Adopted and Regenerated children acknowledging their Election from the Father out of the corrupted Lumpe of Mankind and out of the vnrefined Oare or vnpurified Mettle of pretended Christianity of meere Grace without any Deserts of theirs at all and consequently their Iustification by the Sonne through Faith and the spirituall apprehension of his onely merites Their sanctification by the Holy Ghost who proceeding from both their Wills is content to breath Regeneration and New life into our barren wills and to moysten them with the Streame of liuing Waters vnlesse they compell Him with his Heauenly Gifts to retire by relying on other Physitians burthensome Traditions and vnnecessary puddled streames which Simoniackes or rather D●moniackes doe trucke and vtter for money vnder the Title of Holy Water Indulgences and sanctified Wares like-charmed so●owles or Amulets to preserue men from Cerbirus and Purgatories Bugs thereby making Marchandize of the Bodies and Soules of Men as is Prophesied in the Revelation which Auarice of theirs is flat contrary to the examples of the Apostles and the Gospell where St. Peter told the Creeple in Salomons Porch Gold and S●luer haue I none And to Simon Magus Thy money perish with thee Apostacy signifies a Reuolting or falling off from the true Religion to the Doctrine of Diuels To discerne the true Catholike Church search the Scriptures How shee fared in this World after the Ascension of our Sauiour ●ad the Histories of the Church and you shall finde her commonly pers●cuted and subiect to crosses and Fiery Tryalls euen to this our Age. First by the Iewes Secondly by the Romane Emperours Thirdly by the Arrians Fourthly by the Gothes and Vandales And lastly by the cunning and more dangerous practises of the Romish Prelates for their aduancement to the double Supremacy How this Church being once the Mother of the West grew to be Apostate it is to be supposed that Sathan tooke hold of the darknesse of Mens consciences presently after the erup●ions of those bloody Northerne Nations about 500. or 600. yeares after Christ his principall stings and more palpable violences being somewhat restrayned and bound by the Angel not to employ them against the Elect so Tyrannically and openly as hee vsed to doe before the limitted and sealed 1000. yeares of his Mysticall rest●aint About which time or within a while after and for the like ambitious ends hee seduced Mahomet in the East So that Faith departed according to St. Paul from the Temple of GOD the true Visible Church then consisting but of few Families and shadowed vnder the Woman with her man childe in the Reuelation Fled into the Wildernesse for feare of the Dragon And Gods two Witnesses were Massacred in the streetes of spirituall Sodome and Egypt and their carcasses there left vnbu●ied as was Prophesied by St. Iohn Amidst these abhominations and desolations it pleased God to stirre vp the Spirits of sundry Good men to awake them out of their dreames As St. Bernard to inuaigh against their Princely Pompe and Supremacy Berengari●● agaynst Transubstanciation and the Waldenses and Albigeois against most of their Idolatries The last of which beganne aboue 300. yeares before Luther was borne How the true Church was dealt with in Affricke Aethiopia Georgia and in the East by reason of their remotenesse we know not so distinctly But it is very probable that the old Dragon was not Idle but did his vtmost endeauour to ouer-whelme the poore distressed Saints as it were with a Flood of impieties through all the World But thus was she vsed in our Westerne Parts vntill of late yeares by the Resurrection of those two Mysticall Witnesses and the imprinting of the Bible in the Mother Tongue which in a manner lay moathcaten in the Sodomites Libraries after the Preaching of Wicliffe about the yeare 1380. and afterwards of Husse Luther Cal●i● and after the Martyrdome of many excellent men shee found at last some rest in this Iland and other places in despight of the Herods A●abs and Hamans of the times One maine difference I obserue betwixt these two repugnant Churches how the one resembles Abel and Iacob for their mildnesse and patience And th' other Came and Esau for their mallice and cruelty which their bloody Inquisitious Tortures Massacres with the transcendent Powder-plot do apparantly testifie The one maintaines her cause peaceably by the Gospell of Christ the other by Worldly Traditions and Mens authority And when these serue not with Fire and Sword they force their Opposites to acknowledge the Popes Supremacy being but the marke of Ambition and therein going beyond the Turkes who to his Mufty or Ma●omet compelles no mans Conscience a though in all other matters belonging to a Christian one Scholasticall Question excepted which might be left to the Beholders and Beleeuers disc●etion for the Forme and wonderfull manner as is the Knowledge of the personall Trinity they cannot deny any Article Faith which the Protestant holds Whereby it appeares that the Church continued not long a Uirgin after the Apostles times according to the ancient saying of Eusebius Ecclesia post Apostolorum tempora non mansit d●● Virgo And that the Mysticall Where with her Sc●rlet-coloured Beast of the seauen hilled Ctity the great Citty which bare dominion ouer all the World was certainly meant by Rome To which the chiefe Fathers of the Primitiue Church doe consent Lacta●tius lib. 7. H●oronim in Daniel Augustin lib. 20. de C●uitate Dei cap. 19. And St. Chrisostome ●● opere imperfect in Matth. most plainely writes that Antichrist was to haue ●● shew all that which the true Church hath indeed viz. Baptisme the Communion Bishops c. Therefore let such as haue once tasted of the fruites of the Gospell beware of Apostasie and back●-sliding For as St. Augustine in the afore-sayd Booke cap. 8. vnto a doubt Whether any One shall turne to God during the Raigne of Antichrist He thus answeares The Diueli shal haue a continuall fight with those that are in the Fa●●h already of whom hee may perhaps Conquer some certayne number but none of Gods Predestinated no not one Since it is not in vaine wha St. Iohn the Author of the Revelation sayth in one of his Epistles concerning Apostataes They went out from vs but they were not of vs for of they had bin of vs they would haue continue a with vs. To confirme our wauering and luke-warme Christians I aduise them to ponder with an indifferent iudgment these ensuing verses which for a conciusiue monitory to my Newlanders Cure I here subscribe ou● of my Cambrens Caroleia Can ●idiore Fides lusir● b●● lam●ne M●ndum c Our Christian Faith●● ●● in'd in the ●rime When Men●●u'd nee●e th● Apostles time But afterwards Eclips●d of Light She lay r●ti●'d from most Mens sight Returned n●w She lends her Rayes To Brittaine where as yet shee stayes FINIS
It prolongeth life vntill extreame old Age. It makes one sleepe quietly and pleasantly It makes our meate taste the more sauouring and acceptable It brings soundnesse to the Sences quicknesse to the Memory cleare iudgement to the Wit it asswageth the rage of vnruly Passions beates downe and breakes the fury of vnlawfull Lust and driues away anger and sorrow To conclude it conioynes cements and as it were glues and scrues together the Soule and Body with such an harmonicall admired temper that with a quiet Conscience Apostolicall patience and with a Magnanimous sparkling spirit partaking equally of Mirth and Grauity hee shall soone perceiue himselfe metamorphozed and changed of a sensuall Creature to bee a man of Reason of a darke besotted apprehension now suddainly become one of the hopefull Children of God illuminated with Vnderstanding to ponder iudge discusse of Caelestiall matters touching the Mysteries of our Saluation of Faith Grace the Resurrection Beatitude and the difference betwixt Humane and Diuine policy betwixt Saint Michael the Archa●gell and the Spirituall Drago● betwixt the Heauenly Ierusalem and the most reformed Common-Wealth among mortall men And lastly hee shall be able to apprehend how Sinne and the Prince of the Ayre are linked in one to confirme Mens hardned hearts in their owne accursed Courses The seuenth SECTION How necessary the Bodies Purification by a Temperate Dyet is for the Soules health The suddaine Cure of the Cough the Tisicke and other Diseases by some Medicines intermixt with this Dyet PVrification must go before Glorification For before a man can assume a Glorified immortall Body in Heauen it is necessary the whole man bee purified heere on Earth the Soule by Faith and the Body by Abstinence After this life we must not relye on Apocriphall dreames of a third place by Capriccious Schoolemen called Purgatory like to the Poets Eliz●an Fields But at our departure out of this World we must repeate the same Words which our Sauiour spake at the giuing vp the Ghost Consummatum est it is finished Wee haue fought in this World a good fight wee haue abstayned from Carnall and worldly Temptations Otherwise wee go out but as halfe Christians and being luke-warme Christ will not know vs if wee stand on bare Faith without the fruites of Faith which must not onely spring in vs towards our owne Bodies but by example and good workes towards our fellowes the members of Christ. O how much do the Capuchins and Carth●sians goe beyond vs in Abstinence and in contemning the World And if they had the Faith which we professe and did not too much macerate and deface the handy-worke of GOD vppon a meritorious Baalish hope surely they might bee sayd to see with two eyes and we but with one eye and being better purified then wee they were assured of that Glorification which wee expect I doubt no● but some heere will taxe me that I sauour a little of Pharisaicall Popish leauen because I insist on the Bodies Purification as if I derogated from Faith which onely iustifieth and that all meates are tollerable let a man eate and drinke neuer so much as long as they are sanctified with our ordinary Graces of thanksgiuing though sayd by roat or cooled zeale And that wee cannot transgresse in what enters into the Body seeing that all things were purified and made cleare by Christ according to St. Peters Vision about Cornelius These Libertines would faine couer their Epicurean excesse with Sophisticall daubings but they heede not my ayme who with St. Paul professe that all things are cleane to the cleane It is the Quantity and not the Quality of the Meates or Drinkes which I reprooue If I should tell them further that the cause why Moses forbad the Israclites the eating of Swines flesh was for that hee fore-saw that the same in those hote Countries would breede It●h and Scabs and that it did become the Hely Nation to keepe their Vessells better purified then to appeare in the House of GOD so polluted surely I beleeue they would take me for ● Iew aswell as a Romanist Why were Lepers and those that had running Issues debarred from the Temple insomuch that their King so diseased was repulsed to enter Was it not because God loued a purified cleane Body ●ather then a mangy person Specially if through his owne disordered manner of liuing or the Diuine Vengeance he became so defiled In respect whereof it is conuenient that we doe our best endeauours to purifie that place which is destinated for the Holy Ghost by abstayning from alluring meats of diuerse natures at the same Mea●e Go to the Physitian before thou be sicke saith the Wise man Before Gluttony and Drunkennes hale vs into the Prison of sicknesses let vs take heede of their causes and not finde fault with Friends who without Fee or rewards haue opened them the way to Purification and a sober liuing Because Lessius and Cornario being Papists late●y renewed and brought to Light this admirable Dyet shall wee disdayne their wholesome Counsell This vncharitablenesse leads to Errour what we finde among Papists Praise-worthy and not repugnant to Faith we ought to embrace and cheerish By that reason we should haue no Discipline no Canon Law nor any ciuill Order for the gouernment of the Church against Ref●a●●aries and gyddy headed Heretickes if we condemne all that wee borrow from them For our Religion it selfe though afterwards eclipsed was propagated and sent into this Iland from the Bishop of Rome Because their Mine yeeldes not the finest Oare shall we not refine the Oare and purifie the Gold that comes from them yea though it came exsterquilinio out of their Dunghill with many dregs and filth we must not reiect and altogether debase what we receiued from them as long as it tends to our profit or edification We ought to commend them for their laudable Fasts their Almes-giuing and their continent liues I meane some few of them which were indeed most continent and not minister occasion of scandall in our Christian calling to make them the more obstinate and obdurate St. Paul could haue wished neuer to eate meate whilst he liued if hee thought that that kinde of meate offended his Brother where as some of vs on the contrary would e●te Flesh on Good Friday euen to dispite them By this indiscreete and vncharitable carriage towards them in things indifferent many Soules haue fallen away from our Church and left those skars which will continue I feare to the worlds end So tractable in this indifferent course was Peter Mo●lins that Religious Minister of France when hee heard how some of our English Preachers chose rather to bee silenced then to weare the Surplice O I would to God sayth he that I were bound to go in a Fooles coate through Paris all the dayes of my life so that I were Licensed to Preach the Gospell there And so an English Co●ntesse heretofore was content to ride through Couentry starke naked at Noone day so
are those Who Worldly Fortunes so dispose As if our God were fast a sleepe And did not see what rule they keepe Me thinkes I see our Fluttring Foes Watching their time to breath in woes Vnder pretence of seeming Good Like him that beares vnder one Hood A double face with fained Grace They blow a pace till they get place Within the Spirits and the Blood Where they worke Gall of humours good This poysn'd Gall the Soules blacke laundies Prickes so that Man on Cocke-horse bandies Against his God and Natures Law That Grafts this Rule with filiall aw Who lets not sinne if so he can Consents to it a wicked man Some yearely rayse a greater Rent By Interest for Mony lent Then Maltaes lew of Foes did take For to the Bones these Men doe rake I blame not lawfull Permutation But with a sober limitation Vtopian-like to barre Commerce But common scandals I rehearse To them who sell their Goods too deare Or them that sheare Christs sheepe too neere More Lay-mens griefes I could reueale Which shame from Muttring bids conceale Yet wants there not some Nightingall Like sweete Saint Paul to touch them All. Those Practises now passe for Good Which Noah saw before the Flood Some Build some Buy some cheate and borrow Whilst the next Morrow steales on sorrow The third SECTION That the most part of our pretended Christians are infectea with some of the afore-sayd infirmities and that all carnall pleasure shall end in paine THese Mad Conceites bewitch vs all Yet Lu●atickes who dare vs call These I doll lusts wee hugge in Spirit Yet doe we boast of Zeale and merit Like bawling Curres we barke at Vice VVe Rayle on Br●bes and Auarice VVe Blame the Whore and idle Drone But who throwes guiltlesse the first stone Many finde fault with swinish Drunkards Themselues rebellic●s vnder Placards The Blind-m●n cals his Brother Blinkard The Pockey 〈◊〉 his fellow stinkard Thus others B●ots wee quickly score When we deserue correction more When Iudgement Consc●●●ce shall controle The purest souls will prooue but foule Here lur●es a Toad a S●rpent there Sharpe stings and poyson eu'ry where The Preacher wrot all is but Uaine But I dare Write all ends in paine What cares haue wee what toyle what paine These seeming pleasures to obtayne And once obtain'd what 's then our Minde But Neighing new and more to finde No Earthly thing brings much content But afterwards breedes discontent Which A●ams Apple wee may call Both bitter sweete and Honey'd Gall. Ioy surf●its some some pine with Paine Yet the partake in Sinne and Raine Death spares nor Rich Poore Poole nor Wise For All must fall before they Rise The Crowne which Royall browes adornes Within is Nettles Prickes and Thornes Feares Discontents want of Treasure Iealous of Neighbours Leagues vnsure Nor liue our Grandes without trouble Their Pompe to double though a bubble The Midling and the Lowest sort Grieue to maintayne the Lawyers Port. Thus Christians as a Tennis Ball Tost by themselues are prone to fall Yet None beginne to looke for ease But thinke of Iarres instead of Peace The fourth SECTION The Description of the Catholicke Scuruy ingendred by the Mystery of Iniquity the Glorious manifestation whereof had beene restrayned and sealed vp by the Angell vntill 1000. yeares were expired for the hardnesse of our Fore-fathers hearts NOt onely these doe vs disease But onely Ills disturbe our ease T is found that most Diseases tend And to the Scuruy power lend To torture Slugs who nastily Were Cloath'd or fed too greedily Great F●ends likewise and Men Soule-sicke Hell 's Scuruy make a Catholicke With Murthers Lyes Hypocrisies Idolatries and Blasphemies As doth the former Scuruy beate For want of Sunne and Motions heate Vpon the Spleene the Breath and Skinne So doth that old and Scuruy sinne With Purple spots go on to stayne Both Soule and Body all for Gaine Mens want of Faith and Scriptures Light Enwrappes them in blind Aegypts night Fond quirkes and quillers Schooles inuentions Doe hinder them to vse preuentions But how comes this grosse Sinne to passe In those who say Christs Blood doth wash And hea●●al Plagues and cancred Lust By vertue of his Merites iust When Men distrust the safest way They cannot ch●se but goe astray When Fabells Tower and Asaes Hopes When 〈◊〉 G●d and Ba●lish Popes When Mans pos●●ons ●rring Braine They trust as if Christ dy'd in vaine When they refuse Gods tendred Motions And wil carouse false Prophets Potions Their ●oules so giutted salla reeling Like drun●en Tosse-pots without feeling Then Iudgement Wid and Memory Depriu'd of Faiths strong Armo●y In blacke Despaire conclude their wayes And neuer after see good dayes Or they Presume a Plague as bad With too much Learning running mad These two Extreames like scorching Sunne And hideous darknesse wee must shun The middle Course with Modesty Yeeldes some content to Maiesty To which adde Faith then Grace will couer Our brittle Knowledge and discouer What vengeance more hangs on the Scuruy Which Christendome turnes topsie turuy With blood Fraud Dreames Ambition feares Regardlesse of poore Christians teares Till He that Rockes with Thunder teares He that controules the Wandring Spheares Doe by his Light expelling Night Remooue the Beame that dimmes our sight And tame the Force of this great Fury Which wilfully true Faith would bury The Diuell●s loose from B●bilon And wa●ches whom to worke vpon Old Heresies hee bringeth in So faire without and foule within Some Starres beginne to loose their Light Which on the Saints shin'd lately bright And t is most true some States will rue If the last Earthquake doe ensue Proud Gog and Magogs Horne with eyes Haue pitcht their Tents to Tyrannize And Gyant like doe threaten those Who Lyes and false-hood shall oppose Those who serue GOD in Unity And in the Persons Trinity They persecute with Fire and Sword And vow to raze his Written Word Which now hath flourisht many yeares In spight of Balaam and his Peeres And make vs bow to Romes Mark'● Rabble Their Mazzims God and Masses Bable A thousand Yeares by Treachery And iuggling Trickes this Mistery Shut vp and seal'd gul'd faithlesse slaues But now against Gods Church it ●aues That Church which then for few assign'd To Deserts fled for feare confin'd And acts the last red Dragons part With open Force and cunning Arte Let vs say they with all our Might Their consciences at length affright If our false Fire and wonders faile Our three Frog-spirits sha●l preuaile Whom Ca●phas curs'd with Booke and Bell Wee 'le sacrifice their Blood to Hell But before this Desolation We must b●nd the strongest Nation You heare the Plot now to preuent These latter Plagues watch and Repent For if they bind the Valiant Men What will become of weaklings then When God remoues his Candlesticke Hells darknesse more will make vs sicke The fift SECTION The emminent Dangers of this great and Mysticall Disease ouer Great Brittaine by a Reflection of those
rest content for feare of falling Wee must our Patience so enure That● aues grown great we may endure Who through the Window made their way Since eu'rv ' Dogge must haue his Day Wee must not swell when wee haue store Nor yet Repine though some heape more Time ends this strife The houre-glasse passes What neede Men then to moyle like Asses Wee must abhorre the Reeling sinne Of Soule-sicke healths which Sots brought in To this I adde that Indian borne Blood-●ainting Fume drinkes shooe in horne Of which I blame the quantity But not the Physickes quality Wee must not liue too sparingly Nor spend Gods goods superfiuously Wee must not grudge the Prore to seede For Almes are Bal●●es in time of neede More Hiues for Bees for Gods Elect On o●he● Coasts let vs erect Our wearied Lands our swarmes require it The Lord commaunds the Saints desire it Wee must by Deed shew good example And at their entry Passions trample Wee must not brawl● for eu'ry fault The Iust themselues doe sometimes halt Wee must forgiue our Foes aswell As God doth vs who me●ne Hell Wee must not play more then the Turke Who flips no Day without some worke The Mind on Labour fixed sure Stops wandring thoughts from Sathans lure The Gentle Sparke might ●●sse the Pike Shoot Rid● Graft Study or the like The Female sexe findes carke at home Sings Psalmes or shewes rare skill on Loom● The Souldier heares the Drummers sound Stands Sentinell or walkes the Round Hee traines he fights and spends his blood Like Maccabeus for our Good Good Schollers haue enough to doe If tempting Lucr● they forgoe Besides the Muses spacious Groue The Bodies motion they approoue On Citizens I neede not call Nor Country-men who sweare for all Wee must proud Pompe and Fraud eschew And thinke thereon what will ensue As God is iust a fearefull end Which from Wraths U ioll will descend For when we perke like Cardinalls And grinde the Poore like Canniballs Scorning Christs Members racking rents And raking Gifts through discontenrs Our Angell Guardians fiye away And Sathan hunts his Beasts of Prey If these few Rules wee beare in Minde The Cure is sure our Pardon sign'd Then Grace supplies fraile Natures want Then Loue will come sinne to supplant Both which who findes hee needes not feare Though all the World in Flames appeare The eighth SECTION An Admonition to the Saints to cont●●ue watchfull and constant and not to feare this last and great Persecution threatned by the Spirituall Dragon and his Angels although hee come prepared with all his stratagems Ambusher and with Multitudes of Men like the sands of the Sea in Number VVEll may Esdraes Eagle muster And bold Chaucers Griffon bluster The Pellican doe what they can Will make them both Frer Curse and Ban. Let Romish Ne●●rods roare againe Their Thundring shots will fall in Vaine Then Woe to them that flourish now And who looke backe at Christ his Plow When their great Ma●sters Vatican Nor Basans Bulls protest them can When his strong guarded Angelo Shall not deliuer from this Woe Them who with Christians blood doe feast When the false Prophet scarlet Beast The mounted VVhore of Babylon The Man of sinne perditions Sonne The Mouth that speakes presumptuous things The Mistery with Eagles wings The Gog and Magog of the House The old red Dragons Rendeuous That Deceiuer who in Gods Church Sits as a God and by the lurch Liues and to sale puts Marchandise Mens soules and bodies with false lyes All figures of false Antichrist That dares vsurpe farre more then Christ To his Apostles euer left For hee quits Men of life bereft From Purging Flumes ten thousands yeares And more hee spares Romes roaming Peeres When that this Monsters triple Head Soule and Body in scalding Lead Shall boyle in Pits and Lakes that swimme With Pitch and Brimstone to the brimme Then will his Followers all too late With Diues wayle their woefull Fate Then they will wish with Yel●es and howles That they had liu'd obscure like Owles Then they will see the diffrent manner Of Iacobs fight 'gainst Esaus Banner Then they will know Saint Michaels Armes Wherwith he sa●es Gods Church from harms For though the watch-men smote the Spouse As shee sought Christ yet still she growes Untill her Seede as heretofore In spirit playes the arrant Whore Let croaking Frogs and chattring Pyes Let Daniel's Horne with Mysticke eyes Let curious Schoole-men errours spawne Grace and Faith for Freewill pawne Let such as broach those Franticke Tales Whom Old Saint Dauid chas'd from VVales Pelagian wise depart from hence In spight of all wee haue defence On Phisicke knowne our Cures relye Let Mountebankes Elixirs trye Men who were call'd but neuer Cull'd Theeues of the House by cro●chets gall'd Wee feare strong flames shr●bs safer lye From Lightnings blast then Cedars high The low-built Cot●age of a Clowne Stands surer then the Triple Crowne Aspiring doubts the Church our Mother As Fancies Braine-wormes bids vs smother When Seraphins were faine to Vaile How could Arminius sight but faile Let sober Learnings Oracles S●te for our eyes plaine Spectacles VVith these I see Free-will almost Through Faith regain'd which Adam lost The Glorious light restor'd our sight What sinne had darkned Grace sets right And giues vs power more or lesse Yet Meanes enough to sue for Peace The Heart which once Faith putrifies Neuer quite dyes nor purisies Nor is a Christian iudged lost Before hee slights the Holy Ghost Before his Talent hee impaires Or that like Iudas hee dispaires God knowes already who are his Yet to make sure our Part it is For otherwise wee should deface Elections Charter seal'd of Grace The summe is this Christ dy'd for All. His Word calls All some heare his Call And by their deedes doe manifest They enter shall into his Rest. Some few discreetly seeke to shunne A hardned Heart ere day bee done Mercy for Some there is in store VVe hope the best And who knowes more The Tith● of houres reseru'd to Pray The rest not wasted may repay The stony heart in Time relents Much more our God if Man repents And daily begges for Heauenly bread His Iustice slackes and wee are fed But here 's the worst though Prayers draw There lyes a Pad within the Straw The Angell Good bids Fast and Pray The Angell Bad bids Feast and Prey Thus Rime is mar'd true Prayer bard A turn'd to E the Cure made hard The Conclusion of the Cure not vnworthy the Consideration When Strife for L●ut and 〈◊〉 take for 〈◊〉 When praise for 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 we locke for Catch●ng And when from ●●●●s we s●●ll to Feasts and bibbing Then Abbaes Streame stayes in the 〈◊〉 ●bbing Our Aduocate craues it to flow againe The Father yeeldes and ●o to eu●ry Veine Their Streame flowes faire vntill our changling F●oles Haue sought to other Streames from muddy Pooles The Trinity then loathing Braines so sicke Th●ir Motion stop and Men dye Lunoticke From which Re●apse Distrust