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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53406	Comfort in affliction, or, Advice to Protestant dissenters in times of persecution together with remarks on the just judgments of God upon this city and land, since the prohibition of the Gospel, by mulcts and penalties / by J.O.	J. O.	1682 (1682)	Wing O4; ESTC R32241	16,661	19

of England These Spiritual Evils press us sore As for our Outward Evils they are well known and felt by All of all sorts and though I should be silent in the rehearsing them they speak forth themselves They are a sore not to be touched yet if no hand should touch them how should they be healed Wherefore I will in the Name and Fear of God make mention of one of them and of such an one as briefly comprehends all the rest And this is The strange and dismal Withering Wasting Languishing and Dying Condition of Poor England whose common Welfare no Man now looks after or regards Oh England where are now thy Wise Men where are thy Pilots where are thy Physicians where are thy Counselors where are thy Helpers where are they that pity thee and say Alas Alas Poor England thy Husband hath rejected thee as a Wife of Whoredoms and thou art become a Widow of Sorrows thou art left as a Cottage in a Vineyard as a Lodge in a Garden of Cucumbers as a Besieged City Thy bruise is incureable and thy wound is grievous There is none left to plead thy Cause that thou mightest be bound up thou hast no healing Medicines left thee Fear and a Snare and the Pit are upon thee and to whom wilt thou stretch forth thy hands to whom wilt thou lift up thy Voice for help Thou wast lately a Rich and Flourishing Kingdom and for thy Plenty Wealth and Glory wast both the Wonder and Envy of the World Whilst thou didst enjoy the Presence of God through his Word and Ordinances whilst Iniquity was banish'd out of Publique View whilst Holiness and Righteousness Justice and Judgment Truth and Equity had their chief place in thee Thou wast a People saved by the Lord Honoured by the Lord Exalted Magnified Protected by the Lord. Thou wast the Head and not the Tail even the Glory of Kingdoms and Nations Our Land then was blessed with the precious things of Heaven with the dew and the deep that coutcheth beneath with the precious fruits brought forth by the Sun and with the precious things put forth by the Moon with the precious things of the Earth and the Fulness thereof We had plenty of Gold and of Jewels of fine Gold and our Houses were stored with Silver our Barns and Store-houses were replenished and we were plenteous in Goods in the fruit of our Cattel and in the fruit of our Ground Our Sons were as Plants grown up in their Youth our Daughters as polisht Pillars our Oxen were strong to labour and our Sheep brought forth Thousands we did eat our Bread with joy and drank our Wine with a merry heart because God accepted our Works Yea then the First-Born of the Poor did feed and the Needy did ly down in Safety for there was no breaking in nor going out nor complaining in our Streets We were a happy People that were in such a case yea much more happy because God was our Lord. And thou O London for my heart is towards thee and I am distressed for thee O London and pained at the very heart Thou wast a Joyous City whose Antiquity was of Ancient Days thou wast the Crowning City whose Merchants were Princes whose Traffiquers were the Honourable of the Earth by thy great Wisdom and by thy Traffique thou didst get thee Riches and thou didst get Gold and Silver into thy Treasuries The Harvest of the River was thy Revenue and thou wast the Mart of Nations All Nations emptied their Delicacies into thy Bosom and poured forth their pleasant things into thy Lap. And when thy Wares went forth out of thy Seas thou filledst many People thou didst enrich the Kings of the Earth with the multitude of thy Riches and of thy Merchandise Thou wast also the Mountain of God thou hadst in the midst of thee the stones of Fire Thou wast the chief High-Place the Ministers of Jesus were dear to thee and thy Arms were always open to embrace them thou didst frequent the Solemn Assemblies of the Saints with the Multitude of them that kept right Holy-Day The Out-casts of Christ were wont to dwell with thee and thou wast a Covert to them from the face of the Spoiler Many Fatherless Children had harbour and succour in thee and thou wast a Husband to the Widows It was thy Meat and Drink to feed the hungry and to cloath the naked and to visit the Prisoners of Jesus Christ Thou wast as the Vine-tree amongst the Trees of the Forest Verily a Noble Vine But why hast thou so suddenly turned into the Degenerate Plant of a Strange Vine Why of a right Seed did you so easily become strange Children whose Mouth talketh Vanity and your Right Hand is a Right Hand of Falshood Why didst thou join thy self with the Wicked and help the Ungodly Why didst thou love them that hate the Lord and didst turn thy heart and hand against them that love the Lord Thou didst reject his Ministers thou didst persecute his People thou didst hunt the steps of the Righteous that they could not go in thy Streets thou didst hawll to Prison the Assemblies of the Saints and didst make havock of the Church of Christ till there was no remedy For when the Lord saw this he was angry for he looked for Grapes from you and you brought forth wild Grapes he looked for Judgment from you but behold Oppression for Righteousness but behold a Cry Wherefore he bent his Bow against thee like an Enemy He stood with his Right Hand like an Adversary He sent a Fire into the midst of thee that could not be quenched and it hath devoured thee and brought thee to Ashes on the Earth in the sight of all them that beheld thee He hath swallowed up thy Habitations he hath thrown down in his Wrath your pleasant Dwellings your stately and beautiful Buildings He sent into thee treacherous Dealers to deal treacherously with thee and Spoilers to spoil thee whilst thou wast become a silly Dove without heart He hath brought upon thee the days that have not come on thee since thou wast a City He hath stained the Pride of thy Glory and brought into contempt all thy Honourable Persons they that did feed delicately were left desolate in the Streets they that were brought up in Silks and Scarlet embraced Dunghils they that dwelt in well built Houses were glad to shelter themselves in Booths and to crowd their heads in desolate places they are come down from their Glory to sit in Dust For thy filthiness was found in thy Skirts therefore thou wast brought down wonderfully How are thy Merchandise of Gold and Silver and Precious Stones and of Pearl and of fine Linnen and Purple and Silk thy broidered Works thy Chests of rich Apparel thy Spices and Odors thy Vessels of precious Wood of Brass and Iron and Marble thy Wine and Oil thy stately Buildings and beautiful Structures of many Generations how in three or four days are they all brought to

them and therefore let not the Rebellious exalt themselves Thus have Irehearsed the Evils we ●y under and now I shall represent some of the Great and Deadly Dangers that we are in And one is to have the Nation quire overrun with Popery and to have the Popes Throne of Iniquity new erected amongst us And are there not swarms of Priests and Jesuits earnestly at work to bring this to pass they having emptied their Popish Cloysters and Monasteries from beyond Sea into England to promote their Catholique Design here And they knowing who stands at their right hand have done it with great boldness and with too great success For they have perverted not only very many of the Common People but some Nobility also and many Gentry And they have two great Engines to advance their design to wit on the one hand Safety on the other Danger on the one hand Promotion on the other Destruction on the one hand Life on the other Death with the one of them they allure with the other they terrifie with the one they draw whom they can with the other they drive whom they cannot draw And these Engines are of that force that thereby they have conquered many weak sinful and unstable Souls yea and have prevailed with some Persons of Honour and Quality to send their Sons to Monasteries and their Daughters to Nunneries beyond Sea to be trained up in their Damnable Religion there till better provision can be made for them here of which they now are in full hopes And now think with your selves and consider well O my Dear Protestant Country-Men how could you endure to see the Pope Worshipped here again in England for a God on Earth to see him set his proud Foot on the Neck of your King to see your King a Tributary to the Pope and to stand or fall at his base pleasure how could you indure to be forced to acknowledge his sinful and foolish Decrees to be equal to the Holy Word of God and to own his little Wafer or piece of Bread for the very Natural Body and Bloud of Christ which was crucified and shed on the Cross how could you indure to have your throats stretched so wide as to swallow down only this one Abomination of his which is more vast and rude than the first Chaos how could you indure to see new Roods erected in every Parish Church and to bow your selves down and worship Stocks and Stones Crucifixes and Images instead of the True and Living God how could you frame your selves to Auricular Confession and to rehearse or enumerate all your sins in a Priests Ear who himself stands in need of Forgiveness more than you being a greater Sinner how could you indure that their lusty Priests should defile your Wives and Daughters they being prohibited Wives of their own and so should drive again a General Trade of Whoredom in the Nation as they have been wont to do formerly how could you submit your selves to their Popish Pennance and to travel their Popish Pilgrimages to their feigned Saints and ridiculous Reliques how could you bear the severity of their Ecclesiastical Courts and Censures and to be pronounced Heretiques by those who are themselves the greatest Heretiques in the World how could You Noblemen and Gentlemen who have your Estates or part of them in Abbey and Church-Lands as they were called be content to have them taken away from You and your Posterity and given back again to maintain Abbots Monks Friers Nuns and such kind of Popish Vermin and Locusts which if once admitted will eat up again every green thing in the Land And let me tell you that all these Estates of yours they do not only promise to themselves but verily expect them Yea farther how could you indure to have your loving Husbands taken from your Heads and your dear Wives torn out of your Bosoms your sweet Children dragg'd out of your Houses your near Relations and friendly Neighbours hawlled and hurried into Prisons and Dungeons and there to be wracked starved tormented and at last if they live to it to be put alive into the flames of Fire there to be burnt and consumed to Ashes and that only because they sincerely cleave to Christ and his Gospel and will not adhere to Antichrist nor receive his Mark nor do his Hellish Drudgery how could you indure to see this cruel Beast of Rome to play Rex here in England again and though he be the First-Born of the Devil yet to set himself up above all that is called God and Worshipped And yet you are now in more danger to see all these things come to pass because you received not the truth in the love of it whilst you enjoyed it than your Predecessors have been this Hundred Years they having now gotten both Wind and Tide with them even Opportunity and Incouragement Wherefore a Great Man concluded That now certainly the Papists would do their Work they were in so fair a way But he reckoned without his Hoast And lest my Protestant Country-Men should be too much discouraged in this apparent and approaching Danger I will furnish you with one Rich Cordial out of the Words of Henry the VIII which he directed to the Papists in his days in his foregoing Declaration against them where he saith Are you not wicked which so hate the Truth that except she be utterly banished ye will never cease to vex her The Living God is alive neither can Truth his Darling He being alive be called to so great shame contumely and injury as you would have her and if she may be called to all these yet can she come to none of them Who is he that grievously lamenteth not Men to be come to such Shameless Boldness to shew apertly that they be Enemies to Christ himself on the other side who would not be glad to see such Men as foolish as they be Wicked For they work a deceitful Work and by all their cunning Craftiness Mysterious and Industrious Actings they only dig the Pit into which they must fall themselves and contrive the ruine that must be their own Portion Your Second Danger is to have the most Cruel and Inhumane Massacre executed upon you that ever yet was committed in the World by the Consecrated Hands and Weapons of the Papists And this Glorious Service of theirs is designed upon the English Protestants for the singular Promotion of the Catholique Cause which hath its way usually prepared into all Nations by Fire and Sword The Wrath of the Papists is so kindled against you and they are so thoroughly set on fire from Hell that they are ready to break forth into their greatest flames and to endeavour the Destruction of All at Once It is well known how well they are Hors'd and Arm'd and how they train their Troops against the Bloudy Day intended It is well known how well they are furnish'd with Money intended for other purposes It is well know what numbers of French Men