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A17130	Seaven sparkes of the enkindled soule With foure lamentations, which composed in the hard times of Queene Elizabeth, may be vsed at all times, when the Church hapneth to be extreamely persecuted. Drawne out of the holy Scriptures, after the forme of Psalmes. By R.B.P.	Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1604-1605 (1605)	STC 4008; ESTC S117366	36,700	158

safe on the land see others suffer shipwracke Had we stolne ordinary fauour might be found appeached of murder we might be succoured But now for our conscience vvee finde no mercy neither can supplication finde grace To prison we are drawne laid vp close Rods are made ready for vs racks and other engins of torture are prepared He that escapeth best lieth long forgotten enduring the designments of his Keepers fury Thus are we become like outcasts of this world like vile ragges which are throwne out of dores Euery day bringeth his load of affliction no place can recline our heades in safety Comfort we haue none but only this thou art on high and in thy handes lieth the lotte of our fortune We are brought exceeding lowe as lowe as wormes of the earth Vpon which passengers treade and bigger creatures make their pray Neyther haue wee at any time rest neyther finde we in any place security If for a space our Persecutors relent it is to reenforce their cruelty If a calme arise in one place the sword rageth in many others vvith double seuerity If they pretend any fauourable remission it is only in regard of farther policy Who is yet free can not warrant himselfe any little vvhile from their fingers And who thinketh himself secure is often times in most daunger The day layeth vs open the night can giue vs no assurance At home we are caught by searches in the wayes we are apprehended by watches False brethren are mingled among vs and by fayned friendes we are oft betrayed No wit is equall to the malice of our foes hardly can any fore-sight frustrate their diligence No not their sinfull subtilty who seldome seeke thy gratious Sacramentes more trusting their ovvne policy then thy diuine prouidence In this wise while prisons are filled with thy seruants or that otherwise they are had in pursuit Families runne to ruine and children want necessary education Of this fathers feele in their harts the griefe and mothers doe often complayne But better is thy grace then great wealth and a cleane soule then exquisite learning To this and all other tribulations giue an end O blessed Father of heauen Ioyfully that we may serue thee in holynesse and piety in peace and security The second Lamentation WHY number we our temporall detrimēts O most bounfull Lord which are the least part of our present calamity And lament not rather our spirituall losses the diminishing of thy glory Not our priuate damages not our earthly discommodities so much vexe and torment vs. But the zeale of thy faith consumeth vs thy dishonour is the great corasiue Reproches against thy Religion wee repute as our owne daylie they light vpon vs as a tempest of stones We pine away to see thy lawe forgotten and die for griefe that thy ordinances are despised Mourning to consider the kingdome of darknesse so enlarged and impiety so deepely rooted In our captiuity we weep amaine calling to minde the calamity of thy Church For neither can we sing thy notes hauing lost our Temple Nor with worthy magnificence celebrate thy Mysteries being so impouerished and spoyled Nor haue any harty gladnesse being abridged of thy most honourable Seruice Because of this our VIRGINE mourne our young-men lament our aged wring their handes Our Priests girt with haire offer Sacrifice as in the dayes of Iudith For why our lightes are fewe in number our solemne Seruice is impared Organs musicke are laid aside the melody of Sion is out of vse Our glory is in captiuity our ornaments are in the enemies hand Susteinance of our soules is barred from the conduits of saluation we are excluded Pretious and rare in these dayes is thy worde thy holies are seldome seene No otherwise liue thy Priests with the rest of thy seruants then as in the time of Elias when they were hidden in caues They are put to silence who would raise vp Iacob to remorse and conuert Israell from her Apostasie Few are left to instruct people in the way of justice and teach wreatches to shunne sinne With grones people seeke the supersubstantiall foode Neither without danger of death search they spirituall refection The pathes are beset with enuious eyes in passage to thy holy rites our steps are watched Little ones craue the bread which came from heauen and there is none to giue it them They which had sometime the celestiall Manna at wil die in the streets for hunger He which feedeth thereon liueth for euer and hee which doth not can haue in him no life yet is it taken from vs. Abolished are Confirmation and holy Chrisme principall armour vnto Christian constancie The reuerent rites of Baptisme are quite rejected as vnprofitable The Diuell rejoyceth that hee is not adjured but may dwell in infants from their first natiuity Matrimony is concluded to be a prophane bargaine neither blessing nor grace belonging thereunto Orders are none at all where thy Priestes sate enstalled raigne those whose persons are not sacred Blinde guides vnfaithfull watchmen dogges dumbe to the theefe barking at the houshold Hirelinges they peele the woole suffering the sheepe to perish They runne and were not sent take charge of soules without vocation In at the windowe they came and not at the dore they cry The Lord the Lord he spake not vnto them Worne out in prison are al thy true Bishops no one is aliue to sustayne thy flocke Prophecies miracles and visions are taken away rarely reuealest thou the secrets of thy Kingdome No publike Altar incense or oblation either resembled or verified is the time of Antichrist Ah howe are golden times turned to drosse our plate to pewter To adore thee in spirit and truth is heynous to be present at thy Altar is a grieuous penalty To vnburden conscience at feete of a spiritual father is a matter of life At the houre of death it selfe absolution is denied the extreamity auaileth not to pardon The holy Vnction ordayned for our better passage is not permitted So that without just preparation vvee must enter combate vvith our deadly enemy Bookes for edification and prayer are committed to the flame whatsoeuer serueth vs to deuotion is destroyed If they finde thy holy Mysteries they tread them vnder feete the furniture of thy glory is their pray Ornaments and vesselles consecrated to thy seruice are prophaned to priuate vses as in the captiuity of Babylon At monuments of thy Sonnes passion or representation of thy Saints they vpbraid vs with Gods and Idolatry Defacing thy memories they pretend thy honour and blaspheming thy friends they alleadge thine owne Commaundement Lighting vpon reliques they reuile them if they finde the memoriall of thy death about vs they pronounce vs Traytors If they catch a Priest a hundred D●●egs are at hand vvhich dare lay violent hand vpon thine anointed Who concealeth the guide of his soule is not Caesars friend Abdias is not innocent If any deuout Sunamite harbour Elias her offence is vnpardonable Who reuerenceth the highest

the noyse of newe opinions their manners drew infection from the weakenesse of their faith When they sawe the theefe they followed him to be partaker of his pray They joyned shot with the adulterous generation furthered their proceedinges And eating with vncircūcised persons mingled themselues with those which thou hast strictly forbidden They learned their workes they suckt in their opinions and stumbled to their vtter ruine They found in their conuersation the scandall of Balam eating drinking and fornication Thy Nazarites were prouoked to violate their vowes and inuited to meates renounced Way was by liberty made open to intrusion of a newe beliefe and men vaunted their proper inuentions to be thy word Blessed is the memory and euerlasting is the glory of the shepherds which looked well to their charge at the time of Apostasie For the brightnesse of Israell was not quite put out but that many lampes gaue their accustomed light Rather choosing triumphantly to loose their liues then by yealding to betray their flocke Cursed for euer are those Prelates and Pastors not worthy the name of subjectes and sheepe Who either slept while the Diuell sowed his cockle O eternall reproach or like dumbe dogges bayed not when they sawe the wolfe Idols stockes not trusty watchmen who sawe the sword comming and gaue no warning But wonne with reward or amazed with feare suffered soules to be seduced The Prince frowning and commaunding his lawes to be obserued for Gods truth They staggered as men dronke all their wisdome and learning was gone with a word Holding downe their heades as degenerate shrinking as rammes that had lost their hornes In steede of denouncing to people their daunger and deterring them from iniquity They themselues yealded GODS honour to man and augmented the scandall by their example Great was the multitude which swaying with the time did cut off themselues from the body of Christendome The earth vvas infected vvith the pride thereof and the aire detested so great abhomination The elementes were defiled with continuall sacrileges the bloud of the Saintes cryed vengeance Angry vvast thou vvith those which were once thy beloued people and disclaymedst from England as none of thine inheritance Also deliueredst vp therefore the faint-harted shepherdes vvith their flockes to the handes of their mortall enemies Thy Sacrifice was taken from an vnworthy generation thy Ceremonies were abolished Vnder name of diuine seruice were obtruded newe rites for thy Sonnes body a bare peece of bread The table and cup of Diuels was thrust vpon the people with prayers thereunto belonging Blasphemies heresies were proclaymed for Gospell and all mens mouths opened against heauen England ah vngratefull England forgate thee the liuing God and felt the curse of hauing a child to her King Thus the bournes became desert and a batefull land turned to a soure soile Catholike faith here first planted vvhich neither Saxons altered nor Dane abolished Which the Normans rejected not which so many ages had not vvorne out Was nowe at last in a most infortunate age corrupted chaunged destroyed And our Nation after a thousand of yeares Apostated from thy faith to the vvhich it vvas first conuerted Yet remembring thy former mercies thou didst dissolue at last this heauy yoake Sending a Debora vvhich judged Israell in peace and tranquillity and repared the late ruines But too soone thou tookest her away for the vnworthinesse of her subjectes Quickly was thy goodnesse forgotten the Realme returning to her vomit Thou pouredst forth therefore thine indignation in aboundance kindledst all thy wrath to the full Thou gauest vs ouer to our owne inuentions suffering vs vvith full saile to make our course Our sinnes deserued no lesse yet vvhat could thy vvrath doe more extreame The Nobility to their owne vtter extirpation shamefully forsooke their Bishops without assistance Who constantly in defence of the Church pined all in durance and perished one by one The common sort went vniuersally to the golden Calues and at the commaunders voice bowed their knees to Baall Sincere Christians fled from Babilon least they should be plunged in her iniquities Thou determinedst in thy wrathfull fury to cast of England for euermore To let it runne to the bottomelesse pit and neuer to recall it to the faith But a Moyses stood vp before thee entreating for his comfortlesse country Appeasing thy wrath thou saidst vnto him prepare thy selfe to be my instrument For I will reare vp a newe generation of Priestes and people They vvhich so easily forsooke me in time of tentation shall not enter into the land of promise Forthwith didst thou puruey in a straunge lande a receptacle for thy people a refuge for thy persecuted Choosing out such as it pleased thee of whome to frame vessels of honour Many thou drewst to thy seruice by whome the Diuell wished to set forth his owne glory As diligent bees they gathered hony in aboundance for succour of their distressed Country Being deliuered like Israelites out of the fornace of Aegipt and called like Abraham from house and kindred Thou inspiredst them vvith desire of conuerting soules and sentest them in due season of thy haruest Vnder banner of a second Gregory they aduentured the second conuersion of their Nation Opposing thēselues to the streame of the time hope against hope was their comfort As thou gauest them learning which their aduersaries can not resist so constancy which they can not ouercome They purchased soules by their Doctrine and confirmed them by seale of their bloud Springes of health were opened from all coastes men sought helpe of their maladies The cause waxed famous men beganne to lift vp their eyes and flowe to the Church apace Sound of the Catholike faith pearced through the Island and none can anie more pleade ignorance Darknesse stroue to repell light not able to endure the glimps thereof The Diuell armed himselfe with furie to maintayne his KINGDOME feelinge the foundation thereof to tremble Rigourous lawes were made and executed with all extreamity Worse and worse daylie added seuerity finding neither end nor measure In these tearmes of contradiction O ineffable Majesty standeth thou seest our miserable Britany Who by this time hadst thou not sent supply had become worse then Sodome and Gomorrha Iniquity hath ingendred impiety and want of faith hath brought forth double iniquity Ah thou eldest Daughter of Sion howe is thy beauty faded Howe miserable is nowe the land wont to be so happy and fortunate The Lady of Isles is become like a perilous rocke which farre and neere is shunned for danger of shipwracke Or as a cursed quick-sand infamous through destruction of many passengers swallowed The chiefe of Prouinces is become the basest the most Religious turned to most sacrilegious Woe to a sinnefull people whose burden is iniquity Woe to an Apostatrice nation who like an Harlot hath broaken her faith From the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote shee is full of sores and maladies Who is able to