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A52160	A new and true mercurius: or, Mercurius metricus A true relation in meeter (on the behalf of scepter and miter) comprising sundry of the most sad and bad transactions, occurrences and passages in England, Scotland and Ireland, for the space of twelve years last past. For the true information and reformation of the people. Or, sober sadness, and plain-dealing, in a few plain, sober, and sad country rhimes, concerning these sad and heavy times, conducing to a real, personal and national reformation in three sinful lands. To which is added the authours twelve years extream melancholy, with the vvoful effects thereof in him, and the best remedy which he used for the removal of them all. Also a joyful and thankful commemoration of His Majesties happy return to his three kingdoms. By William Mascal above forty years ago Fellow-Commoner of Clarehal in Cambridge, now a poor deacon according to the canonical ordination of the late most famous orthodoxal Church of England.	Mascall, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing M903C; ESTC R216688	16,008	31

deliver us But now behold they I make us a free State Far from this freedom full of strife and hate Where these things are there 's every evil work Under which freedom thraldome great doth (c) Latet anguis in herba lurk Lord keep us from such States as bring confusion And send us Monarchy in the conclusion Restore to us our Truth and Peace again By causing Charles the Second for to reign In these three Kingdo as where his Father late Did govern peaceably both Church and State Till civil War and a most factious fact Not worth the name of House of Commons act Bereft him of his Soveraignty and Power In a most dismal and most fatal hour Contrary to a most Religious Oath Of preserving him and his thus was troth Violated by men of greatest trust And so his Kingly power was laid 'i th dust Notwithstanding their good Kings great (d) Voted to be satisfactory concessions His foes went on still with their great transgressions From whence arose a new light never seen In Brittains sphere neither King nor Queen To govern us according to Gods Law But we are forst of such to stand in aw Who lately were our fellow Subjects sworn To preserve our King and eke his free-born People all free from slavery and thrall Yet now behold we are their bondslaves alle Make Truth and Peace Lord once more kiss each other That we may live in godly love together And for those blessings great give thee true praise By striving thee to glorifie always By living alway in thy ways most just Till we shall all return unto our dust And our souls praise thee for eternity In heaven that place of true felicity March 14. 1648. Saint Hieroms judgement concerning Malignants Vpon the ejecting of the sequestred though neither ignorant nor scandalons but most Orthodox conscientious and truly Religious Ministers of Gods most sacred word FRom the first of the first month fifty five Scarce any (e) For Doctrine and discipline according to the Canonical constitution of the late most famous Church of England Orthodox divines shall thrive For many of them as (f) In sore soli non insoro ●●li Malignants shall Loose their (g) As good almost lose their lively-heads as their liveli-hoods livings Ecclesiastical They are protected well liberty given To make them poor if not to beg are driven The ready way to cast Religion down Is to remove the Miter and the Crown These two great evils in the (h) Ianuary 10.44 the 30. of Ianu. 1648. same month done Needs then to ruine must three Nations run When they are (i) Moses and Aron ita subertere serit down which stood up in the gap Expect no welfare but some great (k) To Church and State mishap God of his Mercy great protect us all And free us from inward and outward thral Malignant be content with what thou hast Till such (l) Saint Hierom the only Presbyterian of his time calls them Maligna●s which Maligne and Oppugne their King See his translation of the ●t Psalm ab insurgentibus in me Maligs antibus audiet auris m●● Malignant stormes be over-past God giveth all and he takes all away Then with his dealing be content I pray January 14. 1655. A prayer for the enlargement of Gods Kingdom LOrd let thy gratious Kingdom come Throughout thy specious Christendome Let none of those that bear the sway In any Land give any way To an unlawful toleration Of (m) Nenes novae Dogmata sallant false Worships in any Nation Chiefly of the most wicked (n) Who contemn and condemne the two great Ordinances of God ordained and commanded in the fifth precept Magistracy and Ministry without which their is no safety in this world nor salvation in the world to come Quakers The chief Mases and Aaron-shakers Lord hear thy Churches devout prayers And stop the mouths of all Gain-sayers Grant Truth and Peace and Unity With perfect love and charitie That we may greatly Glorifie Thy great name till we all shall dye And live with thee eternally In Heaven where 's true felicity Strena Parliaments The Parliamens New-Years-gift For the Glory of God and three Nations good Sober and plain dealing Counsel to the great Counsel of the Land the High Court of Parliament A short exhortation tending to a real * Reformatio seria vera nunquam sera reformation in three sinful Lands Adjuvate Patriam Take ye the Counsel that is now in hand And for the welfare of your Country stand ALL ye who in this Parliament do sit Hearken to what each member doth befit Strive to heal the wounds given to Church and State By an intestine bloody War of late Give to them both what doth to them belong Help them to their right who have suffered wrong And head a right three late beheaded Land Which for help implore your hearts heads and hands Rebuild our Sions strongest wals now down The loyal Miter and the Royal Crown These things if done by your more Yeas then Nays God shall have glory great and you much praise Consult and act as Gods word doth require That Church and State may have what they desire Truth and firm peace for both which both do call So God be with you and perswade you all To do both these and all such righteous things As he allow's who is the King of Kings Heare then and redress Church and State complaints And do Gods will who is the Kings of Saints The * Rightly so called because it brought the blackness of death ●orescoreserens upon their own most gratious ●nd dread Sovereigne without whose g●atious aspect and ravour they could not have been a Parliament black Parliament much increas'd our crosses Let this prove white and so repair our losses January 1. 1654. Three late famous Kingdoms depravated by being deprived of their Supreame Magistrate and Minister Sublato Episcope tollitur Rex said King James OH what will now become of three poor Nations When King and Priest remov'd are from their stations When some unjustly did behead them ●oth And that against a most Religious Oath That 's a * Not the good old cause much less our good Gods cause as it hath been too too long miscalled wrong cause which wronged Church and State And brought King and Priest to that deadly fate When such black deeds must needs make reformations And lay-mens Preachings Gospel propagations When out Church festivals are laid aside As Christmass Easter and our Waitsontide When we are led astray by Satans sleights Which cheateth many with Mechannick lights Who without call to Preach and to baptize Often do breach their self conceits and lies The publique meetings some will not abide But to the private will both run and ride When Sacraments want due administrations And blasphemous sects obtain tolerations * Haec patiere Deus will God suffer such intollerable tolerations and abominations When

we at length be freed from stormy weather Which hath continued above twenty years To the great loss of Peasant and of Peers Good God in thy good time have mercy on us And throw away thy rod now long upon us Give true repentance and amend us all Free us from ghostly and corporeal thrall June 21. 1659. Vpon the dissolution of the long and (a) Too strong for Moses nd Aaron the Seepter and the Miter both broken by it St ange Scepter Scepter and Miter broken sad things to be spoken strong Parliament Fit via vi vi armis OR Patience perforce IN April last a stormy Martial shower Stormed (b) Corvintus dissolutus a●ssolutus est ●er dissoluti●rem con●ertum assembled men of their great power They then had calling it a Parliament Of enacting laws with Saint like intent To reforme all things amiss in each Nation Yet still we see a dayly Pejoration Then mend us Lord and send us better days Grant truth and peace and thine be all the praise June 24. 1653. Upon the rising in Cheshire against this present self-Parliament called by themselves and is stiled by some the restitution restauration Of Taxes Excises and her insupportable payments and resurrection of the long long since dead in its head black and bloody one which God forbid that so much innocent and precious blood of Kingly Priestly Royal and Loyal should a fresh be shed no more of that for the Lords sake SOme countrey men can now no longer bear Their heavy (b) ●im vi repo●lere bellum bello debellare burthens therefore do adhere To some who (c) Dum bellum geritur pax queritur by force will do what they can Out of their duty unto God and man To ease them and to restore truth and (d) Pax quaeritur bello said ●ur late Protector Oliver of cursed memory for his cursed toleration and for his wicked Sequestrations and deprivations of many Orthodox learned and godly Ministers of Gods most sacred word peace That love and Piety may yet increase God say Amen to this ev'n so be it By what means and when he himself thinks fit The Israels of England Scotland and Ireland being indeed all three now the Lands of Gods justire for their most bloody National Parliamental unnatural and unchristian sins are yet in Martial Booths Tents and Tabernacles till it please God himself who only is the Lord of Hosts to restore and settle in them truth and firm peace which time he hasten if it be his blessed will through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Amen June 24. 1659. Vpon the reviving of the long dead black Parliament BLack will be still black for this Parliament Sent for by Letters not legally sent Is not white nor right without the right summons Of choice Countrey-men for an house of Commons Not in each country (a) Whereby three Nations may be guld call'd one two or three Btu all in (b) Without General or Major General general as they ought to be All that were long ago lawfully called in the long Parliament as well the unjustly secluded Members as those who were and are of the Anti-Episcopal and Anti-Regal faction which made a fraction first of the Miter and then of the Scepter A right good Parliament for the right good old cause which is really and not verbally Gods cause is that whose members are right and upright right in their opinions or opinations and upright in their conversations June 24. 1659. A Deaths head OR A short Memento mori for all sorts of people Death comes unawares hasting like a Post And will be seen before foreseen of most Sumus fumus sumus cinis Et cinis erit noster finis HIgh and low old and new Potentates Remember death knocks daly at your gates We all are dust end shall to dust return Then let 's (a) Vita repente fugit● Therefore let us repent sme mora in lac gratiae hora. repent lest that in hell we burn Lord make us make our ways good just and ev'n That after death we may inherit heaven WILLIAM MASCAL (b) Ordained by Episcopal authority to be a publique Reader of Gods most sacred word of our godly Liturgy and holy Homilies of our Mother the Church of England Who is a (c) Such ill Lecturers following Hugh Peters not St. Peters divining together with Souldiers ●oblers Tinkers and several other mechanick hetrodox publick and private Speakers had almost cast down all the orthodox godly learned Preachers and right dividers of the word of truth Lector at S. Marth'as-Hill No Lecterer who oft hath lectur'd (d) By their much abusing in the late ●●●estine wa● two text of hole Scripture Curse ye Meroz c. Iudges 5.23 Cursed be he that keepth back his sword from blood I● 8.10 ill Thus endeth a metricall though no poeticall true narration of things done in three late famous Kinghoms whereby they are for the present undone and that chiefly by the superfluous wealth of London whose money and treasure was the sinews of an intestine War which caused many to commit many new sins The good Lord our God forgive us all and in his due time send us all true Grace Truth and firm peace through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ Amen Amen Amen A Prayer for true piety the best remedy of extreame melancholy DEliver me O God from Satans ginns And give me true repentance for my sins With power to forsake them all and grace Of new obedience and to seek thy face By doing always what thou wouldst have done And by beleiving in thine only son By doing good and by eschewing evil By renouncing the world the flesh and devil As I did long agoe in baptisme (a) Votum baptismale Ecclesiae Angl canae vow O make me O my God O make me now That Covenant to keep and not allow My self in any bosome sin but bow Unto thy will revealing in thy word Which shall great joy and gladness me afford Lord bless the means against my melancholy Which I shall use and make me truely holy The woful effects of extreame melancholly With a Prayer for the removal of them TOo much melancholly produceth folly And dead 's mens heart to duties chiefly holy It makes his spirits all so dull and dead That he can neither speak pray write or read To any thing he hath such small desire That he can neither make his bed or blow his fire It makes a man to fear where is no fear And angry oft for nought unfit to bear Whatever God doth send with patience It moves him often times his soul from hence To send and rid himself of vital breath Before the time God calls for it by death Yea it incites a man to desper ation And hope which is the helmet of Salvation It strives to take from off a sinners head And him to leave amongst the (b) Omne peceatum

in se est mors animae sed desperare est in infernum descendere Ghostly dead It casts a man into the lowest hell Amongst the infernal spirits there do dwell Then heal thou me soul Doctor yet at length And in my weakness perfect thou thy strength If it may please thee after nine years space Send cheerfulness but chiefly saving grace True faith by which all Satans fiery darts Are quenched quite Christ dwelling in our hearts Lord humble me for sin by godly grief Then send the comforter with true relief To turn my sadness into holy mirth And make me praise thee whil'st I live on earth In my great frailty shew thy saving power And save me from my sins my Saviour Amen Aug. 28. 1654. Non est mortale quod opto IT is no mortal thing I crave But grace and goodness I would have A sinners suit opprest with melancholly Beseeching God to make him truely holy But one day well in four and twenty hours Sadness distracts my soul in all her powers Which doth unman me for the time and fit My spirits deads and makes me silent fit Not fit to speak or to be spoken to Which sad case may both body and soul undoe If God in mercy do not it prevent Give me space and grace too to repent For which I le pray and never give him rest Til he vouchsafe to grant me my request A Prayer for true Repentance New Obedience and perseverance GIve me O God what wilt thou give Give me repentance true For all my sins which thee do grieve Do thou them all (c) Mich. 7.19 subdue O Lord my God shew forth thy might Make me a Saint with speed Sincere and upright in thy sight In thought in word in deed And let me not fall back again To any sinful crime But make me constant to remain For all my future time This grace Lord grant thou unto me For thy dear son his sake And let me (d) Psal 119.80 sound and faithful be Till thou to heaven me take August 24. 1645. Maschals Maschil IN a few plain verses instructing himself how by Gods help he may be corde ore opere realty thankful for his undeserved and unexpected wonderful deliverance from along continued almost twelve years most tedious and irksome disease of melancholy causing ext eam heaviness dulness and deadness of his spirits even unto a very (e) Cura leves loquuntur ingentesstupent stupifying of them as a learned Physitian Doctor Phypard told me when he felt my pulse in the extremitie of one of my fits Thanks-living is the best Thanksgiving SInce thou O God hast set my mind in tune On the eleventh day of this present June Distracted much by melancholly sadness And turned hast that sad disease to gladness Which me oppressed had almost twelve years As by the date of (f) Iuly 25. 1645. forty five appears Upon which day it pleas'd God (g) Percutit parcit cum libet ipse Deus to begin To visit me with that sad scourge of sin My soul praise returns not my tongne alone But heart and hand likewise conjoynd in one Consort shall hencefort magnifie thy name By striving so to live without all blame That I may render thee true thanks and praise So long as thou shalt here prolong my days That I may (h) 1 Cor. 9 24. Instadio curram ment bra●● subiiciam run (i) For non progredi èst regredi on in a godly race Assist me Lord with thine enabling grace God grant that I may so run as St. Paul did to obtaine and in veritie and sincerity say with him by the grace of God I am what I am June 13. 1657. A joyful and thankeful commemoration of the greatest mercy and blessing that by the most gratious and miraculous providence of God was ever bestowed on three distressed Nations Vpon the twenty eight day of June 1660. the day of publique thanksgiving for his Majesties happy return to his three Kingdoms HAd it not been for God and General Monck Our Church and State had in confusion sunck Sith God hath now restor'd them both again By causing Charls the second King to reign To him be * Laus tibi magne De●● Psal 115.1 praise not to us sinners then Who to his Churches Prayers hath said Amen Let us rejoyce and give him all the (k) Gratiarum actio not 〈◊〉 d●ctio which is 〈◊〉 gratiar●m fictio thanks By living (l) ● have lately observed two ●hristen name to be given to two persons the practise of them indeed extends to all true Christians Live well Chapman and Praise-god Barbone let them and all of us strive to live well and so truely to praise God not barbone-like who disliketh Kings and Bishops and would make them all as bare as bare bones or his marvellous undeserved blessings and mercyes lately vouchsafed to three sinful Kingdoms in the Restauration of his most gracious and therefore most excellent Majesty to them all which the God of all grace graunt us all grace to do through the merits and mercyes of Iesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour and Redeemer Amen Amen well and shunning wicked prancks Gloria summa Dei Gloria summa Deo All the Glory be to the all Glorious God FINIS