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lord_n	aaron_n	house_n	zion_n	757	4	9.7054	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91570	The nevv distemper. Written by the author of the Loyall convert. Hilar. de Trin.Lib. 4. Hoc habet proprium Ecclesia; dum persecutionĕpatitur, floret; dum opprimitur, proficit; dum læditur, vincit: dum arguitur, intelligit; tunc stat quum superari videtur.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.	1645 (1645)	Wing Q110; Thomason E17_20	19,252	30

and mollify your hearts Behold behold the miseries of your land and if Compassion be not banisht from the earth pitty O pitty the approaching Ruines of this your groanning this your native kingdom Heare O harken to the sad Complaints of your afflicted petitioners and if your hearts be not of Adamant relent and let them not in vaine petition for their lives Let the breath of this distempered kingdom contracted into one extreame sigh move you to the speedy endeavours of a timely Cure Inquire into her Constitution Examine her distempers and reduce her to her first Principles Try no experiments upon a body so declined and let not the Acutenesse of her disease perswade you to a desperate remedy Look O look back into the blessed dayes of Queene Elizabeth Observe what blessings we then had both by Sea and Land What plenty what successe what victories what honour abroad what unity at home and indeed what had we not that could make a kingdom happy Reduce us O reduce us to that happy government and let not the eagernesse of a Reformation be a means to want men to be Reformed or matter for a Reformation Remember O remember that great Reformer Christ Jesus He was against all blood shed but his own for that blood sake follow his Example Or if the way must needs be made by blood let it light rather a little upon many Generations then all upon one the ruine whereof will deny us an other Generation Let not the children of your Mother sterve in the land of bread and let not the foundations of your naturall kingdom be longer dabled in unnaturall blood Turne O turn your eyes upon her breaches and let not strangers Lord it in her Gates For the mercyes of that God which hath been mercifull to you be mercifull to millions of Christians whose lives depend upon your Care be mercifull to millions of children that know not their right hands from their left be mercifull to generations unborne to whom when deep Records shall bring the Chronicles of your Actions ages to come may magnifie your Merits For his sake that is the Prince of peace as you desire to meet peace upon your Death beds let this Sea of blood already spilt be thought sufficient For the whole body of Englands sake who have trusted their power into your hands that have cast all their welfares upon your wisdomes for their sakes that venture their lives and fortunes upon your providence for your own sakes for your tender wives and dear children sakes for the God of mercyes sake as you love mercy for Christ Jesus the God of peace his sake as you prize the peace of a Good Conscience hearken to and ensue peace while there is a possibility of Peace Darken not that Religion with the black storms of contention you professe to glorifie Lessen not the glory of that Church by partiality which you have promised to beautifie Draggle not that Gospel in the sinks of bloud which you have protested to magnifie The sinnes of Nineveh were not too great for Gods compassion and shall the offences of poore England be too great for yours Nineveh cryed mightily to heaven and they were spared and shall the miseries of three Kingdomes be hollowed in your eares and not heard Well If Ruine by a forreigne power come Hest 4. 13 which the God of heaven and earth forbid think not with your selves that you shall scape the Fury more then all the rest 14. But if you altogether stop your eares at such a time as this then shall Enlargement and Deliverance arise to England from another place but you and your houses shall be destroyed And who knowes whether you are sent to this employment for such a time as this O thou that art the great preserver of mankind to thee to thee we turne the voyce of our complaint Thou thou art gracious and plentifull in Compassion but in man there is no help Lam. 3. 24 nor mercy in the sons of men Job 13. 15. Thou art my portion O God and I will trust in thee Psal 146. although thou kill me I will not trust in my bow Ps 14. 1 2. it is not my shield that can save me but it is thou alone O God that canst deliver us Deliver us O God from the evil men preserve us from the cruell men which imagine evill in their hearts and make warre continually Have mercy O Lord have mercy upon us 123. 3. for we have suffered too much contempt Heare the mourning of the Prisoners 102 20. and deliver the children from death 83. 5. They have consulted together in heart and have made a league against thee 79. 4. We are a reproach to our neighbours even a scorne and derision to them that are round about us 74. 10. O God how long shall the Adversary reproach thee Shall the enemy blaspheme thy Name for ever Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the day of Ierusalem 137. 7. which said Rase it rase it to the foundations thereof 132. 9. Let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse and let thy Saints rejoyce 89. 46. Lord how long wilt thou hide thy selfe for ever Shall thy wrath burne like fire Wilt thou be angry with us for ever 85. 5. Wilt thou prolong thy wrath from generation to generation 84. 9. Behold O God our Shield and look upon the face of thine Anointed Let thine hand be upon the man of thy right hand whom thou hast made so strong for thy self Give thy Iudgements to the King 80. 17. and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne that peace may be in his dayes 72. 1. and let his enemies lick the dust Clothe his enemies with shame but upon his head let his Crowne flourish 132. 18. How long shall the wicked O Lord how long shall the wicked triumph 94. 3. They prate and speak fiercely and the workers of iniquity vaunt themselves They smite downe thy people O Lord and trouble thine Inheritance They slay the widow and the stranger 115. 10. and murther the fatherlesse O house of Aaron trust in the Lord for he is our help and our shield He will blesse the house of Israel and he will blesse the house of Aaron Praise ye the Lord ye house of Israel 135. 19. praise ye the Lord ye house of Aaron praise ye the Lord ye house of Levi Ye that feare the Lord praise the Lord. PSAL. 122. 6 7 8 9. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces For my brethren and companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good Hier. sup Epist ad Rom. Quisquis corpus suum affligit concordiam deserit laudat Deum quidem in Tympano sed non laudat in Chore. The End

be so good and then the Elements deliverd in their owne new devised words These are now the faithfull Ministers of the Gospel of Peace These the Ministers of this blessed Reformation These the men that must pull downe Antichrist out of his seat and set up Christ Iesus in his throne Nay rather these are they that for filthy lucre carry men about with divers and strange doctrines These are the men that in former times separated themselves sensuall having not the Spirit These are they that despise dominion and speak evill of dignities These are such as have gone the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and have perished in the gaine-saying of Core Jud. 12. These are spyes in your feasts of charity feeding themselves without feare clouds that are without Water carried about with the winde 13. rageing waves of the Sea fomeing out their own shame to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever Is not this a blessed Priesthood Are not these rare materialls for a hopefull Presbytery Fit governours for the house of God Are not the two great Nurseryes of this kingdom like to flourish when the chiefe Plants are pulled up by the roots and onely these Crabstocks suffered to prosper and beare their own naturall fruit Our fathers have eaten the Grapes and their childrens teeth will be set on edge They that have been the Pillars of our Relion are hewen down and our falling Church is shored up with these inconsiderable spars They that grappled with and foyld the stoutest Champions of the Church of Rome are imprisoned wanting both bread and liberty And such as neither did nor could nor durst appeare in such a quarrel are crownd with their Reward They whose learning and orthodox piety made England the glory of nations and the envy of forraigne kingdoms are now disgraced and ruined and those that learning made not capable of a Degree advanced and honoured to the great dishonour of this kingdom Nor can I heare forget how much this staggering Church of England owes to her pious and religious Nursing Father and her faiths royall Defender our gracious Soveraigne whose wisdom moderation and tender piety amongst other of his princely vertues hath so manifesty showed it self in not following the example of those whom my heart bleeds to call his Enemyes and blazing the new Ministry of this kingdom as they have done the old Had his provoked passion publisht a Century to the eye of all the world of those morall vices hideous blasphemies infirmities and faylings of the Clergy of the one party as they did on the other how would the Church of Rome and all the Enemies of the Gospel of Jesus Christ have hissed and derided our Religion that by the generall Confession both of Prince and people had such Monsters to adorne it How would forraigne Christians have been frighted at the very name of the Church of England How would the stile of Protestant have become the Obloquy and Byword of all Religions It was not for want of matter Report would have coynd enough besides that which perchance would have made the truer history Nor was it scarcity of pen-men to paint their actions to the life Oxford had yet hath Pens sharp enough Inck that wanted no Gall Nor can I conceive how such nimble active and such salik fancyes here could have forborne it had not the wisdom providence of his Sacred Majesty laid upon them his restraining power By which it evidently appeares to those that are not obstinatly and malitionsly blinded with the darknesse of resolved Rebellion that his Majesties solemne Vowes and serious Protestations for the maintaining the honour of the true Protestant Religion agree with his most pious Intentions and published Resolutions Had his secret affections been warpt or the l●ast degree wavering from the Church of England or any whit inclineing to the Romish superstition had the imaginations of his heart intended secretly an introduction of the popish Religion how could his new designe been better animated then by an inward dislike of the Protestant Religion how could that dislike have been better fomented and encouraged then by the Advantage the just Advantage taken of the generall corruption of her Ministry But the wisdom and tendernesse of his Piety stands silent in this behalfe and in his singular prudence hath not so much as taken notice or in any of his Declarations once reproved the uncharitable impiety of that scandalous Pamphlet for fear of further blazing it but rather suffering it to perish in its own filthynes and choosing rather to groane under the burthen of his faithfull and abused Clergy then by revengeing and painting forth the crimes of the other party farre more guilty to afflict Religion under the burthen of both Thus is the health of our languishing Church impayred thus is the body of our craz'd Government distemperd thus is the peace of our Saviours Spouse disquieted thus is the welfare of our English Sion determined Her Dove-like piety is turned to Serpentine policy her Unity to Division her Uniformity to Disorder her Sanctity to Prophanenesse her Needle-work robes to a parti-coloured Coate her honour into disgrace her glory into disdaine and her prosperity into destruction Lam. 1 2. She weepeth in the night and her teares are in her Cheekes Among all her Lovers there is none to comfort her and all her friends have delt treacherously with her ver 9. Her adversaries are the chiefe and her enemies prosper for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions Her children are gone into captivity before the Enemy 2. 9. and her gates are sunk into the Ground Her King and Princes are among the Gentiles her law is no more and her Prophets finde no vision from the Lord ver 10. The Elders of the Daughter of Sion sit upon the ground and keep silence and have girded themselves with sackcloth The horne of her enemies is lifted up They spared not the persons of her Priests they favoured not her Elders they have laid wait for the breath of our Nostrils Lam. 4. 20. the Annointed of the Lord and servants beare rule over us Our Inheritance is turned to strangers Lam. 5. 4. and our houses to Alyants We drink our Water for money Lam. 3. 4. and our Woods are sold to us We have sinned and have rebelled therefore thou hast not spared For this our hearts our hearts faint for these things our eyes are dimme For these things I weep mine eye mine eye runneth down with water Where O where are you all you that are the wisdom and Governours of this unhappy Island Where O where are you the great Counsell and grave Senators of this falling Kingdome Where O where are you the great Colledge of politicall Physitians of this languishing Common-wealth Are ye all fallen asleep while we perish is there none to awake you Open your eyes unlock your eares