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A85350	Good nevves from all quarters of the kingdome; particularly from Gloucester. The more strange for the noveltie; first printed, and at that time when the adversary was storming that citie; and yet more strange, for its antiquitie, because assured us by a word, more stable than the earth or heaven; and by a letter of ancient date, sent to Hezekiah King of Judah. Wee have the same assurance also touching a strange destruction to the wicked, specially to those princes all, who have filled the land with bloud, that those shall not dye the common death, nor be visited after the visitation of all men, because they have done more wickedly then ever any princes before them. ... Published for the comfort of all the Godly, in all the quarters of the world, by speciall licence from their Court-booke, September 12. 1643.		1643 (1643)	Wing G1054; Thomason E250_9; Thomason E250_10; ESTC R212532	20,215	10

to Prayer as his manner was Lord sayes he I pray thee turn the Counsell of Ahitophel into foolishnes 2 Sam. 15.31 No sooner asked but it was done The Lord defeated the good Counsell of Ahitophel 2 Sam. 17.14 good to bring about the horrid designe against David the dethroning of him and when he saw his Councell was not followed wee know what followed He teareth h●mselfe in his anger saith Bildad but his application was wrong his own Counsell cast him downe c. Job 18 4.7.8 The Conclusion then stands firme Prayers are a godly Mans Confidence as before expounded he is assured fully these will wheel all about turn the Scene where now we see nothing but drawne swords bathed in bloud the end shall be gladsome a glorious deliverance at the last The poore People have put up Prayers to their Father they shall be delivered out sustained in or preserved by the Judgement For the Devourers mouth which seemed to swallow-up did carry Jonah safe to land I said preserved by the Iudgement delivered by that which seemes to the eye an ●…ter destruct●on A few were saved by water 1 Pet. 3.20 That water which drowned others saved a few I know it does relate to Baptisme but we may apply it to the waters of affliction wherein the wicked are drowned but the Righteous are saved The Lord will have respect to the Prayers of his servants 1 King 8.28 which they put up unto Him day and night I will make a short account of a rich Treasury I could say as much of Prayer as is said of Faith By prayer Abraham obtained as much as he desired So Isaac so Jacob Looke how wide Faith opened their mouths so they were filled By prayer Moses tyed Gods hand Let me alone Moses sayes God No but he would not A poore weake man overcomes the mightie God Moses did more then Ioshuah did Josh 10 12. he commanded the Sunne and the Moone which is very notable Moses commanded God He was pleased to be commanded so Isa 45.11 to tell his People how commanding a thing Prayer is It is the most efficacious of any thing in Heaven or Earth It has the quickest motion and as quick a returne I meane still the prayer of the destitute a people loose from and forsaken of all humane help for their prayer is powred forth now The eye is single towards God stedfastly set Heaven-wards The extremitie is great the Adversaries pride at the highest peg the people of God at the lowest eb in a perishing condition Refuge faileth they are importunate they will give God no rest then God hearkens and heares then the return is quick and speedy For there is no help on earth Now mark it evermore He shall send from Heaven and save me sayes David Psal 75.3 in his Mictham words worthy to be written in golden Letters when there is no help in earth He shall send from Heaven and save mee The Churches confidence for ever I will skip over a large Chronicle and observe onely one prayer there King Hezeckiah is greatly distressed A proud Adversary has begirt the Citie round And now There is but one thing remaines which the King can doe for his securitie and that he does he falls downe upon his knees Spreads the Letter the rebukes the blasphemies the great straights he and his people were in all this he spreads beford the Lord and he calls-in for help sends Messengers to Isaiah tells him there is but one way to take a sure way to goe to God by Prayer O let us not neglect that way Wherefore lift-up thy Prayer for the remnant that are left 2 King 19.4 Sith there is but one way left open let us presse-on in it and weary the Lord with importunitie Now what sayes the Lord That which thou hast prayed to Me against Senacherib King of Assyria I have heard 2 King 19.20 There was a quick Returne and the execution is as quick for the next Newes we reade is And when they arose early in the morning behold in the Camp of the Assyrians they were all dead corpses Vers 35. The time would faile me else I could tell you of a Thundering Legion That a whole Army was like to perish for want of water Nothing remained then but Prayer and to prayer they went Prayers reached Heaven presently opened the Clouds so as they powred downe raine in abundance Though the foole makes but a mock of Prayer as if it were like his an abomination a mock-Prayer yet I could tell you the Adversary has been so wise and knowing touching this matter that she has professed she feared the prevalency of Prayer above what a mighty Army could doe more the prevalency of one man of whom you might say Behold he prayeth then the power of an Army of many thousands To draw-up toward a conclusion Prayer does all at home and abroad in private affaires and in publique It keeps the house it locks the doores it makes two of one minde in an house it blesseth the children it makes all things thrive there it feeds the horse plowes the ground houses the corne makes all things prosper What Then the man may be lazy the while No that cannot be it makes a man most carefull and conscionable in the use of all meanes though he stayes and bottoms himselfe upon none his rest is upon God alone in Christ there his Prayer fixeth So for the Private For the Publique now see how prevailing and serviceable this Ordinance is it binds Gods hand when the sword is drawne it sheaths it againe it stops the mouth of that Devourer it binds Kings in chaines and Nobles in fetters of iron it makes warres to cease and lets the oppressed goe free it limits proud wrath it sets unto it its bounds as to the raging Seas So far and no farther But it never limits the Holy one of Israel It ingages God to every busines and ingageth the heart to trust in Him and so there is an omnipotency in Prayer c. The servant of the Lord writeth upon every thing Askt of God for what soever is not so Asked cannot come to him as a Blessing and the gift of God And if it be a Nationall Blessing for that his mouth is widest open he is no body for himselfe but as the Church may prosper this he calls Naptali Gen. 30.8 the child of my wrastling for with the wrastling of God fervent strong Prayers hath he gained this blessing And as it is in the purpose of his heart to seek God still so he knows God heares Prayers still i.e. gives gracious returnes unto them The Lord has spoken good words and comfortable and they keep-up the Spirit of prayer alwayes so that his servants cannot be discouraged and faint in their minds Aske what you will and it shall be done Joh. 14.13 15.7 O what unspeakable grace is this His servants aske nothing but according to their

verse is an Earle so Murus in the fourth verse is some excellent Person sure precious in the eyes of God and men for this shall be spoken to the eternall reproach of Oxford the Persons there That they have vilified and reproached those whom God will honour and they have honoured those with degrees in Schooles and titles of honour whom God doth account as vile as they can esteeme their owne dung Had I heard no more but this That the man is blasphemed at Oxford I must conclude presently as every sober man will This is some excellent Person he hath done worthily he is become famous I know he is for he is infamous in Oxford There the drunkards make their songs of him and there they make a noice like a dog I proceed Leporis of a hare vado in a shallow water which you may ford-over put together it is in Hare-ford and the literall Interpretation That the wall and all about it was drowned in Hare-ford The Allegoricall is this and it is very witty in the Poets conceipt That Sir William Waller with all his Troopes were swallowed up quick in Hare-ford i. e. by the Earle of Hartford And so the Poet hath added a letter to Murus and that is ever an addition to a Blessing and hath taken away a letter from his Lordships title of honour which ever in sacred account makes an addition to a curse It followes Euri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bristonia Leporinos Horrescens vortices i. e. That shallow water fordable but now is now raised to such an height that Bristol is swallowed up by the proud swelling waters of Hare-ford This interpretation is literall too and Allegoricall one word onely is out of place and improper for it fits not the Allegory yet is it very emphaticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bristonia Bristoll groanes under cruell bondage It does indeed such as Israel never felt under Pharaoh and his Task-masters nor the Christian under the Turke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bristonia That Citie knowes the sense of that word now Anglica claudij timet pares urbs Casus i. e. And Gloucester lyes now at the mouth of that devouring floud for Haerois Teutoni i Myrmidones The Myrmidons these were the most bloudy Salvages that any history makes mention of so hardened and brawned in villanies and bloudy executions that they became a Proverb a very fit word here to declare unto us what is cleare enough the more then barbarous usages and insolencies of those Rogues Theeves Robbers Murtherers Beasts in the shape of Men the Souldiers of the German Peer have begirt that Citie with their great Duke The Poet meanes those two Brethren in evill whom he dignifies as he thinkes fit but God knowes they who are highly esteemed in Oxford are an abomination in the sight of God Their sword hath made women childlesse It may be the Lord will be so gracious to them that their Mother shall not be childlesse amongst women They have committed lewdnesse in Israels land Gods land It may be their land shall prosper and they shall live to eat the fruits thereof They have done their utmost to ruine those and their house who layed out themselves for the building up of the Palatine house This horrid ingratitude this requitall of kindnesse is no sin in Gods account He is mercifull It may be the Lord will build these men a sure house They shall live out all their dayes and when they dye they shall dye as other men and be buried as those who are precious in Gods account But there is no trusting to it we have not a word for it against it we have for this is the word and burden from the Lord against all those that have shed bloud to their power * Ps 55.23 Bloudy and deceitfull men shall not live out halfe their dayes Thou shalt not be joyned with them in buriall because thou hast destroyed * So we understād the Possessive Thy and not that he laid his own Land waste making it a Babel Israels kings did so and the most Christian in name as the Sacred French Chronicles tell us and as our children will reade more at large in after times These scriptures will add waight to the Burden terror of the Lord. Psal 5.6 Psal 11.5 Pro. 22.23 23.11 Isa 49.12 Zac. 14.12 thy land and slaine thy People Isa 14.20 against whom the Lord was a little displeased and Babylon helped forward the * Zech 1.15 affliction What the Poet sayes now is of small account Thus sayes the Lord as we have read and this the Burden from his mouth upon those great Captains their Myrmidones I proceed Pacata Thule est Scotland is quiet sayes Oxford Poet I shall say more to that anon Nec noto timor Popello aut Regi nor is there any feare from the North but that all there abouts will come forth to the Kings foot and be trod under as the mire in the streets for mark it nihil relictum est Britannicum domare Caesarem There is no let in the world whereby to keepe downe Caesar the King from ascending above the height of the Clouds and being like the most High an absolute Monarch whose Rule is his will it had need be an holy will but such is onely Gods will nothing can hinder this now now that New-Castle hath put out the starre in the North Hare-ford hath overflowed the wall in the South and the two Brothers are so prosperous in the West nothing can hinder now but Preces gregis the prayers of a poore flock of sheepe Armenta and Pecora are great Cattle ever * Amo. 4.1 The Bulls and kine of Bashan which oppresse the poore which crush the needy Gregis is of a flock of sheep 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 newly fallen mad he meanes a poore despicable helplesse I doe not say hopelesse destitute cast out fatherlesse People a People vile in their owne eyes but of high account with God These he meanes Then his meaning is nothing remaines now that New-Castle is so fortified and strong Hare-fords waters so risen swelled so high and storme-like swallowing-up and storming all before it and leaving no food behind it Now that the two Roaring Lyons the Lord calls them * Zeph. 3.3 so and I dare not thinke of a fitter expression have their mouths wide open to swallow-up Gloucester the Inhabitants there and all about nothing remaines now to save these poore flock from these Devourers Nisi but The prayers of the poore of the flock a poore destitute cast-out People Well blessed be God these people have But their Adversaries allowance and yet they have enough yes enough and enough for they have All God and * Gen. 33.11 All Enough then though which I will adde all the Adversaries Brethren the Kings good Subjects in Ireland these were called horrid Rebells an yeare and halfe agoe in a Court Complement though these are called over to doe their King

OXFORDS LATIN RIMES TVRNED INTO ENGLISH REASON OR Horrid Blasphemy made excellent Divinitie thereby to give the Righteous assured confidence for ever That though the Adversary seemes to command the meanes yet God commands the end and prayer commands God Therefore what ever the premisses are the conclusion will be glorious and the News very good from all those Quarters North South and West where the Adversary boasteth of his successe But from Bristoll and Gloucester best of all because there the Adversary hath blasphemed the Holy One and is mad with rage against His Holy Ones Then shall the Lord be jealous for his Land and pittie his people Joel 2.18 Thou hast seene it The poore committeth himselfe unto Thee c. Psal 10.14 Iudgements are prepared for scorners and stripes for the back of fooles Pro. 19.29 OBserving some picking in the dust-heaps others raking the channells in the streets and sinkes in the Kitchin where they have found precious matter sometimes most times that which hath recompenced their labour I must observe herefrom That no place nor person is so barren but may yeeld some fruit Nay nothing no not that dung which is most unsavoury because it is the corruption of that which is best but hath vertue in it more then is ordinarily conceived saith a great * Paracelsus sayes thus to an idle and useles person Thou art of much lesse use then is thy dung not worthy of that worst excrement in thy conceipt which thou voydest Quae Calcantur things we tread under-foot or leave there would be of good esteem if we knew the use of them this use is shewen to the world together with other excellent matters by Mr. Plats whom I know onely by his Bookes a man of precious use and abilities Schollar Let not the Reader then be discouraged at the sight of the Rimes which shall now be presented to his eye though indeed they smell more of the Pot then of the Poet and because probably they came from Oxford from whence wee can expect no good for there Sathan hath his Throne and Iniquitie hath been established by a Law True it is I have as vile an esteeme of the Verses and the Poet as he hath of his owne dung and yet sith there can be vertue extracted thence even out of that dung The Reader need not doubt but when I have raked them to the bottom I say to the bottom I shall finde some vertue there some excellent Truth uttered by him as a scorne and as through a Trunke but making very much for the establishment of the Righteous whom the fool scorneth I shall say more to the scorn for that is my maine scope no more to the scorners but this which is enough to make them tremble * Pro. 3.34 Pro. 29.8 Surely the Lord scorneth the scorners for they bring a Citie into a snare Nay they set a Citie on * In flammant sufflant fire The Lord will persecute them with his storme and take them away with his whirlewinde if they repent not So leaving the scorners I come to their scorne which is wrapt up in these Verses fifteen in number Extincta Castro fax pulchra novo est Nec nautae postea nec militi Sit noto Pharos Auster disparem Haud tulit Casum murus cui addita est Canina Litera mersa est suis Cum turmis nuper Leporis vado Euri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bristonia Leporinos Horrescens vortices Anglica Claudij timet Pares Vrbs Casus Haerois Teutonici Myrmidones astant magno cum duce Pacata Thule est nec Noto timor Popello aut Regi Nihil relictum est Brittannicum domare Caesarem Ni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 preces gregis Haec Sphinges raptim Oedipo suo Julij 20. 1643. This last verse shewes the Poet to be a merry Greeke but in the close wee shall say of his laughter It is * Eccl. 2.2 mad In my translation I shall render the words first then the sense and meaning not to the Poets liking sure I have not learnt of the Devill his Master to play the fool or the knave or the mad-man I thanke God who hath given me more grace I have not sold my selfe to doe evill for then I could as he and the Court * Greek Latin Poets tell us of one Mercury a very infamous person a notable knave a cunning thiefe and a most notorious lyar not his like in all the world he was the Court-Mercury too which may satisfie the world touching the Court then and this fellow Syrnamed Mercurius Auli●us now Mercury upon the Ale-bench make songs of David I could for I know their way well enough give-up my tongue and my Pen to the Devills forge intreat him to sharpen them against the face of the Righteous The Devill would gratifie me so farre he would enable me as well as them natures bent being that way to lie and raile and blaspheme he would procure me also for doing him service some high degree in the Schooles good gaine to my purse haply some place or title of honour for such servants are in the onely ready way to rise in the world But then I should render my selfe a fool and a knave both and in every sober mans construction mad also as the newes from Oxford once a fortnight renders their Mercury there and as these verses render the Poet here All of the easiest construction especially the first because of the agreement it hath with the English wherein I had pretty skill ever since I could read latin for thus I could interpret this verse in Ovid Tacturos sydera summa putes Thou shalt put summer syder into tanckards Such a construction the childe makes here and yet he thinkes he hath proposed a Riddle which needs an Oedipus no it needs not for Extincta Castro fax pulchra novo est nec nautae postea nec militi sit noto Pharos Pulchra fax is the Lord Fairfax a bright starre indeed but of that anon and Castro novo is by Newcastle he meanes the good Earle there and his meaning is very proper for he hath no more sense of God and goodnesse then have the timber and stones in that Castle But we must not stifle the birth or the Poets witty conception which is this That the bright starre in the North is quite extinct now by New-Castle and shall be of no more use to Souldier or Mariner Auster disparem haud tulit casum As this in the North so the like disaster hath befallen the Roundheads in the South for Murus cui addita est Canina litera mersa est suis cum turmis nuper leporis vado I have plowed with the Poets heifer and can reade his Riddle Sure Murus is a wall So sure Canina litera is R as they say in Oxford where they make a noice like a dog and goe round about the Citie But here is a deepe conceipt for as Castro novo in the first

they To day or to morrow within a very few houres we will goe into such a Citie called Gloucester and kennell there for they are dogges continue there this Winter where we will whore and drab and curse and blaspheme God damne us and shed bloud to our power so proudly they said so they will doe such a good will they have and so headlong it carries them Now heare what the Lord will doe The Lord who does cast abroad the rage of his wrath beholds every man that is proud and abaseth him Job 40. does confound daring attempts horrid rage and cursed blasphemy decks himselfe with Majestie and excellency for the very purpose to resist to set himselfe in Battle-Array against the Proud James 4.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He will shew himselfe glorious in power now the Right hand of the Lord will dash in pieces the enemy Wee know the Lord has done it though we had heard nothing touching that matter for God does resist the proud the God of Hoasts sets Himselfe in Battle-Array against such haughty Persons The loftie lookes of man shall be humbled and the haughtinesse of Men shall be bowed downe saith the Lord Isa 2.11 and as He saith so He has done And He alone shall be exalted in that day Wee will give now all that is due unto man to his courage to his faithfulnesse but we must ascribe Salvation to our God He has marched valiantly He saw there was none to helpe Therefore His Arme brought Salvation He has repayed fury to his Adversaries recompences to His Enemies In whom the Church does trust He will yet deliver He will goe on to shew favour to compleat His victories He will take the matter into his owne hands He will doe as his Adversaries said in their pride they would doe The Lord will pursue He will overtake He will divide the spoyle These Balaams now are Posting to another place and they Boast still what they will doe there They will doe to as they have done to Bristoll and as they would have done to Gloucester So they will do they have a good will unto it but God has them in his chaine and has put a hooke in their nostrells and a Bridle into their mouths and He will send his men of warre after them carryed-on upon the wing of Prayer put up from all the corners of the world and all his people there carried also upon the wing of Faith The Church hopes her people will not make Idolls of men any more then they shall be broken in pieces no more Shee hopes that her people are if not fit yet fitting for deliverance and her Adversaries rotten-ripe for destruction if their iniquities not yet ful yet filling up to the brim now they have reproached the Lord now their mouths are so wide open to utter blasphemies surely the Church sees now their day is coming It is at hand But shee has resolved all touching that matter into Gods will shee referres all to his time If he will make more breaches upon her she is humbled and can accept of her punishment for she knowes the time is coming even the set-time when her Lord will make mak up his Jewells and Build the Tabernacle of David which is fallen And how ever the Lord may deale with her for the present it is His Prerogative Royall to deal with her as he pleaseth but mercy pleaseth him If He suffer His people to be longer tossed-up and downe like a Grashopper it is to settle them the faster upon the Rock They know God is Master of the end What ever the Premises are he makes the Conclusion So they have concluded and this is their confidence What they loose in the world they shall gaine in Heaven All their losses here shall be their Advantages here and there What they misse of here below they shall finde abundantly recompenced in Christ above as their sufferings are their consolations shall be In the meane time they as was said limit not the Holy One of Israel They leave him to His owne will worke and time They have resolved their will into His good Pleasure His will be done Amen Hitherto He has done all things well even when He broke His Armies to pieces He made them up again with advantage two for one Who would distrust this God Surely the Church will not They will not forsake their confidence They have Prayed and they have been heard still and they will pray evermore and are assured that when things are lower then yet they are or like to be their Prayers will wheel-up all again and turne the Scene contrary to all expectation but the godly mans The cause is Gods cause the mannagers of it His people God will maintaine his owne cause and spare his People according to the greatnes of His mercy Amen and Amen I must adde here Whereas it is cleared now what a mightie Instrument Prayer is how prevailing a weapon ever-more And that it is the Churches weapon whereby she turnes and wheeles about things when they seeme to be gone quite fallen and desperately lost When this is cleared This must not be concluded That this is the Churches onely weapon shee must not use the Sword Master Calvin Cal Instit li. 4. ca. 20. sect 24 25. c. who has said as much I beleeve as any man in the world touching the sacred Majesty of Kings and obedience due unto them When he has said all as much as can be said and yet no more but what we all say who speake by the Booke of God he adjoynes De privatis hominibus semper loquor Sect. 34. All that I have spoken touching obedience to Kings or suffering from their hands is spoken to private men I doe not meane the Ephori who curbed the Lacedemonian power nor the Tribunes who righted the Romane People when their Consuls did them wrong c. Nor the Parliament in England And there he has these words Si regibus impotenter grassantibus conniveant eorū dissimulationē nefarid perfidia non carere affirmo 32 If the Parliament there or any where shall winke at the Kings exorbitancy crushing the poore and grinding the faces of the needy If so Then doe the Parliament deale treacherously They betray the poore of the flocke and the trust of the Kingdome There is but one Section more and but a word out of it which will stop their mouths who flap us in the mouth with this still That they have sworn obedience to their King You must ever except this here sayes Master Calvin If it does not crosse the Rule and Gods command That you may satisfie men you must not be so fool-hardy as to incurre the displeasure of God the God of Gods and Lord of Lords Calvin has a little more but too much for me to set downe here I would rather Kings did read it for it highly concerns them even above their Crown Three lines more must be added they