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A36156 The Distractions of our times vvherein is discovered the generall discontent of all estates throughout the whole land : whereunto is added The Round-heads race. 1643 (1643) Wing D1698A; ESTC R34989 5,682 10

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THE DISTRACTIONS of our Times VVherein is discovered the Generall discontent of all Estates throughout the whole Land Whereunto is added the Round-heads Race Nemo sorte sua contentus IN DOMINO CONFIDO Printed at London 1643. The distractions of these Times PLato saith that every Common-wealth then runneth into ruine and decay Cum numerus quinarius ternarió junctus duas efficit Harmonias This is a Musicall Theoreme and Plato's meaning was not in many hundred yeares till of late times Melanthon and some of our late Writers resolved this Riddle well understood the meaning is that State cannot subsist where the number of five joyned to the number of three maketh a dissonant or a discordant Harmony Every Kingdome generally consisteth of three Estates viz. The King or Prince the Nobility and the Commons All States may understand the benefit and sweetnesse of Unity but I come to particular distractions and divisions among our selves at this present wherein Nemo sua sorte contentus vivit And to begin with the present estate of Church the Coate of our blessed Saviour was without scame schisme or rent woven all whole which is or ought to bee the Embleme of the true Catholiqe and Apostolique Church but if our Saviours Coate had had as many seames and rents as we have among our selves at this present he would I am perswaded have vouchsafed never to have worne it they that have torne this seamlesse Garment are not the Iewes who plaid for it by casting Lots though the Text saith in the Psalme they divided my Garments c. for our Saviour ware more Garments than one but our Moderne Schismaticks and Sectuaries who in every place like Pharaohs Frogs infect the whole Land that there is scarce a City or Towne nay private house wherin they have not a part or party so that the common people in the generall and his Majesties best Subjects hardly know what to beleeeve some of them having published a new Creed what booke to serve God withall the booke of Common Prayer and whole Liturgy being cryed downe amongst them for I dolatrous prophane and as I have heard some of them affirme an invention of the Divell so that all the time of King Edward the sixth Q. Elizabeth K. Iames and of our Soveraigne K. Charles we have served the Divell by their reckoning and we must say Iam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto A new race of Round-heads are dropt from Heaven to set us in the right way of serving God But some will tell mee they are Saints they live holily and keepe the Sabboth duly c. I confesse they do and very strictly as one an ale-house-keeper in Southwark had brewed a Barrell of strong Ale and upon a Sunday morning he saw it working as ale will when it is new tunn'd which he seeing and in a great rage called for a hammer and saying what doe you worke upon the Lords day I will none of this so beating out the head of the barrell he let all the Ale run upon the ground Another using Marshall Law hanged up his cat for killing a mouse upon the Sabbath day I could cloy my Reader with the like ridiculous actions of these fellowes so distracted and giddy as if they had lived with Caine in the Land of Nod or rather in the Land of Noddy But the Honourable Ho●se of Parliament hath taken an order for putting an end to these Divisions amongst us that much danger yea mischiefe will heerby be prevented which otherwise doubtlesse might have ensued and this course tooke Constantine in that horrible division and ●ent betweene the Orthodoxe Christians and the Arrians that is by a Counsell he setled the true saith and in the meane time caused them both to remaine quiet without disturbance eitheir of the Church or Common-wealth for never more bloody war among Nations or more bitter distencion and quarrells have arose betweene Church and Church Citie and Citie nay friend and friend brother and brother then through difference in Religion did not Diazivs a Spaniard ride 300. miles to murder his own brother cleaving his head in two because he was a Protestant how many Fathers disinherit their owne children because they professe a contrary Religion to theirs and how many children forsake their own fathers and mothers for Religion-sake how many Treasons were plotted and undertaken against our late Queen Elizabeth of famous and Eternal memory but for matter of Religion as was pretended at least how many Emperours Kings and Princes have been murdered for the Religion they professed as Thomas Emperour of Constantinople by the Arrians Henry the third of France and Henry the fourth also as was thought for favouring of the Protestants over much difference of Religion divided in opinion Asia from Affrica which after gave way to blasphemous Mahomet the other being reconciled by the sword of the Turke to bring in his hellish and ridiculous inventions in their roome but hereof sufficient I only shew the danger of delay in leaving the State of Religion in a State unordered and unsetled Schollers in the Vniversities at this day are distracted or in a maze not knowing how or what course they should take to live hereafter their breeeding there hath been very chargeable to their friends and if they come to obtaine Schollerships or fellowships such is our golden times the sauce of obtaining them will cost almost as much as the meate is worth and when they have taken their degrees by much studye and expence they are never the nearer to preferment for whereas one addicting himselfe to the studie of divinity commeth by money or friends to get a living fortie goe without and are fain to turne Schoolemasters countrey Physitians and some I have knowne Solicitors in the Law being discouraged by the unsetlednesse of Religion and liberty of the times when everie Hatdresser Ironmonger Cobler and Horse-collar-maker shall passe among the multitude for as sound a Divine as an Vniversitie can afford and every known dunce and Ignoramus shall possesse 2. or 3. great Benefices by meanes of his fathers purse or perhaps of a match the Patrons Chambermaid rid lately of her green sicknesse by lying at his beds feet When Civilians must turne common Atturneys and Solicitors and in a word we finde almost a generall hate and loathing of leaning the Arts and all excellencie of knowledge throughout the Land Gentlemen and inhabitants of the Countrey possesse themselves and their Estates in distraction and feare of worse and more tumultious times every where readier to sell then to purchase the want of money is such a disease raigning amongst them that some are scarce able to buy them horses to come to petition for their grievances The Citie and Citizens know not well what to doe or trust to as first what Religion to professe it selfe being as it were the conduit head of Sects and opinions which as in pipes under ground and in a close manner it deriveth into the whole Land they dare