will the juglers say this must not be suffered we must use some course speedily to blacken I say blacken the author and impair the value of his Letter or our trade is gone Join your forces up and be doing truth is strongest ye fight against your Saviour S. Peter and S. Paul to the Corinthians if you quarrel me for this come meddle then if you dare And if you do provoke me I will not only spoil the sale and market of your new-coin'd feigned words but I 'll cry down your market-market-day too on which you sell your empty sounds to fill your pockets Not that I am against preaching up charity and goodness and faith and hope too in order unto charity and upon the Lords day too if so be that preaching praying or worship hearing or faith doth not hinder better duties viz. works of mercy mercy to my own body to my beast to my family to my neighbour But if keeping any day of worship or performing any duties of worship hinder any of those greater duties then I sin in doing those duties of worship which hinder those greater duties of mercy Yet I say if I can do both both worship God and keep a holy day to him and also perform the greater duties of mercy then both is better God has join'd them together let not man put them asunder faith is a good grace and hope is good and charity good and preaching and prophesying knowledge and mysteries are all good it is a pity they should be parted but if we want charity we want the great accomplishment the greatest of these is charity And if any body think that I herein speak too slightly of keeping the Lords day let them know that if they think so they do but censure amiss and like the Hypocrites and Pharisees condemn me for that that was the very cause why our Saviour himself was accounted a sinner as you may see Jo. 9. 14. 16. 24. The Sabbath day and all other days were made as all things else and as all Commandments were made viz. only for the good of man not for his hurt and dammage if you will believe our Saviour The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath If my neighbours house be on fire as I am going to Church I ought to get my bucket and throw water and help to quench it for all going to a Sermon and God likes me better with my pail in my hand at that time than the Bible in my hand or a prayer in my mouth when charity to my neighbour supersedes my worship of God as being superiour to it as our Saviour tells the Pharisees upon the like occasion Mat. 12. 9. I will have mercy and not sacrifice that is not sacrifice when it hinders the greater duty of mercy And if a flood be coming down ready to flow my meadows when my Hay had need be carried away with my cart or else it will be carried away with the flood I should sin at that time if going to Church or any worship of God should prevent me from harnessing my horse and going to cart on the Lords day and my servants should sin grievously with going to Church when a work of mercy to my poor family and cattle called them another way And though our modern Pharisees and Hypocrites will condemn me herein yet they cannot tell how to confute it by Scripture nor reason and if they had known the true Religion or what this meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice they would not have condemned the guiltless I might give many other instances in making ready food in mercy to my body I mean not only necessary food to keep life and soul togethet as we vulgarly say but such food as is most convenient good hot victuals and good drink on the Lords day for watering a man's Horse and Ass on the Sabbath day is not necessary for life they will live as hunting horses often do a longer time without water but it is not convenient so to make them fast and being a work of mercy though but to your beast therefore does not every one of you think it lawful to do this convenient good on the Sabbath day That is supposing the fourth Commandment had the same force and efficacy that other Ceremonies and Types had in our Saviours time But alas the case is alter'd now those types and shadows are now of no more force than Circumcision and new Moons which in respect of Gospel discoveries are but weak and beggarly elements whereunto our modern Pharisees desire again to be in bondage and lest the hope of their gain should be gone they are wonderful zealous for the morality of the Sabbath and the morality of the fourth Commandment that yet are the most unmannerly sawcy peremptory people under the Heavens endeavouring to shew morality no where but in their market-day where they get much gain with as light frothy ware as ever was sold poor people are cheated and have a hard penny-worth of it as ever men had if they give a penny for these fictitious words such as this the ten moral Commandments and the morality of the fourth Commandment which all the art they have can never prove nor that there is since Christs death any more intrinsecal holiness in one day than another nor any more holiness in the Lords day than any other Holy-day mentioned in the Act of Parliament for that purpose wherein are these words These days shall be kept holy namely every Sunday in the year then follow all the Saints days and holy days to which the King and Parliament may adde more holy-days if they please and as they have done and as they are of humane institution can also take away some if they judge convenient Nor ought any man to keep the Lord's day in conscience or duty more than any other Holy-day And the ground of a man's keeping the Lords-day and all other Holy-days is in obedience to the fifth Commandment not the fourth Commandment Which if it were moral i. e. perpetual in their sence it is not in the power of the Church nor King nor Parliament to alter the day from the seventh to the first but all Sabbath days were like the new-moons and other Jewish festivals mere shadows of things to come but the body is Christ which being come the shadows vanish And those that zealously affect men with this Jewish conceit of keeping days c. do zèalously indeed affect men but not well nor honestly I know men are apt enough to take liberty to themselves in this licentious age to any prophaness but I deny that it is prophaness for me to dress convenient food for my self and family hot and good if I can get it on the Lords-day and Greg. does acknowledge himself and all that he knows of his party to be of this opinion herein in this one thing then we do agree and this is the first particular we have concurr'd in since we
pray possibly to God and preach of God and hear Gods Word this worship of it self good becomes evil a sin because though doing a duty which is good and great in it self yet thereby transgressing a duty of the second Table which is better and greater and of a higher concernment your worship then and there is but as the cutting off of a Dogs-neck and God will say who hath required these things at your hands When ye disobeying the fifth Commandment in your forbidden Conventicles appear before God and spread forth your hands he will turn away his eyes from you yea when ye make many prayers he will not hear Why Your hands are full of blood Your actions are Bloody Schisme and Rebellion has fill'd the Land full of blood from one end thereof unto another already and therefore this liberty you cry up so and cry so much for and the calling of your forbidden assemblies God cannot away with It is iniquity even your solemn meetings Isa. 1. 11 12 13 14 15 17 19 20. And know that the great duty of a truly godly man is to cease to do evil to learn to do well to seek judgement relieve the oppressed plead for the widdow and to be willing and obedient and ye shall eat the good of the Land But if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured by the Sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Oh but the Ark the tottering Ark what godly heart would not tremble for the Ark of God as old Eli's did 1 Sam. 4. 13. What considering heart would with Democritus hold from laughing till his sides ak'd to see the madness of the people and the Priest or rather with the other weeping Whitaker weep at the folly and delusion of poor souls so dismally bejuggled If a Conformist Minister with all his Aaronical weeds on or barely attir'd in the linnen Ephod should but name such a Text in a Christian Congregation how would the frighted Brethren run out of Church and cry out Types Ceremonies shaddows Levitical Old Testament Spirit Is this your Gospel Minister Is this Primitive simplicity Is this modern Orthodoxy Is there one word of the Spirit in all this Text Is it not froth as applyed and nothing to the purpose But comes me godly Mr C. precious Mr. C. persecuted Mr. C. Bartholmew Calamy and then all must be Gospel that he speaks And though we poor souls understand not the Cant yet the cunning Gypsies know well that by the Ark of God is meant the Bartholomew Babies By the great scarlet Whore is meant the Pope but then whisper I to my self this same great Whore if it be the Pope can be none of them possibly but onely Pope Joan. By Babylon is meant Rome that shall be destroyed with fire and plagues in 666. the name of the beast and the number of the name But the mischief on 't was that Prediction how ever aim'd yet light upon poor London God knows instead of Rome so hard it is to construe the Revelations and so fatal to peep into the Ark and to pry into Gods secret judgements such usually pay for their peeping that unlike to the good and true prophet Jeremiah 17. 16. hasten from being a Pastor to follow God to follow their own inventions in desiring the woful day upon others O Lord thou knowest Then by Babylon and Antichrist is not only meant Rome that stands still and above a thousand miles from Babylon yet take but one jump more and but half so far and you do onely make Babylon in the Land of Shinar where the great Tower stood Gen. 11. shake hands with Rome in Italy but with a small stretch more into Little-Brittain you may make Episcopal Grandeur Lawn-sleeves Cross Cringing and Surplice confederates in the complement Would not Balaams Ass if alive open his mouth again to rebuke the madness of these Prophets And a greater marvel it is to me that the poor people should be such Asses besotted and gull'd to their faces by so easie and stale a Legerdemain of these juglers Who endeavour to turn the world upside down topsiturvy embruing all nations in blood and ruine as we have found to our cost and by dear-bought experience And all these Hocus-Tricks is but to scrape up a sneaking and beggarly living unworthy a man of parts or honour and to avoid the Statute against Beggars Fidlers Gypsies and Pick-pockets like sworn Brothers of the Blade they clap on the Vizard of Religion and Liberty with so much art and cuning that though you hear the Gypsie Cant you would almost swear he was a Saint And as soon suspect your own hands as his though you find them in your pocket The sleight of Tongue doing the seat instead of sleight of Hand and with much more safely gets a richer prize To whom Mall Cut-purse her self was but a fool for the Knave shall look you right in the face all the while he is at it and cutting your Purse And as if Egypt was broke loose hither in a new fashion these vagrants shall wander from town to town all the kingdom over by droves and in this new guize laugh at the Constable Beadles Justice of the Peace House of Correction the Stocks the Whipping-Post and the Jail crying out Liberty Liberty Indulgence Indulgence Breda Breda Would it not make a mans heart ake and his hair stand on end to see whole multitudes trepan'd by these spiritual Juglers into Rebellion and Blood to the ruine of souls and bodies Indeed the Apostle Saint Peter prophesies of these times and these tricks in 2 Pet. 2. 1 2 3. saying that false Teachers shall privily bring in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sneakingly by stealth furtim clà m subdolè speciem pietatis praetendens creeping into Houses and leading captive silly women with damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them Which those only do that pretend to Christianity but deny Christs Religion that is deny Christs word or great Religion the summe of all Religion that is of Christs making viz. To do as we would be dâ—…ne by And though their ways lead to destruction yet many shall follow these pernicious ways This great way of truth being evil spoken of as mâ—…er morality or the like by those that through covetousness and with fcigned words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fictitious Canting New-coyn'd Fanatick words as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies they shall make Merchandise of you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they shall make their money of them or these men that pretend so to the spirit shall be spirits indeed but evil ones Spirits such as catch up men women and children to make money on them through covetousness If it were not foretold that many shall follow their pernicious ways we might well wonder that such flocks should follow these evil spirits to their eternal damnation as well as temporal loss of body and goods But we have liv'd to see and yet do see whole shoals catcht with
met Also I deny that it is unlawful for me but rather a duty incumbent upon me to give my servants lieve to play and recreate themselves with any honest sport upon the Sunday or any other Holy-day at convenient times for I ought in mercy and charity to be merciful to my beasts my oxe or my ass in watering them which is not necessary but only expedient for life Much more ought I to be merciful to my poor Prentice my servant my Hand-maiden that have drudg'd and trudg'd to slave and work for me on working days when Sunday or any other Holy-day comes if I be of Christs true Religion and do as I would be done by Nay I ought if I am able to let them drink better liquor and eat better meat eat the fat and drink the sweet as Nehemiah speaks and send portions thereof to the poor according to my ability on those festivals at least give them what I give my beast ease and rest on those vacation-days a penny-worth of ease is worth a penny And the contrary opinion is hypocritical pharisaical hard-hearted apocryphal and prophane and contrary to the great Law of charity and mercy and contrary to those infallible and unanswerable reasons rendred excellently in that proclamation for lawful sports on Sundays and all other Holy-days published by the Command and well setled judgment of King James King Charles I. to that purpose And agreeable with the opinion and practice of all Christians Nations and Kingdoms in the world and even of Geneva it self and contradicted by none but our senceless hypocritical modern orthodox Rebels that write in this particular after nobody but Knox that grand Rebel and Innovator Oh but did not these fellows arm the rabble against the King and Bishops upon this very account They did so the more prophane wretches they by laying a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which God never imposed through their own superstition or rather perverseness Wheedling the silly rabble with pretence of Religion and gods-Gods-day which is not a day that the Lord has made more than any other day nor more holy than so far forth as the King and Parliament have made it and set it apart for holy uses as they have done other Holy-days namely vacation-days from servile and worldly toil that men might be now at leisure for Gods worship merciful and charitable works to our selves our neighbours our servants our handmaidens our Ox and our Ass and the like which are the proper duties for a Sunday and other holy-days And because we are a trading covetous having worldly minded people if the King and Parliament think fit to allow us no other Holy-days but Sundays and half a dozen more in a year I am content And the late wrethced Rebels might with more right and good reason have taken occasion to rebel as Massinâ—…lla and his mutineers in Naples did by the spilling and overturning of a basket of Apples than from that honest Proclamation for sports published by King James and King Charles I. of blessed memory for lawful refreshments and recreations on Sundays and Holy-days after Divine service So consonant to the doctrine and practice of all Christendom and so agreeable with the great Law of doing as we would be done by And there is never a one of these spleenatick peevâ—…sh morose unsociable and hypocritical Pharisees but in their practice do as much contradict their own doctrine for the Sabbath as that so much talk'd of Proclamation has done every Sunday when they leave their maid at home carefully to look to the pot and the spit that all be ready piping hot precisely against the time that Lungs comes home when his Auditory is tyr'd perhaps more than himself Binding heavy burdens and grievous to be born and laying them on other mens shoulders but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers and saying as John of Leyden did upon the rack confessing the true cause of his Fanaticism and Impostures The people love to he cheated with Superstition and love them hâ—…st that gull them most Thus have I as briefly and as fast as my pen could write given an honest and down-right account why and how true Christians should keep a Sunday or other day holy though not according to the hypocritical and modern orthodox but consentaneous with all the truly Orthodox Christians in the world And in answer to what Father Grey-beard in a different character sets down as the Apocryphal opinion of the Reverend Bishop Bramhall but is an infallible truth p. 38. namely he maintains the publick Sports on the Lords day by the Proclamation to that purpose and the example of the Reformed Churches beyond Sea and for the publick dances of our youth upon Countrey-Greens on Sundays after the duties of the day he sees nothing in them but innocent and agreeable to that under-sort of people And he takes the promiscuous License to unqualified persons to read the Scriptures far more prejudicial nay more pernicious than the over-rigorous restraint of the Romanists And he took it well in so taking it For though no man can have a more sacred esteem and value for the holy Scripture and Gods word than I have knowing that it is profitable for instruction and to make the man of God perfect throughly furnished unto every good work Yet this good work of instructing out of it properly belongs to the man of God it is his province not incumbent upon every man nor possible to be undertaken by every man Because our English Bibles are not in every particular the word of God nor in any one thing the words of the Prophets of Christ and the Apostles who not one of them spoke English except perhaps S. Bartholomew and the modern Orthodox have no great kindness for that Apostle because of a certain Reason But chiefly because neither he nor any other Apostle delivered the mind of God and holy writ in the English tongue The English Bibles in the Translation at best being but a paraphrase or Homily of the word of God nor all that neither for these reasons that are unanswerable and infallible First because the English Bibles are in some places erroneous Secondly They are in some places scarce sence and of dangerous consequences when every pert bold and conceited fellow that only understands English takes upon himself to raise doctrines and opinions thence contrary to the sence and meaning of God in his holy word contrary to the mind and meaning of the Holy-Ghost as well as contrary to the sence of the Church and truly Orthodox I love not this discourse and could wish it were any bodies task and employment rather than mine it is so ungrateful and generally displeasing yet since this bold Greg. has given the occasion by reflecting upon the honest words of the most Reverend and learned Bishop Bramhall in these odde animadversions in things far above his shallow pate apprehension and reach Therefore now my hand is in
when Gods Commandments seem to justle for precedence and strive for the place As they often do and no man can truly fear God and obey him as he ought that understands not these Laws of Honour and rules of Precedency We cannot err when our Saviour is the guide and leads us the way I 'le instance in a few cases for example The Pharisees of old just like our modern Pharisees in their modern Orthodoxy were marvellous men for the worship of God and Gods day of worship the Sabbath-day Oh the Sabbath-day and then for prayers long long prayers sacrifice and indeed for all the worship of God prescribed in the four first commandments who but they Good very good thus far who can otherwise think but that these who are so much for God and his glorious worship should be Gods own People the Godly Party and Almighty God as much for them Who dare check them lest he seem thereby to fight against God Who dare speak against their ways lest he seem to bid heaven battail and speak against Gods ways The Lawyers amongst them who were the chief Preachers took it wonderful hainously that even our blessed Saviour himself should dare to reprove them and when he made so bold as to do it they took it as a very high affront Thus saying thou reproachest us also us also and reproachest not reprovest but reproachest us also taking for granted that to reprove was to reproach them Yet for all this in the first Sermon our Saviour makes he assures his Auditory That except their righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees they should in no wise enter into the Kingdom of God What Would not the worship of God in his own way bring them to God No. Would not a zealous and holy keeping Gods holy day bring them to God No. Would not the being cry'd up for the most pure and godly party bring them to God No. Would not prayers many and long and good too and preaching many Sermons and full good and Orthodox and saving Truths bring them â—…o God No Yet our Saviour gives them his Testimonial that they did not only preach well but also nothing that was ill whatsoever they bid you observe do And to give those Pharisees their due they did not only go Heaven-wards but they did far over-go many of our Pharisees and Preachers Heaven-ward For the Pharisees sat in Moses's chair preached Truth and nothing but the Truth whereas Bind your Kings with chains and your Nobles with fetters of Iron This honour have all the Saints Curse ye Meroz c. and many other good Truths were miserably wrested you know by many nay most of our godly Party that pretended above all others to fear God on purpose to dishonour the King But I lay not the stress upon that but granting that any man preaches and prays keeps Gods holy day and worships him how divinely truly and sincerely soever yet all this exceeds not a Pharisee nor shall ever bring him to the Kingdom of God Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out Devils Depart from me saith our blessed Lord I know you not What not know thine own Preachers prophesying in thy name and such as have prayed too Lord Lord No. I know you not saith he why Ye are workers of iniquity Workers of iniquity Who are they or rather who are not so In respect of the first Table the four first commandments the Pharisees of all men living were not so workers of iniquity And in respect of the four first commandments such as prayed and preach'd in Christs name stood for the Lords worship and consequently Gods times of worship and the Lords-day were of all men living the least workers of iniquity Therefore since Christ knows not these there is a greater thing than Gods worship awanting and which is the one thing necessary and what 's That Our Saviour tells us in the same Sermon even to do to others as we would they should do unto us for this is the Law and the Prophets Mat. 7. 12. That is to say The summe and great design of the Law and the preaching of the Prophets have all but this one scope and end to prevail with mankind to keep the second Table or six last commandments which do more particularly direct us how to observe this great general rule Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them So that as food and â—…ayment is for the preservation of the body Preaching Gods holy word Prayers keeping days holy and all the worship of God whatsoever has but one main scope and end even to make men good good to our own bodies and souls by temperance and sobriety good to others by demeaning our selves peaceably justly and mercifully one towards another as we are particularly directed in the six last commandments Which six last Commandments God himself our blessed Saviour and the Prophets and Apostles do therefore prefer much above the first table and four first Commandments in so much as the end is more noble than the meanes to that end as the life is more than meat and the body than rayment meat and rayment being but the meanes designed for that great end namely the preservation of the body and life Therefore as he that clothes himself with rayment how good warm soever it be and presently throws it all off again and he that eats and eats and eats and either presently vomits it up again or that the meat Lienterically pass through him without alteration and digestion must needs be starved so he that takes in never so much of spiritual food and digests it not according to the great design and end for which God sent it namely to observe the six last Commandments that is to be good to himself and others he must needs have a ruin'd and starv'd soul. The Doctrine how wholesome soever being worthless for want of the use and these great Sermon-mongers are at best but the great-eaters the spiritual Maynards and Wood of Kent Mr. C. of Norwich W. B. of Yarmouth For can all our worship of God prayers praises and preachings observing Lords-days and Sacraments profit God Is he the better for them Job 35. 7. 8. If thou be righteous what givest thou him or what receiveth he of thy hand Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art and thy righteousness may profit the son of man but cannot profit God Therefore when Almighty God first promulgated his sacred Laws he tells his people wherefore he ordered them to keep his Commandments Deut 10. 13. even for their good not his own And excellently does his Prophet Micah tells us to this purpose the great duty of man Micah 6. 6 7 8. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and how my self before the high God Shall I come before him with burnt-â—…fferings c. He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord
common Hangman or too good for the Rebel Saints I 'l assure you they did not think so nor yet would if it would please God and the King to entrust them with it once more no no that 's not this Authors meaning he says it is the Cause too good to be fought for Sure he thinks as his friends H. P. J. O. c. blasphemed in that horrid Rebellion begun by the Scots but occasion'd and caus'd by Bishop Laud and consequently the King That the battle was the Lords and that men should standstill I wish they had and see the salvation of God and that the stars in their Courses would fight against Sisera which they construed the King and Cavaliers Sure this Greg. thought the King and Arch-Bishop for sending the English Liturgy into Scotland did thereby involve themselves and the Kingdom in so much guilt that the Cry thereof would go to Heaven for less he cannot mean and that God ought in justice to have taken the cause into his own hand and destroyed us as he did Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone and thereby have sav'd the Rebels a labour and the Scots a long march into England Greg. would have been an happy instrument to have perswaded the Scots to put up their pipes for the cause was too good to be fought for Yet it seems it is not too good to be writ for nor to good to be commended again to the world this mans a great friend to the King to the Bishops to the Government to the English Liturgy which he represents to have been so mischievous in former times and now he quarrels with the Letany because the word Schism is added he does not like that men should pray against Schism I am afraid one great quarrel and irreconcileable he has against the Liturgy is the same as of old because it makes men pray so oft for the King and his Family to which some mens hearts cannot say Amen He might as well have quarrelled the Letany for another word there added namely Rebellion But that had been to rob without a Vizard the Picque now is only against Schism And why and why he tells us It spoils the Musick and cadence of the Period Men that never intend to repent of their Crimes love not to hear of them sure I am Schism in the Letany there added spoils not the Musick so much as it does the Kingdom which by it alone has been quite out of tune I wish with all my heart though that the King and his two Houses of Parliament would take Gregory's advice p. 304. After all the fatal Consequences of that Rebellion which can only serve as Sea-marks unto wise Princes to avoid the Causes And what were the causes if you will believe his hint they were Arch-Bishop Laud and consequently and much more King Charles I. p. 302. the English Liturgy p. 303. and the zealous assertors of the Rights of Princes who are but at best well-meaning Zealots p. 303. Is 't not pity but this Gregory should be call'd to the Helm of Government 't is Pilots own self he shows wise Princes all the Sea-marks here 's Scylla there Charybdis here lies the flats there the Beacon here the Buoy there the Fire-house here lies Dogger-bank there the Galloper and that sand with the two horns is the spits that beyond Goodwin Sands but here here whoop holla holla whoop p. 150 151 152 153. the Kings Channel Good Skipper so much skill and so much pains such a Politician and a Virtuoso to boot thou shalt have a new Perry-wig and once more another Gratuity sent thee from J. O. and a new Thanks-giving-day appointed by the Churches with another gathering at the end on 't to that purpose beshrew me it came seasonably for an use of great comfort after you had been chouc'd at the ordinary and plaid pieces Is it not meritorious enough he super-erogates gratifies the Churches by shriving them and laying all the blame upon that odious and hated thing the Liturgy that was the cause of all the blood-shed all the wars and ruine that the rock on which we split mind the Sea-marks wise Princes avoid the causes if you will avoid the sad and fatal consequences 'T is but lost money now to fee any Courtiers to put in a seasonable word for Indulgence and modern Orthodoxy Father Grey-beard for all Is there never a Corporation that sends Burgesses to Parliament that upon a vacation the late member being dead may cry up Greg. and get him into the House The Cabala cannot but approve the plot Greg. is greater than a second Moses he 's a second Samson can carry the whole house afore him Methinks I see him at it and addressing himself to the Speaker makes this following speech in the Parliament House composed out of his own book for I scorn foul play nor will I adde one material word of mine own to make him look more ridiculously or seditiously than he has already with his own hand pourtrayed himself in his book only to make it to look more handsomely I have dress'd it in the fashion in this following Droll a la mode in forty pages of his incomparable book like that self-conceited bookish Philosopher that undertook to read Lectures to Hannibal puff'd up with the beloved esteem he has for himself takes upon him the Pilot's place directing wise Princes how to govern the Helm stear their Course and observe the Sea-marks And I have stinted my Muse to his very words in all particulars that come most home to him chusing rather to injure my fancy than him or lay to his charge more than what is prov'd to his face under his hand Mr. Speaker I that spoke here but once before Must now speak though I ne'er spoke more When the Seas swell high as the Poop Shall not your Pilot holla whoop And rowze Tarpollians that lye sleeping Ne'er dreaming what cause there 's for weeping Fasting and Prayers of the Churches Now Orthodoxy left i' th' lurch is And swallow'd up for ought I know Prick up your ears I 'll tell you how There is one Bayes and shall I tell ye He has a thousand Seas in 's Belly Another Hobbs Leviathan Swells and will drown us if he can The Netherlands and Hungary Are under water already p. 43. And so is France Bohemia Sweden and Transilvania Denmark and Savoy that by 'th' Alps is All Scotland England ' xcept a small piece Geneva by Lake-lemane Poland I think at last he 'll leave us no land Look to your Ship then hard at Helm Starboard or else we overwhelm Ease the Shrowds there Breda Breda There ne'er was such a flood since Noah Take th' Topsail in do what you may The Mizen on the Prow gives way Down with the Kings flag you nere mind And let her spoon before the wind All stands aloft swack swack no near For we have sprung a Leak I fear There'r Goodwin Sands Tom and John too W'have