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lord_n	earth_n	heaven_n	name_n	17,493	5	5.0135	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87482	A strange and terrible sight forseene in this kingdome, and city of London: together with the countrimans antidote for its prevention.	J. J.	1643 (1643)	Wing J21; Thomason E67_2; ESTC R2158	6,820	9

never more liberty for Ministers to preach and people to heare then now never in a better way for Reformation then now But should these wicked creatures as most certainly they will try enter your City your glorious light would then be turned into hellish darknesse your Ministers that now to your comfort you can see in the Pulpits you will then to your sorrow see in the dungions instead of praying Ministers and preaching Ministers and watchfull Ministers you will have drunken Parsons and swearing Parsons and idle Parsons and popish Parsons and jeering Parsons against Jesus Christ O what swarmes of Euphrates vermine would be scravling and creeping in your streets instead of Sermons you will have railing against Reformation and against Parliamentall proceedings and private fast dayes you will heare Masse instead of Gods Word and Masse Priests instead of Ministers instead of singing Psalmes you will have singing of ballads and songs against the Protestants and poore praying Christians O the oathes and those horrid blasphemies that will then be belched forth continually Ah Christians you must bid farewell Bible when they come into your City you must never look to see English Bible more nor to read more of Gods Word you must bid farewell to all your godly company and all manner of godlinesse in profession never looke to meet more the Ordinances or to have your sinnes reproved but be sure you shall have your prayers jeered and your fasting jeered and your zeale scoffed at O Magistrates O Ministers O Ancient O Grave O Husbands O Wives O Parents O Children O Masters O Servants O all and every of you that make profession of Jesus Christ and have entred into Covenant to fight for him for Christs sake and his Cause sake ponder of these things and if the consideration of these things will not move you to shut up shops and come forth unto the helpe of the Lord against the mighty assure your selves your posterities will rue it and Mero's curse will assuredly fall upon your head But many I know will say all this that is spoken concerning the enemies cruelty is but imagined men are apt to speake the worst sure they will not be so cruell say some Give me leave to answer we usually say seeing is beleeving but he that writes these lines to you not onely saw but also felt their cruelty 〈◊〉 their heavy bloes and bloody hands I now doe beare their blood● 〈…〉 their bloody and inhumane dealing I saw them 〈…〉 mangle others Gentlemen of worth and quality and yet they promised both me and them faire quarter I felt their punishment in hunger and cold I felt their punishment in fetters too they bound my hands my necke and heeles together a punishment seldome heard of for poore prisoners especially for a Captaine yet this and more then this I underwent and more I saw them strip men aged and young they did the like to women maids servants and children I saw the honest people wanting cloathes the women weeping and making grievous moane to on another for want of bread to feed their children I saw them fire houses after that they had plundered them I saw the people goe with bleeding bodies and fainting hearts within them to see their houses fired to the ground their goods consumed and they their wives their children and Families having no place to put their head in O dolefull sights to see and malencholy tunes to heare I dare presume there is not a man in the City if he hath but the least sparke of good nature in him if he did but see the picture drawne of their ill demeanours but he would rather die then suffer them to enter the City I have not yet told you the worst I have not told you of ravishing women neither did I tell you of killing maids with that most filthy usage Staffordshire women can to their sorrow tell you thus we see what it is to deale with strangers we pull thereby strange punishments on our heads This rod was then north-wards since it hath beene south-wards and lately west-wards and whether it will rove we know not but should it get within your City you would I am confident be the miserablest people under the Sunne they doe professe themselves very mercifull in the midst of their cruelty all the cruelty they shew in the Country is but as a sparke to the fire or as a drop of the bucket in comparison of that rigour that they would shew to you They know that England had not beene able to hold up hand against them had not you put your hand to the worke They know 't was your money that maintained the warre against them they know that you were the first moover in the worke of Reformation they know that you opposed Bishops and Ceremonies they know 't was you that caused that grand Traytor to be beheaded and therefore you shall be sure to drinke deepest in the cup of their fury I beseech God you never see that day for 't will be such a time as he will thinke himselfe most happiest that can escape with his life is it not time then that you should bestirre you you see how many false friends you have how many ignoble spirits you have had all this while under the pretence of honest men and friends to the publique cause but now have slipt the coller you see how few cordiall friends you have and how the Kings Army or rather the Queenes Army grow more insolent every day and how they oppresse the Country and will you lye still Up up brave noble spirits and lye no longer like the Asse under the burthen of oppression You hitherto have beene active valiant and couragious men up therefore like your selves take sword in hand most gallantly Chronicle your names on earth in Heaven for ever for fighting valiantly for the Lord of hosts against his enemies aged and young masters and servants mistresses and maids it concernes you all that wish well to the Protestant Religion your King and Country one way or other either by purses or persons to helpe in this great work the vertuous maids and the young Gentlewomen of the City shew their brave spirits in helping forward of this worke Whose worthy praise none can expresse or write Though they should beat their braines both day and night But Tryton broach their names the western wayes And Fame divulge thou it to their high praise What is the matter noble Citizens that your hearts are downe doe you give the day for lost doe you thinke England is lost because Bristoll is lost Alas Bristoll is not all our strength nor all our forts nor all our garrisons we have the beter cause the greater side and the honester men the passage to Heaven is cleere for us so that we can goe thither and fetch what we want but 't is shut to them Our Parliament is standing our Forts are well managed we have a pound for their shilling twenty peeces of Ordnance for