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A17130	Seaven sparkes of the enkindled soule With foure lamentations, which composed in the hard times of Queene Elizabeth, may be vsed at all times, when the Church hapneth to be extreamely persecuted. Drawne out of the holy Scriptures, after the forme of Psalmes. By R.B.P.	Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1604-1605 (1605)	STC 4008; ESTC S117366	36,700	158

knowest who quietly seeke to direct our liues They say to vs talke not of conscience meddle not of Religion and you shall be free Yeald to vs in shewe and giue outward consent to our lawes and actions Come reuerently to our rites and prayers be one of vs at least in profession Forsake your accustomed Sacramentes renounce the society and communion of Catholikes Then beleeue in hart howe you lift we admit you good subjectes and no enemies of our Religion Misery hangeth ouer our heads if we yeald not to this suggestion but a thousand miseries if we doe relent If we forsake thy Tabernacle hell claymeth interest in vs the fiend taketh seyzion of our soules Standing stedfast vve are consumed to nothing neither finde end of trouble but by death A CONSOLATORIE PSALME ANSWEring to the former THE SECOND PSALME LIFT vp thy head O Virgin Sion receiue comfort yee children of Hierusalem Yee zealous soules who groane vnder sore persecution and sit in heauines for your conscience sake Who haue beene tried by fire and found pure peysed in ballance and found sufficient Your constancy our Lord maker hath beheld accepting the same as a most gratefull Sacrifice Confirme your hartes in hope for your redemption is not farre off The yeare of visitation draweth to an end and Iubilation is at hand Albeit yee be as drops fallen into the Sea and as graines of gold among the mountaynes Yet are yee respected from on high as loyall and louing children the reliques of Israell shall bee saued Hierusalem shall be built vp againe and the second glory thereof shal be greater then the first The Church purged in the fornace of tribulation shal shine brighter then euer before Righteousnes shall prosper and infidelity shall bee plucked vp by the rootes God wil arise as from a long slumber and establish againe the Arke of his sanctification Feare not little IACOB hee that is thy Redeemer from the Diuell will be thy deliuerer from all euill His thou art his flocke and fold Catholike is thy name To hurt thee is to hurt him to touch thee is to touch the apple of his eye Arise therefore from the earth shake off sorrowes thy confusion shall giue glace to glory The morning dewe is prest to fal and the night to be discharged of her course With the eye of pitty the Lord of hostes shall visit vs and send saluation to his people Turning their water into wine their wormewood into suger canes His scattered flocke he will vnite againe and reduce strayers into safety The roote which hath waxen old vnder ground shall shoote vp againe as a fresh plant by the riuer side No man shall vpbraid it vvith barrennes or say it vvas a cursed stocke False errour shall vanishe like smoake and they vvhich sawe it shall say where is it become Iust judgement and holy lawes shall be restored If a Woman can forget her child or if we can forget our right handes yet will not Christ be vnmindfull of Sion his heritage Sooner shall he forget his owne throne then her desolation For ashes hee shall giue her a Crowne for baths of teares vnction of joy Requiting her ignominy with honour her sackcloath of sorrowe with robes of festiuity His Tabernacle he will spred againe and dwell among vs as in time past Cladding his Priestes with holynes and his seruants with purity Sacred songes shall breake their long silence the lampe of our Lord shall be reuiued Preachers of saluation shall without feare lift vs their voice The Churches shall be hallowed againe no vncleane persons shall enter therein The forrests and rockes shal send thither their chiefest glory for beautifying of sacred workes Screetch-owles shall seeke newe habitation and resigne to the simple Doue With sweeter then milke hony seauen fountaynes shal spring afresh and flowe The resemblance of heauen shall be renewed the resemblance of hell shall be destroyed England shall bee called a happy Realme a blessed Country a Religious people Those which knewe the former glory of Religion shall lift vp their handes for joy to see it returned againe Those which neuer sawe it shall be stroaken with admiration VVishing that they had sooner knowne the truth and condemning their fathers which forsooke it Men shal say of it one to another here is indeede the house of God the gate of heauen Howe great diuersity is betweene truth and falshoode deuout solemnities and counterfeit ceremonies From the East point to the West men shall confesse their errours They which thought themselues wisest shall say they knew nothing Gladly shall people walke in their auncients steps of truth and equity beginning to learne howe to loue God aright Howe to loue him and serue him howe to honour him sincerely in a perfect hart Be no more apald O little flocke of Christ the Prince of peace vvill breake the exactors rodde Rescuing you from captiuity and bringing you vnto desirable pastures Take courage for he is with you his assistance neuer faileth To his glory he created you and for his name sake he wil protect and saue you No longer will he dissemble the oppression of his people he is bent to reuenge their cause The Daughters of Babilon shall be cast downe and in the dust lament their ruine Proude Heresie shall strike her saile and groane as a beast crushed vnder a cartwheele Though her hart be flint her neck yron her forhead brasse The Omnipotent hath sworne to make her stoope and that he vvill abase her haughtines Though shee fret his chosen vine neuer so much in despight of her it shall shoote vp and prosper Ten times if it be cut downe ten times it shall arise more glorious God hath planted it with his owne hand he hath vvatered it vvith the bloud of Martirs it shall flourish He hath considered the insolency of our enemies their cruell dealing hath not escaped his sight Howe arrogantly they walke before our face glorying in their wickednes But the memory of nouelties shall perish with a cracke as a ruinous house falling to the ground Repent yee seducers with speede and preuent the dreadfull wrath of the most powreable Least his ire tread vpon you like a conquerour Least sodainely he draw you forth out of your terrestriall Paradise as thornes vvhich are not pulled vp with handes We haue long tasted the cup of his indignation but for sinners he hath reserued the dregges thereof Greene and flourishing boughes haue not escaped his heauy hand and shall he be mercifull to rotten branches Let iniquity no longer lie deceiuing it selfe with vaine security For thus promiseth the defendor of Israell He will come as a flame that bursteth out beyond the fornace His enemies shall be like stubble in his way His fury shal flie forth as thunder and pitch vpon their tops which maligne him With him is both wisdome and strength he quaileth the world with a becke He knoweth how to dull the weapons of the mighty and to frustrate

vs and abhorred our company Our friendes haue forsaken vs our kindred haue no wil to know vs. Our brethren of the same wombe passed by vs as a streame vvhich stayeth for no mans talke Swifter then Swallowes fled they from vs for dread of the nets which are round about vs. They to vvhome vve should be deare despise vs they which should helpe followe in the chase Like sole Camels in the wildernes are we become like solitary birdes which haue lost their company Outcastes of no body regarded as broaken potsherdes were we trodden vnder foote At meetings men deuised against vs at tauernes and banquets made they songes vpon vs. Neither ceasseth their rage to repine that the milder minded drawe backe from persecuting Without committing folly are we scorned slaundred without desert Tongues are sharpned against vs like swordes malice is bent against vs as a bowe Arrowes are in secret let flie to wound vs snares are laied to intrap vs. The children of this world seeke nothing more then our destruction This their assemblies forget not this is their busines all the day long Lawes laied they earst for stumbling blockes crossed thy edictes the pathes of innocency Beset by them as thicke as bees wee liue inclosed amidest an armed hoast They raged among vs as a riuer vvhich swelleth vvith raine bearing downe the bankes vvith violence Their insolent fury as a flame which catcheth hold vpon a pile of thornes Oppressed thus by our aduersaries we lay groueling on the ground and by strong hand were our neckes kept downe Oh that at length they would not kicke against our litle redresse present for of the passed time who can record the calamity Euen so O heauenly Father for it hath pleased thee to compasse vs with payne and perill Our bowels are filled with worme wood our hartes long since inebriated with gall To what shall I compare our sorrowe and resemble the misery many yeares sustayned Our woes as waues of the Sea our aduersities as the sandes thereof Persecution followeth vs like thunder and lightning fire haile and brimstone More cruell are our foes then Vnicornes more outragious then swift Tigres As Dauid sought to death by Saul as the Israelites in the bondage of Egipt As innocēt Susanna in the handes of her accusers as Daniel in the Lions Den such is our case O Lord. Vnder vs is the appaling pitte aboue vs the brandishing sword Within vs feares vvithout vs terrours No meane left to escape but only thy diuine assistance Were it not for thy great mercy long since had we beene wasted and gone Our Fathers sinned and we beare their iniquities but vnto howe many generations will thy wrath be extended Howe long vvilt thou shut thy eyes from the oppression of thy poore and bannish their cry from thine eares A greate space haue our soules thirsted after thee expecting the day of their redemption As trauaylers in a dry vncouth way as children weaned from their Mothers breast Our hartes are replenished vvith sorrowe and heauines to see thine anger so confirmed against vs. Hold not thy peace but answere vs nowe we lift vp our handes before thy holy Seate Consider at length of our complaint O Protector of thy holy Church looke dovvne from thy throne of Majesty Regard the daylie Sacrifices and turne not thy face frō thine anointed Iniquity hath preuayled gotten the vpper hand and proceeded with all extreamity Because of this we groane by day and at midnight powre forth our soules in teares Memory of our tribulation commeth into our lippes at table of refection and busieth our thoughtes vpon the bed of our rest At our rising it is in our first prayers at our going to bed we againe commend our cause to thy mercy Diuers times in the day we bowe our knees beseeching thee at length to relent Our eyes droppe continually vnto thy Godhead and our sighes are euery moment sent vp towarde thy throne We haue put on sackcloath and hayre and humbled our selues in fasting and abstinence Girt our loynes with corde abased our heades to the earth and multiplied our prayers Arise therefore O God of hoastes stand for thy people giue thy maligners to vnderstand that their Doctrines are of flesh and bloud Heale the crushed and brused set captiues at liberty Thy might is not abridged thy wisdome is no whit diminished Make therefore the yron rodde quite to cease from our shoulders binde vp the woundes of the guiltlesse Spare vs for thy name sake O benigne Lord release thy congregation from their affliction Conuert the hartes of people to thee and they shall be conuerted Send forth thy grace and put vp thy sword Thou hast powred forth thine indignation like a streame and laide thy habitation like a waste plotte Ierusalem hath streatched out her hand and findeth no helpe shee bewayleth her children vvithout all consolation Nowe therefore arise vntwist the twine of our tribulation and breake the exactors staffe Preuent the appointed time O fountayne of mercy abridge the dayes to the saluation of many If thousandes wilfully run astray yet thousandes finde their ruine by ignorance Most part of this haruest perisheth for wante of reaping though much be blighted before the sickle Many which shined in thy church like starres are fallen as from heauen into the bottomelesse pit Many bredde vp in thy fragrant garden vvallowe novve vvithout doores vpon filth with swine Whome thy Spouse fostered vp with her owne breastes those haue sauage beastes raught from betweene her armes and deuoured So that shee is become as a tree blasted and casting her blossomes with the frost Her faire ones are altered to Aethiopians her stronge ones changed to weakelinges They which seemed strōgest haue shrunke vnder the burdē they which seemed soundest are consumed Hell hath widned his entrailles and opened his mouth beyond all measure So that almost as many soules are swallowed in his gulfe as bodies are carried to the graue The fainter sort are tyred in this long probation blaspheamously say in their hartes where is our God become Scarce the just elect haue beene able to endure Respect therefore at last O Lord our oppression desolation For thy loue and for defence of our faith it is that we haue taken so hard a course For righteousnes we sustayne reproofe for not violating our alleageance to thy soueraigne Majesty Who art the only Lord of Lordes and Monarch of the whole world Before whose face the mountayns tremble to whome Angels bowe Whose slaues and vassals are all the Princes of the earth When thou list thou pluckest away their chaynes of gold and tiest a rope about their neckes For thy seruice we suffer hating the profane Church and refusing to sit in the congregation of the wicked Vngodly assemblies we haue detested and held in abhomination the Doctrine of the chaire of pestilence Conceale therefore no longer our innocency the mouth of the vngodly is opened against vs. And that without our fault thou