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A06196 Vox clamantis. Mark 1. 3 A stil voice, to the three thrice-honourable estates of Parliament: and in them, to all the soules of this our nation, of what state or condition soeuer they be. By William Loe, Doctor of Diuinitie, and chaplaine to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. Loe, William, d. 1645. 1621 (1621) STC 16691; ESTC S108813 47,008 92

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VOX clamantis MARK 1. 3. A STIL VOICE TO THE THREE thrice-Thrice-honourable Estates OF PARLIAMENT And in them to all the Soules of this our Nation of what state or condition soeuer they be By William Loe Doctor of Diuinitie and Chaplaine to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Printed by T. S. for Iohn Teage and are to be sold at the Signe of the Golden-Ball in Pauls Church-yard 1621. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE GEORGE Marquesse of Buckingham Lord high Admirall Viscount Villiers Baron of Whaddon Maister of his MAIESTIES Horse Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Gentleman of his Highnesse Bed-Chamber one of his most honourable Priuy-Councell a Patron of good Letters and a Patterne of true Nobility Grace and fauour be from Heauen by CHRIST MOST Noble and most worthily honoured LORD The true and hearty Zeale which I owe vnto my God King Church and Country hath moued and made me to prostrate before the Three thrice honourable Estates of PARLIAMENT assembled And in them to all the Cleriques Courtiers and Commons within our Nation euen from Sea to Sea and from the Riuer to the Lands end being ledde hereunto by the words of the Prophet prefixed the still passages of this small Voyce which hath laine suppressed some yeares by meanes of a certaine Great-one who not long sithence was great but now is not so mutable and nutable is the state of things on earth taking offence at some passages herein Whos 's ouer-weening greatnesse and wilfulnesse had then at the least shut me vp if not sent me as there was great cause to suspect and feare not the way of all flesh in respect of the manner but of mortalitie if some reuerend Fathers of the Church the blessed Beaue-Peeres of Diuinitie had not stayed that enraged fury against mee But not long after the hand of Almightie God surprized that greatnes clipped it restrained it that it might doe no more harme so it remaines to this day Happy had it beene for that man that hee had then hearkened to that Voyce from God deliuered by the weake ministry of him who neuer saw his face to this day that if it had pleased the Almightie his soule might thereby haue beene awakened out of that fearefull slumber wherein hee then lay bewitched with the Circean Cups of Ambition Wantonnesse and sensuall securitie Then had not his fingers nor the hands of others his Agents in euill dropped with the cruell bloud-guiltinesse neyther had their consciences beene tortured and tormented with the Hellish horrour of heart-bleeding wickednesse What I then spake in the accent and action of a liuing man to the greatest Auditorie of this Land I now present to publique view in the lesse effectual elements of a dead Letter To no other purpose God is my record but intending and endeuouring hereby the aduancement of Gods glory some good of his Church and in all Estates a remembrance vnto these present times a manifestation of our happinesse vnder so Christian a King whose heart detesteth all vniustice the maintenance of the truth then deliuered and that these palpable and pisculent imputations and aspersions of Faction and Sedition might in some sort be spunged out which it pleased that Great-one mentioned to cast vpon me at that time in an honourable Assembly and since that time some others strangely alienated both from our Church and State who haue endeuoured to be-sprinkle me with the like for that I vndertooke and did reconcile and compose by directions from his Maiesties owne mouth some differences in Ecclesiasticall discipline happened into a famous Fellowship to which I am much obliged resident in part beyond the Seas whither I was not long sithence sent by authority allowance and Recommendation of his sacred Maiesty and the most Reuerend Archbishop of Canterbury Which imployment and seruice albeit it hath in some part impayred yea almost impouerished mee in my poore personall eflate and lost me some friends whom I thought had beene better minded and may in Gods good time bethinke themselues better Yet were either the one abroad or this seruice at home to be done againe for the vnfained loue I beare vnto the free passage of Gods glorious Gospel and to the present setled subsistants of the discipline of our Church I would not onely as a Merchant Aduenturer hazard my weake body poore estate and liuelihood but also would willingly as a free Minister of the Gospell expose my selfe to all the Snibbes Quippes Taunts Reproaches Disgraces and Punishments that any wicked and vngodly Great-one little or not at all affected to God should preuaile against mee in that at the least I might herein manifest to the World my Willingnesse and Indeauour to maintaine and make good quantum in me the sacred freedome of the one and the Christian Discipline of the other both which our Nation most comfortably enioyeth vnder God by the blessing of so Christian a King as is our most gracious Soueraigne vnder Christ Iesus the breath of all our nosthrils my most dread Liege-Lord and Master Desiring all true honest English hearts which are not poysoned with preiudicate opinion of exotique niceties and imitation of strangers to iudge if there be any passage herein that deserueth either manicles or menaces or ought but what becommeth a sober and a true English-hearted Diuine But be this little Hin of mine either accepted or reiected by such as care not how the World goes so they may atchieue their owne ends I passe not so it may please your most noble Worth that it may shelter it selfe vnder your honourable protecting fauour When I went ouer to that seruice mentioned beyond the Seas I made bold to present his Highnesse with a Tract entit●led The Mystery of Mankind and vpon my returne I vowed This to your Honour It is the poore Mite of him that will euer remaine a Votary to God for you That the magnificence of Gods fauors and the munificence of his mercies may euer be multiplied vpon you and vpon all your godly endeuors That so both you and all you take in hand in discharge of your eminent places may be sanctified to the good of Gods Church his Mai●stie and the State to your owne soules safetie and that you may be great in the Kingdome of your heauenly Master through the sauing mercies and fauour of Iesus Christ. Your Lordships to be commanded in the seruice of IESVS CHRIST William Loe. To the well-disposed Readers IN the worlds birth God spake to our first Parents by a still voyce in the coole of the day in the worlds middle age to Elyah after the winde earthquake and fire in a still small voyce and in this last age of the world by a didirecting voyce from Heauen concerning Christ Iesus his Sonne our Lord saying Heare him In the beginning was the word yet that word was before all beginning but the world knew not that Word but by the voice of men and Angels And albeit the Word be in