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A81065 A godly exhortation to this distressed nation Shewing the true cause of this unnaturall civill war amongst us. Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671. 1642 (1642) Wing C7279; Thomason 669.f.6[87]; ESTC R212538 1,225 1

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A GODLY EXHORTATION TO THIS DISTRESSED NATION Shewing the true cause of this unnaturall Civill War amongst us PSAL. L. VERSE XV Call upon me in the time of trouble so will I heare thee and thou shalt praise me VVHen pride aboundeth in the City And peoples hearts are void of pity When little children learne to sweare And wickednesse abounds each where Then let Gods people crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When as Gods service is neglected And able Ministers rejected When Popery resteth in the land And strives to get the upper hand Then let Gods people crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When people they have itching eates Desturb our Church and grieve our Peers When men despise good government And spurne against the Parliament 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When as the Kingdome is divided And by the sword the cause decided When Law and Justice take no place And people lose their hold of grace 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When people stumble at a straw And make their own selfe will a Law When people maketh sanctity A cloake to hide hypocrisie 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When people for meer trifles quarrell And make a Pulpit of a barrell When people run from place to place Unreverently Gods Church deface 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When some that cannot read nor write Shall tell us of a new-found light And Scripture unto us expounds True learned Discipline confounds 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When people are distracted so Distressed England fil'd with woe When people for the common good Unnaturall shed each others bloud 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When dire destruction runs before And brings bad tidings to our door When arme arme arme is all the crie To adde griefe to our misery 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When armed men each day we meet In every lane and every street When as our streets are chained streight And Ordnance plac'd at every gate 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When London is entrenched round When feare our senses doth confound When men with griefe behold those works As if we were besieg'd by Turks 'T is time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all Now since we are distressed thus Good Lord make haste to succour us On wofull England cast thine eye And ease us of this misery For now 't is time to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all When King and Peers agree in one And cause a blessed union When all imbrace and throw downe arms And we be freed from publick harms Then shall we finde when we do call That thou dost heare and helpe us all When they shall fall that doe oppose Thee in thy way O Lord and those That wish well to thy Church encrease Then shall betide a happy peace Then shall we finde when we doe call That thou dost heare and helpe us all Humphrey Crouch FINIS LONDON Printed for Richard Harper 1642.