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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97124	The Christians incouragement earnestly to contend for Christ his gospell & for all our Christian liberties inthrall which who refuseth let him bee for aye accursed. Written by J. Ward Gent. Reade and Consider Iudge [and] Censure To which is added Irelands greivance.	Ward, John, fl. 1642-1643.	1643 (1643)	Wing W772; Thomason E59_3; ESTC R6088	15,292	39

THE CHRISTIANS INCOVRAGEMENT EARNESTLY to CONTEND or Christ his gospell for all Our Christian liberties in thrall Which who refuseth let him bee For aye Accursed Written By J. Ward Gant Reade Consider and Iudge Censure To which is added Irelands Greivanc's LONDON Printed for Io. Hancock 1643 AN ENCOVRAGEMENT TO WARRE WHat oddes is twixt this Breach and that late plot Laid by the Prelates gainst the harmlesse Scot What difference I say i st not the same In its Effect save 't hath another name That done by Popish Prelates but this bears The name of Popish Lawlesse Cavaliers That onely gainst the Scot but this is made Th' English Scottish Irish Liberties t' invade At once and strike the Parliamentall power Of the three Kingdoms dead even in an houre That power whereby the freedome of these Lands In their perfection strength and union stands And which once lost we all must presently Turn to that old Aegyptian slavery What could the Prelates then aspire unto That Cavaliers now not attempt to do Was not the Quarrell then and now all one The aymes of both gainst true Religion Did not the Prelates then as these do now Perswade the King the Scots would overthrow His just Prerogative because they would Not by their Romish power be contrould Because they would not as the Scripture saith Make them as Lords and Rulers of their Faith And did they not in our dread Soveraignes name As Rebels all the Covenanters proclaim Cause their heroick Spirits would not yeeld The Episcopall Liturgy the field And though free born cause they would not consent To slavery far worse then Banishment And in a word because they would not be Enthrald to that hard yoke of Popery And do not these French prosolites endeavour To make divisions that may last for ever Twixt King and Subject Mis-interpreting All Messages that passe betwixt the King And his great Councell Making such construction Of grave advice as needs must bring destruction And though they understand the sence of Laws Yet cause themselves have broke them and because Th'intend to live as out-laws and as men That never mean to live by Law agen Therefore they wrest them from their proper sence Stamp them with false interpretations whence The King being once possest therewith proceeds Such tears and threats of civill hostile deeds Hence t is so many fruitlesse words are spent In vain betwixt the King and Parliament Hence t is the king declares the Law to have Another sence then Parliament conceive Hence t is so many sleight and so contemne The Parliament and speak so base of them And their proceedings hence the misery Of England doth most necessarily Its pedigree derive and till Misprisions Disunions Alienations and Divisions Twixt king and Parliament united be And right constructions made yea till we see These spirits of division sever'd from His Majestie and quite casheerd and gone England will not be England but will be And so remain Babel perpetually But when these base Malignant spirits are Through Gods free mercy and the tender care Of our good Parliament scatter'd disperst As those were that for Scottish blood did thirst When th' head of that same Serpents brood is broke And their deceitfull Projects want a cloak To carry their hid poyson in and when The Prelates lord●nesse is laid agen As low as when it first began to spring Twards that Exorbitancy that t was in Till these few Moneths last past yea when the Land Shall freely stoutly valiantly stand In every part from Beersheba to Dan United in their Members as one Man For Christ and for the Gospel and for all Just Rights and Priviledges both great and small For our dread Soveraignes just Prerogative Neither to adde thereto or to deprive Him of a haire that 's due to him the one Is to detract from him that weares the Crown The other wrongs the Subject and likewise For priviledge of Parley Th' Liberties And Rights of Subjects And to stand unto Each promise made in our late solemne Vow Which he that does refuse O let him be For evermore Anathema for me Then shall our Brittish Island that hath been The Receptacle yea the common Inne Where all Idolatry and Superstition Prophanenesse Armenisme and Sedition Atheisme Oppression Blood and Crueltie Extortion Persecution Briberie Excesse Oaths Blasphemy and every sin With great applause hath been persisted in Be as the Holy Land like Israel The people shall be blest that therein dwell This City shall be like Jerusalem Each town like Sion fair And as for them That dwell in Countrey Villages they shall Them Christs belov'd Redeemed people call Then shall Rome's pride abate then shall the three Distemper'd Kingdoms be at unity Then shall we praise our God and serve our King Unanimously without murmuring When these Sanballets and Tobiahs shall Enforced thereto let us build up the wall Of our own peace and safety and shall say That a more just and honorable way Then setling the Militia cannot be Thought on t' advance Brittaines prosperity And their destruction which already they Know to be true and therefore plots they lay To crosse it but I trust shall never be Of such considerable abillity To perfect their Intentions for where ere Hushais good counsell is receiv'd even there Achitophels rejected is and then We know the common end of such wise men But since it is our present miserie By such lewd sonnes of violence to be Opposed and maligned yea since it is To question Parliamentall priviledges Their chief endeavour yea and to disdain And scorn that power that in them doth remain And scoffe at their proceedings as they were Objects too base for them to flout and gere And since there's left for us no other way Our God our King our liberties t' enjoy But all hopes else are fled and they alone Next under God or surely we have none Are left to be a means to bring this late Apostate Land to a reform'd estate O then let every one that knows the prize And worth of such a Parliament be wise And not discert them But let every one Call former Racks and Impositions Into their memory O let them call Those Popish Rites and Innovations all That burdned many a conscience to their mind And seriously search if they cannot find Their spirits greatly eas'd and then consider So many unjust Courts cast down together The vastnesse of whose arbitrary power Did many a loyall Subjects state devour And spoil them of their Liberties which we Without a Parliaments authoritie Had nere attain'd and call to mind the cause Why they were call'd wast not because the Laws Were trampled on When all things out of order Were rudely cast on every severall border Throughout the Kingdom and when civill warre Did threat our former sleighted peace to marre Had they not been our freedoms lives estates Had been a prey to Popish Runagates And think upon the call that brought them hither To sit so long a time in

England should Nurse up a sort of men that if they could Would cut poore Englands throate was 't ever knowne That any people did envie their owne Prosperity Sure no● yet England hath Foster such hideous Monsters that would bath Their swords in friends kindred and neighbours blood Till down the fields there run a crimson flood What judgements this great Brittain that thy walls And streets are fill'd with such rude Canibals That throw out all thy Courts Errinnis fell That cruell fierce and hellish Fiend doth dwell Thy sins are sure unparrallell'd which makes Thy judgements pearlesse for their odious sakes Fire pestilence and warre and many more Inferiour judgements waste thy kingdom sore What 's to be done to quit us of this grief Since we have been so long without relief Thou must return from thine Apostacies Thy superstitions and Idolatries And down before thy Maker in the name Of his dear Sonne that on him took the blame Of all thy sins thy Saviour thou must fall Desiring him to free thee from them all And shew thee mercy and especially Invoke him now again thine enemy Beseech him to vouchsafe his helping hand This one time more to this distressed Land And let him know if hee 'l be pleas'd to give Thee victory he shall much praise receive And adde to this thy martiall strength and force Of Muskets Pikes Swords Pistols men and horse And all munition else what ere it be That may annoy thy vaunting enemie And he that hath preserv'd thee hithertoo Both teach thee and direct thee what to doo But specially O Glouster-shire improve My counsell t is a pledge of native love Go muster up your Volunteers whose number May strike your damned Foe with dread and wonder And thou my native * Town especially Whom I respect that hast been backwardly In this defensive service stirre thee now Make it appeare that thou hast payd thy vow Where are the scores of Horse thou hast set forth To answer thy externall shewes and worth Where are thy voluntary youths that dare Defend their Countrey in this civill warre Some two or three are gone indeed but they Were faine couragiously to steale away Unknowne lest if they should themselves disclose Thy male-affected would account them foes And them discourage yea since our adew They have malign'd us with reports untrue But I forgive them and doe thee advise As for thy private good thou wouldst be wise If publike good thou sleightst that thou'dst but make Inferiour Townes thy president and take Them for a patterne here as little Townes As are the least that coast upon thy bounds Have set forth fiftie Horse Youngmen and mayds Of all sorts as th' are able lend their aydes Some six pence twelve pence some as they are willing And storde some five some ten some twenty shilling Or more or lesse as God hath blessed them With meanes and hearts to part from it agen Up therefore quickly be not like the drone That eats up others sweetnesse but gets none If nothing but dead trading might perswade To this that might in common sence be made A motive to stirre up the drowsiest heart From somewhat towards this great designe to part For be assurde that till the Kingdome be Reducde to perfect peace and unitie And freed from civill warre your trading shall Continually decay not mend at all And this me thinks should stir up every place To doe the like because it is the case Of all the Kingdome For my part had I A thousand lives and for each life lying by A thousand pound which are above my spheare I de hazzard all to free the State from feare But some there be will say doe what I can These ravenous Vulters will not wrong a man Alas say they here 's great mistrusts and feares Where needs not any of the Cavaliers Alas good men they doe no hurt they strive For nothing but the Kings Prerogative They be religious men and they will goe To Church as well as other people doe And speake as well as most men in the Towne Where ere they live few men can put them downe And shall we fight against them God forbid Shall we doe what good Subjects never did Make warre against the King Wee 'le rather do The servilst worke he shall command us to Is it not better give the King his way In setling the Commission of Array And to be peacefull Then to have the Land In a perpetuall combustion stand Alas poore silly gulles that neither see Nor understand th' approaching misery That such as they have brought upon us all If by the Sword of civill warre we fall These men given up to slavish feare have brought Themselves and us and all the Land to nought Did these but apprehend at what deare rates Our Ancestors our Freedomes and Estates For us have purchasde What a world of paines They undertooke that we might reape the gaines What summes they payde With what great industry Th'obtainde our Suffrages and Libertie Sure then they would not be so easily won To part from them as many have begun Who Edom-like have for a messe of broth Sold birthright freedome substance faith and troth Did such but know experimentally The value of the freedome they enjoy Had they but noble spirits they would scorn To live in slavery that were free born But rather chuse to die a noble death Then to live here ignobly underneath The feet of Tiranny For when our Laws Are chang'd and when our liberty withdraws Straight every upstart scoundrill will out-brave's And English States shall live like Turkish slaves As for the carriage of the Cavaliers Their tyrranny and wickednesse appears So grosse and palpable that it will be But needlesse labour and time lost for me Their rude and barbarous actions to repeat Their robberies and murthers are so great In Yorkeshire Lestershire at Coventry Northamptonshire Bath Portsmouth Banbury And superstitious Oxford that was glad At their first entrance but are since grown sad To see their rude behaviour and what preys They make of all things that fall in their wayes And now t is scarce unknown to any Nation That Papists have a generall dispensation From their unholy Father and they may Now go to Church and hear Don Bletro say His Enigmattick Legend and may hear A temporizing Sermon without fear So they advance his work and do their bests Through Europe to set up his Papall hests Which now are falling down and those that be Church Papists as men terme them certainly Are our most dangerous enemies and do Oppose maligne and undermine us too If any Ignoramus yet there be That will not his own priviledges see Not will retain them But will side with those That are both Gods the Kings and Countreys foes And will of such proceedings brag and vaunt Let them I say remain still ignorant Let the Concomitants of such a warre Attend them and let them wax worse by farre Till God hath finish'd his good work upon