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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14301	The Newlanders cure Aswell of those violent sicknesses which distemper most minds in these latter dayes: as also by a cheape and newfound dyet, to preserue the body sound and free from all diseases, vntill the last date of life, through extreamity of age. Wherein are inserted generall and speciall remedies against the scuruy. Coughes. Feauers. Goute. Collicke. Sea-sicknesses, and other grieuous infirmities. Published for the weale of Great Brittaine, by Sir William Vaughan, Knight.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 24619; ESTC S111506	55,728	158

and Heresie GOD keepe vs all as from Apostasie Abbaes Streams Abba Father the Voyce of the Spirit in the hearts of Gods Adopted and Regenerated children acknowledging their Election from the Father out of the corrupted Lumpe of Mankind and out of the vnrefined Oare or vnpurified Mettle of pretended Christianity of meere Grace without any Deserts of theirs at all and consequently their Iustification by the Sonne through Faith and the spirituall apprehension of his onely merites Their sanctification by the Holy Ghost who proceeding from both their Wills is content to breath Regeneration and New life into our barren wills and to moysten them with the Streame of liuing Waters vnlesse they compell Him with his Heauenly Gifts to retire by relying on other Physitians burthensome Traditions and vnnecessary puddled streames which Simoniackes or rather D●moniackes doe trucke and vtter for money vnder the Title of Holy Water Indulgences and sanctified Wares like-charmed so●owles or Amulets to preserue men from Cerbirus and Purgatories Bugs thereby making Marchandize of the Bodies and Soules of Men as is Prophesied in the Revelation which Auarice of theirs is flat contrary to the examples of the Apostles and the Gospell where St. Peter told the Creeple in Salomons Porch Gold and S●luer haue I none And to Simon Magus Thy money perish with thee Apostacy signifies a Reuolting or falling off from the true Religion to the Doctrine of Diuels To discerne the true Catholike Church search the Scriptures How shee fared in this World after the Ascension of our Sauiour ●ad the Histories of the Church and you shall finde her commonly pers●cuted and subiect to crosses and Fiery Tryalls euen to this our Age. First by the Iewes Secondly by the Romane Emperours Thirdly by the Arrians Fourthly by the Gothes and Vandales And lastly by the cunning and more dangerous practises of the Romish Prelates for their aduancement to the double Supremacy How this Church being once the Mother of the West grew to be Apostate it is to be supposed that Sathan tooke hold of the darknesse of Mens consciences presently after the erup●ions of those bloody Northerne Nations about 500. or 600. yeares after Christ his principall stings and more palpable violences being somewhat restrayned and bound by the Angel not to employ them against the Elect so Tyrannically and openly as hee vsed to doe before the limitted and sealed 1000. yeares of his Mysticall rest●aint About which time or within a while after and for the like ambitious ends hee seduced Mahomet in the East So that Faith departed according to St. Paul from the Temple of GOD the true Visible Church then consisting but of few Families and shadowed vnder the Woman with her man childe in the Reuelation Fled into the Wildernesse for feare of the Dragon And Gods two Witnesses were Massacred in the streetes of spirituall Sodome and Egypt and their carcasses there left vnbu●ied as was Prophesied by St. Iohn Amidst these abhominations and desolations it pleased God to stirre vp the Spirits of sundry Good men to awake them out of their dreames As St. Bernard to inuaigh against their Princely Pompe and Supremacy Berengari●● agaynst Transubstanciation and the Waldenses and Albigeois against most of their Idolatries The last of which beganne aboue 300. yeares before Luther was borne How the true Church was dealt with in Affricke Aethiopia Georgia and in the East by reason of their remotenesse we know not so distinctly But it is very probable that the old Dragon was not Idle but did his vtmost endeauour to ouer-whelme the poore distressed Saints as it were with a Flood of impieties through all the World But thus was she vsed in our Westerne Parts vntill of late yeares by the Resurrection of those two Mysticall Witnesses and the imprinting of the Bible in the Mother Tongue which in a manner lay moathcaten in the Sodomites Libraries after the Preaching of Wicliffe about the yeare 1380. and afterwards of Husse Luther Cal●i● and after the Martyrdome of many excellent men shee found at last some rest in this Iland and other places in despight of the Herods A●abs and Hamans of the times One maine difference I obserue betwixt these two repugnant Churches how the one resembles Abel and Iacob for their mildnesse and patience And th' other Came and Esau for their mallice and cruelty which their bloody Inquisitious Tortures Massacres with the transcendent Powder-plot do apparantly testifie The one maintaines her cause peaceably by the Gospell of Christ the other by Worldly Traditions and Mens authority And when these serue not with Fire and Sword they force their Opposites to acknowledge the Popes Supremacy being but the marke of Ambition and therein going beyond the Turkes who to his Mufty or Ma●omet compelles no mans Conscience a though in all other matters belonging to a Christian one Scholasticall Question excepted which might be left to the Beholders and Beleeuers disc●etion for the Forme and wonderfull manner as is the Knowledge of the personall Trinity they cannot deny any Article Faith which the Protestant holds Whereby it appeares that the Church continued not long a Uirgin after the Apostles times according to the ancient saying of Eusebius Ecclesia post Apostolorum tempora non mansit d●● Virgo And that the Mysticall Where with her Sc●rlet-coloured Beast of the seauen hilled Ctity the great Citty which bare dominion ouer all the World was certainly meant by Rome To which the chiefe Fathers of the Primitiue Church doe consent Lacta●tius lib. 7. H●oronim in Daniel Augustin lib. 20. de C●uitate Dei cap. 19. And St. Chrisostome ●● opere imperfect in Matth. most plainely writes that Antichrist was to haue ●● shew all that which the true Church hath indeed viz. Baptisme the Communion Bishops c. Therefore let such as haue once tasted of the fruites of the Gospell beware of Apostasie and back●-sliding For as St. Augustine in the afore-sayd Booke cap. 8. vnto a doubt Whether any One shall turne to God during the Raigne of Antichrist He thus answeares The Diueli shal haue a continuall fight with those that are in the Fa●●h already of whom hee may perhaps Conquer some certayne number but none of Gods Predestinated no not one Since it is not in vaine wha St. Iohn the Author of the Revelation sayth in one of his Epistles concerning Apostataes They went out from vs but they were not of vs for of they had bin of vs they would haue continue a with vs. To confirme our wauering and luke-warme Christians I aduise them to ponder with an indifferent iudgment these ensuing verses which for a conciusiue monitory to my Newlanders Cure I here subscribe ou● of my Cambrens Caroleia Can ●idiore Fides lusir● b●● lam●ne M●ndum c Our Christian Faith●● ●● in'd in the ●rime When Men●●u'd nee●e th● Apostles time But afterwards Eclips●d of Light She lay r●ti●'d from most Mens sight Returned n●w She lends her Rayes To Brittaine where as yet shee stayes FINIS

Armies Charge might well def●ay Our Thoughts are in Prides Altitude Old Sacke-cloaths weare is Clownish rude Contritions Haire-cloath wee contemne Nunnes Tyres and H●rmits wee condemne In stead of these each Groome exceedes In Satans Veluet gorgeous Weedes In stead of these now Virgins shine In Church vnmaskt with Feathers sine ●st not a shame that flaunting G●llians Dare there to tempt against Tertullians Aduise who barr'd the Affricke Mayde Gods Honse to enter so array'd Christs Seamelesse Coate would hardly passe Without a Frump A two-legg'd Asse They would nicke-name a Minister If the Frize Cass●●ke hee preferre Preaching against rich s●●ken Stuffe The Beauer Ha● and swagg●ing Ruffe Na● English Cloath wee s●arce a low Vnlesse thicke Laces wee bestow Vnlesse it be like that in Gra●●e O● ●ab●ls Beast or Whoo●ish Traine Like VVeather-cockes our Appetite In many Changes takes delight For which Men taxe the Female kinde When both are Moone-sicke worse then wind The Raine-bow Peacocke or what hew Cameleons shift so it be new Or thought Out-landish that we like And presently the same dislike Our Eyes are Witches to our VVits But why loues Reason Fancies fits Our Foes vnseene vs idle finde And by their wheeling lead the Mind The Mould of Reason thus made pliant By Fiends rampant and luxuriant The Braine must needs grow wilde with weeds Whence fall bad seedes to choake good deeds Such spite haue they inueterate To make Mankinde turne Reprobate That they omit no trickes of State To lead them to a shamef●ll Fate Like to their owne depraued quite From which but Christ none can acquite Sometimes they play the Lyons part But commonly vse Foxe-like Art Now they ●ike Apes or Puppets dance A●on in Horses shape they praunce Go on Proud Steedes men are not well But hurri'd in a foure-whee'd Shell With whimseyes doubts yee tempt the Holy But Worldly Soules with costly Folly Those meanes which God gaue for his Glory To helpe the Poore in Pride yee bury O Stings O stormes of Ghostly Foes Which now Great Brittaine vndergoes When Christ should reape his Haruest pure His Angels finde vs all impure Wee see the Gospels radiant Light Yet darkling hunt like Birds of Night VVe euer please the out-ward sence But leaue the Inside without fence Our Petty-fogging liberty Helpes to aduance impiety But Athens now and Courts of Law Had neede themselues be kept in awe By St●ickes more graue to beate downe Vice Or Thunders sonnes to satirize The truth is without Discipline Our Bees turne Drones and will decline From Charity and vertuous Thrift To idlenesse and basest shift Fond Company wee more affect Then sober Friends or Gods Elect. The Baffoones●irry ●irry meery Buffe Sta●e Scoggins●ests ●ests wi●s Scullions stuffe Base Mim●cke skoff●s broad scu●●i●e tau●ts VVith Baggadochian thundring Vaunts Stupendious Lyes of Balladry All which with Tales of Rybaldry False coyned Newes and old Wiues fables We Grace cu'n at our open Tables Wee glut our guts with luscious cheere And seldome Fast scarce once a Yeare Nor then know wee to Mortifie Or the proud Flesh to vilisie Wee often Read of Vanity But seldome Bookes of Piety Such glistring Baites do hooke vsin And make vs doate on shining Sinne. Our Stage-playes Maskes and Mummeries What are they else but Fopperies And Lullabies to rocke a sleepe Soules that should wake or rather weepe What noble Flames doe some inioy And yet their Talents mis-imp●oy The very Best of their Inuentions They giue for Baudes to Lords intentions Of Heauen these Promethean Rakers Vnworthymen would make partakers Wisedome is painted a pure Mayde The Sisters Nine are Virgins stayd If of their Court our Schollers bee Why doethey stayne their chast degree Begetting mungrell monstrous Notions And giuing way to wanton Motions The Graces three haue no lewd Tricke Why then doe learned Spirits kicke Like Pampred Iades more then befits The Sonnes of Art corrupting Wits With glozing Bookes of Ch●ualry Or Legends false of Popery If from Aboue their Dowries came Why doe our Chams vncouer shame Why doe they claw Times Fooleries Why doe they winke at Knauer●es Why dare they not the Greatest make To startle and at Vice to quake T is true they Greatnesse feare and losse But who so feares reiects the Crosse That Crosse which Christians vnder-went Of the best stampe and element Huisht Cowards then Your Taients hide Vntill Christs Audit still vntri'de Some for Despite doe Libels thunder Others for Glory nine dayes wonder But most doe fawne like Strumpets bold And prostitute in hope of Gold On Honors bought they wag their Tailes To Mammon they strike downe their Sailes Fraile Beauty some with Heath'nish Rimes Court wasting so their precious Times A Goddesse Starre an Angels mate Of Dust and Ashes they Create The wonder of Celestiall Creatures The Paragon of Earthly features The good●iest Nymph which Nature made At whose faire sight all Beauties fade Both Sunne and Moone eclipsed stand Till they her Pleasure vnderstand No maruaile then that I her Slaue At her east Frowne amazed raue VVith such besainting and for Gold Our simpring shee s are bought and sold. But O what Antickes doe I see VVith Musicke loud about a Tree Tripping it on the Saboath Day And kissing oft their Marians gay Thus our best dayes wee foole away Some Pill and Poll aliue some flay Some roare and some like Asses bray Some skoffe and lye some laugh and play At Cards and Dice whole winter Nights In Summer dayes with Dogs and Kites Here stands one curling Pockey-full His Perrowicke another Gull Out-vies his fellow Gull in Oathes And Complements whom hee most loathes Of Pedigrees that Scoundrell vauntes Cal●ing true worth with floutes and tauntes An vpstars Dwarfe whilst hee most mad Prates how for Sires hee Giants had This Noddy feares proud Hamans Nods As Fooles do sprights or Schoole-boyes Rods. But who lewd Courtiers so obserues Loud Carters lashes Beast deserues Another studies how to traine More Clients in for cursed Gaine Physitians now and Lawyers ●oyne To spin long Cures and Suites for Coyne In elder dayes what by our Toyle VVas gain'd became the Clergies spoyle But now the Lawyers keepe a Coyne And reape vpon their Neighbours soyle As those did quaile so these may fayle Or be restrayned without Bayle VVhen Charity shall more preuaile Their double-tongues some will bewayle They worship Gold in generall Yet some feare God I taxe not all But these Good-men how to discerne VVhen needfull Suites doe vs concerne VVe must at Noone haue Candle-light Or Prophets gift to saue our Right Most Students do Trades-men resemble Since Both for Custome can dissemble In hugger-mugger many Bribe Ds if they were of Magus Tribe If such bee not in Brittane found Let Simonists of Forraigne ground Redeeme their Schooles and Cloyster-cowles From Chaffring and the sale of Soules Nay let our Foes feare gaping Hell If Seates of Iustice they dare sell Or if to those they Men preferre Who formerly were knowne to Erre In what a fearefull Case