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Nevves from the Kings bath reporting nothing but an honest means whereby to establish an happy and much desired peace, in all His Majesties kingdoms generally.
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Pricket, Robert.
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1645
(1645)
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Wing P3408; Thomason E290_19; ESTC R200141
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bring in Popery When they but thought in one conformity To state the Church her Peace to dignifie If Bishops all the self same thing had minded It had been well as now too late we find it Next to the Faith the Churches Peace to keep Which broken now makes thousand eyes to weep Faiths Doctrine when 't is kept uprightly sound Should outward Form the Churches Peace confound Our God you know the God of Order is Each Christian King had always power in this In his own Kingdom to determin so As all the Church might in one Order go In outward Form of Church-like Government * To which because our King his purpose bent Must your Rebellious Tongues with one Consent Say that it was his Majesties intent Again for sooth to bring in Popery In plain Terms truth to speak Rebels ye lye a Though Roman Bishops now are found to swerve From Rule of Truth must Bishops all deserve To be accompted Popes What have they don Since Reformation in our Church begun b King Edward and His Bishops they drove out Romes Popery and with resolution stout Withstood proud Râ—mes usurpt Supremaâ—iâ— And did our Churches evills remedy Our Queen Eliza with the full consent Of Englands then most happy Parliament Where all her Reverend Bishops joyntly met For they in Parliament have alwayes set King Edwards Laws confirmed and did scorn By Papall power to be overborn King Iames with his grave Bishops did comply To write 'gainst Rome and that most learnedly And in despight of Rome and Romes disdain Our Englands Church did in her Peace maintain And would not suffer any factious brain The honour of her setled Peace to stain And our King Charles and all his Bishops they Do hold their course even in the self same way Our good King and his Bishops now condemned Should rather for their care be much commended Old Rome at first with pious Bishops fil'd Our now-Religion was by them upheld Their Bishops all for first six hundred years As ours now are they were as it appears When Bishop Iewel's Challenge could not gain One Romish Bishop able to maintain Romes now-Religion in those points we fall Away from that which we do Popery call Why are our Bishops then so much despized No new Religion is by them devised The old Religion is by them revived Who never yet so vilâ—â— thing contrived As you haue done when for Religions saâ—e You do most vile Rebellion lawfull make Of Bishops Protestants I know this thing None ever prov'd a Traitor to his King Let Brownists then our Bishops let alone And know themselves for Rebels every one For what though some defects there might be found In some of them Yet firmly stands this ground A personall defect ne're takes away The Lawfulnesse of Place but still that may Be kept For this the Rule hath alwayes bin Uphold the place but take away the sin But now the place must quite unlawfull be When some defects we do in persons see Way given to this what Place can firmly stand Behold what course the Factious take in hand But which is strange as Bishops they defie So they against our Churches Prayers do crie And say the Church of Christ is much abus'd When those good Prayers of our Church are us'd The Church to give set forms of Prayer Now fic Where 's then the Spirit which immediately Inspires the Church and all her Ministry To pray to God and that effectually Know Moses did set forms of Prayer prescribe To Israels people even to every Tribe Which should be us'd when they in hand did take Their â—ourney with Gods Holy Arke to make Both at the taking up when they began Their daily March and when at even they came Unto their Resting Place Like holy forme By those by whom the Glorious Arke was born Was us'd in Prayer These Formâ—Moses gave Unto the Church Doth he deserve to have It said Fie on Him for his doing so What God allows who dare to it say no Gods word a form of blessing doth expresse And wills his Church in blessing so to blesse Then fie on those who cannot now abâ—de Set forms of Prayer but do them deride Know holy David Songs of Prayer and Praise Did form and penne that thereby he might raise The hearts of all Gods People up on high To pray unto and praise the Majesty Of our great God with Prayers and Praises fit Which might in them an holy zeal beget And then those Psalms unto the Church he sent Which there unto our God he did present Was then think you the Church of God abus'd By them by whom those holy forms were vs'd Our holy Common-Prayer-book first pen'd By those who did for Christ their blood expend Should not I think be as it is depraved By wilfull Fools who will a Masse-book have it Those that compiled it Romes Masse did hate And Englands Church in true Religion state Those then by whom that Book is now refused By them God and his Church is most abused And yet at this we need not wonder much For why their pride and arrogance is such As even that Prayer which Christ himself did make They most blasphemously in scorn do take When Barrow stood at Tyburn in a Cart Under the Gallows praying in his heart The lookers on to him did humbly say In the Lords â—rayer Sir let 's hear you pray He shal't his head and did refuse to do it And so was hang'd Their pride may bring them to it But yet there do some other things remain Which they accompt do so Religion stain As those to use they highly do disdain And would all others should with them refrain To touch such trash or neer them once to come As being Reliques of the Church of Rome In outward things who do Religion place To true Religion do a foule disgrace But what things are they that their Conscience scare O Monstrous things Such as most fearfull are I 'le shew you them and so you 'l cleerly see What terrible and fearfull things they be Our harmlesse Ceremonies do them fright Our Gesture Habit each of them a Spright And scares them Now by this you may descrie The strangenesse of their fearfull foolerie Should things indifferent Divisions make When Truth commandeth that for Christ his sake To every Ordinance of man not bent Against the Faith we be obedient The Conscience should be rul'd by Rule of faith And what I say I 'me sure the Scripture saith But factious Fools to give themselves content Have worse then Roman Souldiers basely rent The unscam'd Coat of Christ in pieces and To justifie their work in Arms they stand So that our Brown with Brownists now consents Even to dispute with cutting Arguments Browne no lesse fearfull seemes thy Cocks-comb head Then Lion Rampant in Cake Ginger bread But stay my Muse thy mark thou tak'st amisse For Browne will say that