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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97301	Zion's sad tears, for Nineveh's just fears. Or, Hours of mourning, for yeers of sinning; Being some few directed observations of divine mercy, & sinful returns: with an humble offering towards regulation of land and maritime affairs. By a humble seeker of truth and peace.	Humble seeker of truth and peace.	1653 (1653)	Wing Z14; Thomason E684_25; ESTC R207055	12,707	27

Fellow-labourer a dead Dogg Sir enquire not after the Author of this but that of us both To the Reader of what sort soever PEradventure you as others may stile me mad or otherwise as some in other cases have in respect of the main disproportion of several things in this parcel but I shall not say you are so if censorious If I am mad 't is for your cause if sober 't is to God I shall not invite you much to look on the Infant for its names or Fathers sake but if you like it or it you 't is yours not mine I begg no customers or company now being indeed never less alone then when alone If you find the Child in the rushes and preserve it in time it may produce better things however my travel in its birth shall not be lost for I have gain'd what I in part desired to see The God of Power sanctifie it and then it shall be blest if not kist by you The piece is not a nine days wonder but some few void hours in that time the matter I commit to you not the form for hast maks waste and prevented me in puting things in order though my end was good and my judgment I hope with my God this is onely truly for an humbled people I have no hard words or Aenigma's to Christen it with but what I have you are welcome to if you be a Christian 't is well enough it may receive the attendance of some vacant minutes if it make you weep to see it do so I cannot help it rock it perchance it may gain sleep though the poor father little if you shall curiously search his Name you may finde it Homo then seek no farther unless you bring tears to attend his Funeral who had rather for you die then read your Elegie To deal plainly with you I am here call'd forth to shew you part of what I have but it being ill Cook'd and dish'd with as bad sauce if you can receive and digest it I am like to shew you more however give me no occasion to answer for it lest you make me stark mad and then deprived of my sences not be able An Infant Idiot or Lunatick all which I am is as I take it excusable by the Law of the Land Sed si pereo pereo greater Pillars wil be shaken when mine are so yet this is my comfort Cedars fall when Mushrooms will spring One secret I must tel thee that Part of my right hand till I extended it in writing was shrunk up and then again I found its use yet not able to write over again what I writ or indeed remember it in former things of late The fruit of my gleanings I wish you and to see better things from you contribute your talent with mine now in time now in time of necessity it can do no hurt but may enlarge my thoughts expecting it and your bringing in what you have to the Publick praying for the prosperity of all the friends of Zion I remain Yours in all due respects A Servant of Truth and Peace To Nineveh and its People O Nineveh Nineveh Nineveh the former three most resplendent places in the Nations about us and this in particular though I have been a Beggar for you What more could the Lord have done by and for you then what was done What unthankful returns hath he received from you ye had need of 3000 Ionahs so many Trumpets and as many years to awaken and call you to true repentance Did Divine mercy raise you to the Empire over your sisters to repay your heavenly Father in the imperfect Coyn of your own base ingratitude or walk after the carnal lusts of your own hearts Could you be apt to Signe such Oaths Protestations and Covenants of mens inventions and never seriously make one in your own hearts with the giver of all good things to live soberly and uprightly in this present life to his glory and your own comfort as also the mutual defence and preservation of each other therein But every one of your hands is full of oppression and violence and for your wicked desperate Oaths crucifying again the Lord of life the Land now mourns and trembles before the presence of the Lord. Must the God of Power deliver into your hands your betters even the declared Kings and Princes of the earth and can you continue still walking in their impious steps Must you return as Doggs to the vomit or a blind people to the Onions and Garlick of Egypt Surely the Lord may yet reserve mercy for you if you can but by Faith eye the Arme which hath not long since rendred it self bare for your preservation and now contends with a flaming sword against you not onely so but threatning a Mortality within your own Walls and Pavilions O heavenly Father if it be thy will let every individual Member of the people here and abroad lay these things seriously to heart and let the crucified Image of thy Son be fixed in and upon every soul and spirit that shall read or hear these Funeral-Elegies though clothed in raggs preserve thy choyce ones as the Apple of thine Eye let them not alwayes be dying Sacrifices for worse then themselves restrain the fury and madness O Father of spirits of the Wolves and Bears of the Forrest which now thou hast called forth and spare thy poor people when thou shalt deal with them And all this for thy dearly beloved Sons sake To the rigid Presbyters and rude Pulpit-knockers of these times KNow ye not that holiest David and wisest Salomon had their crimes yet both reproved repented and found mercy Where is Pharaoh your Covenanted Idol become Is he not seeking all ways and means to destroy your hopes and lay them in the dust Must you Idolize the sons of men and even betray all Governments that put you not in the room of Christ himself Nor know ye that for the transgressions of a Land many are the Princes thereof Why cannot ye submit to that Power the Lord hath appointed and vail your Plumes in the time of sudden Calamity and indeed joyn heart and hand with despised little ones to seek your Maker in humility and love O condescend in time lest else your untempered Morter suddenly make our Walls fall about our ears let your moderation be known to all men and be you Serpent-like wise but Dove-like innocent not Wolves in Sheeps clothing to fleece the Flock and feed the belly-gods but study the peace of the Government and people if you can do no more letting alone the Civil Magistrate to punish Turbulencies and Seditions Indeed you should more observe and proclaim the holy Name of the ever-living God his dearly beloved Son and sacred Spirit more and more nay deny your selves if true Disciples take up his Cross and follow him wheresoever he shall call you or into what condition soever But 't is to be feared you more serve the god of the world not

Zion's sad Tears FOR Ninevehs Just Fears OR Hours of Mourning FOR Yeers of Sinning Being Some few directed OBSERVATIONS OF Divine Mercy Sinful Returns With an humble Offering towards Regulation of Land and Maritime affairs By an humble Seeker of Truth and Peace Fools because of their transgressions because of their iniquities are afflicted their soul abhorreth all manner of meat and they draw neer unto the gates of death Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he saveth them out of their distresses He sent his Word and healed them c. Psal 107.17 18 19 20. Then said I Wo is me for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of hosts Isai 6. Read the whole for the holy seed shall be the substance thereof To sigh and mourn for what we cannot do Is to come short yet we must do it too Printed at London 1653. To the great God of wisdome and sole Essence of Power O Thou holy one of Israel and preserver of men I the worst of thy creatures all sullied with the dirt and blood of my own and the sins and Transgressions of my poor Family do here offer up to thee the sacrifice of thy beloved Son and dejection of my sinful heart begging of thee humbly but earnestly not to marke strictly what is done amiss being of purer eyes but on the former being an Oblation sufficient for the sins of the whole world O great God of wisdome and Lord of Hosts renew thy holy Spirit in me purifie me throughout and as thou hast preserved me to this teach me not onely to glorifie thy Sacred Name but also as thou hast at first faint desire upon occasion taught my hands to War and fingers to Fight so now teach my heart to indite a good matter and make my Pen the Pen of a ready Writer and whereas formerly a Petitioner to earthly gods whose breath is in their nostrils so now to thee onely that it may turne thine eyes from my sin to thy own righteousness O thou that art my onely true beloved now in the Cloud proclaim thy holy Name as in former dayes The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin O reserve yet a good proportion of mercy for thy Israel why should they be destroyed by worse then themselves make them all O God seek and finde thy Kingdome and then administer to them all good things Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Thus begging of thee to hasten all that is convenient to thy poor afflicted people and thy most unworthy servant I desire to render to thy blessed Name but what is most due all honour praise glory Power and Dominion now and ever To the Right Honorable O. Cromwel Esq General of all the Land-Forces under the pay of the Parl. in England Scotland and Ireland Member of the same Parl. and Councel of Sate Sir YOu may justly challenge that impudence which from Raggs presented a great person with a Cup of cold water when the Conquer or without peradventure could have commanded choyce Liquors yet that escaped not unrewarded though another with a higher Present from a more gallant hand through a covetous end did Truly Sir I can onely say I am yet a living Monument of mercy having sometime been a small Atome of a Soldier under your happy conduct and considering our enemies pressure now at our Walles to be great as once at Haddington before that approaching glorious Deliverance and Victory I should be ingrateful to God as sometimes I am my Country and your Honour if I should not bewail the present conditon of affairs and cast my small Mite into the Publick Treasury towards support of a Christian interest though shaken and never more threatned Would my tears prevail I should desire to weep to death that so a day of Jubilee might cover the face of this place of my Nativitie now neer her extremitie wherein her Faith Patience and Meekness will not onely be tryed but must be extended The God of glory give the blessing Indeed Sir your known greatness and worth must give me leave though a low simple despised fellow to be plain with you for albeit a Raven bring you bread and flesh in the morning of this accomplished New-year and water from the Brook despise it not your former favours to me when clouded in carnality have induced me to this weak Oblation I must acknowledge it with thanks to our Creator the love of his dearly beloved Son and sacred Spirit resting in his Saints but withal confess as I have said in my heart that as he was just by afflicting me by so bad as my self though externally my Superiors so likewise in admitting some to be punish'd by worse then themselves and to shake their body Politick who first touched my Oeconomick yet since it was to call forth my slender Candle before hidden under a Bushel though lighted at a Divine Torch and the Talent which before lay buried in a dirty Napkin I cannot deny my Country-men a sight of those thoughts which may trouble us all if I am a Shimei be you a David Sir I here bring you a Brat called forth with Lazarus I hope from the grave of corruption and lay it at your feet because I am not so able as you to prefer or maintain it you may do well to take the grave cloaths off lest it stink too much and dress it in the attire you most desire to see it though it cannot prattle yet to call you Excellent or your Excellency at every word yet in time it may be blest and have occasion so to do Truly Sir I am heartily sorry I have no better New-years-gift for you that have deserved it but you if you come to me must be content with what I have not what I would have I hope the Lord of Hosts will sanctifie your heart to the advancement of his glory and defence of his Saints else Sir what shall be done to those late-rais'd Princes who continue to walk without light in these dayes in the steps of their Predecessors surely so much War as attended the gate of them must attend theirs yet is there an appointed time for Nimrod's ruine or safety I hope it was in your heart to build the Temple well it 's enough you shall live to see the materials brought together that shall do the work The Lord God of mercy incline the Pillars and Members to seek his Face whilest it may be found and the Evil day crush us not altogether be confident in your Maker and he may yet do much by you The God of wisdom and innocency inrich your heart therewith from his Fountain that the Nations about you may have occasion to bless God for and with you So prayes heartily him that is Decemb 20. 1652. 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