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A17130	Seaven sparkes of the enkindled soule With foure lamentations, which composed in the hard times of Queene Elizabeth, may be vsed at all times, when the Church hapneth to be extreamely persecuted. Drawne out of the holy Scriptures, after the forme of Psalmes. By R.B.P.	Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1604-1605 (1605)	STC 4008; ESTC S117366	36,700	158

Bishop is a supposed enemy Prohibited it is to ascend vnto thy Holy hill to receiue any instructions from Sion To seeke exposition of the lawe at Peters chaire and direction from the piller of truth Neither are we permitted to enter into the Arke out of which is no saluation neither will they which forbidde vs enter themselues They presse vs continually to run with them towardes hell and to reuerence in shewe that which we detest in hart If they infatuate any man by faire wordes or threats they tread him vnder foote as salt which hath lost the sauour They triumph as of a conquest and hang vp flags of victory Glorying to finde a Catholike as cold as themselues and which will cast behind him the care of his soule Not for exercise of our faith only are we thus afflicted but for our conuersation also we are detested Vertue is accounted misdemeanour all thinges are lawfull except to liue well Who waxeth sober and graue suspected is he to intend somewhat He that in quaffing and gluttony is not forward is hated as a backward person Giue any man great almes deemed he is a corrupter of people a solliciter of mens harts to his Religion Our thoughts are examined what greater mischiefe could mans wit inuent against vs. As if it were a small matter to renoūce in words the supreame Pastor An oath is administred of vnbeliefe and abjuring in conscience his authority In such sort are our hartes sifted yet are we scorned with freedome of faith and that liberty of conscience is not impeached Vrged we are on al-sides and enclosed betweene streightes stand at the mercy of our armed enemy Open thy armes O God of our sanctification and receiue vs into thy bosome Whither else to flie we haue not neyther art thou farre from them which call vpon thee The third Lamentation END our misery O Father of pupilles or take vs vnto thee least malice of the time subuert vs. Better it is to die then to see the enormity and desolation of our Country In euery corner wee heare thy name blasphemed constrayned to lay our hand vpon our mouthes Reprehension is not endured thy Angels are forbidden to denounce the truth Commandement is giuen to those which preach to speake plausible things and conformable to the time The sinner sinneth and is commended wicked men are magnified in their doinges Godlinesse is quite gone piety hath taken her leaue Banished are truth and vertue into forraigne landes All mouthes are full of leasinges guilefull lippes yealding the abundance of their double hartes Euery head searcheth a pillowe to his iniquity and euery elbowe a cushion of ease That without al remorse they may swallowe sinne as dainties and wallowe in bloud as in a pleasant bath They winke least they should see and will needes beleeue what sensuality suggesteth Inspirations are rejected as temptations perswaders to perfect Christianity are condemned for seducers Howe long wilt thou endure thy faith to be thus neglected and thy holies to be prophaned Thy Saints to be persecuted thy truth to be troden vnder foote No persecution like vnto our oppression no griefe comparable vnto our sorrowes From the East to the West ouer all the face of this earthly globe no where is the Catholike faith so pursued Amongst the Turks Saracens is greater liberty of Religion the Moores and Infidels restrayne not Christian rites with such seuerity Since we deserue not release of affliction yet for thy owne glory let thy name no longer be prophaned See howe thy enemies haue stroken out alarme and thy professed foes lifted vp their hornes Saying openly roote we out the nation of the faithfull that the name Catholike may be no more heard of They haue inuaded thine inheritance as it were with fire sword Polluted thy Tabernacle with their abhominations contaminated thy sanctuary Thy Churches are pulled downe with the ruines whereof are built vnhappy pallaces of pride Those vvhich stand either serue for euery vile office or are worse abused to the table cup and seruice of Diuels Such possesse the temple as should be scourged forth and whome thou forbadest to set foot within thy gates Men haue there placed their owne signes in steede of thine and for thy Sacraments their owne inuentions Translating thy glory to their superstition thy solemnities feasts to the Idoll of their owne imagination Houses of prayer are dennes of theeues places sanctified are become abhominable From whence the sweetincense of deuotion ascended to heauen ariseth now the stench of the bottomles pit Where Angels sung frequēted the Diuels nowe daunce triumph For a newe faith is set vp against the auncient beliefe a newe table and seruice in defiance of thy holy Altar and Sacrifice Thy high steward is quite rejected they say we will not heare his voice If he call vs home we will not returne if he commaund vs we vvill runne farther off Let vs breake the bands of his law and cast off his yoke from our necke The bands O Lord of thy religiō they haue cast of which were so pleasant thy yoke which was so sweet They haue left thee the fountaine of life and digged to themselues pits which beare no water They haue setled their malice against thee and contriue that which they shall neuer accomplish The name yet of heresie they reject from their sect and the penalties of it they returne vpon vs. Lawes of the first Christian Princes they vsurpe and abuse against the Church ordayned by them for her defence Their Superintendents cite vs concerning our faith as if they held the chaire which can not erre They excommunicate vs from their congregation and banne vs in their malignant Synagogue Whither to goe is to bee accursed indeede and worse then to enter into a flaming fornace As fast as they curse thou wilt blesse and our reward shall redound into our bosome When they are disposed our life is their pastime in testimony of thy truth we are daylie slaine The Magistrate rageth on his bench the Ministers from their pulpits clappe their hands The people mutter against vs Baals false Prophets as fire-brandes of mischiefe sound to the slaughter For our faith we are as sheepe ready for the butchery streetes are dyed with martyrdomes of thy Saints Their flesh is giuen for food to the fowles of the ayre their bloud batneth the earth being shed like water Ripped vp they are aliue which to sheepe oxen men abhor to doe With bloudy gripe are their trembling and breathing bowels drawne forth In most execrable sort cast into the fire euen before their face Their quarters least thou shouldest not see it playne enough deforme the gates of euery Citie and vpbraide thy patience Their heades are raysed on high to the terrour of the simple Serued thus are thy Priests whom thou hast giuen charge of not to be once injuriously touched The earth couereth not the bloud that is shedde neither stoppeth the ayre the cry thereof All

knowest who quietly seeke to direct our liues They say to vs talke not of conscience meddle not of Religion and you shall be free Yeald to vs in shewe and giue outward consent to our lawes and actions Come reuerently to our rites and prayers be one of vs at least in profession Forsake your accustomed Sacramentes renounce the society and communion of Catholikes Then beleeue in hart howe you lift we admit you good subjectes and no enemies of our Religion Misery hangeth ouer our heads if we yeald not to this suggestion but a thousand miseries if we doe relent If we forsake thy Tabernacle hell claymeth interest in vs the fiend taketh seyzion of our soules Standing stedfast vve are consumed to nothing neither finde end of trouble but by death A CONSOLATORIE PSALME ANSWEring to the former THE SECOND PSALME LIFT vp thy head O Virgin Sion receiue comfort yee children of Hierusalem Yee zealous soules who groane vnder sore persecution and sit in heauines for your conscience sake Who haue beene tried by fire and found pure peysed in ballance and found sufficient Your constancy our Lord maker hath beheld accepting the same as a most gratefull Sacrifice Confirme your hartes in hope for your redemption is not farre off The yeare of visitation draweth to an end and Iubilation is at hand Albeit yee be as drops fallen into the Sea and as graines of gold among the mountaynes Yet are yee respected from on high as loyall and louing children the reliques of Israell shall bee saued Hierusalem shall be built vp againe and the second glory thereof shal be greater then the first The Church purged in the fornace of tribulation shal shine brighter then euer before Righteousnes shall prosper and infidelity shall bee plucked vp by the rootes God wil arise as from a long slumber and establish againe the Arke of his sanctification Feare not little IACOB hee that is thy Redeemer from the Diuell will be thy deliuerer from all euill His thou art his flocke and fold Catholike is thy name To hurt thee is to hurt him to touch thee is to touch the apple of his eye Arise therefore from the earth shake off sorrowes thy confusion shall giue glace to glory The morning dewe is prest to fal and the night to be discharged of her course With the eye of pitty the Lord of hostes shall visit vs and send saluation to his people Turning their water into wine their wormewood into suger canes His scattered flocke he will vnite againe and reduce strayers into safety The roote which hath waxen old vnder ground shall shoote vp againe as a fresh plant by the riuer side No man shall vpbraid it vvith barrennes or say it vvas a cursed stocke False errour shall vanishe like smoake and they vvhich sawe it shall say where is it become Iust judgement and holy lawes shall be restored If a Woman can forget her child or if we can forget our right handes yet will not Christ be vnmindfull of Sion his heritage Sooner shall he forget his owne throne then her desolation For ashes hee shall giue her a Crowne for baths of teares vnction of joy Requiting her ignominy with honour her sackcloath of sorrowe with robes of festiuity His Tabernacle he will spred againe and dwell among vs as in time past Cladding his Priestes with holynes and his seruants with purity Sacred songes shall breake their long silence the lampe of our Lord shall be reuiued Preachers of saluation shall without feare lift vs their voice The Churches shall be hallowed againe no vncleane persons shall enter therein The forrests and rockes shal send thither their chiefest glory for beautifying of sacred workes Screetch-owles shall seeke newe habitation and resigne to the simple Doue With sweeter then milke hony seauen fountaynes shal spring afresh and flowe The resemblance of heauen shall be renewed the resemblance of hell shall be destroyed England shall bee called a happy Realme a blessed Country a Religious people Those which knewe the former glory of Religion shall lift vp their handes for joy to see it returned againe Those which neuer sawe it shall be stroaken with admiration VVishing that they had sooner knowne the truth and condemning their fathers which forsooke it Men shal say of it one to another here is indeede the house of God the gate of heauen Howe great diuersity is betweene truth and falshoode deuout solemnities and counterfeit ceremonies From the East point to the West men shall confesse their errours They which thought themselues wisest shall say they knew nothing Gladly shall people walke in their auncients steps of truth and equity beginning to learne howe to loue God aright Howe to loue him and serue him howe to honour him sincerely in a perfect hart Be no more apald O little flocke of Christ the Prince of peace vvill breake the exactors rodde Rescuing you from captiuity and bringing you vnto desirable pastures Take courage for he is with you his assistance neuer faileth To his glory he created you and for his name sake he wil protect and saue you No longer will he dissemble the oppression of his people he is bent to reuenge their cause The Daughters of Babilon shall be cast downe and in the dust lament their ruine Proude Heresie shall strike her saile and groane as a beast crushed vnder a cartwheele Though her hart be flint her neck yron her forhead brasse The Omnipotent hath sworne to make her stoope and that he vvill abase her haughtines Though shee fret his chosen vine neuer so much in despight of her it shall shoote vp and prosper Ten times if it be cut downe ten times it shall arise more glorious God hath planted it with his owne hand he hath vvatered it vvith the bloud of Martirs it shall flourish He hath considered the insolency of our enemies their cruell dealing hath not escaped his sight Howe arrogantly they walke before our face glorying in their wickednes But the memory of nouelties shall perish with a cracke as a ruinous house falling to the ground Repent yee seducers with speede and preuent the dreadfull wrath of the most powreable Least his ire tread vpon you like a conquerour Least sodainely he draw you forth out of your terrestriall Paradise as thornes vvhich are not pulled vp with handes We haue long tasted the cup of his indignation but for sinners he hath reserued the dregges thereof Greene and flourishing boughes haue not escaped his heauy hand and shall he be mercifull to rotten branches Let iniquity no longer lie deceiuing it selfe with vaine security For thus promiseth the defendor of Israell He will come as a flame that bursteth out beyond the fornace His enemies shall be like stubble in his way His fury shal flie forth as thunder and pitch vpon their tops which maligne him With him is both wisdome and strength he quaileth the world with a becke He knoweth how to dull the weapons of the mighty and to frustrate

worship him More pretious are your soules in his sight then the Phoenix or the Vnicornes fole He hath raised vnto you a seate of mercy whither to haue recourse for remission of sinnes And prepared a table for your refection wherein himselfe is the banquet and feast O howe delectable are thy dainties O Lord howe acceptable are thy holy Altars Much better are the reliques there of then the exquisite cates of princes Much better is it to be an abject in thy houshold then a great man in Kings Courtes The meanest in thy Church is noble the poorest in thy Church is rich Who is able to expresse the magnificence of thy Church or the one halfe of her glory We haue Priestes rightly consecrated and anointed in sacred wise Orderly accomplishing thy dread full misteries in vestments of holynesse and honour Monkes and other Religious persons persisting day and night in prayer With fasting and disciplines afflicting themselues in sackcloath and hayre for the sinnes of the people Vowed Virgins veiled handmaides of thy Christ by like order of life contend for like Crowne And fixing him profoundly in hart whome they haue chosen as celestiall Spouse Endeauour nothing else then to be perfect in his sight and serue him without distraction Vpon the society of thy faithfull legions of Angels attend for their defence Vpon them thy eyes are perpetually open to consider their wants and heare their prayers Who liueth in their vnity is in the communion of Saintes partaker of their assistance and patronage Hath his part in euery good deed and is daylie prayd for throughout the world Who dieth a liuely member of this holy body misticall by prayers of the liuing hath remission of payne Happy art thou O flocke of Peter blessed are all nations subject to his chaire Where sit the judges of the house of Iacob the rodde and scepter of thy Kingdome O Redeemer Thy selfe art a watchman ouer it who neuer sleepest a protector who neuer slumbrest Whosoeuer impugne it shall rotte as they liue their eyes shall sinke and their tongue shall be eaten out They shall perish in thy fury and melt like waxe before the fire None shall resist thy Church and be innocent No man fighteth against her without foile he dasheth his fist against a Rocke Her enemies shall licke the dust of her feete and those which oppugned her kisse her steps Such as will not shall be called a reprobate company vvith vvhome thou wilt exercise eternall wrath Aboundance of blessinges vpon all them which honour her and curses eternally will followe them which vexe her Her loue and mercy is more then the tender hart of a Mother Her anger more to be feared then a Princes rage In her remayneth knowledge vvhich can not erre power vvhich may not be contradicted In her is the treasure of thy Sons merits reposed In her possession are the Keyes of thy heauenly Kingdome Thou art her teacher that shee may not be ignorant The holy Ghost is her sanctifier to preserue her from iniquity As the Moone from the Sunne fetcheth her light so is she illuminated from Christ her Spouse In her only dost thou raigne with magnificence in her only thou art to be found Not so the Sinagogue of the wicked not so the congregation of Heretikes Among whome as in his Kingdome sitteth the Prince of pride who hath dominion ouer all children of darknesse Presuming as though they were thy counsailors or as if the holy Ghost spake in their eare As though they were the lampes of the world with whome Religion was borne with whome it should die They say to the auncient Fathers hold your peace and to the Doctors of the Church we will teach you wisedome But their pride is more then their power for thou dwellest not in harts subject to sinfulnesse Swelling in cogitations of their harts they proudly tosse vp their heddes as vntamed coltes As childrē of Belial without yoke they challenge liberty without obedience Priestes they make to themselues for their newe lawe and put vpon them authority which they cannot giue Like Apostata children they haue made assemblies not in thy name begonne a webbe and not in thy spirit False Prophets sell them follies and lies and set cushions of ease vnder sinners elbowes For a little lucre they justifie the wicked vpon confidence of faith they assure saluation Peoples sores they close vvith a false skinne vvhen the vvound festreth they say all is well Eating in effect the peoples sinnes and cloathing themselues vvith their iniquities In steede of the supersubstantiall Bread of life they giue them Serpents for the Chalice of saluation poyson of Adders Making thee more vnjust then any Tyrant they teach that thou punishest all sinnes with equall payne And that vvithout difference of desertes thou rewardest all vvith equall glory They say thou canst not make thy Saints and Angels to vnderstand our prayers nor shewe to them thinges done in earth They foolishly say that thou wilt not haue vs honour thy friendes and that thou settest litle by their intercession Denying that vvhose sinnes the Church forgiueth are forgiuen in heauen they say thou canst not giue such authority to man Doubting of thy Omnipotency they say with the Capharnaits howe can Christ giue vs his body for food With the faithlesse they sticke not to say his wordes are hard and who can beleeue him His promise of being vvith his Church to the end of the vvorld they contemne And that the Holy Ghost shall teach her all truth they credit not Wanting the band of vnity vnder seuerall heades they make seuerall companies and sects Hauing no certayne rule of faith each is author of his owne beliefe framing a Religion by priuate fancy Both in Doctrine and life all disorder is among them eternall horrour and confusion Oh with how great difference most supereminent light hast thou seperated Israell from the Aegyptians So plaine hast thou made the high way of truth that a very foole neede not misse the path Our enemies giue testimony to our faith and confesse that we may be saued therein They which oppugne it doe justifie it in confessing the primitiue Doctors to haue erred with vs. And thy Church not vnmindefull of her great priuiledge nor vngratefull for thy benefits Honoureth thee alwaies with inward purity worthy of thy holines and with outward ornaments worthy of thy Majesty Seauen times in the day shee singeth thy prayses and prayeth for Catholikes throughout the world Heare her prayers O enemy of falshood and giue all the earth to vnderstand That Heresie is a tempest raging only for a time but the foundation of thy Church endureth for euer A PSALME WHEREIN THE CATHOLIKE CALleth to minde his conuersion giuing thankes to God for the same THE SIXT PSALME MEDITATE O my soule a newe song open my lips to a psalme of thanksgiuing Rejoyce in him that made thee rejoyce in him that redeemed thee Rejoyce in him that conserueth thee rejoyce in him that