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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

Christs birth-right some of our Ladies dowry King Lucius by thy secret motion inclined his hart to search thy truth Animated by thee O Soueraigne Sanctifier to Rome as the fountayne he sent for water of life Thy high Steward Lieutenant Eleutherius assigned Priests for execution of his holy desires The light of thy word was soone spred through Britaine to the saluation of many soules The Prophecy was so fulfilled that from the Islāds our Lord should beginne his raigne In this thy garden grewe vvhite Lillies without number and integrity of life adorned the Realme But neither was the red Rose wanting purpled with the bloud of thy Saintes Alban the Prothomartir for harbouring a Priest lost his life Amphiabel thy consecrated seruant was slaine for thy sake Iulius Aaron with many more When the Saxons inuaded with fire and sword thou laiedst not aside the care of thy land But pittying that Infidels should possesse the jewell which thou louedst so well Thou broughtest to passe by incomprehensible wisdome that they also were by Gregory conuerted Thus from the holy City from Peters Seate both the conquerour and conquered receiued Religion And being otherwise mortall enemies yet in points of beliefe consented in one Neither did the Brittaine argue the Saxon of heresie or reproach him to haue receiued an vpstart and falsified faith As likewise neither did the Dane chaunge the Saxons beliefe nor the victorious Norman bring in newe opinions For they found no other then all Christendome at that time professed Of the faith Catholike vvhich in this Island thou O eternal truth hadest in this wise planted watred and established Who is able to comprehend the successe what tongue can expresse the encrease All quarters of the earth talked of her fruit all corners of this Realme testifie it So many Churches Chappels so many Colledges and Hospitals so many sundry foundations of charity So many thousandes of vowed Religious among whome night nor day thy prayses neuer ceassed Who spent their time in praying for their Country putting themselues as a wall betweene thy wrath and the people Watching vvhilst others slept liuing in penance whilst others past their time in pleasures No Country yealded more Kings Canonized for their liues or Martirs by their deaths More that visited in Pilgrimage the Temples and Monuments of the chiefe Apostles More Princes which laying aside their Crowne and Scepter in Religious habite and Cloisters finished their age Or more Queenes and Kinges Daughters who renouncing worldly pompe chose Christ for their Spouse Holy Bishops in whome thy hart was well pleased were very many some of which lost their liues for their flocke Thou hadst here also Eremites Anchorets many equall in perfection to the Fathers of Aegipt Both sanctity and wisdome thou didst powre aboundantly vpon diuers of thy seruantes This Isle as a nource of learning sent teachers into straunge landes As a Seminary of Religion it did spread abroade the Christian faith No Country but boasteth of some English Saint honouring his reliques whose life they had in admiration Germany acknowledgeth from Enland her first Apostles and Euangelistes Who founded there thy faith O Lord by word workes and by their bloud By one of our nation were the Noruegians reclaymed from their superstitions And the frosen nations of the North-pole beganne to be enflamed with thy loue Our Kinges also in honour of thy sacred name and in signe of perfect vnion to thy Church Offered vp their protestation of obedient Children and made the Realme tributary to Peters chaire They erected a Colledge at Rome thy holy City that from whence their faith first proceeded it might still be conserued The deuotion of all to thy holy and dreadfull Sacrifices it is not my tongue thou knowest can expresse It vvas thou vvhich gauest them both ability and will to crect so many stately Temples with towres aspiring to the cloudes To adorne the same with such rich furniture Crosses Chalices and shrines of pretious mettall So that neither sparing labour nor cost they left examples of deuotion to all posterity Religious zeale being well grounded in all mens hartes other fruits of good life followed accordingly The vine yealdeth not Scamony the Pomegranate beareth not Coloquintida Neither could good Doctrine bring forth euill fruits It delighted thee to looke vpon this Realme and to regard the state thereof To see howe parentes loued their children more to thee then to the world more by reason then fond affection Howe children obeyed their parents not to the eye only but from the hart not for their owne behoofe but for thy commaundement Howe Masters to their seruants seruants to their Masters the Prince to the people the people to the Prince Each obserued to other their duty inuiolable The Clergy to the laity the laity toward the Clergy Howe all Superiors to their Inferiors bare themselues vpright and receiued likevvise of them their due Howe each man had just care of his soule and fewe gaue themselues ouer to iniquity How sinners hastned by penance and teares to reconcile themselues to thy mercifull Majesty All thinges went in order and the sweet cōsort of the common wealth was as the harmony of a wel-tuned instrument A DEPLORATION OF THE REVOLT OF ENgland from the receiued faith THE FOVRTH PSALME MY God O my God O God of our Auncestors vvhere is the goodly tree of thy planting become Which prospered and grewe so mightily which flourished so beautifully Whose shade was most pleasant and recreatiue whose armes streatched to the foure Seas The Cedars of Libanus vvere not taller the Palmes of Palestina fairer nor the Okes of the forrest stronger I heard of the glory and fame thereof and I wondred I looked about to see it and it is not to be found Alas O Lord that thou hast suffered a parching wind to blow from the North which made the boughs thereof to wither and the flourish thereof to decay The leaues first fell away by one and by one other followed by ten and by twenty As when the Sunne draweth to his farthest point and the cold nipping winter prepareth his recourse The smaller boughes beganne to fall to the ground being become dry stickes without sappe The contagion at length possessing the hart maine branches brake away The trunke all rotten fell downe the fall thereof was very great The cracke vvas heard into all landes and made Nations quake for feare Peeuish shrubs whome her shade oppressed inferiour trees whome her glory disgraced Such triumphed at her fall and rejoyced at her ruine But the other goodly trees of the wood pittied her calamity and feared their owne estate Yet just art thou O judge of all the world and there is no iniquity in thy wayes Before thou didst thus abase our Nation they sinned and before thou didst so chastise our Country it deserued the rodde Our forefathers were vnmindfull of the multitude of thy mercies and kept not the couenant of thy commaundements But beginning to vvauer at

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