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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10089	Times anotomie [sic]. Containing: the poore mans plaint, Brittons trouble, and her triumph. The Popes pride, Romes treasons, and her destruction: affirming, that Gog, and Magog, both shall perish, the Church of Christ shall flourish, Iudeas race shall be restored, and the manner how this mightie worke shall be accomplished. Made by Robert Pricket, a souldier: and dedicated to all the lords of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell.	Pricket, Robert.	1606 (1606)	STC 20342; ESTC S115240	33,232	64

to seru●●●●● their turnes withall Their actions waied then let the truth speake thus Pittie to them is crueltie to vs. Are these the fruites that Romish Saints forth bring Is it for this so oft th●●●●●y masses sing Is this the zeale of their veligio●●●●●s heate So oft for this doe they their prayers repeate Is it for this their God in minde to beare That on their brests a Crueifixe they weare Is it for this that whip themselues they vse For this doe they their cloathes to weare refuse Doe they for this to Saints and Angels pray Vse shrift and ponance and fast so oft must they Is this their loue almes patience and humilitie Is this their peace and churches sweete tranquilitie Are these the children that Romane faith begets With helpe of Popes Friers Nunnes and Iesuits Are they for this with holy-water bles●●●●● Doe their perfection in these effects consist Now sute since they such deeds as these preferre The Pope's a whore her children bastards are All their deuotion●●●●● brings such workes about Oh God keepe me from being so deuout I hope the Papists no excuse can make This treason was for their religion sake And all the treasons in late Eliza●●●●●s raigne Were done by those that did Romes Sea 〈◊〉 So many then as are thereof asham'd Leaue Rome serue God and be no further blam'd But let obedience to your Soueraigne proue Your saithfull soundnesse and repentant loue And though ere long the cunning of Romes dr●●●●●ft Will coyne some cause themselues from shame to 〈◊〉 Yet those of you that will not shamelesse be Come to our Church and from Romes doctri●●●●●e flee And you that are the simplest sort of them That may be thought plaine honest meaning men Your ignorance no sound deuotion teacheth Trust not the lyes that Popish doctrine preacheth Some now I hope heauens grace to them imparted Will be from Rome by Romes foule deeds conuerted Oh may that honor whose heart sinnes action loath'd Hence forth no more be in Romes darknesse cloath'd Mounte Eagles like loue heauens all lightning sunne And from the clouds of Popish darknesse runne So many yeares the truth hath clearely shinde As none but those that will can still be blinde Who so his eyes against the light will shut Must needs himselfe in mistie darkenesse put Be such Religion of the world disdain'd As is with treason bloud and murther stain'd Papists still blinde let not our Ile containe them Send them to R●●●●●me for all but Rome disdaines them From of Romes shore my Muse her selfe doth wend And would her course vnto Great Briton bend My natiue land oh let to her my zeale The euidence of loues affection seale Who i st that sees the wrong vnto vs done But will from Rome and Romes adherents runne God in thy loue preserue those Princely states Who all as one Romes Sea and doctrine hates And those mongst vs that of profession vant My little ruft most peeuish puritant Whos 's Brownisme must our quiet state offend That witlesse striues for trifles to contend Whose in good sooth indeed and verilie Nere knew the ground of faiths sinceritie Whose folly in a wide maskt net doth dance Whose zeale is but a painted ignorance Whose wildenesse runnes the fields and woods vnto Where preaching Coblers learnes them what to doe Nise curious wits vaine idle wise like dawes Iumpe ouer blocks and stumble most at strawes When now they see how God his Church hath loued Let them thereby to ioyne with vs be moued And striue no more to prooue their foolerie Against both learning and authoritie Such will alone for Christ his flock be knowne And will allow no Church besides their owne Twixt them and those throwne into like suspence There should be made some greater difference Those that haue borne the burthen of the day And neuer ceast to watch to preach to pray Whose loue and zeale hath so heauens precepts taught As they to heauen haue greatest number brought To King and State whose hearts are constant sound Whose doctrine doth on faiths saluation ground Let not the Church giue to it selfe a wound By loosing those that are most faithfull found All those graue Preachers wise and fit to teach For trifles let them not refuse to preach But vse their tallant Gods number to increase Great is the sinne if now they holde their peace He doth not euill that to his power withstands it But who forbids not sinne and may command it The threates of lawe sway not affection so As those good deeds which righteous rulers doe When no man may tell kings they doe amisse Then in obedience their corruption is But God hath sent to vs a vertuous King Let vertues loue true loues obeysance bring Oh let our loue be to that grace not mist In which our selues and all the world is blist The glory of that royall issues line Like to the sunne their famous deeds shall shine For Britons weale let all good people trie To crowne her fame with perpetuitie God so the ground of her foundation lay As that no strength may worke her weales decay Her glories trophies let no such earth-quake shake Whose force would her the land of Ruine make But let the glory of her King and state Consume those foes that would her ruinate Traitors that would in bloud our land haue drownd God them destroy and all their plottes confound Those hearts that would domestick warres procure Be they first made of deaths destruction sure No home bred broiles may they our peace disturbe Such mindes oh let the strength of iustice 〈◊〉 Me thinkes there should be some thing vnderstood When heauen is cloath'd in cloudes of fire and bloud Before and since the heauens did neuer cast More signes then were about this treason last Could heathen men iudge future euils to hap When thunder did the Okes in peeces rap And if the sunne should but some signe bewraie Might no man dare gainst such prediction saie And now shall heauen both fier and bloud presage And we not thinke they chide this sinfull age Eclipses strange both 〈◊〉 Moone and Sunne When strangely they on heapes together come Shall reason so and wisdomes strength be broken That by such signes there shal be nothing spoken Shall God oft shake as in his furies wrath The solled roundle of this maslie earth And yet we still remaine secure in sinne Oh no let ts all for to repent begine The better that our safetyes strength may grow Let Iosua Acan and his wedge hence throw Our peace at home be that establisht sure No force abroad can Britons wracke procure In ciuill warres when souldiers armes are worne Vniust tryumphe the iust are force't to mourne No souldiers sword could make Romes Empire stand When Rome Rome selfe brus'd with rebellions hand Let Britons which doe God and Christ pro●●●●●esse Their faiths true soundnes by their deeds expresse So shall heauens God our King and land defend And from his Loynes a Roiall issue send That on his throne shall sit triumphantly Til Christ doth come in glorious dignitie This grace God grant and thus shall cease my pen But still my heart till death shall say Amen FINIS A Song of reioycing for our late deliuerance GReat Brittons Ile worlds wonder heauens delight Religions strength faiths seate professions stay Confirmd mayntaynd vpheld in hels despight That 〈◊〉 in thee saluation florish may Thy King suruiues and on Mount Sion standes Protected safe from force of traytors handes Thy Queene thy Prince thy Peeres and Princely state Thy Lords thy Bishopps Knights and Burgesses God hath preseru'd from Romes intestine hate A suddaine slame should haue consum'd all these Romes traytors n●●●●●w so to the world are knowne As treasons Min●●●●● hath Rome and them vp blowne Falshood ●●●●●ells childe in hel darke Pathes doth treade To hide it selfe from truthes disc●●●●●rning eye But traytors God will to destruction leade They cannot liue from iudgements stroke to flye Treason is like the Baziliske his eyes First seeing kills first being seene it dies In s●●●●●ight of Rom●●●●●s proude Antichristian force Celestiall ioy●●●●● with heauenly comfort 〈◊〉 Their soules in whom once toucht with sinnes remorce By ●●●●●aith in Christ a gratious dew distills Rome is exilde and this is Albions glory King Iames maintaines the scriptures sacred story When Gods true Church doth in her glory shine Why should some mindes their wisdome so preserre As if they were then scripture more diuyne By selfe conceipt to seede contentions iarre Sunne Moone and Starrs those lights too little be To giue them light that will themselues not see A vnyon and a vniforme Conclude For trifles let not time with truth contende No shadowes can substantiall faith delude Indifferent things should not the wise offend By ioyning all in blessed vnitie With datelesse fame Crowne Brittons monarchie FINIS

time They ar mustering now of Sathans regiment Their plot is lay'd hope feeds their vild intent When time shall be into combustion thrown And falsehoods nurse to hostile actions growne Wars thunder then when it sha●●●●●l shake the world People shal be into amasement whorld A sca●●●●●let horce shal stomble and fall downe And after him a triple hallowed crowne The beast whose legges of claye and Irone wrought Must be vnto a feareful ruine brought Because Gods t●●●●●uth for to defile he sought He and his sea shall wast and come to noug●●●●●t 〈◊〉 seat doeth shake and reele I see him ●●●●●alling The wounded monster on the earth lies scravvling He gapes for breath strangled himselfe he choakes About his eares his painted Pallace smoakes Downe tumble must that triple crowned whore Once fal●●●●●e her fall not any shall deplore But those that would her spotted garments weare Whose foreheads doe the marke of Dagon beare The Champions all which would the best maintaine Shall at his feete by conquering swords be slaine Gog ouerthrowne Mag●●●●●g shall thinke to come With fire and sworde through glorious Christendome From E●●●●●phrates and Tygris then shal ●●●●●ise A strength that will our tyrants tyrannise Arabians Gul●●●●●e to Percias Gulfe shall flow From whence a high reard softly floud shall grow Whose Sea like waues from thence to Fes shall roule Downe tumbling all that would their force controule R●●●●●uenge and death to war●●●●●es alarums leades The Eagles last continued monstrous heads The mountaine VVol●●●●●es frō Christian bounds cald hence Christians then by force shall driue them thence And Christendome whilst God her peace doth shield Shall striue aright in her Gods house to build That she may teach the nations thus to say Her Christ is God we will his lawes obay Our Bishops then the truth shall ratifie In order chiefe not in authoritie And that Religion shall stand most beloued Whose rule is best by Scriptures truth approoued And for a Iudge a Church finde out we can That knew the truth before the Pope began Then shall the Church be built on Peters faith And that beleeue which holy Scripture saith Then shall Gods Church her strength and glory see When Christ alone her corner stone shall be Aboue Gods word shall then be raisde no head By Christ their Sheapheard shall his flock be lead Such Vnion shall the Northren Prince contriue As Christians shall no more with Christians striue Then Christendome shall all her power bestow By force to worke the Pagans ouerthrow All Christian Princes will themselues protect As shall the Northren Prince their course direct And now me thinkes I see a glorious sight A Christian Armie shining wondrous bright Marching in warres 〈◊〉 fit for fight In the defence of their Redeemers ●●●●●ight The Northren Emperour doth the red crosse beare To who●●●●●e command the armie craues to swea●●●●●e With 〈◊〉 bloud their warlike weapons staines 〈◊〉 fields and faire Hungarian plaines Whilst 〈◊〉 Ismael and the cursed seed Doe striue to make each others breast to bleed Working that worke for which they were compoūded That each by other may be with warre consounded The t●●●●●mperour of the North that Prince of fame Brings Christendome into her wonted frame And all that did vnto that Empire bend At last shall back vnto that state descend Empires and Kingdomes shall at once recoile And bend their strength to worke their spoilers spoile Those lockt vp Deuils in wildest Mountaines bred Whom Christian hands from thence deliueted To whom at first the Sarazens gaue pay By whom at last themselues destroyed were they By all that strength which hath their wrong indur'd Shall be at last their rac'd out name procur'd Sara and Ketura shall a conquest winne Of whom there is a mightie power vnseene And then once more in pompe of Empire swels Those that are calde Religious 〈◊〉 Before they doe the sacred truth retaine Mongst them is 〈◊〉 and Elias slame From forth the North a Lyons voyce shall rore And make them then the murthered dead deplore The doctrine which they taught once calde to minde Shall Heathens teach the way heauens path to finde Old Magog then new built his name shall loose And for his God the God of Gods shall choose The Northren Empire shall to him disclose That Truth gainst which he did himselfe oppose The Persians shall the Christians kindly greet When both their Armies shall with conquest meet Mount Harmons dew that sweetly then distils From off the tops of faire Arabian hils Shall fall on them of Abrahams line the race Though yet vnseene by faith the seeds of grace Then hungrie Dogges no more a stray shall wander Iudeas race shall finde the Bridegromes chamber Time takes in hand to worke this wonder great A Northren blast must coole the Sothern heate For of the Princes that shall worke this thing The worthiest power from forth the North shall spring A Potent Prince a strong and powerfull King His famous deeds through all the world shall ring It is establisht and his Throne shall stand Whose force shall take a wondrous worke in hand In his blest Li●●●●●e triumphant glory goes With glorious Race of conquering Emperours This is the winde and Lion of the wood From whom a most Emperiall strength shall bud And to the Eagle in wrathes fiers fury speake And al his winges and Feathers pe●●●●●cemeale breake The Heathens he at iudgments bar shall set And make them know the power gainst which they fre●●●●● He shall the land from Paganisme deliuer And wash heauens flock in faith's saluations riuer He shall the earth with heauenly grace refresh And vnto her heauens lawes with truth expresse The foes whereof he shall with force destroy And turne earths bondage into freedomes ioye Set free her hope shall waite on that saluation whose mercies iudgment layed her first foundation This Royall line the whole continuance summes Of all the yeares vntill great Shil●●●●● comes God shortly will the businesse vndertake For which he doeth the Northen Empier make Vpon his head stands an Emperiall Crowne Whose Monarchy shall throw Romes Empire dovvne Fooles though they brag their cloud of earths elus●●●●●on Both must and shall come to a rac't confusion And that eare long time doeth a course beginne Whereby consum'd shall be worlds sinke of sinne This happen shall and when these signes appeare Know then the day of iudgment draweth neere Be I excusd and not condempn'd of men No deuill-borne Merline doth direct my pen. Vnto an end time doth each creature driue From holy writ do I these words deriue This rotten age pointing at worlds decay But well obseru'd doth wondrous things bewray Both heauen and earth mankind so loades with sinne They pray heauens God he would their rest beginne And set them in that state wherein they stood When God made all and said all things were good Of time to come what meanes my pen to write Whom present time holdes in such base despight In spight of time and times

what course the Pope doth take His Champions proud so fit for hell to make Let me set forth that euery one may spie The cunning worke of Romes ar●●●●●h villany For Romes auaile are built beyond the Seas As Christian deedes some stately Colledges And they are giuen in charitie to bring Vp those that will Romes Masses learne to sing Children there taught the rules of Popery Are learnd to know proud Romes supremacie Their teachers largely doe to them expresse How much th●●●●●y owe to Romes Scald holinesse And that their liues lost in th●●●●● Popes behoofe Confirmes the truth of their religions proofe If for Romes good to shamefull death they come It crownes them with a glo●●●●●ious martirdome Who yeeldes not to Romes lawes are only those Which they must know on earth to be Gods foes Their parents if they shall Romes Pope displease It 's lawfull for them on their liues to seaze To any Prince they are no subiect helde That dares deny vnto Romes sea to yeelde For Rome If subiects their lawfull soueraigne kill Romes lawes affirme that they Gods lawes fulfill Vnto the Church a benefite to bring Each euill is made a sanctimonious thing When thus they are instructed then I hope They may become fit seruants for the Pope Then taking oath in vildest euills to trade They are indeede substanciall villaines made And thus those schooles the Popes best charitie Are made the nurse of treasons treacherie Thether oft goes our Englands Papall youthes To read the volumes of the Popes vntruthes To studie there doe idle wits deuise Where legions are of vprearde mountaine lies Logician like who best can lies mayntaine Can best vphold Romes blood red scarlet traine There in those schooles Rome doth those schollers che●●●●●ish By whome he hopes to make gods kingdome perish From forth those lakes as from a stigian gulfe To England comes each hell-borne Romane woolfe Of our owne people doe those schooles beg●●●●●tt A viperous swarme for vildest treasons fit Semina●●●●●yes the children of perdition Thence bring to vs Romes Popish superstition With him he brings aucthoritie to beare All shapes and formes and may each fashion weare Sometimes like clownes sometimes like ruffins br●●●●●ue Sometimes like courtiers sometimes like lawyers gra●●●●●e Like Farmors Citizens or like a seruing man Like glassemen tinkers or like foote posts can Those Rascalls runne our kingdome round about And not be found when iustice seekes them out They may be droncke or sweare or of the Pope speake 〈◊〉 Forsweare themselues or lie or what they will No euill in them can ioyne sinnes name vnto it If for the Church and Popes auayle they doe it The selfe same power that to deccaue hath he He giues to them that once deccaued be With hells Commission giuen a deuill to preach So doth the Pope his Saints and Children teach From Rome then let this truth be vnderstood The Pope knowes how to make all mischiefs good These hell seed sowers when they come to see Such as to whom they may vnmasked be With wordes dissolu'd in graceles zeale to teares He then to them with humble speech declares He doth no more then their saluation craue He comes their soules from Hell and Deuill to s●●●●●ue Alas saith he your preachers doe you wrong Not of the Church you not to heauen belong The●●●●● with a crosse and bodie humbly bent My Lord the Pope his holynes hath sent By me from forth Saint Peters blessed store Heauens heauenly kingdome home vnto your doore Oh doe you then with ioye your hearts addresse For to receiue heauens proffered happines To heauen marke well for it is truth I say You cannot goe vnlesse I teach the way And if you will no longer be beguiled To holy Rome you must be reconciled Thus they at first doe set destructions trap And throwe themselues into deuotions lapp They ●●●●●old their words in seeming holy zeale And from the hearers thus their hearts they steale And when as their perswasions thus haue wrought As to Romes sea by th●●●●●m some soules are brought Then to the Pope once reconcilde and sworne From hence to Rome their hallowed names are borne And afterwardes it s taught them by degrees To vnderstand the strength of Romes decrees And so forth on vntill they come to this To know like them their prince no Christian is And some thing done from sinne their land to free As murthering him should meritorious bee And as they sinde a spirite fit to heare So will they vse their doctrines to declare And giue to them wha●●●●● thei●●●●● denotion brings Beades pictures Saints and pretie hallowed things Popes do maintaine their Antichristian Scisme With relicks ragges and A pish Munckanisme The simple thus by them dece●●●●●ued are The wise are caught euen by the selfe same snare Thus in the da●●●●●cke of hells eternall shade Amongst our selues are English traytors made This is the seede that 〈◊〉 sowe And this the 〈◊〉 that from their labours groue And that these euills vnseene may safely florish our Papists doe them and thei●●●●● actions nourishe But that which thre●●●●●ts great Brit●●●●●ns monarchie and best vpholde Romes hatefull dignitie Is that mongst vs there ruleth secretly A sea and state of Popish presbetrie In England here Rome hath an Arch-priest plac'd The Pope hath him as with a Councel grac'd Some certaine Papists onely knowes his walke And they alone of Romes diseignes must talk●●●●● All Iesuites of Romes Priuie Councell be For best they know the grounds of trecherie At Rome for them Princelike their Agents are Who doth their causes to the Pope prefer Rome hether they thether vsually As cause requires doe send in embassie Before our safetie can soundly be inioyed This Priest and Councell needes must be destroyed For by their meanes the Pope doth play the deuill And plagues vs here with euery kinde of 〈◊〉 All they desire is our Co●●●●●fusions shame And o●●●●●er vs the Pope supreame to name Arch-Papist doth for this the best he ca●●●●● Church-papist he becomes his iorney man All worke together the Pope aloft to rayse And still their working workes our dangero●●●●●s dayes Of some perhaps that thing is now cond●●●●●mned which done would thē much more haue bin cōmende●●●●● All did not know by some the treason coynd Once done God knowes how many would haue 〈◊〉 To sound effect could Rome her hopes compose Romes forreine friends would soone bec●●●●●me our 〈◊〉 For he on whom is laide their faiths foundation Can quickly giue a gene●●●●●all dispensation What Rome not gets by force or policie By promise vowes oathes threates or 〈◊〉 By charmes in chantments witchcraft sorcerie For that he fights ape●●●●●te or secretly With murther treason bloud and treacherie The Pope makes these his great artillarie Thus he vpholds his sea of blasphemie And when he doth to hostile actions flie Then that which most is shame to Maiestie His kings must serue him in his villanie Ther 's not an euill that hell determine shall But Popes will vse