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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10294	The spy discovering the danger of Arminian heresie and Spanish trecherie: written by I.R.	Russell, John, d. 1688.; Rhodes, John, minister of Enborne, attributed name.; Robinson, John, 1575?-1625, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 20577; ESTC S115559	23,654	58

and Gods favour lose If friends by flatt'ry be procur'd alone Befriend me heav'n on earth I 'le looke for none Grant therefore God of truth into his hands I Never fall that holy truth withstands The Explanation of the Table Prefixed AN endles bloudy war that never yet Cessation truce or peace did once admit From the worlds Cradle so it 's hoary age Hath still beene wag'd with vnappeased rage By cursed Sathan and his damned bands Of reprobates against Christs church like sands Her foes in number are no station 's free From fierce assaults and furious battery When time began this malice first began Nor will it end but with the latest man ' ' Time shall produce Thus iustice hath decreed ' ' Those shall be crown'd in heav'n on earth must bleed To exercise the Churches patience hope And faith God hath ordaind a Turke or Pope To persecute her saints her sins to scourge And from her purer gold the drosse to purge Of vaine corruption oft he tryes in flames Her glorions Martyrs and sometimes he tames Herself admiring and applauding pride That on presumption of his loue doth ride In to that high conceit the Iewes haue told her Since God hath chose her he is bound t' uphold her By drawing from her his supporting grace That see'ing in what a weake and vvretched case She is vvithout his helpe hovv soone she 'd fall If grace be not her leader Generall To Heresy or any other snare The tempter to entrap her shall prepare She may rely vpon his povver alone VVho is the Rock of her salvation To be exposed thus to Sathans spleene Of Christs true Church a true marke still hath beene The church malignant vvhose prodigious head The Divel is himselfe vvee see hath led The Captiue vvorld in triumph liu'd at rest And most of nations vvith subiection prest No streames of Martyrs blood her temples di'de Nor did she persecution e're abide His Cruelty not to his friends but foes The Prince of darknes here in this vvorld shovves VVhom but th' Apostles did he sift like wheate And whom like Paul did he desire to beat VVithout with Ievvish scourges and vvithin VVith buffets of his flesh-assaulting sin Such barb'rous tortures vvho did e're endure VVithout all pity as the saints most pure This bold adventurous foe his fiery darts Directs vvith matchlesse cunning at the harts Of them that are the best of saints And vvhere He sees the richest graces shine most cleere There he his strongest engines doth erect If possible ev'n to subvert th'elect Thus haue vve seene in heate of vvarres alarmes VVhere bloudy fields are pav'd vvith broken armes The foes redouble all their force and might To breake the battailes vvhere the gen'ralls fight Such vvas the Syrian monarchs charge to bring Captiue o● kill none else but Israels King So Caesar thought those soldiours vvorthiest grace VVhose poynts still levell'd at their foemens † face Thus strong temptations forcibly appli'd Haue made the best of Gods owne children slide Lot Noah David Peter fouly fell Because their gifts did all mens else excell Adam in Paradise no safety found Nay he that of all safety is the ground Escap'd not vnassaulted of vvhose fare Good reason all his servants should haue share Stand forth then Roman strumpet vvipe thine eyes Pull of thy scales of blindnes yet be vvise Ere 't be too late Then shalt thon cleerely see VVho the erroneous vvho the true Church be I vvill not nor is 't fitting here discusse Those points of doctrine vvhere in you from vs Are in Diameter oppos'd as farre As bright truth from darke fals hood such a vvarre Requires a larger and more spatious field Then this restrained straine can aptly yeeld VVherefore in freer methode more solute I leaue your tenents for the schools dispute And yet hovv easy vvere 't to make you knovv Humane traditions are alas too lovv To mate Gods sacred vvord nor may the vaine Inventions of an erring mortall braine Braue th' oracle of truth if th' Arke to check Dagon presume Dagon shall breake his neck Hovv easy vvere 't to proue that saving grace Of our corrupted nature must take place Errour hath Champions 't is not my intent That Antichristian Councell which from Trent Takes it's denomination to refell Since those blasphemons Cannons now doe smell O're all the vvorld and you your selues are faine Many for shame back to revoke againe No were there no marke else the Church to knovv Our truth your falshood this vvould cleerely shovv To proue vs Christs and aggravate your sin VVe haue the patients you the agents bin In all massacres treasons persecutions Close murthers cruell bloudshed and dirutions Of Cityes kingdomes vvofull devastations Rebellions povvderplots and vvrong invasions Perform'd to force mens consciences and make Inconstant soules vvith errour part to take These are the bloody glosses of your text VVhich you vvell hop'd vve should interpret next And if your projects be not timely crost Our freedome and religion both are lost For that our safety might be vndermind You haue not onely all your povvers combin'd Abroad but ev'n at home prepar'd such vvay That vve our selues should our ovvne selues betray To vvhat end else did you in time of danger You introduce vve entertaine a stranger T' our reform'd doctrine was 't for Conscience sake To bring vs to the truth or was 't to make Entrance for Spanish waspes to th' English hiue VVhile vve for conscience with our selues should striue Thus simple truth hath by your cunning bill Assaild without falsely betrayd within And when religions bond 's once broke asunder No mervaile forreigne Atheisme bring vs vnder Which that the Church may better take to hart And yet prevent that for which else she 'le smart Her dangers here appeare that when you view them You better may advise which way t' eschew them Truths Fortresse whose fundation's layd vpon Th' Apostles Prophets aud that Corner-stone VVhereon they build morter'd and cemented VVith blood of Martyrs for the gospell shed Then by degrees rays'd to the present frame By such of ancient and of later fame VVhose workes and wordes liues lines harts hands haue made Truth flourish errour vanish falshood fade And shak'd proud Babel stands beleaguer'd here On all sides by her foes Two Ports appeare Gainst which th' assailants ar'md with fury rage And hellish spleene that nothing can asswage But blood and ruine all their engines plant And forces bend here is of plots no want Or Cunning projects for their braines are filld VVith all the stratagems that hell can yeeld Religions Port's beleaguer'd by the whore Of erring Babel's cursed Paramour VVhose right hand 's armed vvith the fulmination Of Kingdomes-blasting excommunication To send to hell or some such place all those His jurisdiction or his lavves oppose His bull 's his buckler vvherevvith he defends As he makes credulous soules beleeue his friends Pardons their sinnes pulls such from Sathans

their eyes As monuments of English Covvardise Then had there beene no reason to suspect Ourselues of treason or as bad neglect VVhereas 't is settled novv in every thought Not French but English our Confusion vvrought Disloyalty not fortune lost the day So did vve looke on Cales and run avvay VVhereat aym'd that but that vve might giue Spaine Our land in earnest cause t' invade againe Nor onely vvere three subsidies spent there To makes vs laugh'dat but our soldiours vvere VVith stinking vitailes poyson'd by this plot VVe vveak'ned vvere and yet perceiv'd it not VVas not anothers voyage likevvise barr'd VVith a degree i' th' south VVho might haue marr'd The plate fleete had he beene in earnest sent Or they that set him on plaine dealuig meant But now of late our vvaightiest expeditions Are allvvayes frustrate by ill-meant commissions All plots pretended for our Kingdomes good Ly drovvn'd and buried in our Kingdomes blood And as not here projected but in Spaine On our part loose but on our foes side gaine Affaires of such great consequence of old VVhen great ones did not scorne to be controll'd VVere vvont to be concluded by consent Of the states body in a Parliament And not by factious spirits made alone Of plying mettle to be vvrought vpon Such greene-vvax councell that vvill onely take Th' impression he that made thē such vvould make And so his vvill not daring to gainsay That hates the state they doe the state betray Thus is our land made vveake our treasure vvasted Our court corrupted and our honour blasted Our lavves are broke our iustice sold and they That should reforme these mischiefes giue thē vvay All symptomes of a Kingdome that hath beene Declining long may be in England seene Our strength 's decayd the flovv're of all the land Haue perish'd vnder Buckinghams command Those that their liues haue ventur'd for their King Home nought but labour for their paines can bring Hence 't is our saylours are constrain'd to fly For vvant of pay vnto the enemy VVhereby it comes to passe a fisher tovvne The very name of England once could drovvne Doth vvith the terrour of some thirty saile At most the povver of that Kingdome quaile VVhich in the life of her renovvned Queene Kept all the vvorld in avv VVho e're hath seene So strange an alteration they that then Did feare a vvoman novv contemne our men Admire it not our marchants taken are Vnder the nose o' th' royall men of vvar Oh that some angell would from heav'n relate Vnto our King vvhat vvrongs are done the state He might beleeue 't And not giue eare alone To them that nothing haue to liue vpon But glorious titles and their Countreys spoyle The Kings exchequer and the Fav'rites smile No mervaile then such Caterpillers vse Their witts the authour of these ills t' excuse And Papists whom he rais'd in policy Religion and the gospells bane to be For if he once on whom they hang but crack Their credit state and Conscience must to wrack Yet can not those gold flourishes they cast Vpon his canker'd actions blind in hast The vveakest iudgments Nor is that conceit So often in their mouth of any vveight Pretending it a Paradox that those VVhom highest honours on all sides enclose Should not enioy content but still aspire From high'st preferments to ascend vp higher As if the large desires of humane pride Could be alas vvith bonds of reason ti ' de Ambition brookes no equalls and much lesse Superiours 't is imperfect happines She thinkes in greatest povver to be plac'd And not vvith so v'raigne titles to be grac'd Thus great things gain'd vve ayme at greater things Earles vvould be Dukes and Dukes vvould faine be Kings Should Spaine great King but promise to him this For vvhose sake all your Kingdome fares amisse As vvho knovves but it hath you soone should proue VVhether your person or your Crowne he loue Then should you see how of your power he made Vse to abuse your selfe and be a shade For such his actions As being rightly scan'd You 'le find all tended to vndoe your land Your subjects riches are your strength these he Consum'd in riot and in luxury Their loue 's the maine supporter of your state VVhich treach'rously he did alienate That destitute of all your peoples ayd Your selfe the state the truth might be betrayd Which that he might effect his doings all Aym'd at our foes advancement and our fall ' ' Great states affayers should allways manag'd be ' ' If we would haue them speed with secrecy ' 'Till they are ripe for practise with all speed ' ' And expedition then they must proceed This Macedonian did thy honour rayse This Caesar crownd thee with immortall prayse But all our plots our foes did vnderstand So well they seem'd proiected in their land Spaine ever ere our selues knew our intention And therefore still were readyer for prevention Then we for action Thus at Cales and Ree VVe lost our liues and purchas'd infamy Nor can I without horrour call to mind Thy vvrongs poore Rochell novv vvith famine pin'd Through our default whose fleete your safety broke And forc'd your necks vnto the tyrants yoke Then promising protection and pretending Supplies from time to time we would be sending VVhich were detain'd of purpose till too late ●T was we that made your case thus desperate For if w 'had sent assistance with good will VVhy lay graue valiant Denbighs navy still VVithout empeachment of those French that made ●He looking on the forts and Pallisade VVhy lack'd after they should haue launch'd so long Our fleetes provision but that all went wrong Search out this fault wise King in time and mend it And wheresoever treason harbours end it For feare those vipers that your favours wing Giues warmth vnto at last your hart shall sting Next to th' insulting French the German comes Beating with f●ry his victorious drummes And flesh'd in bloud of slaughter'd Protestants No liberty of consultation grants But summons 'cause he 's master of the field VVithout resistance made Truths Fort to yield But stay proud Austrian though thy conquring blade In seas of Christian bloud hath passage made Through which thou sailst to the desired port Of monarchy thy hopes may fall too short ●Tis true the world 's well mended with thee now Since venice made thy humbled knees to bow Presume not on 't for thou shalt doubtlesse find The greatest labour to remaine behind A Lyon yet may stop the Eagles flight And take revenge on that iniurious spight The gospell hath endur'd If God be just Knovv tyrant that his svvord shall never rust Shall he not hearken to the wofull plaints And lamentations of his martyr'd saints And for that bloud shed for his owne deare sake Sharpe vengeance on the cruell murth'rers take Yes yes he will and bloudy Tyrants shall Themselues orewhelm'd vvith bloud like Tyrants Nor is thy greatnes built on such a ground But Spaine vvill