confess to God and them forsake And pray for pardon for our Saviours sake And if he doth his brother scandalize Or the true Church in any wise He must confes 't and sorrow for the same And reconcile himself to them again Of good Works SUch works as God by 's holy word commands Such he accepts from all his peoples hands But such as be the products of blind zeal Or mans device shall not a whit avail Good works by men done in obedience To Gods commands are fruits and evidence Of true and lively Faith and manifest That they by Faith do in assurance rest And have a good and strong and full perswasion Founded upon the promise of salvation Men by good works their brethren edifie Adorn Profession and God glorifie They by their works shew what they do profess Their faith produceth fruits of holiness No man good works by his own power can do The spirit doth inable him thereto Yet must he not be negligent and sin But must stir up the grace of God in him They that attain unto the greatest height Yet their obedience alwaies wanteth weight Man's short of duty in a sinful state How then can any superorrogate No mortal man for sin can pardon merit Such Popish thoughts proceed from no good spirit When he hath done what ever he can do His duty he cannot attain unto What good man doth proceedeth from the spirit What 's wrought by him is staind where 's then the merit Yet as the persons of beleivers be By God through Christ accepted so doth he Their works accept yet still its all through him For their best works defiled are with sin But God accepts them if they be sincere And them rewards as if they perfect were God doth not unbeleivers workes accept And yet they sin if they good works neglect Their works proceed from hearts not purifi'd Therefore by them God is not glorifi'd Of the perseverance of the Saints VVHom God accepted hath for his sons merit And call'd and sanctifi'd by his good spirit They never can that are in such a case Fall finally from that good state of Grace But shall therein continue to the end And then their souls to Heaven shall ascend This perseverance wholly doth depend On God's decree which never hath an end And not upon th' free will of sinful men But th' spirit's power that inables them This floweth from the love of God so free In Christ that it can never changed be Yet through corruption man may sin commit And for a time may take delight in it And may thereby incurr the Lords displeasure And be depriv'd of comfort in some measure And conscience wound and hardness have of heart And eke of judgements feel the weight and smart Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation THough Hypocrites and unregenerate May through false hopes mistake their own estate And thereupon presume of their salvation When they are in the state of deep damnation Yet true beleevers may assured be Of their salvation and felicity If for salvation they on Christ rely By Faith and love him in sincerity Indeavouring good detesting every sin A happy state are such beleivers in And of salvation may themselves assure And happiness that shall for aye endure Men may have Faith and yet may not attain To full assurance nor perceive the same For many times God makes his Children waite And suffer conflicts ere they do pertake Of such assurance yet the Lord takes care For their support and keeps them from despair And they that get assurance of salvation Are not so sure but that it may be shaken For God the same doth often intermit When they are careless of preferring it Or do commit some great and griveous sin When by temptation Satan drawes them in Or if the Lord withdraw himself from them They walk in darkness like despairing men Yet when the Lord thus for a time departs He leaves his spirit working in their hearts And he himself returns in his due time Then their assurance is reviv'd again Of Religious Worship and Rest on tâ—â— Lords Day THe light of nature shewes there is a Lord That rules and raigneth over all the world Good of himself and doth do good to all Unto this God we ought to cry and call Fear him and love him trust him day and night Praise him and serve him with our hearts and migâ—â— QuestioÌ„ But what 's the Worship that will please the Lord Answer Such as he hath revealed in his word Not mâ—ns device not mans imagination Nor the suggestions that proceed from Satan But Gods good word prescribes the ready way Walk in the same Rest on the Sabbath day Religious worship's due to God alone To Angels Saints and other creatures none To Father Son and Holy Ghost then pay This Holy Tribute and no other way And that thy service may have acceptation Do all thou dost through Christ his mediation Prayer with thanksgiving from a holy heart Of this pure worship is a special part By God required from all sorts of men But that it may accepted be from them It must be made through Jesus Christ the Son And by the help of his good spirit done According to his will most reverently In faith and love with all humility And all such Worship vocal must be done Not in the Popish way but in the vulgar tongue We ought to pray for all the sorts of men But for the dead we must not pray for them Nor pray for him that doth of malice sin Against the spirit that enlightned him Read Holy Scriptures with a godly fear Sound Preaching of the Word eke gladly hear Perform these duties in Obedience Unto the Lord with faith and reverence Singing of Psalmes with good and gracious hearts Receave the Sacraments for they are parts Of that Religious Worship God commands And doth expect at all his peoples hands Besides Religions Oathes Vowes solemn Fasts And eke Thanksgivings for deliverance past Religious Worship will accepted be In any place performed reverently And is not ty'd to places here or there God may be truly worshipt every where In publick private or in families But yet more solemnly in Church Assemblies Which wilfully must not neglected be When God calls us to such solemnity One day in seven wholly must be kept And for a Sabbath must a part be set And solemniz'd unto the living Lord According to his will and holy word The seventh day the J with Sabbath was Till Jesus Christ from death to life did pass Since on the first it hath been kept alway And so is now the Christian Sabbath day This Sabbath to the Lord is holy kept When as the people do with due respect To his commands fit and prepare their hearts And worldly business wholly set a part And do observe a holy rest that day Not to their Recreations giving way Nor their own works nor words nor thoughts Works of necessity and mercy yet we ought To do but we must alwaies
they might live again Who all were dead by Adams sinful fall But now revived by Christ's Funeral Who all were slaves till Jesus made them free Till Christ did die and climb the cursed Tree Praise God praise God praise God the Lord on high Praise God the Lord the Holy Trinity Christ hath redeem'd thee and discharg'd thy scorâ— Praise God the Lord praise him for evermore Proverbs Chap. 18. Ver. 14. Mans spirit will Infirmities sustein But who can beare the woundea spirits pain MAns spirit that is furnished with Grace And fortifi'd with favour of God's Face May pass the Pikes and Conquer all his foes Why should he fear when God keeps back thâ— blowe If God be for us who can us withstand Who can oppose Iehovah's mighty hand Whose mercy to his people hath no bounds Nor stint nor limit it is so profound Th' impetuous current of the rageing Sea He made Recoyle to make his people way He made the flames of hot and burning fire From his three Children swiftly to retire He made the Roaring Lyons couch and quake And change their natures for his Daniels sake He made the Locusts lice and Froggs and Flies In battel ray at his command to rise To save his people from their cruel foes To curb proud Pharoh that did them oppose He fed Elijah by the croking Crow When Iezebel did seek his overthrow He made the Furnace like a downy bed To blessed Bainham that was Martyred When David hunted was by wicked Saul Acts Monuments 1030 When robbed of his wives and children all When Zigglag was to ashes burnt with fire When David had no place of safe retire When David's Souldiers spake of scorning him When Holy David was great troubles in Then in distress poor David wept full sore Then David wept till he could weep no more Then David did unto Iehovah crie Then David prayd to God in misery Then David's courage was by God stir'd up Then to the sword th' Amalekites he put Then by the sword he made his enemies fall Then by Gods help he did recover all Then all true Saints take courage in the Lord Trust him in trouble read his Holy Word By weak without against means he can free His Saints and Servants from their misery Sith a good Conscience and a stock of grace Be'th only means t' incounter and out face Poems of reproof Our grand opposer and to draw the stings Out of our sorrowes and our sufferings And in the dreadful day so soveraign are To save the soul from sinking in despair Then be reproved those that take no care But are secure and sleight these Jewels rare Those Fools and Bedlams that have such a price Put in their hands and yet are not so wise It to improve for their eternal bliss But all their life and health imployed is In sensual lusts and on their Dunghil pleasures Whilst they neglect rich and eternal treasures What do you think to such poor souls belongs That pleasure take in Satans Syren songs And drink themselves drunk with Prosperity And take no care about Eternity But swiming down the current of the times Neglect Gods grace and grasp at Golden Mines Abuse misuse unthankfully mispend Their time and Talents to an evil end Neglect the Harvest time of ining grace And all their lives licentious tracks do trace For wealth and riches run and ride and strive And sayl a pace at Honour to arrive Alas poor souls they seek to bear great sway But will that help them in the evil day When the hot gleam of earthly glory 's past Great Clouds of dismal darkness draw on fast The grisly King of terrours stops their breath And they are haled to the port of death Then fiery flames shall make them fear and quake They must be drowned in the burning lake What will these sleepers in the Harvest say When they be waked at the dreadful day When guilty conscience gnawing at the heart Like to a Vulture fiercely plaies his part What will become of all the wicked then What is portion of such wicked men O vile ungrateful wretch then hide thy face God did capacitate thy soul for grace Why then dost thou so lull thy self in lust Self love and Pride are not God's Judgements just Wast made for naught but drink and sleep eate Laugh and be merry that 's a vain conceit Is Conscience seard then ther 's no more to say But to adjourn thee to the dreadful day But yet I pray thou maist reform thy waies Redeem the time the remainder of thy daies Awake awake and strike upon thy thigh Wrastle with God by servent Prayer and crye Faith and Repentance is the onely way Against despairing in the evil day Of all bad men Of the saving Light most pestilent are those That impiously God's Ministry oppose And by their hatred malice and despight Study and strive to quench the saving light All that oppose the saving word of grace Do strike directly at Christ's blessed face Who is as tender of his Ministry As he is of the Aple of his Eye O then Repent to God make thine address Wound not thy Conscience with such wickedness The sin of Persecution lowdly cries At Gods Tribunal makes a hideous noise For just revenge the vengeance of Gods ire For tempests great for showres of flaming fire To be distill'd and poured down on them That are such cruel and blood thirsty men How long O Lord O holy just and true Avenge our blood pay wicked men their due These spightful spirits heated with hell fire Flesht with the blood of Saints do much desire To cloud the Sun the Gospel of Gods Grace In which transparent glass Saints see his face The Nature of a Wounded Spirit FRom wounded spirits there ariseth fear A wounded Conscience what proud heart can beare Man doth conflict in this great misery With God himself a God of Majesty Can sinful man contend with God most high Or dust and ashes with eternity When God is angry no poor soul can stand Against the fierceness of his heavy hand Can stubble dry'd repel the flaming fire No more can we resist Iehovah's ire When we are whipt and lashed with his rod And do behold the frowning face of God Then we like leaves with wind soon shaken are And tertifi'd with flashings of despair Our heavy hearts for fear both faint and faile Our silly souls will then our sins bewail Then with our selves we are at enmity And do inlarge the rent most grievously For when our souls are in this trembling case We love too much in Satan's Glass to gaze Who labours much by lying cruelty Our sins both to inlarge and multiply Of every Molehil he a Mountain makes That wounded spirits may no comfort take To every sin he adds a bloody sting That he poor sinners to despair may bring Then what they think remember see or hear Is turnd to terrour and to hideous fear The dreadful fancy then doth bear its part
and do them deifie But for their error and their false Tradition They do deserve our utter opposition Regard them not beleive not Romish Fables Abhor their Idols Crosses Beades and Bables Their Agnus Dei which Pope Urban tells Will work strauge feats and evil sprights dispel Their creeping crouch their kissing of the Pax Their Medals Roses and such Romish knacks Their hallowed swords their false equivocations In sacred Oathes their mental reservations Their worshiping of wooden stock and stones Their Adoration of old rotten bones Their Altars Vestures Images and Tapers Their Censings Offerings Shrifes and holy Waters Their new found Faith of Transubstantiation Their Prayers to Saints a Popish Innovation Their Cancelling Christ's Will and Testament By mangling of the Holy Sacrament Their Bulls their Pardons and their Purgatory Their Latine service and such Ceremony Their Pilgrimage their Merits and Processions Their five new Sacraments their forc'd Confessions Their deifying of the Romish Whore Vain sacrifice and many errors more These Popish errors totally discard These Apish toyes good Reader disregard And so farwel what followes now peruse Imbrace the Truth my errors all excuse POEMS Against Popery Composed by Edward Manlove Esq I. Against the Popish Tenent of Justification by inherent Righteousness INherent Justice no man Justifies Our Righteousness in Christ our Saviour lies And his made ours by faith it doth suffice To make us Righteous in Gods Righteous Eyes And all his Members clearly will acquit A'â—h Judgement sear when Jesus Christ shall sit The Romish Whore a Bastard brood did nurse Who blast this truth with a tridentine curse Christ's righteousness imputed must give plaâ—â— To righteousness by our inherent grace This horrid point Pelagius did invent And 't was confirmed at the Councel Trent Till then this point of Faith did not intrude Till then this error Councels did exclude Also Chrisostome Ambrose Bernard Gregory Jerom Which now for truth the Romish Church reteit This new sound faith doth still at Rome remain But Austin doth this Popish point deny Inherent justice cannot justifie In vain the Papists wrangle and dispute This Popish point which Scripture doth confute We are unjust our hearts are all unclean Our righteousness Ec. 7.20 Pr. 20.9 Es 64.6 Ro. 7.23 as filthy raggs remain And in our members are the law oâ— sin Which leads us Captain waging war therein In many things all mortal men offend We sinners are James 3.2 Joh. 1.8 Act. 13.39 Rom 3.24 Eph 8.9 2 Cori. 5.21 till sinful life do end We are deceived if we do deny This sacred truth and full of falcity Through faith in Christ beleivers are made just By his free grace to works we dare not trust Our blessed Saviour was for us made sin And we the righteousness of God in him Can filthy raggs poor sinners justifie Or save them from eternal misery Repent beleive to God for mercy pray Christ's blood alone can wash thy sins away Against the Doctrine of Merit HOw can man merit all that he can do Is less then duty strictly ties him to And halfe done duties how should God respect Or what reward is due for such neglect Eternal death is wages due for sin Neglect of duty needs must fall therein Through Jesus Christ God gives eternal bliss Ro. 6.13 Salvation comes no other way but this God works accepts if faith do them evert And them rewards but not for their desert These merit-mongers therefore much mistake That look for Heaven for their merits sake Against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation THe Romish Prelates labour by coertion To make men own this marvellous conversion Have Priests such power by words of consecration Of Bread and Wine to make such transmutation A point Prodigious that a Popish Priest Can make his God or re-create his Christ This Novelty of Transubstantiation At Lateran Councel An. dom 1215 500. years before had its confirmation But Protestants may Pope Gelasius quote Who long before against this error wrote This Cockatrice was hatcht in latter time Nurst up at Rome by such as Bellarmine This Monstrous Bratt the Roman Church begot The Greeks abhor'd it Ancients own'd it not Augustine he doth learnedly maintain That Bread and Wine substantially remain The Scripture saith 1. Cor 11.26 that after consecration The bread is bread wher 's then this transmutation How can Christ's body crucifi'd for thee At once Acts 3.21 Binius in many thousand places be If thou remain in Christ and Christ in thee Thou hast receiv'd this sacred Mistery Against the Doctrine of the Half Communion THis Romish error Anno 1453 lately started up The Councel Constance took away the Cup. And thus they then presumptuously did wrent Our Saviours blessed will and Testament By Christs Example they will not be lead They to the Laicks only give the bread Though Christ himself all Christians do enjoyn To eat the Bread and also drink the Wine Yet Popish Prelates 1 Cor. 11.28 Christ's Commandment sleight And rob his people of a holy right By this Presumption all may plainly see How Sacriledgious Popish Prelates be Against Missal Sacrifice OUr Blessed Saviour Heb. 10.10.11.12.13.14 on the Cross A sacrifice for sin His body offered once for all For such as trust in him There needs no further sacrifice Our sins to do away Vain is the Missal sacrifice That 's offer'd every day Against Image Worship THis Worship well deserves the name Of gross Idolatry God's holy word 's against the same And all Antiquity Lev. 26. ver 1. Deut. 16.22 Esa 42 17 45 16. Deut. 27 15. Mic. 5.13 Ye shall your selves no Idol make Nor Graven Image reare Nor bow to it nor Worship give The Scripture makes it clear Against Papal Indulgences and Purgatory THe Romish Clergy labour much This error to maintain This fire doth make their Kitchins smoak This crast brings in their gain This brings their Pardons into play This puts them off with speed To all such silly souls as do Beleive the Romish Creed This dreadful Doctrine makes mens hearts To tremble and to fear Away for Pardons then they pack Although they buy them dear Yet there 's no torment after death To those that faithful be Their sins dispersed as a Cloud And their iniquity They into judgement shall not come Their souls are free from pain And in eternal peace and joy For ever shall remain Against Divine Worship in an unknown Tongue BArbarian like those Bablers are That Service say oâ— Cant In Greek or Latine unto those That understanding want This profits not 't is not the way God's Glory to advanâ—e This Romish practice in the Church Produceth Ignorance 1 Cor. 14 5 6 9 11 13 14 23. Five words with understanding spoke More profits people then Ten thousand words in unknown tongues Spoke to unlearned men Against forced Sacramental Confession BOth good and beneficial use There may be of Confession By such as burden'd are with sin And griev'd
for great transgression But setting them upon the rack And straining them so high As strict confession of all sins Is Romish Tyranny No such Confession is requir'd As doth to sin invite And nameing fleshly pleasures doth Much move the Appetite For who can tell how oft he sins Or gives to God offence He alwaies sins that so presumes Upon his innocence As that he can enumerate His great transgressions all For he that thinks them less then great Doth into greater fall Christ did not to the sinner say That had Faith and Contrition Thy sins must numbred be or else Thou canst have no remission He Absolution freely gives Unto his children dear Mar. 9.2 Thy sins forgiven are saith he My son be of good chear Against Invocation of Saints 1 Kings 8.39 Eccl. 9.5.6 Esai 62.16 Ps 7.10.44.20 â— 9.4.11 Prov. 15.10 17.3 24.12 Jer. 21 20 87 10 10 11. Psal 50 14 Against Eph 2.8 THe Saints in Heaven do not know Our hearts they cannot hear Our Prayers or supplications Made in this lower Sphear Our God alone our Prayers doth hear Prayers made to Saints are vain God knowes the secrets of our souls And tryeth all our Reins Call on the name of God the Lord For ease in pain and grief And in thy greatest troubles he Will send thy soul releif Against the seven Sacraments OUr blessed Saviour none but he Could make a Sacrament He made but two he made no more Is very evident 1 Cor. 10 1 2 3 4. St. Austin Baptisme the Supper of the Lord These flowed like a flood Out of the side of Jesus Christ In Water and in Blood The one it is the Sacrament Of our Initiation The other Sacrament is for Our holy confirmation Against the Doctrine of Tradition THe Law of God's a perfect law And needeth no supply What 's needful to salvation Is fully taught thereby In vain do many worship God Matth. 15.9 And teach for doctâ—ine sound Commandements oâ— wiâ—ked men Thus errors do abound Against the Universal Headship of the Bishop of Rome POpe Gregory the great Inveighs Against this Lordly name As insolent the Churches plain As wicked and Prophane A great corruption of the faith To God a great abuse Against the Canons of the Church Against th'Apostles use Whosoever use this loâ—ty stile And glory in the same Forerunners are of Antichrist And glory in their shame Against Challenged Infallibility THis Arrogation doth appear A Paradox to be For former Popes have fowlly faln Into flat Heresie And Councels have condemned them For errors manifest The Councel held at Basil take Multi poncifices errores he resies lapsi esse leguntur Consi Basil in Ep. Sinod For one among the rest Against the Popes Superiority to General Councels VVEll near a thousand Fathers of The Romish Church did Vote Against this Dommineering Power Pretended by the Pope And in the Councel Constance thus Determin'd punctually An. 1415 If General Councels make Decrees The Pope is bound thereby Against the Presumption of Papal Dispensations POpes had no power in former time To grant a Dispensation â—gainst Decrees by Councels made This comes by Usurpation These boundless Dispensations are A wicked Innovation This great Presumption plainly shewes The Popes degeneration Against the Popes Domineering over Kings and Emperours Po. Gregory said thus Mauritius vobis Obedientiam prebere desidero THe Pope to Theodosius came With Cap and bended knee â—ut now the greatest Monarch must Stoop to the Romish See Now Popes their lawful Soveraign sleight These Prelates greater be Then all the Princes of the World In Power and Dignity Now Popes pretend a lawful power Their Emperours to dethrone And of their Empires to dispose As if they were their own The Emperour like a Serving man When as the Pope commands Must hold a Basin whilst that he Doth wash his Holy Hands And sometimes like a Stable Groom His Horse must lead and guide And hold his Stirrup whilst that he On Horsback gets to ride And sometimes like a Porter must Upon his Shoulder bear His Holiness the Pope forsooth And Homage to him swear This domineering over Kings And Emperours doth shew How Pontificial Prelates have Rob'd Caesar of his due These Romish Tricks in former times Nor better were then Treason Against God's holy Word they are Against both right and reason All Christian Kings and Princes great Abhorr the Romish Whore Break off her Bonds cast off her Yoak And never own hâ—r more A form of Prayer Composed in Meeter By Edward Manlove Esq O God most great whose Glorious seat Is in the Heavens high â—t thy command both Sea and Land Obey thy Majesty â—nd at thy will the Seas stand still And neither rage nor foame â—rom side to side to Winds and Tide Thou mak'st thy power known Thou glorious art in every part Thou art Omnipotent Be 't far or near thou dwellest there Thou art Omniscient The Heavens high nor lofty skie Thy Glory can contemn Thou raign'st on high thy Majesty Doth Winds and Waves restraine To those that do by shipping go Into the Waters deep By works of wonder and words like thunder Thou shew'st thy power and might And thou the Storm turn'st to a calme And then the Waves are still Thou makest glad them that were sad And sav'st them from all ill We therefore all may fear to call Upon thy dreadful name For our vile lips they are unfit To nominate the same We here abide the stubble dry'd Thou art consuming fire Thou might's us burn and make us turn To ashes in thine ire In our own eyes we all are vile Our waies are very wicked Then in thy sight whose eyes are bright How shall we be acquitted We are unfit to kneel or fit Before thy gracious Throne Or to draw nigh thy Majesty To make our cases known But Lord we come to thee alone For Jesus Christ his sake Accept our Prayers which we present And through thy spirit make We are unworthy to be call'd Thy sons or have the name Of any of thy servants yea The meanest of the same Our duties unto thee and man O Lord we have neglected And not obey'd thy Holy Word But have thy Lawes rejected We have not honoured thee O Lord With fear and reverence But sin'd against thy just Precepts By disobedience O Lord we have not Worship'd thee According to thy will Nor in our hearts have had delight Thy statutes to fulfil But we confess we have abus'd Thy great and glorious name And also we irreverently Have often us'd the same We have Prophan'd the Sabbath day In whole or else in part By needless thoughts and words and works We all have carnal hearts By murderous thoughts and wicked words We have our neighbours wrong'd Our wicked words have cut like swords We all have evil tongues We have not sought our neighbours good Nor had a tender heart To our poor brethren in distress Nor pleaded on