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A93669	Votivæ Angliæ, Englands complaint to their king:, or, The humble desires of all the zealous and true-hearted Protestants in this kingdome, for a speedy and happy reformation of abuses in church government, being the onely meanes to remove these distractions, and to avert the judgement of God from us. : As they were expressed in sundry petitions, remonstrances and letters, lately presented from them to the king, upon sundry occasions. / Collected by a wel-wisher to reformation.	Spencer, John, 1601-1671.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4955A; ESTC R184528	61,579	125

VOTIVAE ANGLIAE ENGLANDS COMPLAINT TO THEIR KING OR The humble desires of all the zealous and true-hearted Protestants in this Kingdome for a speedy and happy Reformation of abuses in Church government being the onely meanes to remove these distractions and to avert the judgement of God from us As they were expressed in sundry Petitions Remonstrances and Letters lately presented from them to the KING upon sundry occasions Collected by a wel-wisher to Reformation LONDON Printed by H. Dudley 1643. TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY MONARCH CHARLES by Divine providence King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland c. YOur Highnesse may iustly condemne this as a high presumption to present the most eminent King in the Christian World with a discourse of Petitions and Coppies of Letters but I have found favour in your sight when I presented them unto your highnesse upon more dangerous tearmes and therefore I trust that blessed Lord will move your heart still to accept of the hearty desires of your poore subject though they be not clothed with the glorious ornaments of Wisdome and Eloquence as was fit to dedicate to the view of so learned and judicious a Prince but my comfort is I speake to a mercifull King that knowes how to passe by infirmities and to pardon great offences and so beseeching the Lord God of heaven and earth to blesse your Highnesse with many happy dayes long to raigne over us to heare the Petitions of your faithfull Subjects and to redresse their wronges craving pardon for my boldnesse I humbly take my leave Devoted to your Highnesse Service IOHN SPENCER A DISCORSE OE DIVERS PETITIONS OF HIGH CONCERNment and great consequence This Petition was written upon the Booke for the recreation upon the Lords day and I delivered it to King Iames at Greenwitch hee tooke it with him in his Coach and committed mee to Mr. Hutchinson of the guard for a certaine time and was graciously pleased to have great care of mee for my dyet and lodging and after divers disputations with Bishop Neal and Bishop Buckridge set mee at libertie REad O King read O King and then consider well If ever any such decree was made in Israel Help O King help O King and let not the Sabbath Of our glorious God be thus prophained With grievous sins in open streets proclaimed Nor in Dooms dreadfull day this heavy hand-writing Bee iustly brought against great Britains Royall King The humble Petition of your sinfull Subiect JOHN SPENCER A Petition delivered to King Iames at Bletfoe Good King Iames reforme thy Court of cursed swearing Which otherwise will undoubtedly Gods heavy iudgements bring And to his faithfull Ministers gracious bee Whose ruine else we soone shall see This happy Boon an earnest suit to thee I make Oh Consider well and grant it for Christs sake The humble Petition of your sinfull Subiect Iohn Spencer A Petition delivered to our gracious King Charles at Finchingbrook at his going to his Army Royall Anno 1639 March 28. THe glorious Lord of Heaven and Earth the God of battel and Lord of Hosts for our Lord Jesus Christ his sake blesse our gracious King Charles and his brave Army and cover his Royall head in the day of battell and returne him with honour and victorie to his Royall Queen but I beseech your Highnesse give your poor Subiect leave to intreat you that you would not adventure your selfe in the day of battell but remember what the Souldiers said unto the valiant King David 2 Samuel 21. 17. Thou shalt go no more out with us to the battell lest thou quench the light of Israel and consider what counsell that kingly Prophet giveth Psalme 34. 17. Eschew evill and do good seek peace and ensue it And therefore that faire Englands happy peace may not be now endangered let the new Scottish Service Book and the book for the recreation upon the Lords Day be both throwne over the Scottish Bank and so I humbly take my leave and although by reason of my old age and some wounds that I received at the famous siege of Ostend I am disabled to doe your Highnesse service in the war yet as my bound duty is I will dayly pray unto the God of Peace to set your feet in the way of peace The humble petition of your loyall Subiect Iohn Spencer A Petition delivered unto our gracious King Charles upon this occasion The King was to go towards New-market upon Munday but the waggon and the hounds went thorow Cheapside upon the Lords day which was not lawfull O King I never heard that they removed since upon the Lords day so gracious was the Kings care herein Good King Charles Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day And let not Charles wain be seen to move on London way But in the high Sphear of heavenly Contemplation Let that day be spent in holy meditation Both King servants subiects all zealous for Gods glory To hate profanenesse and to abolish all idolatry That so when thy blest soul shall leave thy Royall breast Thou mayest in heaven for ever have a glorious rest The humble petition of your sinfull subiect Iohn Spencer A Petition unto our gracious King Charles upon the late setting forth of the Book for Recreations upon the Lords day Good King Charles to hear be graciously pleased That this Book in the dayes of your Father King of great renown Grew very ill and grievously diseased And to prevent the mischief that thereby might redowne Was with wisdoms holy care haply supprest And so good King Charles for evermore let it rest The humble petition of your poor sinfull fervant Iohn Spencer I sent my son with this Petition who made great haste and delivered it to the King it pleased his highnesse to commit him prisoner to the guard of his Royall person and set him at liberty the next day and commanded the Lords of Scotland to attend his highnesse in Parliament upon Munday and there concluded a happy peace A strange and strong transportation upon the Lords day April 27. 1639. THis day going to the Church of great Staughton and hearing the bels chime I fell into a strong apprehension that I saw King Charles in the field with his brave Army under his Standard Royall upon a hill with his owne Squadrons and the Scottish Army in the field also and the King gave directions unto his Colonels and Captaines to charge the Scottish Battalions here and there till the battell grew very bloody and mortall on both sides and almost all the Peers of England and all the Nobilitie of Scotland lay slaine in the field and then the valiant King Charles seeing it grew to such extremity descended the hill and with great fury and resolution charged the scattered body of the Scottish Army and made a great slaughter of them and so obtained the victory and forc'd them to leave the field and then returned to mourn over his noble Peers that there lay slain upon the ground which put me

wisdome seeing either our too much doting affection on the on side or our to much contempt on the other side or else to try our disposition how willingly we would part with that he hath so freely bestowed upon us takes away this delightfull play-fellow from us And we then for the most part behave our selves like sullen boyes and murmure and repine against the proceedings of that gracious Lord that doth all things in infinite wisdome and judgement and therefore is evermore holy in all his ways and righteous in all his works who giveth and taketh in his appointed time and therefore unto him be all praise glory and thanksgiving for ever and ever Amen Amen In this heavy affliction in parting with so deare Beautifull and Vertuous a wife I Have found by lamentable experience that as we draw neere the Irish climate so we have to much Irish nature in us For they are comonly very fond loving to their foster children too rebellious to their governours God the great commander of Heaven Earth gives unto a man a wife to foster to make fit for the court of Heaven as the King of England should commit his son to a noble man in Ireland to be brought up till he be fit for his owne Court but this foster Father having got the possession of this princely child finding it some comfort and great honour unto him and yet withall a great care and a continuall watchfulnesse required for feare the child should miscary in his hands The King seeing his fit time sends for his sonne home to his owne Court and sets him in his owne presence and gives the foster Father an honourable reward for his loving care and paines taken notwithstanding the fosterer of this noble child is mal-content and fales a mourning and murmuring because he is freed of his great care even so the King of Kings gave unto me a beautifull and blessed child to foster and hath now freed me of that honourable charge with full assurance that he hath taken her into the Court of Heaven where she injoyes the highest happinesse in the presence of his glorious Majesty he hath likewise given mean honourable reward for my slight care and attendance ' of Gold silver friends Aliances and many divine things of her gathering for the comfort of my soule Notwithstanding al this yet I have behaved my self like a murmuring and unthankfull Rebell towards my dread Soveraigne because he hath taken away his owne deare child and my deare charge O Lord what will become of so vile a Rebell and such a murmuring wretch But Lord good Lord for thy deare sons sake Pardon my sinnes and consider my frailty and heale mine infirmities that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce Amen Lord Iesus Amen A Speech Master Spencer made upon this occasion their was agreat discontentment and quarell betwixt Sir Iarrad Harvie and his neighbours of Carington about a Levie had not the God of peace framed their heartes to peace by the powerfull sermon that Master Saule that famous Preacher and the great importunity of Master Spencer which tooke such happy successe that they lived together like loving Friends untill the death of that valiant Knight who 's death was much lamented and he lies their interred in a Magnificent Tombe in Mr. Sauls Text was Beho'd how good and how pleasant It is for Brethren to dwell together in unite Psal. 133. 1. MY Christian friends and loving neighbours you may well thinke that there is some extraordinary occasion that makes me thus farre from my owne Parish Church and assure your selves so there is For I have heard of some differences and discontentments that have beene betwixt this noble Knight Sir Iarret Harvie and you his neighbours of this Parish I must needs confesse I was much grieved to thinke that there should be such discord and opposition among those whom I did so tenderly affect on both sides you as my loving neighbours that dwell so neere the place where I was borne and received my first breathing and this noble Knight not onely our Countryman but also a man of great and valour who for the good service that he hath done to his Prince and countrey with the losse of his blood and the danger of his life in so many brave adventures in the warres both in Spaine and in the Low-countrys and against the Rebels in Ireland may justly challenge a great deale of love and respect not onely from us his native country-men but also from this Nation and the whole Kingdome and therefore to receive unkindnesse and disregard from you in this place whither he is retired in his old age to doe good and to end his dayes in peace like a good Souldier of Iesus Christ I say to receive unkindnesse and disregard from you must needs be a great discomfort and no small provocation to a well restrained mind and therefore to qualifie discontentments of this quality it is no easie matter For the word of God doth teach us that the discord of brethren are like the barrs of the gate of a City strong and hard for flesh and blood to beate through and so I finde in searching into these businesses that there are to many barrs that will keep out these happy guests of vnity and amity which I so much desire to bring in amongst you and therefore doe beseech the great God of Heaven that is the God of peace and lover of comfort that he would vouchsafe to breake in sunder these Iron barrs of revenge and hard conceit and frame your hearts to meekenesse and to suffer the word of exhortation with patience for Sir Iarret Harvie as a Souldier and standing upon the point of honour cannot passe by such wrongs oppositions as it may be as he conceives hath beene offered unto him For in that litle experience that I have had I know in the point of honour and being opposed by an enemy a souldier must make way to revenge though he runneth upon the point of the sword and marcheth against the mouth of the Cannon and so likewise the Country People to be contradicted in their ancient customes to be drawn out of their road way though an other way may be better and more commodious it is so hard a matter to prevaile with us as is seene by dayly experience But if it please Sir Iarret Harvie to lay aside the resolution of a man of warre and to take unto him the disposition of a Christian Souldier and to follow the direction of that blessed Lord and great commander under whose banner we have vowed manfully to fight that is to learne of our Saviour Christ to be meeke and lowly love our Enemies and to pray for them that persecute us And you on the other side to lay aside the peevish froward disposition of corrupt Nature which makes us so prone to rebell against God and to reject his commandements and so likewise makes us

pray for us and on the other side be not oh be not so secure nor put your confidence in your select company nor in those remoted woods and solitary mountaines but remember what befell unto Lot that was righteous Lot whilest he lived in Sodome but when he would fly out of Zoar to a solitary cave in the mountaines with his two daughters he committed those abominable sinnes there that his soule would have abhorred once to have thought on in Sodome and therefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall our help is in the name of the Lord that hath made heaven and earth who is able to help us in all places and at all times and so beseeching the God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ the shepheard of his sheep through the bloud of the everlasting covenant make us perfect in all good works and to doe his will working in us that which is pleasant in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be praise for ever and ever Amen Even so I take my leave and rest Your loving and sinfull Cousin Iohn Spencer I pray remember my respective love to my gracious Cousin your loving wife who hath given such a testimony of her love unto you and the reverend opinion she hath of your honourable Calling and commend mee to the rest of my Cousins and to so many of our Christian friends as you think fit England Iuly 9. 1635. A charitable Consideration of new Englands plantation We read in holy Writ and Law Leviticall That if a man dyeth having no child at all His neerest kinsman by the right of Aliance Shall take both the Widdow and the Inheritance To raise up seed to the dead and by doing well Continue still his Brothers name in Israel Fair England of the Northern World the great renowne Having late made Vnion with the Scottish Crowne Thereby involving her title with great Brittaine And so lyeth obscured in that golden chaine We to continue the name of our Brother In great America hath rais'd up another The Almighty God grant that ever may remain An ornament to England a terror to Spain FINIS JOHN SPENCER Mtr. Brightman a little before he died translated the Canticles into verse whereupon I wrote these verses TH' heavenly song of that bright man Whereto he tun'd his latest breath Much like asilver shining-Swan Presag'd thereby his present death A goodlier song was never seene And few such singers left there been But you faire Signets which still remaines By pure streames of sacred Truth Washing your wings from sinfull staines With mournfull tears and dolefull ruth Lest you should him too much deplore For you this song he left in store Never therefore let the prophane With sinfull lips and hearts impure This sacred Song once dare to name Lest they damnation doe procure Let them with Toads their croaking make Till they doe their sins forsake But you deare Children of the light Whose lips are tun'd to sing this praise Oh labour still to shine more bright And therein spend your happiest dayes That when your dear Lord shall appeare He may you finde a Spouse most cleer FINIS Iohn Spencer A charitable Supposition of Mtr. Brightmans sudden Dissolution No marvell though so bright a man His glorious life in Heaven so soone began For long his soule had languish'd in great griefe To see Gods chosen Flocke to want their best reliefe And cruell Wolves dumbe dogs and lordly Masters Set in the roome of Christs faithfull Pastors Therefore his deare Lord seeing his servant thus distrest Took him away unto his everlasting rest FINIS Iohn Spencer Here lyeth inter'd Sarah Spencer the vertuous Wife of Iohn Spencer and Sarah his Virgin-Daughter Both so goodly faire and curteous As few such Sarahs will be found hereafter Blessed be the Lord God of Heaven and Earth That made them so renouned both in life and death A Coppie of a Letter sent to a great Lady MAdam my great care of your everlasting happinesse and my respective love to my reverend Cousin Mr. Lee who now is dead in the Lord and therefore must cease from his labour and from those holy endevours whereby he did labour to plant grace in your heart in your tender yeares and whereof you then gave such excellent hopes that in the Autumne of your age he should have seen a plentifull increase of that blessed fruit and many goodly sheaves of pietie and happinesse to his great comfort in the Harvest but it pleased God the great Lord of the Harvest to take him away as from other evils to come so likewise from those griefs that would have wounded his heart to see those flourishing hopes so nipt and withered in your spring-time it pleased God to make me partaker of his last prayer and to close his eyes Oh that it might be his blessed pleasure to make his Spirit to be redoubled on me that I might be the better able to admonish and exhort you to reform that which is amisse in you and disgracefull to your holy profession I meane in respect of your outward carriage and appearance with so many fond fashions and garish attires as to deale plainly with you were more meet for one of painted Iezabels profession than for a Lady of your worth and more fit to furnish a pedlers pack than to make open shew of them in the Church of God and in the Assembly of the Saints whereas things should be done with comelinesse and decencie and therefore he commandeth that no woman should be covered because of the Angels 1 Corinth 11. 10. and that women should pray with their heads covered But if this be a comely covering to have a womans head covered with dogs haire or goats haire and cats dung and painted fethers judge you for my owne part the Word of God wherewith you shall be judged condemnes it as odious and abominable but it may be you will say it is the Gallants fashion and what if the Venetian Curtizans have brought up that fashion must the religious Ladies of England follow that fashion God forbid the Children of God must not fashion themselues after the world Rom. 11. 2. But they must fashion themselvs according to the rule of Gods Word and then Madame marke what fashion you must be in 1 Timoth. 2. 9 10. Likewise also the women that they array themselves with shamefastnesse and modestie not with broidered haire or gold or pearls or costly apparell but as becommeth the feare of God with good works I beseech you in the feare of God deck your selfe with these rich jewels of faith and repentance humilitie patience fasting and prayer and good works that so you may be like the Kings Daughter glorious within and this will make you amiable in the sight of God and glorious in the eies of his Saints and remember you are the Daughter of a religious Ladie and the Wife of an ancient Knight and the Mother of two