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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

came over to me it pleased God in short time to send them comfort some yeare after their maid fell into great terror of minde she sat up late to attend her dames child and there would appear unto her a Spirit as she tearme it like a cat and would dance about her I tould her it might be it was a cat she said it spake to her I asked her what it said to her she said come follow me then she would cry out and her master rose and went to prayer with her but the maid was so troubled that she was almost at her wits end and her hands and her face so swelled that they glisterd it pleased God within few dayes to send her comfort and she returned to her master and I never heard that she was terrified with the cat since One Charitie of the same Towne fell into great terror of minde her husband brought her over to my house and made great moan for her I enquired if she was not fierce and dangerous he tould me no but only trouble of minde I lodged her that night with one of me servauts in the night she fell into a fit and set upon the maide and almost bit of one of her fingers the next day I sent her to Saint Needes with a servant of mine called godly Iohn a strong man who went with her to Saint Needes to have her let blood but as they returned she leapt into a pond and godly Iohn had much a a do to get her out but it pleased God she grew well and came to Lady Luke to give her thankes my Lady Luke had entreated my care of mad Bell that came from London but I tould my Lady that we had been with Charitie A great Lady falling into great melancholie and distracted and having attempted divers waies to make her selfe away the devill did put one strange temptation upon her as they related to me she had caused her maid that did attend upon her to bring up good store of wood and laid it under her bed and watched a time when her maid was gone down and locked the doore and made a great fire and then unclothed her to her naked body and kneeled down neere the flame and was very earnest in her devotions the fire being great made a great smoke which some perceiving came to the doore and brake it open and demanded what she meant to do with her selfe she answered she made triall of her selfe how she could indure the flames of fire if persecution should come for the profession of the Gospel her husband left her with me some moneth and then it pleased God she went away much amended and comforted A temptation accompanied with a zeale for the Gospel is hardly to be resisted The Virgins in the Primitive Church rather then they would be dishonoured and deflowred by the heathen would murder themselves it was their sin though a zeal but not according to knowledge Mistris Clements that married the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield fell into a dangerous melancholy and burning feaver and terrour of conscience and grew very weak and past all hope of life the Bishop and her husband sent for me to come over to her if ever I would see her alive for they were perswaded if any man could do her good I was the man it was a long journey and I was loath to go upon such hopelesse tearms well I went and found her very weak and almost famished for her throat was so furred with heat that we could hardly get a spoonfull of broth down I saw that it was grown to that desperate state her Physicians having left her I caused a bath to be made of milke and coole herbs and being in a goodly large roome in the Castell caused them to make a good fire and take her out of her bed and put her into the bath and bathe her head and her stomack well and after some few dayes using this meanes it pleased God to blesse it so that she could take down her broth and in a short time came into the Chappell to make her prayers unto God and to give him thanks but I told them though she had recovered her health yet this did not cure her minde and therefore within some few moneths after the Bishop and his Lady sent her husband with her to my house in her Ladies charet and left her with me and so within halfe a yeere it pleased God to send her much comfort and now she is very chearfull and comfortable Iohn Crawly of Luton a Yeomans onely son of good worth and Judge Crawly's kinsman upon some unkinde speeches which his father gave him fell into great melancholie and attempted to dround himselfe but help came in before he was drouned and then he strove to famish himselfe he was sent unto Chesford in a Cart and then to my house to keep him from famishing I took a strange course in feeding him and do the more willingly declare the manner thereof that other Physicians may do the like in case of such extremity I prepared a wheele-barrow a homely engin yet very vsefull for this purpose for the shafts gave good advantage of the binding of his legges and his armes and putting some hay in the bottom of it and so his head might leane backward and we stand about him then gagged his mouth to keep it open and fower or five with napkins and towells as though we were going to dresse a Hog made them ply his mouth with pouring in milke or posset drinke which he would as freely cast up againe into our faces and moile us pitifully but which did the deed I poured milk into his nostrils and that falling more backward upon the gollet of his throat and that passed downe and so fed him divers daies and kept him from famishing and then to make him speak I caused a great fire to be made and bound his armes behinde him and a spit thorow his armes and held him down to the fire a basting stick and butter to bast him and made him beleeve we would roste him but he endured a great deale of heat but it came not to blistering and my sonne said unto me father let us but roste his head to night for the disease lies in his head so at the last he spake and then we took him from the fire and that night he took his rest well and in the morning spake to my wife and asked for his breakfast and kneeled downe to his prayers and read his chapter and went to the church and behaved himselfe so orderly that I never saw any in such a desperate estate to mend so much in a short time and so returned unto his father and is a more active man and of better discourse then ever he was Margaret Russell a Yeomans daughter of good worth a young woman and very beautifull fell into a great mellancholy and attempting to make her selfe away she was in love with a Baker and the

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

said for this cause shall a man leave Father and Mother and cleave to his wife and they twaine shall be one flesh wherefore they are no more twaine but one flesh Let therefore no man part asunder whom God hath coupled together Now that you have been thus ioined you dare not deny or if you should the solemn vow you made in the presence of Almightie God and before those honourable Personages in Cashawberry parlour shall witnesse against you therfore how dare you make this fearfull separation except you will proclaime your selfe a truce-breaker to man and a traitor to God the first too scandalous and the other too dangerous for a man of wisdome to undergo I beseech you in the tender mercies of Iesus Christ enter into a serious consideration with your selfe in what a desperate estate you are in and heartily repent of the evill you have committed and earnestly crave pardon of God and then with all speed make a holy reconciliation betwixt you and your fair Lady that so the scandall of your holy profession may be removed and the mouths of insulting Papists may be stopped and your distressed Lady comforted and your consciences quieted but if you wil be stil wilful and obstinate then assure yourself these lines shall rise up in condemnation against you at the dreadfull day of Judgement before that glorious God of heaven and earth who shall iudge all men according to their works they have done in the flesh whether they have been good or evill and that without respect of persons where your greatnesse shall no wise privilege you nor my meanenesse not preiudice the cause of that mighty God who hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the mightie things unto that all-powrefull God do I humbly pray that for his deare Son Jesus Christ his sake he will vouchsafe his great power may be seen in my weaknesse and his infinit wisdome in my foolishnesse so that this weak means may be made powerfull to make you wise to salvation and produce that holy reformation as may bee to the glorie of God and the everlasting happinesse of your owne soule Amen Lord Jesus Amen From him that will honour you according to your noble qualitie if you do not dishonour that God that advanced you to this high dignitie JOHN SPENCER A Postscript You are now conversant with a noble and religious Friend whose zealouse heart I doe assure my selfe will easily be perswaded to take any paines in this charitable busines consult with him and then appoint the time and place where you and your Lady may happily meet together to epaire the ruines that sad absence hath made and beautifie your faces with those amiable looks and your lips with those sweet discourses wherewith you in happier times did solace your selves with unspeakable contentment That so you may make the Proverb true Amantium ira amoris redintigratio est After this some great Lords undertooke to bring them together but it was too late but better late than never for the Lady was very weake in her bed so they lamented their fatall errour and tooke their last farwell for she dyed within few dayes and he lived not long time after A Coppy of a Letter sent to the Earle of Cleveland and Tho. Lo. Oliver St. Iohn for ending of a ●●●g suit betwixt Iustice Fish and Mr. Mordant concerning a seat in the Church at Northill Right Honourable VVHen Ioab the Generall of King Davids Army besieged Rabba and fought against it and took the cities of waters and thereby weakned them so that they could hold out no longer then he sent unto hi● Lord the King to come up with his Army to take the Citie lest if he took it he should have the honour and the City should be called after his name So I having fought with these two Gentlemen with many arguments perswasions and earnest intreaties and so thorow the blessing of the God of peace have qualified the bitter waters of strife and weakned the strong hold of their violent passion and contentious humour that now they can hold out no longer with any Christian resolution doe now send and sue unto your Honours to come up with your commanding power to take the honour of the day and the renown to be the noble Peace-makers I have viewed the seat in the Church which is large and spacious for both Parties to sit in like good Christians and loving Friends and therefore if it will please your Lordships now to lay your Command upon them to confirme that which I have so earnestly intreated that thus and thus it shall be for their sitting in the seat and thus and thus it shall be for the endiug of all suits and controversies betwixt them then they have both of them faithfully promised before sufficient witnesse that they will submit themselves thereunto and so humbly beseeching that blessed Lord the great Peace-maker who hath pronounced Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God To blesse your Honours with the continuance of many happy days to make you zealous for his glorie and to see like good Maiestrates under so gracious a King the peace and welfare of your Countrey I humbly take my leave August 12 1631. If it please your Lordships to appoint these Gentlemen a day and place where they may attend to receive your Commands under your hands Desirous that there was in me any abilitie to do you service Iohn Spencer Right Honourable IT is the Rule of the Apostle and of our Saviour Christ Rebuke not an Elder but exhort him as a Father Oh therefore that it would please that blessed Lord even the God of wisdome that I might performe this dutie to your Lordship with such regard of your noble qualities and tender care of your precious soule as I ought but however I may faile in point of discretion yee I hope your Lordship will beare with me since it doth proceed from a heart that doth unfainedly desire your everlasting happinesse I know it is a hard taske and many times a thanklesse office to admonish men of mean qualitie of their faults and to bring them to acknowledge their errours much more then those that are so farre our Superiours yet where grace and true nobilitie is it will teachmen with meeknesse to suffer the words of exhortation and with the kingly Prophet to say Let the righteous smite me for that shall be us precious Balme unto me for the wisest and greatest in this world have their frailties and infirmities David a man after Gods owne heart yet erred in numbring the people and confessed he had done very foolishly And Salomon his son the wisest and the greatest statesman that ever was upon the earth yet erred greatly and although he provided men-singers and women-singers and the delights of the sons of men yet he doth acknowledge all was but vanitie and vexation of spirit And so I trust your noble and religious heart will

Sons and therefore you must give them good example of wisdome and sobrietie for godlinesse is great gaine if we can be contented with that we have and God hath blessed you with a rich portion of outward beauty and comelinesse and therefore do not deface that incomparable worke of God with such base trash and trumperie for you shall never enter into the Kingdome of Heaven into the companie of glorious Saints with that trumperie on your back and gaudes on your head Consider what I say and the Lord give you grace to repent of your sins before you go hence and be no more seen Amen Amen From him that doth desire your endlesse happinesse Iohn Spencer Good Brother I Am desirous to heare if my Father Winne have paid the fifty pounds unto Sir Milss Fleetwood and also to admonish you as I take it of your unseasonable payment of one hundred pounds upon the Sabbath day morning before Harborough Faire alas was that a fit time to tell money and to make your Accompts with men when you should accompt with God was that a fit time to rumble in your Chest for your money-bags when you should have ransackt your heart for your sius must not the Lord of Sabboths needs be highly offended to see the service of men preferred before his divine Service and more care had for the buying of Oxen than for the keeping of his holy Sabbath must not the Lord needs visit for such sins nay hath he not already visited although in great mercy for was not your dear and onely son within a few dayes after closed up in a Chest and there found by his mother speechlesse and near his last breathing had not the Lord in judgement remembred mercy and restored life when we deserved death and if you did not already make use of it I beseech you in the feare of God assure your selfe that in that judgement the Lord would have you take notice of that particular sinne for if you remember when I was with you at Arlsen I told you before I heard of this that you must thinke that there was something amisse that the Lord would have reformed when he threatened such fearefull judgement to this effect And therefore I beseech you bewaile that grievous sinne and as Iob made a Covenant with his eyes so doe you make a Covenant with your hands never to abuse them so againe with telling money upon the Sabbath day And remember it was Balaams ever to be lamented error still to pursue the wages of iniquity although the Angell threatened him with a drawing sword but let his fearefull end teach us with wisedome to returne in time and repent of our sinnes and make our peace with our God before we goe hence and be no more seene and to say truth these dayes and dangerous times requires a continuall preparation for our last departure when so many wise and strong are taken away and their honour laid in the dust and we must looke also for our changing we know not how soone and therefore good brother let us walke circumspectly as the children of the light and such as are risen with Christ setting our affections on things that are above and not on things that are on the earth for our life is hid with Christ in God When Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall we appeare with him in glory In the meane time let us be diligent to exhort and admonish one another and to edefie one another in our holy faith that so we may grow from grace to grace and strength to strength till we become perfect men in Christ Amen Lord Jesus Amen Your loving Brother and the Lords unworthy Creature John Spencer Staughton More Novemb. 7. 1616. A Copy of a Letter to the prisoners at Bedford with a Booke of common Prayer and M. Dods exposition upon the Commandements bound up together with bosses and claspes BRethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for you poore prisoners is that your soules might be saved For I beare you record that in these places you endure many times hunger cold and much misery together with the fearefull expectation of the Judges comming and the sentence of death yet if God doth not worke in your hearts true repentance and sanctifie these afflictions unto you it will be but as a forerunner of the appearing before that dreadfull Iudge that will pronounce that fearefull sentence of damnation against the wicked of Goe ye cursed into hell fire and these yron chaines a shadow of those everlasting chaines of darknesse wherein the wicked shall be for ever tormented and therefore that I might be a meanes through Gods mercy to further you in that holy worke of true repentance I have procured these two bookes to be bound up together for your better use in this place of restraint the one commended and commanded by the publique authority for the publique service of God the other the worke of a reverend Preacher an excellent exposition of the Commandements both being undertaken in the feare of God and diligently used may be a blessed meanes to further you in the way of repentance and to set your feet into the way of peace First therefore pray earnestly to God to give you understanding hearts and then read and then pray and read againe and the Lord of heaven so blesse you in reading and praying that you may truly repent you of all your sinnes before you goe hence and be no more seene Amen Stoughton Moore 1624. From him that wisheth your everlasting happinesse LEt me intreat you in the feare of God that one of you that is best affected and best inabled to read Prayers and the Psalmes for Morning and Evening Prayer according to the order that is appointed in the booke of common Prayer and then in stead of the Chapters which you should read in the Bible if you had it read every morning and evening a portion of the Commandements as is appointed for the day of the month that so the booke of the Psalmes and the exposition of the Commandements may be read over once every moneth and upon every Sabbath day I would have you besides the ordinary portion appointed for that day of the month read the exposition of the fourth Commandement halfe at morning prayer and halfe at evening prayer Let one read distinctly and reverently and let the rest heare diligently and devoutly I doe humbly desire the honourable Court of Parliament to take that to their consideration that every prison may be furnisht with such a booke and every high Sheriffe of every countrey provide a Preacher to visit the prisoners once every week for it is pittifull to see how they are neglected A Copy of a Letter to M. Hutchinson to whose hands King Iames committed me after I delivered unto him the petition for the Sabbath MY very loving and kind Keeper although you have been long out of sight yet you have been oftentime in minde and often in my

to thrust in a reason among others why Almighty God sometimes forbad the eating hereof as also to speak of the circular motion how it resembles the fountains running to the sea and the sea supplying the fountains Of Phlegm Phlegm so called by contrariety because of its crudity and that not in respect of the first concoction but of the second is an humour cold and moist white and without tast or somewhat sweet It may be called imperfect blood for by further concoction it becometh reall blood therefore nature hath appointed no vessell to receive it intending it for alteration not evacuation this is the Alimentary phlegm that is the Phlegmatick blood That which is preternatnrall as are all the following kindes is avacuated with other excrements having no peculiar receptacle here note that the filth of the nose is not phlegm properly but the private excrement of the braine yet I deny not but that if the body be full of phlegmatick humours part of them may passe this way of this preternaturall phlegm be four kindes the first is called Nisipid not absolutely as the Alimentary but in respect of the other three kindes which follow This onely is properly termed a crude humour t is true every concoction may have its crudity but this concoction which attaines not its full perfection in the stomack by way of eminence is called crude and that body which aboundeth herewith is of the colour of lead such an humour also appears 1 in the sediment of some urines 2. Acid tasting like vineger which remaine thus for want of naturall heat and is caused by cold and moist diet especially if liberall large and out of due time as also by the constitutions which is colder in old men and women then others by a cold liver cold aire to much sleep and the want of the ordinary evacuation thereof thirdly Salt Avian thinks phegm becomes salt by adustion of bitter humours as we finde after combustion the fixed salt of any plant as wormwood c. Galen sayes t is either from putrefaction or from the mixture of a salt whaylike humour neither do oppose other if rightly understood for doubtlesse the true cause is a salt whaylike moysture which is nothing but the superfluous salt of those things which we eat and drink do we not finde tartar in wine casks and is not such a substance found in the earth wherewith plants are nourished do we not use salt with many meates that then hereof which nature cannot convert to nourishment is the matter of this preternaturall humour which is therefore hot because salt Fourthly glasse this bifference is not taken from the taste as the other but from the colour and consistence it represents melted or liquid glasse this is the coldest of these kindes yet not exactly cold for then it should be like ice nor exactly moist but thick and viscous pertaking of the two other qualities Of Choler Choler Alimentary is the hot and dry part of the blood and fit to nourish called colerik blood because blood thus qualified will easily degenerate unto choler Secondly Naturall this an excrement of the second concoction hot dry bitter and yellow separated from the blood in the liver conveighed to the gall hence it distills upon the first gut adhearing to the stomack and by its acrimony excits the slow expulsive faculty of the guts to excretion this is that which we meane when we say choler viz. Yellow not black choler this in cold bodyes is somewhat pale in hot bodies somewhat red Thirdly preternaturall which is not made after the law of nature of this be foure kinds first is in consistence and colour like the yolk of a raw egge this is hotter and thicker made of choler adust so Galen Second resembles the juce of leeks such are infants stools for milk in them is soon corrupted garlick and onions cause it in others third is of colour like verdigrease here the heate is more vehement fourth resembles the colour which the herb Woad maketh and is made by a further adustion The materiall cause is hot and dry diet sweet and fat meats The efficient cause hot and dry constitution of the body aire and age which is youth watching hunger anger vehement exercise and lastly the suppressiou of naturall evacuation Of Melancholy Melancholy 1. Alimentary is the fourth part of the blood cold and dry 2. Naturall this is a humour cold and dry thick black bitter and sowre made of the thick druggy part of nourishment and according to the vulgar opinion drawne from the liver to the spleen and transmitted from thence to the stomack to further the actions thereof Thirdly preternaturall which differs much from the former kind for that is a cold and dry iuce made naturally in a healthfull man this hot and dry tasting like the sharpest vineger this of the four humours is the worst this kinde of the foregoing kinds is the worst it wasts the body melts the flesh it works upon the earth like Ceaver upon meat and no beast will tast thereof But I cease to write more hereof under this head because it shall be the subject of the ensuing discourse unto which this which I have already penned is but an apparatus But having so much tired out my selfe with this sad Subject I will here give some ease to my pen and leave this to be supplyed by some learned Phisitian beseeching the great God of heaven and earth the great Phisition of soul and body to give this good blessing upon this weak means and if any poor afflicted soules receive any comfort by it to give the glorie and praise unto God unto whom it doth of all right belong Amen Lord Jesus Amen At my lodging in Black Fryers Aprill 19. 1641. MAny times it fals out that a loving husband parting with his deare wife behaves himselfe like the child of some great man Whose Father hath given him a fine Toppe to play withall but afterwards perceiving his sonne to much carried away with that pleasure or too lusty in justling the Topp or else to try the boyes disposition takes up the topp and puts it up into his owne pocket whereat the boy puts finger in the eye pouts and cryes notwithstanding his father perswades him to be content tels him what fine Coates he hath given him what dainty things he hath for him and what goodly land and houses he will bestow on him but for all that the sulling boy sits pouting and lowring and will not so much as thanke his Father for all these because he hath taken away his top and yet when he had it the best use he made of it was to play with it In like manner the Lord of heaven and earth gives a man a deare wife adelightfull companion wherein a man takes great pleasure sometimes to make her goe sometimes to see her sleepe and some unkind wretches delight to scourg them with bitter words and to justle them by cursed usage the Lord of