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

vnkind ●●●●●espising My time shal be my countries good deuising The times abuse let time to come amend For trifles let not time with truth contend A vnion and a vniforme conclude Oh let no shadowes this happiest time delude Vnto the Church a glorious time is sent Things now decreed must be worlds president Let then this time foresee with iudgements sight By sacred lawe to rule all actions right Time must suppresse all such vntimely fruit As doth it selfe in Scisme and Faction suite Condemne not those either of Scisme or Faction Whose liues are giuen to euery godly action Let goodmen vse wise wisdomes sound aduise Least causelesse feare makes them vnwisely nice Who so their wills before their wit preferre By wilfulnes may most vnwisely erre Indifferent things not hindring good deuotion Wise men for them should raise no vaine commotion No true Church can her glory dignifie Whose power Commands gainst written veritie Wee may obserue what ere the wrangler saith Rules that are held within the list of faith True faith in which saluations strength is found It must it selfe vpon the scriptures ground Things done which doe not hinder faiths beleife Why should they seeme to worke Religious greife Me thinkes we doe vnto religion wrong By seeming weeke when faith should make vs strong Foxes dumbe doggs let no man them prefer Nor such as those that too contentio●●●●●s are Let not diuines like phisick doctors be The more the worse and most lack honestie Nor let our hope vpon this motion rest To keepe the worst and cast away the best Those tri●●●●●les which doe now dissturbe our peace Could men be wise they of themselues would cease The consort of a lawfull ministr●●●●●e Must be on earth heauens sweetest harmonie Oh let them then that doe Gods vineyard keepe Watch preach and pray and not like sluggards sleepe Paul shau'd his head and did thereby intend His course might not his brethren weake offend Ioyne in on tru●●●●●h with blessed vnitie Great Britaines ●●●●●ame adorne and beautifie Feare not but know for it is Albions dome Her kings shall neuer yeeld their Crowne to Rome Then let heauens flock with patient soules abide Although like gold they must be seauen times tri'de When God doth meane to scourge a land for sinne At his owne house the blow must first beginne Who so will be the glorious Bridegromes Bride Must in afflictions flames be purified The path to glory is no pleasant way Take vp thy crosse and seeke eternall ioy Whilst Preachers preach of Christ his sacred deitie Where are the deeds of Mercy Loue and Piety Where are the fruites Religion should bring forth When Saint-like shew vngodly actions doth Ou●●●●● seeming zeale doth this report preserre We scornefull proud and meerely faithlesse are A seeming friend will friendships name delude And staine himselfe with hels ingratitude One by his friend both raisde to wealth and credit His thankes shall be to cut his throat that did it Let but a muck-heape possesse great heapes of gould And Honour then shall be by him contrould Each witlesse peasant by his wealth made proud Thinkes he talkes well and if he speakes but lowd A seruile minde his hopes at lowest ebbe Worships as God the golden Calse in Hereb Though by the poore the rich are honoured Yet by the rich the poore may starue vnfed Our lamenesse must with skilfull Arte be dressed So out of ioynt are all our actions wrested Great Britaine know a time will come to thee In which thy sinne shall sharply punisht bee Therefore repent least iudgements follow fast First plague then dearth and vse of swords at last Be reconcilde though God will not abhorre thee Yet he prepares an angrie iudgement for thee Thy pride and proud contempt of Gods pure word Makes Heauen gainst thee to draw a wr●●●●●thfull sword Thy whordoms lust and drunkards blasphemie Extortion bribes and hatefull vsinie Lyes fraud deceipt and poores oppression Slownesse to good from God thy swift digression Will bring on thee a wrath to plague thee so As thou shalt groane with se●●●●●se of feeling woe With seeming Saints the time not temporize A broken heart to God is sacrifice Wraths 〈◊〉 ●●●●●eares shall whip thee for thy sinne Vnlesse thou doest for to repent begin Such iudgments doe gainst thee themselues assemble As were they seene would make hels Ruffins tremble Heauens gracious God be pleasde for thine elect Faire Albions good with safetie to protect Direct vs so that we to thee may turne That then gainst vs thy wrath may cease to burne The swarmes sent from the Antechristian beast Confound them Lord let them in no place rest And those by whom our harme is yet concealed In thy good time be all their plottes reuealed Great Britaine doe thou not despaire but mourne In sorrow let repentant robes be worne That when thou sightst for thy Redeemers name Thy deeds in warre may dignifie thy fame From forreine coasts the thing which most thee harmes Is Englands Armour wanting English armes And English-men from vse of warre exempt Are oft prou'd cowards in the first attempt A Souldiers name though now it be refused A time will come when Souldiers must be vsed Not euery one that beares a Souldiers name If rightly tride will be approued the same It is not he that drinkes sicke healths and sweares That in a Tauerne proudly swagger dares Nor he that doth a misled Mistresse keepe And vowes for her his sword in bloud to steepe Nor he that feareth neither God nor diuell Whose daily actions are the worst of euill He is no Souldier that wanteth vertues stay Who loues to make a desperate drunken ●●●●●ray That is no valour nor resolution right That vainely will for worthlesse trifles fight But they doe best a Souldiers name approue Who wisely doe their reputation loue Be he a Souldier worthy praise to winne Who feares his God and hates the deeds of sinne He whose body and stomack can disgest Heat colde hunger thirst much paines and little rest He that can well imbattell soone his men And knows in clouds o●●●●● smoake to skirmish then He that leads on and with discretion leads And least dismaide when most in bloud he treads He that when thousands doe with thousands fight By word or signe can giue directions right He that so can both charge and make retraite As Honour still vpon his steps shall waight That Fortitude ioynd with sound iudgments sense Is wrought of more then natures quintessence Those Souldiers are of greatest excellence Whose liues and deaths haue honours recompence A poore man if a Souldier rightly tride King Harry would haue plac'd him by his side Those spirits which are fit for warre esteem'd Amongst the best be they the worthiest deem'd Be they imbrac'd with loues respectiue arme Whose hands know how to shield our peace frō 〈◊〉 I doe not wish but doubt warres ratling drumme Ere long to armes will summon Christendome The Red-crosse though it may some times retire At last his

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