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Englands deadly disease to bee sick of a king. Or Religions iust complaint against her enemies the hereticks, who call the Diety [sic] into question. And revoke their covenant, scornfully to have it hanged lower in the steeple-houses, for dogs to pisse upon &c. Licensed according to order of both Houses of Parliam.
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had my peaceable habitation with thee aske thy tradesmen what alteration there is now of their estate And those who got their living by their handwork I say aske them what losse they find at the weeks end Let every one in their severall callings beare witnesse with mee to this truth And since thou hast cast mee off following after thy inchanting seducing lovers What hast thou gained any thing else but that thou hadst purchased hundreds of yeeres before thou hast spent all in these 7 yeeres of thy licensious living denying thy duty to God and thy King and forsaking mee Thou mayst be compared unto an adulteresse woman who had spent all her husbands riches with her new lovers And now when thou beginest to be poore thy lovers who hath inriched themselves with thy goods doth now disdaine thee and laugh thee to scorne if thou have no more monies they shall strip thee and rather pitty thy nakednesse then commiserate thy estate but shall utterly undo thee if thou disassent to their desires Art thou bereft of sence or depraved of eyes that dost rather fall then see thy own wreched estate that those whom thou hired to bee the executioners of thy malice against them whom thou intended to undo are now become thy shame like unto Hamans gallowes that hang'd his master be not thy hirelings become thy masters thy bond sâ—rvants thy Commanders hath the like been done in any other Country that is done in thee It is a thing to be wondered at that thou hast such heart to do such unlawfull things as to presse to depose thy lawfull Prince to subvert Religion and to kill thy selfe and hast not the courage to withstand the cruelties of thy domestique enemies nor to gainsay their imprisoning Ordinances nor to refuse their unreasonable demands O miserable wretch more then miserable how long wilt thou halt between two opinions If the Lord be God follow him if Baal be God follow him Thou hadst once wit thou hadst judgement thou hadst understanding thou hadst once valour to withstand the power of Nations call to mind the prosperous successe thou hast had to resist the invasions of Kingdoms and not only to resist but overcome victoriously witnesse France and Scotland where in one day thou hadst the glorious victory of two battels and took both their Kings prisoners art thou not England now as thou wast then The number of thy fighting men and armes be rather augmented then diminished Thou lackest nothing but courage Then heed and take my counsell I love thee and am sorry for thy disaster for all thy rigour used against mee returne then to thy wonted obedience to God and to thy lawfull King and to mee And try if the Lord will not give thee a blessing and will make good all thy losses and restore thee to thy wonted happinesse so that thy withered branches shall yet bud and bring forth the wonted pleasant fruits stop then thine eares at thy seducing inchanters hearken no more to their flattering alluring intisings but take courage and shake off the heavy intollerable burden of slavish bondage and turne to the Lord thy God and let mee have my own accustomed liberty that my sister justice come againe and injoy his wonted Prerogatives and thou shalt see how the Lord shall cast thy scourge into the fire and ease thee as the loving father did his forlorne child The Lord my God give thee eyes to see a heart to unâ—erstand judgment to discerne and to chose the best that thy fall be not perpetuall Amen Imprimatur JOHN DOVVNAME FINIS