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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96775	A suddain flash timely discovering, some reasons wherefore, the stile of Protector, should not be deserted by these nations, with some other things, by them very considerable. It was first made visible, the fourth day, after the author heard it reported, that the Lord Protector, had waved the title of King. / By Britans remembrancer.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3195; Thomason E1584_3; ESTC R204088	37,311	75

can be made Whereto his free assent shall not be had And Really refusall he doth make In Christian prudence and for Conscience sake That he may give no cause of those Offences Suspitions Scandals and ill consequences Which may ensue And whereof Honest men Are much affrayd Why did he suffer then So long time in Debatings to be spent Since he at first discovered what was meant And did not interdict them to proceed That had been a dishonourable deed For in so doing he should have prejudg'd The Parlament them disimpriviledg'd And thereby some Experiments have lost Which are more worth than twice the time they cost Beside the matter is of too much weight Each way to passe till ballanced aright And you have heard it said what those men are Who Judge a Cause before the same they hear Thus far t is well But will he not at last When some few more fit Complements are past Accept what 's offer'd what he did is known But what he will do cannot be foreshown And we shall wrong Him as he should the State Have injur'd if we him prejudicate We may conjecture And if I may give My Judgement by the Symptoms I perceive He never will accept it till he shall By Faith and Reason be convinc'd in all And ev'ry Scruple which this day offends His Conscience or dissatisfies his Friends Beyond which he that ought would move him to Doth what no wise or honest man should do And would not care though he were quite destroy'd So his own Lust and Will might be enjoy'd If so then me he hath not yet deceiv'd In any thing which I of him believ'd Since first I heeded by what Point he steers What Rock on this hand what on that appears What most men are with whom he hath to do And why few know which way he means to go His Foes though with his Bullocks they have plow'd Have got nought thereby whereof to be proud And as I live I am thereof as glad As therefore many others will be sad And if I were as I have been a Boy I should make Squibs and Bonefires now for joy As many would have done had he compli'd With their desires whose Offer is deni'd For in his condiscending to be King He could have been at best no greater thing Than other Earthly Princes But hereby He may ascend unto a Soveraignty Which raiseth him nine Orbes above their Sphear To be inthroned where Immortals are And me it hopefull makes to see that Age Which Britains genius did long since presage In that Prediction wherein was among Some other things this following distick sung A King shall willingly himself unking And thereby grow farr greater than before For now fulfilled seemeth in effect What that vaticination did predict Although there should a Power elswhere reside To bring to passe what is by him deni'd Victorious Cromwell thou hast herein gone Beyond thy self and such an Act hast done As few or none in this or forraign Climes Have equalled in any former times A self-denial like this none but He Could teach who that he might our pattern be The Thrones kingdoms of this world did slight When he was born up thither where he might And did behold them spreading forth to view All their Inchanting pleasures false or true And from him onely could that grace proceed Whereby thou dost perform so brave a deed Thou often hast deserved Mural-Crowns For taking Castles with high walled Towns And making in subjection to thy powers Great Cities fortifi'd with Walls and Towers To thee for brave Achivements on the Maine The chief of Navall Trophies doth pertain Triumphant Laurell to adorn thy brows To thee is due for giving ovethrows To dreadfull Armies that had else inslav'd Thy Country which God by thy sword hath savd Thou hast subdued Kingdomes and great Kings Whereby their Crowns their Scepters all things Belonging to such Conquerors are thine As truly as the Clothes I wear are mine Yet these are slight and petty Foes compar'd To some with whom thou secretly hast warr'd And for those Conquests thou I hope dost carry A Tablet with a secret Honorary Whereby thy vertues fully be rewarded With Trophies of most worth though lest regarded These wayes thou wert Victorious heretofore And I will mention one great Conquest more By few observed Thou hast stood the Shock Of malice and detraction like a Rock On which the waves and billows of the Main Have spent their strength and foam'd out rage in vain I very often have observ'd the fell Feirce raging and three headed dog of Hell With his three double rows of teeth assay To tear thine honour and thy pow'r away With his foule tongues bespattering thy fame To turn thy blooming honour into shame I 've seen this Cur oft dog thee in the dark In hope to bite thee when he durst not bark And I have heeded by what sacred Charms Thou hast been hitherto preserv'd from harms This Helhound thou hast tam'd without so much As giving him a crust a spurn or touch Meerly by meekness and as passing by With disregard of causlesse injury And now he sometimes fawns on thee and those Who are thy friends and snarleth at thy foes As if he were appeas'd which I believe Is but a cunning dog trick to deceive And yet among those victories which lye Most visible unto the vulger eye This thy last conquest merits admiration Beyond the rest And with perseveration If thou maintain the same as thou maist do By his help who hath aided hitherto Thou hast thereby a pledge that God will never Forsake thee but thy guardian be for ever Thou hast already scap'd the best tride snare That Sathan or his agents can prepare For 't was the last of those temptations which He practis'd by our Saviour to bewitch And as when that grand-tryall had an end His Angels did forthwith on him attend Rejoycing in his conquest so will too For thine all thy most faithfull servants do Thou hast thereby so strengthned all their hands So cheered all their hearts throughout these lands Who prayd or feared for thee in this tryall That thou of nothing now canst have deniall Wherein their love may serve thee and they shall More fortifie thee than a Brazen wall More comfort thee than ought that can be had From any Title that the world shall add And thou at last shalt finde thou dost not lose One grain of what thou lately didst refuse By that refusall for thou shalt have more If not in kind in value than before Yea peradventure that in specie too When qualified no offence to do And when it hath been prov'd whereto thy mind VVithout dissimulation is inclin'd For t is not meer negation of that title VVhich is thy Test since that availeth little One way or other save as unto that VVhich brought it hath unto dislike of late Or as it may concern some past transactions VVhich have occasioned dissatisfactions In many of

some Just Act which may expiate Those Sinnes that have committed been of late Through our defect of Justice and Compassion To them who have beene faithfull to this Nation Ev'n to their owne undoing were this done The works which now goe Backward would goe on And God would make us lovingly comply Instruct us what to Grant or to deny Till this be done we onely shall contrive Snares for each other or at best but strive Like Bees in hony potts and be at last Destroy'd by that in which our hopes are plast Yea till these Nations doe so constitute Their Parlaments and them whom they Depute Obliges to fundamentals they shall never Theire Liberties enjoy but bee for ever Exposd to Hazzards which might be prevented And none be therewith iustly discontented As now things are at every Parlament May our Religion or the Government Be innovated to our greise or shame According to those Modell they will frame Who may by frau'd or other manes uniust For such end 's screw into our Publike trust Sometimes wee shall be govern'd by a king A few yeares after by an other thing Then by a king againe and to all these Be forced to engage as others please With every wind turn'd like a Weathercock Now fast now Loose out Nettle and in Dock Yea and to sweare till we may safely say And sweare that most have sworn their faith away Which to prevent either from God or him Who hath in all Affaires the Pow'r Supreame Our help must come and from a Parlament Which thereunto shall give a full assent But this can never be as I have said Elsewhere until the Ground-worke be new laid And till by good and perfect Chymestry Natures three principles Salt Mercury And Sulphur be to that just temprature And such proportion brought as will procure To govern us a Civil-Trinity Made up into a blessed Vnity It self so far forth as it may be done Conforming to th' Eternall three-in-one In Righteousness and Mercy This product Our selfishness doth hitherto obstruct And wil till God in some things hath a choice By Lot when they are past by humane voice For much corruption that wil cure and then Christs kingdom will begin to be with men More manifest and no false Christs appeare As now and heretofore they have done here But know that when a Government consists Of three Estates 't will wrong those Interests Which to a Free Republicke do pertain Unless it be provided that those twain Which are Superior shall descend to none By Birthright But that thereto ev'ry one Shall be elected and no person bear Such Place who was not born a Commoner Or whose Posterity shall not return To that Condition whereto he was born For he or his will Tyrants be at last By whom this Proposition is transgrest These things perhaps will come to pass in time Whereof I seem at present but to dream And peradventure we till then to gain A Setlement shall plodd and strive in vain Mean while his Highness or he whosoere God to the supream Office doth prefer A Suffrage-negative should have in that Which Publicke safty doth necessitate To be by him or them sometime Denide By no means can he otherwise provide To keep his Honor or those Dues which must Preserve him able to perform his trust Or bound them in their Orbe who else as we By proof have found exorbitant may be And like a Heard if not well kept together When some break out run all they know not whether Nay till there be a Gouvernment here fixt Things ballancing so evenly betwixt Prince Peeres and People that each may subsist And not infringe each others Interest He that is our Supream must trusted be With Arbitray Power in some degree To carry on his work and to secure The whole whilst our unsettlements endure And to effect that end God did perchance Destroy the Pow'r that was and this advance Without such Pow'r a Prince chose out of Logs Like that which was bestowed on the Frogs Would be as good Him we might deal with all As we should please and any thing might call And leap about him till asham'd we be Of such a Block and chuse a worse then he This Parlament hath done what them became In offrong he hath also done the same In his refusal And still to adhere To that whereof resolv'd he doth appear Shall do as well until that be removed Which gives Offence or Inoffensive proved And should he be compelled to accept Till that be done Decorum were not kept They therefore as I hope will qualify That which he is inforced to deny And thereby save the labour and the Cost VVhich else would in an evil time be lost Rather then force him to an acceptation Of that which would be an abomination Both to himself and others VVhich would prove No Symptome of their Piety or Love For should he be compelled unto that VVhich most of his best Friends abominate And his own Conscience cheks at It would give A Kingdom which no wise man would receive And as it were inthrone him shall I tell In plain termes where ev'n in the Depths of Hell Within whose cursed bounds is comprehended A wounded conscience wilfully offended It is confest the Title of a King Is honorable and may profit bring To some who would conserat But to Him No benefit yea and perhaps to Them At last as little For if he grow less In Pow'r that Title will in his distress Not so much help as hinder And then they Who gave it will first take the same away Yea if on that side an advantage grow They will bestow it on his greatest Foe But if his Pow'r continue he may still Support his Title call him what you will And that to which none can lay claim but he Will safest upon all Adventures be Indeed all things consider'd well together There will be Hazards both in th' one and th' other But least in that which will in proof be best To keep that conscience which gives Inward rest Though in it self we do confess the Title Is honorable it can add but little To his Repute Nay it will be a blot As things are to that honour he hath got Which if it seriously considered be Is of a higher nature and degree Than that which men confer and they shall do No more who add a King-ship thereunto Than he who Diamonds in Lead doth set Or makes an Earl or Duke a Baronet And Gideon peradventure did therefore Refuse a Kingship being honour'd more By what he was then by what he thereby Might have convey'd to his Posterity Kingship is lawful yet wise men do know Things lawful inexpedient sometimes grow The Stile of King was but an Ordination Of men and afterward by Toleration At their request by God himself allow'd Unto his people so that neither proud They did become nor pufft up with ambition O're others which thereof was one Condition Yea 't is an Attribute of God

discharge his Trust as I beleeve By doing that whereof we misconceive Though he permits us to capitulate With him as it we did participate In his Powr suff'ring us to claime and take Those Priviledges whereby he may make An advantageous use with least offence To bring to passe the work of Providence And to such purposes is well content To all our just requests to give assent Those things do not to us of right pertain They are meer Acts of Favor no remain Of our old freedomes And 't will hazzardize Their Restauration to think otherwise For those Thoughts hindring that compleat submission Which GOD requires will hinder their fruition By making us perhaps that meanes endeavor To gain them which will lose them quite for ever In provocations IS'RAEL did proceed So far that thereupon GOD had decreed No Ransome from destruction should redeem Their glorious Temple and Jerusalem But their submission to a forraigne King On Vs for our transgressions GOD doth bring A Judgment somewhat like it And before He will to us our Liberties restore We must quite lose them and submit to Him Whome as in that respect we did contemn And now no humane Policy or Force Can put us into any likely Course Of repossessing them save that Compliance VVith which we have been long time at defiance And whereto he that should advise might speed As bad perhaps as Jeremiah did VVhen he in vaine his Countrymen perswaded To fly to him who had their Land invaded But so it must be and if to beleeve VVhat must be may assurance thereof give Or if things probable in Reason may Confirme that which I now beleeve and say Our much aversenesse rather will bring on Then hinder that which must at last be done For we are torne into so many fractions Growne of so many mindes by our distractions Or Coun●eractings ev'ry Party striving To bring to passe things of their own contriving Al men so apt whom place of trust enable For their owne private ends to scrape and scrable And every man so jealous and affraid Of being to his Opposite betray'd That as the World was when it first begun Our Common-wealth must be the work of One O●e that hath Powr and in whome to agree They who are most concernd most likely be This One GOD hath provided to restore All that our Kings usurped heretofore Or our Sins forfeited And to resetle On us those blessings by a stronger Title If neither He nor these divided Nations Shall willfully make frustrate their Probations Though many are yet fearfull that he may In some things act the quite centrary way Those Counsels he hath oft together brought VVhich we in former times most proper thought For such a Worke and much hath taken in VVhich offerd by some private hands hath been But both their Ends and Contributions are So diffring and from Vnitie so far That what he hath desired should be done Lesse perfect seems then when it was begun And 't is not possible their work should be Long-lasting who in so few things agree He therefore as in all times past we finde It hath been done who is by GOD designd To change a Government and unto whome He alwayes an Assistant will become For his owne works that spirit must improve VVhich GOD on him conferreth to promove His Vndertakeings Then resolve he must On what his Conscience judgeth to be just And by his Pow'r confirm it else the Waies Now follow'd will destroy him by Delayes By this Course and by weighing well those things Which faithfull men and his experience brings To be consider'd he himselfe alone Shall do that which will never else be done Even he alone if he himself deny And on that wisdome and that pow'r rely Which hitherto hath carried him along Shall for his undertakings be more strong Then if he were with all the strength supplyd And all the wisdome of the world beside For that shall teach him what advise to chuse What he must alter what he must refuse And what to fix upon which will be ●…ore His Honour then his Conquests heretofore Or then to leave through future Generations A Kingship to his seed o're many Nations This done a Parlament well constituted Will crown the work then such as are reputed Just Priviledges will be all restord Then they who now agree not will accord Then will our Lawes which yet are made a Snare Have those effects for which ordaind they were And other things be fairly carried on VVhich now in crooked muddy Chanels run VVee in this worke of Providence most heed Those grosse and oblique Actings which proceed From mans corruption and the deeds of those Whom for false friends or else for Open foes VVee do suspect and greatly vexed are VVith those misactings which in them appear As if their failings only were occasions Of all our losses and our Preturbations But were it well observed we should find That those grand-works which are by GOD design'd Are no lesse further'd by our oversights Our weaknes follies and our foes despights Then by our Virtues Prudency or Powr Or any suffrings or good deeds of our And thereupon prepare a way for Peace By prizing others more and our selves lesse Or if our Intellectuall eyes could see VVhat GOD hath done or what those actings be VVhereby his finger doth make manifest VVhat changes have infringd our interest VVe in true meeknesse would incline unto VVhat he expects we should beleeve and do Then we should finde those changes were permitted That for GOD's work we might be better fitted That his great Love and Justice might be known That our great failings we might know and owne That it might give us many Evidences How little trust there is in earthly Princes In Parlaments or in the best of those Externall things wherein we trust repose And that we thence may learne when we have tride Their Trustlesnesse in whome we should confide As sure as GOD ten tribes from David rent And made Belshazers doome a president For future times to heed and tooke from Saul And other Kings those Kingdomes wherewith al They were indowd so surely was the Throne Of our preceding King by GOD broke down So surely he who now inthroned sits VVas raisd by him and that if he forgets On what Conditions he that grace received So surely shall he be againe deprived Of what he yet injoyes and be devour'd By that whereby he was at first impowr'd As sure as Jacobs sons delivered were Into the hands of Nabuchadnezer Of Eglon Jabin Sisera and those VVho did on them great Slaveries impose So certainly did GOD give up these Lands In former times into Oppressors hands Both Temporall and Ghostly causing them In various wise to be from time to time Either afflicted eas'd inthrall'd or freed As to do well or ill they did proceed And lately hath powr'd forth his vials here On Preist and People upon Prince and Peer Yet if we grow not better than we be Far