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A96785	Vox pacifica a voice tending to the pacification of God's wrath; and offering those propositions, or conditions, by the acceptation, and performance whereof, in some good measure, a firme and continuing peace may be obtained. It is directed to the King, Parliaments, and people of these islands: By Geo. Wither Esquire, (a commander in this war) heretofore their unheeded remebbrancer [sic] of plagues and deliverances past; and their timely forewarner of the judgments now come. He hath disposed it into six books, or canto's, whereof foure onely are contained in this volumne; and the other deferred to be hereafter published, as there shall be cause.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3210; Thomason E1242_1; ESTC R202399	111,848	215

We could have instanced in many things Discov'ring that their number is not few Whose Crueltie Reproach and Curses brings On those Proceedings which they did pursue With Prudence and with Mercie should relieve The Publike more and private men lesse grieve One part of you contributes to the King The other Partie to the Parliament To these you personall assistance bring To these you liberally your goods have lent Yet most of you who thus ingaged are Are both to King and Parliament untrue For many signes your faithlesnesse declare And many things your giddinesse doth shew You are most firme to that which you conceive Your private weal or safety best promotes While that is doubtfull you Demurs can weave When that is plaine you quickly turne your Coats And to that end you craftily provide Quaint shifts to serve your turnes on either side Some by Intelligence themselves indear Or by some service acted under-hand By secret Favours Friends you can prepare Who in the Gap for you at need shall stand Some have a Son a Father or a Brother Who Ledger with your Adverse-party lies To make good Terms of Peace for one another According as Occasions may arise And to advance this Project they who spend Their Blood and Fortunes with a single heart Indeavouring truly for the noblest end Engaged are to act a desp'rate part Which into present mischiefs them doth cast And into feares of greater at the last You have not Faith enough in GOD to trust Though wonder-working Faith you do pretend And that hath tempted you to things unjust That makes you on your arme of flesh depend That makes you bold when you should rather feare And fearfull grow when you should bolder be That makes your Foe so vigilant appeare And you so many things to over-see That makes you for your Ayd poor tricks devise And take that Course which Scandall on you draws That makes you think that false Reports and Lies Are meritorious in an Honest-Cause And by these fallings you your peace delay And justifie your foes in their lewd way They who abhorre Pluralities in other And in your Clergie hate non-residence Can Office unto Office joyn together And in themselves suppose it no offence Some can heap up Command upon Command Share or take all the honour and the pay When but for cyphers nay for lesse they stand And other mens true value take away Some when the Publike was in great distresse Though they Commanded few had pay for many Yea some of you who better minds professe Were paid for souldiers when you had not any And some have took who yet for payment call In Plunder and Free-quarter more then all Of Orphans cries and of the Widdowes tears Whose Fathers and whose Husbands for your sake Have spent their lives and fortunes in these wars More heed more care more pitie you must take When at your doores and at your feet they lie To crave a part of that which is their own To feed them in their great necessity More Bowells of Compassion must be showne And they who to contribute have not spar'd Paines Councells Prayers Persons nor Estates In publike duties must finde more regard Before the furie of this Plague abates For who can hope the GOD of Righteousnesse Will shew forth mercie to the mercilesse They who in Peace the blood of War have shed As Ioab did or have expos'd their friends And faithfull souldiers to be murthered To hide their Plots or to effect their Ends Must not be winked at nor they who dare So partiall in their judgements to become As to inflict on those that equalls are In their transgressions an unequall-doome For of this partiall dealing there is found A murmur in your streets and Common-fame Reports injustice so much to abound That he speedes best who merits greatest blame And that for sin when Accessaries bleed The Principalls find favour and are freed Your Beasts of prey who live upon the spoile And by the publike ruines fat are growne Must either quite be chased from this Isle Or from their dens be rouz'd and hunted down Your Ambodexters who are neither true To GOD nor Man to King nor Parliament Must learn a better temp'rature to shew And of their fraud and ficklenesse repent Those Rotten-Members those false Officers And those Committee-men who have deceiv'd The Kingdomes Trust must for that guilt of theirs Passe other doomes then yet they have receiv'd Before those wrongs and practices do cease Which keep away your much desired Peace They who have almost perfected the times For desolation by habituating Themselves in Sodom's and Gomorrah's crimes And by an impudently imitating Of their impenitence ev'n they that had The pride of life sacietie of bread And liv'd in idlenesse must now be made To taft their suffrings who are hunger-fed To feele the paines of their laborious life Who sweat in good employments and the scorne Which humble-men have long without reliefe By their oppression and ambition borne These must be humbled and perhaps destroy'd Before your expectations are enjoy'd Your counterfeit and rash Reformers too Must change their hearts and regulate their zeale Ere you shall compasse what you hope to do In matters of the Church or Common-weale Your Scribes and Pharisees who by long prayer Devour poore Widdowes houses and by shewes Of honestie and by pretending faire To pietie good meaning soules abuse They who in tithing mint and annise are More strict then in the weightie points of Law And burthens great for other men prepare When they themselves will hardly lift a straw These must e're perfect Peace you here shall see Be more unvizarded then yet they be Your pettie-Tyrants must be likewise fewer Then now they are e're GOD will condescend To ease your burthens or your griefes to care Or bring your dis-agreements to an end For how in equitie can you expect Your GOD should free you from those injuries That Sov'raignty-abused may inflict Whilst you on one another tyrannize Or how can possibly true Peace be there Where well nigh all are Tyrants to their power And as they get advantage domineer Insult oppresse impov'rish and devoure For this oppression you may plainly see In some of everie Calling and Degree Nigh ev'rie one the King exemplifies In usurpation of Prorogatives Above his due Nay that which he denies Vnto his Prince injuriously he strives To take unto himselfe The Peer upon The Commoner usurps The Husband so Vpon the Wife The Father on the Son And on their Servants thus the Master do In everie Corporation thus presume The Governours yea thus the Magistrate Of lowest ranke doth on himselfe assume What in his Chiefe he will not tolerate And they who their own Freedoms fain would save Are alwaies willing others to inslave These and such Scabs and Tetters must be sear'd E're they will heal And you must cut away Those Members whereon Gangrieves have appear'd Which els this Kingdoms body will destroy For multitudes of those among you

what those Conditions are Whereon it is his pleasure to return That Blessing to them for which yet they mourne It is not for thy sake that now his eyes He fixeth not on persons eminent Or hath not chosen one more learn'd and wise By whom this weighty Message might be sent But rather to abase and vex their pride Who carnall Pompe and outward showes adore Vouchsafing scarce to turn their eye aside To heed the suits or counsells of the poore And that to humble them they may be faine Perforce to hear and to accept from him Whose guifts and person most of them disdaine The Way of Peace which he shall offer them Or else through pride grow hardned in that sin Which bringeth Desolation faster in This is the Course which Providence hath took When selfe-conceit and sin befooleth Nations And Carnall policie doth over-look The lowly meanes of timely preservations Thus that the Jewish-pride he down might bring When they the pompe of heathenish-heathenish-Kings affected He made one Seeking-Asses their first King And them unto a Shepheard next subjected When their proud Pharisees and Priests beleeved That He who came the Kingdom to restore Should from their power and wisdom have received Chiefe aid thereto he rais'd it by the poor From their formalities his eyes he turn'd And chose the meek-ones whom their pride had scorn'd And GOD thus dealeth still when he intends To purge a People and refine a State Making one motion move to sev'rall ends As it to sundrie Objects may relate Who should have thought that saw a while ago The Prelacie in pompe advancing thorow This potent Isle it should be baffled so In height of all it pride at Edenborough Who could have then supposed that a Stoole Flung by a sillie woman in her zeal When policie did labour to befoole Your brethren and the Dragons wound to heale Should have in thousands kindled such a flame Of zeale as from that meane occasion came Who would have thought the late despised Scot A Nation whom your elders dis-esteem'd A Nation whom your Fathers loved not And of whose friendship carelesse you have seem'd Should first have rouz'd a passage to have broke Through that Attempt which will if unrepented And wilfull sins obstruct not breake that yoke Which Heresie and Tyranny invented Who would have been perswaded but erewhile The Scot should faithfully for you have kept Your nigh-lost footing in the Irish Ile And while the Flame into their borders crept Should brother-like contribute their chiefe powers To quench the Burnings which your Towns devours Or who would have beleeved having heard The scandals and malignant jealousies Wherewith some do their love yet mis-reward That Scotland should for Englands aid arise And in their marches through your fruitfull lands More conscience make than you your selves have shown Of laying violent and griping hands On them whose wounds and losses are your own But GOD is pleas'd these things should come to passe To humble and abase that high conceit Which falsly of your selves admitted was And that both you and they might have a sight Of his great Providence in so proceeding And Good and Bad confesse it merits heeding For by this course he doth effect his will Within them by them and upon them too Both Friends and Foes all actions good or ill Promote the work which he intends to do They who long time have wilfully persisted In crooked paths from which they call'd have bin And in those Calls the Spirits Voyce resisted Or carelesly proceeded in their sin Shall blind with malice and obdur'd with pride Sleight all the counsels tendred now by thee The Tenour of this VOICE they shall deride And madly stubborne in their Courses be Till on their heads those judgements down shall come Which are an unrepentant Sinners doome And when with plagues deserved they are stung In stead of Penitence or filiall awe As doth a Dog at whom a stone is flung So they shall snarle and so the weapon gnaw Or rather as it was fore-told of those For whom GOD his fifth Violl should prepare The greater still their feare or torment growes The lesse to be reform'd will those men care They to the Throne and Kingdome of the BEAST True Vassals being will GODS name blaspheme Or else be stupified at the least When GOD with stripes or counsells visits them To these this VOICE will no good Omen sing To these no Peace no Comfort will it bring But they who by their chastisements for sin Are humbled so so school'd and made so meeke As to admit that true repentance in Which makes them gladly Truth and Mercie seeke Ev'n they shall from this VOICE receive content And not disdaine the Wine of consolation Though in an earthen Vessell it be sent But take it with a thankfull acceptation And if of these that number found shall be For which three wicked Kingdomes may be spar'd You shall from Rulne once againe be free To show the World that what few now regard Prevents more mischiefe and more safetie brings Than potent Armies Parlaments and Kings For Kings and Parlaments and Armies too When crying sins in any Realme abound Advantage not so much as they undo As by a late experience you have found A King you had who was at first conceiv'd To pitie and to pietie enclin'd Such he was really of thee beleev'd Yet of those Vertues now small signes you find The Cup and Fornications of the WHORE Do seeme to have bewitcht his royall brest With bloudy sins his Realmes are flowed o're Defil'd with crimes that cannot be exprest And more in danger to be quite undone Than ever since a King first fill'd this Throne He takes a Course which if pursu'd will do him More dammages than all his forraigne foes And all their malice could have brought unto him Yea so improvident a path he goes As if by his Fore-fathers or by Him Some sin had been committed which hath shaken His verie Throne defac'd his Diadem And for which Vengeance must ere long be taken For though he knowes the peoples griefes and feares Though sprawling in their bloud he sees them lying Though he beholds the flames about their eares And in their deaths his honour daily dying Yet seemes he nothing to heare know or see Which for your safety or his own may be The Royall Pow'r that should the Realme have guarded Is to the ruine thereof mis-imploy'd The Perquisites allow'd to have rewarded Deserving-men by Ruffians are enjoy'd The Dignities ordain'd to have been placed On them whose deeds their noblenesse declar'd To Slaves are prostituted and disgraced By being on Buffoones and Clownes conferr'd His Councell-Table was become a snare His Court a Sanctuarie for Transgressors The Iudgement-Seats were engines to prepare Advantages for Bribers and Oppressors The Soveraigne from the Subject is estranged And Kingship into Tyranny is changed But though the King be partner in these crimes 'T is you who have your selves and him undone For as Idolaters in former

aside Sheath up thy Sword resume againe thy Quill And make thou such an entrie on Record Of what thou intellectually dost heare That to these present Times it may afford A legible Expresse of what they are That thereby meek men may have information What humble service and what sacrifice May best promove that reconciliation Which will conclude these bloudy Tragedies And that it may by working upon some A Blessing unto all these Isles become To that intent once more thy selfe prepare To heare inraged Tyrants madly rave The envious to detract the proud to jeer And Fooles to shew how little wit they have Prepare thy selfe to suffer what disgrace The spight of secret malice hath begun And all those injuries which to thy face May by an open enemy be done And saulter not but plainly publish thou What is and shall be spoken to thy heart That if these will not time to come may know By what good Spirit thou inspired art And that men may unto GOD's praise confesse That He in Justice is not mercilesse And be not sway'd by any by-respect To King or People Persons or Estates From uttering to thy power the full effect Of whatsoever now this VOICE relates Nor be thou so presumptuous as to add One syllable beyond what shall be true Through feare or that some profit may be had Lest thy vaine feares and thy false hopes thou rue But speak what truth shall whisper forth to thee In so impartiall and so bold a straine That to their soules it may a terrour be Who still in their impenitence remaine And therewithall those consolations bring Which make the meeke and broken-hearted sing Feare neither Peeres nor Commons Friends nor Foes So long as thou thy duty shalt performe Nor feare the threatnings or the frownes of those Who at thy publishing this VOICE may storme For of whatever they shall thee deprive Who therewithall are spitefully offended Thou for the same shalt seventie fold receive In life and death by all good men befriended And if by thy Detractors ought be spoke Which this thy warrantable dutie wrongs Their malice shall quite vanish into smoke And for the same ten hundred thousand tongues Shall censure them who now mis-censure thee Ev'n while they are and when they shall not bee The VOICE here made a pause For though I had Myselfe into myselfe retir'd as far As a Retreat could possibly be made From things that Bars to Contemplation are Yet thither carried I so much about me Relating to the Flesh which I have on me And also to the World that is without me That she with violence broke in upon me And came so over-joy'd with fruitlesse newes Of an approaching Treatie and with hope Of Peace thereby that she disturb'd my Muse And brought those Revelations to a stop Of which this I le shall never heare againe Till she hath prov'd all other meanes in vaine Your wits yee Politicians therefore trie Yee Mightie thereunto your Forces joyne And you that with a Formall-pietie Or morall-facings your projections line Pursue your waies of Peace till you are gone So far that you no forwarder can get And find that when your wilfull course is done You like wild-Bulls lie tumbling in a net For then perhaps though but a Moufe it were That gnaw'd the snare your pride would be content The meanes of your deliverance to heare By whomesoere the Message shall be sent When that hour coms the VOICE that spake before Will speak again and then I le tell you more Meane-while I purpose to returne unto Those other under-takings wherewithall I am intrusted or those works to do For which the Common-danger first may call And since I ought not wholly to neglect Their private wants who on my care depend I will be bold a little to respect My own Affaires which few men yet befriend Lest e're I finish what I have begun I may incurre some sudden detriment Or else by my Oppressors be undone For he that makes no conscience to prevent His private ruine shall be seldom heard In any publike matter with regard LORD by thy power for by thy power alone Such Plagues are cur'd recure us e're too late And once again in mercie looke upon This heart-sick languishing and dying State Once more be reconcil'd Once more at least To these distracted these divided Lands Let that Preserving-Mercie be exprest On which the safety of a Kingdome stands Abate those Earth-quakes which have made unsteady The Pillars of this Church and Common-wealth Disperse those Vapours which imve made us giddie Purge out those Humours which impaire our health Support the Limbes which must prevent our fall Cut off those Members which may ruine all And give me Courage Wisdome Grace and Pow'r So to discerne thy Will so to expresse What is inspir'd and in so good an houre As that it may prepare the Way of Peace THOV that by Babes and Sucklings dost restore Decayed Strength and by dispised things Advance thy Kingdom and thy Glory more Then by the Councells and the Pow'rs of Kings So make this VOICE to speak so make men heare That both Times present and the Times to come May love thy Mercies and thy Judgements feare Throughout these Islands till the day of doome And let this VOICE'S good effects be showne Most clear in Him by whom thou mak'st it known The second Canto The Contents This Canto's Preface being done The VOICE to these effects goes on Tells how unworthy we are yet For Peace desired how unfit How vain how harmfull Treaties be Till both Sides in one Third agree And laying by ignoble ends Vse likely meanes of being Friends Shewes that the Peace which most pursue Will be nor permanent nor true Then that some Cures may heappli'd Declares which Parts are putrifi'd Which must be purg'd without delay Or cauteriz'd or cut away If we will e're it be too late Recure this weake this dying State THe VOICE and Muzings hitherto exprest In me so sad so serious Thoughts had left And stamped them so deep into my brest That of it health my Body they bereft And e're my former strength could be renew'd Or those Affaires dispens'd with which deny To be at will delayed or pursu'd Three moneths of Relaxation passed by And in that space was op'ned such a Sluce To Interruptions discomposing so My meditations that them to reduce To their late temper I had much adoe Oh GOD from me how fast good motions fly How long are they unborn how soon they dy My heart that is corrupt enough to know What any wicked man can think or say Before my feet began harsh rubs to throw And cast great stumbling blocks orethwart my way When I had some remov'd Loe with a jeere A thought within me said If nothing else But Vertue guides thy Pen what needed here All that which of thy Selfe this Poem tells Why mention'st thou as if thou wert afraid Thy Readers knew not or forgot the same What thou

without limitation they are feee To do what may by Parliaments be done And that is ev'rie reasonable thing Which to their weale and safety may belong And their abilitie to passe may bring If to Divinity it be no wrong And whosoe're in these extremities Perswade that they should take upon them lesse Vnto the publike peace are enemies Yea they deferre or marre your happinesse By weakning of their hands who are your friends And strengthening his who now your spoile intends Let them not therefore act as if they had But halfe a power or seemed to be lame Or as if they a Parliament were made To be no more but only so in name With prudent conscience and with confidence Let them proceed in what they undertake And in what e're pertaines to their defence On just resolves let them no haltings make Through want of presidents For power they have To make new presidents as well as they Who liv'd before them And if they will save Their Countrie and themselves this is the way Since in an extarordinarie Cause True Reason binds as firmly as the Lawes And though it greatly grieve you as it ought Yet suffer not the absence of the King To foole you with so frivolous a thought As that a diminution it may bring To their authority For wheresoe're He bideth when his Parliament shall sit The Kingship vertually is alwaies there And cannot possibly divide from it The Person of a King may ramble forth As his own fancie hurries him about Or do things derogating from his worth Or die or from the Kingdome be cast out And yet the Kingdome and the Kingship too Continue still as they were wont to do The life of Bodies-naturall indeed Departs out of them when their head is gone And thereunto no other can succeed To make it live or not a headlesse-one So 't is not in this Bodie-politike The vitalls of it in the body lie Not in that head-ship and though it be sick When that falls from it yet it doth not die A King is but a substituted-head Made for conveniencie And if thereby The bodie seem to be indangered If Power it hath it hath Authoritie To take one off and set another on Aswell as at the first to make it one And when that Body shall be represented As this hath been according to the Law Or shall be by necessity convented Therein resides that Soveraignty that Awe And Rule whereto the Lawes of GOD and nature Injoyne obedience and not in that thing Corrupted which was but that Creatures creature And which to serve it was first made a King When therefore GOD injoynes you to obey And honour Kings these duties are not meant To those who from their Kingships run away But rather to th'essentiall Government Of whatsoever kind by Law ordain'd Or by a strong necessity constrain'd For were it otherwise the pride and lust Of an injurious Arbitrary power Would all men out of their possessions thrust And all the freedomes of mankind devoure Let therefore neither fear nor flattery Prescription or vaine custome make you cleave Vnto an accidentall Majesty And that which is substantiall quite to leave At this time chieflie take a speciall care As of what verie much conduceth to Your Peace and Safety that as now things are Your just advantages you let not goe Lest by a faint and conwardly endeavour You loose your freedoms and be slaves for ever And yet take heed that zeal to Innovations Nor private fears nor hopes incline your minde To subjugate these Kingdoms or these Nations To Governments of anie other kind But rather use your utmost diligence To rectifie those things which are amisse In that which is establish'd and from thence Cast out or purge whatever therein is Repugnant to those Charters which by grace Or nature were confer'd And let your care Be so to settle it that place you make The Throne of CHRIST among you up to reare Lest when his Kingdome comes you els be fain To pull your new-devices down again Take likewise heed that you no meanes neglect Whereby the King may be reclaim'd and won GODS honour with your safetie to respect And do the duties he hath left undone For by rejecting him how just soe're The Causes be you shall delay the peace Which is desir'd And make your quarrell here With much more difficultie to decrease But if your industrie shall win him home And he return sincerely to his charge It shall a blessing to these Isl●s become Your honour and your joy it shall inlarge And as CHRISTS Vice-Roy he shall sit upon A righteous and an everlasting Throne Walk therefore prudently in this straight path And turn not to the left hand or the right That pow'r which GOD to you committed hath Improve for him according to your might Him in the reasonable-meanes attend With Faith and Patience that he may at last Your King new-moulded back unto you send Your King new-moulded back unto you send Or him out of his ruin'd Kingdome cast If possibly he can his course repent GOD will restore him yet If you amend Then all these Troubles and this grievous Rent Shall in true Peace and sweet agreements end If both conforme Both shall true Peace enjoy If both be wilfull GOD shall both destroy But heark my Scribe I heare a dreadfull crie Of wounded men and therewith as it were The shouts of those that have a Victorie Of much concernment Therefore go and heare What now is done For somewhat hath been wrought From whence if well it shall improved be Enlargements of those meanes will forth be brought Which may effect what thou desir'st to see As soone as thou hast Information had Of what is rumoured and duly weigh'd What profitable uses may be made Of that which either hath been done or said Retire thou hither and give eare again To that which to your Peace doth appertaine The fourth Canto The Contents While here our Authour doth recite His Musings after Naesby fight The VOICE returnes and doth begin To shew us what must usher in Exiled Peace Then told are we How kept our Vowes and Covenants be How we reforme and fast and pray What Thankfulnesse we do repay What must in generall be done What by each Jndividuall-One What course both King and State must take E're they their Peace with God shall make What he expects from ev'rie Nation From ev'rie Towne and Corporation And ev'rie House in some degree Before our Peace renew'd will bee WHen from attention to that Silent-tongue heard Which without words reveales what you have I came abroad the Streets and Temples rung Of Victories and Signalls there appear'd Not only of a valiant Resolution In those that conquer'd but of some divine Disposure of them too for execution Of that which GOD himselfe did fore-designe The scornfull Adversaries rushed on To Policie and Strength themselves commending The LORD of Hosts our Friends reli'd upon With Prayers fighting and with Faith defending And lo GOD

From thy free favour and preventing-grace It doth proceed that our despised Host Fled not before their Adversaries face Or fell not by them who the field have lost And that the Joyes which now our Citie hath Are not this day in Askalon and Gath. But what will these prevailings be at last If Grace thou likewise give not to pursue Those victories which thou bestowed hast And to improve the mercie thou didst shew What will our sad rejoycings at the length And bloudy enterchanges prove O LORD But an impairing of our native strength To make a passage for the Forraine-sword And what from our divisions and the spoiles Torne daily from each other can arise But utter devastation of these Iles And which is worse than forraine enemies Selfe-murthers Or perhaps a Dearth so great That men shall kill each other for their meat Such things have been and such for ought I see May here befall us ere these wars be done If thou permit our cruelties to be As wilfully pursued as begun Thy judgements teach us therefore LORD to feare So make us thy forbearances to weigh So let thy kindnesses our hearts prepare That we no longer foole our Peace away Let not the sighs the prayers and the cries Of thy afflicted children be in vaine Behold how desolate their dwelling lies Look on their wounds observe how they are slaine How many of their Fathers are bereft How many widowes desolate are left Or if this move thee not mark how the Foe Blasphemes thy Name See with what height of pride Against thy Truth his malice he doth show And how thy holy things he doth deride Mark what damn'd Oaths and curses forth they roare And with what lyes and slanders they do wrong us Mark how they scorne the counsels of the poore And to betray us how they lurk among us Mark how they play the hypocrites array'd Sometime like Bosome-Friends sometime disguis'd With outward Sanctitie while snares are layd That unawares thy Saints may be surpriz'd And let not us who in thy Truth have joy'd By those who persecute it be destroy'd If not on us yet LORD compassion take On those that shall out of our loynes descend If not for our yet for thine Honour-sake To these destroying times impose an end Ev'n for the sake of thy Beloved-One Who through our sides is wounded by our Foes Behold what spoyles what mischieves they have done And help us ere our sorrow helplesse growes Teach us to see and know how miserable We are and may be if we persevere As we begun informe us how unable We are to save our selves from what we feare And to consider too how worthlesse we Are of that mercie which I beg of thee Vaine is the help of Armies Foot or Horse Vaine is the pow'r of Nations and of Kings Vaine is united policie and force Vaine is the aid of all terrestriall things Thou makest War thou only makest Peace And out of nothing canst create the same Nay out of that which discords doth encrease An everlasting Concord thou canst frame Although the people like huge waters rage The mountaines yea these Islands moved be Thou in a moment canst the storme asswage And make all quiet when it pleaseth thee O LORD command a Calme command a Peace That our unnaturall debates may cease To us be reconcil'd and to begin That reconcilement let us so endeavour To breake the league which we have made with sin That Thou and We may now be friends for ever Make for us an Atonement with our King Let him perceive in what his course will end What Mischeeves evill Counsellours do bring What Vengeance doth on Tyranny attend Give him both sight and sense of that huge floud Which threatens daily to o'rewhelme his head That roaring torrent nay that sea of bloud Which in these Iles hath wilfully been shed And with his wronged and enraged Nations Make thou for him his Reconciliations His heart is in thy hand and if thou please Thou canst returne him to us wholly changed Thou canst yet make us mutually with ease As deare as if we had not been estranged Thou that restor'dst Manasseh canst restore Him to Himselse to Vs and to thy Grace And it may glorifie thy goodnesse more Than to advance another in his place Yea and for us it shall be better too If with a true forgivenesse of each other We that have lately been divided so Shall lovingly unite againe together For what more sweet than when unkindnesse ends In reconciling of divided friends Thou know'st O GOD that we have no desire To take from Him or His the Royall Throne Or pull it lower but to raise it higher And set him rather faster thereupon Thou know'st that though his courses we abhor We love his Person and would faine prevent That mischiefe which he seemes to labour for By hunting after his owne detriment If by his wilfulnesse that bloud be spilt Which we would save of them require it LORD Who make him to be Patron of their guilt Or bring him within danger of the Sword And keep us and our children ever cleare From all the bloud that shall be spoyled here And as for me whom our Opposers blame As having my first principles forsaken Because I now against the Royall-Name With Reall-Majestie a part have taken Thou know'st my heart had never an intent The Shadow for the Substance to adore And that if I so foolishly had meant Discretion bids me so to think no more A Single-Person or a Factious Rabble The King by Armes opposing acteth Treason But Kingdomes joyn'd by Counsells-warrantable Against a Tyrant do the work of Reason Yea 't is the hand of GOD that strikes him then Although he doth it by the sword of men Thou know'st O GOD that not a hand of our Is rais'd against his Person or his Seed Or to diminish any Royall pow'r Which to discharge his Office he may need Or for due honour But we rather fight As he would know if undeceiv'd he were To save his Dignitie to do him right And keep him from Destructions drawing neare Thou know'st we no offensive War intended Nor armed came for any private Cause But as our dutie binds to have defended Thy Truth our Countrie 's Liberties and Lawes And to remove the wicked from the Throne That he may rule with righteousnesse thereon And though to fright us from this dutie LORD The sons of Belial whom we pursue Cast termes on us which better do accord With their proceedings as to them most due Yet thou canst witnesse that we called are And come in true obedience to that Pow'r Of which He but the name doth only weare Whilst he abuseth his owne Rights and our Thou know'st his Wilfulnesse doth us compell Since nor his Parl'aments Thy Lawes nor His Nor other course prevailes now to appeale In that which at this time depending is To thy Arbitrement and that the Sword May to our differences an end afford Wherein we pray

part Repent and change their temper out of hand Lest they be justly spu'd out of the land Let them that are supposed best affected And who the best approved Cause befriended Examine how their duties are neglected How false they are in what they have pretended How faintly they the publike-Guard began By what ill meanes they their Good-Cause pursu'd How little trust in GOD how much in Man And in an outward aid hath oft been shew'd How heedl●sse of their Covenant they grow How many of them sleight the Vow they took How they inlarge how they contract it now How wilfully how frequently 't is broke And how the publike sorrow they prolong By doing Pi●●● and Iustice wrong Let your Malignant-partie or of them So many as are yet not gone so farre That they all timely warnings must contemne Remember of what crimes they guilty are Let them consider that to have their will Or that ambitious humours they may feed Or that some other lust they may fulfill How they have made their Countrey smart and bleeed Let them consider that they have pursu'd Their tyrannies in these unhappie wars As if they meant a pattern to have shew'd Of Rehoboam and his Councellers Or how King Ahabs party went to fight At Ramoth-Gilead as in GODS despight Let ENGLAND mourn apart for all those crimes Which do poilute her at this present day And those committed in preceding times That GOD may take his heavie hand away Her ficklenesse in faith and in attire Her great abuse of plenties by excesse Her persecutions both by sword and fire Of those who did the holy faith professe Her wantonnizing with the meanes of Grace Her thanklesnesse for that long Peace she had Her sleighting it when she forewarned was Of that great breach which GOD on her hath made Yea all her other sinnes let her lament Let her all Nationall-defaults repent Let SCOTLAND mourn apart and search wherfore Her sinnes upon her face and on her back GOD at this present doth so deeply score Now when she doth of sin most conscience make Let her examine if she hath no End To seize on some advantage for her owne While her distressed Sister to defend She piously a readinesse hath shown If she be guilty of so base a thought Let her repent it e're GOD search it out If she be cleare Truth shall to light be brought And they who of her faithfulnesse now doubt Shall praise her Children if they have a care Their lying and their bragging to forbeare Let IRELAND mourn apart and not alone For her late Trecheries and for the guilt Which her inhumane Natives brought upon Their heads for bloud of Innocents new-spilt But also for the sinnes of all those Nations Within her borders who for their oppressions Were cast out of their ancient-habitations And lately driven from their now-possessions Let her that brutish Ignorance lament Where with she many ages was polluted That Heath'nish-Christianity repent Which her blind Children piety reputed And her Rebellions and Idolatry Let her bewaile with true humility Let her observe what her Transgressions be That She unto the praise of GOD may say In all his judgements truly just is he And that with Mercies he did them allay For if a strict inquirie he had made For all the Bloud th' Oppression and the Guile Of which he Information might have had There had not one been living in that I le Both Scot and English verie studious were To plant themselves upon her fruitfull plaines But how Religion might be planted there They tooke but verie little care or paines To save the Soule not many were employ'd And therefore many Bodies were destroy'd Had her late Planters as industrious bin Her Natives with Religion to enrich As how to make themselves great men therein Or if their care had been but halfe so much Some hundred thousands had this day possest Their lives and livelihoods who at their cost For times to come Examples have increast Of goodly-hopes through want of Prudence lost And therefore let them learne who yet survive Not to neglect CHRISTS Kingdome if they would Their Kingdome or their Heritage should thrive Or that their Hopes or Labours prosper should Yea if they seek on Earth a firme possession Let them not build their houses by oppression For not a few of her Inhabitants Both out of England and from Scotland came Meane in esteeme opprest with many wants And many of them many wayes to blame Some with projections nor discreet nor just Some to defraud their Creditours and Friends Of their estates some to enjoy their lust And other some for other such like ends Came over to that Kingdome nor much knowne Nor much regarded who in little space Were not alone exceeding wealthy growne But made both Earles and Barons of the Place And they who suddenly aloft did clime Were pulled to the ground in shorter time They whose ●bundance over-night was more Then they could value e're the following day Disclos'd it selfe were made exceeding poore And glad from all their wealth to run away Scarce leasure had they lest they lost their lives With their estates to take of all they had Enough wherewith their children and their wives Might clothed be when their escapes they made The losse the frights the blond-shed and the cries Felt suffered seen and heard in those black-nights Present O Ireland still before thine eyes Stil I let thy children keep them in their sights That Visitation let them so bewaile Especially the sins that caused it That they nor their posterity may faile To mind the same and let them not forget To mourn apart for that sad desolation Nor to be thankfull for their Preservation Let every Corporation Town and City Within these Islands also mourn apart That their Inhabitants may find more pity Then may be challenged by due desert Some of them have the benefit enjoy'd Of GODS protections both from fire and sword Some of them have been touch'd but not destroy'd For which what can they lesse then thanks afford Let them acknowledge his preventing-Graces Who yet are safe and that GOD pleas'd hath bi● To keep Dstroyers from their dwelling places So oft so much polluted by their sin And let all those whom he began to smite Be thankfull that they were not ruin'd quite For great are those oppressions which of late Have cri'd for vengeanch on some Governours Of Mysteries and Townes-incorporat● Who have abused both their Trust and Powers Those Priviledges which to them were deign'd With chiefe respect unto the Common-good Are oft insisted on yea and maintain'd As if their Granter should be understood To meane some favours to particular Places With damage to the Publike which makes void His CHARTERS ipso facto For such Graces Are by their owne excessivenesse destroi'd If Reason may be Judge which heretofore The greatest sway in humane Actions bore Yet you have Cities Townes and Mysteries Which do not only by such Grants as these Oppresse the Publike

loudly roare That he shall heare unlesse repent he do Ere long and heare it with a vengeance too Let him repent his having long attempted His loving-people to inslave and grieve For he from vengeance will not be exempted By pleading an usurp'd Prerogative Let him repent the cov'ring his intents With Protestations and religious showes Since these are made such thred-bare complements That ev'ry one almost their meaning knowes Nor let him longer foole himselfe to think The World perceives not what his projects be For he is blinde or wilfully doth wink Who cannot at a hundred loop-holes see That many yeares before this war begun He purposed the course he now doth run Then that he may without despairing heare Let him with penitence before it comes To all those wholsome Counsels lend an eare Which timely may prevent ensuing doomes To mollifie his heart let him present Before his understanding and his eye How spoiled and how miserably rent His three late-happy-Kingdomes now do lie Let him give eare unto those just complaints Which his distressed Subjects have prefer'd Let him regard the suffrings of the Saints Let living-moanes or dying-groanes be heard The Widdowes prayer and the Orphans cries Lest GOD to hear him in distresse denies Let him remember that they who complain And of whose Townes he now doth ashes make Are those who for his safe return from Spaine Made joyfull-Feasts and Bonfires for his sake Let him consider that these are the Nations Ev'n these whom now he tramples under-feet Who him received with glad acclamations And him did oft with love-expressions meet Let him consider that they who enjoy His presence now are those that prey upon him Ev'n some of those who lab'red to destroy His Fathers house and those that have undone him Both in his reputation and estate And merit not his favour but his hate Let him take notice that by his digression From prudent Counsells his most cruell Foes Have so imprison'd him in their possession That of himselfe he cannot now dispose And since all Europe knowes it let him know That though they flatter and upon him fawne He despicable in their eyes doth grow And is by them esteem'd but as a pawne Yea let him also know that he hath got So little credit upon either side That as the Parliament now trusts him not So but few other much in him confide Nor will his lost repure to him return Till for his errours he shall truly mourn Let him consider that whereas he sought To multiplie wild-beasts within his land That GOD in justice now the same hath brought Almost into a Desart to his hand To nourish Beasts his Huntsmen took away His peoples birth-right And behold now he Is therefore hunted like those Beasts of Prey By which the neighb'ring towns molested be When he was in his artificiall-heav'n Which flatring Poets and his Painters made Let him re-minde what Attributes were given With what high Epithetes they made him glad What joy in vanities he then did take And what a GOD of him his Priests did make Let him take notice that there was a doubt His Father came not fairly to his end And that when meanes was made to search it out And Witnesses commanded to attend The Parliament abruptly up was broken And no proceeding afterward therein Let him consider what this may betoken What jealousies it justly might let in If any were suspected without cause Their Innocence by triall had been clear'd If justly tax'd why had not then the Lawes Their course why was not that accuser heard Cleare or not cleare some body was to blame That such an accusation quasht became Nay these three Kingdomes did neglect in this Adutie which they questionlesse did owe And partly for that negligence it is That GOD for bloud doth make enquirie now For of each Subject of the meanst respect Ev'n of the Beggar by the high-way side The King hath an accompt upon suspect That by the hand of violence he di'd And should a King that living had protected So many millions dying so be fleighted That when he to be murther'd was suspected Not one should be examin'd or indited Believe it this Neglect is now rewarded For thousands die and petish unregarded In all three Kingdoms was there never a one To second the Physitians Eglesham And Ramsey had he not a powerfull Son And his Beloved servant Buckingham Were there not some about him who then had No hopes but those which on his life were laid Had he not Lords and Earles enough then made Who by this dutie might have partly paid For his respects Could none of all those things Call'd Bishops upon whom in life he doted Whom he esteem'd the Angell-guard of Kings Whom he out of the dung-hill had promoted To sit with Princes could of all these none Repute him worth regard when he was gone Let him remember and consider well What judgements have on that neglect ensu'd How suddenly the Duke soon after fell What direfull vengeance hath this Land pursu'd Ev'n to this day and know there is a GOD Who though Kings do neglect it or assay To hide it will be searching after bloud And all concealed mischiefs open lay This let him do lest he that might have worn The glorious'st Christian Wreath ere long become To be abroad 〈◊〉 laughing-stock and scorn And past regaining honour here at home For yet he may return and if he do He shall recover all his Honour too There is a way if he will seek to finde it To greatest Honours thorow this Disgrace There is a meanes if he will truly minde it By which this wonder may be brought to passe To no worse end this VOICE doth now discover His failings but to drive him to this course To no worse purpose is he thus blackt over But that he might not be defiled worse And this VOICE prophesies that if he shall With upright-heartednesse pursue that Path He shall not onely be restor'd to all His honours lost and be redeem'd from wrath But also farre more honourable grow Then all the Kings of Europe raigning now Belief works greater wonders let him then Believe it may be and it shall be done He hath too much believed many men Whose Word was lesse to be reli'd upon The precious'st Pe●rles lie deepest in the Seas The richest stones from hardest recks are hew'd The darkest mornings have prov'd glorious dayes Great mercies to great Sinners have been shew'd When to repentance GOD was pleas'd to call Manasseh few were better Kings then he When he converted perfecuting Saul A glorious change in him the Church did see And so there may be now For who can tell But that to make you rise your Sov'raigne fell If he suppose that he may find evasions From any thing against him here exprest Yet of offences since he gave occasions Let him not in his own uprightnesse rest But since GOD both with Scandalls and the Sword Pursues him at the heeles let him repent Let him