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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

betray'd my person to the King Which not succeeding and he finding friends Among my Foes pursued other ends For Friends he found as most Malignants do So forward our Ill-willers to protect So pow'rfull and withall so cunning too Their ends by faire pretences to effect That though I were their neighbour and their friend Though my endeavours had been truly done To further that whereto they love pretend And though before this War I knew not one Whose malice in those parts suspect I mought Nor any person who suspected me To them injuricus in word deed or thought Yea though by Covenant oblig'd they be On my behalfe They naythelesse did grow Confed'rates with this Stranger my knowne Foe Else when they heard how first the Plot was layd For my surprisall where it was begun To whom he meant I should have been betrayd By whom and how and when it should be done Averr'd on oath me thinks in such a case He should not then so suddenly have found So many fav'ring him to my disgrace If all of them had at the heart been sound Nor would you think if everie circumstance Were fully told that Charitie first drew So many to afford him countenance Who was their Foe if they to us were true And who may thank the spite they bore to me That they to him so kind and friendly be And on some likely Grounds conceive I may Those friends of his were they who first convay'd Those notions to him which first shew'd the way How to my Foes I should have been betray'd For from our Quarters he so far then liv'd That else our Posture and Affections here He had not so well knowne to have contriv'd A plot which did so feizable appeare And when he came as if his coming thither A blessing to the Countrey had been thought To further his Designes they joyn'd together They strength'ned him against me what they mought And published of me to my disgrace What neither done nor spoke nor purpos'd was And that they with their Grandees might comply My Neighbours turn'd about I also find They whom in Peace I alwaies lived by And unto whom I never was unkind Ev'n they who true respect from me have had And till this War the like to me did show Are of my losses and disgraces glad And to my causlesse wrong befriend my Foe They mention me when they together sit As if it hardly could allowed be That of Religion Souldieries or Wit There appertained any share to me And speak for truths what they themselves do know They may with safety sweare is nothing so My greatest wrongs and suffrings now be there Where best I have deserv'd My greatest scorne And dis-respect is in those places where My dwelling was and there where I was borne They who are most obliged to befriend me Have most abus'd my patience and desert They who have made a Covenant to defend me Have with my chiefest haters taken part Yea now when my affronts are to the wrong Of Publike-Justice and when my defence Vnto the Publike-safety doth belong They have expos'd my well-known innocence To his despight gainst whom erewhile I thought I needed not protections to have sought In some respects their cruelties are more Then theirs by whom my dwelling wast was laid For though they rob'd my house and left me poore To bar reliefe no spightfull part they plaid But these trod on me when they saw me down And lest I should finde pitie in distresse A false report by them abroad was blowne As if my well knowne losses had been lesse Then I can prove them For I offer here That if my hindrances well weigh'd be found One mite below what I affirm'd they were For ev'rie shilling I will give a pound If they will my true dammages defray When I have prov'd that true which they gain-say Yet some to that intent did late suborne The most defamed Varlets of the Shire To sweare against me and to be forsworne By crossing what they formerly did swear To that intent while our Committee sate The Kingdomes Foe had leave in person there To mannage witnesses as for the State And them by leading questions to prepare For proofe of what they falsly did suggest To my dishonour But they could not bring Their witnesses against me to attest One culpable or one materiall thing Nor was it worth regarding if they had Consid'ring of what persons choice they made For one of those unto that village came Where now he lives due punishment to shun Or to escape a just deserving shame For what he in another place had done He now in part by labour part by prowling With other courses to his neighbours knowne As lawlesse fishings and unlawfull fowling And taking somwhat more then is his own Makes shift to live Another of this Pack Was he that should have been the Instrument Of my betraying who like course doth take And lately to avoid the punishiment Deserved long is married to a whore With whom he lived like a knave before The third a Labourer of evill fame Whom I five years together had imploy'd To keep his brats from starving him from shame And that he other mischieves might avoid This Beast when I was plundred by our Foes Of what they found made offer for a sum By him desired that he would disclose A parcell of my goods then hidden from Those Vultures eyes who readily agreed To promise much But when the work was done And this false Traitor came to aske his meed Some blowes they gave but money gave him none And told him hanging was the fittest pay For him that such a master would betray The fourth of these had been my servant too Whom though he had deserved publike shame For doing more then honestie should do I put away without an open blame And at that time his faultinesse conceal'd Because he seem'd religiously inclin'd But shortly after other men beheld Apparent proofe of his dis-honest mind For in the night felloniously he broke A Colonels Field Waggon of our side Then quartering at his Masters and thence took Some things of worth for which he did abide Correction in the Bilboes for a day And after by connivance ran away These were the witnesses which forth were sought By some who for the Parliament pretend In hope their power should more effects have wrought On those choice Instruments to worke their end These whom I 'le prove charactred thus to be Without the least addition of a lie Are they whom now my foes to scandall me Have rak'd out of the ditch of infamy These are encourag'd to devise and say Of me their pleasures and to bring and carrie What ever to my wrong convert they may Or to the profit of my adversarie Whom to the States dishonour they protect And meerly in dispight of me respect When informations were against him laid And his reply required thereunto From just restraint his person they convaid Before cause showne or order so to do On his

calling understand And lay their many failings more to heart For most have liv'd as if to idlenesse And to debaucherie they had been borne And large estates for nothing did possesse But for supplies of lust to serve their turn A die a cocke a hound hawke horse or whore Were chiefest objects of their contemplation Their sinnes alone are though you had no more Enough to bring a Land to desolation And they have been chiefe cause and instruments Of all these Plagues for which this Realme laments But much will want of perfecting a peace Vntill your Men of Law perswaded be To mourn apart For they will re-increase Your quarrells else assoon as you agree By their formalities and slow proceeding Your remedie for injuries is made A mischiefe the disease oft times exceeding And if some eye unto them be not had So many places in your Parliament They will supply and fill so many Chaires In your Committees that much derriment Vnto the Subject and some close impaires Of publike freedomes e're you be aware Which slip upon you if you have not care They have already made the common way Of Trialls very greatly to inlarge Your troubles by impertinent delay And circumstances to the suiters charge So strong a party they have alwaies had That your Great-Charter which doth interdict Delay of Justice was in that point made E're since the grant a Law without effect But when their Courts and practises have reach'd Oppressions height They as the Clergie were Shall downe into another Orb be fetch'd And taught to keep a constant motion there This Work upon some Courts hath been begun Another time it shall be fully done Let ev'rie Oiconomick-Government And ev'rie single person through the Nation In ev'rie Family apart lament And take his wayes into examination For all Estates and Common-weals that be Consist of these And whensoe're you shall Those Pettie-Governments reformed see You then are in the way of mending all If ev'rie Houshold-Prince and Officer Within his Jurisdiction would but please To make compleat a Reformation there The Work-desired should be done with ease Let each one therefore take the same in hand In all relations wherein he may stand Let ev'rie Master prudently direct And ev'rie Servant faithfully obey Let ev'rie Husband husband-like affect And ev'rie Wife a wife-like love repay Let Parents parent-like their hearts enlarge Their filiall duties let the Children do Let singly all of these their parts discharge Both to the Family and Strangers too Yea let each person individually Now take himselfe apart and all alone His heart examine what Impietie By him hath been occasioned or done Whereby your Peace was broke and then assay To help renew it by what means he may But chiefly let the Royall-Family Admit this Discipline that others may Receive encouragement and light thereby To find a Penitentiarie-way Oh I let the King if ever he expect To see the Citie of his Throne in peace Go mourne apa●● and let his thoughts reflect Vpon his folly and unrighteousnesse Let him like David and not Ahab-like Take meekly those reproofs that GOD shall send And let them on his heart so kindly strike That he enraged grow not but amend With that great Patterne of true Penitence When he like sheep beholds his people slaine Let him not look too much on their offence But rather let him of his own complaine That they may do the like and GOD perceiving True penitence quit both by free forgiving Let not the Jezabel of Rome delude him With her black witch-crafts and her fornications The cup of her delusions if in vaine His warnings prove the deepest he shall sink Into that Lake whence none can rise againe Because he hath not only had a sight Beyond them all of her seducing waies But also hath acknowledged that Light And wilfully himselfe to her betraies Yea and to make his sin and shame the more Betraies the bloud of others to the Whore Yet that he may have all the meanes to fetch him Back from perdition if he be not gone So far by wilfulnesse that none can reach him Let him be personally call'd upon To look unto his waies And since you know His Flatterers present him their false glasse Himselfe thereby unto himself to show And make him seeme the man he never was Help thou to undeceive him lest he may With his three earthly Kingdomes now halfe lost Fool desp'rately a heav'nly Crown away And think he shall redeem it at the cost Of trimming up the Western end of PAVLS By Fines extracted from afflicted Soules First bid him call to mind with mourning for them The sins which did his Fathers-house pollute And in his heart so seriously abhor them That it may bring forth penitentiall fruit The bloud of War that hath in Peace been shed The manifold uncleannesses therein The superstitions thereby cherished Offences known and those that hid have bin The prosecution of the royall-bloud In Arabella guilty of no crime Except it were offensive to be good And to have had her being in his time The matchlesse prophanation of a Day For Gowries death his many great oppressions The fooling of the Kingdomes wealth away And Subjects lives by cheating Expeditions With whatsoe're offences of this kind He shall upon a strict enquirie find Wish him with like affections to recall The slips of his own Reigne and of his life The mischiefs which to Him and you befall In hunting for a superstitious Wife His making of Nobility a scorne By dignifying men of base-condition By choosing Counsellours to serve his turne In setling things unworthy his fruition By suffring of his royall Proclamations To be abused to injurious ends By making showes of verball Reformations For publike good when rapine he intends By faining fears when cause of feare none give him And by protesting untill few believe him Let Him consider that all those for whom Against two Kingdome he in Armes appears And whose Protector He is now become Are men whom nothing but their sin endears Let Him consider what a sea of bloud In his three Kingdomes hath of late been spilt For those who share among them all his good And make him culpable of all their guilt Let him consider that what now he strives And fights for is but power to be undone Or that he may by his Prerogatives Without controule unto the Devill run For unto him that power or that supply Which may be for his good none shall deny Let him remember what the German-horse Should have been sent for Let him call to minde Distressed Rochel And that which will worse Afflict him when his feeling he shall finde Poore gasping Ireland whose wide-gaping wound Calls out for vengeance and his honour taints With deep-di'd staines His flat'rers feigne a sound From Straffords bloud and other such black-Saints But that Illusion will not keep him long From hearing Ireland For two Kingdomes more Have sent in bloud to make a triple-Song Which will so dreadfully so