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A66752	Ecchoes from the sixth trumpet. The first part reverberated by a review of neglected remembrances, abreviating [sic] precautions and predictions heretofore published at several times, upon sundry occasions, to forewarn what the future effects of divine justice would be, as soon as our sinnes were full ripe,if not prevented by timely repentance : most part of the predictions have been already seen or heard verified, both by the author yet living, and by many others, who observed at what times, in what manner, upon what persons, and in what places they were literally or mystically fulfilled : collected out of the said authors printed books, who conscienciously [sic] observed on what divine prophesies the said predictions were grounded, as also God's late frequent intermixture of judgments and mercies, to reclaim this generation.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1666 (1666)	Wing W3155; ESTC R38724	102,560	226

so too perhaps when they shall see Themselves assaulted with new Plagues to be This I believing and considering What hazard that neglect therewith might bring And what assurances I did possess I had contracted a grand guiltiness By disobeying and more had therein Transgressed against God then by a sin Against the State though such Truths utter'd were As they shall most displeasing be to hear What ever others think this is my fear And to my Soul so terrible a thing The wilful disobeying that great King Appears to me that I should never sleep In peace again if silence I should keep Now therefore neither all the Royal Graces Of Kings nor Gifts nor honorable places Shall stop my mouth nor will I smother this Though twenty Kings had sworn to make me kiss The Gallows for it lest my Conscience should Torment me more then all men living could Yea though this did proceed from Ignorance Or Fancy as it will be thought perchance Yet since that Fancy may present to me As hideous frights as things that real be I 'le rather hazard twenty deaths to dye Then to be tortur'd by my Fantasie For I had rather in a Dungeon dwell Five years then in my soul to feel a Hell Five minutes and whilst GOD and I are Friends I shall not care how many this offends Now because this Remembrancer was long ago imprinted and is not easie to be gotten the Contents of every Canto as they were at first published are here inserted that the general scope thereof may be known to them who desire it The Contents of the first Canto OUr Author first with GOD begins Describes his anger for our sins Of all his Judgments muster makes Declares how Mercy undertakes The pleading of this Kingdoms Cause To bring GOD's wrath unto a pause And for the common Reader suites High things with lowly Attributes Then steps into a praiseful strain Of Charles His new-beginning Reign Emplores that well succed it may And for His Weal makes Mercy pray He Justice also introduces Complaining on our gross abuses Who proveth so our sinful Nation To merit utter Desolation That all GODs Plagues had us enclos'd If Mercy had not interpos'd But after pleading of the Case With Justice Mercy doth embrace Who that our sins may punish't be To send the Pestilence agree Their other Plagues a while suspending To prove how that will work amending The Contents of the Second Canto Our Muse defends her lowly stile And having flown aside a while Tells how the Plague first entred here What Means to stay it practis'd were Some vulgar Tenents are disputed Some rectified some refuted She from the Nature and the Cause Of that Disease conclusions draws Declareth how it runs and creeps And what uncertain paths it keeps How long strict Orders useful stood The fruit of Christian Neighbourhood And many other things betwixt These mentioned are intermixt She sheweth also means assured By which this Mischief may be cured How to apply that means how those Who use it should themselves compose How violent the Plague did grow Who from it might or might not go How much 't was feared how men fled How ill in flying many sped And lastly as occasion moves She grieves she counsels and reproves The Contents of the Third Canto The House of Mourning which most fear And flye so much is praised here It shews that outward Joyes and Care Nor meerly good nor evil are But things indifferent which the wise Nor over-praise nor under-prise The strife within our Authors brest About his stay is next exprest Then doth it orderly recite What Reason argu'd for his flight What Faith alledged to reprove The Motives urging his remove What Arms for him she did prepare To hide the shock of Death and Fear What proof she to his Conscience made That he a lawful calling had In midst of this great Plague to tarry By Warrant extraordinary What thereupon he did conclude What Joy and Confidence ensu'de How much this Favour he doth prise Above Earths glorious'st Vanities How he his time desires to spend And so this Canto hath an end The Contents of the Fourth Canto Our Muse in the Fourth Canto writes Of Melancholly thoughts and sights What Changes were in ev'ry place What Ruines in a little space How Trades and how Provisions fail'd How Sorrow thriv'd how Death prevail'd And how in triumph he did ride With all his Horrors by his side To London then she doth declare How suiting her Afflictions were To former Sins what good and bad Effects this Plague produced had What Friendly Champions and what Foes For us did fight or us oppose And how the greatest Plague of all On poor Artificers did fall Then from the Fields new grief she takes And useful Meditations makes Relates how slowly Vengeance came How GOD forewarn'd us of the same What other Plagues to this were joined And here and there are interlined Vpbraidings Warnings Exhortations And pertinent Expostulations The Contents of the Fifth Canto The Author justifies again His Method and his lowly strain Next having formerly made known The common Fears he tells his own Shews with what thoughts he was diseased When first the Plague his Lodging seized Of what GOD's Justice him accused Upon what doubts or hopes he mused On what and how he did resolve And who from Death did him absolve The Plagues encrease he then expresseth The Mercies of the LORD confesseth Emplores that he himself may never Forget them but be thankful ever Then mounting Contemplations wings Ascends to high and useful things From thence his Muse is called down To make Great Britan's errors known Wherein he doth confess a failing And his infirmities bewailing Is fitted and resolv'd anew His purpos'd Message to pursue And having first anticipated His Arrant is in part related The Contents of the Sixth Canto The Poet weighing well his Warrant Goes on with his enjoined Arrant Impartially he doth relate This Islands good and bad estate What several sins in her have place How gross they are how they encrease He also tells and then he shews That nor the Gentiles nor the Jews Were check'd or plagu'd for any Crimes Which are not reigning in these times Next that he boldly doth approve The course in which our Nobles move Derides their folly blames their sin And warns what danger they are in Our Gentry then he reprehends Their foolish humours discommends And having brought them to their sights Upon the guilty Clergy lights On Lawyers that abuse the Laws On Officers and on the Cause Of most Corruptions Last of all On some Enormities doth fall Which are in Court and City found And runs this Canto there on ground The Contents of the Seventh Canto First of himself he somewhat speaks Then of the Cities Errors makes A larger Scrowl and therewithal Inserts Abuses general He shews by reason of her sin What Misery this Land is in What ill success and what dishonor Is for her follies come upon her In Foreign

ECCHOES FROM THE SIXTH TRUMPET Reverberated by A Review of Neglected Remembrances Abreviating Precautions and Predictions heretofore published at several Times upon sundry Occasions to forewarn what the future Effects of Divine Justice would be as soon as our Sinnes were full ripe if not prevented by timely Repentance Most part of the Predictions have been already seen or heard verified both by the Author yet living and by many others who observed at what Times in what manner upon what Persons and in what Places they were literally or Mystically fulfilled Collected out of the said Authors Printed Books who conscienciously observed on what Divine Prophesies the said Predictions were grounded as also GOD's late frequent intermixture of Judgments and Mercies to reclaim this Generation The First Part. Matth. 13. 52. Every Scribe which is instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a Housholder who bringeth out of his Treasure things new and old Imprinted in the Year Chronogrammically expressed in this Seasonable Prayer LorD haVe MerCIe Vpon Vs. A PREFACE to the following REVIEW offering somewhat therewith considerable THis Preface and the following Review were not without good reason personated as written by a Third person yet perhaps may make it questionable Whether they were done by the Author of the Books abreviated or by another hand but that is not material For they express nothing save what may be by him justified in every circumstance and therefore it shall so pass He was Thirteen years old when Queen Elizabeth reigned and even at that time begun to observe both the Works of GOD and the Actions ef Men so continuing to do from time to time whereby with GOD's gracious assistance he was preserved from grosly falling into and persevering in those sins whereto he was naturally prone and came into the world at a time which gave him such an Experimental knowledg both of GOD and Men as he could not have had in many preceding Generations for he hath lived to see Eleven Signal Changes in which not a few Signal Transactions Providentially occurred to wit under the Government of Queen Elizabeth King James Charles the First the King and Parliament together the Parliament alone the Army Oliver Cromwel Richard Cromwel a Council of State the Parliament again and now King Charles the Second during all which times he lived in those Places and in such midling Stations between persons of the highest and lowest degree exercised in Employments which gave him opportunity to heed what was done both by those who were above and below him GOD had also bestowed upon him a Faculty which though it be despised and he therewith but meanly endowed would not permit him to be altogether idle or silent for it compelled him to a consciencious exercise of his Talent in that which he thought required at his hand and to take all occasions from time to time happening to commemorate and offer to consideration those things whereby GOD might be glorified and his Countreymen benefited in some degree which duty though not so well as he would he hath so well as he could prosecuted to this day He begun very early by expressing and publishing those Conceptions which the Affections and Inclinations of Youth had awakened in him endeavouring to season them with as much Morality and Piety as Subjects of that nature are capable of suiting them to capacities of young men who delight to see their own Natural Passions represented as it were in a glass wherein they not onely met with some better things then they looked for but with such Notions also therewith mixed as insinuated into their hearts that seasoning which made them much delighted with his Poems and rendred him so generally known that many thousands were desirous to peruse his future Writings and to take better heed of that whereof else perhaps they had taken little or no notice though expressed by a more elegant and learned Author It likewise encouraged him to assume all Occasions to prosecute that which might most redound to GOD's Glory and the edifying of men in Faith and Righteousness though it were to his personal disadvantage in carnal concernments And GOD hath given him comfort therein carrying him on hitherto through all difficulties occurring though by impartially discharging his Conscience in such a mode as had provoked many powerful persons to prosecute him with Indignation for his frequent reproofs have been very offensive notwithstanding they were in general terms onely without personal aspersions and with as much charity and tender respect to every mans infirmities and unwilling failings as to his own Length of time hath given him so many several occasions to declare what he thought necessary or expedient that his Published Poems and Writings amount now to about a hundred besides many never Printed In which though he hath exprest much to the same purpose in various forms and words yet the same or like occasions warrant the application of the same or like matter and words as the practise of the holy Prophets and Apostles hath evidenced to be sometimes necessary For that Medicine which operates not at one time doth work effectually at another on the same persons or upon those of another constitution Meats also variously dressed are pleasing to their appetites and well digested by their stomacks who almost loathed them when often eaten cook't the same way And so it is in this case Wherefore he hath endeavoured to put his Matter into such a dress otherwhile in Prose and otherwhile in a Poetical Mode that it may suit with vulgar capacities and not be despised by the most Judicious mixing so far forth as may be decent Delight and Profit according to this old Verse Et prodesse solent Delectare Poetae His presuming to give counsel to them who neither desire it nor care for his advice hath much offended many and made them heedless of that which might have prevented their sorrow but it hath pleased and benefited some and that makes him slight their Proverb which forbids coming to give Counsel before we are called And he hath nevertheless prosecuted the multiplying of Doctrinal Remembrances Exhortations Precautions and Predictions to prevent that which the neglect of them will produce until they amounted to that numerousness which appears in those Books whereof this is an Abridgment And by considering upon whose Promises and Threatnings they are grounded he hath not been affraid to predict conditionally those Mercies aud Judgments which are promised and menaced in those Books here abreviated And some will find that which is not yet verified upon Wilful Delinquents to be at last as truly fulfilled as those which they have seen though the world hath made it one of her Principles to believe and profess That Prophesying hath long time ceased because her wise men think as the Apostle Peter said prophane men would do in the later times who scoffingly say Where is the Promise of his coming for since the Fathers fel asleep all things continue as they

to Kings Make no man Your Chief Confident but he That is discreet and honest fam'd to be Lest he deceives Your Trust and in the close Destroys Your old Friends and begets new Foes Let Justice be your Scepter and Your Crown Be Mercy and if You would keep Your own Give that to others which to them belongs And free the poor and fatherless from wrongs Especially Your main Endeavours bend To make keep Your Soveraign Lord Your Friend And if You would be setled on Your Throne Take care that His Usurped be by none Enjoy Your Conscience whatsoe'er it be So other men may have their Conscience free And hang me for a Traitor if hereby You then enjoy not more Security Then what Your strength by Land Sea now gives And all that Humane Policy contrives Let Truth and Error fight it out together Whilst Civil Peace disturbed is by neither Which may be so provided for that none Shall justly be displeas'd with what is done Nor You thenceforward be for evermore Disturbed as You have been heretofore If You neglect this and I disobey 'T will be with much grief and no other way But onely passively and whatsoever I suffer will Your Welfare still endeavour To be of this mind thousands I believe Whom You to favour do not yet receive And whilst they are excluded though in peace They live suspitions daily will encrease By which You may have trouble and they blame Who shall be no way guilty of the same Your taking timely opportunities Now offer'd from what yet before You lies May render You a blessed Instrument In making smooth way to that Government Which Tyrants and ungodly men most fear You and Your Subjects mutually endear More glorious make Your Temporary Throne Then ever English King yet sate upon And Your Name to be terrible to those Who to Christ's Kingdom shall continue Foes Herein I 've spoke according to my Creed Wishing my just hopes may thereon succeed And that upon Your heart it may work more Then what I 've spoke to others heretofore But GOD's time is at hand within his Pow'r Are all mens wayes yea both Your heart and our And I will patiently submit unto What either he or you shall please to do Not asking whatsoe're I seem to want Ought more then You spontaneously shall grant For what I may expect if You deny So far as need shall be GOD will supply The Liberty I covet to enjoy Is that which no man living can destroy The Wealth I aim at is nor less nor more But to be well contented rich or poor And if I had a will my Wits to strain That I to Earthly Honours might attain I should to no such Vulgar Heights aspire As now are Objects of most mens desire Or to a style of so mean Consequence As is an Earl a Marquess Duke or Prince Or to be call'd Your Cousin For no less Would satisfie my large Ambitiousness But such a Dignity as did commend His Loyalty whom David called Friend And means enough to make a Parallel Of ev'ry Traitor with Achitophel For then you should in very short time see That no man more deserves esteem'd to be Your Loyal Subject A THANKFUL RETRIBUTION Imprinted 1649. THis was written to express the Author's gratitude to some few Members of Parliament who without his seeking had propounded an Expedient whereby to satisfie his just Demands but being without effect that which was neglected is here again revived as pertinent to consideration at this time Though Wishes are but words Thanks are no more And my Oppressions make me not so poor But that I have yet Thanks enough to pay For Fifty thousand Wishes in one day And I much thank you Page the Second But truly I expect not yet to see The World neglect her own to think on me Nor do I ought for my Advantage crave Whereby the Publick may disprofit have I rather wish That what is truly known By Service and by Grant to be mine own Might be confer'd or means at least whereby My Labours might support my Family Till I receiv'd my dues For that would please My longing more then all those Offices Which others covet and wherein few can At once grow rich and be an honest man And wherein as Affairs are manag'd now He that would fain be honest knows not how I value not my self so high to set My heart on what I am not like to get No nor so low but that if I had wings To reach them I would flye at th' highest things Your House could give me or the world could show me Yet set them at a distance far below me For he who of himself esteem shall make By those things which the World may give or take Or he who by his Trappings or his Place Doth prize himself his Manhood doth debase If I well know my heart I seek no more Of this Worlds Honour or of her vast store Then what sufficeth to defray the Debts Which Duty and Necessity now sets Upon me or which may yeeld means to do Those Works which God may seem to call me to And keep up that frail part of me which dyes Or lives unactive without due supplies Yet when I did perceive with what disdain Some did your friendly motion entertain And how they jeer'd thereat it tempted me To wish your Motion might vouchsafed be That I might see how mad the Fools would grow With Envy if they liv'd to see it so One said the Place was fitter to reward A Member of your House and it appear'd Thereby to me that he had quite forgot As others do the Self-denying Vote Some seem to think that seeing I am poor Whate're they owe me they should give no more Then sutes my present Fortune as if I With my Estate had lost my Dignity And he had got it who since t'other day Is grown Sub-Grandee from a beggar-boy By such an Occupation as hath yet Neither improv'd his Honesty or Wit But let these make the best of their New Lot So mine they wrong not I envy them not And 't is my honour rather then my shame Now to be poor because I poor became Not by mine own default and in a time When to be very rich implies a crime For who with honour to great Wealth can rise When all the Land is full of poor mens cries Or what shame thereby him can seise upon Who wants when Kings and Kingdoms are undone Or poor became because he lent and gave His whole Estate the Neighbourhood to save And what at last will unto such succeed Who when they may relieve not that mans need I covet not the Place propos'd for me Although as capable thereof as he Who did possess it for I know too well Wherein that man his Neighbours must excel Who hath an aim so high except there shall Some extraordinary Change befall And me I think it would advance no more Then did that Office I held heretofore For in