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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10089	Times anotomie [sic]. Containing: the poore mans plaint, Brittons trouble, and her triumph. The Popes pride, Romes treasons, and her destruction: affirming, that Gog, and Magog, both shall perish, the Church of Christ shall flourish, Iudeas race shall be restored, and the manner how this mightie worke shall be accomplished. Made by Robert Pricket, a souldier: and dedicated to all the lords of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell.	Pricket, Robert.	1606 (1606)	STC 20342; ESTC S115240	33,232	64

to seru●●●●● their turnes withall Their actions waied then let the truth speake thus Pittie to them is crueltie to vs. Are these the fruites that Romish Saints forth bring Is it for this so oft th●●●●●y masses sing Is this the zeale of their veligio●●●●●s heate So oft for this doe they their prayers repeate Is it for this their God in minde to beare That on their brests a Crueifixe they weare Is it for this that whip themselues they vse For this doe they their cloathes to weare refuse Doe they for this to Saints and Angels pray Vse shrift and ponance and fast so oft must they Is this their loue almes patience and humilitie Is this their peace and churches sweete tranquilitie Are these the children that Romane faith begets With helpe of Popes Friers Nunnes and Iesuits Are they for this with holy-water bles●●●●● Doe their perfection in these effects consist Now sute since they such deeds as these preferre The Pope's a whore her children bastards are All their deuotion●●●●● brings such workes about Oh God keepe me from being so deuout I hope the Papists no excuse can make This treason was for their religion sake And all the treasons in late Eliza●●●●●s raigne Were done by those that did Romes Sea 〈◊〉 So many then as are thereof asham'd Leaue Rome serue God and be no further blam'd But let obedience to your Soueraigne proue Your saithfull soundnesse and repentant loue And though ere long the cunning of Romes dr●●●●●ft Will coyne some cause themselues from shame to 〈◊〉 Yet those of you that will not shamelesse be Come to our Church and from Romes doctri●●●●●e flee And you that are the simplest sort of them That may be thought plaine honest meaning men Your ignorance no sound deuotion teacheth Trust not the lyes that Popish doctrine preacheth Some now I hope heauens grace to them imparted Will be from Rome by Romes foule deeds conuerted Oh may that honor whose heart sinnes action loath'd Hence forth no more be in Romes darknesse cloath'd Mounte Eagles like loue heauens all lightning sunne And from the clouds of Popish darknesse runne So many yeares the truth hath clearely shinde As none but those that will can still be blinde Who so his eyes against the light will shut Must needs himselfe in mistie darkenesse put Be such Religion of the world disdain'd As is with treason bloud and murther stain'd Papists still blinde let not our Ile containe them Send them to R●●●●●me for all but Rome disdaines them From of Romes shore my Muse her selfe doth wend And would her course vnto Great Briton bend My natiue land oh let to her my zeale The euidence of loues affection seale Who i st that sees the wrong vnto vs done But will from Rome and Romes adherents runne God in thy loue preserue those Princely states Who all as one Romes Sea and doctrine hates And those mongst vs that of profession vant My little ruft most peeuish puritant Whos 's Brownisme must our quiet state offend That witlesse striues for trifles to contend Whose in good sooth indeed and verilie Nere knew the ground of faiths sinceritie Whose folly in a wide maskt net doth dance Whose zeale is but a painted ignorance Whose wildenesse runnes the fields and woods vnto Where preaching Coblers learnes them what to doe Nise curious wits vaine idle wise like dawes Iumpe ouer blocks and stumble most at strawes When now they see how God his Church hath loued Let them thereby to ioyne with vs be moued And striue no more to prooue their foolerie Against both learning and authoritie Such will alone for Christ his flock be knowne And will allow no Church besides their owne Twixt them and those throwne into like suspence There should be made some greater difference Those that haue borne the burthen of the day And neuer ceast to watch to preach to pray Whose loue and zeale hath so heauens precepts taught As they to heauen haue greatest number brought To King and State whose hearts are constant sound Whose doctrine doth on faiths saluation ground Let not the Church giue to it selfe a wound By loosing those that are most faithfull found All those graue Preachers wise and fit to teach For trifles let them not refuse to preach But vse their tallant Gods number to increase Great is the sinne if now they holde their peace He doth not euill that to his power withstands it But who forbids not sinne and may command it The threates of lawe sway not affection so As those good deeds which righteous rulers doe When no man may tell kings they doe amisse Then in obedience their corruption is But God hath sent to vs a vertuous King Let vertues loue true loues obeysance bring Oh let our loue be to that grace not mist In which our selues and all the world is blist The glory of that royall issues line Like to the sunne their famous deeds shall shine For Britons weale let all good people trie To crowne her fame with perpetuitie God so the ground of her foundation lay As that no strength may worke her weales decay Her glories trophies let no such earth-quake shake Whose force would her the land of Ruine make But let the glory of her King and state Consume those foes that would her ruinate Traitors that would in bloud our land haue drownd God them destroy and all their plottes confound Those hearts that would domestick warres procure Be they first made of deaths destruction sure No home bred broiles may they our peace disturbe Such mindes oh let the strength of iustice 〈◊〉 Me thinkes there should be some thing vnderstood When heauen is cloath'd in cloudes of fire and bloud Before and since the heauens did neuer cast More signes then were about this treason last Could heathen men iudge future euils to hap When thunder did the Okes in peeces rap And if the sunne should but some signe bewraie Might no man dare gainst such prediction saie And now shall heauen both fier and bloud presage And we not thinke they chide this sinfull age Eclipses strange both 〈◊〉 Moone and Sunne When strangely they on heapes together come Shall reason so and wisdomes strength be broken That by such signes there shal be nothing spoken Shall God oft shake as in his furies wrath The solled roundle of this maslie earth And yet we still remaine secure in sinne Oh no let ts all for to repent begine The better that our safetyes strength may grow Let Iosua Acan and his wedge hence throw Our peace at home be that establisht sure No force abroad can Britons wracke procure In ciuill warres when souldiers armes are worne Vniust tryumphe the iust are force't to mourne No souldiers sword could make Romes Empire stand When Rome Rome selfe brus'd with rebellions hand Let Britons which doe God and Christ pro●●●●●esse Their faiths true soundnes by their deeds expresse So shall heauens God our King and land defend And from his Loynes a Roiall issue send That on his throne shall sit triumphantly Til Christ doth come in glorious dignitie This grace God grant and thus shall cease my pen But still my heart till death shall say Amen FINIS A Song of reioycing for our late deliuerance GReat Brittons Ile worlds wonder heauens delight Religions strength faiths seate professions stay Confirmd mayntaynd vpheld in hels despight That 〈◊〉 in thee saluation florish may Thy King suruiues and on Mount Sion standes Protected safe from force of traytors handes Thy Queene thy Prince thy Peeres and Princely state Thy Lords thy Bishopps Knights and Burgesses God hath preseru'd from Romes intestine hate A suddaine slame should haue consum'd all these Romes traytors n●●●●●w so to the world are knowne As treasons Min●●●●● hath Rome and them vp blowne Falshood ●●●●●ells childe in hel darke Pathes doth treade To hide it selfe from truthes disc●●●●●rning eye But traytors God will to destruction leade They cannot liue from iudgements stroke to flye Treason is like the Baziliske his eyes First seeing kills first being seene it dies In s●●●●●ight of Rom●●●●●s proude Antichristian force Celestiall ioy●●●●● with heauenly comfort 〈◊〉 Their soules in whom once toucht with sinnes remorce By ●●●●●aith in Christ a gratious dew distills Rome is exilde and this is Albions glory King Iames maintaines the scriptures sacred story When Gods true Church doth in her glory shine Why should some mindes their wisdome so preserre As if they were then scripture more diuyne By selfe conceipt to seede contentions iarre Sunne Moone and Starrs those lights too little be To giue them light that will themselues not see A vnyon and a vniforme Conclude For trifles let not time with truth contende No shadowes can substantiall faith delude Indifferent things should not the wise offend By ioyning all in blessed vnitie With datelesse fame Crowne Brittons monarchie FINIS

same shall to the heauens aspire Great Britaine so is by Gods hand instal'd As it shall be the land of conquest cal'd But now to ease a poore mans grieued minde In things aboue my sight shall comfort finde I know the time when I poore wretch reiected Shall as the best be no whit lesse respected When Kings and Queenes of greatest excellence Twixt them and me shall be no difference And there dwels Mercy Oh there a Sauiour liueth That to the poore saluations comfort giueth Not many Kings nor Queenes nor Nobles shall Triumph before heauens throne maiesticall But those that in this world their heauen doe make Shall in that world before Gods iudgment shake The beautie which on earth no praise doth lack Maskt vp in shame hels sulphure smoake makes black The snowe white hand moyst soft foule sinnes desire Shall burne in lake of hels eternall fire where diuels mēs soules with fiery darts strikes thorow And in their iawes like dogges they them shall worow Where God doth so his angers iudgment frame As that his wrath shall blow hels endlesse flame Euer Euer oh fearefull word for euer Where plagues encrease but shall be ended neuer Where torment brings torments with fresh supplie Where dying soules doe liue but neuer dye And ther 's the place where earths proud dignitie Shall plunge it selfe in endlesse misery But happie those whose soules by grace made pure Exempt from wrath shall no such plagues indure And most of them poore soules scornd and disgrac'd Are those that shall with God and Christ be plac'd When most on earth the poore despisde doe stand It doth presage Christs comming neere at hand Deiected base and out-cast pouertie Reioyce triumph in Mercies clemencie You are heauens flock a Shepheard doth you keepe Who of his number will not loose a sheepe Thus hath my sigh an honest passion breathed And of my woes a weeping garland wreathed My sighes my teares my woes my griefes lament My plaints my groanes all fruites of discontent Doe not themselues vpon one substance feed A generall doubt makes heart and soule to bleed A generall cuill a land to vildenesse bent Must needs expect some fearefull punishment Of present time the things desired heere Time prooues my words and makes the truth appeere Of time to come I humbly doe auowe Experience shall my words for truth allowe Search but the Story of that writte diuine And vnderstand the change of euery time Fiue hundred fiftie two yeares coumpted was A period whole which euer brought to passe Strange alterations both in Church and State Kings Kingdomes then did striue to ruinate Temples were rac'te Religion cleane despisde Tyrants by force of sword new lawes deuisde And now the time doth on such period stand As if it meant to take like course in hand Do but obserue each Celestiall spheare And see what signes doe in their course appeare Compare the time with antedated times And vnderstand the Heauens true speaking signes Then will you not these lines of mine deride Nor smother them with smoake of scornfull pride A Souldiers writing like his fighting is His course no●●●●● knowes how dangers rockes to misse Those Pens doe most their hopes in peeces batter That cannot best with oyled smoothnesse flatter A Souldiers name striue not for to disgrace Poore should not be accompted 〈◊〉 base And that I may not from the truth digresse My humble lines shall thus my state expresse The Souldier which doth scorne the lye to take Should scorne as much himselfe the lye to make The open fields to me is made my bed A bancke of earth a pillow for my head In shadie groues and sollitary places My steps doe make their sorrowes mournfull traces Imprisonment woes wofull habitation Hath forc't my Muse to secret contemplation In winter nights when I a Souldier was Alone my Muse should priuate motions tosse When in the warre I warres attire did beare My bookes to me most kinde companions were And some sad houres on skie-born●●●●● bookes I read Amongst the flarres an humble path I tread And see the great and strange Con●●●●●unctions there Of angrie Saturne Mars and Iupiter Since fi●●●●●st the Planets disclosde their variation Saturne neer had more Lord-like domination What it foretels my wea●●●●●y Muse sorgets In Dragons taile when strange Coniunction sets His name stands rouled in perditions booke Whose taile from heauē of starres the third part strooke Vnder the Dragons taile is fixed fast A strength that shall him and his tayle downe cast Mankinde the starres that Heauen should 〈◊〉 Shall be vpreard with glorious dignitie Though obseruation rightly may collect The iudgment of some retrograde aspect Yet Christ our King and kingdomes hath possessed With that wherein ourselues and world is blessed Though L●●●●●os house hath such reflection glided As tels there is some wondrous thing prouided I leaue to write and will conceit the rest Our land shall still by Gods great loue be blest A constant faith true resolution proues Feares not what vnder the first moouer mooues And in this thought I see with humble eye The mighty worke of Prima ●●●●●obili And know the world in fiery flames shall burne Before he doth to his first point returne For Heauen and earth by fire once purgd then sure They shall remaine as they at first were pure When God the world to iudgement summon will That first great mouer keepes his motion still Whose slow pace round doth roundly comprehend Those lesser Orbes that vnder him doe wend. In order each his fixed iourney takes And in their turnes celestiall musicke makes And then I thinke of that most happie time When I shall heare their dulsiue heauenly chime Aboue them all faiths eyes through Bethelem Be holds the glory of new Ierusalem Where sits vpon a Throane maiesticall The mightie maker of this wondrous all When thether once my ioyfull thoughts are sent I am amazde with wonders rauishment Nor tongues nor Pens nor Angels can expresse The glory of that glorious happinesse From thence to Luna not any Orbe to misse I cannot finde where Purgatorie is So that I thinke it sure remaineth yet Within their bellies that deuised it And those that would attaine to heauens great ioy Must leaue bye-pathes and finde in Christ their way But for the Starres I creatures them account Aboue them all their makers power must mount And by their influence more I will not learne Then Rules diuine shall teach me to discearne And in that course men sometimes are befriended Of those pure fiers by whom they are attended God euer yet by signes and visions told So as worlds change worlds worldlings might behold But cloddes of clay because they will not greeue This course they take to heare but not beleeue To gesse to speake to iudge great states to touch For me poore soule it is a strength too much Who so doth tel what things themselues doe show May doubt his words wil too presumptuous growe FVll twenty times nights Bride her selfe

require All these Consum'd by flame of rutheles fire No age makes record of so foule a sinne Since god did first to frame this world begyn Doomes day to England now bin threatned hath Ore which heauens God hath shak●●●●●e his hand of wrath Oh may our deedes his mercy so Commend As still his grace may Britons I le defend But now behold the fruites of Romish faith And know for truth what Popish doctrine saith Of binding and of loosing Popes haue got A strength which knittes of euery euill the knot And makes damnation seeme saluation sure If so thereby Rome may her gaine procure What most she craues is euery course to take How best she may her selfe worlds Monarch make The Pope that saith himselfe worlds God to be Speakes truth for so 's the deuill as well as he But Pope from Peter doth deriue his race And saith to him belongs the keyes of grace And he Christs vicar of all Gods church the head Must be supreame all Kings his frowne must dread With any oath he can at large dispence And at his pleasure pardon each offence Aboue Gods word he doth himselfe auow And his construction must the world allow True Christians they onely his doctrine likes And all the rest are damned Heretikes Gainst this the Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda cries And tels the Pope that like a diuell he lyes But still the Pope will keepe heauens golden gate And doth from thence Kings excomunicate No King on earth must haue his name inrold Vnlesse that first on him his Crowne he hold And al the world that on his sea not dwels Are Ethnicks Pagans faithlesse Insidels Those that not grow vpon his stock intire Are branches wilde fit for destructions fire Such hath he power to any death to put And from lifes tree those saplesse twigs to cut Without the Church as Iewes and Turkes they be That will not yeeld to his supremacie And Popish Romaines they are taught to know It lawfull is to worke their ouerthrow That will not yeeld obedience to the Pope In whose behalfe is giuen so large a scope That Traytors doe for heauenly merite hope Though thence the deuill doth pluck them in a Rope If for Romes sake they kill their lawfull King Bald iades for them shall trotting trentalls sing And they because so vilde a deed●●●●● they did For Saints at Rome shall be canonized The Pope such power vnto himselfe doth take As he a diuell a Saint can quickly make Heere briefely see the power of Rome set downe Aboue the world himselfe himselfe doth crowne Aboue Gods word and sacred Lawes diuine The monsters proud ambitious steps doe clime And from his seate of blasphemie hath flowne The fire that should haue King and Realmes vp blowne Villaines that would the world in sunder riue Say for Religions sake they did contriue That damned plot oh hellish insolence When deuils will make Religion euils desence The actors in a worke more then Tyrannicall They did themselues their countries purgers call In all they did meerely their countries loue Did them vnto the vildest actions moue They would not leaue her but like Champions stand Till they from bondage had freed their natiue land They but resolu'd to be most mercilesse To free the Catholicks from their long distresse From desperate times disease euils strength to loose They were inforc'd a desperate salue to choose The worst of euill was b●●●●●st in their esteeme From worse then euill their countrie to redeeme The Pope might them for faithfull Christians take When what they did was for religions sake Their plot found out the very place to sack Where all the lawes were made that wrought their wrack And this conceit in them a hope prefers They should be thought Gods iustice ministers These Realmes with Rome in vnion to vnite Was all the cause for which their hopes did fight For Romes auaile and for the Church her good King Kingdomes they would haue drownd in bloud For these good deedes whatsoeuer did befall Saints at the least the Pope would make them all Now see their worke and cause for which th●●●●●y wrought And iudge how well Rome hath her children ●●●●●aught Their euill to doe they were so confident As to performe't they tooke the Sacrament Christs Royall body substanciall flesh and bloud They say they eate and dranke and thereby stood Bound to performe the euill which they intended Oh then how farre should be their faith commended Here doth my Muse want words my thoughts to speake And doth into a strange admirement breake Oh God how durst these me●●●●● Sathanicall Imbru'de in bloud with hearts Tyrannicall Made blacke with treason gainst Gods annointed King Themselues before heauens Iesus Christ to bring And though from bread they can him not 〈◊〉 Yet in the signe he 's representatiue And bread not chang'd yet holy scripture saith By it we feed on Iesus Chris●●●●● by faith Not to dispute but say as they accoumpt Into what height doe their presumption mount When as a wretch before his God shall stand And thinke he holdes his Maker in his hand And yet with soule all stain'd as black as hell Euen at that instant doth in damnation dwell And records God and in him all the Trinitie To be the witnesse of his hell-borne villanie And sweares by them with desperate hand to act The vildenesse of the very vildest fact And thus resolu'd his Sauiour vp he eates So arm'd in proofe a King and State he threates Oh fearefull thing the seale of mans saluation Seales vp to them assured condemnation Yet they so blinde in faithlesse hopes doe trust And thinke thereby their vildest actions iust Heere see the strong delusion that should mocke The race cast from the number of Christs flocke Heere see the cup of worlds abhominations And know the whore that breaths forth execrations Against heauens throne the Lambe and all his Saints And yet she so her damned vildenesse paints As that she seemes of holinesse the seate But God for her hath laid vp iudgments great She and her pack that had our fall compounded Shall be ere long by Gods fierce wrath confounded And they that did for vs one flame desire God hath for them prepar'd an endlesse fire NOw would my Muse desire to expresse In vildest euill false traytors readinesse Catesbie so soone as he did Winter mooue Consent straight ioynd the worst of euill to proue There needed no perswasion to be vsde Hels motion was at first not once refusde What course so ere hell could to him propound His liues aduenture he thereon would ground So all the rest with selfe-same swismesse ranne To worke an euill the like nere wrought by man Their labour then their care and diligence Their watchfull heed their bountie and expence Their desperate and resolued confidence Till death to fight gainst heauen in hels defence Approues what power the deuill doth beare in those That serue his will and to his Aul●●●●●ers goes In England now