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<P>Englands Out-Cry, FOR The &s;ad di&s;tractions now lying upon the Church and STATE. Wherein &s;hee humbly implores mercy from God, pitty from her Soveraigne, and ju&s;tice on her Enemies. Laying downe, both the primary, and &s;econdary cau&s;es, of her fre&s;h bleeding calamities.</P>
<L><HI>So that Judicious, &s;imple, all may &s;ee,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The fir&s;t promoter of this mi&s;ery.</HI></L>
<P>Reade diligently, con&s;ider carefully, and make what thou ha&s;t read, a ca&s;e of Con&s;cience. VVritten by <HI>J. Harris.</HI></P>
<P>This is Licen&s;ed, and entered, according to Order</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>T. Forcet, Iuly</HI> 24. 1644.</P>
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<HEAD>Englands Out-Cry: FOR The di&s;tracted divi&s;ions of Church and State.</HEAD>
<P>_TIs a &s;ad &s;igne, when mercy proves the forerunner of mi&s;ery, when temporall injoyments for a mi|nute, u&s;hers on an age of &s;carlet calamities; when gentle entreaties worke not the de&s;ired effect, then &s;marting corrections mu&s;t inforce by power what love could not bring to pa&s;&s;e by courte&s;ie. Such is the ca&s;e of <HI>England,</HI> po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e, mi&s;erable, di&s;tracted, almo&s;t de&s;troyed <HI>England.</HI> I who was term'd the Virgin I&s;land, the Southern Arcadia, the land flowing with Milke and Hony, where plenty of all good, and delightfull plea&s;ure had its re&s;idence, where Peace brought Honour to the Prince, and Riches to the People, where the Soveraignes &s;ole delight and &s;tudy was to pre&s;erve the Subject, and the Subjects care (guided by Con&s;ci|ence) to ob&s;erve the ju&s;t commands of the Soveraigne, where the Prince hated Tyranie the Preachers Popery, and the Subject fear'd no &s;lavery, but every degree lived in the feare of God, in the favour of the Prince, injoying the fruits of their own Vine. I, even I, am now become as a widdow mourning for the lo&s;&s;e of her e&s;pou&s;ed Love: in&s;tead of &s;inging joyfull Anthems. I am inforced to take up a great lamentation, and cry out with the Prophet, <HI>Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountaine of</HI>
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<HI>teares, that I might weepe day and night <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> the &s;lain of the daug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ers of my People.</HI> But alas poore ENGLAND, what will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> vaile thee to lament, now when the acceptable time is pa&s;t, how happy hadde&s;t thou bin hadde&s;t thou known in this thy day what had belonged to thy Peace, but the day is gone, the night is come and darkene&s;&s;e covers the face of the whole earth, mercyes could not prevaile, threatning mu&s;t &s;ubdue, threatnings could not &s;ubdue, Iudgments mu&s;t de&s;troy, plagues could not forwarn us (though brought upon us yeare after yeare) therefore the &s;word mu&s;t now de&s;troy us. In this great &s;trait, to whom &s;hall poore ENGLAND complain, if to God, he cannot but appeare a ju&s;t avenger, a di&s;plea&s;ed Judge, an incen&s;ed Father, for the &s;laugh|ter of his beloved Sonne, whom ENGLAND hath cruelly crucified it may be ju&s;tly expected that in &s;tead of finding favors a &s;torme of fiery indignation will be &s;howr'd upon me. If I com|plain to neighbour Nations, in &s;tead of redre&s;&s;e, I &s;hall find de|ri&s;ion, rejociyng at my mi&s;ery, glorying in my downfall, I that was the heigth of their envie and admiration, am now become the &s;ubject of their wi&s;h, a de&s;olation, if I complain to my own, none will heare me, J have often (with prayers and teares) &s;ayd O King! Heare me, and have mercy on mee, but alas, Flatterers &s;tood &s;o thick between him and me, that all I &s;aid was to no pur|po&s;e, when I came with a Petition for Peace, he was &s;o bu&s;ie with a Councell of Warre, that my labour was lo&s;t, and in all my religious endeavours, to prevent this la&s;ting mi&s;ery, I found &s;o many Cro&s;&s;es, that being altogether di&s;heartned, I &s;ate me downe to con&s;ider what the cau&s;e might be, that &s;o many Pa|pi&s;ts were turn'd Prote&s;tants, &s;o many Courtiers turn'd Souldiers &s;o many Prelates made Peeres, &s;o many Ladyes made Councel|lors, &s;o many Knaves put in authority and the &s;equell of all I have found to be, that England having abounded in &s;in of all kinds a|bu&s;ed mercies, &s;lighted threatnings; &s;urfeited with Manna, was grown &s;ick of a Pluri&s;ie and the&s;e were appointed (by a divine Decree) to be the Hor&s;leeches that &s;hould &s;uck away the cor|rupted and putrified blood, bred from the evill Court humours and thence diffu&s;ed through the body of the whole Kingdom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">
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and in this they very well agree for they have &s;hewed them|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ves in&s;atiate blood-&s;uckers not &s;atisfied till by their abounding <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ey have bur&s;t them&s;elves, and almo&s;t ruined what they were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rdained to pre&s;erve, the cure proving much more de&s;perate <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">en the di&s;ea&s;e, &s;o much by the way, Sinne I found to be the pri|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ary and chiefe ground of my &s;ufferings, to looke back onely to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e dayes of Queene <HI>Elizabeth</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memory, had <HI>England</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">en been humbled for the blood-&s;hed in the Antichri&s;tian per|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">cution of Queene <HI>Mary,</HI> (who&s;e memory bringeth timely <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">rrow to my heart) the Enemie had never obtained &s;uch an ad|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">antage and encouragement as he had to worke and plot &s;o ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> wayes and &s;tratagems to de&s;troy our then (Faiths defendor) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">th the Prote&s;tant profe&s;&s;ion; for &s;inne gives the devill an ad|vantage and when a man lyes open unguarded, 'tis a happy advan|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">age for an enemy to take to kill him, penitent &s;orrow prevents <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">nne; had ENGLAND made a progre&s;&s;ion in a Religious re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ormation in the dayes of King <HI>Iames,</HI> and not &s;at downe in a Wilderne&s;&s;e, as beeing content to be onely freed from that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">GYPTIAN &s;lavery, not regarding to make a further progre&s;&s; into the land of <HI>Canaan Rome</HI> had not found &s;uch an opportunity to corrupt our Clergy and to bring us back again to make Bricks to, &s;ubject our &s;elves to <HI>Peters</HI> chaire&punc; and to endeavour the ad|vancement of the antichri&s;tian Kingdome, <HI>Romes</HI> Antagoni&s;t (Prince <HI>Henry)</HI> had not been de&s;troyed&punc; nor &s;o many famous and de&s;erving Peeres had their lives &s;hortned but onely to make way for the advancement of <HI>Romes</HI> Empire and the de|&s;truction of poore ENGLAND, to what end was &s;o many Parliaments di&s;&s;olved, and Parliaments &s;o long di&s;continued, but to &s;ubvert Religion and de&s;troy the Law: to what end was the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> faction &s;o much favoured but to &s;hew that they had declared them&s;elves ready to protect England, (with a Spani&s;h Fleet, a Powder con&s;piracy an <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;h</HI> rebellion, an Engli&s;h inva|&s;ion) to the totall de&s;truction of it's Religion and Liberty, can any man be &s;o &s;otti&s;h as not to &s;ee the Bi&s;hops, De<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nes and Doc|tors going in Proce&s;&s;ion to Rome&punc; ju&s;t when they began to per&s;e|cute Purita<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters"> with one <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">d, and entertain <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;uits, Fryars <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> plucking them to high <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> with both <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">and&punc;
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can it &s;eeme rea&s;onable that a Papi&s;t &s;hould love a Prote&s;tant or <HI>Spaine</HI> love <HI>England,</HI> where there is no Antipathy, but in prin|ciples of policie: can it be a matter rea&s;onable to think that they that now declare them&s;elves (the Law's defenders,) again&s;t the Kingdome, will maintaine them for the King, could he be wonne to put them in execution again&s;t them, or may it not ap|peare as great a principle in the Papi&s;ts of <HI>Spaine</HI> and <HI>France</HI> to endeavour the promotion of their Antichri&s;tian cau&s;e, a|gain&s;t <HI>England,</HI> as it is in <HI>England</HI> to maintain ours again&s;t them, certainely it cannot be denied, yet &s;uch is <HI>Englands</HI> mi&s;ery, Her off-&s;pring prove abortives and Viper-like, endeavour to eat up their native mothers bowels: they endeavour to de&s;troy what nature enjoynes them to pre&s;erve, this devi&s;ion hath &s;in brought upon me, Father again&s;t Sonne, Sonne again&s;t Father: what the &s;word leaves; the fire de&s;troyes, blood touches blood, and feare and angui&s;h upon every &s;oule. <HI>The anger of the Lord hath divi|ded us.</HI> What earthly power hath ability to joyne what God hath divided, we have &s;eene many experiences. How long hath the &s;ole endeavours of the High Court of Parliament bin im|ployed to &s;ettle the&s;e different di&s;tractions and to promote the Peace of <HI>England,</HI> and what hath hindered (Sinne) that hath di|vided God and <HI>England,</HI> and God he hath divided <HI>England,</HI> in it &s;elfe, and a&s;&s;uredly know till <HI>England</HI> make a divi&s;ion between &s;inne and it, there will never cea&s;e to be a divi&s;ion in it, Oh then for <HI>Englands</HI> &s;ake! &s;peedily &s;et about this worke, if there mu&s;t be a divi&s;ion let it be betweene &s;inne and us. Heare O King and give eare to <HI>Englands</HI> Petition, let not flattery pervert Judg|ment, but let Law and Ju&s;tice &s;upport the Crowne. Heare O Queene <HI>Englands</HI> Petition, let not Idolatry lead you captive but imbrace the truth, &s;o &s;hall your &s;oule live. Heare O Nobles <HI>Englands</HI> Petition, let not Ambition inthrall Vertue, but really endeavour the advancement of Gods glory, with the good of the King and Kingdome. Heare O Clergy <HI>Englands</HI> Petition. <HI>Vnto you is given to be knowne the my&s;teries of the Kingdome of God.</HI> O then endeavour to u&s;e convincing and converting ar|guments, arme your &s;elves with the power of the Lord and in a
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Religious Warfare endeavour the pulling downe of <HI>Babell</HI> and the &s;etting up the throne of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> Heare O People and give care to <HI>Englands</HI> Petition, how long &s;hall wi&s;dome cry in the &s;treets and be rejected: how long will you continue in your &s;ins and wage&punc; Warr&egrave; again&s;t the great God of Heaven and Earth, <HI>O repent repent and turne from your wicked wayes, why will ye dye O ye Church of England.</HI> be per&s;waded to hate Swearing Pro|phane&s;&s;e, Sabath breaking, Go&s;pell contemning, Mercy abu&s;ing, Judgement &s;lighting: Heart hardning, &s;elfe &s;ecuring thinke not that you &s;hall fare better then your brethren in <HI>Ireland</HI> and <HI>Eng|land</HI> that hath been devoured by the &s;word for know of a truth except you repent you &s;hall all likewi&s;e peri&s;h leave Iudging o|thers and judge your &s;elves, leave ju&s;tifying your &s;elves and ju&s;ti|fie others. O King, Queene, Prince Peeres, Preachers, and People. Heare <HI>Englands</HI> Petition, be per&s;waded to &s;et upon this worke with &s;peed, now while 'tis cal'd to day, for who knowes what a day may bring forth, who knowes whether the Lord may heare us and have mercy on us, and heale our iniqui|ties, and give a clo&s;e to our differences, uniting in a bond of peace the heart of the King, Parliament and People, and make <HI>England</HI> once more a Garden of plea&s;ure, which now appeares a terrene <HI>Golgotha,</HI> a bloody field of Slaughter.</P>
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<HEAD>The fir&s;t An&s;wer to <HI>Englands</HI> Petition.</HEAD>
<L>Pore <HI>England</HI> know 'tis my de&s;ire,</L>
<L>That Peace &s;hould expiate this fire,</L>
<L>But tis in vaine, for <HI>Englands</HI> doome:</L>
<L>Is hither &s;ent from fatal <HI>Rome.</HI></L>
<L>I with poore <HI>Englands</HI> Foes doo jarre,</L>
<L>I &s;eeke for Peace, but meet with Warre.</L>
<L>Then &s;eeke to God, to him complain:</L>
<L>Tis he mu&s;t bring thy Peace again.</L>
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<HEAD>ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<L>Oh poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>England!</HI> Who &s;hall bring</L>
<L>Reliefe unto thee, &s;ince thou now do'&s;t &s;tand,</L>
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Without all hope of comfort from thy King,</L>
<L>Being made a prey unto another land:</L>
<L>Who&s;e Papal Monarch tirany &s;o boa&s;ts,</L>
<L>As to wage warre again&s;t the Lord of Hoa&s;ts.</L>
<L>And if gain&s;t Heaven he dares to advance his &s;word&punc;</L>
<L>What &s;hall poore England do? Helpe, helpe, O Lord.</L>
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<HEAD>The &s;econd An&s;wer to <HI>Englands</HI> Petition.</HEAD>
<L>England rebellious, know it is my will,</L>
<L>To force obedience, make thee bowe thy knee,</L>
<L>In true &s;ubjection to <HI>Room's</HI> Empery.</L>
<L>Tis not your zealous errors, which you &s;till,</L>
<L>Maintain again&s;t Our &s;acred Profe&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>Shall get your Peace out of Our &s;weet po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion:</L>
<L>But of Our fury you &s;hall drinke your fill.</L>
<L>Nor will Wee cea&s;e, till Wee through Blood and Fire</L>
<L>Obtain <HI>Rom's</HI> Peace, the thing Wee mo&s;t de&s;ire.</L>
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<HEAD>ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<L>Harke <HI>Englands</HI> Sonnes and Daughters? Quickly heare&punc;</L>
<L>Your three Yeares &s;ufferings pa&s;t, produce new feare.</L>
<L>De&s;truction's threatned by a fatall power,</L>
<L>Ioyn'd with a will, which will not faile to &s;howre,</L>
<L>Her vengeance on you, <HI>Roome</HI> will you annoy&punc;</L>
<L>And by her power, both You and Mee de&s;troy.</L>
<L>Ioyn then with <HI>Englands</HI> friends, and helpe to &s;ave,</L>
<L>The Fame of <HI>England</HI> from a loathed grave.</L>
<L>A&s;&s;i&s;t her <HI>Worthies,</HI> let not <HI>Room</HI> incroach,</L>
<L>Loo&s;e not your lives to purcha&s;e a reproach</L>
<L>Vpon your names, and what will be much wor&s;e,</L>
<L>Even from your childrens children fetch a cur&s;e.</L>
<L>Let not effeminate &s;miles inforce you bring</L>
<L>To pa&s;&s;e the ruin of your Royal King.</L>
<L>Lea&s;t when the worke is done, (too late) you prove,</L>
<L><HI>Newca&s;tl's</HI> guerdon, mu&s;t reward your love.</L>
<L>Be wi&s;e, be valiant, now's the time of hope,</L>
<L>To &s;ave the <HI>King</HI> and Kingdome, from the <HI>Pope&punc;</HI></L>
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<P>Publi&s;hed according to Order.</P>
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