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<P><HI>England's Ichabod, Glory departed,</HI> DISCOURSED By TWO CHRISTIAN MEN, zealous for the glory of GOD, and true Lovers of their NATION: The One Called <HI>HERACLIT&V;S junior,</HI> Weeping for and lamenting the inevi|table Wo and De&s;olation impending and approaching on his native Country.
And the Other called <HI>DEMOCRIT&V;S natu minimus,</HI> Laughing at the Ignorance, Blindne&s;s, Madne&s;s, and inexorable Stupidity of his own Nation, overwhelmed in Folly, Sin, and Wic|kedne&s;s, in&s;en&s;ible of its own Ruine and Mi&s;ery.
Both of them Paradoxically prai&s;ing the JESUITES, and their &s;purious &s;eed, for their Policie, Activitie, and Dexteritie, in promoting their Factions and Projects.</P>
<P>By <HI>Heraclitus junior,</HI> and <HI>Democritus natu minimus,</HI> for RI: FOSTERSCHISM.</P>
<BIBL>I&s;a. 31. 1.</BIBL>
<Q><HI>Wo to them that go down to Egypt for help, and &s;tay on hor&s;es, and tru&s;t in chariots, becau&s;e they are many, and in hor&s;e-men, becau&s;e they are very &s;trong: but they look not to the holy One of I&s;rael, neither &s;eek the Lord.</HI></Q>
<BIBL>Matth. 12. 25.</BIBL>
<Q><HI>Every kingdom divided again&s;t it &s;elf, is brought to de&s;olation; and every citie</HI> or <HI>hou&s;e divided again&s;t it &s;elf, &s;hall not &s;tand.</HI></Q>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>Edw. Blackmore.</HI> 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>England's Ichabod, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>_MY love and affection to you, mo&s;t dear <HI>Heraclitus,</HI> hath induced me to vi&s;it you, that you and I may di&s;cour&s;e a little touching the&s;e woful and doleful days wherein we live.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Welcome, my mo&s;t cordial and mo&s;t con&s;tant friend; I rejoyce in your pre|&s;ence &s;o glad&s;ome to me, that, if any thing would a&s;&s;wage my mournful tears&punc; your chearful &s;ociety would do it. But, Sir, it is too late: I rather wi&s;h to be di&s;&s;olved into Tears, then to be revived with Mirth; for the glory of <HI>Eng|land</HI> is departed. Where is the glory of our Cities, of our Aca|demies, of Trade, and Merchandi&s;e, either Dome&s;tick, or with For|rein Nations; of Equity, Law, and Ju&s;tice; of the Liberty of the People; of the Freedom and Priviledges of the Nation in the whole Common-wealth? Nay, (which is the greate&s;t wo of all) where is the glory of Religion and Sincerity? Religion is no|thing but <HI>Opus operatum,</HI> a formal, out-&s;ide Preaching and Hear|ing, like the fig-tree cur&s;ed by our <HI>Lord Chri&s;t,</HI> bearing no fruits
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of Charity, Humility, Obedience, Ju&s;tice and Mercy. It is by &s;ome made a meer &s;talking-hor&s;e and a &s;ervant to Pride, Ambition, Covetou&s;ne&s;s; who&s;e entire and endeared companions and con|federates, gilded Hypocri&s;ie, and execrable Villany, mercile&s;s Cru|elty, bloody and horrid Trea&s;on, mu&s;t be &s;ometimes a&s;&s;i&s;tant, to effect impious lawle&s;s de&s;ignes. And where will the glory of one of the mo&s;t famous Cities of the world, of <HI>London,</HI> be, if the Citizens lo&s;e Exportation of Cloth and Stuffs, and Importation of forrein Merchandi&s;es, as they have lo&s;t them&s;elves in their Co|venant made with God, whereof there is a Table and Copie, for memorial, fixed and hanged up in mo&s;t Temples in the City? And then where will the glory of Clothiers, Artificers, and others, who&s;e Trades and Livelihoods depend upon manufacture of Cloth and Stuffs, appear? And where will the glory of the No|bility and Gentry, who&s;e revenues depend upon Sheep and Wool, &s;oon after be? La&s;t of all, where will the glory of our Army and Souldiery be, if they conquer not all <HI>Europe,</HI> or at lea&s;t quit them&s;elves again&s;t the Power and Forces thereof? For it ap|peareth manife&s;tly, that they have provoked mo&s;t part thereof to be enemies to our Nation. Woful will our Lamentations be: I &s;hall not be able to weep enough: I &s;hall even wi&s;h to be a <HI>Niobe,</HI> that I might be di&s;&s;olved into tears. <HI>Tantum relligio potuit &s;uadere malorum?</HI> as the Poet. <HI>Simon, John, Elea|zar;</HI> Prelate, Independent, Presbyter. Scarce three men meet accidentally together of one minde: men are &s;o tran&s;ported with fiery zeal for one of the three, and &s;o void of meekne&s;s of &s;pirit, that they become as fierce as <HI>Bellarmine,</HI> and cry down all Ar|guments on the behalf of the other two, although they be newly rouzed from the pillow of <HI>Bacchus,</HI> and be in&s;cient of the vali|dity of what was or can be &s;aid. Why hath Opinion, di&s;tracted about Rule and Government, brought the&s;e later evils upon us, &s;ince <HI>the ju&s;t &s;hall live by Faith</HI> alone, and not by Govern|ment?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>I my &s;elf making the &s;ame ob&s;ervations which you do, and being apprehen&s;ive of the Calamities and De&s;olation neer ap|proaching, and attending our Nation, could, as I am &s;ubject to
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natural pa&s;&s;ions, mourn and lament al&s;o: but &s;ince I am fully &s;a|tisfied, by con&s;ulting with the &s;acred Prophets, that there is an in|evitable Divine Decree in this vengeance of the Sword, fore-ap|pointed for the accompli&s;hment and manife&s;tation of God's infi|nite power and glory in purging his Church, and bringing in a better people, and in re&s;tauration of Mercy and Ju&s;tice in the Common-wealth; that Grief, which would otherwi&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;s me, is turned into mirth. Yet, if it may be asked by Prayer, Let not, O God, the Parable and Cur&s;e of <HI>Jotham</HI> (mentioned in the ninth Chapter of <HI>Judges</HI>) be fulfilled, and fall upon our <HI>Abi|melechs</HI> and <HI>Shechemites</HI> of <HI>England! Hearken, ye men of Shechem,</HI> famous Citizens, <HI>that God may hearken unto you,</HI> and not &s;end an evil &s;pirit among&s;t ye, to &s;tir ye up to de&s;troy one another, as <HI>Abimele<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">h</HI> did the <HI>Shechemites,</HI> when they had rai&s;ed him, and made him their King, after the bloody murder of his brethren, the legitimate &s;ons of <HI>Gedeon,</HI> about &s;eventy men. Like <HI>noble Bereans,</HI> read the Chapter, and apply it. And take notice of a few words uttered and predicted again&s;t our Nation, and &s;ome famous Citie thereof, above 1100 yeers &s;ince, in the Reign of <HI>Vortiger,</HI> printed at <HI>Frankfurt</HI> about 50 yeers &s;ince: Viz. <HI>Vae perjuriae Genti, qua urbs inclyta propter eam ruet: Fe&s;tinat namque dies qua cives ob &s;celera perjurii peribunt.</HI> If that A&s;trologer who uttered the&s;e words, among&s;t others, (whereof we have &s;een the completion in a great part, and could, if without controulment permitted, fully demon&s;trate) did now live, he would laugh profu&s;ely at &s;ome modern A&s;trologers, who gain&s;ay them, or &s;peak &s;lightly or dubiou&s;ly of them, although completed.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>If there be a Divine Vengeance in this &s;courge of Divi&s;ion, Faction, Rapine, and Blood&s;hedding; why have the people &s;e|verally murmured, railed, and clamoured, &s;ome again&s;t the be|headed King, &s;ome again&s;t the Parliament, &s;ome again&s;t the City of <HI>London,</HI> &s;ome again&s;t the <HI>Scots,</HI> as the &s;everal &s;ole cau&s;es of our unnatural and bloody Civil War?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Becau&s;e they ignorantly and fal&s;ly conjecture that all things
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come to pa&s;s by Chance, without Divine providence and govern|ance; many being &s;o peremptory and &s;tiff in Opinion, and &s;o puffed up with their own tran&s;cendencie of Piety, and Singu|larity of &s;pirit, that they explode all Opinions but their own, and all Rea&s;ons and Arguments again&s;t the &s;ame, although valid and forcible; as is evident, in that, that though they <HI>de&s;pi&s;e Govern|ment</HI> and all Dominion, yet none more eagerly a&s;pire to, and hunt after high places of Domination, both Eccle&s;ia&s;tical and Temporal: And when they are inve&s;ted in them, none &s;o rigid as Them&s;elves, who &s;o much cen&s;ured and condemned the Go|vernment of Others to be oppre&s;&s;ive and tyrannical: And then they make o&s;tentation, and buz like the Fly upon the wheel, This have I done; whenas the coach-wheels and hor&s;es heels &s;tirred the du&s;t: So, by the help of In&s;inuation, and &s;ubtil Faction, ambitious, covetous, proud Boa&s;ters, and &s;ingular Self-lovers are exalted to trample on their brethren. <HI>Plurimis famam <GAP DESC="foreign">, avid&egrave; magis ambientibus qu&agrave;m fervid&egrave;, &amp; &s;incer&egrave; <GAP DESC="foreign"> annunciantibus.</HI> One would be <HI>Paul,</HI> another <HI>Cephas,</HI> and the third <HI>Apollo:</HI> and the itching-eared people love to have it &s;o: But what will they do in the end? The&s;e men con&s;ider not that their own particular &s;ins, and the general &s;ins of the Nation, have drawn down God's wrath and indignation again&s;t us; &s;ome daring to call our Covenant made with God, filed of Record in our Temples <HI>An old Almanack,</HI> which may be thrown in the fire at yeers end.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>How might their Under&s;tandings be better informed, and their Judgements rectified?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>By none other means but, fir&s;t, by reading the Scriptures, and principally the Prophet <HI>I&s;aiah,</HI> Chap. 45. ver&s;. 7. and <HI>Amos,</HI> Chap. 3. v. 6. and <HI>Jerem.</HI> Chap. 25, v. 15, 16, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32. and Chap. 3. v. 6. and Chap. 30. v. 24. and Chap. 34. v. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. and Chap. 5. The whole &s;cope of which two la&s;t-recited Chapters plainly parallel with our Times and Nation, and <HI>Matth.</HI> 24&punc; with divers other Scriptures, as well touching the neerne&s;s of the end of the world, in confutation of the Mil|lenary
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Schi&s;m, much availing for the <HI>Romane</HI> party, and now boldly and bu&s;ily broached by &s;ome of the prime Di&s;&s;enting Bre|thren, <HI>Igodown, Oglethorp,</HI> and others; as al&s;o, touching Na|tional Churches, in confutation of Independencie and Singula|rity; as <HI>Rev.</HI> 20. 4. and 21. 24, 26. and <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 60. 3, 5 10, 11, 16. and <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. 15. And &s;econdly, by comparing the la&s;t oc|currences of Tumults and In&s;urrections when we had a King, he then having no Councel nor Army; and our pre&s;ent Home-divi|&s;ions and Naumachies, with the beginnings of our Civil wars, when we had a King, he then having an Ho&s;t of men, and Coun|cel. But now, &s;ince we have no King, who can be &s;aid to be the cau&s;e of our pre&s;ent broils, rapine, and &s;poils, by Sea and Land, but our own &s;ins; <HI>C&ugrave;m Anglia laborat &s;aevire in &s;emetip&s;am?</HI> Even as <HI>when there was no King in I&s;rael, every man did that which was good in his own eyes:</HI> as <HI>Judg.</HI> 17. 6. and Ch. 19. more at large.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>The evidence thereof aggravateth my &s;orrow, and increa&s;eth my tears; and much more, when I read the fourth ver&s;e of the third Chapter of <HI>Ho&s;ea,</HI> threatning judgement again&s;t the <HI>I&s;ra|elites,</HI> that they &s;hould be many days without a King or Prince, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Was it a judgement in the days of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and is it none in our days? Our Laws have depended upon Monarchy, although enacted (which was our happine&s;s, if we had well con&s;idered it) not by Monarchy alone, but by Ari&s;tocracie, and Democracie: Therefore, without all three, our Laws are di&s;&s;olved, and we fall into Anarchy. Is Peace ever to be looked for without Law? If the Sword be our Law-giver, &s;hall we not become A&s;&s;a&s;&s;inates and Heathens? Where will Truth and Religion be? Without them, farewel Peace. We feel with &s;orrow and &s;mart, that <HI>Inter Arma &s;ilent Leges.</HI> And if there be neither King, Law, nor Religion, What will become of Parliaments? Our ca&s;e will be the &s;ame with the I&s;raelites, when they had no King: Every de&s;perate man will dare to &s;ay to a Parliament-man, as an injuri|ous Hebrew &s;aid to <HI>Mo&s;es, Who made thee a</HI> man of Authority, or <HI>Judge over us?</HI> But <HI>is there go balm</HI> left <HI>in Gilead?</HI> Is there not one man left, who by grave and &s;ea&s;onable coun&s;el might
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di&s;cover the Incendiaries of our Divi&s;ions, and the Contrivers of our Factions and Di&s;tractions; and &s;o divert the Deluge of Con|fu&s;ion and Slaughter ready to overwhelm our Nation?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is daily done by zealous Preachers of God's Word in the Pulpit, and by them and others in Printed Papers, with &s;olid and weighty Motives; but with little effect: For mo&s;t mens hearts are hardened, and their under&s;tandings &s;tupified: God hath &s;tricken us, but we have not &s;orrowed; he hath con&s;umed us, but we have refu&s;ed to receive correction: we have made our faces harder then a &s;tone, and have refu&s;ed to return. We may now, with <HI>Jeremiah</HI> the Prophet, in his fifth Chapter, <HI>Run to and fro in the &s;treets of</HI> our Engli&s;h <HI>Jeru&s;alem, and behold now, and know, and enquire in the open places thereof, if</HI> we <HI>can finde a man, or if there be any that</HI> &s;pontaneou&s;ly <HI>executeth judgement, and &s;eeketh the truth;</HI> and then hope that the Lord will <HI>&s;pare</HI> the Land. Where is the man, who payeth his Vows to God? Where is the Patriot of his Country, fearing God and hating Covetou&s;ne&s;s? Where is the Ju&s;ticiary? Do we not &s;ee almo&s;t every mans Self to be his own Country? Many <HI>great men</HI> &s;ay, they <HI>know the way of the Lord, and the judge|ment of their God; but the&s;e have altogether broken the yoke, and bur&s;t the bonds.</HI> The &s;ins for which mo&s;t often and mo&s;t &s;everely God puni&s;hed the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> were Idolatry, breach of Covenant, and Perjury. Did God puni&s;h them for tho&s;e &s;ins, and can other Nations, now in being, hope to be quit, and go free? We expected an i&s;&s;ue of our mi&s;eries by the Sword; but they are augmented, and aggravated: our hopes fail us. What will become of that People in the end, which repo&s;e confidence in their own &s;trength of Charets, Hor&s;e-men, and Hor&s;es? <HI>Jeremiah</HI> (in his 31 Chap. ver&s;. 1.) telleth them what attendeth them. God is the God of Order, and not of Con|fu&s;ion. Will not the Lord <HI>vi&s;it for the&s;e things? Shall</HI> he not <HI>be avenged on &s;uch a Nation?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>The con&s;ideration of the&s;e things, draweth a flood of tears from me. For it is mo&s;t manife&s;t, that the Engli&s;h Je&s;uites, by
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their &s;ecret and admirable policies, and &s;ubtil in&s;inuations, under pretext of Tender Con&s;cience their Bugbear, work upon the ea&s;ie mindes of the weaker &s;ort of people, who, by how much they are more &s;hallow in Judgement, by &s;o much are more ob&s;tinate and &s;tiff in Opinion, impenetrable, and inflexible with any Ar|guments what&s;oever, Humane or Divine. Amid&s;t my &s;ad and doleful tears, I am the more a&s;toni&s;hed, when I revolve this ver&s;e predicted of <HI>England</HI> long &s;ince, <HI>viz. Corruet Anglorum gens fraude &s;uorum;</HI> which word <HI>&s;uorum</HI> can have relation to, or dependance on no words in the whole <HI>&s;eries</HI> of the Latine nouns but to one or two ending thus, <HI>viz.&mdash;ituum&punc;&mdash;itiorum.</HI> It irketh me very grievou&s;ly, that it &s;hould be &s;aid to &s;ome of tho&s;e, to whom belongeth the heading of tho&s;e two imperfect words, who&s;e hearts are right for Church and Country, again&s;t all ob&s;tructions, that <HI>exitus</HI> will be <HI>exitium:</HI> but as touching any among&s;t them, who are inveterate, rancorous, and deadly enemies to the tranquillity, peace, and &s;plendor of our National Church, and Commonwealth; I &s;ay, <HI>Let God ari&s;e, and let his enemies be &s;cattered!</HI> How &s;hall God's wrathful indigna|tion be appea&s;ed, when through hardne&s;s of heart we are in&s;en&s;ible of the National &s;in, as heinous as the &s;in of <HI>Achan,</HI> and the bloody &s;in of <HI>Saul</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Gibeonites,</HI> committed under pretence of zeal to his Nation, provoking God's wrath again&s;t the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> to de&s;troy them with Famine; which was not aba|ted, until, through <HI>David</HI>'s &s;atisfaction given to the <HI>Gibeonites,</HI> by the decollation and &s;laughter of <HI>Saul</HI>'s &s;ons, God's wrath was appea&s;ed? as 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 21. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8&punc; 9, 14. Hath not God vi&s;ited our Nation with the &s;ame puni&s;hment? It hath been &s;aid of old, <HI>Quos Jupiter perdere vult, pri&ugrave;s dementat.</HI> What hope have we to evade and e&s;cape the &s;nares of the politick <HI>Je|&s;uites,</HI> when we are already wrapped and involved in them, and when we neither do nor will di&s;cern their mo&s;t exqui&s;ite, &s;ubtil, and clo&s;e conveyances? they having adopted, or rather begotten a ba&s;tard-breed of &s;ons, and infu&s;ed &s;o much of their virulent vertue into them, that thereby they have not onely wrought weak judgements to pretended con&s;cience of an Independent Church, but have al&s;o by State-policie benummed, blinded, be&s;otted, and
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&s;tupified &s;ome great and wi&s;e ones in our Nation, inducing them to connive at their frauds and juglings, whereby more &s;trenuou&s;ly a Toleration of Schi&s;m and Here&s;ie is creeping in, then ever could have been brought in by them&s;elves alone for their party.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Charitable and pitiful <HI>Heraclitus,</HI> thy tears verily proceed from a tender con&s;cience affected with the abominable &s;infulne&s;s of thine own Nation, and the blindne&s;s and &s;tupidity thereof. But be thou not &s;ollicitous and grieved, &s;ince God, for horrid and loud-crying &s;ins, hath de&s;igned our Nation to woful Calamities: Let us be rather comforted, and give glory to God, and rejoyce, that he hath given us the &s;ight of tho&s;e things in his holy Word, which neither mighty men, nor noble, nor learned, nor Politicians will take notice of; but do rather wink with their eyes, and &s;hut their under&s;tandings from being adverti&s;ed thereof, and will de|ride both thee and me for our di&s;cour&s;e, if they &s;hould hear it.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, dear <HI>Democritus,</HI> let us not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2+ letters">i&s;t: <HI>A word &s;po|ken in its place is like apples of gold with pictures of &s;ilver,</HI> as <HI>Solomon</HI> hath it in his <HI>Proverbs.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the Prophets &s;peak plain enough to our Nation: if we will not hear them, neither will we hear, though one ri&s;e from the dead again, unle&s;s he &s;hould beat wit into our heads with a maul: and &s;ome &s;uch dreadful judgement, I fear, doth at|tend us. Were our words acceptable, or might they be profita|ble to our Nation, I could be ince&s;&s;ant and indefatigable: for, <HI>Cuique probo Patria &s;ua e&s;t jucundi&s;&s;ima.</HI> But our Nation is become &s;o barbarous and heatheni&s;h, that it laboureth with all its wi&s;dom, wealth, and power to de&s;troy it &s;elf. We do but &s;catter our words, we do but charm a deaf adder. I have lately read the&s;e words in a book publi&s;hed long before our di&s;tractions grew to this immen&s;e multiplicity (as now they are) and irrecon|ciliable incompo&s;edne&s;s, <HI>viz.</HI> [Be wi&s;e, O <HI>England,</HI> and di&s;cern the Je&s;uitical Romi&s;h frauds, and pernitious plots, and break and avoid their la&s;t arrow of Independencie and Ari&s;tocracie, (for they have no more left to wound <HI>Great Britain</HI> withal) and
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be happie: <HI>Sin minus, caveto tibi, ne faciem tuam obfu&s;cent tenebrae non ni&s;i ex nova Romana caligine illuminatae:</HI>] and I well know that they came to the view of &s;ome both great and wi&s;e; but they &s;eemed to them ridiculous: yet now they may &s;ee, that darkne&s;s mu&s;t give light, or we mu&s;t have no light. The unwarrantable predictions of uncertain A&s;trologie promi&s;ing &s;e|curity, were and are plea&s;ing, and embraced; which to con|fide in, is as to con&s;ult with the <HI>witch of Endor:</HI> But the warrantable pre&s;ages couched in the infallible Prophecies of God's holy Seers, contained in his &s;acred Word, contemned, &s;lighted, and rejected, even of mighty men, much more of men of inferiour order. Railing, lying, futile, &s;currilous, &s;editious, libellous, traiterous Pamphlets, &s;pread abroad with all advan|tage by nimble winged <HI>Mercuries,</HI> have been, and are (a time very unfit for &s;uch fopperies and iniquities, when our Nation is bleeding, langui&s;hing, and at the point to be extinct) embraced by mo&s;t men, according to their &s;everal fancies and affections, very few men having <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2+ letters">rned the Catechi&s;m of that mo&s;t pious and venerable Doctor <HI>Jo&s;hua Hall</HI> &s;ometimes Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exceter,</HI> &s;ince Bi&s;hop of <HI>Norwich,</HI> where they may learn how God doth and will do all things in this world, and as few having compun|ction of heart for the de&s;truction and de&s;olation of their own Country.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>How cometh it to pa&s;s that the Je&s;uites have &s;uch influence up|on our Nation now at this time, &s;ince their manifold, bloody, and traiterous practices thorowout the whole Reign of Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> of King <HI>James,</HI> of our late King <HI>Charles,</HI> are fre&s;h in memory, being to be read in Hi&s;tories, rehear&s;ed in Almanacks, and brought to our ears by publike Thank&s;givings to God yeerly for our deliverances from them?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou knowe&s;t, <HI>Heraclitus,</HI> that a Ship at Sea is in the power of its Pilot, and that he, if out of treachery he intend it, can be|tray it to an enemy at his plea&s;ure. The politick practices and trea&s;ons of the Je&s;uites again&s;t Queen <HI>Elizabeth&punc;</HI> by commo|tions, rebellions, pi&s;tols, poi&s;ons, poniards, the Spani&s;h <HI>Armado,</HI>
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were &s;o exqui&s;ite and admirable, carried on with &s;uch &s;ecrecie, that had any of them prevailed, <HI>England</HI> mu&s;t have gone to <HI>Rome</HI> again for the Popes pardon. But what were all tho&s;e their de|vices to that tran&s;cendent hyperbolical Gunpowder-trea&s;on, which with one Sulphureous bla&s;t had de&s;troyed King <HI>James,</HI> and all his Royal I&s;&s;ue male; all the Nobility, and a great part of the Gentry, and had &s;ubverted Religion, and our Laws, and had &s;ub|jugated our Nation again to the yoke and tyranny of the Pope|dom? Since then, far more tran&s;cendent, exact politick, never to be parallelled have their &s;tratagems been to undermine our Church and State, by in&s;inuating, creeping, and &s;erewing them|&s;elves into eminent places and employments in both, under pre|text of Patriarchacie and Sanctimony; and they have &s;o hood|winked many of the wi&s;emen in our Nation, that they &s;u&s;pect them not at all, much le&s;s that they have now any Plot upon our Nation and Church, or are at the Rudder; but &s;uppo&s;e that they &s;it &s;till and quiet, neither acting nor plotting any thing. It it is evident to all hone&s;t intelligent men, that our late <HI>Civile bellum Epi&s;copale</HI> was plotted and contrived by their ingenuous and profound policies; and it will &s;hortly be as evident, that our <HI>Civile bellum Populare</HI> is driven on by their clo&s;e conveyances, and ambodexter-juglings, by mi&s;leading the people under pre|tence of New Lights, and Divine Raptures, and Chri&s;tian Liber|ty, and Liberty of Chiveril Con&s;cience.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>We know well in former times the Bi&s;hops days, when all Functions Eccle&s;ia&s;tical and Civil were tran&s;acted and conferred at a price (for <HI>Quid mihi dabis?)</HI> it was an ea&s;ie thing, they being &s;o exqui&s;ite and &s;ecret in their Plots and Contrivements, and they having at that time <HI>ducem venerii ca&s;tri,</HI> the Buck with the gilded horns for their Patron and Advocate, to &s;tep into&punc; ne&s;tle, and rivet them&s;elves as well into high and eminent places in the Court, as al&s;o into &s;ubordinate Judicatory-admini&s;trations, and into the Clergie and Prelacie without controulment, e&s;pecially after the Eagles Chicken had ne&s;ted him&s;elf in the highe&s;t Ro|chet in the Realm. But by what means now do they po&s;&s;e&s;s them&s;elves of Publike Places either Eccle&s;ia&s;tical or Civil, &s;ance there
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hath u&s;ually been &s;uch a wide and oppo&s;ite antipathy between them, and all manner of Prote&s;tants, though Sectaries and Sepa|rati&s;ts?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t, know, <HI>Heraclitus,</HI> that the range and rabble of tho&s;e Gleeds which the Eagles prime Chicken brought in, are not outed of the Clergie, Academies, and other publike Societies, nor, as the ca&s;e now &s;tandeth, can be, but rather more are gotten into them. And next know, that the Je&s;uites are the mo&s;t &s;ubtil ex|pert, and artificial Impo&s;tors in the world, in&s;tructed by art and exerci&s;e, to put on <HI>Proteus</HI> &s;hapes, and to per&s;onate all degrees and qualities of men, and neatly, clo&s;ely, and dexterou&s;ly to act in all manner of Societies, Councels, and Factions. And all mo|derate men know, and of that part yeeld, that in the late Wars many of them became Commanders and prime Officers in the Field and Forts again&s;t the Parliament. And if after their &s;ur|renders, and yeelding up of Forts and Forces, they have been en|tertained, and ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> Commanders in the pre&s;ent Army, have they not obtained their ends to agitate their de&s;ignes of poi&s;oning the Army, and con&s;equently the whole Nation with Schi&s;m and He|re&s;ie, &s;o to hinder the &s;ettlement of Peace, and to embroil the Nation in future War? And further, know, <HI>Heraclitus</HI> that the Pope, and his emi&s;&s;aries and mini&s;ters have of late yeers had private Oathes for Secrecie, Fidelity, and Activity in their Ca|tholike Cau&s;e, to mini&s;ter to all their party both abroad and at home, with di&s;pen&s;ation to repair to our Temples, whereby they might &s;eem Prote&s;tants, &s;o to gain popular e&s;teem in their Coun|try. And &s;ince many men have been pre&s;ented to the Parliament from Counties and Boroughs by the power of the Souldiery, might not &s;uch men, having taken &s;uch Oath, by in&s;inuation with the Souldiery by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of their party in the Army, make them&s;elves of the number of <HI>Legi&s;latores,</HI> that they might without the lea&s;t jealou&s;ie or &s;u&s;pect become <HI>Legi&s;violatores?</HI></P>
<Q>Anglicano Italianotto, diabolo incarnatto.</Q>
<Q>An Engli&s;h man Italianate, a devil incarnate.</Q>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Heraclitus.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is thine expectation, <HI>Democritus?</HI> Do&s;t thou conclude
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that the&s;e Foxes, Wolves, and wilde Boars &s;hall &s;till prevail again&s;t the unity of the Church, and tranquillity of the Realm?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Democritus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Though I know well, that <HI>Hoc rupti Foederis deaurabit aquila,</HI> that his Holine&s;s is better plea&s;ed with the Device and Plot of his deare&s;t &s;ons the Je&s;uites for Democracie, then Apes with nuts: if their Plot take full effect, he will write both in red letters in his Kalendar. Yet I make no &s;uch conclu&s;ion; but I conclude them to be the &s;ervants of God, as <HI>Nebuchadnezzar</HI> and <HI>Pharaoh</HI> were, and as the devil &s;ometimes is, that is, in&s;tru|ments to execute his vengeance, to bring inevitable wo upon our Nation, and for his glory to gather whole&s;om <HI>Hellebore</HI> out of the <HI>Orcades,</HI> therewith to purge our Nation of Phrenzie and Hypocri&s;ie, and the Church of Schi&s;m, Here&s;ie, and Idolatry; and thence and thereout al&s;o to gather a lu&s;ty new green Be&s;om, that &s;hall &s;weep them&s;elves, and all their &s;purious &s;eed, and ba&s;tard-&s;ons out of the Realm again&s;t their wills. And I conclude the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> to be tho&s;e unclean &s;pirits, like Frogs <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">oming out of the mouth of the Dragon, and out of the mouth of the Bea&s;t, and out of the mouth of the Fal&s;e Prophet: for they are the &s;pirits of devils working miracles, to go unto the Kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battel of the great day of God Almighty, mentioned in <HI>Rev.</HI> 16. 13, 14.</P>
<P>Let hone&s;t men therefore, with <HI>David,</HI> tarry the Lord's lea&s;ure, be &s;trong, and tru&s;t in the Lord, and their hearts &s;hall be com|forted.</P>
<P>And as <HI>Lot</HI> was in <HI>Sodom,</HI> if they be captivated, let them hope that God will &s;end an <HI>Abraham</HI> to deliver them. And let them re&s;olve with <HI>David,</HI> that <HI>who&s;e dwelleth under the de|fence of the mo&s;t High, &s;hall abide in the &s;hadow of the Al|mighty.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>To</HI> England, An Anagram on <HI>ENGLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>ENGLAND, lament, repent; bitter <HI>Ennd-gal,</HI></L>
<L>Thine Anagram portends thy fatal fal:</L>
<L>Like <HI>Sam&s;on,</HI> grinding with thine eyes put out,</L>
<L>Thou drive&s;t <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> de&s;ignes about:</L>
<L>Thou mak'&s;t them &s;port; they make thee dearly pay</L>
<L>For thine own downfal, ruine, and decay.</L>
<L>No help remains, but to retort their darts</L>
<L>Upon Them&s;elves, &s;hot at good men and Arts.</L>
<L>Wi&s;ely di&s;cern; be not blinde, &s;tupid, dull,</L>
<L>In &s;uff'ring them with Shadows thee to gull,</L>
<L>Under pretence Chri&s;t's Go&s;pel to advance,</L>
<L>To advance Here&s;ie, Schi&s;m, Ignorance;</L>
<L>By fal&s;e pretext Bea&s;ts Language to drive hence,</L>
<L>To gain Bea&s;t far more &s;way then <HI>Peter</HI>-pence.</L>
<L>Had&s;t thou in time impos'd th' Abjuring Oath,</L>
<L>They had not poi&s;on'd thee with deadly Broath:</L>
<L>But now they have enjoyn'd thee &s;uch a diet</L>
<L>Will gar thee pine, it's vain to be unquiet.</L>
<L>No joy remains, but by Gods Word to know,</L>
<L>He will at la&s;t his Rod in fier throw.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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