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<P>Week 1</P>
<P> IEREMIAH REVIVED: Though in his PRISON; or his Lamentations paralell'd.</P>
<P><HI>Aprils</HI> milde Showres after <HI>Marches</HI> rough &s;torms, or Great <HI>Britans</HI> voyce of Weeping after Great <HI>Britans</HI> Vote of Loyalty.</P>
<P>Being a mournfull repre&s;entation of the KING and His KINGDOMES wretched condition.</P>
<P>Sea&s;onably dewing down in foure &s;everall Showres this &s;pringing Moneth of <HI>Aprill,</HI> each Weeke one.</P>
<P>This is the fir&s;t Showre.</P>
<P><ADD>Aprill 6^t^h</ADD> Printed for <HI>N. P.</HI> the Author. 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>IEREMIAH Revived, though in His Pri&s;on.</HEAD>
<P>HO, <HI>Aeolus</HI> after a di&s;creet, though &s;harp and nip|ing u&s;e of &s;torm rai&s;ing <HI>Boreas</HI> in defence of <HI>Charle|mains,</HI> I have return'd him (not &s;tanding in need of an Ordinance of <HI>Indempnity:</HI> for, though he hath &s;poken loud, yet hee hath been harmle&s;&s;e in his <HI>March</HI>) into the va&s;t Conclave of his &s;trong pri&s;on; and now for the more &s;ucce&s;&s;efull pro&s;ecution of my de&s;igne, I reque&s;t thee gently to latch thy &s;word into the <HI>South We&s;t</HI> &s;ide of that wind preg|nant mountaine, and thence let all fruitfull-&s;hower-di&s;tilling <HI>Zephirus</HI> &s;teale a freedom by degrees tobreath with his humid bla&s;ts this Spring, on the Rocks of <HI>Albion</HI> and make her &s;tony mountains as fertile as the low laid valleyes: or rather, Oble&s;&s;ed Saviour who commande&s;t the windes and they obey thee; &s;end forth among&s;t us the * <HI>Zephirus</HI> of thy Word &amp; promi&s;e that Grace-infu&s;ing Spirit of thy Father,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 8.27. Iohn 3.8. Ioh. 25.26. Act. 17.25.28. 2 Sam. 21.1, 10.14.</NOTE> the Lord of al our be|ings, and God of every ble&s;&s;ing; who te&s;tified that hee was pacified after his fierce wrath, for the breach of a Nationall Oath or Covenant, by &s;ending a &s;ea&s;onable raine: and who bringeth up the clouds from the ends of the earth, and maketh the lightnings with the raine; drawing forth the winds out of his trea&s;ures <HI>P&s;.</HI> 135.7 that hee may blow up a &s;howre of thy precious dew of &s;auing Charity, and diffu&s;e the rain of the Go&s;pell of Peace, which di&s;tilling on the flinty hills and Roc|key Mountaines, the marble hearts and obdurate &s;oules of the Lords and Commons, and all their adherents, may make them as fruitfull of remor&s;e for, and compa&s;&s;ion of the &s;ad conditi|on and di&s;traction of this langui&s;hing yea ga&s;ping Kingdome, as they have been prodigall of its blood and oppre&s;&s;ion; and that, being mollified with pitty, and melted into commi&s;era|tion, three kingdomes groans may at la&s;t make &s;uch an impre&s;|&s;ion in their minds as may cau&s;e them to look &s;eriou&s;ly upon their pre&s;ent de&s;perat &s;tate, and cordially apply them&s;elves to prevent in this their time their utter ruine and &s;ubver&s;ion, both Pathetically pre&s;ented unto them in this mournefull
<PB N="2" REF="3">repre&s;entation of the King and Kingdomes &s;ad and wretched condition.</P>
<P N="1">1. How doth the <HI>Eden</HI> of <HI>Europe</HI> remaine &s;olitary with|out her <HI>Adam?</HI> &s;hee is as a widdow: &s;he that was once in high e&s;teeme among forraigne Countries, and the glory of the whole world for the Scepter of <HI>Judah</HI> in her, how is &s;hee force'd to turne <HI>I&s;&s;achar</HI> (though &s;trong, yet an A&s;&s;e) and tamely couches between two burthens,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 29.14</NOTE> <HI>Presbitery</HI> and <HI>Indepen|dency:</HI> though great of force, yet wanting courage to re&s;i&s;t her enemies.</P>
<P N="2">2. For this, 'tis true, &s;he weeps continually, and her teares murmure in the &s;urrows of her cheeks, but it is by &s;tealth, in the night; de&s;pairing of con&s;olation from her pretending &s;a|vourers, for among &s;uch her Lovers, there is none to comfort her: and &s;caring to di&s;cover her griefe to tho&s;e who former|ly declared them&s;elves her Patriots; for tho&s;e fal&s;e friends have dealt unfaithfully with her, and having compounded with the cau&s;ers of her woe, are become her enemies.</P>
<P N="3">3. Her Lyon,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 49 8</NOTE> to whom her Fathers &s;ons &s;hould bow down is forct to couch under re&s;traint and heavy affliction, and &s;he her &s;elfe brought into great &s;lavery by an heathen &s;ort of peo|ple, who now dwel in her hou&s;es: from who&s;e cruell oppre&s;|&s;ions which they lay upon her, &s;hee can di&s;cover no hope of freedome, nor can &s;he yet find re&s;t in the mid&s;t of tho&s;e trou|bles, di&s;tractions and unnaturall wars wherein they have in|volved her, her per&s;ecutors having taken her in the &s;traits.</P>
<P N="4">4. The wayes to the hou&s;es of God in her land mourn, for all her &s;olemne Fea&s;ts are de&s;piz'd and voted again&s;t;<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;a. 42.4, 5.</NOTE> all the gates of the&s;e <HI>Zions</HI> into which her <HI>David</HI> led her &s;onnes and daughters with the voice of &s;inging and prai&s;e, as a multitude that keepeth a Fea&s;t, may now lift up their voice in weeping and howling and lamenting, for they are become de&s;olate; the mouths of the Oxen that u&s;ed there to tread out her corn, are <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">led,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cot. 9.9.13.</NOTE> her Prie&s;ts are permitted neither to waite at her Al|tars, not to partake with her Altars: ju&s;t cau&s;e then have her Mini&s;ters to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">igh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> her tender ones to be di&s;com&s;ited, and &s;he her &s;elfe to fit in heavyne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="5">5. Her enemies flouri&s;h having got the better, and tho&s;e who are her greate&s;t adver&s;aries <HI>Oreb</HI> and <HI>Zech</HI> (<HI>Fairfax</HI> and <HI>Grun<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">well</HI>) <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the cheife (the one Captaine, the other Li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;|tenant<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 83.</NOTE>
<PB N="3" REF="3">who with <HI>Zeba</HI> and <HI>Zalo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">na</HI> (the Lords and Com|mons) have ca&s;t their heads together with one con&s;ent, and made a League together again&s;t her, and now that <HI>A&s;hur</HI> is al&s;o joyned with them, they dare boldly &s;ay, Let us take for our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion the habitation of all that is called God: <HI>White-Hall, We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> with all Cathedrall and Parochial Churches and Chappels. And this the Lord permits (&s;he confe&s;&s;eth) becau&s;e he intends to humble her by afflictions, and cha&s;ti&s;e her for the multitude of her tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, e&s;pecially her rebelli|ons again&s;t, and want of a due commanded fear of God and her King: Yea becau&s;e &s;he hath willingly medled, and readily had to do with the &s;editious,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 24 21.</NOTE> or tho&s;e that were and are given to change, her children are become captives, &s;laves and va&s;&s;els to hers and their enemies.</P>
<P N="6">6 So that now from this daughter of <HI>Zion</HI> (once flouri&s;h|ing <HI>England</HI>) all her beauty is departed&punc; her <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">wfull rulers like Harts that find no pa&s;ture, are as men pined away with &s;orrow, and bereft of all &s;trength and courage, all power and command, are forc'd to flee before the <HI>Nimrods</HI> of the&s;e dayes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 10 9. 2 K 9.20.</NOTE> who <HI>Jehu</HI> like pur&s;ue them.</P>
<P N="7">7. But what?<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 4.8.</NOTE> may not her <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> triumph and rejoyce<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; &s;he lives at ca&s;e and is full: Nay even &s;he al&s;o may e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pect a day of affliction for her rebellion: when all the plea&s;ant things that &s;hee enjoyed in time pa&s;t &s;hall bee taken from her, then &s;hall &s;hee with griefe of &s;oule call to mind and remember the benefits and commodities &s;he had during here obedience, but lo&s;t &s;ince &s;he hath &s;o con&s;entingly lo&s;t the acknowledgement of her Allegiance to her Royall Soveraign. Nay, may we not &s;ay her mi&s;ery is in part faln on her already? look but upon her people and power, inhabitants and Militia: did not they all in one day fal into the hand of her enemy, and none did help here her adver&s;aries advanced towards, looked upon and &s;traight|way overcame her, and now mock at her Sabbaths, all that &s;he held &s;acred, her A&s;&s;embly, her Cla&s;&s;is and Directory.</P>
<P N="8">8. Yea &s;he is become the deri&s;ion of other countries,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 18.61.</NOTE> the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Deu. 28.37.</NOTE> By word of neighbour Nations, and the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ing of them from after&punc;<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ver. 19.8. Mic. 6.16.</NOTE> al that heretofore hon<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">red her as the be&s;t Ordered mo&s;t decently civiliz<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d, and pure&s;t reformed Catholick-Religion-profe&s;&s;ing City of the world, now d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pi&s;e her and point at her, becau&s;e they have &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">n h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;chi&s;mes,
<PB N="4" REF="4">yea, her <HI>Hydra</HI>-headed bulke of errours and bla&s;phemies.</P>
<P>O then that <HI>London</HI> would purge her &s;tinking ayre with whole gales of heart-breathed &s;ighs, and clean&s;e her &s;editious &s;treets with &s;oul-wept teares, out of a &s;eriou&s;ly &s;orrowful &s;en&s;e and acknowledgement that &s;he hath grievou&s;ly &s;inned.</P>
<P N="9, 10, 11">9, 10, 11. But alas! Now readers, if guilty, read this if you dare without remor&s;e &amp; compunction, if guiltles, hear this without amazement and compa&s;&s;ion, &s;inful <HI>London</HI> &s;ighs indeed, but the n turns backward. All People &s;igh and &s;eek the living Bread, the pure Go&s;pel of <HI>Je&s;us Christ,</HI> but finde it not, lyea, they part from their ple&s;ant things for whol&s;om meat, &s;ound Doctrin to refre&s;h the &s;oul, but are &s;educed &amp; deceived, for thy Prophets prophe|&s;ie lyes and thine adver&s;aries the Sectaries love to have it &s;o: the&s;e have de&s;troyed Gods true Religion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 5.31.</NOTE> ca&s;t his publique Wor|&s;hip and Service out of their a&s;&s;emblies, rejected his &s;acred Or|dinances, reviled the foot-&s;teps of his Anointed, &s;trained and laid violent hands upon his loyal Servant their royal Sove|raigne the King, de&s;pi&s;ed Gods Law, de&s;pited his &s;ervants the Preachers, violated the law of Nature and Nations, beat, im|pri&s;oned, and robd their fellow-&s;ubjects, who have not run giddily into the &s;ame exce&s;&s;e of Rebellion with them&s;elves, and to make all good that they either &s;ay or act; they have &s;et up their Banners and &s;pread their En&s;ignes in &s;igne of defiance,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l.</HI> 74.4.</NOTE> and as evidences to all the World, that they re&s;olve to ju&s;tifie them&s;elves by the Sword not the Word, by <HI>Machiavel</HI> not the Go&s;pel, by <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">na</HI> not the Bible, and confute the Arguments of all that &s;hall oppo&s;e their <HI>Sic volo &s;ic jubeo, &s;tat proratione vo|luntas,</HI> with di&s;tre&s;&s;e not di&s;cour&s;e, with a Pri&s;on not a Pulpit, encouraging one another to cruelty, that not onely Gods Peo|ple might be de&s;troyed, but al&s;o his Religion utterly in all places &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, and their own <HI>Babel</HI> of confe&s;&s;ion and Anar|chy both in Church and State in&s;tead thereof erected.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Great <HI>Britain:</HI></SPEAKER>
<Q>See, O Lord, and con&s;ider: for I am become vile.</Q>
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<P N="12">12 What I Hath a univer&s;al Lethargy over-&s;pread the whole Land? Hath al the People quaft their fils of the &s;tupifying Waters of <HI>Leth<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> hath a blackne&s;&s;e as palpable as that of <HI>Egypt</HI> clouded their under&s;tandings and darkened their judgements? or hath a willingne&s;&s;e to be blinded, hood-winckt, and &s;o led namely to their own de&s;truction, &s;eazed on all the Inhabitants
<PB N="5" REF="4">of <HI>England,</HI> that they are generally &s;o in&s;en&s;ible of their pre|&s;ent Woes and approaching Mi&s;eries? Have ye no regard all|ye that pa&s;&s;e by this way? O! thou who art ju&s;tly &s;tiled The Defender of the Faith, Doe&s;t thou not con&s;ider how the Faith of <HI>Ie&s;us Christ</HI> &s;o pro&s;peou&s;ly, and with Gods ble&s;&s;ing peofe&s;|&s;ed in this Land, is a&s;&s;aulted, in danger, and never &s;tood in more need of thy defence than now? Alas, thou doe&s;t, but to the griefe of thy &s;oul can&s;t not &s;uccour it other wayes than by thy patient &s;uffering all manner of affronts, incivilities, in|humanities wherewith the &s;cum of the Land; the dregges of our Nation, and the off-&s;couring of thy Subjects daily enter|taine thy per&s;on and exerci&s;e, thy graces and virtues; for they have rebelliou&s;ly u&s;urped thy power, and vio|lently wre&s;ted the Sword out of thy hand, lea&s;t thou &s;houlde&s;t oppo&s;e the one un&s;heath the other and make u&s;e of both in this &s;o ju&s;t and lawfull a Defence, which before the Throne of thy King &s;hall make for their greater condemnation, but thy more glorious ju&s;tification. Thou woulde&s;t but wert not admitted, nay, by force of Armes hindered and re&s;trained from per|forming this thy duty.</P>
<P>O ye great Clerkes and learned Docto<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rs, who&s;e calling it is to tell <HI>Judah</HI> of her trangre&s;&s;ions and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of her &s;innes; do ye not &s;ee that certain men are crept into the Fold, Wolves in Sheeps cloathing, turning the grace of our God into wan|tonne&s;&s;e, &s;peaking lyes through hypocri&s;ie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iude 4. 1 Tim. 4.2 2 Pet. 2.10.</NOTE> walking after the fle&s;h in the lu&s;ts of uncleanne&s;&s;e, and dully, but yet impudent|ly de&s;pi&s;ing and de&s;piting Governments, and &s;peaking evil of them that are in authority? Nay, do ye not bear and &s;ee how the fal&s;e Prophets and Teachers &s;poken of by the Apo&s;tles of old are now (if ever) among us, and have broacht damnable er|rours and here&s;ies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2 21. Iu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e 9.</NOTE> even denying the Lord that ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h bought them, God the onely Lord, and the Lord <HI>Ie&s;us Christ:</HI> tho&s;e makers of Sects, mockers fore-told of<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">2 P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">. 3.3. Rom. 16.17, 18.</NOTE> cau&s;ers of divi&s;ions and offences contrary to the Doctrine of <HI>Je&s;us Christ</HI> which ye have learned and taught, who &s;erve not the Lord <HI>Ie&s;us Christ,</HI> but their own bellies; tho&s;e deceiving deceivers who creep into hou&s;es, and with fair &s;peeches and fawning flatter|ings beguile the hearts of the un&s;table &s;oules; and how that many follow their in&s;olent, wanton, licentious; yea, damna|ble
<PB N="6" REF="5">wayes, by rea&s;on whereof the way of truth is evill &s;poken of? And are ye &s;ilent, mute, and your Trumpets not heard? Though ye have knowledge, and are e&s;tabli&s;hed in the Truth, have ye yet need of a <HI>Peter</HI> to put ye in minde of the&s;e things, and &s;tir you up by retriving in your remembrance the duty en|joyned you by Saint <HI>Paul,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4.2</NOTE> <HI>Preach the Word; be instant in &s;ea&s;on and out of &s;ea&s;on; improve, rebuke, exhort, with all long-&s;uffering.</HI> Alas, the la&s;t gift they will provide ye &s;hall daily exerci&s;e, but at no time (by their good wils) any of the former: that head|le&s;&s;e, heartle&s;&s;e, tonguele&s;&s;e Trunck of a Parliament, a genera|tion that &s;trive with the Prie&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ho&s;. 4.2.</NOTE> hath ordered the &s;topping of your mouthes, or &s;tifling of your breaths: for the time (fore|told by the Apo&s;tle) being now come,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4.3</NOTE> they will not &s;uffer whole&s;ome Doctrine, but having their eares itching, after their owne lu&s;ts get them an heap of Teachers. You are &s;ilen|ced: you can, but may not.</P>
<P>O then, ye that onely can, ye that call your &s;elves the Pa|triots of the Law, the loyal Subjects of the King, and the re|pre&s;entative Body of the Kingdom, expre&s;&s;e it in the&s;e two Acts, pity and period their &s;orrowes, their &s;ufferings towards whom to pregnant a remor&s;e now at la&s;t in your brea&s;ts, may the&s;e &s;ad &s;howers of Lamentation be di&s;tilled into your bo&s;omes. Great <HI>Britain, Behold and &s;ee if ever &s;orrow were like my &s;orrow which is done unto me, and wherewith the Lord hath af|flicted me in the day of his fierce wrath.</HI> &amp;c. <UNCLEAR>read</UNCLEAR> <HI>Lamen.</HI> ver&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">. 13, &amp;c.</P>
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<Q>What I carele&s;&s;e, heedle&s;&s;e, remor&s;ele&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e</Q>
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<Q><L>Cannot three Kingdomes groans make on<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> impre&s;&s;ion?</L>
<L>Confound them Lord, retaliate their oppre&s;&s;ion.</L></Q>
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