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<P>THE CAVALIERS NEW COMMON-PRAYER BOOKE <HI>&V;ncla&s;p't.</HI></P>
<P>It being a Collection of <HI>Prayers</HI> and <HI>Thank&s;|givings,</HI> u&s;ed in His Maje&s;ties Chappell, and in his Armies.</P>
<P><HI>&V;pon occa&s;ion of the late</HI> (&s;uppo&s;ed) <HI>Victories again&s;t the Parliaments forces, and for the future &s;ucce&s;&s;e of the Cavalier Forces.</HI></P>
<P>Publi&s;hed By his Maje&s;ties Command, to be duely read in all other Churches and Chappells within this his Kingdome, and Dominion of <HI>Wales.</HI></P>
<P>Printed at <HI>York,</HI> by <HI>Stephen Buckley,</HI> 1644. <HI>AND</HI> Reprinted at <HI>London,</HI> by <HI>G. B.</HI> with &s;ome briefe and nece&s;&s;ary <HI>Ob&s;ervations,</HI> to refute the Lyes and Scandalls that are con|tained in it. 1644.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Benevolent Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_YO&V; have often heard heretofore of the Cavaliers Thanksgivings in <HI>Oxford,</HI> and other places, for their pretended Conquests, but you may remember, that they were fir&s;t well cudgelled into them, as <HI>Britanicus</HI> long &s;ince wittily ob&s;erved. And if you have had a longing de&s;ire to &s;ee the tenour and Contents of their gratefulne&s;&s;e, be|hold here a Hotch-potch of Epi&s;copall and Cavalier mock-Prayers, and Thanksgivings, for their No-Victories, but &s;ound beatings at <HI>Edge-hill,</HI> in the <HI>VVe&s;t,</HI> and in the <HI>North,</HI> which being brought from <HI>York,</HI> &s;ince the Reddition thereof to the obedience of the King and Parliament, I thought it unfit to conceale it from you, in regard of the tran&s;cendent lying, di&s;&s;imulation, and mocking of God, with comple|mentall Prayers, and delu&s;ive Thanksgivings contained in it. Mo&s;t mi&s;erable mu&s;t tho&s;e men be, who&s;e very Devotions are &s;imulated and hypocriticall and a greater &s;inne for them to pray in the manner they doe, then not to pray, But read Prayers, or &s;ay Prayers they doe, and it is a que&s;tion, whether with greater impudence, or ignorance: but no matter for that with them, as long as they can thereby worke &s;o great an advan|tage in the credulous peoples minds, as when they &s;ay, or pipe out their Prayers for the King, again&s;t his be&s;t Subjects, they make &s;illy people beleeve, that they are the onely men which, love and honour the King, and all el&s;e Rebells, and &s;uch as &s;eek to destroy him.</P>
<P>Moreover, if at any time they are &s;oundly bang'd, pre&s;ently they mock God and the people with a Thanksgiving, according to the Spani&s;h Je&s;uited cu&s;tome: onely here is the difference, the Almighty lothes and abhorres &s;uch &s;imulated &s;anctity for their de|feates and overthrowes, and the &s;educed people beleeve, and admire it.</P>
<P>Thus they en&s;nare the Kings Subjects, and lead them with a &s;hew of devotion into de&s;truction, to make them adventure their lives and E&s;tates again&s;t God, the true Pro|te&s;tant Religion, and the Parliament, the &s;ole upholder of Liberty and Property, which, had it not to this day &s;tood firme again&s;t all &s;tormes and tempe&s;ts, our Religion, Liber|ty and Property, had long &s;ince been trampled upon by Popery and Tyrannie.</P>
<P>Prayer and Thanksgiving, which are the Pre&s;ervatives, they make the very bane of their &s;ouls, and all by the powerfull influence of the Prelatical Prie&s;ts, who draw the ig|norant people to their de&s;ires, as will appeare by the&s;e en&s;uing Re&s;ponds (according to the old Popi&s;h Order) between <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> and <HI>People.</HI> But not to detain: you with any longer Prologue from this new Parcell of Mockery, and Je&s;uited Popery, as bad as any in the Ma&s;&s;e-book, &s;ee here their Prayers, and Thank&s;givings, in the &s;ame Ord<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r they were printed at <HI>York,</HI> in this very yeere. <HI>1644.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer for the pre&s;ervation of His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, and for the Peace of the Kingdome.</HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>PRIEST.</SPEAKER>
<P>O Lord guard the Per&s;on of thy &s;ervant the King.</P>
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<SPEAKER>RIGHT RESPONDS.</SPEAKER>
<P>Prom Ie&s;uites, Papi&s;ts, Iri&s;h Rebells, and evill Coun&s;ellours about him.</P>
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<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Who putteth his tru&s;t in thee.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Re&s;p.</SPEAKER>
<P>Not wee hope, in the arme of Fle&s;h, as Cavaliers, Delinquents, and &s;uch enemies to the Kingdom.</P>
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<SPEAKER>PRIEST.</SPEAKER>
<P>Send him and his Armies help from thy holy Place.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Re&s;p.</SPEAKER>
<P>Not from Denmark, Belgia, France, Spaine, and Ireland.</P>
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<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>And evermore mightily defend them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Re&s;p.</SPEAKER>
<P>From the in&s;inuations of Incendiaries, and other promoters of this Warre.</P>
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<SPEAKER>PRIEST.</SPEAKER>
<P>Confound the de&s;ignes of all tho&s;e that are ri&s;en up again&s;t him.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Re&s;p.</SPEAKER>
<P>To withdraw him from his Parliament, and the protection of his best Subjects.</P>
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<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>And let not their Rebellious wick|edne&s;&s;e approach neer to hurt him.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Re&s;p.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nor any more to rob &s;poile, and kill the poore People of this Nation.</P>
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<SPEAKER>PRIEST.</SPEAKER>
<P>O Lord hear our Prayer.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Re&s;p.</SPEAKER>
<P>That our King may &s;peedily returne home from de&s;tructive mi&s;leaders.</P>
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<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>And let our cry come unto thee.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Re&s;p.</SPEAKER>
<P>And the Cry of thy Peoples blood in Ireland, and England.</P>
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<P><HI>O LORD God of Ho&s;ts, who give&s;t Victory unto Kings, and did&s;t deli|ver</HI> David <HI>thy &s;ervant from the perill of the &s;word, hear us, wee be&s;eech thee mo&s;t mi&s;erable &s;inners,</HI> [in making all the havock and &s;poile in this Kingdome,] <HI>who doe heere poure out our &s;oules before thee,</HI> [to be inabled to doe more mi&s;chief] <HI>entirely de&s;iring the Protection of thine hand upon thy Servant the King: let him find &s;afety under the &s;hadow of thy wings, and pre&s;erve his Per&s;on as the apple of thine eye.</HI> [and defend him from adhering any longer to your pernicious wayes and devices.] <HI>Suffer not that &s;word, which thou ha&s;t put into his hands, to be wre&s;ted out by the hands of Man:</HI> [the gathering of a Guard in York&s;hire, and the Welchmens complyance at <HI>Shrewsbury,</HI> put that &s;word into his
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hands, and not God, who never intended the de&s;truction of his true People. [<HI>but ble&s;&s;e his Coun&s;ells with &s;ucce&s;&s;e,</HI> [let them be never &s;o bad, you will tie God by this Prayer, to ble&s;&s;e them.] <HI>and his enterpri&s;es with victory,</HI> [you meane to the de&s;truction of the Parliament, and all the true Prote&s;tants in the three Kingdomes.] <HI>that he may goe on to be a terror to all them that oppo&s;e him</HI> [again&s;t the Papi&s;ts Popery and Tyranny.] <HI>and to be as the dew of the latter raine, upon the hearts of all tho&s;e who doe &s;till remaine Loyall to him.</HI> [though they be Papi&s;ts, bloody Iri&s;h Rebells, &s;wearing debauched Cavaliers, and the pests of his Kingdomes.] <HI>And O thou that take&s;t no delight in the mi&s;ery of one &s;ingle &s;inner, &s;pare mercifull Lord, &s;pare a great, though mo&s;t &s;infull Nation, pitty a de&s;pi&s;ed Church,</HI> [you meane the Pre|lates and their Hierarchy,] <HI>and a di&s;tracted State</HI> [made &s;o by your wicked party, that have &s;et it on fire by an unnaturall Warre, begun by them.] <HI>heale up tho&s;e wounds which our &s;innes have made &s;o wide, that none but thine own hands can clo&s;e them.</HI> ['tis mo&s;t true, you have made numbers of Women husbandle&s;&s;e, and chil|dren fatherle&s;&s;e, your confe&s;&s;ion and prayer is good, if they be &s;incere, which cannot be known to be &s;o, unle&s;&s;e you &s;peedily de&s;i&s;t from making more &s;uch wounds.] <HI>And in the tenderne&s;&s;e of thine un&s;peakable compa&s;&s;ion, ha&s;ten to put &s;o happy an end unto the&s;e wa&s;ting divi&s;ions</HI> [why doe you then &s;trive to continue, foment, and increa&s;e them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ill? lay down your Armes, if you mean good &s;ooth and they will &s;uddenly cea&s;e.] <HI>that thy &s;ervice may be the more duely celebrated</HI> [with Copes, Organs, outward pompe and Popi&s;h vain-glory.] <HI>thine Anointed con&s;cientiou&s;ly obeyed,</HI> [you mean, in what&s;oever he &s;hall Will and Command.] <HI>that the Church may be re&s;tored to a true Chri&s;tian Unity,</HI> [the Prelates, Deanes, and Prebends, being re&s;etled a|gain, they onely make the Church in your &s;ence] <HI>and the Kingdome to her former Peace</HI> [why doe you not quickly return to your homes then? you that fir&s;t began, mu&s;t fir&s;t end: but you intend to exclude Peace from <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland.] and that for his &s;ake, who is the Prince of Peace, and that &s;hed his pretious blood, to pur|cha&s;e our peace,</HI> [mel in ore, fel in corde.] <HI>even JESUS CHRIST our Lord, to whom with thee, &ocirc; Father, and thy ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, be, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer of Thanksgiving for His Majesties victorie over the Rebells at <HI>Edge-Hill.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>O Thou God of Ho&s;tes, who goe&s;t forth with our Armies.</HI> [To their de|&s;truction, for he plea&s;ed to leave them to them&s;elves, and to give them up to the &s;laughter of the Parliaments forces in that Battell.] <HI>and pleade&s;t the cau&s;e of thine Anointed again&s;t them that &s;trive with him,</HI> [if the King had continued with his Parliament, he had been there in no danger, nor &s;triving; but &s;elf doe, &s;elf have.] <HI>We acknowledge with all lowline&s;&s;e of minde,</HI> [if your loftie &s;pirits &s;tood not on points of worldly honour to be &s;o aver&s;e to peace:] <HI>that it is not our Sword, nor the multitude of our Ho&s;t that hath &s;aved us,</HI> [but your running away in the night af|ter that Battell:] <HI>but it is thy hand alone that hath di&s;po&s;ed of victory to thy
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&s;ervant the King</HI> [and Parliament, for it is mo&s;t certaine that their Forces gained the day there,] <HI>that hath covered his head in the day of Battel,</HI> [the Parliament de&s;ired him before the fight, that he would not mixe the danger of his per&s;on with tho&s;e whom they had declared Rebells and Traitors,] <HI>and hath kept his Crowne from be|ing throwne downe to the ground:</HI> [was it worne there, as <HI>Richard</HI> the third did his at <HI>Bo&s;worth-field?] Not unto us therefore, not unto us, but unto thee, O God, doe we give the prai&s;e, be&s;eeching thee to accompli&s;h the great work thou ha&s;t begun for us,</HI> [a&s;&s;uredly God hath taken &s;peciall notice of this abominable mock-prayer, for he hath granted their reque&s;t, in giving them continuall memorable Routs, and Defeats ever &s;ince; they prayed for vengeance vpon them&s;elves. and have con&s;tant|ly received it to the full, as at <HI>Newbery, Alrezford, York, &amp;c.] to continue the ble&s;&s;ing of good &s;ucce&s;&s;e on the head of our Soveraigne, and his Army,</HI> [never may that Army have better &s;ucce&s;&s;e than it had then, according to their prayers.] <HI>that the happines thereof may flow from thence, to the every skirts of his people,</HI> [judge what happine&s;&s;e, you that have been plundered, fired, and wa&s;ted by that Ar|mie, have received from it.] <HI>to continue the fear and con&s;ternation, which thou ha&s;t already ca&s;t upon the hearts of tho&s;e, who have Rebelliou&s;ly ri&s;en up again&s;t him, to enfeeble their &s;trength, to infatuate their Councels,</HI> [well prayed, for the Lord God hath &s;ent con&s;ternation, enfeebling, and infatuation upon tho&s;e that have re|belliou&s;ly ri&s;en up again&s;t him, to carry him from his Parliament, and leave the pro|tecting of his true Prote&s;tant &s;ubjects.] <HI>to undeceive, and di&s;abu&s;e the &s;educed part of them,</HI> [whom you labour the more to blind and hoodwink] <HI>that they may know and feel, that to take up Armes again&s;t thy Vicegerent,</HI> [you are deceived, 'tis again&s;t tho&s;e that have &s;educed him by evill Coun&s;ell, and again&s;t you that mocke God and the people by the&s;e &s;candalou&s;ly lying Prayers] <HI>is to fight again&s;t Heaven,</HI> [you meane the Heaven under <HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall,</HI> for God by his continuall good &s;ucce&s;&s;e given to the Parliaments Forces again&s;t you, hath declared, that they fight not again&s;t his Throne.] <HI>that &s;o by a timely and con&s;cientious &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, to the ju&s;t Authoritie of him whom thou ha&s;t &s;et over them,</HI> [Submi&s;&s;ion to the Kings ju&s;t Authoritie was never yet denyed him.] <HI>the effu&s;ion of more blood may be pre|vented,</HI> [which you have &s;hed, up to the hor&s;e bridles &s;ince.] <HI>the Peace of this di&s;tracted Kingdom &s;etled,</HI> [Peace is in your mouthes, but War is in your hearts] <HI>Faction may be ca&s;t out of the State,</HI> [we &s;hould &s;oon enioy quiet, if the Spani&s;h Faction, were once expelled.] <HI>and Schi&s;me out of the Church,</HI> [away then with all Papi&s;ts, Prelates, and their Hierarchy.] <HI>to the advancement of thy glory, the Kings Honour, and the Peoples good.</HI> [good words break not the bones.] <HI>Grant this O God, for thy old Mercies &s;ake which thou wert wont to &s;hew unto this Nation, that both Prince and People may joyne in giving prai&s;e to thee, who live&s;t and raigne&s;t world without end,</HI> Amen.</P>
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<P>Reader, ob&s;erve by this mock-prayer, how &s;encele&s;&s;e the&s;e men are, that could be &s;o wofully beaten at <HI>Edge-Hill,</HI> and never feele it; that they &s;hould lo&s;e their Generall in the heapes
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of &s;ome thou&s;ands of their &s;laine, and be forced to leave the Field to the Parliaments For|ces, and run away in the night, and never know it, but remaine in an abu&s;ive opinion of Victory, and Celebrate a Fe&s;tivall in &s;tead of a Funerall, and labour to hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> them&s;elves and the world with a mock-Thank&s;-giving. But you mu&s;t under&s;tand, that their policy was, to uphold the drooping and fainting &s;pirits of their beaten party, by this &s;ubtile Spa|ni&s;h trick</P>
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<HEAD>A Thank&s;giving for his Maie&s;ties late great &V;ictorie over the Rebells in the North.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O Mo&s;t mightie God, who&s;e dwelling is above the Heavens, yet humble&s;t thy &s;elfe to di&s;po&s;e of all things done either in Heaven or Earth, who in thy un&s;earchable Iudgements, ha&s;t &s;uffered the</HI> Sheba's <HI>of the&s;e times to blow the Trumpet of Rebellion in every corner of this Land; but withall ha&s;t iu&s;tly turned this &s;ufferance of thine into their Ruine;</HI> [True Sirs, Your Rebellious Cavaliers, like &s;o many treacherous <HI>Sheba's,</HI> partly by allurements of honour and reward, and partly by force, have provoked every County in this Kingdome to ri&s;e in Rebellion a|gain&s;t the King and Parliament, for which as you &s;ay al&s;o, they have been utterly rui|ned, and mu&s;t expect no other either from God or men.] <HI>We prai&s;e and magnifie thy great and glorious Name, that having given of late to thine Anointed &s;o many pledges of thy favour,</HI> [leave your ba&s;e flattery, and tell us what favours they were, that we may be thankfull for them al&s;o.] <HI>thou ha&s;t yet added to that heap of ble&s;|&s;ings, a new and notable Victory over the Rebells in the North;</HI> [whereabouts was this your notable &V;ictory in the North? at <HI>Hull</HI> you had two &s;everall repul&s;es with lo&s;&s;e and &s;hame, defeats you had at <HI>Bradforth, Halifax, Leeds,</HI> and <HI>Wake|field,</HI> and a con&s;picuous overthrow at <HI>Selby,</HI> and God to Crown the Parliament with a Ble&s;&s;ing, gave your <HI>Rupert</HI> and his A&s;&s;ociates &s;uch a blow at <HI>Yorke,</HI> as never was the like in <HI>England.</HI> But Reader, you mu&s;t under&s;tand the Cavaliers were tho&s;e Re|bels, as in all rea&s;on and law they are, and then it is mo&s;t true, that the King and Par|liament had a late, great, new, and notable &V;ictorie over the Rebells in the North.] <HI>Go on, O thou God of our Salvation, go on as thou ha&s;t begun;</HI> [the&s;e wretches de&s;erve the &s;evere&s;t vengeance, becau&s;e they pray &s;o earne&s;tly for it, for rather then they will confe&s;&s;e an overthrow, they heartily beg for more of the &s;ame &s;auce.] <HI>leave us not we be&s;eech thee, till thou ha&s;t accompli&s;h'd the great work thou ha&s;t &s;o ap|parently taken into thine own hands;</HI> [to extirpate you all both root and branch, Amen.] <HI>Pa&s;&s;e by our per&s;onall &s;innes,</HI> [of murder and robberie you meane.] <HI>O Lord, though they cry loud,</HI> [louder then all your Drums and Canons.] <HI>heare them not, but look to the righteou&s;nes of our Cau&s;e;</HI> [as app<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ares by the ill pro|&s;pering of it, which is confu&s;ion and destruction.] <HI>See the &s;eamle&s;&s;e coat of thy Son torne,</HI> [by the Prelates, &s;candalous Prie&s;ts and Papists.] <HI>the Throne of thine Anointed trampled on,</HI> [it &s;tands yet firme and untouch't in the Hou&s;e of Parlia|ment.] <HI>thy Church invaded by Sacriledge,</HI> [as you think in the removing of Po|pi&s;h Jmages, Pictures, Coapes, Organs, and Surplices.] <HI>and thy people mi&s;erably deceived with lies,</HI> [by <HI>Aulicus, Naworth, Digbies,</HI> and <HI>Nicholas</HI> letters, and the
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abominable untruths in this book of Mock-Prayers and Thank&s;givings.] <HI>See it O God, as &s;ee it thou do&s;t,</HI> [to your &s;hame and confu&s;ion.] <HI>and Vindicate what thou &s;ee&s;t upon the heads of tho&s;e, who lead the&s;e wretches to de&s;truction,</HI> [that is your &s;elves, in &s;educing and forcing &s;illy and ignorant people, to fight for your un|righteous cau&s;e and Popery,] <HI>till by their frequent overthrowes,</HI> [which you have had above fifty times.] <HI>if nothing el&s;e can po&s;&s;ibly reduce them,</HI> [which will not reduce you, untill you be totally wasted and con&s;umed, and &s;carce a man of your party be left alive.] <HI>thou ha&s;t &s;courged them into obedience,</HI> [&s;o inflexible is your ob|&s;tinacy, that a whip of Scorpions will not bring you to it.] <HI>and tamed the&s;e enemies of thine and ours into a de&s;ire of Peace,</HI> [which hitherto you have repudiated, un|le&s;&s;e it be upon your own terms, to command all as madly and illegally, as you did before this Parliament began.] <HI>that &s;o having at la&s;t &s;ubdued their hearts, which is the be&s;t of Victories,</HI> [your proud and loftie &s;pirits mu&s;t be tamed, el&s;e there is no good to be done.] <HI>thy</HI> David <HI>may returne to</HI> Ieru&s;alem <HI>in Peace,</HI> [let it be with|out his Army, and evill Coun&s;ellours, which you would bring along with him.] <HI>and thy people once more ioy under his Government,</HI> [which God grant may be ac|cording to his word, and the lawes of this land.] <HI>ble&s;&s;ing thy goodne&s;&s;e which hath wrought this for us,</HI> [no victory for you there I am &s;ure.] <HI>through the Mediation of thy Sonne Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to whom with thee and thy ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, be all prai&s;e and glory world without end.</HI> Amen.</P>
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<P>Reader, ob&s;erve well the&s;e &s;hamele&s;&s;e Prelaticall prayers, which are &s;tuffed with &s;uch abo|minable lies, that even &s;tink in the no&s;trils of God and man, and you may have cau&s;e to wonder, how the&s;e men dare bring &s;uch &s;ordid tra&s;h before the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, and the face of a Chri&s;tian Congregation, and to profane Churches and Chappels there|with, which they account holy and &s;anctified places. This is Sacriledge in the highe&s;t de|gree, and yet their zeale can brooke it better, then to have tho&s;e places clean&s;ed from the ragges and trumpery of Popery and Idolatry.</P>
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<HEAD>A Thanksgiving for his Majesties late great Victory over the Rebels in the We&s;t.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O Mo&s;t glorious and powerfull Lord God, without who&s;e aide and influ|ence all our &s;trength is weakne&s;&s;e, and our coun&s;ell folly</HI> [that influence is taken from you&punc; and &s;o by your own confe&s;&s;ions, your coun&s;ell is folly, witne&s;&s;e your many plots and &s;tratagems again&s;t the Parliament, and City of <HI>London,</HI> which by Gods mercy and goodnes, have been &s;till di&s;covered and prevented.] <HI>VVee thy un|worthy &s;ervants,</HI> [your wicked actions have alwayes &s;hewed you to be &s;uch] <HI>in a gratefull commemoration of thy frequent and often repeated ble&s;&s;ings,</HI> [God &s;uffers his Sunne and rain, to &s;hine and fall, on the evill and unju&s;t, <HI>Mat. 5.45.] with humble and unfained hearts, offer up to thee the Sacrifice of prai&s;e,</HI> [the Sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when hee bringeth it with a wicked minde? <HI>Pro. 21.27,] calling Heaven and Earth to witne&s;&s;e with us, that it is thy power alone by which we &s;tand,</HI> ['till the appointed time of your down-fall,] <HI>thy &s;trength by which we pro&s;per.</HI> [&s;o it &s;eemes by the multitudes of ill &s;ucce&s;&s;es you
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have con&s;tantly had.] <HI>Particularly we magnifie thy holy Name O God, for that late great Victory, wherewith thou ha&s;t graciou&s;ly ble&s;t our Soveraignes Forces in the VVe&s;t,</HI> [witne&s;&s;e the notable Overthrowes they had at <HI>Newbery,</HI> and <HI>Alrez|ford, &amp;c.] where thou gave&s;t not the day to the &s;trong, nor mea&s;ured'&s;t out &s;ucce&s;&s;e according to the numbers; but made&s;t the weak cha&s;e the mighty, and an handfull overthrow an Hoa&s;t;</HI> [mo&s;t true, for how many repul&s;es, had your great and &s;trong Armies, by the &s;mall and weake Garri&s;ons of <HI>Lyme</HI> and <HI>Plymouth?] &s;hewing by an evident te&s;timony of thy pre&s;ence,</HI> [in tho&s;e two afore&s;aid towns,] <HI>that the Arme of fle&s;h &s;trives in vaine, when the Arme of God doth fight the bat|tell.</HI> [that made you run away, and leave your &s;ieges of tho&s;e places.] <HI>In pur&s;uance of this thy un&s;peakable goodne&s;&s;e; we humbly begge of thee O Lord, to conti|nue in all our dangers the like &s;peciall a&s;&s;i&s;tance to us,</HI> [as you prayed for more vengeance after tho&s;e overthrowes and repul&s;es; &s;o you have received it to purpo&s;e &s;ince neere <HI>York] to break the Speare of the di&s;obedient,</HI> [there you lo&s;t <HI>5000.</HI> men, &amp; <HI>10000.</HI> Armes.] <HI>and melt the hearts of the Rebellious into water,</HI> [the re&s;t of that Rebellious crew had &s;uch watery hearts, that they ran away, &s;ome by land, and &s;ome by &s;ea to <HI>Hamburgh,</HI> and left <HI>Yorke</HI> to be taken by the Parliaments Armies.] <HI>to &s;trike the mindes of the perver&s;e,</HI> [as that Army of <HI>Ruperts</HI> was &s;tricken with &s;uch feare, that they ran out of that City by night to &s;hift for them|&s;elves] <HI>with a true touch of that Con&s;cience, which they go about to &s;tifle,</HI> [your Con&s;ciences are &s;eared, they need no &s;tifling.] <HI>and a true &s;ence of that dutie to thine Anointed,</HI> [if you had that &s;ence, you would not &s;trive to undoe him, and his Posteri|tie and Kingdomes.] <HI>which they labour to forget,</HI> [you have gotten it indeed el&s;e you would not doe &s;o,] <HI>that we thy mi&s;erable and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed people, may no longer groan under tho&s;e heavie Judgements,</HI> [you have violently drawne them downe upon your &s;elves, and this mi&s;erable distre&s;&s;ed Nation,] <HI>which our &s;innes have pul|led downe upon us.</HI> [a full confe&s;&s;ion; but where is your repentance and amendment &s;ince?] <HI>but may at la&s;t be re-united and knit in the happines of a long wi&s;h't for Peace,</HI> [which you reiect by further contumacy and rebellion.] <HI>and with one mind, in the &s;ame true Religion, wor&s;hip thee the onely God,</HI> [you meane with your Ceremonies of cringings, Altars, and will-Wor&s;hip.) <HI>and obey our King whom thou ha&s;t &s;et over vs:</HI> [in what he &s;hall command, in Ju&s;tice, Equity, and Righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e,] <HI>grant this O mercifull Father, for thy deare Sonnes &s;ake, who raigneth with thee, and thy holy Spirit, world without end.</HI> Amen.</P>
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<P>Ob&s;erve Reader, That the&s;e Prelaticall Prayer-mongers and their adherents are true <HI>Ada|mites,</HI> for though they have wrought worlds of mi&s;chiefe in beginning, and &s;omenting this unnaturall War among&s;t us, yet they would make the &s;tupid people beleeve, that they are innocent and cleare from tho&s;e heynous exorbitances, and like <HI>Adam,</HI> transferre their &s;innes from them&s;elves, upon the backs and con&s;ciences of tho&s;e, that only take up defen|&s;ive Armes again&s;t them: but that will not &s;erve their turnes, for though they &s;trive to palliate their &s;ubtill crimes, yet God hath, and will every day more and more detect and di&s;cover them, and will without que&s;tion turne their wickedne&s;&s;es upon their own heads.</P>
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<HEAD>A Thanks-giving for the Queenes &s;afe returne.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t mercifull Lord God, wee farther render thee all prai&s;e and thankes, for that thou ha&s;t been plea&s;ed ro extend thy hand of deliverance unto the per&s;on of our gracious Queene, <HI>[are they Prote&s;tant or Popi&s;h graces?]</HI> that thou ha&s;t made her an in&s;trument of &s;o much good to this Kingdome, <HI>[this is a French Ironie, for you &s;peake contrary to your meaning and knowledge. I know not to give flattering titles, &s;aid</HI> Iob 32.22.] and brought her &s;afely hither, through &s;o many dangers both by &s;ea and land, <HI>[&s;he came with a great Convoy of Dutch Ships by Sea, and pa&s;&s;ed through no places by land, but the Kings Garri&s;ons, guarded with a &s;trong Army, where was the danger you &s;peak of?]</HI> Lord make the King and his People daily more and more happy in her, <HI>[this is a prayer for the future, what pa&s;t, or pre&s;ent happines have we enjoyed?]</HI> that as by thine e&s;peciall favour &s;he is already become the mother of &s;o many hopefull Princes, <HI>[if two of them were not now nurtured amongst Prelates, Papists, and debauched &s;ouldiers.]</HI> &s;o &s;hee may be daily fruitfull in the addition of more ble&s;&s;ings to us, <HI>[I pray let them be better then tho&s;e we have hitherto received],</HI> through Ie&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, to whom with thee and the holy Gho&s;t, be all honour and glory, world without end, <HI>Amen. [I was horribly afraid the&s;e Prayer-mongers would have given the Queene thankes in this Prayer al&s;o.]</HI></P>
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<P>Reader, few words are be&s;t, becau&s;e the Queen is not here now, and cannot an&s;wer for her &s;elf, and therefore I can lay nothing to her pre&s;ent charge, but con&s;ider the good &s;he hath done to this Kingdom; (<HI>I</HI> will except her good to <HI>Ireland</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI>) &s;he carried her daughter from hence to her husband in <HI>Holland,</HI> and becau&s;e &s;hee had not ready money to defray her charges there, &s;hee carried with her a few trifling Jewells, and the Cubbord of gold Plate, which the Law &s;aith, belonged to the Kingdom, and hearing the di&s;tractions among&s;t us to increa&s;e, and the Cavaliers and Papi&s;ts to grow numerous, &s;hee made bold (with a good meaning no doubt) to pawne, or &s;ell tho&s;e Jewells and Plate, and with the moneys ari&s;ing from them, bought Armes, Ammunition, and Ordnance, and kindly &s;ent them to us, to beat the Prelates, Papi&s;ts, Cavaliers, and Iri&s;h Rebells out of <HI>England.</HI> And was &s;he not herein an In&s;trument of much good to this Kingdom? As for tho&s;e Rivers of Prote&s;tants blood that hath been &s;hed by this means, you mu&s;t think it is a toy to a Ca|tholike Queen, and not to be e&s;teemed, &s;o &s;he gain her ends, and advance that Cau&s;e and Faction. Here is the happine&s;&s;e, here are the ble&s;sings this Nation hath reaped by &s;uch an In&s;trument of good. More may be &s;aid, but I leave all true Prote&s;tants to their owne Meditations.</P>
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<HEAD>A Hymne or Generall Thanks-giving.</HEAD>
<P>GLory be to God on high, <HI>[your Mock-prayers defraud him of his glory.]</HI> and in earth Peace, [<HI>not in</HI> England, Scotland, <HI>and</HI> Ireland, <HI>by your con&s;ents.</HI>] good will towards men. <HI>[to what men, Papi&s;ts or Prote&s;tants, Cavaliers or Round heads, to him that &s;weareth, or to him that feareth an Oath?]</HI> We prai&s;e thee, We ble&s;&s;e thee, We wor&s;hip thee, We glorifie thee; <HI>[Softly, le&s;t you want breath, and thank the old Common prayer-book for this.]</HI> and at this time, in a more &s;pe|ciall
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manner, with the highe&s;t expre&s;&s;ions of our devoute&s;t hearts, <HI>[true devotion and your mockery are incompatible.]</HI> We mo&s;t humbly give thanks unto thee, for that thou ha&s;t bin plea&s;ed out of thine infinite goodnes mercifully to look down upon the late low e&s;tate of our gracious Soveraigne; [<HI>Your brethren in</HI> London, <HI>have alwayes told us that the Cavaliers Armies were Potent and Numerous.</HI>] That ha&s;t brought him from &s;o much &s;cornefull neglect, [<HI>of his Nephew</HI> Rupert, <HI>and other of his Souldiers, that would plunder and commit outrages, notwithstanding his Inhibition.</HI>] to appeare &s;o terrible unto tho&s;e de&s;perate Rebells, who dare yet &s;tand in Armes again&s;t him; <HI>[ridiculous Thunder-clap, will you turne the Kings countenance into a hideous form?]</HI> That thou ha&s;t ble&s;t him with many, and tho&s;e eminent victories, and particularly, for tho&s;e great defeats which by his Armies thou ha&s;t given unto his enemies in the <HI>North,</HI> and in the <HI>We&s;t.</HI> [Rupert, Maurice, Newca&s;tle, <HI>and</HI> Hopton <HI>will tell the truth and &s;hame the devill.</HI>] O Lord God, hea|venly King, God the Father Almighty, O Lord, the onely begotten Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t, continue the&s;e thy favours to us, <HI>[of continuall lo&s;&s;es and defeats, as hither|to you have had, O obdurate hearts, that pray for wrath and judgement upon them|&s;elves.]</HI> and perfect we be&s;eech thee, that glorious worke, the happy peace of this land, which none but thine own &s;trength can fini&s;h, <HI>[you plead guiltie and confe&s;&s;e your war inglorious, and yet &s;hun that happy Peace.]</HI> And to that end, Thou that take&s;t away the &s;ins of the world, take this foule &s;in of Rebellion from us, <HI>[a plain confe&s;&s;ion, but 'tis not ingenious, becau&s;e you continue &s;till Rebellious.]</HI> Thou that &s;it|te&s;t at the right hand of God the Father, &s;mite through the loynes of tho&s;e Sacri|legious men, who have not &s;pared at all to prophane thy Hou&s;e and thy Service; <HI>[with Atars and Idols, Pictures and Images, duckings, and too much curte&s;ie, too much craft.]</HI> So &s;hall we &s;till ble&s;&s;e thy Name in the mid&s;t of the great Congregation; <HI>[you meane of Bi&s;hops, Deanes, &amp;c. clad in rich Coapes, and their Pontificalibus, with loud and high &s;ounding mu&s;icke.]</HI> So &s;hall wee thy &s;ervants never cea&s;e to be &s;till pray&s;ing thee and &s;aying, Thou onely art Holy, Thou onely art the Lord, Thou onely O Chri&s;t, with the holy Gho&s;t, art mo&s;t high in the glory of God the Fa|ther. To thee be all prai&s;e and honor &amp; glory a&s;cribed world without end. <HI>Amen. [Smooth as Butter or Oyle. Thou &s;halt not take Gods Name in vain.</HI> Exod. 20.]</P>
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<P><HI>Reader, ob&s;erve how fitly the latter part of the 50.</HI> P&s;alme <HI>may be applyed to the&s;e Prelaticall prayer-mongers and their abbettors, from the 16. ver&s;e to the end, in the&s;e words:</HI> But unto the wicked God &s;aith, what ha&s;t thou to declare my Sta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">tes, or that thou &s;houlde&s;t take my Covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hate&s;t in&s;truction, and ca&s;te&s;t my words behinde thee. When thou &s;awe&s;t a chi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">fe, then thou con&s;ented&s;t with him, and ha&s;t been partak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r with Adulterers. Thou give&s;t thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou &s;itte&s;t and &s;peake&s;t again&s;t thy brother: thou &s;landere&s;t thine own mothers &s;on. The&s;e things ha&s;t thou done, and I kept &s;ilence: thou thoughte&s;t that I was altogether &s;uch a one as thy &s;elf; but I will reprove thee, and &s;et them in order before thine eyes. Now con&s;ider this ye that forget God, le&s;t I teare you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. Who&s;o offereth <HI>[true]</HI> prai&s;e, glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conver&s;ation aright, will I &s;hew the Salvation of God.</P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer to be &s;aid during the&s;e times of trouble.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord our God, Mercifull and Gracious, and abundant in good|ne&s;&s;e and truth, who do'&s;t according to thy will in the Armies of hea|ven, and rule&s;t over all the Kingdomes of the earth; in who&s;e hand is power and might, and none is able to with&s;tand thy Arme; <HI>[which, though you have &s;orely felt &s;ince your Rebellion, yet you would never acknowledge it a|gain&s;t you.]</HI> We mo&s;t vile &s;inners approach before thy Throne of Grace, bewailing tho&s;e manifold tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions that have provoked thy wrath and indignation again&s;t us. [<HI>here are more of their Confe&s;&s;ions, but &s;till without amendment; who&s;o confe&s;&s;eth &amp; for&s;aketh his &s;ins, &s;hall have mercy,</HI> Pro. 28.13] VVee know, O Lord, that affliction cometh not forth of the du&s;t, neither doth trouble &s;pring out of the ground, but it is thou that with rebukes do'&s;t cha&s;ten man for &s;inne. VVee confe&s;&s;e that we were a wealthy and a care|le&s;&s;e Nation <HI>[vntill you by your plundering and robbery impovere&s;hed it,]</HI> and our land was as the garden of <HI>Eden; [untill you wasted it, by making ha|vock both of man and bea&s;t, that &s;hould have manured it.]</HI> our deliverances were great, and thy ble&s;&s;ings were multiplied, <HI>[and yet you never take them to heart, to be truely thankfull for them.]</HI> VVee dwelt alone without feare of evill, <HI>[that was your &s;ecuritie and carele&s;ne&s;&s;e,]</HI> and were become the Envy of tho&s;e that were round about us. <HI>[and now you have made us the &s;corne and deri&s;ion of all Nations.]</HI> Peace was within our walles, [<HI>why did you break it? Fir&s;t in</HI> Scotland, <HI>next in</HI> Ireland, <HI>and now in</HI> England?] and plenteou&s;ne&s;&s;e within our Pallaces. [<HI>the too great plenty in the Bi&s;hops Pallaces, made them begin their</HI> Bellum Epi&s;copale.] But when we had eaten and were full, and had waxen fat, we kicked again&s;t thee our Maker, who had'&s;t done &s;uch great things for us, <HI>[you were alwayes like the Rebellious Jewes.]</HI> our heart was lifted up, <HI>[and in that loftine&s;&s;e your hearts remaine &s;till.]</HI> and forget thee our God, <HI>[when did you ever remember him?]</HI> and lightly e&s;teemed the Rocke of our &s;alvation. <HI>[&s;o it &s;eemeth by your for&s;a|king of him, and turning to Idolatry.]</HI> We loathed the <HI>Manna</HI> that raigned downe upon us; [<HI>you indeed ever loathed the</HI> Manna <HI>of &s;incere Praying, and &s;ound Preaching,</HI>] our Peace became a wearine&s;&s;e, <HI>[that made you runne out into a bloody warre.]</HI> and wee &s;nuffed at our happine&s;&s;e, <HI>[the more to blame you that could not &s;ee when you were well.]</HI> we murmured again&s;t <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in our tents, <HI>[and put hone&s;t Rulers, Priuy Councellers, Magi&s;trates, and Justices of Peace out of their places.]</HI> and made light of thy Anoynted whom thou had'&s;t &s;et over us. <HI>[unle&s;&s;e hee would bestow honour and wealth
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upon you.]</HI> Therefore hath thou recompenced our wayes upon our owne heads, <HI>[very ju&s;t.]</HI> and &s;uffered our de&s;truction to proceed from our &s;elves: <HI>[you never judged right for your &s;elves till now.]</HI> our wickedne&s;&s;e doth correct us, our back&s;liding doth reprove us, and our iniquitie is be|come our ruine. <HI>[can you &s;ee all this and not leave your &s;infull cour&s;es? let ruine then con&s;ume you.]</HI> Thou ha&s;t broken upon us with a grievous breach; <HI>[in the &s;laughter of thou&s;ands of your Parti&s;ans.]</HI> thy anger hath divided us, <HI>[as it will be at the end of the world, the Sheep from you the Goats.]</HI> and thy fury hath da&s;hed us one again&s;t another. <HI>[&s;o that your braines fall out.]</HI> Thou ha&s;t mingled a Spirit of perver&s;ne&s;&s;e in the mid'&s;t of us; <HI>[which makes you &s;o refractory.]</HI> and made us a Nation void of Councell and un|der&s;tanding: <HI>[that's fal&s;e, for you have Councell and understanding enough to contrive Plots, Con&s;piracies, and Treacheries; but to good they are totally infa|tuated.]</HI> in &s;tad of Peace, thou ha&s;t &s;ent bitternes, <HI>'tis you that have chan|ged a Calme into a Storme, and turned Wormwood into Gaule.]</HI> and ha&s;t &s;ent a fire into our bowels, and it is kindled round about us.] <HI>remember which of your party hath fired Townes and hou&s;es.]</HI> And now, O'Lord, be|hold the Sword is drunk with our blood, <HI>[of the Prote&s;tants in</HI> England <HI>and</HI> Ireland.] and we are numbred to the &s;laughter; <HI>[a ju&s;t rcompencee for your &s;hedding it.]</HI> the high wayes are unoccupied, <HI>becau&s;e you hinder Commerce and trading.</HI>] and the travellers go thorow by-paths: <HI>[le&s;t they &s;hould fall into your hands.]</HI> our fields are divided, our inheritance is for a &s;poile, <HI>[becau&s;e you have &s;hared the Prote&s;tants lands among&s;t you.]</HI> and our &s;ub&s;tance to the Robbers, [<HI>&s;uch as</HI> Rupert, Capell, Ha&s;tings, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>] We are become a re|proach to the fooli&s;h people, <HI>[becau&s;e you delude them with lies, and Mock-victories.]</HI> and &s;ervants bear rule over us, <HI>[&s;uch as Endymion Porter, Da|vis the Barber, &amp;c.]</HI> The mean man is ri&s;en again&s;t the Honourable, <HI>[that is, the poor ragged Welch men again&s;t the Parliament.]</HI> and the fire out of the Bramble devoureth the lofty Cedars, <HI>[the fire out of the Parliaments Guns hath abated the pride of &s;ome of your Nobles.]</HI> our women are ca&s;t out of their plea&s;ant places, <HI>[by your Deflouring and Ravi&s;hing them.]</HI> and the robe is pulled off from the aged; <HI>[witne&s;&s;e your robbing of old Ma&s;ter</HI> Dod <HI>of his gowne in</HI> Northampton&s;hire.] there is no re&s;pect had to the Priea&s;t, <HI>[of Baall you meane.]</HI> nor favour to the Elders. <HI>[the Bi&s;hops and Deanes you conceive.]</HI> Thy Sanctuaries, the excellency of thy &s;trength, are pro|phaned; <HI>[by the &s;aying of your Mock prayers, and Thanksgiving in them.]</HI> and they have defiled the places where thine Honor dwelleth, <HI>[which the Cavaliers did at</HI> King&s;ton <HI>upon</HI> Thames, <HI>and</HI> Plympton, <HI>by making them a jakes, and &s;tables for their Hor&s;es.]</HI> and yet &s;till the &s;eat of wickednes fra|meth
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mi&s;chief by a Law, <HI>[true, you have done all your villanies by the known Laws of the land.]</HI> and it turneth iudgement backward, <HI>[when the runa|wayes voted in their Anti-Parliament at</HI> Oxford.] and biddeth Iu&s;tice &s;tand a farre off; <HI>[as the Cavalier Governours over Cities and Corporations doc.]</HI> and devi&s;eth deceitfull matters again&s;t tho&s;e that are quiet in the land. <HI>for which devi&s;ings both</HI> Tompkins <HI>and</HI> Challoner <HI>were hanged at quiet</HI> London.] Nay, there is a lying &s;pirit gone out into the mouthes of the Prophets; <HI>[witne&s;&s;e the Prelaticall Prayer-mongers, that made this lying book for their no victories.]</HI> they prophe&s;ie fal&s;ly, and the people delight to have it &s;o, and they &s;trengthen the hands of evill doers, that they turne not back from their wickedne&s;&s;e. <HI>[your Cavaliers and Grandees delight in &s;uch fal&s;ities, whereby you &s;trengthen the hands of your evill party, and keepe them in their wickedne&s;&s;e, by upholding them with the&s;e lyes,]</HI> Thus are wee covered with a cloud in thine anger, <HI>[a cloud of lies and impieties to &s;educe the igno|rant people.]</HI> and our beautie is ca&s;t downe to the ground. <HI>[ever &s;ince the Lady</HI> Thynne <HI>was disgraced at</HI> Oxford.] But O Lord, &s;hall thine indig|nation be powred out for ever? &s;hall thy iealou&s;ie burne like fire? <HI>['tis but according to your de&s;erts, but e&s;pecially for the&s;e abrupt and &s;hamele&s;&s;e expo&s;tu|lations.]</HI> O pa&s;&s;e by the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions of the remnant of thine heritage, <HI>[which you are not, though you have lo&s;t many thou&s;ands of your party.]</HI> and take away the rebuke of thy people, <HI>[that they may be no more over-topped by the Prelates and Cavaliers.</HI>] O remove from us reproach and con|tempt; <HI>[re&s;pect belongs only to the worthy.]</HI> and &s;trengthen the &s;poyled again&s;t the de&s;troyers. <HI>[that is, the &s;poyled true Protestants, again&s;t the de|&s;troying Athei&s;ts, Cavaliers, Papi&s;ts, and Iri&s;h Rebells]</HI> Bow downe thine eare, and con&s;ider the oppre&s;&s;ion of the poore, and the &s;ighing of the nee|dy, <HI>[whom you have robbed of all their goods and &s;ubstance.]</HI> the groaning of the Pri&s;oners, that are fa&s;t bound in mi&s;ery and iron. [<HI>in</HI> Oxford, <HI>and and in your other Garri&s;ons.</HI>] Lift up thy &s;elfe, becau&s;e of the rage of thine Adver&s;aries: con&s;ider the de&s;olation they have made in thy Courts, and all that the enemy hath done wickedly in thy Sanctuary. <HI>[in your defiling them with Altars, Images, Pictures, and with Hor&s;e and mens dung.]</HI> And yet &s;till they are compa&s;&s;ed with pride, and clothe them&s;elves with violence as with a garment. <HI>[you have violently robbed Clothiers of their cloath to make you garments.]</HI> How long, O Lord, &s;hall they boa&s;t them&s;elves in mi&s;chiefe? how long &s;hall they decree unrighteous Decrees, and write grievou&s;ne&s;&s;e, which they have pre&s;cribed? <HI>[you have done it too long, in forcing poore peo|ple to &s;erve you, and laying heavy Taxes upon the Counties under your power.]</HI> O make not a full end with us, <HI>['tis pitty to &s;pare one man of you.]</HI> but cor|rect
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us in mercy, <HI>[the mercifull &s;hall have mercy, but your cruelty cries for vengeance.]</HI> though thou leave us not altogether unpuni&s;hed. <HI>[you de&s;ire then a little &s;courging, for your abominations.]</HI> Help us O Lord our God, for we re&s; on thee, <HI>[that's fal&s;e, for had you not &s;olely relied upon your owne &s;trength, you dur&s;t not have acted &s;uch iniquities.]</HI> and under the &s;hadow of thy wings &s;hall be our refuge, untill this Tyranny be over-pa&s;t. <HI>[tell us when you meane to cea&s;e it.]</HI> Di&s;appoint therefore the devices of the crafty; <HI>[you have been &s;ufficiently caught in your owne &s;nares.]</HI> Let not the Rebelli|ous exalt them&s;elves any more, <HI>[you have &s;hrewdly gone down the winde of late,]</HI> and &s;uffer not the Tabernacles of the Robbers to pro&s;per. [<HI>what then will become of</HI> Rupert's <HI>Dukedome of</HI> Cumberland, <HI>and</HI> Ha&s;tings <HI>Barony of Loughborough?</HI>] And as thou ha&s;t begun to &s;hew thy &s;ervants thy great|ne&s;&s;e, and thy mighty hand: <HI>[in con&s;ounding and de&s;troying your Armies.]</HI> &s;o continue thy marvellous loving kindne&s;&s;e to tho&s;e that put their tru&s;t in thee. <HI>[in the &s;ame manner and mea&s;ure of ruine, as you received it before.]</HI> The batell is thine, O Lord, thou ha&s;t pre&s;erved us from the arme of fle&s;h; <HI>the Parliaments Armies found this most true on their &s;ides, at</HI> Edge-hill, New|bery, Alresford, and lately neere <HI>Yorke.</HI>] Yea, it is thou that ha&s;t wrought all our works in us, even when there was no might again&s;t that great com|pany that came egain&s;t us. <HI>[the Parliaments Armies never &s;ought yours, but yours alwayes came to &s;urprize theirs.]</HI> When we were few in number, and there was none to help us, then thine own Arme brought &s;alvation, and thy Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;u&s;tained us. <HI>[Set the Saddle on the right hor&s;e, and apply this to the Parliaments Forces, whom Gods Arme and Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e &s;aved and &s;u&s;tained.]</HI> O perfect therefore thy handy-work. <HI>[upon the Parliament, and tho&s;e that truely love and adhere to them, you &s;hould &s;ay, unle&s;&s;e you pray for more vengeance upon your &s;elves.]</HI> Give &s;alvation to our King, and deliver CHARLES thy &s;ervant from the perill of the &s;word; binde up his &s;oul in the bundle of life, <HI>[we wi&s;h this more &s;inceerely then you doe, becau&s;e you lead him into danger, which wee de&s;ire him to avoid.]</HI> gird him with &s;trength to the Battell, <HI>[again&s;t &s;educing Papists, and evill Coun&s;ellors.]</HI> contend with tho&s;e who contend with him; [<HI>to bereave him of bis Crowne in</HI> Ire|land] &s;ubdue thou the People under him, <HI>[no true Protestant &s;tirres again&s;t him.]</HI> and &s;uffer no weapon formed again&s;t him to pro&s;per, <HI>[that which is done ogain&s;t you, you make him beleeve, is done again&s;t him.]</HI> O deliver him at length from the &s;trivings of the People, and lift up his head above his ene|mies round about him; <HI>[that are you, and your A&s;&s;i&s;tants.]</HI> give him the &s;hield of thy &s;alvation, and let thy gentlene&s;&s;e make him great; <HI>[and fa|mous again&s;t forreign Enemies.]</HI> put a &s;top at la&s;t to the madne&s;&s;e of the
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people, <HI>[that they may no more run a whoring after your Ceremonies, and &s;uper&s;titions.]</HI> &s;ay to the de&s;troying &s;word, it is now enough: <HI>I wi&s;h you would &s;ay &s;o al&s;o.</HI>] &s;end us a &s;ea&s;onable and ble&s;&s;ed calme <HI>[upon your owne Termes, or el&s;e you will not care for it.]</HI> Vi&s;it us with the joy of thy Coun|tenance, and make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou ha&s;t af|flicted us. <HI>[You have made many weeping eyes, and mu&s;t expect Retalation.]</HI> O re&s;tore to us our Solemne A&s;&s;emblies <HI>[in Cathedralls you mean, with pompe and vanity.]</HI> bring us back into thy Courts, to prai&s;e thee, <HI>[with as little &s;incerity, and as much di&s;&s;embling, as you doe in this Mock-prayer-book.]</HI> and let us once more wor&s;hip thee in the beauty of thy holyne&s;&s;e. [<HI>You have too much liberty yet to doe that after your manner, in the Mini&s;ters of</HI> Bri&s;toll, Che&s;ter, Exce&s;ter, Lychfeild, Oxford, <HI>and</HI> VVorce&s;ter.] Save us O Lord from our Enemies, and from the hands of all that hate us. <HI>[your crying and enormous &s;innes are hated, not your Per&s;ons.]</HI> That &s;o wee may &s;erve thee, without feare, <HI>[of di&s;turbance in your Formalities, you meane.]</HI> living a quiet and peaceable life, <HI>[why did you then rai&s;e cumbu&s;tions in the three Kingdomes, to di&s;quiet that Peace?]</HI> looking for the ble&s;&s;ed appearance of the great God, and our Saviour JESUS CHRIST <HI>[had you been truly pre|pared for his comming, you would have feared to break out into the&s;e di|&s;tempers.]</HI> To whom with Thee and thy Holy Spirit, be all Honour and Prai&s;e, world without end. <HI>AMEN.</HI></P>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>Much may be &s;aid, but briefly to conclude,</L>
<L>They much have &s;aid, but onely to delude.</L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="conclusion">
<HEAD>God heareth no Di&s;&s;emblers.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Witne&s;&s;e the Cavaliers many Overthrows, Defeats, totall Routs, le&s;&s;e of Townes, Ca&s;tles, Hou&s;es, lo&s;&s;e of Men, Hor&s;e, Ordinance, Armes, Ammunition, and Baggage.</HI> viz. AT</P>
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<ITEM>Hull, twice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Port&s;mouth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chiche&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edge-hill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Saltheath.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Redding.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Caver&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">m bridge.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Glo&s;ter &s;iege.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alborne Cha&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Newbery.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Modbery.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nottingham.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t-Church.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Barn&s;taple.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Taunton Ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Newport Pagnel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Horne-Ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Manche&s;ter.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thurland Ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Burton upon Trent.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arundell Ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Aulton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alresford.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Namptwich.</ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="16" REF="9">El&s;mere.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lyn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lincolne clo&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Col. Ma&s;&s;eys 8. garri&s;ons.</ITEM>
<ITEM>O&s;wel&s;trey.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tewksbury.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sunderland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>South Wales.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Kings Mills.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilne Ferry.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dudley Ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Egginton heath.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rus&s;hel Hall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The bridges neer Oxford</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edgcot.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Grafton hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir Alexander Dentons hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Greenland hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Plymouth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lyme.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Weymouth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Selby.</ITEM>
<ITEM>York.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVakefield.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tave&s;tok.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tickhill Ca&s;tle,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVelch poole.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sheffeld Ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVareham.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Bol&s;over ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVelbeck hou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Staley Garri&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hartlepoole.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Stockton ca&s;tle.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Barn&s;table.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Malmsbury.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Salta&s;he.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Greenvilhou&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Foy-harbour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVinfield Mannor.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cum multie alijs, que nuuc pre&s;cribire <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> gun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> e&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
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</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<P>NOw Reader, con&s;idering the premi&s;es, you finde, what a Me&s;&s;e of Prelaticall Mock-prayers and Thanks-givings are included in this booke, to del<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> man. They may, and doe di&s;&s;emble with God, deceive him they cannot, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> therefore they have bin rewarded for their di&s;&s;imulation with God, and che<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ing of &s;imple and ignorant people, as appeares by all their before recited defeat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> lo&s;&s;es; bcau&s;e I found in the&s;e Cavalier Mock devotions many lies, &s;landers, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> reproches again&s;t the Parliament, I have according to my duty vindicated th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> and all that truely love, honour, and fight for them, and &s;et the &s;ad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> on the Cavaliers right hor&s;e, applying their owne words and prayers to them&s;elves, to whom the mo&s;t of them properly and pertinently belong <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;uits &s;o well, that (in truth) they fit none &s;o well as them&s;elves. If any &s;hall object, as I expect many on their &s;ide will, that I too &s;harpely nippe their Pray|ers and Thanks-givings, let them under&s;tand, that Delu&s;ions, Lies, Mocke|ries, Defamations, and Slanders, e&s;pecially in Prayers and Thanks-givings, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> mo&s;t odious to God, and all good men, and indeed are no Prayers nor Thanks, but meer Farragoes of helli&s;h malice and virulency. To conclude, I de&s;ire the Reader to take &s;peciall notice of the de&s;peratenes, of the&s;e men, who rather then they will confe&s;&s;e a lo&s;&s;e or defeat, and &s;uffer the people to know the truth, they call and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> for continuance &amp; increa&s;e of direfull vengeance upon their owne heads. Let <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> pray, that God would, if he &s;ee good, open their eyes, and turne their hearts, that they may repent and amend.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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