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<P>ENGLANDS Deadly Di&s;ea&s;e to bee Sick of a KING.</P>
<P>OR Religions iu&s;t Complaint again&s;t her Enemies the Hereticks, who call the Diety into Que&s;tion.</P>
<P>AND Revoke their Covenant, &s;cornfully to have it hanged lower in the Steeple-hou&s;es, for Dogs to pi&s;&s;e upon &amp;c.</P>
<P>Licenced according to Order of both Hou&s;es of Parliam.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>George Lind&s;ey,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop over again&s;t <HI>London</HI>-&s;tone, 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>A Iu&s;t complaint of true Religion again&s;t ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<P>_O <HI>England! England!</HI> To thee I do direct my &s;peech, again&s;t thee I do complaine. Then heare mee thou filthy adultere&s;&s;e, ha&s;t thou no other pretext, but me to au|thorize thy treacheries? None el&s;e but me to colour thy Trea&s;ons? Shall I beare the blame of thy di&s;obediences to God and thy lawfull King? Say &s;trumpet wilt thou make mee a mother to thy whore|domes, wilt thou that I &s;upport thy &s;hamele&s;&s;e Apo|&s;ta&s;ies, art thou not a&s;hamed to &s;ay, that it is for my cau&s;e that thou committe&s;t &s;uch robberies? Is it for my honour (as thou &s;aye&s;t) that thou commit &s;uch murthers, and blood&s;hed? Have I been at any time, the mother of oppre&s;&s;ions? Or the upholder of Sedi|tions? Or the con&s;enter to Con&s;piracies, do&s;t thou not know the contrary? That all the&s;e things bee a|gain&s;t my heart? Doth not kingdumes &s;tand by mee? Doe not I Onely I, make man acceptable to God? There can bee nothing more hatefull to mee, then thy filthy defections. Hath any of thy neighbour Nati|tions done &s;uch affronts to mee as thou ha&s;t done? For thou ha&s;t &s;tript mee naked, rob'd mee of all my Ornaments, pulled downe and di&s;honoured my &s;tate|ly dwe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lings: killed my &s;ervants&punc; bani&s;hed all my wellwillers, and now do&s;t thou go about to bani&s;h my &s;elfe.
<PB N="2" REF="3">Unparalleld ingratefull con&s;ider, and remember of the happy e&s;tate all the time that I was maintained and re|&s;pected by thee. So long as you did honour me, did&s;t thou lack for any thing? Wa&s;t thou not admired? For thy beauty, riches, glory, &s;trength, and manhood. Was there any of thy neighbours could compare to thee in the&s;e things? Could any Nobility compare with thine for glory? Could any Gentry compare with thine for rich<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s? Could any Marchants compare with thine in gaines by their traffique? Was not <HI>England</HI> honou|red, re&s;pected, and made welcome to all Nations? Was not <HI>England</HI> both loved and feared of all her neigh|bours? But now open thine eyes and look upon thy di&s;|figured e&s;tate. Thou art become frantick and out of thy wits. Thou art now become mi&s;erable, infamous, ty|ranized and oppre&s;&s;ed by thy own &s;elfe? Doth not thy own Sword (which of old was a terrour and a conquer|our of others) now pierce thy owne bowels? Doth not thy own homicidiers m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rcile&s;&s;e hands make thine own children fatherle&s;&s;e? Thou &s;top&s;t thine eares at the pittifull cries of the poore widdowes and oppre&s;&s;ed. Thou di&s;daine&s;t the lamentable cryes of the poor. Thou ha&s;t opened thy dores to all dete&s;tfull Vice and ha&s;t ba|ni&s;hed Vertue, thou art become barbarous, and do&s;t hate all civility, thy onely plea&s;ure is to commit murther: and thou take&s;t delight to di&s;obey and tread under foot the holy Lawes of my God, thou art drunk with inno|cent blood, and yet thou do&s;t &s;till thru&s;t forward, thou do&s;t e&s;teeme it thy greate&s;t prai&s;e to oppre&s;&s;e thy neigh|bours, and thou art not a&s;hamed to proclaime unto the world, that it is for my &s;ake, that thou committe&s;t &s;acri|ledge. Filthy apo&s;tat look upon thy &s;elf and con&s;ider thy
<PB N="3" REF="3">e&s;tate now what it is, and what it was when I was main|tained in thy territories, where thou wa&s;t then beautifull. Thou art now filthy, &s;tinking, and loath&s;ome, thy glory is turned to &s;hame, thy riches are turned to penury, thy &s;trength is turned to feeblene&s;&s;e, and thy manhood to cowardice, and thou art become a by-word and laughing &s;tock to all Nations. When the children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> did fall fro~ God and me, with the gold and Iewels they took from the <HI>Egyptians</HI> they did convert into a golden Calf, and for this the Lord my God did plague them. Ha&s;t thou not done the like with thy Gold and Silver, thou ha&s;t bought a &s;word to kill thy own &s;elf. Rememb<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r what hath been done in thy &s;i&s;ter <HI>Germany</HI> for her co<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|tempt of mee, looke for no better no, and if it were not for the honour and re&s;pect that I carry to that godly well inclyned Prince thy King, thy ca&s;e &s;hould be wor&s;e then hers. For I do know that that King &s;hall re&s;tore mee to all my rights, and apparell, and that hee &s;hall re|edify my ruined hou&s;es, and re&s;tore my exiled &s;e vants and welwillers to their wonted liberties. Let not t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e thy di&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mbling &s;educers look for a better reward, then &s;uch as <HI>Baal</HI> his Prie&s;ts had, for deceiving <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> And bid them remember that vi&s;ib<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e de&s;truction that came upon them who did &s;trive again&s;t Gods Ordinance and again&s;t <HI>A on.</HI> Do not think that the al-&s;eei<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">g eye of my God &s;leepeth. No, no: the innocent blood <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">f thy mur|thers cryes (from the earth, as did that of <HI>Abell</HI>) for a vengeance again&s;t thee. Thy inhumane of pre&s;&s;ions of the poore, of the widow, and fatherle&s;&s;e, who&s;e pitious cryes thou di&s;daines: the Lord my God doth hear, &amp; my Si&s;ter Iu&s;tice, whom thou ha&s;t bani&s;hed, is now in heave<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, plea|ding for the Poore again&s;t thee. Hath not my God forbid
<PB N="4" REF="4">to touch his Annoynted and do his Prophets no wrong? But thou re&s;pectle&s;&s;e &s;trumpet makes no Con&s;cience to abu&s;e the Lords Annointed, and to kill the Prophets. For &s;ince the time of thy filthy back&s;lidings from mee, thou make&s;t no Con&s;cience of thy wayes. Thou can&s;t do no more to fill thy cup full to the brim with thy abomina|tions, but woe bee unto them when it &s;hall be full, for thou &s;halt be forced to drink up all thy filthy perjuries, bla&s;phemies, abominations, murders, and poy&s;onable he|re&s;ies, allowed of, invented, forged, &amp; maintained by thee, to the di&s;honour of my God, and di&s;prai&s;e of mee, thou art become &s;encele&s;&s;e, and thy under&s;tanding is departed from thee, Do&s;t thou not remember that when the evill &s;pirit did undertake to per&s;wade <HI>Ahab</HI> to fall by the &s;word of the children of <HI>Ammon,</HI> was it not by beeing a lying &s;pirit in the mouthes of his Prophets? And hath not thy Prophets &s;educed thee to fall upon thy own &s;word do&s;t thou not perceive that there is a heavy judgement comming from the Lord my God upon thee? Art thou blind, or do&s;t thou not regard the vi&s;ible threatnings of the Lord my God for the contempt of mee? Art thou become &s;o in&s;olent, as to &s;light the wrath of the Almigh|ty? Thou ha&s;t and do&s;t proclaime thy &s;elf open enemy to all civility and civill government, denying thy duty to God, and thy King, refu&s;ing all Religion and right rule, &s;u&s;pending, &s;ubverting, and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing all &s;pirutall Pa&s;tors and godly learned men, maintaining here&s;ies, A|thei&s;me, and ungodly livers in their roomes, do&s;t thou look for a fearfull end, and that thou &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t be made a &s;pectacle and a vi&s;ible example to all Nations for this, a ke but tho&s;e of thy commer&s;e what difference there is between thy e&s;tate now, and the time that I had my
<PB N="5" REF="4">peaceable habitation with thee, aske thy trade&s;men, what alteration there is now of their e&s;tate? And tho&s;e who got their living by their handwork, I &s;ay aske them what lo&s;&s;e they find at the weeks end. Let every one in their &s;everall callings beare witne&s;&s;e with mee to this truth. And &s;ince thou ha&s;t ca&s;t mee off, following after thy inchanting, &s;educing lovers. What ha&s;t thou gained? any thing el&s;e, but that thou had&s;t purcha&s;ed hundreds of yeeres before, thou ha&s;t &s;pent all in the&s;e 7 yeeres of thy licen&s;ious living, denying thy duty to God and thy King, and for&s;aking mee. Thou may&s;t be compared un|to an adultere&s;&s;e woman who had &s;pent all her husbands riches with her new lovers. And now when thou begin|e&s;t to be poore, thy lovers who hath inriched them&s;elves with thy goods, doth now di&s;daine thee and laugh thee to &s;corne, if thou have no more monies, they &s;hall &s;trip thee, and rather pitty thy nakedne&s;&s;e, then commi&s;erate thy e&s;tate, but &s;hall utterly undo thee, if thou di&s;a&s;&s;ent to their de&s;ires. Art thou bereft of &s;ence, or depraved of eyes, that do&s;t rather fall then &s;ee thy own wreched e|&s;tate: that (tho&s;e whom thou hired to bee the executi|oners of thy malice again&s;t them whom thou intended to undo) are now become thy &s;hame like unto <HI>Hamans</HI> gallowes, that hang'd his ma&s;ter: be not thy hirelings become thy ma&s;ters, thy bond &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rvants, thy Comman|ders: hath the like been done in any other Country that is done in thee? It is a thing to be wondered at, that thou ha&s;t &s;uch heart to do &s;uch unlawfull things, as to pre&s;&s;e to depo&s;e thy lawfull Prince, to &s;ubvert Religion, and to kill thy &s;elfe, and ha&s;t not the courage to with|&s;tand the cruelties of thy dome&s;tique enemies, nor to gain&s;ay their impri&s;oning Ordinances, nor to refu&s;e their unrea&s;onable demands.</P>
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<P> O mi&s;erable wretch! more then mi&s;erable, how long wilt thou halt between two opinions? If the Lord be God follow him, if <HI>Baal</HI> be God follow him. Thou had&s;t once wit: thou had&s;t judgement, thou had&s;t un|der&s;tanding, thou had&s;t once valour to with&s;tand the power of Nations: call to mind the pro&s;perous &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e thou ha&s;t had to re&s;i&s;t the inva&s;ions of Kingdoms, and not only to re&s;i&s;t, but overcome victoriou&s;ly, wit|ne&s;&s;e <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> where in one day thou had&s;t the glorious victory of two battels, and took both their Kings pri&s;oners, art thou not <HI>England</HI> now as thou wa&s;t then? The number of thy fighting men and armes be rather augmented then dimini&s;hed. Thou lacke&s;t no|thing but courage. Then heed, and take my coun&s;ell, I love thee, and am &s;orry for thy di&s;a&s;ter, for all thy rigour u&s;ed again&s;t mee, returne then to thy wonted obe|dience to God and to thy lawfull King and to mee. And try if the Lord will not give thee a ble&s;&s;ing, and will make good all thy lo&s;&s;es, and re&s;tore thee to thy won|ted happine&s;&s;e, &s;o that thy withered branches &s;hall yet bud and bring forth the wonted plea&s;ant fruits, &s;top then thine eares at thy &s;educing inchanters, hearken no more to their flattering alluring inti&s;ings, but take courage, and &s;hake off the heavy intollerable burden of &s;lavi&s;h bondage, and turne to the Lord thy God, and let mee have my own accu&s;tomed liberty, that my &s;i&s;ter ju&s;tice come againe and injoy his wonted Prerogatives, and thou &s;halt &s;ee how the Lord &s;hall ca&s;t thy &s;courge into the fire, and ea&s;e thee, as the loving father did his forlorne child. The Lord my God give thee eyes to &s;ee, a heart to un<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er&s;tand, judgment to di&s;cerne, and to cho&s;e the be&s;t that thy fall be not perpetuall. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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