TO THE KING. Moſt Excellent and Dread Soveraign,

THE meaneſt Creatures have acceſs and admittance to the Throne of the King of kings, by the Bloud of Jeſus; may I, the meaneſt of your Subjects, have admittance to your Temporal Throne, by the Dreads and horrible Fears of the ſecret Effuſion of your own and our Bloud, by the unprevented Conſpiracy of Bloud-thirſty Papiſts. The meaneſt Star, as it hath dependance on, and influence from the Sun, hath liberty to dart forth its Nocturnal Beams, when great Phoebus, the Titan of the World, ſubmerſes his refulgent Rays on the Neptune-waves; and now your glorious and Princely Rays are feared dayly to ſet continually, in the Horizon and Neptunian-Sea of Popiſh and Jeſuitical Subtilty, and bloudy Cruelty. Shall faithful Subjects be afraid of a Frown, when Church, State, and Crown are, by Papal Violence, Tumbling down? —Inter majora ſydera minora lucerent. The pooreſt Subject in the Primitive Raigns of the glorious Kings of Iſrael, have been permitted to cry, in times of extremity, Help, O King! 2 Sam. 14.4. And though your magnificent Majeſty be ambiently attended with ſo many Stars of the firſt magnitude, yet a poor Micaiah may prophecy to the King, and have a clearer proſpect of the Coeleſtial Councels upon the heavenly Throne, than the Zedekiah's with their iron horns, 1. Kings 22.11.24. though he be fed with Bread and Water till theſe Euroclydons be blown over. So, moſt excellent and glorious Prince, I beg Pardon as proſtrate at your moſt Soveraign feet, for this act of ſeeming-preſumption, while I acknowledge my ſelf nothing; yet in the hand of God, things that are not, may inſtruct things that are. Beſide, the preſent Neceſſity, the horrid and trembling ſounds of the Plot and Plotters Alarming my Ears, my obſequious duty to my King, and love to my Native Country, is the Womb that hath conceived and brought forth this Trembling Babe: Which, although in its Infancy, may, to the future admiration of the ſecureſt Lethargiſts in this Nation, be credited as a Child of Truth, by that time bright Phoebus hath twice mounted the twelve Herculean Pillars.

I remember, it was aſſerted by that Reverend Biſhop James Ʋſher, Biſhop of Armagh, ſometimes in Ireland, That thoſe Predictions that fell from him (moſt of which are fulfilled already) were imprinted and engraven on his Spirit: even ſo are theſe things that now I write to my Soveraign Lord the King and Country. And moreover, if it be true, or like to be true, that is reported to us by the Speech of the Dead, in Nocturnal Viſions, as is famouſly reported by antient Philoſophers, as Artemidorus, and the famous Remembrances of Julius Caeſar his Warning before his Death and fatal Stab in the Roman Senate, cum multis aliis; then have I reaſon to fear the Impreſſion of theſe things on my Spirit, and theſe ſcaring Viſions of the Night, which for ſome years paſt I have ſuſtained, concerning the Perſon and Crown of your Sacred Majeſty; and alſo of him and them who have raiſed the Thunder and Tempeſt in this our Horizon. As alſo the juſt fears we may have of the ſudden Fall of your Life and Crown, by the hand or hands of Papiſts. And that except your Majeſty be miraculouſly defended by ſupream Providence, and the timely Remiſſions by his mighty hand; and alſo your Royal Adherence, and juſt and methodical Conjunction to your great Council the Parliament, and ſo joyntly removing the Nations Grievances, and thoſe things offending the King of Kings, and timely and ſpeedily executing Juſtice upon the notorous Offenders of your Majeſties Crown and State, and of the Church of Chriſt; it cannot be, but that before either your Majeſty or we are well aware, they you now by your boundleſs Clemency indulge beyond Neceſſity, will give the fatal ſtroak to your ſacred Life, and in yours, to all your Subjects, who have the Breaſt-plate of Chriſts Righteouſneſs upon them, and the marks of the Whore of Babylon caſhiered from you to the Conformiſts and Nonconformiſts; and that I trembling fear in the 1680th year. O! would your Majeſty pleaſe ſpeedily to extirpate out of your Royal Territories, and this City of London, all thoſe Amalekites that trouble Iſrael, (I mean the French) that devour and eat the bread out of your Subjects mouths; and may you ever remember, that King Saul for neglecting the Word of the Lord, and not totally deſtroying Amalek, had his life diſhonourably taken from him by a Chip of that block, 1 Sam. 15. compared with 2 Sam. 1.13. Antiquity tells us, our Engliſh nation was never more bleſſed with Peace and Proſperity, than when the French Nation were conquered by us; as by Henry the fifth of famous memory, and Henry the ſixth, who was crowned in Paris, and planted the Flower-de-luce in Englands garden: But now it is to be feared that the French King will be crowned not in the French, but our Engliſh Paris (London) except the providence of the King of kings divert preſent occurrences, and the prudence of your moſt Excellent Majeſty, in happy Conjunction with your prudent Parliament, prevent it; which that you may, the God of Heaven grant.

'Tis a Curſe in Gods Word, to be governed or counſelled by the Spirit of Jezabel, or by a wicked woman, Iſai. 3.12.15, 16. Hence hath aroſe monſtrous Pride, and intolerable Oppreſſion, the very bane of Church and State. Who knows but by the hands of ſuch, your Majeſty may ſuſtain a Stab or fatal Stroak! And nothing would more draw the hearts of your Subjects up to the height of true joy, than if it may pleaſe your Majeſty to abandon ſuch morning-clouds from the Mountain of your Throne: O how glorious would the day ſhine! It is expreſsly ſaid by God, the King of kings, Deut. 17.17. The King ſhall not multiply wives to himſelf, that his heart turn not away. And though Solomons Throne was eſtabliſhed by God himſelf, yet it was ſtrange women made his Crown to totter, and his Kingdom to rend aſunder. 'Tis the greateſt intereſt to Kings and Princes, to treat the Lords people kindly, who are ſtill by the Papiſts and Popiſh affected, called, in ſcorn and deriſion, Hereticks: for he reproved Kings for their ſakes, Pſal. 105.14, 15. 'Twas the Prodromus to the deſtruction of Ireland formerly (as ſays Dr. Ʋſher) to adhere to the Principles and Patterns of Papiſts; nothing being true they hold, as ſaid the Martyr, but the Doctrine of the Trinity: for Free will, and general Redemption, now embraced by too many, is the Foundation of the Popiſh Kingdom, firſt brought into Rome in the fifth Century by Pelagius. 'Twas the haſtening the deſtruction of Ahaz King of Iſrael, 2 Kings 16. in that he joyned himſelf to the King of Aſſyria, verſ. 7. Nothing can more ſuddenly ruine King and Kingdom, than joyning Affinity with Popiſh Princes, becauſe God hath determined to caſt that Mountain as a Millſtone into the depths of the Sea, Rev. 18. Jer. 50, & 51. and they that will not come out of her when her hour comes, ſhall periſh with her without all peradventure. Beſides this, Ahaz goes to Damaſcus, verſ. 10. and takes a faſhion of the Altar and the Worſhip, and ſends to Ʋrijah the Prieſt for to take a pattern thereof; which, Iſai. 8. cauſed the Lord to haſten his Judgments, under the figure of Maher-ſhalal-haſh-baz, make haſte to ſpoil, and to the prey make ſpeed. So verily will God make haſte to ruine that Kingdom that ſhall patternize their Worſhip, from the grand Idolatry of ſo impudent an Harlot, Rev. 17. as the Church of Rome is. Alas, our Sun is darkened with Popiſh Principles, our Moon turned into Bloud, our Stars fallen and falling from Heaven, the true Proteſtant Profeſſion and Principles; both Univerſities and Pulpits filled with the Roman Traſh that the Martyrs and Fathers of our Proteſtant Religion truely abhorred, and Gods word is ſilent in: while thoſe few Stars that remain in their Primitive Luſtre, are ſcoffingly called Calviniſts and Solifidians, as if Chriſt and his Apoſtles were not the Patrons of the ſame Doctrine.

May your Majeſty be directed by the good Angels of God, to do what may preſerve your Life, prevent our Fears, eſtabliſh your Throne, comfort the Proteſtant Churches of Chriſt, and glad the hearts of all your Subjects. Your Majeſty knows that the deſigne of Monarchy is to preſerve your Country in it ſelf, not to betray it. For though thoſe things that God will not ſet up, be attempted in the breaſt of Majeſty it ſelf, yet it may not proſper, but will tumble down as Babel. In medio Conſiſtit Virtus. The way to make your Kingdom everlaſting, and your Crown immovable, is to conſult Gods Word and Will, and execute his Commands, cheriſh his Church, his Doctrine and Truths; baniſh and ſubdue his Enemies; and make it the policy of the State, to aim at Gods Glory, the Nations Proſperity, and the Churches Comfort: by permitting the various Intereſts and Priviledges of King and People to glide ſweetly in their proper Channels, as Law, Reaſon, and Equity hath provided, from the Conſtitutions of Antiquity.

Vivat Rex, & Vertitas.

To the PARLIAMENT, the great Council of England. Noble Senators,

WHen you that are our great Repreſentatives, and the Pillars, Nerves, and Sinews of our Body-politick, have not a Being, it may be ſaid, that the People and Nation of England (during that Caſma and Gulf of Diſſolution) have alſo no Being. And how monſtrous would it be in the eye of Reaſon, and incommodious to our Intereſts and grand Concerns, at this juncture of Affairs eſpecially, to have a glorious Head without a Body to ſubſtitute it? But though yet you are not born into our Angelical Commonwealth, yet I hope you are conceived in the womb of the hearts of the beſt People, whoſe great Intereſt it will be to haſten the Birth with all poſſibility, and by a careful Midwifry to deliver ſafely that hopeful Child may cheriſh its aged Mother, and defend her from that Murderous Train of Popiſh Plotters, and Devils in grain: That you may have the Heart of Piety it ſelf, and the Tongues of Angels, to promote Juſtice and Verity; bovem in lingua nondum ut habeatis: That Bribes may be as remote from you, as the Eaſt from the Weſt, as Popiſh Cruelty is diſtant from England's Felicity: And as it was once ſaid of the Belgick People, of their prudent management of great Affairs, ſo may it be practiſed by you; Dum neſciunt fingere poſſunt, quid autem agant ſtatim Statuunt. Noble Sirs, as it was ſaid in another Caſe, may be now ſaid to you in this preſent Caſe, Quid facitis, faxite Citiùs; if you be not nimble, the mangled walls of our old Carthage will be tumbled down, and the Babyloniſh Whore ruſh in at both ends of the Town. And if bad Councel, or thwarting Providence, or Romiſh Policy, ſhould either prorogue your time, or diſſolve your being once more, 'tis paſt peradventure feared, we nor you ſhall live any longer, and your Ruines will make way for our Miſeries. O conſult God, begin at the Oracle not of Delphos, but Chriſt: Reſolve with Hannibal, when he was going over the Alps into Italy, Aut inveniam, aut viam faciam. Truely, Sirs, you muſt hew your ways through the Rocks, and meet your Enemies under ground, or they will quickly both you and us Confound. And, as Luther ſaid to Malancthon, If we ſhall not boldly and reſolvedly do the Lords Work, he will remove us, and raiſe up others; ſo ſay I to you, If through fear, cowardiſe, or ſloath, you ſhould outſleep three quarters of a year more, our Petitions will end, and your Work be finiſhed: Yet will God raiſe up others yet inviſible to deliver his redeemed, and work wonders for us in our field of Zoan: for the Earthquake, Rev. 11.11, 12, 13. is at hand, 1680 will go near to manifeſt it, and the time of the three days and half, the time of the Churches Sackcloath and mourning ſtate, is near expiration; and God will call you up in a Cloud of protection, Iſai. 26. ult. while he ſhakes the Earth and Earthly Profeſſions and Profeſſors, and makes the Earth to diſcloſe her Bloud, and bring to nought things that are, by things that are not, 1 Cor. 1. and the Romiſh Philanax ſhall be caſt in the Sea like a Mill-ſtone, never more to riſe; and her Brats and Followers, and the Bloud of Chriſt, but their own dung and droſs, ſhall periſh with her: becauſe when they were called out, they refuſed the Wine, Milk, and Waters of Life, the marrow and fatneſs of the Goſpel, for Traſh, Popiſh Ceremonies, and Jeſuitical Doctrines. And this let Sion expect 1681 or 1682, to 1685. Deliverance will come another way.

To the CITY of LONDON. O, London, London!

MY Soul mourns for thee, like Tyre and Sidon, Ezek 28. thou haſt been like the Garden of god, every precious ſtone was thy Covering; thy Tabrets and Pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou waſt created. Thou that waſt the anointed Chorubin, thou waſt upon the holy Mountain of God. Thou haſt wallted up and down in the midſt of the ſtones of fire; thou haſt had the voice of the Turtle in thee, when the dark places of thy Land was deſolate; but Iniquity is found in thee. In thee is found fulneſs of Bread, Pride and Wantonneſs, Extortion, Whoredoms, Drunkenneſs, Errour, and Hereſies. None have partaken more of Chriſt, and none have more ſlighted and abuſed Chriſt, and the means of Grace: and becauſe thy heart is lifted up, and thou ſaideſt I am as God, Therefore thus ſaith the Lord, Behold, I am againſt thee, O London, I will cauſe (Ezek. 26.3.) many nations to come up againſt thee, as the ſea cauſes his waves and tydes to come up to thee. And they ſhall deſtroy they walls, and break down thy towers: God will ſcrape thy duſt from thee, and make thee like the top of the rock. And becauſe thy Children are ſettled up the Lees, Zeph. 1. God ſhall ſearch thee with Candles, and purge thee with Nitre and Soap, and caſt thee into the Furnace, that his Sons among thee may be tryed. Neither will thy Gold or thy Silver preſerve thee in the day of wrath, Zeph. 1.18. becauſe thou haſt been wanton, and decked thy ſelf in thy Attires, while thy poor Brethren have wanted Bread, and Arraiment to cover their Nakedneſs. And thou haſt profeſſed a Faith that had nor love nor bowels in it; but haſt cried out, Iſai. 66. with the Proud, Stand far off, for I am more holy, more rich, more honourable than thou; and haſt reſpected the perſons of the rich and great, while thou haſt contemned the brother of low degree: Therefore, Iſai. 3. ſhall thy Jewels and Ear-ring, thy Head-attires and Paintings, thy French faſhions, and uncivil and unſeemly Dreſſings, proſtrating thy ſelf to Strangers, and diſcovering thy Nakedneſs by thy French unſeemly Robes and Dreſſings, God will ſend thee (yea by that Nation) whoſe folly thou haſt impudently followed, Baldneſs for hair, Stink for perfumes, and Sack-cloath for cloathing; War for peace, and Bloud for water; till thou return and acknowledge thy iniquities, and break off thy whoredoms and impieties, and be found in the way of repentance. But for the hidden ones in thee, the Children of the Covenant, who have the Faith of Jeſus, and the Commandments of God, who have not exacted the labours, but freely followed the Lord the Lamb; and have cloathed the naked, and fed the hungry, and ſcorned the faſhions, and deſpiſed the glories, and have been transformed in the renewing of their minds; who have diſdained the Babyloniſh Garment and the wedge of Gold, the Lord will hide them in the hollow of his hand, and ſay to them, Come, my people, Iſai. 26. into your ſeveral Chambers, until the indignation be over. But you that drink Wine in bowls, and ſport your ſelves on Beds of Ivory, while the afflictions of Joſeph are not minded, ſuddenly will come your Calamity, as the pains of a woman in Travel, and as the Storm and Thunder in a clear day. A day of wrath, a day of trouble and diſtreſs, a day of waſtneſs and deſolation, a day of darkneſs and gloomineſs, and a day of clouds and thick darkneſs. And you, Canaphims and Kenites, that for your Atheiſtical Self-interest, that God of the world, ſo you may keep but your Pride, your Honours and Gold, care not though you ſet to your ſlaviſh hands and help to pull down the Church and State, and ſwallow Bribes as Children) Plumb-ſtones; be it known to you, if God be true, a double portion of divine Vengeance ſhall be your lot in the day at hand. And note, that Unanimity, not Uniformity, is moſt remote from Papiſtry, &c.

To the NATION in general. Ah, England!

THou haſt had thy Name from thy Angelical State and Beauty, but thou art fallen like Lucifer. Thou waſt an inexhauſtible pit of Treaſure, and his Deviliſh Holineſs in quondam times hath licked his Neapolitan fingers of thy Sweetneſs: and now he remembers thy Delicacies, and would attempt to raviſh thy Wardrobes, and drain thee dry with his inſatiable Bucket; if for thy Iniquities thy God gives him leave. For the Pope, like the Devil his Father, cannot come one link of his chain, unleſs thy God ſuffer him, for thy unrepented Sins; and while thou art crying out againſt the Jeſuits and other the Incendiaries, thou forgetteſt to cry to him, whom by ſin and diſhonour thou haſt provoked to ſend the Wolf and the wild Boar of the Italian forreſt, into thy Vineyard. Remember, England, if thou art not mad drunk with the Whores Charms, how that thy Preaching-Miniſters are turn'd into dumb Dogs and ravening Wolves. And they bear rule by thy means, and thou loveſt to have it ſo, Jer. 5.31. And you that are of the Eccleſiaſtick Function, that not long ſince, if you do remember, did caſt out the Labourers of the Lords work in the Lords Vineyard, and got the Fleece, and turned the Flock to the Devil, and ſet up your drunken, mad, Arminian, Pelagian, and Pope-poiſoned Sons to enſnare the Flock. You hate the Pope, but have received Popery: Arminianiſm, Free-Will, General Redemption, Falling from Grace, denying a free, perſonal, eternal Election, are all hatched in Hell, and are the Popes foundation, that which the Martyrs abhorred, &c. and in thoſe days Papiſts only aſſerted; and in your bringing in of this Serpent, of this Army of Vipers in the belly of the Trojan Horſe, painted o're to the Peoples view with a ſhew of Zeal, Religion and Purity, yet the ground of Popery in England, and of our Deſolation and Deſtruction: and this brand will lye on you, Gentlemen, when England is wallowing in her bloud. And have raiſed up Perſecutions and Acts of Parliament againſt the Lord's Lambs, for ſerving their God, and preaching Chriſt to the People, whom you have famiſhed with your Aſſyrian and Roman diſhes, and driven them from poſt to pillar, while you ſuffered the Romiſh Leopard to lye in your houſes, in your Territories, and in your Pulpits. And now you are come up in remembrance before God, and ſhe (I mean the whore) whom you have adored and juſsled ſo nigh to, will juſsle you out of your States, Dignities, and Honours: for though you turn, ſhe'll no more truſt you, you ſhall burn. Behold, I am againſt thee, O thou moſt proud, Jer. 50.31. and 51.44. and you ſhall ſpew out again all the Dainties you have ſwallowed down by iniquity. Your Wall ſhall fall. Break off your Iniquities by Repentance, if happily the Lord may accept you, and turn to the Bloud of Jeſus, and acknowledge your Errours, your Covetouſneſs, your Perſecutions of Chriſts Lambs, your feeding your bellies, and famiſhing the Flock with Popiſh Traſh and dry Ceremonies; and caſt from thou that Babyloniſh Garment you have beſpotted your ſelves with, and let not the duſt of an Idol lie in your Gowns, in your Families, in your Churches, and in your Pulpits. My Soul mourns for you, becauſe you have the name of Proteſtants. O that you had the Spirit, and Doctrine, and Gifts of Proteſtants. Gather your ſelves together, yea, gather together, O Nation not deſirous, before the decree bring forth, before the day paſs as the Chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you. Seek the Lord all ye meek of the Land, that have Chriſt's imputed Righteouſneſs for your Wedding-garment, and his Bloud alone for your Laver; It may be ye ſhall be bid in the day of the Lords fierce anger, Zeph. 2. Repent of your fulneſs of Goſpel-bread, your forsaking the pure Doctrine of Chriſt and his Meſſengers, and giving heed to lyes and ſables: ever learning and running up and down, but never attaining to the faith of Gods Elect, and to the Love that covers a multitude of ſins; who juſtifie your ſelves, and cloak over your enmity, malice, and implacable ſpirits, with fair words and ſoft ſpeeches, and voluntary humility, while within you are Pride, Covetouſneſs, Revenge, Luſt, and all manner of wanton filthineſs. The Lord hath made bare his holy arm, and will take away your Cloak that you have deceived with, and you ſhall ſeek from ſea to ſea for the pure Word you have contemned, with its diſpenſers, while you have laid out your money for that that is no bread, that is, not Chriſt And you ſhall know that the Lord hath ſpoken to you, but you have refuſed the ſtill Waters, and choſen the ſwift streams. There is no Peace to the wicked in their own righteouſneſs, out of Chriſt imputed Righteouſneſs; but it ſhall be well with the Righteouſ, even in the day of the greateſt diſtreſs. Then lift up your heads and rejoyce, for the day of your Redemption draws nigh. For in twenty four years to come, there ſhall be neither Pope, nor Popedomes, but the Lord ſhall reign in Mount Zion before his Antients gloriouſly, Dan. 7.

FINIS.