A New and True Mercurius: OR, MERCƲRIƲS METRICƲS.

A true Relation in Meeter (on the behalf of Scepter and Miter) comprising sundry of the most sad and bad Transactions, Occurrences and Passages in England, Scotland and Ireland, for the space of twelve years last past.

Ita subvertere seria
Regem, Legem, & gregem.

For the true information and reformation of the People.

OR, Sober Sadness, and Plain dealing, in a few plain, sober, and sad Country Rhimes, con­cerning these sad and heavy times, conducing to a real, personal and National Reformation in three sinful Lands.

To which is added the Authours Twelve years extream Melancholy, with the woful effects thereof in him, and the best remedy which he used for the removal of them all.

Also a joyful and thankful Commemoration of His Majesties happy return to his Three Kingdoms.

By WILLIAM MASCAL above forty years ago Fellow-Commo­ner of Clarehal in Cambridge, now a poor Deacon according to the Canonical Ordination of the late most famous Orthodoxal Church of England.

LONDON, Printed for the Author. 1661.

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TO the Right Honorable and true­ly Noble Lady, and Ancient godly Matron, above Fourscore years old (whose ancient days, the Ancient of days make more ancient yet) Grand-Mother to the Right honorable Charles West Lord de Lawarr the Lady Cicilie Lawar, Dowager: VVilli­am Mascall a true honorer of her ho­nour, and of all that have relation unto that Ancient, Noble, and Religious Fa­mily, humbly Dedicateth, this his sad Malancholy, Sober Sadness.

Vpon the Pro Christa vis tole­rata beat. violent death of our late most gracious Soveraingne now made the most glorious Proto-Monarch Mar­tyr of England, Scotland and Ireland, Charls the first.

LAment; Lament, Lament that bloodie stroke
Which God permitted, when his anger shook
Three Kingdoms all at once, whereby their
who preferred the sufferings of inno­cence pefore the spoiles and triumphs of violence, and is now amongst the noble Army of Mar­tyr p [...]ising God with his celestial TE DEVM.
King
Deprived was of Life, that pretious thing
Hee now is free, but free among the dead
And three Realmes want their gracious Sovereign; head;
His earthly body in the earth doth rest,
His soule with God, which makes him truly blest;
To change earth for heaven is a glorious thing,
Lo, thus King Charls is made a glorious King,
Renent, repent (O England) full of blood,
And make thine eyes an everflowing flood,
Of Penitentiall tears; for that horrid deed
Is flown to heaven with more then winged speed,
And cryes for
Gens luet est seclus, Parliament and nati­ona [...] si [...] require, Parliament and Na­tional punishments.
vengance to thy most just God,
Who suffered hath a Covenant breaking rod
To scourge three nations thus, when they greatire
(Good Lord) is past, then cast it in the fire.
For truth and peace pray all true Christian men,
Till God the faithfull AMEN say amen:
Lord say amen when thou shalt see it fit,
And take away our sins that hinder it;
That truth may flourish and our wars may cease
Which thou (O God) command, thou Prince of peace,
And make us all true Hallelujahs sing,
To thee our Lord and our celestiall King

Feburary: 14: 1648.

Taxes and Axes. Upon His Majesties overthrow at Worcester, Septemb. 3. 1651.
TAxes and axes still do make us grone
Yet we rejoyce when we should rather mone,
To see three Kingdoms thus laid in the dust,
God giving way to mans outragious lust.
Remove this cup of blood, Lord send us peace,
And truth; and make true Charity increase
In Christendom, Chiefly those Kingdoms three
Which to one Christian King belonging be;
Least that they
Ieremiah. 25.27.
spue, and fall, and rise no more,
From those three Realms keep thou that judgement sore;
And grant them truthand, peace once more at last.
Before they be quite desolate and wast,
For this let all true harted Christians pray,
Till God the AMEN please Amen to say.
Thanksgiving is the best thanksgiving St Math. 3.8. Bring forth fruits meet for repentance.
TO turn from sin to God is true thanksgiving,
And not our
Isaiah 1.15. Manus nostra caedibus plenae.
bloody and ungratefull living.
Then turn us Lord, and let us sin no more,
And us deliver from our bondage sore:
For thine own glory and the Churches good,
Stop thou the current of all Christian blood.
And us vouchsafe once more a King on earth.
And with him truth and peace
Ba pacem domine us­que quo domine usque q [...]o?
and Godly mirth;
So shall we sing and praise the evermore
Who for thy Church all blessings hast in store.

October. 24. 1651.

A prayer made in the name and behalf of the wo­fully torne divided, distressed and distracted nations, England, Scotland and Ireland.
MAke us, O God, make us to seek thy face,
By true repentance, and renewing grace;
And shew to us thy smiling face again.
As formerly thou did'st in Kingly reigne.
For many calme and quiet years together,
Which now (alas) are turned to stormy weather,
Whereby thy Church sustained hath great loss,
(Quakers cheat many with their
Tim. 1.4.1. Doctrines of Devils whom many shall believe in the last time. Demoinbus credent supremo tempore multi.
devilish dross)
For schisms, errors, yea blasphemies increase,
Through want of our late discipline and peace
That government again then Lord us send
Which peacefull was, and did thy faith defend,
In thy good time give us this
Benefit multis à principe.
benefit,
And grant us all grace thereto submit;
That truth and peace may flourish in our lands
Again, by thy best all-disposing hands,
And make us all give the true thanks and praise
By holy living; all our future daies
King Mary. Mary, and Army make an Anagram, for in both words the letters are the same. OR Old Englands new German like Munster Mon­ster. A Monster strange in three Lands never seen, An Army reigns without a King or Queen, Ʋpon the thirtieth day of January. 1648.
OLd Englands bloody January day,
When Church & State to spoil, some took the way.
The thirtieth day of January last,
Into a Model new three Realms were cast,
By a mad mode of modellizing things,
A King beheaded to make Subjects Kings,
Charls the Defender of the true Faith slain,
King Mary ruleth with its martial traine,
Queen Mary liv'd a Quinquennie of years,
Yet never slew so many Lords, and Peers,
As have been slain within these fifty days
By Armed State-Grandees, thereby to raise
A Reformation from that
They build up Sion with blood, Mich. 3.10.
bloody
A most base basis, and most unchristian foundation of a Christian reformati­on, never to be for gotten, no, not after all the bloody actors in that Tragedy be dead, and rotten.
base,
A woful, sad, and miserable case;
If three Kingdoms must be reformed thus,
From such Reformers, Lord, deliver us.
But now behold they I make us a free State,
Far from this freedom, full of strife and hate;
Where these things are there's every evil work,
Under which freedom thraldome great doth
Latet anguis in herba.
lurk,
Lord keep us from such States as bring confusion,
And send us Monarchy in the conclusion:
Restore to us our Truth, and Peace again,
By causing Charles the Second for to reign,
In these three Kingdo as, where his Father late,
Did govern peaceably both Church and State,
Till civil War, and a most factious fact,
(Not worth the name of House of Commons act)
Bereft him of his Soveraignty, and Power,
In a most dismal, and most fatal hour,
Contrary to a most Religious Oath
Of preserving him, and his, thus was troth
Violated by men of greatest trust,
And so his Kingly power was laid 'ith dust,
(Notwithstanding their good Kings great
Voted to be satis­factory.
concessions,
His foes went on still with their great transgressions)
From whence arose a new light never seen
In Brittains sphere, neither King nor Queen,
To govern us according to Gods Law,
But we are forst of such to stand in aw,
Who lately were our fellow Subjects sworn,
To preserve our King, and eke his free-born
People all, free from slavery, and thrall,
Yet now behold we are their bondslaves alle
Make Truth, and Peace Lord, once more kiss each other
That we may live in godly love together,
And for those blessings great, give thee true praise,
By striving thee to glorifie always,
By living alway in thy ways most just,
Till we shall all return unto our dust;
And our souls praise thee for eternity,
In heaven that place of true felicity.

March, 14. 1648.

Saint Hieroms judgement concerning Malignants. Ʋpon the ejecting of the sequestred (though nei­ther ignorant, nor scandalons) but most Ortho­dox, conscientious, and truly Religious Mini­sters of Gods most sacred word.
FRom the first of the first month fifty five,
Scarce any
For Doctrine, and discipline, according to the Canonical constitution of the late most famous Church of England.
Orthodox divines shall thrive;
For many of them (as
In sore soli, non inso­ro [...]li.
Malignants) shall
Loose their
As good almost lose their lively-heads, as their live­li-hoods.
livings Ecclesiastical,
They are protected well, liberty given
To make them poor, if not to beg are driven:
The ready way to cast Religion down,
Is to remove the Miter, and the Crown,
These two great evils in the
Ianuary, 10.44. & the 30. of Ianu. 1648.
same month done,
Needs then to ruine must three Nations run;
When they are
Moses and Aron, ita subertere serit.
down which stood up in the gap,
Expect no welfare but some great
To Church and State.
mishap.
God of his Mercy great protect us all,
And free us from inward, and outward thral;
Malignant, be content with what thou hast,
Till such
Saint Hierom (the only Presbyterian of his time) calls them Maligna [...]s which Ma­ligne and Oppugne their King. See his translation of the [...]t. Psalm & ab insurgen­tibus in me Maligs an­tibus audiet auris m [...].
Malignant stormes be over-past;
God giveth all, and he takes all away,
Then with his dealing be content I pray.

January, 14. 1655.

A prayer for the enlargement of Gods Kingdom.
LOrd let thy gratious Kingdom come,
Throughout thy specious Christendome;
Let none of those that bear the sway
In any Land, give any way
To an unlawful toleration
Of
Nenes novae Dogma­ta sallant.
false Worships, in any Nation
Chiefly, of the most wicked
Who contemn and condemne the two great Ordinances of God (ordained, and commanded in the fifth precept) Magi­stracy, and Ministry; without which their is no safety in this world, nor salvation in the world to come.
Quakers,
The chief Mases, and Aaron-shakers:
Lord, hear thy Churches devout prayers,
And stop the mouths of all Gain-sayers,
Grant Truth, and Peace, and Unity,
With perfect love, and charitie,
That we may greatly Glorifie,
Thy great name till we all shall dye,
And live with thee eternally,
In Heaven, where's true felicity.
Strena Parliaments, The Parliamens New-Years-gift. For the Glory of God, and three Nations good. Sober, and plain dealing Counsel to the great Counsel of the Land, the High Court of Parliament. A short exhortation tending to a real reformati­on in three sinful Lands. Adjuvate Patriam. Take ye the Counsel that is now in hand, And for the welfare of your Country stand.
ALL ye who in this Parliament do sit,
Hearken to what each member doth befit;
Strive to heal the wounds given to Church and State,
By an intestine bloody War of late;
Give to them both what doth to them belong,
Help them to their right who have suffered wrong;
And head a right three late beheaded Land,
Which for help implore your hearts, heads, and hands.
Rebuild our Sions strongest wals now down
The loyal Miter, and the Royal Crown:
These things if done by your more Yeas, then Nays,
God shall have glory great, and you much praise,
Consult, and act as Gods word doth require,
That Church and State, may have what they desire,
Truth, and firm peace, for both which both do call;
So God be with you, and perswade you all
To do both these, and all such righteous things
As he allow's, who is the King of Kings
Heare then, and redress Church and State complaints.
And do Gods will, who is the Kings of Saints:
The
Rightly so called, because it brought the blackness of death ( [...]orescorese­rens) upon their own most gratious [...]nd dread Sovereigne, without whose g [...]a­tious aspect, and ra­vour they could not have been a Parlia­ment.
black Parliament much increas'd our crosses,
Let this prove white, and so repair our losses.

January, 1. 1654.

Three late famous Kingdoms depravated by being deprived of their Supreame Magistrate and Minister. Sublato Episcope tollitur Rex, said King James.
OH, what will now become of three poor Nations,
When King and Priest remov'd are from their stations
When some unjustly did behead them [...]oth,
And that against a most Religious Oath,
That's a
Not the good old cause, much less our good Gods cause, as it hath been too too long miscalled.
wrong cause which wronged Church and State,
And brought King and Priest to that deadly fate,
When such black deeds must needs make reformations,
And lay-mens Preachings. Gospel propagations;
When out Church festivals are laid aside,
As Christmass, Easter, and our Waitsontide,
When we are led astray by Satans sleights,
Which cheateth many with Mechannick lights,
Who without call to Preach, and to baptize,
Often do breach their self conceits, and lies
The publique meetings some will not abide,
But to the private will both run, and ride,
When Sacraments want due administrations,
And blasphemous sects obtain tolerations,
Haec patiere Deus? will God suffer such intollerable tolerations and abominati­ons,
When Martial men do cause our Parliaments
To be dissolved; and their good intents
Of doing good to Church, and Common-weal,
Do nul, this makes more wounds not any heal:
When Sword-men meet to make such meetings void,
T'is to be fear'd three Lands will be destroy'd:
For these sins with their many aggravations
Do call, and cry for ruine to the Nations;
If we repent not but in sin proceed,
(
The God of mis-rule who now three Lands doth rule amiss.
Mars predominant) we afresh shall bleed.
Since topsie turvy all's turn'd upside down,
In Court, City, Country, and Market Town,
What then remains but sadly to lament,
Our sinful lives and truly to repent.
The Lord our God, who is the God of order,
Order all things aright in every border,
Of Church and State throughout all Christendom,
And so preserve them for the time to come.

May. 4. 1659.

The chief Fomentours of all our Martial blows and woes.
PRresbyterian and Independent bitings,
Have been the cause of many bloody fightings,
Whereby our late good Sovereign lost his head,
And a Protectour ruleth in his stead;
Who came to reign not by the
Not by his right hand of Commission, but by his left hand of permission, Her­bert, our Church, Poet, in his title of providence.
grace of God,
But conquering sword which is his angry rod:
Lord, burn this rod of thine in thy best season,
And Crown his head who ought by
Divine and humane.
right, and reason
To sway the Scepner in those Kingdoms three,
Which to him only now pertaining be;
That truth, and peace may flourish in our Coasts,
To thine own glory, who art Lord of Hoasts;
And thy Churches good, for which good men pray
Till thou the AMEN, please Amen to say.
Englands Geneva, Scottish Innovation, Produced hath a Sottish Toleration.
VVHen men may do what's right in their own eyes,
Creed, Gods command, Lords prayer they despise
Contrary to Gods express command Nahum. 1.15 O lu­dah keep thy solemn feasts, and why not O England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Church Feltivals by some are laid aside,
As Christmas, Easter and our Whitsuntide:
These blessings great are counted now so small,
They be not worth their Lip-ful annual:
If with their mouths men will not give God praise,
Their hearts to such a work, how can they raise?
But tongue, and hear-thanks should go both together,
Chiefly, in stormy, and tempestuous weather;
Our Church and State both being now therein,
Not to give God both is an hainous sin.
No formes of Service now esteemed be,
Yea, Gods own word we much despised see,
For when some Preach the Bible they pass by,
And in the Pue let it unclasped lye;
Not a Chapter read nor Psalme for the day,
But to the Pulpit up in hast away.
And there they speak sometimes above two hours,
Till tediousness the fruit of both devours.
Lord, turne our Church into the late pure veins,
Orthodox; free us from th'erroneous braines
Of lay-pulpiters; that yet once againe,
Both truth and peace three poor lands may obtaine:
These blessing grant us for thy dear sonssake,
Till thou thy whole Church shalt triumphant make.
The right prevailing way of Which will indeed produce spiritual and corporal gain. regaining a King
Truth, sirme peace, and Godly discipline.

St. Mark 11.24. Therefore I say unto you, what thing soever ye desire when ye Pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

Aske, and ye shall have What in faith ye crave.
USe then this means (all
All Royalists, and Loyallists, who long for their King, and list to be Loyal to him;
well affected men)
For King, Truth, Peace, and Bishops once agen,
Petition God, (and Courts of Parliament
Which for the good or Church, and State are sent)
That he in his time would have mercy on us,
And take away his smarting rod upon us:
As heretofore
Against the Bi­shops, the highest office of Godssacred Ministry.
petition caus'd our crosses,
So let them now help to restore our
Chiefly the Scepter and the Miter, those two main Pillars of Church and State.
losses,
Repent, Pray, and Believe (as Christ hath said)
And ye shall obtaine; be not then dismaid,
Lord give Grace, Truth, Peace,
In Church and Common wealth
settlement again,
And bless us once more with a
And make him not only a citular, but also a tutelar King (next to thy self who art King of Kings) unto his three Kingdoms. The Royal Stuarts bear to God true heart.
Stuarts reign.

May 1. 1649.

Schismaticall, and verball reformations Produce, and bring forth reall desolations.
Oh, how three nations do to ruine run,
By errors broken and by Sects undon.
Behold the Presbyterian reformation,
In creasing sects, and Schismes throughout each nation;
Now seethe new lights in their
Tis called by some, Generation-work, sure it is not Rege­neration work.
generation:
Acting all by their own new light, and fashion;
Not rul'd nor guided by Gods holy word,
But all reforming with a conquering sword:
The sword, the sword alone is, their cleare call,
Proceeding from our Armyes
Ensis Cromvelienss. Non voc at ensit, Ye tit is better to be Cavalire, then a Cromwelliere, Exitus acts probes.
General
King, Queen, and Bishops with their lands are gone,
Yet taxes, and excises still go on;
Those who to pay them all are yet most willing,
For every penny let them pay a shilling.
These reformatours they want money too
And so they will till they us quite undoe;
They will not from oppressions set us free,
To worke this good effect no Act shall be,
Much less mean they for to breake every
Isa. 58.6.
yoke,
Or to make good those good laws which are broke,
But to make our burthens
Graviora scremus.
more heavy still,
To bring to pass theirown designes, and will
Then God (in his time) truth and peace us send,
With power, and grace our ill lives to amend:
That time he hasten for his dear Sons sake,
And for those blessings great us thankfull make.

June. 24. 1653.

Vpon the inauguration of Oliver Cromwell, Who from a Martial Anti-regal Hector Is now advanced to be Lord Protector.
AStrange new
No Royal Exchange a gracious King the true faiths defendor instead of a Tyrant Protect or
exchange, an unheard of thing,
His highness made much higher then a King;
Who never was Knight of the royal Garter,
Much less th'eldest son of a
O dies quando vectris Charls the first.
Regal-Martyr:
He was attended with keen
Signifying thereby the protecting of his mine une Common­wealth, and yet no wealth in its Com­mons.
swords out drawn,
(No godly Bishop in his pure
Signifying puritie of Doctrine. and conversation (the old Vrim and Thummim with the conservati­on of them both by the arme, and power of their godly disci­pline which now alas is broken.
white Lawn)
Which presageth war, is no signe of peace,
Much less of Britains unities increase
Made by King James; some will with might and maine, *
What they have got by force by
Vict armis.
force maintain.
O Lord protect us by thy saving grace,
And make us all timely to seek thy face,
By true submission to thy holy laws,
And shedding blood no longer call thy cause:
Of which my thoughts are we have had too much;
God grant we never more have any such;
As touching that which is already spilt,
Forgive (good God) the sin and eke the guilt.

Iuly. 6. 1657.

Vpon the County troops
LO, now each County hath 'its proper
Some put their trust in Chariots and som in H [...]rses, mak­ing flesh their arme. and so make their Gods their Gods.
Gad
The
Protectours of no vice (shop [...]) in these reforming times.
Vice-Protectours of three nations sad,
Opprest with Taxes and excises great,
Under the colour of a zealous heat
Of perfecting a blessed reformation,
Whose product is a cursed toleration:
Thus are three Kingdoms made a most free state
When every one is bound to pay his rate;
Yea thus three lands must maintain their own
The loss of King, and Bishops the late true grand-defend­ors, and Champions of our late truth and Peace.
harms,
By new devices, and by force of arms:
Thus are we brought, and kept still in great thrall,
Till god shew mercy, and release us all.
He makes us all of one mind, and agree,
In his true faith; and sincere pietie,
He in his best time truth, and peace ussend,
With power of grace our ill lives to amend;
That time God hasten for his dear sons sake,
And for such blessings great us thankfull make.
The grand troubles of our English, Scottish and Irish, Israels. Morsus sacerdotales nunquam tales, The Priestly bitings never such, As have of late prevail'd too much. Gal. 5.15. If ye bite and devour one another, Take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
THe
Chiefly the disobe­dient and gain saving Presbyterial Cle [...]g [...], gainsaying the Epis­copal for then own gain.
Presbyterians have such biters been,
That they have left us neither King nor Queen,
To rule three lands in godly quietness,
And them to save from such as them oppress;
Nor godly learned Seer in his diocess,
To guard the Pulpits always more or less,
From such erroneous and newfangled Teachers,
As were from time to time, contentious preachers,
Of Schismes, and War, which at the last beat down
The Loyal Myter, and the Royal Crown:
No Bishop, no King, said King James of old,
Too true we find it, Crown and Miter sold;
Both which main Pillars are of Church and State,
And their great use their
a [...] [...]egis quam finendo
want hath shewd of late;
For since their sad (pretending liberties)
Each man doth what seems right in his own eys,
Nor truth, nor peace established in our gates,
The God of [...] rule.
Mars ruling still our now new ruling States.
Lord, though we bite, and still devoure each other,
Yet lets not be consum'd one by another;
But grant that truth and peace may setled be,
That we from Taxes, and keen Axes free,
Thy great and holy name may glorifie,
By giving thanks; until we all shall dye:
We all are causes of our most sad breaches,
By our
By foll [...]wing too much the devices, and des [...]res of [...]ur own hearts; by lea­ving undone those things, which we ought to have done, and by doing those things which we ought not to have done. Thus we Omitteemen, and Committee-men are the workers of our own ruine, perditio tua exte [...].
devices, and
Self interests neg­lecting the best inte­rest, namely interest Omnium recte agere.
self-ended reaches;
God then give true repentance to us all,
And us deliver from our
Spiritual and cor­potal.
armed thrall.

May 1. 1649.

Mala nova (Mater Ecclesia) mala novae. Ill news (O Mother Church) ill news.
MOst Orthodox
Amos 5. Archbi­shops, Bishops, Peans, and Arc [...] ­deacons, according to the Canonical or­dination of the late most fan ous Ortho­dox Church of Eng­land.
Priests silenc'd: a sad story;
And
Who if they were well sifted would not be found so well gif­ted.
gifted brethren they get all the glory
By their new-fangled teaching; which yet (alas)
Is often times as brittle as the glass
They babble by, which must be twice run out,
Before they finish what they are about.
Two hours ith Pulpit not one in the text,
At which long speaking many men are vext.
Some call them Gospel opportunities,
Yet oft times Belzebub that Prince of flies
Flies closely in and father of all lies,
By them doth broach errours, yea blasphemies;
Yet these be such great Saints as do not need,
Gods ten Commands, Lords prayer, or the Creed.
Apostolique, the three fundamentals,
And of Gods Temple the
Old Englands litur­gie and Rubrick is better then the new-brick, wherewith the new-lights build their new Churches.
supporting walls;
Without which three no Ghostly house is built,
But all their labour lost, and vainly spilt,
Then all ye new lights take this light from me,
That ye out of the old way of Preaching be:
Then take St. Pauls a Master builders wise
Advise, first all your hearers Catechise
In those three above said Fundamentals,
Which (as is said) be the supporting walls
Of each Ghostly Edifice; strong and sure,
Which will them constant make and long endure,
All the strong blasts of all false doctrine winds,
Which else will shake much their unstable minds,
Thus are your meetings like to be in vaine,
Sith ye, and they receive much chaff, for grain;
Yea, by assembling you'l
2 Tim. 3.13.
wax worse and worse,
For, for a blessing ye receive a curse.
Ʋpon the sifting of a Parliament Without the Common-wealths due free consent.
STrange! dead is the head, yet some members live,
Which to their head a deadly blow did give,
Who sit and act in Parliament again,
Though dead and buried be their Sovereign?
Yea, this they do without the Countries choice,
Wherein each freeman is to give his voice.
Since then they sit with out a lawful call,
'Tis like three Nations will to ruine fall;
How then will they effect that reformation,
Which hath been promis'd
Both in the long, and often since the long Parlament. Heb. 12.12.
long unto the Nation?
How can that be a Reformation good?
Whose base base was Kingly and Priestly blood;
Then lets all repent, and make our
Episcopall and presbyteriall.
paths straight,
Turn back toth' years forty four, forty eight,
Accept again of Scepter and of Miter,
And bid adien to Mars that bloody fighter.
That truth and peace may once more meet together,
And we at length be freed from stormy weather,
Which hath continued above twenty years,
To the great loss of Peasant and of Peers,
Good God, in thy good time have mercy on us,
And throw away thy rod now long upon us,
Give true repentance and amend us all,
Free us from ghostly and corporeal thrall.

June 21. 1659.

Ʋpon the dissolution of the long, and strong Parliament, Fit via vi, vi & armis. OR, Patience perforce.
IN April last a stormy Martial shower,
Stormed
Corvintus dissolu­tus a [...]ssolutus est [...]er dis­soluti [...]rem con [...]ertum.
assembled men of their great power,
They then had: (calling it a Parliament)
Of enacting laws, with Saint like intent
To reforme all things amiss in each Nation;
Yet still we see a dayly Pejoration,
Then mend us, Lord, and send us better days,
Grant truth, and peace, and thine be all the praise.

June 24. 1653.

Upon the rising in Cheshire against this present self-Parliament called by themselves; and is stiled by some the restitution, restauration, and resurrection of the long (long since dead in its head) black, and bloody one; which God forbid, that so much innocent, and precious blood, of Kingly, Priestly, Royal, and Loyal, should a fresh be shed; no more of that for the Lords sake.
SOme countrey men can now no longer bear
Their heavy
[...]im vi repo [...]lere, & bellum bello debellare.
burthens; therefore do adhere,
To some, who
Dum bellum geritur pax queritur.
by force will do what they can,
(Out of their duty unto God, and man)
To ease them; and to restore truth, and
Pax quaeritur bello, said [...]ur late Protect­or Oliver, of cursed memory, for his cur­sed toleration, and for his wicked Se­questrations and de­privations of many Orthodox, learned and godly Ministers of Gods most sacred word.
peace
That love and Piety may yet increase:
God say Amen to this, ev'n so be it,
By what means (and when) he himself thinks fit.

The Israels of England, Scotland, and Ireland, being in­deed all three now the Lands of Gods justire, for their most bloody, National, Parliamental, unnatural, and unchri­stian sins, are yet in Martial Booths, Tents, and Ta­bernacles, till it please God himself (who only is the Lord of Hosts) to restore, and settle in them truth, and firm peace; which time he hasten (if it be his blessed will) through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen, Amen.

June 24. 1659.

Ʋpon the reviving of the long dead black Parli­ament.
BLack will be still black, for this Parliament,
Sent for by Letters not legally sent
Is not white, nor right without the right summons,
Of choice Countrey-men for an house of Commons;
Not in each country
Whereby three Na­tions may be guld.
call'd one, two, or three,
Btu all in
Without General or Major General.
general as they ought to be.

All that were long ago lawfully called in the long Par­liament; as well the unjustly secluded Members as those who were and are of the Anti-Episcopal and Anti-Regal faction; which made a fraction, first of the Miter and then of the Scepter.

A right good Parliament for the right good old cause, (which is really and not verbally Gods cause) is that, whose members are right, and upright; right in their opinions, or opinations, and upright in their conver­sations.

June 24. 1659.

A Deaths head. OR A short Memento mori for all sorts of people. Death comes unawares, hasting like a Post, And will be seen before foreseen of most.Sumus fumus, sumus cinis, Et cinis erit noster finis.
HIgh, and low, old, and new Potentates,
Remember death knocks daly at your gates;
We all are dust, end shall to dust return,
Then let's
Vita repente fugit [...] Therefore let us re­pent, sme mora in lac gratiae hora.
repent, lest that in hell we burn
Lord, make us make our ways good, just, and ev'n,
That after death we may inherit heaven.
WILLIAM MASCAL.
Ordained by Epis­copal authority, to be a publique Reader of Gods most sacred word, of our godly Liturgy and holy Homilies of our Mother the Church of England
Who is a (c) Lector at S. Marth'as-Hill
No Lecterer who oft hath lectur'd (d) ill

Thus endeth a metricall (though no poeticall) true nar­ration of things done in three late famous Kinghoms, whereby they are (for the present) undone, and that chief­ly by the superfluous wealth of London, whose money and treasure was the sinews of an intestine War, which caused many to commit many new sins: The good Lord our God forgive us all, and in his due time send us all true Grace, Truth and firm peace through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ, Amen, Amen, Amen.

A Prayer for true piety the best remedy of extreame melancholy.
DEliver me, O God, from Satans ginns,
And give me true repentance for my sins,
With power to forsake them all, and grace
Of new obedience, and to seek thy face,
By doing always what thou wouldst have done,
And by beleiving in thine only son,
By doing good, and by eschewing evil,
By renouncing the world, the flesh, and devil,
As I did long agoe in baptisme
Votum baptismale Ecclesiae Angl canae.
vow;
O make me, O my God, O make me now
That Covenant to keep, and not allow
My self in any bosome sin, but bow
Unto thy will revealing in thy word,
Which shall great joy, and gladness me afford:
Lord, bless the means against my melancholy,
Which I shall use, and make me truely holy;
The woful effects of extreame melancholly, With a Prayer for the removal of them.
TOo much melancholly produceth folly,
And dead's mens heart to duties, chiefly holy;
It makes his spirits all so dull, and dead,
That he can neither speak, pray, write, or read
To any thing he hath such small desire,
That he can neither make his bed, or blow his fire:
It makes a man to fear, where is no fear,
And angry oft for nought; unfit to bear
Whatever God doth send with patience,
It moves him often times his soul from hence
To send, and rid himself of vital breath,
Before the time God calls for it by death:
Yea, it incites a man to desper ation,
And hope which is the helmet of Salvation,
It strives to take from off a sinners head,
And him to leave amongst the
Omne peceatum in se est mors animae, sed de­sperare est in infernum descendere.
Ghostly dead;
It casts a man into the lowest hell,
Amongst the infernal spirits there do dwell,
Then heal thou me (soul Doctor) yet at length,
And in my weakness perfect thou thy strength;
If it may please thee after nine years space,
Send cheerfulness, but chiefly saving grace.
True faith by which all Satans fiery darts
Are quenched quite, Christ dwelling in our hearts,
Lord humble me for sin by godly grief,
Then send the comforter with true relief,
To turn my sadness into holy mirth,
And make me praise thee whil'st I live on earth;
In my great frailty shew thy saving power,
And save me from my sins, my Saviour. Amen.

Aug. 28. 1654.

Non est mortale quod opto.
IT is no mortal thing I crave,
But grace, and goodness I would have,
A sinners suit opprest with melancholly,
Beseeching God to make him truely holy.
But one day well in four and twenty hours,
Sadness distracts my soul in all her powers,
Which doth unman me for the time, and fit,
My spirits deads, and makes me silent fit,
Not fit to speak or to be spoken to;
Which sad case may both body and soul undoe;
If God in mercy do not it prevent,
Give me, space, and grace too to repent;
For which Ile pray, and never give him rest,
Til he vouchsafe to grant me my request.
A Prayer for true Repentance, New Obedience, and perseverance.
GIve me, O God, what wilt thou give?
Give me repentance true
For all my sins which thee do grieve,
Do thou them all
Mich. 7.19
subdue.
O Lord my God, shew forth thy might,
Make me a Saint with speed,
Sincere and upright in thy sight,
In thought in word, in deed.
And let me not fall back again,
To any sinful crime;
But make me constant to remain,
For all my future time.
This grace, Lord, grant thou unto me,
For thy dear son his sake,
And let me
Psal. 119.80.
sound, and faithful be
Till thou to heaven me take.

August 24. 1645.

Maschals Maschil.

IN a few plain verses instructing himself, how (by Gods help) he may be corde, ore, & opere, realty thankful for his undeserved and unexpected wonderful deliverance from along continued (almost twelve years) most tedi­ous and irksome disease of melancholy causing ext. eam heaviness, dulness and deadness of his spirits, even unto a very Cura leves loquuntur ingentesstupent. stupifying of them as a learned Physitian, Doctor Phypard told me when he felt my pulse in the extremitie of one of my fits.

Thanks-living is the best Thanksgiving.
SInce thou O God hast set my mind in tune,
(On the eleventh day of this present June)
Distracted much by melancholly sadness,
And turned hast that sad disease to gladness,
(Which me oppressed had almost twelve years,
As by the date of
Iuly 25. 1645.
forty five appears,
Upon which day it pleas'd God
Percutit, & parcit cum libet ipse Deus.
to begin,
To visit me with that sad scourge of sin)
My soul praise returns, not my tongne alone,
But heart and hand, likewise conjoynd in one
Consort, shall hencefort, magnifie thy name,
By striving so to live without all blame;
That I may render thee true thanks, and praise,
So long as thou shalt here prolong my days:
That I may
1 Cor. 9, 24. Instadio curram, ment bra [...], subiiciam.
run
For, non progredi. èst regredi.
on in a godly race,
Assist me Lord, with thine enabling grace.

God grant that I may so run (as St. Paul did) to ob­taine, and in veritie, and sincerity say with him by the grace of God, I am what I am.

June 13. 1657.

A joyful and thankeful commemoration of the greatest mercy and blessing (that by the most gratious and miraculous providence of God) was ever bestowed on three distressed Nations.Ʋpon the twenty eight day of June 1660. the day of publique thanksgiving, for his Majesties happy return to his three Kingdoms.
HAd it not been for God, and General Monck,
Our Church and State had in confusion sunck,
Sith God hath now restor'd them both again,
By causing Charls the second King to reign,
To him be
Laus tibi magne De­ [...] Psal. 115.1.
praise (not to us sinners then)
Who to his Churches Prayers hath said Amen,
Let us rejoyce and give him all the
Gratiarum actio, not [...] d [...]ctio, which is [...] gratiar [...]m fictio.
thanks,
By living
[...] have lately obser­ved two [...]hristen name to be given to two persons (the practise of them indeed extends to all true Christians,) Live well Chapman, and Praise-god Barbone: let them and all of us strive to live well; and so truely to praise God, (not barbone-like, who disliketh Kings, and Bishops, and would make them all as bare as bare bones.) or his marvellous undeserved bles­sings, and mercyes lately vouchsafed to three sinful Kingdoms, in the Restauration of his most gracious, and therefore most excellent Majesty to them all which the God of all grace graunt us all grace to do, through the merits, and mercyes of Iesus Christ our Lord and on­ly Saviour, and Redeemer, Amen, Amen.
well and shunning wicked prancks.

Gloria summa Dei, Gloria summa Deo. All the Glory be to the all Glorious God.

FINIS.

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