A Prayer for the preservation of His Majesties Person, and for the Peace of the Kingdome.

O Lord guard the Person of thy servant the King.

Prom Iesuites, Papists, Irish Rebells, and evill Counsellours about him.

Who putteth his trust in thee.

Not wee hope, in the arme of Flesh, as Cavaliers, Delinquents, and such enemies to the Kingdom.

Send him and his Armies help from thy holy Place.

Not from Denmark, Belgia, France, Spaine, and Ireland.

And evermore mightily defend them.

From the insinuations of Incendiaries, and other promoters of this Warre.

Confound the designes of all those that are risen up against him.

To withdraw him from his Parliament, and the protection of his best Subjects.

And let not their Rebellious wick­ednesse approach neer to hurt him.

Nor any more to rob spoile, and kill the poore People of this Nation.

O Lord hear our Prayer.

That our King may speedily returne home from destructive misleaders.

And let our cry come unto thee.

And the Cry of thy Peoples blood in Ireland, and England.

O LORD God of Hosts, who givest Victory unto Kings, and didst deli­ver David thy servant from the perill of the sword, hear us, wee beseech thee most miserable sinners, [in making all the havock and spoile in this Kingdome,] who doe heere poure out our soules before thee, [to be inabled to doe more mischief] entirely desiring the Protection of thine hand upon thy Servant the King: let him find safety under the shadow of thy wings, and preserve his Person as the apple of thine eye. [and defend him from adhering any longer to your pernicious wayes and devices.] Suffer not that sword, which thou hast put into his hands, to be wrested out by the hands of Man: [the gathering of a Guard in Yorkshire, and the Welchmens complyance at Shrewsbury, put that sword into his [Page 4] hands, and not God, who never intended the destruction of his true People. [ but blesse his Counsells with successe, [let them be never so bad, you will tie God by this Prayer, to blesse them.] and his enterprises with victory, [you meane to the destruction of the Parliament, and all the true Protestants in the three Kingdomes.] that he may goe on to be a terror to all them that oppose him [against the Papists Popery and Tyranny.] and to be as the dew of the latter raine, upon the hearts of all those who doe still remaine Loyall to him. [though they be Papists, bloody Irish Rebells, swearing debauched Cavaliers, and the pests of his Kingdomes.] And O thou that takest no delight in the misery of one single sinner, spare mercifull Lord, spare a great, though most sinfull Nation, pitty a despised Church, [you meane the Pre­lates and their Hierarchy,] and a distracted State [made so by your wicked party, that have set it on fire by an unnaturall Warre, begun by them.] heale up those wounds which our sinnes have made so wide, that none but thine own hands can close them. ['tis most true, you have made numbers of Women husbandlesse, and chil­dren fatherlesse, your confession and prayer is good, if they be sincere, which cannot be known to be so, unlesse you speedily desist from making more such wounds.] And in the tendernesse of thine unspeakable compassion, hasten to put so happy an end unto these wasting divisions [why doe you then strive to continue, foment, and increase them [...]ill? lay down your Armes, if you mean good sooth and they will suddenly cease.] that thy service may be the more duely celebrated [with Copes, Organs, outward pompe and Popish vain-glory.] thine Anointed conscientiously obeyed, [you mean, in whatsoever he shall Will and Command.] that the Church may be restored to a true Christian Unity, [the Prelates, Deanes, and Prebends, being resetled a­gain, they onely make the Church in your sence] and the Kingdome to her former Peace [why doe you not quickly return to your homes then? you that first began, must first end: but you intend to exclude Peace from Scotland and Ireland.] and that for his sake, who is the Prince of Peace, and that shed his pretious blood, to pur­chase our peace, [mel in ore, fel in corde.] even JESUS CHRIST our Lord, to whom with thee, ô Father, and thy blessed Spirit, be, &c.

A Prayer of Thanksgiving for His Majesties victorie over the Rebells at Edge-Hill.

O Thou God of Hostes, who goest forth with our Armies. [To their de­struction, for he pleased to leave them to themselves, and to give them up to the slaughter of the Parliaments forces in that Battell.] and pleadest the cause of thine Anointed against them that strive with him, [if the King had continued with his Parliament, he had been there in no danger, nor striving; but self doe, self have.] We acknowledge with all lowlinesse of minde, [if your loftie spirits stood not on points of worldly honour to be so averse to peace:] that it is not our Sword, nor the multitude of our Host that hath saved us, [but your running away in the night af­ter that Battell:] but it is thy hand alone that hath disposed of victory to thy [Page 5] servant the King [and Parliament, for it is most certaine that their Forces gained the day there,] that hath covered his head in the day of Battel, [the Parliament desired him before the fight, that he would not mixe the danger of his person with those whom they had declared Rebells and Traitors,] and hath kept his Crowne from be­ing throwne downe to the ground: [was it worne there, as Richard the third did his at Bosworth-field?] Not unto us therefore, not unto us, but unto thee, O God, doe we give the praise, beseeching thee to accomplish the great work thou hast begun for us, [assuredly God hath taken speciall notice of this abominable mock-prayer, for he hath granted their request, in giving them continuall memorable Routs, and Defeats ever since; they prayed for vengeance vpon themselves. and have constant­ly received it to the full, as at Newbery, Alrezford, York, &c.] to continue the blessing of good successe on the head of our Soveraigne, and his Army, [never may that Army have better successe than it had then, according to their prayers.] that the happines thereof may flow from thence, to the every skirts of his people, [judge what happinesse, you that have been plundered, fired, and wasted by that Ar­mie, have received from it.] to continue the fear and consternation, which thou hast already cast upon the hearts of those, who have Rebelliously risen up against him, to enfeeble their strength, to infatuate their Councels, [well prayed, for the Lord God hath sent consternation, enfeebling, and infatuation upon those that have re­belliously risen up against him, to carry him from his Parliament, and leave the pro­tecting of his true Protestant subjects.] to undeceive, and disabuse the seduced part of them, [whom you labour the more to blind and hoodwink] that they may know and feel, that to take up Armes against thy Vicegerent, [you are deceived, 'tis against those that have seduced him by evill Counsell, and against you that mocke God and the people by these scandalously lying Prayers] is to fight against Heaven, [you meane the Heaven under VVestminster-Hall, for God by his continuall good successe given to the Parliaments Forces against you, hath declared, that they fight not against his Throne.] that so by a timely and conscientious submission, to the just Authoritie of him whom thou hast set over them, [Submission to the Kings just Authoritie was never yet denyed him.] the effusion of more blood may be pre­vented, [which you have shed, up to the horse bridles since.] the Peace of this distracted Kingdom setled, [Peace is in your mouthes, but War is in your hearts] Faction may be cast out of the State, [we should soon enioy quiet, if the Spanish Faction, were once expelled.] and Schisme out of the Church, [away then with all Papists, Prelates, and their Hierarchy.] to the advancement of thy glory, the Kings Honour, and the Peoples good. [good words break not the bones.] Grant this O God, for thy old Mercies sake which thou wert wont to shew unto this Nation, that both Prince and People may joyne in giving praise to thee, who livest and raignest world without end, Amen.

A Thanksgiving for his Maiesties late great Ʋictorie over the Rebells in the North.

O Most mightie God, whose dwelling is above the Heavens, yet humblest thy selfe to dispose of all things done either in Heaven or Earth, who in thy unsearchable Iudgements, hast suffered the Sheba's of these times to blow the Trumpet of Rebellion in every corner of this Land; but withall hast iustly turned this sufferance of thine into their Ruine; [True Sirs, Your Rebellious Cavaliers, like so many treacherous Sheba's, partly by allurements of honour and reward, and partly by force, have provoked every County in this Kingdome to rise in Rebellion a­gainst the King and Parliament, for which as you say also, they have been utterly rui­ned, and must expect no other either from God or men.] We praise and magnifie thy great and glorious Name, that having given of late to thine Anointed so many pledges of thy favour, [leave your base flattery, and tell us what favours they were, that we may be thankfull for them also.] thou hast yet added to that heap of bles­sings, a new and notable Victory over the Rebells in the North; [whereabouts was this your notable Ʋictory in the North? at Hull you had two severall repulses with losse and shame, defeats you had at Bradforth, Halifax, Leeds, and Wake­field, and a conspicuous overthrow at Selby, and God to Crown the Parliament with a Blessing, gave your Rupert and his Associates such a blow at Yorke, as never was the like in England. But Reader, you must understand the Cavaliers were those Re­bels, as in all reason and law they are, and then it is most true, that the King and Par­liament had a late, great, new, and notable Ʋictorie over the Rebells in the North.] Go on, O thou God of our Salvation, go on as thou hast begun; [these wretches deserve the severest vengeance, because they pray so earnestly for it, for rather then they will confesse an overthrow, they heartily beg for more of the same sauce.] leave us not we beseech thee, till thou hast accomplish'd the great work thou hast so ap­parently taken into thine own hands; [to extirpate you all both root and branch, Amen.] Passe by our personall sinnes, [of murder and robberie you meane.] O Lord, though they cry loud, [louder then all your Drums and Canons.] heare them not, but look to the righteousnes of our Cause; [as app [...]ares by the ill pro­spering of it, which is confusion and destruction.] See the seamlesse coat of thy Son torne, [by the Prelates, scandalous Priests and Papists.] the Throne of thine Anointed trampled on, [it stands yet firme and untouch't in the House of Parlia­ment.] thy Church invaded by Sacriledge, [as you think in the removing of Po­pish Jmages, Pictures, Coapes, Organs, and Surplices.] and thy people miserably deceived with lies, [by Aulicus, Naworth, Digbies, and Nicholas letters, and the [Page 7] abominable untruths in this book of Mock-Prayers and Thanksgivings.] See it O God, as see it thou dost, [to your shame and confusion.] and Vindicate what thou seest upon the heads of those, who lead these wretches to destruction, [that is your selves, in seducing and forcing silly and ignorant people, to fight for your un­righteous cause and Popery,] till by their frequent overthrowes, [which you have had above fifty times.] if nothing else can possibly reduce them, [which will not reduce you, untill you be totally wasted and consumed, and scarce a man of your party be left alive.] thou hast scourged them into obedience, [so inflexible is your ob­stinacy, that a whip of Scorpions will not bring you to it.] and tamed these enemies of thine and ours into a desire of Peace, [which hitherto you have repudiated, un­lesse it be upon your own terms, to command all as madly and illegally, as you did before this Parliament began.] that so having at last subdued their hearts, which is the best of Victories, [your proud and loftie spirits must be tamed, else there is no good to be done.] thy David may returne to Ierusalem in Peace, [let it be with­out his Army, and evill Counsellours, which you would bring along with him.] and thy people once more ioy under his Government, [which God grant may be ac­cording to his word, and the lawes of this land.] blessing thy goodnesse which hath wrought this for us, [no victory for you there I am sure.] through the Mediation of thy Sonne Jesus Christ, to whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit, be all praise and glory world without end. Amen.

A Thanksgiving for his Majesties late great Victory over the Rebels in the West.

O Most glorious and powerfull Lord God, without whose aide and influ­ence all our strength is weaknesse, and our counsell folly [that influence is taken from you▪ and so by your own confessions, your counsell is folly, witnesse your many plots and stratagems against the Parliament, and City of London, which by Gods mercy and goodnes, have been still discovered and prevented.] VVee thy un­worthy servants, [your wicked actions have alwayes shewed you to be such] in a gratefull commemoration of thy frequent and often repeated blessings, [God suffers his Sunne and rain, to shine and fall, on the evill and unjust, Mat. 5.45.] with humble and unfained hearts, offer up to thee the Sacrifice of praise, [the Sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when hee bringeth it with a wicked minde? Pro. 21.27,] calling Heaven and Earth to witnesse with us, that it is thy power alone by which we stand, ['till the appointed time of your down-fall,] thy strength by which we prosper. [so it seemes by the multitudes of ill successes you [Page 8] have constantly had.] Particularly we magnifie thy holy Name O God, for that late great Victory, wherewith thou hast graciously blest our Soveraignes Forces in the VVest, [witnesse the notable Overthrowes they had at Newbery, and Alrez­ford, &c.] where thou gavest not the day to the strong, nor measured'st out successe according to the numbers; but madest the weak chase the mighty, and an handfull overthrow an Hoast; [most true, for how many repulses, had your great and strong Armies, by the small and weake Garrisons of Lyme and Plymouth?] shewing by an evident testimony of thy presence, [in those two aforesaid towns,] that the Arme of flesh strives in vaine, when the Arme of God doth fight the bat­tell. [that made you run away, and leave your sieges of those places.] In pursuance of this thy unspeakable goodnesse; we humbly begge of thee O Lord, to conti­nue in all our dangers the like speciall assistance to us, [as you prayed for more vengeance after those overthrowes and repulses; so you have received it to purpose since neere York] to break the Speare of the disobedient, [there you lost 5000. men, & 10000. Armes.] and melt the hearts of the Rebellious into water, [the rest of that Rebellious crew had such watery hearts, that they ran away, some by land, and some by sea to Hamburgh, and left Yorke to be taken by the Parliaments Armies.] to strike the mindes of the perverse, [as that Army of Ruperts was stricken with such feare, that they ran out of that City by night to shift for them­selves] with a true touch of that Conscience, which they go about to stifle, [your Consciences are seared, they need no stifling.] and a true sence of that dutie to thine Anointed, [if you had that sence, you would not strive to undoe him, and his Posteri­tie and Kingdomes.] which they labour to forget, [you have gotten it indeed else you would not doe so,] that we thy miserable and distressed people, may no longer groan under those heavie Judgements, [you have violently drawne them downe upon your selves, and this miserable distressed Nation,] which our sinnes have pul­led downe upon us. [a full confession; but where is your repentance and amendment since?] but may at last be re-united and knit in the happines of a long wish't for Peace, [which you reiect by further contumacy and rebellion.] and with one mind, in the same true Religion, worship thee the onely God, [you meane with your Ceremonies of cringings, Altars, and will-Worship.) and obey our King whom thou hast set over vs: [in what he shall command, in Justice, Equity, and Righte­ousnesse,] grant this O mercifull Father, for thy deare Sonnes sake, who raigneth with thee, and thy holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.

A Thanks-giving for the Queenes safe returne.

O Most mercifull Lord God, wee farther render thee all praise and thankes, for that thou hast been pleased ro extend thy hand of deliverance unto the person of our gracious Queene, [are they Protestant or Popish graces?] that thou hast made her an instrument of so much good to this Kingdome, [this is a French Ironie, for you speake contrary to your meaning and knowledge. I know not to give flattering titles, said Iob 32.22.] and brought her safely hither, through so many dangers both by sea and land, [she came with a great Convoy of Dutch Ships by Sea, and passed through no places by land, but the Kings Garrisons, guarded with a strong Army, where was the danger you speak of?] Lord make the King and his People daily more and more happy in her, [this is a prayer for the future, what past, or present happines have we enjoyed?] that as by thine especiall favour she is already become the mother of so many hopefull Princes, [if two of them were not now nurtured amongst Prelates, Papists, and debauched souldiers.] so shee may be daily fruitfull in the addition of more blessings to us, [I pray let them be better then those we have hitherto received], through Iesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end, Amen. [I was horribly afraid these Prayer-mongers would have given the Queene thankes in this Prayer also.]

A Hymne or Generall Thanks-giving.

GLory be to God on high, [your Mock-prayers defraud him of his glory.] and in earth Peace, [ not in England, Scotland, and Ireland, by your consents.] good will towards men. [to what men, Papists or Protestants, Cavaliers or Round heads, to him that sweareth, or to him that feareth an Oath?] We praise thee, We blesse thee, We worship thee, We glorifie thee; [Softly, lest you want breath, and thank the old Common prayer-book for this.] and at this time, in a more spe­ciall [Page 10] manner, with the highest expressions of our devoutest hearts, [true devotion and your mockery are incompatible.] We most humbly give thanks unto thee, for that thou hast bin pleased out of thine infinite goodnes mercifully to look down upon the late low estate of our gracious Soveraigne; [ Your brethren in London, have alwayes told us that the Cavaliers Armies were Potent and Numerous.] That hast brought him from so much scornefull neglect, [ of his Nephew Rupert, and other of his Souldiers, that would plunder and commit outrages, notwithstanding his Inhibition.] to appeare so terrible unto those desperate Rebells, who dare yet stand in Armes against him; [ridiculous Thunder-clap, will you turne the Kings countenance into a hideous form?] That thou hast blest him with many, and those eminent victories, and particularly, for those great defeats which by his Armies thou hast given unto his enemies in the North, and in the West. [Rupert, Maurice, Newcastle, and Hopton will tell the truth and shame the devill.] O Lord God, hea­venly King, God the Father Almighty, O Lord, the onely begotten Son Jesus Christ, continue these thy favours to us, [of continuall losses and defeats, as hither­to you have had, O obdurate hearts, that pray for wrath and judgement upon them­selves.] and perfect we beseech thee, that glorious worke, the happy peace of this land, which none but thine own strength can finish, [you plead guiltie and confesse your war inglorious, and yet shun that happy Peace.] And to that end, Thou that takest away the sins of the world, take this foule sin of Rebellion from us, [a plain confession, but 'tis not ingenious, because you continue still Rebellious.] Thou that sit­test at the right hand of God the Father, smite through the loynes of those Sacri­legious men, who have not spared at all to prophane thy House and thy Service; [with Atars and Idols, Pictures and Images, duckings, and too much curtesie, too much craft.] So shall we still blesse thy Name in the midst of the great Congregation; [you meane of Bishops, Deanes, &c. clad in rich Coapes, and their Pontificalibus, with loud and high sounding musicke.] So shall wee thy servants never cease to be still praysing thee and saying, Thou onely art Holy, Thou onely art the Lord, Thou onely O Christ, with the holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Fa­ther. To thee be all praise and honor & glory ascribed world without end. Amen. [Smooth as Butter or Oyle. Thou shalt not take Gods Name in vain. Exod. 20.]

A Prayer to be said during these times of trouble.

O Lord our God, Mercifull and Gracious, and abundant in good­nesse and truth, who do'st according to thy will in the Armies of hea­ven, and rulest over all the Kingdomes of the earth; in whose hand is power and might, and none is able to withstand thy Arme; [which, though you have sorely felt since your Rebellion, yet you would never acknowledge it a­gainst you.] We most vile sinners approach before thy Throne of Grace, bewailing those manifold transgressions that have provoked thy wrath and indignation against us. [ here are more of their Confessions, but still without amendment; whoso confesseth & forsaketh his sins, shall have mercy, Pro. 28.13] VVee know, O Lord, that affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, but it is thou that with rebukes do'st chasten man for sinne. VVee confesse that we were a wealthy and a care­lesse Nation [vntill you by your plundering and robbery impovereshed it,] and our land was as the garden of Eden; [untill you wasted it, by making ha­vock both of man and beast, that should have manured it.] our deliverances were great, and thy blessings were multiplied, [and yet you never take them to heart, to be truely thankfull for them.] VVee dwelt alone without feare of evill, [that was your securitie and carelesnesse,] and were become the Envy of those that were round about us. [and now you have made us the scorne and derision of all Nations.] Peace was within our walles, [ why did you break it? First in Scotland, next in Ireland, and now in England?] and plenteousnesse within our Pallaces. [ the too great plenty in the Bishops Pallaces, made them begin their Bellum Episcopale.] But when we had eaten and were full, and had waxen fat, we kicked against thee our Maker, who had'st done such great things for us, [you were alwayes like the Rebellious Jewes.] our heart was lifted up, [and in that loftinesse your hearts remaine still.] and forget thee our God, [when did you ever remember him?] and lightly esteemed the Rocke of our salvation. [so it seemeth by your forsa­king of him, and turning to Idolatry.] We loathed the Manna that raigned downe upon us; [ you indeed ever loathed the Manna of sincere Praying, and sound Preaching,] our Peace became a wearinesse, [that made you runne out into a bloody warre.] and wee snuffed at our happinesse, [the more to blame you that could not see when you were well.] we murmured against Moses in our tents, [and put honest Rulers, Priuy Councellers, Magistrates, and Justices of Peace out of their places.] and made light of thy Anoynted whom thou had'st set over us. [unlesse hee would bestow honour and wealth [Page 12] upon you.] Therefore hath thou recompenced our wayes upon our owne heads, [very just.] and suffered our destruction to proceed from our selves: [you never judged right for your selves till now.] our wickednesse doth correct us, our backsliding doth reprove us, and our iniquitie is be­come our ruine. [can you see all this and not leave your sinfull courses? let ruine then consume you.] Thou hast broken upon us with a grievous breach; [in the slaughter of thousands of your Partisans.] thy anger hath divided us, [as it will be at the end of the world, the Sheep from you the Goats.] and thy fury hath dashed us one against another. [so that your braines fall out.] Thou hast mingled a Spirit of perversnesse in the mid'st of us; [which makes you so refractory.] and made us a Nation void of Councell and un­derstanding: [that's false, for you have Councell and understanding enough to contrive Plots, Conspiracies, and Treacheries; but to good they are totally infa­tuated.] in stad of Peace, thou hast sent bitternes, 'tis you that have chan­ged a Calme into a Storme, and turned Wormwood into Gaule.] and hast sent a fire into our bowels, and it is kindled round about us.] remember which of your party hath fired Townes and houses.] And now, O'Lord, be­hold the Sword is drunk with our blood, [of the Protestants in England and Ireland.] and we are numbred to the slaughter; [a just rcompencee for your shedding it.] the high wayes are unoccupied, because you hinder Commerce and trading.] and the travellers go thorow by-paths: [lest they should fall into your hands.] our fields are divided, our inheritance is for a spoile, [because you have shared the Protestants lands amongst you.] and our substance to the Robbers, [ such as Rupert, Capell, Hastings, &c.] We are become a re­proach to the foolish people, [because you delude them with lies, and Mock-victories.] and servants bear rule over us, [such as Endymion Porter, Da­vis the Barber, &c.] The mean man is risen against the Honourable, [that is, the poor ragged Welch men against the Parliament.] and the fire out of the Bramble devoureth the lofty Cedars, [the fire out of the Parliaments Guns hath abated the pride of some of your Nobles.] our women are cast out of their pleasant places, [by your Deflouring and Ravishing them.] and the robe is pulled off from the aged; [witnesse your robbing of old Master Dod of his gowne in Northamptonshire.] there is no respect had to the Prieast, [of Baall you meane.] nor favour to the Elders. [the Bishops and Deanes you conceive.] Thy Sanctuaries, the excellency of thy strength, are pro­phaned; [by the saying of your Mock prayers, and Thanksgiving in them.] and they have defiled the places where thine Honor dwelleth, [which the Cavaliers did at Kingston upon Thames, and Plympton, by making them a jakes, and stables for their Horses.] and yet still the seat of wickednes fra­meth [Page 13] mischief by a Law, [true, you have done all your villanies by the known Laws of the land.] and it turneth iudgement backward, [when the runa­wayes voted in their Anti-Parliament at Oxford.] and biddeth Iustice stand a farre off; [as the Cavalier Governours over Cities and Corporations doc.] and deviseth deceitfull matters against those that are quiet in the land. for which devisings both Tompkins and Challoner were hanged at quiet London.] Nay, there is a lying spirit gone out into the mouthes of the Prophets; [witnesse the Prelaticall Prayer-mongers, that made this lying book for their no victories.] they prophesie falsly, and the people delight to have it so, and they strengthen the hands of evill doers, that they turne not back from their wickednesse. [your Cavaliers and Grandees delight in such falsities, whereby you strengthen the hands of your evill party, and keepe them in their wickednesse, by upholding them with these lyes,] Thus are wee covered with a cloud in thine anger, [a cloud of lies and impieties to seduce the igno­rant people.] and our beautie is cast downe to the ground. [ever since the Lady Thynne was disgraced at Oxford.] But O Lord, shall thine indig­nation be powred out for ever? shall thy iealousie burne like fire? ['tis but according to your deserts, but especially for these abrupt and shamelesse expostu­lations.] O passe by the transgressions of the remnant of thine heritage, [which you are not, though you have lost many thousands of your party.] and take away the rebuke of thy people, [that they may be no more over-topped by the Prelates and Cavaliers.] O remove from us reproach and con­tempt; [respect belongs only to the worthy.] and strengthen the spoyled against the destroyers. [that is, the spoyled true Protestants, against the de­stroying Atheists, Cavaliers, Papists, and Irish Rebells] Bow downe thine eare, and consider the oppression of the poore, and the sighing of the nee­dy, [whom you have robbed of all their goods and substance.] the groaning of the Prisoners, that are fast bound in misery and iron. [ in Oxford, and and in your other Garrisons.] Lift up thy selfe, because of the rage of thine Adversaries: consider the desolation they have made in thy Courts, and all that the enemy hath done wickedly in thy Sanctuary. [in your defiling them with Altars, Images, Pictures, and with Horse and mens dung.] And yet still they are compassed with pride, and clothe themselves with violence as with a garment. [you have violently robbed Clothiers of their cloath to make you garments.] How long, O Lord, shall they boast themselves in mischiefe? how long shall they decree unrighteous Decrees, and write grievousnesse, which they have prescribed? [you have done it too long, in forcing poore peo­ple to serve you, and laying heavy Taxes upon the Counties under your power.] O make not a full end with us, ['tis pitty to spare one man of you.] but cor­rect [Page 14] us in mercy, [the mercifull shall have mercy, but your cruelty cries for vengeance.] though thou leave us not altogether unpunished. [you desire then a little scourging, for your abominations.] Help us O Lord our God, for we res on thee, [that's false, for had you not solely relied upon your owne strength, you durst not have acted such iniquities.] and under the shadow of thy wings shall be our refuge, untill this Tyranny be over-past. [tell us when you meane to cease it.] Disappoint therefore the devices of the crafty; [you have been sufficiently caught in your owne snares.] Let not the Rebelli­ous exalt themselves any more, [you have shrewdly gone down the winde of late,] and suffer not the Tabernacles of the Robbers to prosper. [ what then will become of Rupert's Dukedome of Cumberland, and Hastings Barony of Loughborough?] And as thou hast begun to shew thy servants thy great­nesse, and thy mighty hand: [in consounding and destroying your Armies.] so continue thy marvellous loving kindnesse to those that put their trust in thee. [in the same manner and measure of ruine, as you received it before.] The batell is thine, O Lord, thou hast preserved us from the arme of flesh; the Parliaments Armies found this most true on their sides, at Edge-hill, New­bery, Alresford, and lately neere Yorke.] Yea, it is thou that hast wrought all our works in us, even when there was no might against that great com­pany that came egainst us. [the Parliaments Armies never sought yours, but yours alwayes came to surprize theirs.] When we were few in number, and there was none to help us, then thine own Arme brought salvation, and thy Righteousnesse sustained us. [Set the Saddle on the right horse, and apply this to the Parliaments Forces, whom Gods Arme and Righteousnesse saved and sustained.] O perfect therefore thy handy-work. [upon the Parliament, and those that truely love and adhere to them, you should say, unlesse you pray for more vengeance upon your selves.] Give salvation to our King, and deliver CHARLES thy servant from the perill of the sword; binde up his soul in the bundle of life, [we wish this more sinceerely then you doe, because you lead him into danger, which wee desire him to avoid.] gird him with strength to the Battell, [against seducing Papists, and evill Counsellors.] contend with those who contend with him; [ to bereave him of bis Crowne in Ire­land] subdue thou the People under him, [no true Protestant stirres against him.] and suffer no weapon formed against him to prosper, [that which is done ogainst you, you make him beleeve, is done against him.] O deliver him at length from the strivings of the People, and lift up his head above his ene­mies round about him; [that are you, and your Assistants.] give him the shield of thy salvation, and let thy gentlenesse make him great; [and fa­mous against forreign Enemies.] put a stop at last to the madnesse of the [Page 15] people, [that they may no more run a whoring after your Ceremonies, and superstitions.] say to the destroying sword, it is now enough: I wish you would say so also.] send us a seasonable and blessed calme [upon your owne Termes, or else you will not care for it.] Visit us with the joy of thy Coun­tenance, and make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast af­flicted us. [You have made many weeping eyes, and must expect Retalation.] O restore to us our Solemne Assemblies [in Cathedralls you mean, with pompe and vanity.] bring us back into thy Courts, to praise thee, [with as little sincerity, and as much dissembling, as you doe in this Mock-prayer-book.] and let us once more worship thee in the beauty of thy holynesse. [ You have too much liberty yet to doe that after your manner, in the Ministers of Bristoll, Chester, Excester, Lychfeild, Oxford, and VVorcester.] Save us O Lord from our Enemies, and from the hands of all that hate us. [your crying and enormous sinnes are hated, not your Persons.] That so wee may serve thee, without feare, [of disturbance in your Formalities, you meane.] living a quiet and peaceable life, [why did you then raise cumbustions in the three Kingdomes, to disquiet that Peace?] looking for the blessed appearance of the great God, and our Saviour JESUS CHRIST [had you been truly pre­pared for his comming, you would have feared to break out into these di­stempers.] To whom with Thee and thy Holy Spirit, be all Honour and Praise, world without end. AMEN.

NOw Reader, considering the premises, you finde, what a Messe of Prelaticall Mock-prayers and Thanks-givings are included in this booke, to del [...] man. They may, and doe dissemble with God, deceive him they cannot, [...] therefore they have bin rewarded for their dissimulation with God, and che [...]ing of simple and ignorant people, as appeares by all their before recited defeat [...] [...] losses; bcause I found in these Cavalier Mock devotions many lies, slanders, [...] reproches against the Parliament, I have according to my duty vindicated th [...] and all that truely love, honour, and fight for them, and set the sad [...] on the Cavaliers right horse, applying their owne words and prayers to themselves, to whom the most of them properly and pertinently belong [...] suits so well, that (in truth) they fit none so well as themselves. If any shall object, as I expect many on their side will, that I too sharpely nippe their Pray­ers and Thanks-givings, let them understand, that Delusions, Lies, Mocke­ries, Defamations, and Slanders, especially in Prayers and Thanks-givings, a [...] most odious to God, and all good men, and indeed are no Prayers nor Thanks, but meer Farragoes of hellish malice and virulency. To conclude, I desire the Reader to take speciall notice of the desperatenes, of these men, who rather then they will confesse a losse or defeat, and suffer the people to know the truth, they call and [...] for continuance & increase of direfull vengeance upon their owne heads. Let [...] pray, that God would, if he see good, open their eyes, and turne their hearts, that they may repent and amend.

Amen.