England's REMEMBRANCER, OR, A thankful acknowledgement of Parliamentary Mercies to our English-Nation.  
Wherein is contained a brief enumeration of all, or the most of God's free favours and choice Blessings multiplied on us since this Parliament first began.  
By John VICARS.  
LONDON, Printed for Thomas underhill, and are to be sold at the Bible in Wood-street. M.DC.XLI.   

England's REMEMBRANCER, OR, A thankful acknowledgement of Parliamentary Mercies to our English-Nation.  
COme hither, each true Christian heart and see;  
But, bring a joyful, thankful heart with thee.  
Come see (I say) to God's eternal praise,  
His miracles of mercies in thy days. 
1. Two Parliaments dissolved.   
How, 
2. A third called.  though two former Parliaments were broke,  
A third is called, hopeful to strike the stroke  
Of blessed reformation; to which end,  
See how the Lord the people's hearts did bend 
3. Choice of Knights and Burgesses.   
To choose renowned worthies there to sit,  
Maugre the adverse plots t'have hindered it.  
How God stirred-up our Scottish Brethren brave, 
4. The Army of Scots our friends.   
As friends, not foes, justice (with us) to crave.  
In which mean time, how by heaven's providence, 
5 soldiers turn Reformers.   
Soldiers i'th' Country, with strange violence  
Turned rude Reformers, 
6 And haters of Papists and Pontificians.  hating the Popish-party  
And Pontificians with despite most hearty.  
Crossing the Papists and the Prelates plots, 
7. Prelate's plots crossed.   
To force fierce wars betwixt us and the Scots,  
To three great Kingdoms certain Desolation, 
8. The Pacification.   
All crossed by a blessed Pacification:  
scattering and battering (that time) Spain's great Fleet, 
9 Spanish-fleet at Sea, vanquished by the Hollanders.   
By honest Holland, who, their pride did meet,  
How God begins t'avenge th'unpater'nd ruth, 
10 M. Burton, D B●st. M. Pr●ns. happy return from captivity.   
Of that pair-royall-Witnesses of Truth, 
11. And the rest of Christ's sufferers.   
And all the suffering Worthies of the same,  
Restoring them to comfort, credit, fame.  
How God hath shot those impious Canoniers  
By cursed Canons to deep shame and fears, 
12. Canons and Oath in the ●ynod damned.   
Of fatal, 
13. And turned to their own ruin.  final fall, even by an Oath,  
Whereby they hoped to get full Popi●h growth.  
How Heaven discovered hath a rotten-Sort  
Of scandalous Baals-Priests of foul report; 
14. Scandalous Priests discovered.   
And open set a door of restauration  
For faithful pastors happy replantation. 
15. Golly Pastors restored.   
How, 
16. Plots harm the Prelates most.  by their own plots▪ God hath strangely wrought  
Papists and Prelates to decline to nought.  
How by the very blood of traitorous foes 
17. Traitors executed   
The Lord begins the wounds to heal and close  
Of Church and State, and, for this purpose, 
18. Days of private humiliation by godly Christia●s.  hath  
Kindled the fire of Supplicating Faith  
And fervent zeal in private humiliation,  
Such, as the like was ne'er seen in this Nation;  
And with transcendent sweet returns repaid  
Our prayers into our bosoms with blessed aid. 
19 And returns of their prayers   
How the Lord hath, the Spirit of Unity  
Shed on Both Houses, Courage and Constancy; 
20. Blessed union in Both Houses.   
O, how their indefatigable pains  
Our happy Hopes in Church and State maintains!  
To see both Prince and People blessedly  
Conjoined in a sugared Symphony  
To sit and to consult with full content, 
21. Agreement twixt King and Parliament.   
Till they themselves dissolve this Parliament.  
And after it to sit triennially  
To Church and States future felicity. 
22. A triennial Parliament enacted   
To see Ship-money, 
23 Ship money & patients damned  patents damned down, 
24. Good men made officers of State.   
And good men set in seats of high renown.  
To see Non-Residents justly disgraced, 
25. Non-Residents voted against.   
To see our lazy Pluralists displaced; 
26. Pluralist voted against.   
And godly Lecturers by their flock elected, 
27. Lecturers rightly chosen.   
And droanish Deans 
28. Deans and Chapters voted down.  and Prebends disrespected  
And voted-down in Parliament. To see,  
Oxford and Cambridge hopeful purged to be. 
29. Universities reformed.   
To see God's Sabbaths more sincerely kept, 
30. Sabbaths better sanctified   
Of carrier's, fruiterers, Taverns soil well swept; 
31. Printing Presses opened.   
And Presses open wide to vindicate  
The Sabbaths precious honour, which, of late,  
By impious Prelates, Pontificks profane, 
32. Sabbath-sports put down.   
Had (by vain sports) received a deep-dyed stain.  
To see to th'Sacrament, 
33 Lords-Supper rectified.  none (now) admitted  
But such as piously are thereto fitted,  
To see the Surplice and such Romish trash  
From Parliament receive a deadly gash, 
34. Popish Ceremonies sentenced.   
Whereby no Popish gestures, vestures are  
Impos'd'gainst Conscience on God's Saints to wear.  
And no man forced (now) at Church to stay 
35 Liberty to hear the word more freely.   
Where is no preaching to promote God's day.  
To see God's outcasts called home again 
36. Persecuted Pastors recalled   
And sons of Belial feel just shame and pain.  
No High-Commission, spiritual-court to see, 
37 No High Commission Court admitted.   
Whereby God's peoples hearts from fears are free,  
Of their unjust Commands, lawless taxations  
And all churchwardens cleared from vile vexations. 
38. Churchwardens freed.   
To see our Seas and Cinque-Ports fortified; 
39 Sea's and Cinque-Ports fortified.   
That we may und'r our Vines securely 'bide.  
But, specially to see, with exultation  
From Both the Houses a blessed Protestation, 
40. A blessed Protestation   
Together, all true English-hearts to tie,  
In a blessed league, Rome's Strumpet to defy, 
Against all Popery and Popish Innovations.   
All Popish Innovations to disdain,  
Christ's Truth tothth' death constantly to maintain.  
O, who cannot these halcyon-days admire,  
And with inflamed zeal be set on fire.  
To sound the praises of our bounteous Lord  
Who these heart-cheering comforts doth afford  
Unto a Nation, in th'esteem of most,  
For Sin, forsaken, perishing and lost.  
But, 
A proper Simile.  now, much like a Ship by swelling-waves  
Tossed to and fro, 
England compared to a Ship tossed at Sea.  gaping to be the graves  
Of all its heartless mariners, but yet  
A sudden calm and fair winds favouring it,  
'Tis brought in saf●ty to a harbour fair  
Where all arrive, where all preserved are:  
So, O, even so, thy God in mercy free,  
O England, England, 
Admonition to England.  thus preserved thee!  
Hopeless and helpless: Lay this then to heart,  
Rouse up thy soul, perform thy praising part.  
O great King CHARLES, 
counsel to the King.  cheer-up thy soul, likewise,  
Ponder these ponderous things, arise, arise,  
High time to put-on resolutions rare,  
To honour God, who with such honours fair  
Hath blessed thee and thy three kingdoms, 
Reformation desired.  now,  
A thorough Reformation in them vow. 
5 Princely Petitioners to our King.   
Remember also and Commiserate  
Thy royal Sisters poor Palatinate,  
Sad Germany's long lamentable woes;  
Rochel, like Rachel in her childless throws.  
Thy near allied Denmark in distress,  
Holland thine honest, ancient friend no less.  
Who All, with Us, and on Us, look for aid.  
From thee, great Prince, who long have been ore-layd  
With Romish rage and Spanish cruelty, 
'gainst Spain and Rome.   
Still groaning, grieving, by their tyranny,  
To forward which most blessed work, 
helps at hand.  behold,  
Thy prudent peers 
1. Peers.  resolved with courage bold,  
Thy pious Prophets 
2. Prophets.  with their prayers addressed,  
Thy people 
3. People.  all with hearts and purses pressed,  
To give thee all their aid, to spend their blood,  
To hasten-on this work so great, so good.  
And, O our God, let thy good Spirit strike-in, 
4. A Prayer.   
To make the work complete, to pull-down sin,  
To setup Christ in his pure, powerful throne  
To rule and reign in all our hearts, Alone.  
So shall we All, all our remaining days  
To thee our God eternal trophies raise  
Of all obliged praises infinite,  
Who, thus, to do us good, dost take delight.  
FINIS.