THE CAVALIERS NEW COMMON-PRAYER BOOK Unclasped.  
It being a Collection of Prayers and Thanksgivings, used in His Majesty's Chapel, and in his Armies.  
Upon occasion of the late (supposed) Victories against the Parliaments forces, and for the future success of the Cavalier Forces.  
Published By his Majesty's Command, to be duly read in all other Churches and Chappells within this his Kingdom, and Dominion of Wales.  
Printed at York, by Stephen Buckley, 1644. AND Reprinted at London, by G. B. with some brief and necessary Observations, to refute the Lies and Scandals that are contained in it. 1644.   

Benevolent Reader,  
YOU have often heard heretofore of the Cavaliers Thanksgivings in Oxford, and other places, for their pretended Conquests, but you may remember, that they were first well cudgeled into them, as Britanicus long since wittily observed. And if you have had a longing desire to see the tenor and Contents of their gratefulness, behold here a  of Episcopal and Cavalier mock-Prayers, and Thanksgivings, for their No-Victories, but sound beat at Edge-hill, in the West, and in the North, which being brought from York, since the Reddition thereof to the obedience of the King and Parliament, I thought it unfit to conceal it from you, in regard of the transcendent lying, dissimulation, and mocking of God, with complemental Prayers, and delusive Thanksgivings contained in it. Most miserable must those men be, whose very Devotions are simulated and hypocritical and a greater sin for them to pray in the manner they do, than not to pray, But read Prayers, or say Prayers they do, and it is a question, whether with greater impudence, or ignorance: but no matter for that with them, as long as they can thereby work so great an advantage in the credulous people's minds, as when they say, or pipe out their Prayers for the King, against his best Subjects, they make silly people believe, that they are the only men which, love and honour the King, and all else Rebels, and such as seek to destroy him.  
Moreover, if at any time they are sound banged, presently they mock God and the people with a Thanksgiving, according to the Spanish Jesuited custom: only here is the difference, the Almighty loathes and abhors such simulated sanctity for their defeats and overthrows, and the seduced people believe, and admire it.  
Thus they ensnare the King's Subjects, and lead them with a show of devotion into destruction, to make them adventure their lives and Estates against God, the true Protestant Religion, and the Parliament, the sole upholder of Liberty and Property, which, had it not to this day stood firm against all storms and tempests, our Religion, Liberty and Property, had long since been trampled upon by Popery and Tyranny.  
Prayer and Thanksgiving, which are the Preservatives, they make the very bane of their souls, and all by the powerful influence of the Prelatical Priests, who draw the ignorant people to their desires, as will appear by these ensuing Responds (according to the old Popish Order) between Priest and People. But not to detain: you with any longer Prologue from this new Parcel of Mockery, and Jesuited Popery, as bad as any in the Masse-book, see here their Prayers, and Thanksgivings, in the same Order they were printed at York, in this very year. 1644.   


A Prayer for the preservation of His Majesty's Person, and for the Peace of the Kingdom.  PRIEST. 
O Lord guard the Person of thy servant the King.  RIGHT RESPONDS. 
Prom jesuites, Papists, Irish Rebels, and evil Counselors about him.  People. 
Who putteth his trust in thee.  Resp. 
Not we hope, in the arm of Flesh, as Cavaliers, Delinquents, and such enemies to the Kingdom.  PRIEST. 
Send him and his Armies help from thy holy Place.  Resp. 
Not from Denmark, Belgia, France, Spain, and Ireland.  People. 
And evermore mightily defend them.  Resp. 
From the insinuations of Incendiaries, and other promoters of this War.  PRIEST. 
Confound the designs of all those that are risen up against him.  Resp. 
To withdraw him from his Parliament, and the protection of his best Subjects.  People. 
And let not their Rebellious wickedness approach near to hurt him.  Resp. 
Nor any more to rob spoil, and kill the poor People of this Nation.  PRIEST. 
O Lord hear our Prayer.  Resp. 
That our King may speedily return home from destructive misleaders.  People. 
And let our cry come unto thee.  Resp. 
And the Cry of thy People's blood in Ireland, and England.  
O LORD God of Hosts, who givest Victory unto Kings, and didst deliver David thy servant from the peril of the sword, hear us, we beseech thee most miserable sinners, [in making all the havoc and spoil in this Kingdom,] who do here pour out our souls before thee, [to be enabled to do 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 ways 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 welshmen's compliance at Shrewsbury, put that sword into his hands, and not God, who never intended the destruction of his true People. [but bless his Counsels with success, [let them be never so bad, you will tie God by this Prayer, to bless them.] and his enterprises with victory, [you mean to the destruction of the Parliament, and all the true Protestants in the three Kingdoms.] that he may go 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 rain, upon the hearts of all those who do still remain Loyal to him. [though they be Papists, bloody Irish Rebels, swearing debauched Cavaliers, and the pests of his Kingdoms.] And O thou that takest no delight in the misery of one single sinner, spare merciful Lord, spare a great, though most sinful Nation, pity a despised Church, [you mean the Prelates and their Hierarchy,] and a distracted State [made so by your wicked party, that have set it on fire by an unnatural War, begun by them.] heal up those wounds which our sins have made so wide, that none but thine own hands can close them. ['tis most true, you have made numbers of Women husbandless, and children fatherless, your confession and prayer is good, if they be sincere, which cannot be known to be so, unless you speedily desist from making more such wounds.] And in the tenderness of thine unspeakable compassion, hasten to put so happy an end unto these wasting divisions [why do you then strive to continue, foment, and increase them ●●ill? lay down your Arms, if you mean good sooth and they will suddenly cease.] that thy service may be the more duly celebrated [with Copes, Organs, outward pomp and Popish vainglory.] 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, Deans, and prebend's, being resettled again, they only make the Church in your sense] and the Kingdom to her former Peace [why do you not quickly return to your homes then? you that first began, must first end: but you intent to exclude Peace from Scotland and Ireland.] and that for his sake, who is the Prince of Peace, and that shed his precious blood, to purchase our peace, [mel in over, fell in cord.] even JESUS CHRIST our Lord, to whom with thee, o Father, and thy blessed Spirit, be, etc.   

A Prayer of Thanksgiving for His Majesty's victory over the Rebels at Edge-Hill.  
O Thou God of Hosts, 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 Battle.] 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 do, self have.] We acknowledge with all lowliness of mind, [if your lofty 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 Battle:] but it is thy hand alone that hath disposed of victory to thy servant the King [and Parliament, for it is most certain that their Forces gained the day there,] that hath covered his head in the day of Battle, [the Parliament desired him before the fight, that he would not mix the danger of his person with those whom they had declared Rebels and Traitors,] and hath kept his Crown from being thrown down to the ground: [was it worn there, as Richard the third did his at Bosworth-field?] Not unto us therefore, not unto us, but unto thee, O God, do we give the praise, beseeching thee to accomplish the great work thou hast begun for us, [assuredly God hath taken special notice of this abominable mock-prayer, for he hath granted their request, in giving them continual memorable Routs, and Defeats ever since; they prayed for vengeance upon themselves. and have constantly received it to the full, as at Newberry, Alrezford, York, etc.] too continue the blessing of good success on the head of our Sovereign, and his Army, [never may that Army have better success than it had then, according to their prayers.] that the happiness thereof may flow from thence, to the every skirts of his people, [judge what happiness, you that have been plundered, fired, and wasted by that Army, have received from it.] too 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 Counsels, [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.] too 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 Arms against thy Vicegerent, [you are deceived, 'tis against those that have seduced him by evil Counsel, and against you that mock God and the people by these scandalously lying Prayers] is to fight against Heaven, [you mean the Heaven under Westminster-hall, for God by his continual good success 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 Authority of him whom thou hast set over them, [Submission to the King's just Authority was never yet denied 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 settled, [Peace is in your mouths, but War is in your hearts] Faction may be cast out of the State, [we should soon enjoy quiet, if the Spanish Faction, were once expelled.] and Schism out of the Church, [away then with all Papists, Prelates, and their Hierarchy.] to the advancement of thy glory, the King's Honour, and the People's good. [good words break not the bones.] Grant this O God, for thy old Mercies sake which thou wert wont to show unto this Nation, that both Prince and People may join in giving praise to thee, who livest and raignest world without end, Amen.  

Reader, observe by this mock-prayer, how senseless these men are, that could be so woefully beaten at Edge-Hill, and never feel it; that they should lose their General in the heaps of some thousands of their slain, and be forced to leave the Field to the Parliaments Forces, and run away in the night, and never know it, but remain in an abusive opinion of Victory, and Celebrate a Festival in stead of a Funeral, and labour to hea● themselves and the world with a mock-Thanks-giving. But you must understand, that their policy was, to uphold the drooping and fainting spirits of their beaten party, by this subtle Spanish trick    

A Thanksgiving for his Majesty's late great Victory over the Rebels in the North.  
O Most mighty God, whose dwelling is above the Heavens, yet humblest thyself to dispose of all things done either in Heaven or Earth, who in thy unsearchable judgements, hast suffered the Sheba's of these times to blow the Trumpet of Rebellion in every corner of this Land; but withal hast justly turned this sufferance of thine into their Ruin; [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 Kingdom 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 magnify 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 thankful for them also.] thou hast yet added to that heap of blessings, a new and notable Victory over the Rebels in the North; [whereabouts was this your notable Victory in the North? at Hull you had two several repulses with loss 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 York, 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 Victory over the Rebels 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 than they will confess an overthrow, they hearty beg for more of the same sauce.] leave us not we beseech thee, till thou hast accomplished the great work thou hast so apparently taken into thine own hands; [to extirpate you all both root and branch, Amen.] Pass by our personal sins, [of murder and robbery you mean.] O Lord, though they cry loud, [louder than all your Drums and Canons.] hear them not, but look to the righteousness of our Cause; [as appears by the ill prospering of it, which is confusion and destruction.] See the seamlesse coat of thy Son torn, [by the Prelates, scandalous Priests and Papists.] the Throne of thine Anointed trampled on, [it stands yet firm and untouched in the House of Parliament.] thy Church invaded by Sacrilege, [as you think in the removing of Popish Jmages, Pictures, Copes, Organs, and Surplices.] and thy people miserably deceived with lies, [by Aulicus, Naworth, Digbies, and Nicholas letters, and the 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 yourselves, in seducing and forcing silly and ignorant people, to fight for your unrighteous cause and Popery,] till by their frequent overthrows, [which you have had above fifty times.] if nothing else can possibly reduce them, [which will not reduce you, until 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, unless 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 lofty spirits must be tamed, else there is no good to be done.] thy David may return to jerusalem in Peace, [let it be without his Army, and evil Counselors, which you would bring along with him.] and thy people once more joy under his Government, [which God grant may be according to his word, and the laws of this land.] blessing thy goodness which hath wrought this for us, [no victory for you there I am sure.] through the Mediation of thy Son Jesus Christ, to whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit, be all praise and glory world without end. Amen.  

Reader, observe well these shameless Prelatical prayers, which are stuffed with such abominable lies, that even stink in the nostrils of God and man, and you may have cause to wonder, how these men dare bring such sordid trash before the presence of Almighty God, and the face of a Christian Congregation, and to profane Churches and Chapels therewith, which they account holy and sanctified places. This is Sacrilege in the highest degree, and yet their zeal can brook it better, then to have those places cleansed from the rags and trumpery of Popery and Idolatry.    

A Thanksgiving for his Majesties late great Victory over the Rebels in the West.  
O Most glorious and powerful Lord God, without whose aid and influence all our strength is weakness, and our counsel folly [that influence is taken from you▪ and so by your own confessions, your counsel is folly, witness your many plots and stratagems against the Parliament, and City of London, which by God's mercy and goodness, have been still discovered and prevented.] We thy unworthy servants, [your wicked actions have always shown you to be such] in a grateful commemoration of thy frequent and often repeated blessings, [God suffers his Sun and rain, to shine and fall, on the evil and unjust, Mat. 5.45.] with humble and unfeigned hearts, offer up to thee the Sacrifice of praise, [the Sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Pro. 21.27,] calling Heaven and Earth to witness 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 seems by the multitudes of ill successes you have constantly had.] Particularly we magnify thy holy Name O God, for that late great Victory, wherewith thou hast graciously blest our Sovereign's Forces in the West, [witness the notable Overthrows they had at Newberry, and Alrezford, etc.] where thou gavest not the day to the strong, nor measured'st out success according to the numbers; but madest the weak chase the mighty, and an handful overthrow an Host; [most true, for how many repulses, had your great and strong Armies, by the small and weak Garrisons of Lyme and Plymouth?] showing by an evident testimony of thy presence, [in those two aforesaid towns,] that the Arm of flesh strives in vain, when the Arm of God doth fight the battle. [that made you run away, and leave your sieges of those places.] In pursuance of this thy unspeakable goodness; we humbly beg of thee O Lord, to continue in all our dangers the like special assistance to us, [as you prayed for more vengeance after those overthrows and repulses; so you have received it to purpose since near York] to break the Spear of the disobedient, [there you lost 5000. men, & 10000 Arms.] 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 York to be taken by the Parliaments Armies.] too strike the minds of the perverse, [as that Army of rupert's was stricken with such fear, 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 sense of that duty to thine Anointed, [if you had that sense, you would not strive to undo him, and his Posterity and Kingdoms.] which they labour to forget, [you have gotten it indeed else you would not do so,] that we thy miserable and distressed people, may no longer groan under those heavy Judgements, [you have violently drawn them down upon yourselves, and this miserable distressed Nation,] which our sins have pulled down upon us. [a full confession; but where is your repentance and amendment since?] but may at last be reunited and knit in the happiness of a long wished for Peace, [which you reject by further contumacy and rebellion.] and with one mind, in the same true Religion, worship thee the only God, [you mean with your Ceremonies of cringings, Altars, and will-Worship.) and obey our King whom thou hast set over us: [in what he shall command, in Justice, Equity, and Righteousness,] grant this O merciful Father, for thy dear Son's sake, who reigneth with thee, and thy holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.  

Observe Reader, That these Prelatical Prayer-mongers and their adherents are true Adamites, for though they have wrought worlds of mischief in beginning, and fomenting this unnatural War amongst us, yet they would make the stupid people believe, that they are innocent and clear from those heinous exorbitances, and like Adam, transfer their sins from themselves, upon the backs and consciences of those, that only take up defensive Arms against them: but that will not serve their turns, for though they strive to palliate their subtle crimes, yet God hath, and will every day more and more detect and discover them, and will without question turn their wickednesses upon their own heads.    

A  for the Queen's safe return.  
O Most merciful Lord God, we farther render thee all praise and thanks, for that thou hast been pleased ro extend thy hand of deliverance unto the person of our gracious Queen, [are they Protestant or Popish graces?] that thou hast made her an instrument of so much good to this Kingdom, [this is a French Irony, for you speak contrary to your meaning and knowledge. I know not to give flattering titles, said job 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 King's 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 passed, or present happiness have we enjoyed?] that as by thine especial favour she is already become the mother of so many hopeful Princes, [if two of them were not now nurtured amongst Prelates, Papists, and debauched soldiers.] so she may be daily fruitful in the addition of more blessings to us, [I pray let them be better than those we have hitherto received], through jesus 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 Queen thanks in this Prayer also.]  

Reader, few words are best, because the Queen is not here now, and cannot answer for herself, and therefore I can lay nothing to her present charge, but consider the good she hath done to this Kingdom; (I will except her good to Ireland and Scotland) she carried her daughter from hence to her husband in Holland, and because she had not ready money to defray her charges there, she carried with her a few trifling Jewels, and the Cupboard of gold Plate, which the Law saith, belonged to the Kingdom, and hearing the distractions amongst us to increase, and the Cavaliers and Papists to grow numerous, she made bold (with a good meaning no doubt) to pawn, or sell those Jewels and Plate, and with the moneys arising from them, bought Arms, Ammunition, and Ordnance, and kindly sent them to us, to beat the Prelates, Papists, Cavaliers, and Irish Rebels out of England. And was she not herein an Instrument of much good to this Kingdom? As for those Rivers of Protestants blood that hath been shed by this means, you must think it is a toy to a Catholic Queen, and not to be esteemed, so she gain her ends, and advance that Cause and Faction. Here is the happiness, here are the blessings this Nation hath reaped by such an Instrument of good. More may be said, but I leave all true Protestants to their own Meditations.    

A Hymn or General .  
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 bless thee, We worship thee, We glorify thee; [Softly, lest you want breath, and thank the old Common prayer-book for this.] and at this time, in a more special 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 been pleased out of thine infinite goodness mercifully to look down upon the late low estate of our gracious Sovereign; [Your brethren in London, have always told us that the Cavaliers Armies were Potent and Numerous.] That hast brought him from so much scornful neglect, [of his Nephew Rupert, and other of his Soldiers, that would plunder and commit outrages, notwithstanding his Inhibition.] too appear so terrible unto those desperate Rebels, who dare yet stand in Arms against him; [ridiculous Thunderclap, will you turn the King's 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 devil.] O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty, O Lord, the only begotten Son Jesus Christ, continue these thy favours to us, [of continual 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 work, the happy peace of this land, which none but thine own strength can finish, [you plead guilty and confess your war inglorious, and yet shun that happy Peace.] And to that end, Thou that takest away the sins of the world, take this foul 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 loins of those Sacrilegious men, who have not spared at all to profane thy House and thy Service; [with Atars and Idols, Pictures and Images, duckings, and too much courtesy, too much craft.] So shall we still bless thy Name in the midst of the great Congregation; [you mean of Bishops, Deans, etc. clad in rich Copes, and their Pontificalibus, with loud and high sounding music.] So shall we thy servants never cease to be still praising thee and saying, Thou only art Holy, Thou only art the Lord, Thou only O Christ, with the holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. To thee be all praise and honour & glory ascribed world without end. Amen. [Smooth as Butter or Oil. Thou shalt not take God's Name in vain. Exod. 20.]  

Reader, observe how fitly the latter part of the 50. Psalm may be applied to these Prelatical prayer-mongers and their abettors, from the 16. verse to the end, in these words: But unto the wicked God saith, what hast thou to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a chief, than thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with Adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother: thou slanderest thine own mother's son. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. Whoso offereth [true] praise, glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright, will I show the Salvation of God.    

A Prayer to be said during these times of trouble.  
O Lord our God, Merciful and Gracious, and abundant in goodness and truth, who dost according to thy will in the Armies of heaven, and rulest over all the Kingdoms of the earth; in whose hand is power and might, and none is able to withstand thy Arm; [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. [hear are more of their Confessions, but still without amendment; whoso confesseth & forsaketh his sins, shall have mercy, Pro. 28.13] We 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 dost chasten man for sin. We confess that we were a wealthy and a careless Nation [until you by your plundering and robbery impovereshed it,] and our land was as the garden of Eden; [until you wasted it, by making havoc 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 truly thankful for them.] We dwelled alone without fear of evil, [that was your security and carelessness,] and were become the Envy of those that were round about us. [and now you have made us the scorn and derision of all Nations.] Peace was within our walls, [why did you break it? First in Scotland, next in Ireland, and now in England?] and plenteousness within our Palaces. [the too great plenty in the Bishop's Palaces, 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 hadst done such great things for us, [you were always like the Rebellious Jews.] our heart was lifted up, [and in that loftiness your hearts remain still.] and forget thee our God, [when did you ever remember him?] and lightly esteemed the Rock of our salvation. [so it seemeth by your forsaking of him, and turning to Idolatry.] We loathed the Manna that reigned down upon us; [you indeed ever loathed the Manna of sincere Praying, and sound Preaching,] our Peace became a weariness, [that made you run out into a bloody war.] and we snuffed at our happiness, [the more to blame you that could not see when you were well.] we murmured against Moses in our tents, [and put honest Rulers, Privy Councillors, Magistrates, and Justices of Peace out of their places.] and made light of thy Anointed whom thou hadst set over us. [unless he would bestow honour and wealth upon you.] Therefore hath thou recompensed our ways upon our own heads, [very just.] and suffered our destruction to proceed from ourselves: [you never judged right for yourselves till now.] our wickedness doth correct us, our backsliding doth reprove us, and our iniquity is become our ruin. [can you see all this and not leave your sinful courses? let ruin 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 brains fall out.] Thou hast mingled a Spirit of perverseness in the midst of us; [which makes you so refractory.] and made us a Nation void of Council and understanding: [that's false, for you have Council and understanding enough to contrive Plots, Conspiracies, and Treacheries; but to good they are totally infatuated.] in stad of Peace, thou hast sent bitterness, 'tis you that have changed a Calm into a Storm, and turned Wormwood into Gaul.] and hast sent a fire into our bowels, and it is kindled round about us.] remember which of your party hath fired Towns and houses.] And now, O'Lord, behold the Sword is drunk with our blood, [of the Protestants in England and Ireland.] and we are numbered to the slaughter; [a just rcompencee for your shedding it.] the high ways are unoccupied, because you hinder Commerce and trading.] and the travellers go thorough by-paths: [lest they should fall into your hands.] our fields are divided, our inheritance is for a spoil, [because you have shared the Protestants lands amongst you.] and our substance to the Robbers, [such as Rupert, Capell, Hastings, etc.] 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, etc.] The mean man is risen against the Honourable, [that is, the poor ragged Welsh 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 Deflowering and Ravishing them.] and the robe is pulled off from the aged; [witness your robbing of old Master Dod of his gown in Northamptonshire.] there is no respect had to the Prieast, [of Baal you mean.] nor favour to the Elders. [the Bishops and Deans you conceive.] Thy Sanctuaries, the excellency of thy strength, are profaned; [by the saying of your Mock prayers, and Thanksgiving in them.] and they have defiled the places where thine Honour 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 wickedness frameth mischief by a Law, [true, you have done all your villainies by the known Laws of the land.] and it turneth judgement backward, [when the runaways voted in their Anti-Parliament at Oxford.] and biddeth justice stand a fare off; [as the Cavalier Governors over Cities and Corporations doc.] and deviseth deceitful matters against those that are quiet in the land. for which devisings both Tompkins and chaloner were hanged at quiet London.] Nay, there is a lying spirit gone out into the mouths of the Prophets; [witness the Prelatical Prayer-mongers, that made this lying book for their no victories.] they prophesy falsely, and the people delight to have it so, and they strengthen the hands of evil doers, that they turn not back from their wickedness. [your Cavaliers and Grandees delight in such falsities, whereby you strengthen the hands of your evil party, and keep them in their wickedness, by upholding them with these lies,] Thus are we covered with a cloud in thine anger, [a cloud of lies and impieties to seduce the ignorant people.] and our beauty is cast down to the ground. [ever since the Lady Thynne was disgraced at Oxford.] But O Lord, shall thine indignation be poured out for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? ['tis but according to your deserts, but especially for these abrupt and shameless expostulations.] O pass 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 overtopped by the Prelates and Cavaliers.] O remove from us reproach and contempt; [respect belongs only to the worthy.] and strengthen the spoilt against the destroyers. [that is, the spoiled true Protestants, against the destroying Atheists, Cavaliers, Papists, and Irish Rebels] Bow down thine ear, and consider the oppression of the poor, and the sighing of the needy, [whom you have rob 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 thyself, 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 men's dung.] And yet still they are compassed with pride, and cloth themselves with violence as with a garment. [you have violently rob Clothiers of their cloth to make you garments.] How long, O Lord, shall they boast themselves in mischief? how long shall they decree unrighteous Decrees, and write grievousness, which they have prescribed? [you have done it too long, in forcing poor people to serve you, and laying heavy Taxes upon the Counties under your power.] O make not a full end with us, ['tis pity to spare one man of you.] but correct us in mercy, [the merciful 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 own strength, you durst not have acted such iniquities.] and under the shadow of thy wings shall be our refuge, until this Tyranny be overpast. [tell us when you mean to cease it.] Disappoint therefore the devices of the crafty; [you have been sufficiently caught in your own snares.] Let not the Rebellious exalt themselves any more, [you have shrewdly gone down the wind of late,] and suffer not the Tabernacles of the Robbers to prosper. [what then will become of Rupert's Dukedom of Cumberland, and Hastings Barony of Loughborough?] And as thou hast begun to show thy servants thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: [in consounding and destroying your Armies.] so continue thy marvellous loving kindness to those that put their trust in thee. [in the same manner and measure of ruin, as you received it before.] The battle is thine, O Lord, thou hast preserved us from the arm of flesh; the Parliaments Armies found this most true on their sides, at Edge-hill, Newberry, Alresford, and lately near York.] 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 always came to surprise theirs.] When we were few in number, and there was none to help us, than thine own Arm brought salvation, and thy Righteousness sustained us. [Set the Saddle on the right horse, and apply this to the Parliaments Forces, whom Gods Arm and Righteousness saved and sustained.] O perfect therefore thy handiwork. [upon the Parliament, and those that truly love and adhere to them, you should say, unless you pray for more vengeance upon yourselves.] Give salvation to our King, and deliver CHARLES thy servant from the peril of the sword; bind up his soul in the bundle of life, [we wish this more sincerely than you do, because you lead him into danger, which we desire him to avoid.] gird him with strength to the Battle, [against seducing Papists, and evil Counsellors.] contend with those who contend with him; [to bereave him of bis Crown in Ireland] subdue thou the People under him, [no true Protestant stirs against him.] and suffer no weapon form against him to prosper, [that which is done ogainst you, you make him believe, is done against him.] O deliver him at length from the strive 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 gentleness make him great; [and famous against foreign Enemies.] put a stop at last to the madness of the 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 calm [upon your own Terms, or else you will not care for it.] Visit us with the joy of thy Countenance, and make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us. [You have made many weeping eyes, and must expect Retalation.] O restore to us our Solemn Assemblies [in Cathedralls you mean, with pomp and vanity.] bring us back into thy Courts, to praise thee, [with as little sincerity, and as much dissembling, as you do in this Mock-prayer-book.] and let us once more worship thee in the beauty of thy holiness. [You have too much liberty yet to do that after your manner, in the Ministers of Bristol, Chester, Excester, Lychfeild, Oxford, and Worcester.] Save us O Lord from our Enemies, and from the hands of all that hate us. [your crying and enormous sins are hated, not your Persons.] That so we may serve thee, without fear, [of disturbance in your Formalities, you mean.] living a quiet and peaceable life, [why did you then raise cumbustions in the three Kingdoms, 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 coming, 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.  
Much may be said, but briefly to conclude,  
They much have said, but only to delude.   

God heareth no Dissemblers.  
Witness the Cavaliers many Overthrows, Defeats, total Routs, less of Towns, Castles, Houses, loss of Men, Horse, Ordinance, Arms, Ammunition, and Baggage. viz. AT  

Hull, twice.  
Portsmouth.  
Chichester.  
Edge-hill.  
Saltheath.  
Redding.  
Caversh●m bridge.  
Gloster siege.  
Alborne Chase.  
Newberry.  
Modbery.  
Nottingham.  
Christ-Church.  
Barnstaple.  
Taunton Castle.  
Newport Pagnel.  
Hornecastle.  
Manchester.  
Thurland Castle.  
Burton upon Trent.  
Arundel Castle.  
Aulton.  
Alresford.  
Namptwich.  
Elsmere.  
Lyn.  
Lincoln close.  
Col. Masseys' 8. garrisons.  
Oswelstrey.  
Tewksbury.  
Sunderland.  
South Wales.  
King's Mills.  
Wilne Ferry.  
Dudley Castle.  
Egginton heath.  
Russhel Hall.  
The bridges near Oxford  
Edgcot.  
Grafton house.  
Sir Alexander Dentons' house.  
Greenland house.  
Plymouth.  
Lyme.  
Weymouth.  
Selby.  
York.  
Wakefield.  
Tavestok.  
Tickhill Castle,  
Welsh pool.  
Sheffeld Castle.  
Wareham.  
Bolsover castle.  
Welbeck house.  
Staley Garrison.  
Hartlepoole.  
Stockton castle.  
Barnstable.  
Malmsbury.  
Saltashe.  
Greenvilhouse.  
Foy-harbour.  
Winfield Manor.  
Cum multie alijs, que nuuc prescribire 〈◊〉 gun● est.    

NOw Reader, considering the premises, you find, what a Mess of Prelatical Mock-prayers and Thanks-givings are included in this book, to del●●● man. They may, and do dissemble with God, deceive him they cannot, 〈◊〉 therefore they have been rewarded for their dissimulation with God, and che●●ing of simple and ignorant people, as appears by all their before recited defeat●● 〈◊〉 losses; because I found in these Cavalier Mock devotions many lies, slanders, 〈◊〉 reproaches against the Parliament, I have according to my duty vindicated th●● and all that truly love, honour, and fight for them, and set the sad●●● on the Cavaliers right horse, applying their own 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 sharply nip 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 mere Farragoes of hellish malice and virulency. To conclude, I desire the Reader to take special notice of the desperatenes, of these men, who rather than they will confess a loss or defeat, and suffer the people to know the truth, they call and 〈◊〉 for continuance & increase of direful vengeance upon their own heads. Let 〈◊〉 pray, that God would, if he see good, open their eyes, and turn their hearts, that they may repent and amend.  
Amen.   
FINIS.