ENGLAND'S Deadly Disease to be Sick of a KING.  
OR Religions just Complaint against her Enemies the Heretics, who call the Deity into Question.  
AND Revoke their Covenant, scornfully to have it hanged lower in the Steeple-houses, for Dogs to piss upon etc.  
Licenced according to Order of both Houses of Parliam.  
LONDON, Printed for George Lindsey, and are to be sold at his Shop over against London-stone, 1647.   

A Just complaint of true Religion against ENGLAND.  
O England! England! To thee I do direct my speech, against thee I do complain. Then hear me thou filthy adulteress, hast thou no other pretext, but me to authorise thy treacheries? None else but me to colour thy Treasons? Shall I bear the blame of thy disobediences to God and thy lawful King? Say strumpet wilt thou make me a mother to thy whoredoms, wilt thou that I support thy shameless Apostasies, art thou not ashamed to say, that it is for my cause that thou committest such robberies? Is it for my honour (as thou sayest) that thou commit such murders, and bloodshed? Have I been at any time, the mother of oppressions? Or the upholder of Seditions? Or the consenter to Conspiracies, dost thou not know the contrary? That all these things be against my heart? Doth not kingdumes stand by me? Do not I Only I, make man acceptable to God? There can be nothing more hateful to me, than thy filthy defections. Hath any of thy neighbour Natitions done such affronts to me as thou hast done? For thou hast stripped me naked, robbed me of all my Ornaments, pulled down and dishonoured my stately dwellings: killed my servants▪ banished all my wellwillers, and now dost thou go about to banish myself. Unparallelled ingrateful consider, and remember of the happy estate all the time that I was maintained and respected by thee. So long as you did honour me, didst thou lack for any thing? Wast thou not admired? For thy beauty, riches, glory, strength, and manhood. Was there any of thy neighbours could compare to thee in these things? Can any Nobility compare with thine for glory? Can any Gentry compare with thine for rich●s? Can any Merchant's compare with thine in gains by their traffic? Was not England honoured, respected, and made welcome to all Nations? Was not England both loved and feared of all her neighbours? But now open thine eyes and look upon thy disfigured estate. Thou art become frantic and out of thy wits. Thou art now become miserable, infamous, tyranized and oppressed by thy own self? Doth not thy own Sword (which of old was a terror and a conqueror of others) now pierce thy own bowels? Doth not thy own homicidiers merciless hands make thine own children fatherless? Thou stopst thine ears at the pitiful cries of the poor widows and oppressed. Thou disdainest the lamentable cries of the poor. Thou hast opened thy doors to all detestfull Vice and hast banished Virtue, thou art become barbarous, and dost hate all civility, thy only pleasure is to commit murder: and thou takest delight to disobey and tread under foot the holy Laws of my God, thou art drunk with innocent blood, and yet thou dost still thrust forward, thou dost esteem it thy greatest praise to oppress thy neighbours, and thou art not ashamed to proclaim unto the world, that it is for my sake, that thou committest sacrilege. Filthy apostate look upon thyself and consider thy estate now what it is, and what it was when I was maintained in thy territories, where thou wast then beautiful. Thou art now filthy, stinking, and loathsome, thy glory is turned to shame, thy riches are turned to penury, thy strength is turned to feebleness, and thy manhood to cowardice, and thou art become a byword and laughing stock to all Nations. When the children of Israel did fall from God and me, with the gold and jewels they took from the Egyptians they did convert into a golden Calf, and for this the Lord my God did plague them. Hast thou not done the like with thy Gold and Silver, thou hast bought a sword to kill thy own self. Rememb●r what hath been done in thy sister Germany for her contempt of me, look for no better no, and if it were not for the honour and respect that I carry to that godly well inclined Prince thy King, thy case should be worse than hers. For I do know that that King shall restore me to all my rights, and apparel, and that he shall reedify my ruined houses, and restore my exiled se vaunts and well-willers to their wont liberties. Let not t●o●e thy dissembling seducers look for a better reward, than such as Baal his Priests had, for deceiving Israel. And bid them remember that visible destruction that came upon them who did strive against God's Ordinance and against A on. Do not think that the all-seeing eye of my God sleepeth. No, no: the innocent blood ●f thy murder's cries (from the earth, as did that of Abel) for a vengeance against thee. Thy inhuman of pressions of the poor, of the widow, and fatherless, whose piteous cries thou disdains: the Lord my God doth hear, & my Sister justice, whom thou hast banished, is now in heave●, pleading for the Poor against thee. Hath not my God forbidden to touch his Anointed and do his Prophets no wrong? But thou respectless strumpet makes no Conscience to abuse the Lords Anointed, and to kill the Prophets. For since the time of thy filthy backslidings from me, thou makest no Conscience of thy ways. Thou canst do no more to fill thy cup full to the brim with thy abominations, but woe be unto them when it shall be full, for thou shalt be forced to drink up all thy filthy perjuries, blasphemies, abominations, murders, and poisonable heresies, allowed of, invented, forged, & maintained by thee, to the dishonour of my God, and dispraise of me, thou art become senseless, and thy understanding is departed from thee, Dost thou not remember that when the evil spirit did undertake to persuade Ahab to fall by the sword of the children of Ammon, was it not by being a lying spirit in the mouths of his Prophets? And hath not thy Prophets seduced thee to fall upon thy own sword dost thou not perceive that there is a heavy judgement coming from the Lord my God upon thee? Art thou blind, or dost thou not regard the visible threaten of the Lord my God for the contempt of me? Art thou become so insolent, as to slight the wrath of the Almighty? Thou hast and dost proclaim thyself open enemy to all civility and civil government, denying thy duty to God, and thy King, refusing all Religion and right rule, suspending, subverting, and suppressing all spirutall Pastors and godly learned men, maintaining heresies, Atheism, and ungodly livers in their rooms, dost thou look for a fearful end, and that thou sha●t be made a spectacle and a visible example to all Nations for this, a ke but those of thy commerce what difference there is between thy estate now, and the time that I had my peaceable habitation with thee, ask thy tradesmen, what alteration there is now of their estate? And those who got their living by their handwork, I say ask them what loss they find at the week's end. Let every one in their several callings bear witness with me to this truth. And since thou hast cast me off, following after thy enchanting, seducing lovers. What hast thou gained? any thing else, but that thou hadst purchased hundreds of years before, thou hast spent all in these 7 years of thy licentious living, denying thy duty to God and thy King, and forsaking me. Thou mayst be compared unto an adulteress woman who had spent all her husband's riches with her new lovers. And now when thou beginest to be poor, thy lovers who hath enriched themselves with thy goods, doth now disdain thee and laugh thee to scorn, if thou have no more moneys, they shall strip thee, and rather pity thy nakedness, then commiserate thy estate, but shall utterly undo thee, if thou disassent to their desires. Art thou bereft of sense, or depraved of eyes, that dost rather fall then see thy own wretched estate: that (those whom thou hired to be the executioners of thy malice against them whom thou intended to undo) are now become thy shame like unto Hamans' gallows, that hanged his master: be not thy hirelings become thy masters, thy bond servants, thy Commanders: hath the like been done in any other Country that is done in thee? It is a thing to be wondered at, that thou hast such heart to do such unlawful things, as to press to depose thy lawful Prince, to subvert Religion, and to kill thyself, and hast not the courage to withstand the cruelties of thy domestic enemies, nor to gainsay their imprisoning Ordinances, nor to refuse their unreasonable demands.  
O miserable wretch! more then miserable, how long wilt thou halt between two opinions? If the Lord be God follow him, if Baal be God follow him. Thou hadst once wit: thou hadst judgement, thou hadst understanding, thou hadst once valour to withstand the power of Nations: call to mind the prosperous success thou hast had to resist the invasions of Kingdoms, and not only to resist, but overcome victoriously, witness France and Scotland, where in one day thou hadst the glorious victory of two battles, and took both their King's prisoners, art thou not England now as thou wast then? The number of thy fight men and arms be rather augmented then diminished. Thou lackest nothing but courage. Then heed, and take my counsel, I love thee, and am sorry for thy disaster, for all thy rigour used against me, return then to thy wont obedience to God and to thy lawful King and to me. And try if the Lord will not give thee a blessing, and will make good all thy losses, and restore thee to thy wont happiness, so that thy withered branches shall yet bud and bring forth the wont pleasant fruits, stop then thine ears at thy seducing enchanters, harken no more to their flattering alluring intising, but take courage, and shake off the heavy intolerable burden of slavish bondage, and turn to the Lord thy God, and let me have my own accustomed liberty, that my sister justice come again and enjoy his wont Prerogatives, and thou shalt see how the Lord shall cast thy scourge into the fire, and ease thee, as the loving father did his forlorn child. The Lord my God give thee eyes to see, a heart to understand, judgement to discern, and to choose the best that thy fall be not perpetual. Amen.   

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JOHN DOWNAME.   
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