THE Protestants Petition against Popery, etc.  

FRom sawing the Crown 'twixt fanatics and Friars;  
From Whitehall Scaffolds, and Smithfield Fires;  
From the Jesuits Morals, outdone by the Tryers,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From every Religion which Treason allows;  
From the Geneva Stiffness, and the Roman Bows;  
From affronting of God, or adoring of Shows,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From slicing the Pope into Presbyter John,  
More saucy in Consort than he is alone;  
From a Legion of Devils to extirpate one,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From fermenting the Rout with Chemaerical Fears;  
From buying with Blood, and enjoying with Tears,  
A Liberty copied by that of Algiers,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From being twice choosed with the same sort of Cant;  
From defending the King by Scotch Covenant;  
From Reforming the Church till we leave nothing on't,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From a bifronted Conscience, like the Sign of an Alehouse,  
That faces the Church, and outfaces the Gallows,  
With one side stark raw, and the other side callous,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From a Supreme Vicar to shackle the King;  
From a long round Senate, which means the same thing;  
From a Monk without, and a Devil within,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From advancing God's Church by such Sins as would fright ye,  
From listing of Rebels to aid the Almighty;  
From taking of Ratsbane for Elixir Vitae,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From the Popish Rage, and the Popular Fret,  
Which with Brotherly Malice their sovereign beset;  
From rescinding Bull, and reforming Bullet,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From the Lords in the Tower, and the Lords that are out;  
From assulting the King by Dagger or Vote;  
From our Ruin Point blank, or Nine Mile about,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From the Darklanthorn Plot, and the Green-Ribbon Club;  
From brewing Sedition in a Sanctified Tub;  
From reforming a Prince by the Model of Job,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From the National Wealth by a Junto possessed,  
By cajolling of one half, and plundering the rest;  
From the Commonwealths Arms-with his Holines' Crest,  
Libera nos Domine.   

The SECOND PART.  

FRom measuring Devotion with Beads, or with Sand,  
In a Language or Phrase that we don't understand;  
From a Preacher with Relics or Spoons in his Hand,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From stripping Religion to avoid the Excesses  
Of a cumbersome Ruff, and a Collar of SS;  
From His Holiness, and Their Holinesses,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From Plot upon Plot, which no Herald admits,  
Nor any Man else that is well in his Wits;  
From Conscience that comes like an Ague, by Fits,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From the Pope in One Stick, or the Pope in a Faggot;  
From the Catholic Worm, and Schismatical Maggot;  
From such as swear round to keep what they ha'got,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From Penance reform to a Stool of Repentance;  
From a new Inquisition to aid the Tridentines,  
And the Savager Courts where the Godly give Sentence,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From setting Christ's Vicar to tease his Vicegerent;  
From the Saints in whom the same Sin is inherent,  
The best Friends he has, though they seldom appear in't,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From St. Omers Consult, and a Leyden Cabal,  
Inveterate Foes both to Paul's and Whitehal;  
From a Plot pro and con, like a Tennis-ball,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From the Roman Disease, and Geneva Physician;  
From admitting Profaneness to purge Superstition;  
From Raviliacks or Bradshaw's Commission,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From taking the Covenant, or baulking the Test;  
From both the Renouncers when theyare but in jest;  
From the Pope's hatching Eggs in a Presbyter's Nest,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From the Godly Disguises of Cropping and Shaving,  
The different Ear-marks of Fooling and Knaving,  
Though both can do both for the sake of Soulsaving,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From a Jesuit transformed to a Sanctified Elder,  
And cursing Rome's Church to her dear Hans-en-Kelder;  
From hugging her Brats, and yet hope w' have expelled her,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From the Mass and the Directory bound in one Volumn;  
From the Trent Conventicle, and the Dort What d'ye call'um;  
From the Votaries of Saints, and those that Peter'um and Paul'um,  
Libera nos Domine.   

From transforming a Cowl to an a-la-mode Jump;  
From the Jesuits Bucket in the Minister's Pump;  
From a Representative Monster, that's all over Rump.  
Libera nos Domine.   
FINIS.    

LONDON, Printed for B. Tooke, 1681.