A Looking-glass for all true Protestants:
Or, A True Declaration of these Troublesome Times.
The Papists they have acted such a Plot,
That in England it will never be forgot;
But Got Defend our Protestant Nation still,
And bless our Gracious King, if it be thy Will:
And guide our Parliament in a right way,
That our Enemies of us do never make a pray:
And make our Kingdom, void and free from strife,
And every Man and Woman, serve God and mend their Life.
To the Tune of, Papists aim not too High.
Here is Deceipt,
with twiring eyes,
Holds up a Cross,
and seems precise;
With Beads, and
Crucifix also,
Aiming too High,
he falls full low,
E'en to the Popes
Matterry Toe.
Mind not Deceipt, nor yet his Ways,
But give unto the Lord Due Praise.
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WHat woeful times we have now in our Land,
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If people do but rightly understand?
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We are at a stand and know not what to do,
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Tradeing is dead which fills our hearts with woe
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let's not despair but call to God on high,
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And repent our sins, and to him for mercy cry.
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For 'twas his mercy for to set us free,
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From the Popish Plot of bloody Tyranny:
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We [ne]ed not fear if God but stand our friend,
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He'l bring them all unto a shameful end.
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Let not despair, etc.
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Great danger we was in it's truly known,
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To have lost our lives and all been overthrown:
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Their Hellish Treason it was laid so strong,
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Against Protestants, they wisht them so much wrong
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Let's not despair, etc.
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But our good God with his All-seeing Eye,
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He found them out and quickly them did spye:
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He dasht them all to pieces in a trice,
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Let's love the truth, and all believe in Christ.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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Oh! what a broyl amongst us has been made,
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These Papish Jesuits they have spoyl'd our trade:
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Which makes the Nation for to suffer sore,
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And very hard it goes amongst the Poor.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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God keep us all in Peace, and defend us still,
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Sweet God of Heaven, if it be thy blessed will:
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And bless us all from bloody minded men,
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Let all good people say with me, Amen.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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Good People all consider what was done,
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If they'd gone on in what they had begun:
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Then Fire and Fagots must have been our share,
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But our Saviour Christ of us had mighty care.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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Therefore let every Protestant praise the Lord.
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And joyn together all with one accord:
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His Mercy it was great unto us all,
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God give us Grace upon his Name to call.
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Let's not despair but call to God on high,
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And repent our sins, and to him for mercy cry.
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HE'l never leave us nor forsake us quite,
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You see the mallice of the Popish spight:
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Though our sins be great his mercy is much more,
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God give us Grace to call on him therefore.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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These bloody plotters would have brought us down
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And destroy'd our King and put him by his Crown:
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But God Almighty keeps him from their hand,
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His mercy is great we all may understand.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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God bless our City and set our Country free,
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From all such dangers and from Treachery:
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God bless all Protestants out of the Papists hands:
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That we come not to be ty'd within their bands.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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If they had prevail'd we had been all undone,
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We had been destroyed every Mothers Son:
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God bless the Governours that rules the Land,
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That they may rightly of it understand.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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God keep us all in Unity and Peace,
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That rumours of these times they once may cease:
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That tradeing it may flourish once again,
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Many honest men will rejoyce to see the same.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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God give the Gospel free passage I do pray,
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Let's all be careful how we go astray:
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And every one to shake off filthy sin,
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And then good times be sure we shall live in.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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Then our Nation it will flourish every way,
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Though the Papists thought to have made of us a prey,
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But they was deceived of their Romish hope,
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We defie the Devil and their Hell-hound Pope.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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And let all true Protestants now take care,
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And have a watchful eye to keep out of their snare:
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We had a warning by this late found Plot,
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And sift them thorowly let every one take their lot.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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And never trust them nor their Hellish Charms,
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But keep them low and let them have no arms:
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What mischief had been done if they'd got power,
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We had never lived to have seen this hour.
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Let's not despair, etc.
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So God bless our King and Parliament I pray,
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To guide them in a true and Godly way:
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To set forth good Laws amongst us in our Land,
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That all true Protestants may forever stand.
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Let's not despair but call to God on high, etc.
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