THE
Protestants Petition against Popery, etc.
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FRom sawing the Crown 'twixt Phanaticks and Fryars;
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From Whitehall Scaffolds, and Smithfield Fires;
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From the Jesuits Morals, outdone by the Tryers,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From every Religion which Treason allows;
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From the Geneva Stiffness, and the Roman Bows;
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From affronting of God, or adoring of Shows,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From slicing the Pope into Presbyter John,
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More sawcy in Consort than he is alone;
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From a Legion of Devils to extirpate one,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From fermenting the Rout with Chimaerical Fears;
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From buying with Blood, and enjoying with Tears,
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A Liberty copied by that of Argiers,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From being twice chous'd with the same sort of Cant;
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From defending the King by Scotch Covenant;
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From Reforming the Church till we leave nothing on't,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From a bifronted Conscience, like the Sign of an Ale-house,
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That faces the Church, and outfaces the Gallows,
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With one side stark raw, and the other side callous,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From a Supreme Vicar to shackle the King;
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From a long round Senate, which means the same thing;
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From a Monk without, and a Devil within,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From advancing God's Church by such Sins as wou'd fright ye,
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From listing of Rebels to aid the Almighty;
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From taking of Ratsbane for Elixir Vitae,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Popish Rage, and the Popular Fret,
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Which with Brotherly Malice their Sov'reign beset;
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From rescinding Bull, and reforming Bullet,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Lords in the Tower, and the Lords that are out;
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From assaulting the King by Dagger or Vote;
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From our Ruine Point blank, or Nine Mile about,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Dark-Lanthorn Plot, and the Green-Ribbon Club;
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From brewing Sedition in a Sanctified Tub;
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From reforming a Prince by the Model of Job,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the National Wealth by a Junto possest,
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By cajolling of one half, and plundering the rest;
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From the Commonwealths Arms with his HolinessCrest,
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Libera nos Domine.
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The SECOND PART.
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FRom measuring Devotion with Beads, or with Sand,
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In a Language or Phrase that we don't understand;
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From a Preacher with Reliques or Spoons in his Hand,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From stripping Religion to avoid the Excesses
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Of a cumbersom Ruff, and a Collar of SS;
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From His Holiness, and Their Holinesses,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From Plot upon Plot, which no Herald admits,
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Nor any Man else that is well in his Wits;
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From Conscience that comes like an Ague, by Fits,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Pope in One Stick, or the Pope in a Faggot;
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From the Catholick Worm, and Schismatical Maggot;
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From such as swear round to keep what they ha'got,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From Penance reformed to a Stool of Repentance;
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From a new Inquisition to aid the Tridentines,
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And the Savager Courts where the Godly give Sentence,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From setting Christ's Vicar to teaze his Vicegerent;
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From the Saints in whom the same Sin is inherent,
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The best Friends he has, though they seldom appear in't,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From St. Omers Consult, and a Leyden Cabal,
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Inveterate Foes both to Pauls and Whitehal;
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From a Plot pro and con, like a Tennis-ball,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Roman Disease, and Geneva Physician;
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From admitting Prophaneness to purge Superstition;
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From Raviliacks or Bradshaws Commission,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From taking the Covenant, or baulking the Test;
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From both the Renouncers when th'are but in jest;
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From the Pope's hatching Eggs in a Presbyter's Nest,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Godly Disguises of Cropping and Shaving,
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The different Ear-marks of Fooling and Knaving,
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Though both can do both for the sake of Soul-saving,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From a Jesuit transformed to a Sanctified Elder,
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And cursing Romes Church to her dear Hans-en-Kelder;
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From hugging her Brats, and yet hope w'ave expell'd her,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Mass and the Directory bound in one Volumn;
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From the Trent Conventicle, and the Dort What d'e call 'um;
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From the Votaries of Saints, and those that Peter 'um and Paul'um,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From transforming a Cowl to an a-la-mode Jump;
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From the Jesuit's Bucket in the Minister's Pump;
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From a Representative Monster, that's all over Rump,
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Libera nos Domine.
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