A plea for prerogative, or, Give Cæsar his due being the wheele of fortune turn'd round, or, the world turned topsie-turvie : wherein is described the true subjects loyalty to maintain His Majesties prerogative and priviledges of Parliament / by Thorny Aylo, alias, John Taylor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1642 Approx. 11 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A64193 Wing T496 ESTC R1993 12689039 ocm 12689039 65815 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Prerogative, Royal -- England. 2002-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-06 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-08 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2002-08 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Plea for PREROGATIVE : OR , Give Caesar his due . Being the Wheele of Fortune turn'd round : Or , The World turned topsie-turvie . Wherein is described the true Subjects loyalty to maintain his Majesties Prerogative and priviledges of Parliament . By Thorny Ayl● : alias , Iohn Tayler . Malice , Disloyalty , War and Sects aspire , Religion , Peace , Obedience are i th mire . MALLICE . PEACE.RELIGION.OBEDIENCE.LOVE.WAR.SECTS.DISLOYATY . Religion , Peace , Obedience , Love , no doubt , Though they be l●t , the Wheele will turne about . London , printed for T. Bankes . 1642. A Plea for PREROGATIVE : OR , Give Caesar his due . THE Divel 's horne-mad , Religion here should florish , Or England constantly the Truth should nourish : And He ( contriving with the Romish Sect ) They soon a hellish stratagem project , That with a strange blast of a Powder-blow , Into the Ayre the Parliament to throw , And with a whirle-winde terrour to appall Gods Word profest , the Court , the State and all Records , Lawes , Statutes , Grants , Decrees and Charters , Men , women , children ( piece-meale torne in quarters ; ) Magnifique Buildings , pompous Monuments ; Illustrious guildings , sumptuous ornaments ; King , Prince , Peeres , Commons , with one puffe should caper , And ( in a moment ) turn'd to ayre and vapour . The Divell and Rome are all starke mad at this , That they , their great desired aime should misse , Devis'd more mischiefes from th' infernall pit , To make us this deliverance to forget , And be ingratefull to that power above , Who this great danger from us did remove , For Sathan knowes , that base ingratitude Doth all , and every damned vice include ; And therefore 't is the totall of transgressions To be unthankfull for Gods gracious blessings : There 's nothing else drawes down th' Almighties hate , It hath dismembred wretched Englands state ; Pride , avarice , lust , hath broke our happy peace , And daily do our sins , and shames increase . He 's a wise man ( that without danger ) can Serve God his King , and be an honest man ; For ( in these dayes ) to speak truth and do right , Is paid with scandall , danger and despight . Thus vice is entred , vertue is thrust out , And Fortunes Wheele is madly turn'd about ; Peace , Love , Religion and Obedience Are vertues of exceeding excellence ; Yet as the Picture in the Wheele doth show , They are turn'd downwards in the spokes below , Whilst Malice , War , Sects and Disloyalty Are in the upper spokes , exalted high , And true Obedience neuer did refuse , To give to God and Caesar both their dues ; Though she be humble , free from arrogance , Yet her humility doth her advance : And though she be trod downe , I make no doubt But Fortunes Wheel will shortly turn about : Disloyalty doth proudly over-top her , And makes a glistning guilded shew of copper , Full of corruption , basenesse and deceit , Deluding and most feigned counterfeit . Some do complain of Fortune and blinde chance , And do their hands and eyes t'wards heaven advance ; And cry , O God ( which madst the glorious Sun , ) What hath poore England 'gainst Religion done , That all her goodnesse topsie turvie lyes , Derided , jeer'd at , wrong'd by contraries . Religion was the sacred bond and tye , The rule and square how men should live and dye ; The ground and sole foundation of the Law ; The good mans sword and shield ; the bad mans awe ; T was one entire in Majesty high stated , Now broken , fractur'd , rent and dislocated ; Divided into Sects , in pieces shatter'd ; And ( like a Beggers cloake ) all patch'd and totterd . And what hath England done to worke all this ? Nothing at all , but doing all amisse ; Esteeming earths corrupted fa●ing drosse , And slighting heaven , and true Religions losse . These are the causes , these for vengeance cals ; This makes high climers to have loest fals , When men seeke Honour with ambicious guile , My little wit doth at their follies smile ; That though they seeme most glorious , great and stout ; Yet Fortunes Wheele will quickly turne about . The potent Pope and Conclave of that Sect , Did ( and do ) daily stratagems project . The mungrill Papist , the Arminian , The consubstantiall misled Lutheran ; The Anabaptists , Brownists , Arians , Scismaticall Disciplinarians . These , and more Sects of Seperatists beside , Do from Religion to opinion slide ; And as they from each other disagree , In various fashions God is serv'd we see . Th' eternall Word 's high Majesty in such ( That man can never honour it too much , ) Is turnd unto the lowest spoke o' th Wheele , And too too few the overthrow doth feele . The King , who is the Lords anointed knowne , Whose Crownes and Kingdomes ( under God's 〈◊〉 I will not say 't t' oppresse , but true and just To guide all under his great charge and trust Though he ( next Christ ) imediate power hath ; And his resisters merit heau'ns hot 〈◊〉 Yet this is not remembred , very few Will render Caesar what is Caesars due ; Which is obedience , loyalty and love ( Because his power is from the power above ; ) But Church and State , are by the rabble rout Abus'd ; thus Fortunes wheele is turn'd about . Religion ( true ) that ought to be the ●ye From God to man , that man should 〈…〉 Is made a stable , a very staulking horse Wherein each beast doth 〈◊〉 a beastly course . Religion now each ignoramus whirles Into the fancies of fooles , boyes and girles , Who dare talke of Misterious 〈◊〉 ( Better then Bishops can ) in 〈…〉 They can finde out Daniels prophetique meaning , And from the Bible they have so much gleaning , That they dare venture with their quirks and quips To expound Saint Iohn and his Apocalips . Thus they thinke we , and we thinke they are out ; But Fortunes wheele I hope will turne about . Sects up are mounted , and their impudence And ignorance hath drove Religion hence ; As once the Papists , in Queene Maries raigne , The Protestant profession did disdaine ; When swords and halters , and tormenting flames , Exiles , imprisonments , and all th'extreames That hell or Roman 〈…〉 , The Gospell to suppresse by tyran●ize ; And now the Almighty hath this Kingdome grac'd , That Popish superstition is defac'd : A crew of new Sects are sprung up of late , As bad as Papists were to Church and State ; Whose barren knowledge seemes all things to know , Who would all rule , and learning overthrow ; Whose wisdomes still are in the wane , most dull ; Whose ignorance is alwayes at the full ; Whose good workes are invisible , so good Not to be seene , felt , heard , or understood : Of these mad Sects , ther 's too too many a wigeon , That doth despise the Protestant Religion ; And worse then Papists they deride and flout , But Fortunes wheele , I guesse , will turne about . Peace ( the same day that Christ rose from the grave ) Was the first gift He his Disciples gave ; And that his Peace should still with them remain He ( eight dayes after , gave them Peace again ; That Peace which passeth understanding all ; Is racketed and bandied like a ball : Warre , strife , contention , mischiefe and debate Opposeth Peace , and seekes to ruinate Faire England , by the meanes of men accurst , Who wrong her most whom she hath bred and nurst . And now against her Peace th' have madly fought , But Fortunes wheele I know will turn about . Love is the Livery , cognizance , and Crest Christ gives his servants , who are ever blest , Th' immortall God , left glorious heaven above , And was made mortall ( O transcendent Dove ! ) Nay more , he for his enemies did dye , And rise , that they might live eternally . He cald them brethren ( so their lo●es to win ) And made himselfe like them , in all but sin , He cals each true beleeving soule his brother And lov'd us so , cause we should love each other But all this love which he bestow'd so free , Is back repaid with Malice , as we see : The Wheele doth shew us how the case doth stand , Malice and hatred hath the upper hand ; Our words and works do shew we love him not ; Our love to one another is forgot ; We say and do the most part to this end ( He that so lov'd us ) how we may offend ; And stead of loving one another , as Our blessed Saviours last Commandment was , With malice we would cut each others throats ; Which shewes we do not wear Christs livery coats : And as Himselfe hath long agoe foretold , Th' increase of sin makes many mens love cold . Thus man his malice against man doth spout , God grant the Wheele may quickly turne about . Nor shall my Muse in this taske further run ; I wish the King and Parliament had done ; That as his Majesty is knowne to be , Gods chiefe vicegerent in his soveraignty ; So He with them may All as one combine To settle things , both Humaine and Divine ; That we may be held free from all offence , And gaine him hither , and not drive him hence With Libels , tumults , and a wretched rout , For which I 'le hope the Wheele will turn about . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A64193-e180 Ioh. 20.19 26. Phil. 4.7 . Ioh , 13.35 Heb. 2 . 1● .