%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A GODLY / EXHORTATION / TO THIS / DISTRESSED NATION / Shewing the true cause of this unnaturall Civill War amongst us. / PSAL. L. VERSE XV. / Call upon me in the time of trouble, so will I heare thee, and thou shalt praise me. Crouch, Humphrey University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/29/2021 36609

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R212538 VVHen pride aboundeth in the City, / And peoples hearts are void of pity; Then let Gods people crie and call / Good Lord have mercy on us all. [with variation] British Library - Thomason Tracts Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 6: 87 A GODLY / EXHORTATION / TO THIS / DISTRESSED NATION / Shewing the true cause of this unnaturall Civill War amongst us. / PSAL. L. VERSE XV. / Call upon me in the time of trouble, so will I heare thee, and thou shalt praise me. A GODLY EXHORTATION TO THIS DISTRESSED NATION Showing the true cause of this unnatural Civil War amongst us. PSALM L. VERSE XV. Call upon me in the time of trouble, so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me. Crouch, Humphrey ?-? Richard Harper

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WHen pride aboundeth in the City, And peoples hearts are void of pity; When little children learne to sweare, And wickednesse abounds each where. Then let Gods people crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When as Gods service is neglected, And able Ministers rejected: When Popery resteth in the land, And strives to get the upper hand. Then let Gods people crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When people they have itching eares, Desturb our Church, and grieve our Peers: When men despise good government, And spurne against the Parliament. time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When as the Kingdome is divided, And by the sword the cause decided: When Law and Justice take no place, And people lose their hold of grace. time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When people stumble at a straw, And make their own selfe will a Law: When people maketh sanctity A cloake to hide hypocrisie. time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When people for meer trifles quarrell, And make a Pulpit of a barrell: When people run from place to place, Unreverently Gods Church deface, time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When some that cannot read nor write Shall tell us of a new-found light, And Scripture unto us expounds, True learned Discipline confounds. time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all.
When people are distracted so, Distressed England fil'd with woe: When people for the common good, Unnaturall shed each others bloud, time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When dire destruction runs before, And brings bad tidings to our door: When arme, arme, arme, is all the crie, To adde griefe to our misery. time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When armed men each day we meet In every lane and every street: When as our streets are chained streight, And Ordnance plac'd at every gate. time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When London is entrenched round, When feare our senses doth confound; When men with griefe behold those works, As if we were besieg'd by Turks. time for us to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. Now since we are distressed thus, Good Lord make haste to succour us; On wofull England cast thine eye, And ease us of this misery. For now 'tis time to crie and call Good Lord have mercy on us all. When King and Peers agree in one, And cause a blessed union; When all imbrace, and throw downe arms, And we be freed from publick harms. Then shall we finde when we do call That thou dost heare and helpe us all. When they shall fall that doe oppose Thee in thy way, O Lord, and those That wish well to thy Church encrease, Then shall betide a happy peace. Then shall we finde when we do call That thou dost heare and helpe us all.
FINIS. Humphrey Crouch. LONDON, Printed for Richard Harper. 1642.