John Barford, his petition to God, for King, and Parliament. Barford, John. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78139 of text R205575 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E506_7). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A78139 Wing B761 Thomason E506_7 ESTC R205575 99864920 99864920 164266 2240915840

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A78139) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 164266) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 80:E506[7]) John Barford, his petition to God, for King, and Parliament. Barford, John. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n.], [London : [1646] In verse. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb: 1645". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Place of publication from Wing. eng Poetry, English -- 17th century. A78139 R205575 (Thomason E506_7). civilwar no John Barford, his petition to God, for King, and Parliament.: Barford, John. 1646 1 307 1 0 0 0 0 0 33 C The rate of 33 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-11 Sampled and proofread 2008-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
JOHN BARFORD , HIS PETITION TO GOD , FOR KING , AND PARLIAMENT . 1645 O God , thou God of Truth , I pray thee heare My Soules request , for all that doe Thee feare . Ther 's but one Truth ; to which both hold & bring All thy owne People , to our soveraigne King . And He to them , and all to joyne in One , To cast out factious Sects , and suffer none : Which doe Gods sacred Ordinance refuse , * Math. 18.17 . 2 Pet. 2. 2. Led by their Fancies , and doe Truth abuse . All Sinnes foule plotters ; let them be to him As Gangrens , to the State , and to each limbe . A Body perfect , may no Member misse ; Nor Kingdome stand , that long devided is : No more blind Bullets , Fire , nor bloody Sword , Dissentions end , but let just Law accord : Brute bankerupt Ruffians , and Blasphemers are All chiefe rejoycers , when true Christians jarre ; That they may Plunder , Pillage , Drink , and Whore , And mourne when Mischief they can doe no more . O GOD ! thou need●st no Instrument of Hell Fight for thy Truth , thy Breath can them expell : Let not our Foure-score yeares of Ioy , thus turne To horrid Out-cryes , and just cause to Mourne . But let our King be guided whole by Thee : In Happinesse to keepe his Kingdomes three : And Banish all the Jesuitick crew , That wee may sing Thee praises old and new . Now heare sweet GOD , and settle Truth and Peace , AMEN , I cry , Amen and never cease .

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