The troubles of these times, or, The calamities of our English nation, makes many a heart sore sad, and out of fashion, which is a trouble and grief to all, there's many a man in danger for to fall, but it is our sins that causes this to be, that brings this trouble, and this misery, lets pray to the Lord, our nation to defend, and all English people strive their lives to mend, and not to take so much the Lords name in vain, we must look for judgments for the very same. To the tune of, A lesson for all true Christians. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06202 of text R227398 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T2310). 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. 4 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 2018 B06202 Wing T2310 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[107] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[456] 99887313 ocm99887313 183569 2248541836

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. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this EEBO-TCP Phase II text, in whole or in part.

 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B06202) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183569) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A2:4[107]; A5:2[360]) The troubles of these times, or, The calamities of our English nation, makes many a heart sore sad, and out of fashion, which is a trouble and grief to all, there's many a man in danger for to fall, but it is our sins that causes this to be, that brings this trouble, and this misery, lets pray to the Lord, our nation to defend, and all English people strive their lives to mend, and not to take so much the Lords name in vain, we must look for judgments for the very same. To the tune of, A lesson for all true Christians. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Corner., [London] : [1685] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Verse: "Poor England now is full of care and grief ..." Item at A5:2[360] trimmed. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University, Houghton Library and the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The troubles of these times, or, The calamities of our English nation, makes many a heart sore sad, and out of fashion, which is a trouble and grief t anon 1685 1 743 1 0 0 0 0 0 13.46 C The rate of 13.46 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2010-01 Sampled and proofread 2010-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Troubles of these Times OR , The Calamities of our English Nation , Makes many a heart sore fad , and out of Fashion , Which is a trouble and grief to all , There 's many a man in danger for to fall , But it is our Sins that causes this to be , That brings this Trouble , and this Misery , Le ts pray to the Lord , our Nation to defend , And all English people Strive their lives to mend , And not to take so much the Lords Name in Vain , We must look for Judgments for the very same . To the Tune of , A Lesson for all true Christians .

POor England now is full of Care and Grief , To see the Wars amongst us for to be so brief ; It makes all People they know not what to do , They are so full of care the truth is so . Trading is down , there 's little to be got , The poorer sort they are very hard put too 't , To maintain their Charge and children in their need , To see them want will make their hearts to bleed . There 's many plaints , there 's little for to do , They walk up and down , so heavily they go , They know not what to think , or how to tell , But it is the Lord that can make all be well . Let us pray to the Lord then with a tender heart , There is nothing better that can take our part ; 'T is not the Arm of flesh can do us wrong , If the Lord be with us , who can hurt us than . But the pride o' th Nation has been very sore , Now we must suffer for it to be sure ; The poorer sort of People abides the smart , But a true Believer in God is the best part . It 's not the strength of Armed Men besure , That can relieve us , or make us secure , It 's the Lord from Heaven that must be our friend , To bring Peace and quietness in England agen . And we our selves be in mighty care , To live uprightly , and the Lord to fear ; The Sins o' th Nation to the Lord doth cry , Makes all these Troubles on this Land to lye . Therefore we had need to pray then Night and Day , To defend us from the Sword then every way ; The War and Sword brings Famine at the length , If it hold long in bloody force and strength . We know not what this may come to at last , Or how this trouble will be over-past , But the Lord above , He 's in Heaven still , Let all be done unto His Blessed Will . For if these troubles do continue Long , There 's many Thousand will be clear undone ; But the Lord he does know best then what to do , If we can be careful our sins for to forgo . We desire that love amongst us may increase , And grant our Nation a true happy Peace , What a comfort that would be , if the Lord be pleas'd , That of this War our Nation could be eas'd . If it hold long , we shall be all undone , We need to pray then every Mothers Son , That the Lord of Heaven may of us take a care , To forgive us our Sins , and put us out of fear . When great Afflictions comes upon our Land , That the Lord is pleas'd amongst us for to send , We may thank our selves ; our Wickedness is great , Our Sins lies heavy , and I 'm sorry for t . Now to conclude , we have no more to say , That we may serve the Lord , and Him Obey , And bless our English Nation evermore , And take off these troubles , which grieves our Nation sore , That we may live in happiness agen , And let all good Christian people say , Amen . FINIS .

Printed for P. Brooksby , at the Golden-Ball in Pye-Cā—ā—ā—ā—