Kingdom into so great a guilt as the breach of This Solemn Covenant Edwards Antapalogia Pag. 241. A Toleration of men in their Errours this pretended Liberty of Conscience is against the Judgement of the greatest Lights in the Church both ancient and modern Pag. 242. B Doth it indeed belong to you only to look to the Civil Peace and to let Religion and Truth and the Worship of God stand or fall to their own Master Fight God Fight Devil Fight Christ Fight Anti-Christ Catch that Catch can you have nothing to do but to stand by and look on Say so then Speak out publish it in your Declarations to the World and let the People of England know that it is the Right and Liberty to which the Subjects of England are born that every man hold what he please and publish and Preach what he holds That it is the Birth-Right as some would have it of the Free-born-People of England every man to worship God according to his own Conscience and to be of what Religion his own Conscience shall Dictate Do so and see Fathers and Brethren how long your Civil Peace will secure you when Religion is destroy'd how long it will be ere your Civil Peace be turned into Civil War For no doubt if this be once granted them but they may in good time come to know also there be them that are instructing them even in these Principles too that it is their Birth-Right to be freed from the Power of Parliaments and from the Power of Kings and to take up Arms against Both when they shall not Vote and Act according to their Humours Liberty of Conscience falsly so call'd may in good time emprove it self into Liberty of Estates and Liberty of Houses and Liberty of Wives and in a word Liberty of Perdition of Souls and Bodies I hold it a Truer Point in Divinity that Errans Conscientia LIGANDA then LIGAT but certainly the Devil in the Conscience may be nay must be bound Lightfoot Serm. to Com. Aug. 26. 1645. Pag. 30. Ye Servants of Christ take heed of yielding to the Pretenses of Conscience the Devil not Christ has his Throne There Hugh's Serm. to the Com. May 26. 1647. Pag. 34. C What when we have so much appear'd against Popery and Superstition shall we now begin to think of Indifferency and Toleration Certainly it is but a sorry exchange of a Bad Religion for None Horton Serm. to the Lords Dec. 30. 1646. Pa. 38. D Would These men that so highly defend Toleration grant that Toleration if they had power in their hands to others which they desire for themselves I doubt it The Arrians did sometimes seem as earnest Enemies to Persecution as these men yet when they had Authority on their side they raised a Persecution against the Orthodox more terrible then the Heathen Emperours against the Christians Cranfords Serm. before the Lord Mayor Feb. 1. 1645. Pa. 11. E O let the Ministers therefore Oppose Toleration as being that by which the Devil would at once lay a Foundation of his Kingdom to all Generations witnesse against it in all places possesse the Magistrate of the Evil of it yea and the People too shewing them how if a Toleration were granted they should never have Peace in their Families more or ever after have Command of Wives Children Servants c. Let 's therefore fill all Presses cause all Pulpits to ring and so possess Parliament City and the whole Kingdom against the Sects and of the Evil of Schism and Toleration that we may no more hear of a Toleration nor of Separated Churches being Hateful Names in the Church of God Amen Amen Ibid. Edwards Gangraena Part. 1. Pag. 84. F We are bold to hint unto you these ensuing Reasons against the Toleration of Independency in this Church First No such Toleration hath hitherto been established so far as we know in any Christian State by the Civil Magistrate Secondly Because some of them have solemnly profess'd that they cannot suffer Presbytery And answerable hereunto is their Practice in those places where Independency prevails G Thirdly To grant to Them and not to Other Sectaries who are Free-born as well as They and have done as good Service as they to the Publique as they use to pleade will be counted Injustice and great Partiality But to grant it unto all will scarce be cleared from great Impiety H Fourthly Independency is a Schism c. Now we judge that no Schism is to be Tolerated in the Church 1 Cor. 1.10 1 Cor. 10.25 Rom. 6.17 with 1 Cor. 3.3 Gal. 5.20 Presbyt Minist Letter from Sion College to the Assembly of Divines Dec. 18. 1645. I Many Mischiefs will inevitably follow upon this Toleration and that both to Church and Common-wealth First To the Church As 1. Causlesse and Unjust Revolts from our Ministry and Congregations 2. Our Peoples mindes will be troubled and in danger to be subverted as Acts 15.24.3 Bitter heart-burning among Brethren will be fomented and perpetuated to posterity 4. The Godly Painful Orthodox Ministers will be discouraged and despised 5. The life and power of Godliness will be eaten out by frivolous Disputes and vain Janglings 6. The whole Course of Religion in private Families will be Interrupted and Undermined 7. Reciprocal duties between persons of nearest and dearest Relation will be extremely violated 8. All other Sects and Heresies in the Kingdom will be encourag'd to endeavour the like Toleration and shelter themselves under the wings of Independency 9. And the whole Church of England in short time will be swallow'd up with Destruction and Confusion K Secondly To the Common-wealth for it is much to be doubted lest the Power of the Magistrate should not only be weaken'd but even utterly overthrown considering the Principles and Practises of Independents together with their Compliance with Other Sectaries sufficiently known to be Anti-Magistratical Ibid. L It would lay the Foundation of Strife and Division in the Kingdom to have Two ways of Church-Government Epistolary Discourse p. 21. Printed by Order 1644. The Cities Humble Remonstrance and Petition of May 26. 1646. presses to have some speedy course taken for the suppressing of all private and Separated Congregations Notes upon §. 1. A Toleration A is a Breach of Covenant and against the Judgment of the Church B Destructive of Government and C Religion D They that ask it will never grant it E The Devils Engine to Confound States Families and Souls Separated Churches are not to be endured F without President and G never to be Pleas'd H Intolerable I Ruinous both to Church and K Common-wealth and L the very Bone of Contention So that to desire a Toleration is to Ask a thing which it were Impious to Allow and which they have sworn to hinder all they can A thing that sets up the Kingdom of Hell without either President or Profit to the certain Ruine both of Church and State And This by their Own Confession and Avow'd by their
up in Blood and One that never suck'd in any other Principles but Prerogative and Tyranny Ibid. Pag. 23. M. Charles the First rather chose to submit to the Justice of an Ax in a Hangman's Hand than to sway a Scepter with Equity None-such Charles Pag. 167. Notes on Sect. 5. YOu have here A the Strain and Spirit of a True Covenanting-Brother And they all sing the same Note For they do not only Abjure the Government but they Abjure Repentance too swearing never to make Defection to the Contrary Part But all the Days of their Lives Zealously and Constantly continue therein against All Opposition and promote the same accordingly to their Power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever In B you find the Petitioner for Indulgence Excommunicating his Sovereign The Paraphrase of C is according to the Stile of This Age only crying No Tory No Courtier at an Election the branding of Honest Men with being Popishly affected and he that will not run Riot with the Rabble is made a Pensioner of France D. and E. Complaining of Persecution In F. you see what work the Doctor makes with the Defender of the Faith G H. I.K.L. are as so many Daggers in the Heart of Sovereignty it self But it is according to the Principles of the True Protestants of Munster that still begin with Religion and end with Treason Pray say if it be not a thousand pities now after all these Complements upon His Sacred Majesty and His Blessed Father that these High-flown Dissenters should not be taken into the Government When these People set up for Pillars of the Church it were a kind of Injustice not to Allow the Kings Judges to put in too for Ministers of State Sect. 6. The Presbyterians Opinion of the Covenant 1. BE astonished O Heavens and tremble O Earth Let the Sun it self be cloath'd in Blackness at this so horrid an Impiety What! Abjure such a Covenant A Covenant so solemnly taken A Covenant for the Matter of it so Religious so Holy c. And must This Covenant be Abjur'd now This Covenant Is not God's Own Word and God Himself too after a sort Abjured in That Act whoever are guilty of it c. The Highest of all Crimes imaginable a Crime that murthers Conscience that murthers Souls that murthers Religion it self a Crime against the First Table most immediately against the Sovereign God and the greatest of that Nature that Men can be guilty of Speeches of the three Regicides Pag. 5. and 6. The Cause says Bark stead lies in the Bosom of Christ and as sure as Christ rose the Cause will rise again Ibid. Pag. 16. I die cleaving to all those Oaths vows and Protestations that were imposed by the Two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my Judgment for them Love 's Tryal Printed Aug. 1652. The convincing Demonstration that there lies no Obligation on me or any other Person from the Oath commonly call'd The Solemn League and Covenant is a Knot cut by the Sword of Authority while it cannot be loosed by Religious Reason Short Survey of the Grand Case Pag. 23.1663 O the Burning of the Covenant in England and the Causes of Wrath in Scotland shall certainly be follow'd with such a Fine and Fierceness of Indignation as shall make Authors Actors Abetters and Rejoycers thereat know what it is to give such an open defiance to the Almighty A Covenant Burnt and Burnt by Authority in the sight of Heaven with such Hell-black Solemnities where the great God is altera pars contrabens for Reformation of Religion according to his Word and Righteousness in walking before him is such a Sin as may make every Soul to tremble at the fore-thoughts of what God will do for vindicating his Glory from that Contempt thereby cast upon him I wish that the Burning of that City into Ashes where that Covenant was Burnt together with that None-such Plague and War may make them take warning ere it be too late who did this Wickedness O England England I fear I fear thy Woe hasteneth the Wrath of God is upon the Wing against thee both for breach of Covenant and wiping thy mouth as if thou hadst done nothing amiss Thou hast stood and seen thy Brothers Day Alas for thy Day when Others shall stand aloof from thee for fear of sharing in thy Judgments Poor Mans Cup c. Pag. 19. We shall not nor cannot enter upon the particular Declaration of that Grace Constancy and Courage by which the Lords Faithful Witnesses were sustein'd and did bear Testimony to the Word of his Truth the Holy Covenant and the Cause and Work of God Napthali Pag. 162. I bear my Witness unto the National Covenant of Scotland and Solemn League and Covenant betwixt the Three Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland These Sacred Solemn Publique Oaths of God I believe can be loosed nor dispensed with by no Person or Power upon Earth Napthali Pag. 207. I bear my Witness and Testimony to the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of the Church of Scotland by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries Synods and General Assemblies Popery and Prelacy and all the Trumpery of Service and Ceremonies that wait upon them I do abhor I do bear my Witness unto the National Covenant of Scotland and Solemn League and Covenant c. The Testimony of James Guthrie Minister at his Death at Edinbourgh June 1. 1661. And so of every Man of the Party that Dy'd for the Rebellion in Scotland Notes on Sect. 6. BY This Covenant was designed the Subversion of the Government and by the force of This Covenant it was accomplish'd They do all of them assert the Obligation of it to the very Death and by virtue of This Covenant it is that they have Confederated afresh in Scotland to murther the King and all that serve under Him Now if This be their Principle let any Man consider the Consequence of admitting any Unrenouncing Covenanter by an Act of Special Grace into the Government after so full a Proof and Exposition of the Meaning of That Covenant and so frank a Declaration of their Resolution to make it good Sect. 7. Dissenters Liberty of Conscience THe Scots did not only resolve to take the Covenant themselves but enjoyn'd it throughout the whole Kingdom Sir Henry Vane's Speech at a Common Hall Octob. 27. 1643. Page 4. They enjoyned it upon the Penalties that those that should not take it or should defer it should be esteem'd Enemies to Religion to his Majesties Honor and to the good of the Two Kingdoms that they should have all their Rents and Profits Confiscate That they should brook nor enjoy any Office or Benefit in that Kingdom that they should be cited to the next Parliament to Answer the not taking of it and to be proceeded with there as Enemies to the State and to Religion and to receive such farther Punishment as by the King and Parliament should be put upon them Ibid. Page 5. And that particular
account shall be taken by the several Presbyteryes of all who shall refuse or shift to swear and subscribe and that they be proceeded against with the Censures of the Church as enemies to the Preservation and Propagation of Religion S. Marshall Ib. Page 11. We give now Publick Warning to all Neuters to rest no longer upon their Neutrality but that they address themselves speedily to take the Covenant and joyn with all their power in the Defence of This Cause against the Common Enemy c. Otherwise we do declare them to be publick Enemies to their Religion and Country and that they are to be censur'd and punish'd as professed Adversaries and Malignants Declaration of England and Scotland Jan. 30. 1643. If any Person or Persons whatsoever shall at any time or times hereafter use or cause the aforesaid Book of Common Prayer to be used in any Church Chappel or Publick Place of Worship or in any private place or Family within the Kingdom of England or the Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick every such Person so offending therein shall for the First Offence pay the sum of Five Pounds of Lawful English Mony For the Second Offence Ten Pounds and for the Third shall suffer one whole years Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize Ordinance of Parliament Aug. 23. 1645. for putting the Directory in Execution Resolved upon the Question by the Commons assembled in Parliament that all Persons that have or shall come and reside in the Parliaments Quarters shall take the National League and Covenant and the Negative Oath notwithstanding any Articles that have been or shall be made by the Souldiery June 2. 1646. What Person soever having taken the Solemn League and Covenant shall go into the Enemies Quarters without Drum Trumpet or Pass shall Dye without Mercy An Article of War Notes on Sect. 7. LEt any Man that has but Eyes in his head compare Cases now Here 's a Rebellious Oath of Conspiracy opposed to an Authoritative Oath of Canonical Obedience and Allegiance Here 's a pretended scruple of Perjury in breaking a Treasonous Oath and no bones made of the Perjurious violation of a Legal One Here 's a Nullity against an Act of State and this is not the worst on 't neither Those very Men that forced a Rebellious Oath upon all people without Exception to the utmost Extremity of Tyranny and Rigour Contrary to Law are now complaining of persecution under the Common Rule of a Legal Provision Declaring at the same time that they are still determin'd to persue the ends of their aforesaid Covenant which were manifestly the subversion of the Government You see likewise how Unmercifully they dealt with People in the Case of the Common Prayer And yet who but these Men to Mutiny for Liberty in the very point wherein most injuriously they made all their Fellow-Subjects Slaves Sect. 8. The Power of the Kirk A. THe Assembly is Independent either from King or Parliament in matters Ecclesiastical B. It is lawful for Subjects to make a Covenant and Combination without the King and to enter into a Bond of Mutual Defence against the King and all persons whatsoever C. Subjects may appeal from the King and Council to the next General Assembly and Parliament and in the mean time before their Appeals are heard and discussed they may disobey the King and Council D. An Assembly may abrogate Acts of Parliament and discharge Subjects of their Obedience to them if they any way reflect on the business of the Church E. The Protestation of Subjects against Laws establish'd whether it be made coram Judice or non Judice before the Judges or the People doth voyd all Obedience to those Laws and dischargeth the Protesters from any Obligation to live under them F. A number of Men being the Greater part of the Kingdom may do anything which they themselves conceive conducing to the Glory of God and the good of the Church notwithstanding any Laws standing in force to the contrary Kings Large Declaration Fol. 407. deincep G. The Rights and Priviledges of Parliaments and the Liberties of the Kingdom are the Suburbs of the Gospel and an Inheritance bequeathed by God to Nations and Kingdoms and under That Notion Holy These be the Outworks of Religion the Lines of Communication as I may so say for the defence of This City Case's Covenant Renew'd 1643. P. 52. H. Such a height of Opposition to the Lords Anointed as never since Man was upon the Earth was there such a Supremacy framed into a Law whereby Name and Thing of all Kingly Power is plainly and explicitly taken from and extorted out of the hand of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ and given unto and setled upon the King O dangerous and Unsetling Settlement Now the Incommunicable Prerogative of Him who is King in Sion and whose Right it is to give Laws to Rule his own Church and House is alienate and appendent to the Imperial Crown of the Nation The most manifest unmasked high and horrid Usurpation of the Throne of Christ that ever the World saw But its Impossible he can sit long who sets himself upon the Mediators Throne For the Arm of Jehovah shall snatch and hurry him thence Be wise now therefore O ye Kings c. is a necessary caution here Poor Mans Cup Page 21. H. The Presbytery may forbid Unjust Suits of Law and so doth the Scripture as scandalous to Christians Our General Assembly is no other then Christs Court Acts 15. made up of Pastors Doctors and Brethren or Elders They hold I believe with warrant of Gods Word if the King refuse to Reform Religion the Inferior Judges and Godly Pastors and other Church Officers may Reform If the King will not Kiss the Sun and do his Duty in purging the House of the Lord may not Eliah and the People do Their Duty and cast out Baals Priests They may Swear or Covenant Without the King if he Refuse and build the Lords House Themselves 2 Chron. 15.9 and Relieve and Defend one another when they are oppressed They Depos'd the Queen for her Tyranny but Crown'd her Son All This is vindicated in the following Treatise This Assembly is to judge what Doctrine is Treasonable It is true Glasgow Assembly 1637. Voted down the High Commission because it was not consented to by the Church and yet was a Church-Judicature which took upon them to judge of the Doctrine of Ministers and deprive them and did encroach upon the establish'd lawful Church-Judicatures Rutherfords Preface to Lex Rex Notes on Sect. 8. DO These People talk of the Lordlyness of Prelates when His Holyness Himself never claim'd so much Bare-fac'd as these Papal Protestants do both Challenge and Practice And it is not the Slavery but the Masters that we ought to be most asham'd of Nor will the Impatient and Imperious Humour wait for the season of their Power but while they are yet in shackles Themselves they are Imposing upon their
Sovereign And methinks it is very Vnequal for Men that give no Quarter to Loyal Subjects to stand expostulating for Privileges to Revolters Here 's King and Parliament gone at First Dash A A Confederacy Authoriz'd at Next B A Papal Dispensation from Obedience C The King and Three Estates swallowed up in the Assembly D Subjects set above the Law E The Sovereignty vested in the Multitude F Parliaments subordinated to the Kirk G The King Himself Arraign'd and Judgments denounced against him H The Judges Degraded Courts of Justice silenc'd the Rabble passing Sentence on the Supreme Magistrate Deposing of Princes Justify'd I. This is all Plain enough without Exposition But we are Now about to be yet a little Plainer Sect. 9. Principles and Positions A THe Two Houses have Legal Power to Levy Monys Arms Horse Ammunition upon the Subjects even without or against the Kings Consent and to put into safe hands such Forts Ports Magazines Ships and Power of the Militia as are intended or likely to be intended to introduce a Tyranny not only when Arms are actually raised against them but when they discern and accordingly declare a Preparation made towards it Political Catechism Page 7.1679 B A King abusing his Power to the Overthrow of Religion Laws and Liberties may be controll'd and oppos'd And if he set himself to overthrow all these by Arms then they who have Power as the Estates of a Land may and ought to Resist by Arms because he doth by That Opposition break the very Bonds and overthrow all the Essentials of this Contract and Covenant This may serve to justifie the Proceedings of This Kingdom against the late King who in a Hostile way set himself to overthrow Religion Parliaments Laws and Liberties Douglase's Coronation Serm. Page 10.1951 C The Lords and Commons are as the Master of the House Calamy's Sermon Decemb. 25. 1644. Page 22. The Parliament whom the People Chuse are the great and only Conservators of the Peoples Liberties Ibid D The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England without the King 1651. were the Supreme Authority of this Nation Jenkins's Petition Octob. 15. 1651. E The Sovereignty here among Us is in King Lords and Commons Baxter's Holy Commonwealths Page 72.1659 F The Government of England is a Mixt Monarchy and govern'd by the Major part of the Three Estates assembled in Parliament Parliament Physick for a sin-sick Nation Page 111. G The Houses are not only requisite to the acting of the Power of making Laws but Co-ordinate with His Majesty in the very power of Acting Ahabs Fall Page 42. H Resolved That in case of Extream Danger and of His Majesties Refusal the Ordinance agreed on by both Houses for the Militia doth oblige the People and ought to be obeyed by the Fundamental Laws of This Kingdom Vote of both Houses March 15. 164â— Ex. Col. 112. I Resolved That when the Lords and Commons in Parliament which is the Supreme Court of Judicature in the Kingdom shall declare what the Law of the Land is to have This not only question'd and controverted but contradicted and a Command that it should not be obey'd is a high breach of the Priviledge of Parliament Ex. Col. 114. March 16. 1641. K The Lords and Commons in Parliament do declare That it is against the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom that any of the Subjects thereof should be commanded by the King to attend Him at His Pleasure but such as are bound thereto by special Service Ex. Col. 193. May 17. 1642 L The Towns Forts Treasure Magazine Offices and the People of the Kingdom and the whole Kingdom it self is entrusted unto the King for the Good and Safety and best advantage thereof and as This Trust is for the Use of the Kingdom so ought it to be menag'd by the Advice of the Houses of Parliament whom the Kingdom hath Trusted for That purpose Third Remonstrance May 26. 1642. Ex. Col. 266. M A Parliament may dispose of any thing wherein His Majesty or His Subjects hath a Right in such a way as that the Kingdom may not be expos'd to hazard or danger thereby Ibid. 267 N The Votes of the Lords and Commons in Parliament being the great Council of the Kingdom are the REASON of the King and of the Kingdom Ibid. 278. O Supreme Head and Governour over all Persons in all Causes as it is meant of singular Persons rather than of Courts or of the Collective Body of the whole Kingdom c. And to speak properly it is only in His high Court of Parliament wherein and wherewith His Majesty hath absolutely the Supreme Power and consequently is absolutely Supreme Head and Governour from whence there is no Appeal Remonstrance May 26. 1642. Ex. Col. 703. P The Kings of This Realm ought to be very tender in denying both Houses of Parliament any thing that concerns the Publick Government and good of the Kingdom and they ought to deny themselves and their own Understandings very far before they Deny Them and that upon this ground because they lie under the Obligation of an Oath to pass such Laws if they be Just and Good for the Kingdom And it must Then be a Tender Point for a Prince to judge otherwise of those Laws that are Represented unto Him as such by the Representative Body of the whole Kingdom Ibid. Pag. 715. No Presidents can be Bounds to the Proceedings of the Parliament Ibid. Pag. 726 Q A Parliament may dispose of any thing wherein the King or any Subject hath a Right in such a way that the Kingdom may not be endanger'd thereby And if the King being humbly sought unto by His Parliament shall refuse to joyn with them In such Cases the Representative Body of the Kingdom is not to sit still and see the Kingdom perish before their Eyes and of this danger THEY are Judges and Judges Superiour to all others that Legally have any Power of Judicature in This Kingdom Ibid. No Member of either House ought to be medled withal for Treason Felony or any other Crime without the Cause first brought before Them that they may judge of the Fact and Their leave obteined to proceed Ibid. The Sovereign Power doth reside in the King and both Houses of Parliament And His Majesties Negative Voice doth not import a Liberty for His Majesty to deny any thing as He pleaseth though never so requisite and necessary for the Kingdom Ibid. 727. R When there is certain appearance or grounded suspicion that the Letter of the Law shall be improv'd against the Equity of it that is the Publique Good whether of the Body Real or Representative then the Commander going against its Equity gives Liberty to the Commanded to refuse Obedience to the Letter Ex. Col. Pag. 152. S The Clause wherein we Swear the Preservation and Defence of the Kings Person and Authority doth lye under some restreint by That limitation In the Preservation and Defence of the True Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom To
Church to be Lawful Dangerous Pos. Lib. 2. Cap. 4. See the References Christ's Religion is fondly patcht with the Popes The Communion-Book is an imperfect Book cull'd and pick'd out of that Popish dunghil the Portuyse and Mass-book The Sacraments are wickedly mangled and profan'd They eat not the Lords Supper but play a Pageant of their own to blind the people Their Pomps Rites Laws and Traditions are Antichristian Carnal Beggarly Popish Fooleries Romish Reliques and Rags of Antichrist Dregs and Remnants of Transform'd Popery Pharisaical outward Faces and Vizzards Remnants of Romish Antichrist known Liveries of Antichrist a cursed Leaven of a cursed blasphemous Priesthood Cursed Patches of Popery and Idolatry they are worse then Lousy c. Dan. Pos. L. 2. cap. 9. The Dagon of the Bishops Service-book brake its Neck before this Ark of the Covenant Ibid. P. 66. Notes on § 4. LEt the Reader lay his hand upin his Heart here and ask himself Is this pretended Tenderness of Christianity the stile of the Gospel or no Is it the Language of the Disciples of Jesus Christ Can these People really have an Evangelical Compassion for their Brethren and at the same time fly thus in the face of Dignities and treat their Superiors at this outrageous rate Have we so learn'd Christ as to make Scurrility and Railing the Badge of our Profession They would be thought to supplicate all this while for Gentleness and Compassion And is this the way to obtain it by a Practice that is almost sufficient to turn Mercy it self into Indignation But alas their business is not to procure Favour from the Government but to expose it to Reproach And all this clutter about the Clergy is only to render them Odious and Contemptible to the People Pray'e take notice once again The stress of their Charge upon the Church is only to move the multitude against it as a Frame of Constitution that is Antichristian and Popish And yet pray mark it they do in the same breath offer Proposals of being Vnited into that Ecclesiastical Popish State Which brings the matter unavoidably to this Issue either that they do against their Consciences cast that scandal upon the Church for the Advancement of some Other Designe or else by desiring this Vnion they do acknowledge themselves willing to be Incorporate into a Popish Constitution But this Bustle about the Church you shall fee has a furthlr Prospect For these People have the Faculty of handling Religious Matters in order to Political as well as of hooking in Temporal Matters in order to Spirituals §. 5. The Dissenters Behaviour towards the Civil Government A THe King the Nobles and the Prelates are sure the Murtherers of Christ O People I will be silent Speak People and tell me what good the King has done since his Home coming M. Welsh at Sanchil in Carrit at a Conventicle And at another Conventicle thus I am confident that God will yet assert the Cause of Pentland-hills in spite of the Curates and their Masters the Prelates and in spite of the Prelates and their Master the King and in spite of the King and his Master the Devil Ravillac Redivivus Pa. 45. B Her Majesty and State do maim and deform the Body of Christ and so bid God to battel against them c. By the same authority that the Queen appoints the apparel noe appointed to the Ministers she may command any piece of Popery so she name it Policy c. The Servants of God are persecuted under her That Excommunication should not be exercis'd against Princes I utterly dislike Danger Pos. L. 2. C. 3. Cartwrights Reply Par. 2. C The State sheweth it self not upright alledge the Parliament what it will It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment then for such a Court. There shall not be a man of their seed that shall prosper be a Parliament-man or bear Rule in England any more None ever defended this Hierarchy of Bishops to be lawful but Papists and such as were infected with Popish Errors All the Newgates and Oldgates yea and all the Tyburns in England are too little for such rash and presumptuous Heads that will not give God leave to Rule but will take the Sceptre out of his hands I do fear that many of the forwardest Enemies of Reformation are not the backwardest Friends that the King of Spain has in England at this day Dan. Pos. L. 2. C 6. D As long as you maintain these cursed Acts of 1584 the Tyranny of Bishops c. you are a Persecutor Dan. Pos. l 1. cap. 6. E The Magistracy and Ministry walk hand in hand in the contempt of True Religion The Laws maintaining the Archbishops are no more to be accounted of then the Laws maintaining the Stews Impiety is suffer'd to bear sway against the Majesty of God and that by Law and Authority As great Indignities offer'd to Jesus Christ in committing his Church unto the Government of the Common Law as can be by mean Hirelings unto a King Ibid. l. 2. cap. 8. Come hither ye Malignant Athiests come hither gnash your teeth and let their eyes rot in their holes Bond to the Commons Oct. 8. 1645 Pa. 5. F The Kings of the Earth have given their power to Antichrist How have they earn'd their Titles Eldest Son of the Church the Catholique and most Christian King DEFENDER OF THE FAITH Do not the Kings of all these Nations stand up in the room of their Progenitors with the same implacable Enmity to the Power of the Gospel Dr. Owen Fast Serm. Apr. 19. 1649. Pa. 22. There was Corruption both in Church and Common-wealth Idols were set up in Dan and Bethel i.e. in the places of Judgment and in the House of God Burroughs on Isa. 66. v. 10. Pa. 37. The greatest blow that ever was given to Antichristian Government is that which Now it hath had Babylon is so fallen as it shall never rise again Burroughs on Isa. 66.10 Pa. 44. G. O Worm Darst thou be so Impudent to put thy self in Gods Stead to meddle with Mens Consciences and Lord it in Religious Concerns Gods Loud Call Pag. 17.1661 H. What hope that the Reformed Religion will be protected and maintained by the Son which was so irreligiously betray'd by the Father Plain English 1660. Pag. 2. I. C. S. the Son of that Murtherer is proclaimed King of England whose Throne of Iniquity is built on the Blood of pretious Saints and Martyrs Door of Hope Pag. 1.1660 The Murtherers of our Saviour were less Guilty than That Prince Case of King Charles 1648. K. Let Justice and Reason blush and Traytors and Murtherers Parricides and Patricides put on White Garments and rejoyce as Innocent Ones if This Man the Late King should escape the Hands of Justice and Punishment English Translation of the Scottish Declaration Pag. 12.1650 L. Charles the Second The Son of a Bloody Father Heir to an Entail'd Curse more certain than to his Kingdom Train'd