chief Counsellors and Actors in destroying his dear Father and our Dread Soveraign to goe down to the Grave in peace or to dye a drye death who have shed the blood of Warre in a time when all Differences were by a Treaty drawn to a Peace and Union We can never think that a Babell of so confused a fashion of such a headlong height as yours is such a Toads-stool suddenly grown out of the Earth of Beggery and Ignorance by Fraud and Cruelty lately watered with the blood of the King and his Subjects can long thrive or stand having no foundation in the world or any shew of reason equity honour peace liberty or piety to support it Not any seeming Authority for due and legall you could have none upon Earth Not any generall desire delight consent or Agreement in what you have done or propound further to doe but rather a generall detestation an utter abhorrence and a perfect hatred of you and your deeds which honest men will then agree to and subscribe when they can be content to love Death and Hell or to hate God and their own Souls Nor doubt we but many of those Soldiers whose valour and simplicity you have thus farre grossely abused by ingaging them in such desperate assistances whose profit will redound to but few or none of them when their Christian penitent and smiteing hearts shall come to see as no doubâ— many of them already doe who are not throughly poysoned with your desperate Principles to what horrid Villanies they are made Gossips and accessary by your Fraud and Hypocrisie they will speedily return from you dead Dogs desperate Sheba's and cursing Shimei's whose mouths and hearts are full of the gall of bitternesse whose hands and feet are swift to shed blood who know not the way of Peace nor have any fear of God before your eyes whose Curse is to boast your selves in your iniquity to fall from one wickednesse to another till eternall vengeance seize upon you Penitently smiting their breasts as those that came from crucifying Christ Jesus a work proportionate to the malice and cruelty of you our Kings Murtherers our Barabbasses whose barbarity hath at once deprived the King of what is wont to be dearest to men his Life and his Kingdomes robbing his Subjects the Christian World and all Mankinde of the greatest glory and most Illustrious example of Vertue and Piety that ever sate upon a Christian Throne the most unspotted person the wisest â—rince the most Charitable Christian the most imitable pattern for moderation in Prosperity for patience in Adversity for devout humility toward God fâ—r judicious zeal to true Religion for constant love to the Church for winning Majesty upon all men that ever swayed the Scepter of this or any other Kingdome Accessible in his brightest splendor Magnanimous in his greatest Diminutions of a thriving and victorious vertue under the heavyest pressures and Crosses wâ—ose excellent skill was never so much discovered as in the late storms whose darknings rendred him not lesse formidable to his Enemies or less venerable to his Friendsâ— nor was he ever more terrible to those that are perfect haters of God of Him and of all Goodnesse than when they saw that the eminency of his Vertues was not to be smothered by their Calumnious Expressions but the beams and lustre of Divine Majesty in him dayly conquered all Eclipsings that either his own misfortunes or your malice cast upon him This was the Man this the Christian this the King this the Saint this the Martyr whom these Judas's have betrayed these â—ewes destroyed these Canniballs devoured A sin questionlesse exceeding in many respects that of Christs Crucifiers not as to the dignity of the person wherein Christ infinitely surpassed the Majesty as well as merit of all Earthly Kings but as to that eminency of Civil Dignity and Soveraignty wherewith the King from God was invested which Christ Jesus never assumed contenting himself with the form of a servant and subjecting hâ—mself to Civil Magistracy Also in regard of that malice hypocrisie and pretenslesse Cruelty which these Monsters shewed against the King destitue of any shew of Due Authority which the Crucifiers of our Saviour wanted not urging also a Law they had by which they said though falsely he ought to dye What Law the Kings Murtherers either produced or pretended to justifie their Authority their Accusations or their Sentence against and Execution upon the King we and they are yet to learn nor is it possible they ever should since allâ— our Lawes do most fully and cleary declare the person of the King as Supream Sacred Unaccountable Inviolable by any Person Processe Judgment or Punishment on Earth When the Soldiery by Sea and Land shall once seriously reflect upon and consider the infinite odious aggravations wherewith this horrid Murther of such a Man such a Prince and their lawfull King is laden to which Villany their Valour was abused to be only as Blood-hounds Butchers and Hang-men no doubt they will conceive so just and generous a disdain that no mens hands will be more ready to avenge their own dishonour the shame of their Profession the wound and stayn of their Consciences the Blood of their King the Dignity of Parliaments and the Loyalty of their Nation never so branded in any foâ—mer age than those Souldiers whose Valour you the Achitophels Jeroboams Hamans and Maâ—hiavels of our times have basely abused only to serve you in accomplishing your Execrable Villanies and to preserve you from just and speedy Vengeance which as Severus said to those Villanes and Traytors who had murthered their Emperour Pertinax can neither be invented for you nor executed upon you proportionable to the many and Outragious Villanies committed by you We the People of Englaâ—d cannot but appeal to God your own Consciences such as they are cauterised and polluted with the Blood of our King also to the judgment of all men that have but common sober sense Whether any Age any Monuments of former times any History of humane Affairs have ever recorded any excesse of Riot any superfluity of Wickednesse to have ever flowed from the hearts of any men or have been fâ—lfilled parallel to yours Whether any Combination of desperate men filled with the Quintessence of all wickednesse fraught with flattery cruelty hypocrisie tyranny and all degrees of malicious Villany incident to humane nature have since the world began and Mankinde hath been planted upon the Earth ever committed the like Villanies which exceed all names of Vice and Infamy or ever more deserved to be made a publick Curse and universall Execration to all Mankinde to have their persons cut off from the face of the Earth and buried with the buriall of an Asse to have their Posterity as a pesâ—ilent Progeny spewed out of the Land unlesse they fully declare their unfeigned and utter abhorrence of their Fathers Villanies who have defiled the Land with the blood of the King That their Houses â—which are
Cistern turned the clear and wholsome waters of our Laws into blood Wormwood and deadly poyson while you have with unheard of tyranny and treachery set up your private wills by that publike power wherewith you were inâ—â—usted only for some limited uses above the Mâ—jesty and lives of our King and his Châ—ldren above the Dignity of our Parliaments the honour of our Lawes the reverence of your Câ—untrey and the regard due to your fellow Subjâ—cts and Conâ—ederate Nations and all this without the least colour of any call or Authority from God or Man Reason or Religion against all Obligations both Sacred and Civill that might possibly lye on mens souls to God or man against many your particular pretentions and former pâ—omâ—ses of such due observance as became youâ— both as Men Subjects Soldiers and Christians You who are not the thousand part of his Mâ—jesties Subject how durst you knowingly act as in the name of all and yet indeed against the duty desiâ—es and consciences of all but such children of Belial as your selves You that are for the most part such sons of the Earth of so base extraction of meaner education strangâ—rs to all good Literature Honour or Civility heirs of beggery and contempt whom most of the Subjâ—cts in England might for your rudenesse and bâ—rbarity justly have disdainâ—d to have set with the Dogs of their Flocks How are you become the Creators of a new Heaven and a new Earth who are such sons of Tohu and Bohu of Chaos obscurity and confusion You that at best are but Gods Buâ—chers the unjust Exâ—cutioners of his just vengeance as the evill and destroying Angels sent among us for a time though your exorbitaâ—â— malice and lusts disdain to be limited by your Military Commission yet God we hope will restrain your fury who hath manifested your impious folly With what forehead could you thus lift up your hand against and set your selves above all those who are confessed your betters masters and superiors As if in a Giantly impudenâ—â—â—â—d Cyclopâ—ck cruelty you could never be famous enough but by Infamy nor fierce and wickâ—â— enough unlesse you â—ought against Heaven against the expresse word of God and his Vicegerents on earth Thus heaping up mountains of lyes perjuries hypocrisies and cruâ—lâ—ies upon those vast and enormous lusts of rapine sacriledge covetousness revâ—nge and tyranny in yoâ—r heaâ—â—s which nothing hath â—vâ—r equalled or can exceed You have indeed finished the Master-piece of your Father the Devill whom as his first-born he hath filled with a double portion of malice subtilty and cruelty beyond any whose hearts like Elymas the Sorcerer or Simon Magus he hath possessed You have nothing left you but Impenitence and Hell which you neither believe nor fear by which to make farther progress in your most flagitious and ever accursed Villanies What step have you more to advance to the blaspheming of the Majesty of the most high God both in himself and his Deputies lawfull Kings and Soveraign Magistrates what more can you do or invent to the scandall of the Gospel to the exposing the Name of Christ to open shame to the trampling his blood under feet through the hatâ—ed and deâ—estation of all Nations that are without the Church How could you devise more to adorn the Triumphs of Pope and Papâ—sts to whose tayls you are tyed though your facâ—s seem contrary and whose bâ—siâ—esse you have done while you pretend to abhorre their Names as much as Dâ—vils do potâ—nâ— Châ—rms What Sea could ever wash away from the face of the Christian Reformed Religion the stain of that blood of our King which you have in a Pageâ—nt oâ— Justice most unjustly inhumanely and barbarously â—hed to colour your malice to saâ—iate your revenge and to make way for your tyranny if we the people of England should bâ— our silence adopt and by our assistance nourish those prodâ—gies of Rebellion Treason and Confusion which your libidiâ—ous Mars by the hâ—lp of your prostitute and officious Venus your Unparliamentary Junto hath lately brought forth and astonished the world withall Was it ever so done since the Name of Christ was planted on the earth save only by the spawn of those furies from whom you are descended who made such havock first in Africa after in other Western Churches and lately in Germany whose principles and practises you have as much surpassed in Hypocrisic Anarchy cruelty and blasphemy as Bâ—elzebub your Prince may be thought to exceed the lesser fry of damned Spâ—rits Those impure Catharists exercised indeed their Donatâ—sticall and Anabaptisticall frauds and furiâ—s chiefly upon the vulgar to the ruine of many thousâ—nâ—s of the Counâ—rey people and Citizens But you like so many Ravilliacks are not content to have spoyled so many Noble and flourishing Families to have exhausted so many plentifull Estates to have made so many mourning Widows and Fatherlesse Children to have destroyed the lives and sucked the bloud of so many Christians your fellow-Subjects but you must in one day swallow up the two Houses of Parliament in another murther the King in a third cut off the right and inheritance of the Crown from the Undoubted Heir and all the Kings Children At last you conspire to tempt us all by your simple and foolish Paperfalsly called The Agreement of the people to joyn with you in the utter overthrowing of our Lawes Liberties and the whole frame of this ancient and renowned Kingdome whose weight you will finde too heavy for such weak Atlasses as you will shortly appear both in Counsell and in Power who are only wise to doe wickedly and strong to shed or drink the bloud of your King and Countrey-men Your cruelty hath fulfilled the wish of Caligula at one blow to cut off the head of three Kingdomes and with him all Mâ—narchy to make way for your Loleâ—ocracy a Military Tyranny or Schismatichal Anarchy Thus have you been profound to deceive skilfull to destroy our souls â—aint within us because of such treacherous dealers such hideous Murtherers into whose snares the breath of our nostrils is fallen and in whose deep dissembling pits the Anoynted of the Lord our meek patient and most Christian King is swallowed up under the shadow of whose just Authority Princely wisdome and judicious piety wâ— hoped to have been safe How doth this sometime famous and flourishing Kingdome now sit as a Widow oppressed desolate â—espised full of unexpressible lamentationsâ— The bitternesse and gall of your cruel Hypocrisie hath entred into filled and overwhelmed our souls How is she that was the joy Crown and Queen of all Nations the Envy or Emulation of all Christian Churches now become the horror and astonishment of her Neighbours round about the pity and calamity of all her friends the â—corn reproach hissing and triumph of all her Enemies Nor is there any helper comforter or Deliverer left till God take the matter into his own hands and plâ—ad the cause of the King and Kingdome against these proud Goliahs
whose uncircumcised hearts and lips out of a â—iot and supeâ—fluity of wickednesse have blasphemed our God destroyed our King layd waste and exhausted the Kiâ—gdome and turned this Church into a Den of Thieves O Lord arise O Lord consider O Lord hear the vâ—yce of our sigâ—s tears and prayers let the cry of the blood of â—ur King and our people come up to Heaven have mercy on us for we are brought very low Our gracious King the Husband of the Kingdome the Father of his Subjâ—cts the preserver of our Laws the Patron of Religion the Protector of the Church you have treacherously and barbarously murthered the two Houses of Parliament whose weaknesse perversnesse unevennesse inconstancy and cowardise God hath seen disliked judged and punished you have forcibly invaded scattered and oppressed notwithstanding all your speciall Engagements to them both of duty and promise commission and trust The â—oyalty and love of the people you every where either with terror and cruelty seek to suppresse and smother so that they shall not dare to petition for redresse or complain of those endlesse calamities which they suffer under your tyranny or â—lse making lyes your hope and refuge with forged semblances of complyant Petitions and counterfeit Gratulations you falsly and impudently pretend the concurrent Votes of the Countreys and the Communities â—pprobation to your most abominated practises When God knows and even your selves in your bloudy diâ—â—imulation cannot be ignorant that the generality of all men in all places of all degrees do from their souls utterly abhorre deprecate and detest your execrable counsels and accursed actions which have thus brought upon us the abomination of desolation through the damnable deceiveablenesse of your unrighteousnesse Nor do we believe that your pride and tyrannous hypocrisie either findes any comfort in them or much conâ—iders those papers which seem to own you or applaud your wicked deeds further then they may carry on your strong delusions with the vulgar whom you know to be neither very wary of evill nor very steady in what is good If you had the generall consent of the Vulgar which you know you have in no sort yet neither is their judgment any good rule to measure the morality of your actions nor their inconstant pleasure any test of honour vertue or piety But indeed you as well as we are sadly conscious that all those clamorous Petitions for Justice by which you would seem as by Oracles of your own inspiring to be fatally directed and divinely incouraged in your Cruelties and Treasons were nothing else but the strokes of the Lyons own tayl the more to enrage himself the very froth and scum which arose only from the zealous activity and boylings of your own bloudy Faction who restlesse as Devils continually go about seeking whom they may deceive and destroy we are well assured that your Schismaticall crew of Regicides are no more to be compared to the people of England then the Gleanings may be to the Harvest or Canters Thiâ—ves Beggars and Juglers to the sober and setled Dwellers in this Kingdome No every honest man who hath any sense of piety loyalty modesty pity or humanity left in his soul as you have none takes up Jacobs words against you Cursed be your wrath for it is fierce and your anger for it is cruel into the secrets of these men let not our souls enter Lord lay not the guilt of the sins of these men to the Charge of the people of this Kingdome No let the blood of our pious patient and most Christian King be upon you and your Abettors for ever who as without any sense of loyalty pity or charity so without any shadow as well as substance of Justice having neither Law Rule nor any due Authority first by fraud and unheard of Insolency seized upon his Majesties person afterward by flatteries lyes and terrors sought to deceive him At last by meer force and bâ—â—stlâ—ke cruelty have massacred and as so many horrid Assaâ—sinates utterly destroyed him And all this after many fawnings and shewes of loyall and tender regard toward his Majesty and his Royall Family as both your first Proposals and your after Agitations honestly and very providentially discovered by Major Huntington do declare In which all men now plainly see that you did but make way by the Fox to let in the Wolf and by your Dalilah to bring the Philistims upon our Sampson Yea after his Majesty was not only entred into and advanced in a Treaty with the two Houses agreeable to their Votes and the generall desires of all his Subjects under the most solemn Nationall security and Publick Faith which could be given or passe between a King and his Subjects or indeed any honest men But even when his Majesties great wisdome and goodnesse had so farre brought all things to a fair closure and happy Agreement that the two Houses were satisfied and resolved to proceed upon his Majestyes Conceâ—ions as a firm ground of Peace to the Kingdome Yet after all these publique civil and Sacred Obligations which lay upon the two Houses and the Kingdome on your selves as well as any and all of us for you to seize again upon his Majesties person without any pretended Authority and with your Iron hands and Adamantine hearts to ravish and pull him out of the arms and embraces of his Subjects violently to hale and tear him from the reviving love and loyalty of the two Houses and his people thence to hurry and tosse him to and fro to what inhospitable places and desolate Prisons you listed there to deprive him not only of all things proportionable to his quality as a King but even of those civill accommodations which ought to be allowed to any Gentleman though an â—nemy and a Captive of War which the King never was not being taken by force but rendring himself to the professed love and sworn loyalty of his Subjects After this with a sacrilegious moâ—kery of Justice in the highest affronting of God the King the Parliament and the three Kingdomes by an unheard of and most horrid Outrage and riotous force to oppresse and utterly destroy the remaining honour freedome and power of the two Houses and in despite of them to erect a new Court of Justice as you most unjustly tearm it for which you have no colour of Law from God or Man no precedent in this or any other Christian Kingdome no ground or pretense of Parliamentary consent or Authoâ—ity of either Houses whose Mâ—mbers three parts of â—our at least you forcibly detayned and deterred from sitting in the House of Commons the Lords being unanimously against you by all which methods of cunning and violence you seek like Absaloâ— the coâ—tradiction beâ—tween whose name and actions very well fits your affected but undeserved title of Saints to intrude your selves into a Judicative as well as a Military power as if Hangmen and Executioners should uâ—urp tâ—e seats of Judges who are not fit to be of a Jury
since their interest and advantage like yours lying in the destruction of others will â—asily tempt them to condemn any man At length you make a shift to pack not a high Court of Justice as you shamelessely style it but the basest Conventicâ—e of Injustice that ever was in the world In which all Cards of honour being shuffled out you turn up such Knaves only for Trumps as will best play your game A very Medly and Râ—psody of the most ignorant shallow cowardly cruel weak debaucht and insolent fools or Athiests Hypocrites Traytors and Tyrants that ever usurped power over any honest and innocent man Your President Bradshaw and your Clark Cook are commonly known and branded to be men of as corrupt souls as any lived in their profession their most trayterous and covetous villanies not allowing the least pretense of ignorance in the Laws which are in no case more clearly expressely and seâ—verely contrary then in this of taking away the Kings life wherein they against all law duâ—y and conscience were as Judasâ—s â—hiefly imployed At last upon the wicked most unjust and cruel sentence of these mercenary unauthorisedâ— and Tyrannous Sycophants and Hucksters of Justice who must needs have their Commâ—ssion from him that is the Father of lyes the false Accuser the Old Murtherer the deceiving Serpent the Râ—aring Lion the Red Dragon the Dead Sea of cruelty and the sink of all Confusion the Damned and Damning Divel and not from God the Fountain of Justice the Father of Mercy the Institutor of Order the Author of Peace and the Commander of â—â—bjection to Lawâ—ull Kings in any â—â—tion imaginable further then the Divell may have Commission from God permitting and limiting the activity but not approving the activity but not approving the iniquity of his rage and malice to compell such a King so Great a Monarch of three Kingdomes their Undoubted Soveraign Lord to submit to theâ—r Arraignment Accusationsâ— and Sentence who were most of them his declared and desperate Enemies without allowing him the lâ—beâ—ty of protâ—sting against their confessed Usurpation and non-Non-authority or of pleading for his own both Innocency and well known Priviledge Soveraignty and unquestionable Immunity according to the Laws of God and of this Kingdome which are exprâ—ssely against their trayterous and tyrannous proceedings as well as the nullity of their Authority After this without anâ— remorse or pity to their and our King to force a person of so excellent worth wisdome vertue honour and Majesty to bow down at the feet of so vile persons and then to Chop off hâ—s Head which was Sacred Crowned and Anoynted as rightfull King over them and all his Subjects in his Dominions A Butchery so barbarous that the common Headsman abhorred to do it nor may we think those bloudy Zealots were willing he should dâ—prive them of the pleasure of cutting the throat of such a Sacrifice to inaugurate them in their Royall Priesthood by which their Schismaticall fury pâ—etends a title against or above all Lawfull Kings and Governours What Words what Teraâ— what Sihgs what oppressive Thoughts what secret and unutterable Reflectâ—ons of most stupifiâ—d and astonâ—â—hed Souâ—s are sufficient to measure the Immensity to weigh the burden to expresse or conceive the hâ—rror of this outragâ—ous sin and most flagitious villany Poor Prince after so many delusions so many lying Addresses made by the chief Engines and movers of the Army after so much patience so great demonstrations of excellent wisdome meeknâ—sse calmnesse and Christian gentlenesse to his very Enemies and Jaylours under infinite reproaches injuries and indignities even to the very spitting in his face after all those gracious condescendings by which he had reduced himself almost to the vâ—ry shadow and bare name of a King saving that he had gained the highest and most absolute Empire in the renewed love and loyalty of the most and best of his Subjects that he might please all secure and satisâ—ie all purchase Peace for all at any rate but the price of his Conscience Yet after all these infinite demonstrations of goodnesse capable to have softned even Devils themselves to be thus butcherâ—d by a Soldieâ—y and Schismaticall cruelty to be brought to publique execution without any help or redemption from Parliament or people who generally abominated so horrid inhumane unseen and unheard of a Spectacle whose Publique Faith besides their Personall Alâ—egiance was engaged for his Majestâ—es honour and safety what â—â—art can be large enough to equall the sorrow what â—yes can be Fountains sufficient to dâ—plore so unmerited a Fate befalling so excellent a Prince by the malice ambition cruelty and treason of so base and execrable villanies And all this Tragedy of Tragedies câ—rried on to such bloody conclusions under colour of Safety and Reformation at first afterward of satisfaction and Indempâ—ity to the Army in both which the Good King denyâ—d nothing that men of anâ— modâ—stâ— worth or ingenuity could expâ—ct or would dâ—sire Yet aâ—tâ—r â—â—fiâ—ite delusions and mutinous Insolencies committed against King Paâ—lâ—amâ—nt and People some impotent and ambâ—tâ—ous Tyrants who have the marks of Blood and Cruelty in their faces and on their Foreheads in the Army and Commons House bethink themselves of a Scene of Justice which must speedily be acted by themâ— least the closure of a Peace with the King and the two Houses should render their imployment uselesse as it hath long been burdensome and forceing their Buffe Grandees and proud Officers to return to their Needles their Hammers their Lasts their Slâ—ngs their Carts and their Flails should quiâ—e defeat those designs of power estate and all licentious profaneness both in Opinions and Practises which their Chief Officers and Levelling sticklers have all this while designed for themselves and their false giddy cruel covetous and unreasonable Faction through that power and influence which by their lyes forceries and hypocrisies they with the help of that mungrel Minister that Military Priest that modern Simon Magus thâ—t disguised Executioner that bloody Butcher of the King H P they have gained upon the Common Souldiery Upon whose simplâ—city and valâ—ur they have presumed tyrannously and trayterouâ—â—y to advance the meer will and pleasure of some Officers in the Army and those rotten and ever infamous Members of the Commons over all the Lawes and Liberties the Lives Estates and Inheritances both of King Prince and People Yet after all these Scenes of various Villanies they have the impudence to glory as if they had done God good service and so extreamly pleased God and the People that they expect all should agree to their Plaâ—dite as if might and right were well met in the Army O you most seared Consciâ—nces you most Râ—bellious Souls against God the King and your own light you most accursed Doersâ— you deaf Adders whether you will hear or wâ—â—ther you will forbear know this That we the Christâ—an people and lâ—yall Subjects of England do in the bitternesse of our Souls declare â—s
in the last and perilous times in which true glass you and all men may clearly see the ugly lineaments of your most deformed faces and manners It is hoped that God hath yet so much mercy left in store for these sinful and by you most miserable Kingdomes as he gives us grace utterly to abhorr your desperate sinsâ—â— So that we trust he will never suffer us by a Devillish Apostasie to fall from all Vows Oaths and Covenants to God and man by which we and our posterity are bound to God the Crown and our Countrieâ— only to have yours and the Dâ—vils absolution to mâ—ke a Coveâ—â—nt and Agreement with Hell and Death with your most irreligious â—nd damnable designs and practises No the sin and horrour of your wayes are now like Absaloms incestuous and noon-day Rapes discovered in the sight of the Sun and all the world Nor will the sâ—btilty of your soft and fained voyces like Syrens any more charm and enchant the honest people of England into such Beasts and Monsters â—s your selves are to whose hellâ—sh deformities you would have aâ—l others to conform They have seen and felt too much already of your cruel Hypocrâ—sies your devillish and strong delusions Have not your words been alwayes Soloecisms to your purposes and your practises contradictions to your pretenses Have you not as much as lies in your power and malâ—ce cast us into the dead Sea of disloyalty perjury cruelty barbarity irreligion and confusion that is possible for any Nation suddenly to relapse and fall into after so many Sacred and Solemn Professions of Loyalty and Reformation to God and the world whom we called to wâ—tness upon our souls Agreeable to all which and to fill up the measure of our sins as if our Rebellion against God and the King were hitherto but a light and small matter by which we have most unhappily occasioned his death by the hands of cruel Edomites and cursed Amalâ—kites as you are which most deplorable calamity to us and this Naâ—ion we penitently look upon as the severest temporal stâ—oke which the wrath of God gone out against us can inflâ—ct upon us Yet your impudent Hypocrisie now seeks to obtrude upon us your wretched and abhorred Agreement The sum of which is to leave the Kingdom without a King Government without Authority Magistrates without Power a People without Laws a body without an head Sheep without a Shepherd Christians without Christ Churches without Ministers Ministers without Maintenance a Nation without Faiâ—h In a word you would have us live as men without souls without God wilfully degenerating to beasts without sense of vertue or vice shame or honour without fear of Hell hopes of Heaven or thoughts of Eternity and all this to maintain a few Tyrannous Hypocrites and Sodomitick Saints the cry of whose sins like Sodom is gone up to Heaven and are a burden too heavy for the Earth to bear Have you not already made the Name of these Pretestant and Reformâ—d Churches to stinck among â—ll Naâ—ions both Christian and Heathen through the dead flies and â—ot enâ—â—ss of your principles and maâ—â—â—rs Have you not â—urp 〈◊〉 the cunning and câ—ueltâ— oâ— tâ—â— most â—â—suâ—tick hâ—aâ—s aâ—d 〈◊〉 â—s â—â—ch as you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o◠〈…〉 an◠〈…〉 to advâ—â—ce 〈…〉 above that of Kings But you upon baser principles seek to subject the Regal Soveraignty to that of the People as you call it nor that you mean so in good earnest further then to delude the people and to raise the heads of your desperate Faction above all both King Prince Peers and People We appeal to all sober Christians whether your Treasons have not far surpassed the Powder Conspiracy Inasmuch as they plotted secretly but you have peracted openly the murther of the King the ruine of all the Royal Issue the overthrow of all our Laws the blowing up of all Parliaments the subverting of the whole State and Government the devastation of your Countrey the abolition of all true Religion the extirpation of all Liberty Peace Order and Humanity Your Elder Brother Faux himself might seem a Saint compared to you whose New Light and Dark Lanthorn you have so long made use of to hide and disguise your desperate intentions Nor were the rest of those Powder Trayâ—ors so criminal as you if they had effected what they designed since they neither prâ—tended to that Saintshâ—p or that smooth precisenâ—sse which you have done nor had they upon them such signal ties of Publique and special Trust besides your many voluntary Obligations The total violation of all which renders your sins out of measure sinful and your Treasons incomparably traiterous beyond what any Caâ—elines but your selves ever had the desperate boldnesse to have conceived or committed Had you been our Open Enemies or self-raising Rebels in a declared râ—valry and enmity against King Parliament and Countrey we could either have prevented and opposed you or have born with lesse shame and disdain your insolent and prevayling Cruelties against them all But when we consider what ostentation and shew you made of exact obedience and plenary aâ—quiescence in their Votes Results and Orders from whom you had your unhappy Commission also of loyall regard to his Majesties safety Rights Honour and Posterity to whom some of your chief Commanders as they well know engaged their souls as much as was possible for any mortall men to doe devoting themselves to all the Curses of God tâ—mporall and eternâ—ll upon the breach and failer of their words to his Maâ—esty Adde to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting of speedy and impartiall endeavouâ—s to settle all things in Peace Justice due Lâ—berty and Piety which how faithfully you have effected the present Deplored state of this Church and State may witnesse whose face is now miserably squalled and hideously besmeared with the blood of the King and those most indelible Reproaches wherewith you have blasphemed our God our King and our Religion We the people of England of all sorts Lords Gentry Clergy and Commons do again and again declare to God and all the world the present Age and Posterity so long as the world shall endure our infinite abhorrence utter detestation and toâ—all dâ—sagreâ—ment from what you the Officers of the Army and your most slavish ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done or shall further doe through Gods vengeance upon this Nation in prosecution of your never sufficiently abominated Villanies Nor do we desire any thing more of the just and Almâ—ghty God not in order to the satiâ—faction of our private maâ—â—ce or desire of revenge on any of you though our parâ—icular injuries havâ— been many from you but oâ—â—y in order to the publiquâ— Vindication of Goâ—s glory the Hoâ—our of the Reformâ—d Religion the Loyalty Faith and Credit of this Natâ—on the wiping away those foul sins of Trâ—â—sâ—n Perjury Truce-breaking and Regall Parricide in all which Villanies your execrable Faction wallowing in the blood
to rob and spoil them of all setled maintenance to reduce them and the work of the Ministry to that contempt which in the pride and luxury of these times follows poverty and beggery That they depending on the peoples good will and charity which in many you have made bad and cold enough toward the best and ablest preachers or upon your insolent and niggardly stipends they and their families may either eat their own dung and drink their own piss or be forced by necessities of life to desert their Function and places so as to leave their Congregations destitute of all holy publique duties or expose them to those Military Wolves and Mechanick Foxes which you have in great store provided for the supply of all places in Church as well as State Thus doth your rage reach as high as Heaven and as low as Hell But we hope the God of Heaven will look down upon us and our children in mercy and by some speedy rebuke of such Satans not suffer your folly and fury to proceed any further it being manifest to all moral and sober men that you are Factors not only for your selves to devour our Estates Houses Lands Liberties Peace and Lives but like the great Dragon you pour forth a Sea off bloud and poyson ignorance and profaneness such as may for ever drown both our and our childrens souls in Heathenish Barbarism Superstition Atheism and Eternal destruction But know O you neither Milstones you poysonous Aspes you King-killing-Basilisks you desperate deceivers and damnably deceived That although you have against all Faith of Turks Jewes or any Heathens by fraud and force usurped upon our secular and civil liberties so that at present we have not any formed power to oppose you and call your Ring-leaders to a sevâ—re accouâ—t for your unheard of crimes and injuries against our King and our Counâ—rey Yet shâ—ll our constancy in and our suffeâ—ing for our Relâ—gion and our incouragement of godly learned and faithful Miâ—isters to our best abilities make the world to see that there is no Agreement between Christ in us and Belial in you our God and your Mammon We hope the Triumphing of such Hypocrites as you are is but short nor shall you long insult over the dead and divided Corps of our late Lord and Soveraign King whose Wisdom Piety Faith and Patience God we doubt not hath crowned with Glory and Immortality having perfected those many Princely gifts and Divine graces in him as God often doth in his dearest Saints and Martyrs after the example of his crucified Son Jesus Christ by his sufferings and your cruelties whose Memory and Posterity will be ever dear pretious and honored to us and our succeeding generations as a King who now appears beyond the Errors and Jealousies of former surmiâ—es â—chiefly raised and fomented by your false and envious Faction to have been the most constant Pilâ—ar the Noblest Patron the resolutest Protector and he most patient Martyr for our Laws Liberties Lives and Religion yea and of our Parliaments true Priviledges which his Mâ—jesty best saw and fullest declareâ— at first to have been shamefully invaded and out-raged by your Tumults after by your Armies next by your new modellings at last by actual mutinings impudeâ—t menaces violent and warlike impressions upon their safety liberty faith loyalty and honour with which purposes you sometime falsely aspersed and afterward accused the King and for which calumnies you most unjustly condemned and trayterously murthered him your selves being most truly and notoriously guilty of that for which you wickedly cruelly and injustly destroyed your and our King Shall you escape the righteous judgement of God Will not God visit you for these things shall he not be avenged of such 〈◊〉 Hypocrites â—or is it without a special Providence that you should be left wholly naked and dâ—stitute of all pretended duâ— Authority in the fulfilling your exâ—crable villâ—nies to which you would now fain invite the people of England not having any shâ—w or colour of any Parliamentary Votes Authority â—r Commands to countenance â—our mischiefs murtheâ—s and tyranâ—â—â—s not any concurrence of either Lords or Commons whom now under force and without all freedome becoming either Gentlemen or Christians we must tell you we look upon as no House and their enforced or enslaved Votes as null their after sittings and complyings with you being nothing but infamous and base prostitutings of the Honour of that House and Vassallatings of the Dignity and Liberty both of the Parliament and People of England to the Tyranny of a few Mutinous Cut-throats Trayterous Rebells and bloody Schismaticks who are in no sense to be counted the People of England any more then Scabs or Plague-sores or Leprosie or putid Ulcers and noysome Excrements are to be â—â—puted any part of the Body whose grief burthen and annoyance they are So that unlesse you can flatter your selves to have done well and worthily in all you have cruâ—lly insolently and traiterouâ—ly acted against King Loâ—ds Commons Gentry Clergy and all honest men Unlesse you can propound something to recompense the inestimable Injuries you have done to all Estates in these three Kingdomes as in other acts of your Tyranny and Treason so chiefly in that unparallel'd Villany of Murthering such a King and depriving us of so Incomparable a Prince for Wisdom Piety Gravity Patience Magnanimity Courage Constancy Charity and all other Vertues most adorning a Man a King and a Christiaâ— the losse of whom all 〈◊〉 lives of you and your Approvers cannot countervayl or expiate being but as so many Dogs heads to such a Boon Unlesse you can stop the Mouths of all men or cut their Throats or seaâ— their Consciences or perswade them to damn their Souls for your sakes to gratifie a few Câ—uterised Consciences bloody and ambitious spirits among you You cannot but hear the sound of much Vengeance coming upon you to which your own black Souls summon you and which your own Consciences will in the first place silently but yet severely execute upon you Nor will your Seeming Smiles and forced confidences nor yet the Applauses of your sordid Flatterers and desperate Confederates nor yet the assistance of your numerous and deluded Soldiers be able to exempt you from that storm of fire and Brimstone that pit sâ—are Curse and Hell which pursues you and is ready to overtake you How can such Zimri's who have so trayterously slain such a King their Lord and Master ever hope to have peace or impunity in this or the other World Since the Justice of Divine Providence in a Case where his Name was not blasphemed and so his glory not so concerned as in this of your murthering so lawfull and so Christian a King suffered not any of the Murtherers of Julius Caesar who was but an Usurper to die other then a violent and immature death Nor will we hope our Salomon by Gods blessing and his Subjects assistance suffer the Hairy Scalps of those who were the