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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90998	The beacons quenched: or The humble information of divers officers of the Army, and other wel-affected persons, to the Parliament and Common-wealth of England; concerning the Machivilian design of the Presbyterians, now carrying on by the Stationers of London. To bring an odium upon the Parliament and Army, introduce the whole body of Presbyterian doctrine and worship. seduce the good people of this Common-wealth, unto the Presbyterian slavery, than which nothing can be worse. By publishing divers treasonable and most scandalous books (a catalogue of many whereof is here inserted) against the honor of the Parliament, the Lord Generall, and severall other worthy members of this Common-Wealth.	Pride, Thomas, d. 1658.	1652 (1652)	Wing P3409; Thomason E678_3; ESTC R203208	6,717	14

THE Beacons Quenched OR The Humble Information of divers Officers of the Army and other wel-affected persons to the Parliament and Common-wealth of ENGLAND Concerning the Machivilian design of the Presbyterians now carrying on by the Stationers of LONDON To bring an odium upon the Parliament and Army Introduce the whole body of Presbyterian doctrine and worship To seduce the good People of this Common-wealth unto the Presbyterian slavery than which nothing can be worse By Publishing divers Treasonable and most Scandalous Books a Catalogue of many whereof is here inserted against the Honor of the Parliament the Lord Generall and severall other worthy Members of this COMMON-WEALTH LONDON Printed by Henry Hils and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the Blackspread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls and William Larner at the Blackmoor at Fleet-Bridge 1652. To the Supreme Authority of the Nation the Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND Right Honourable HE that shall read Mr. Calamy and his Party in their late writings some of them published by the Stationers petitioning cannot but read expresly and by clear consequence Your glorious Titles to be Speckled Vipers Murtherers Traytors Rebels Blasphemers Southsayers Adulterers Perjured persons Oppressors Hypocrites Villains Rogues Beasts Antichrists Foxes Serpents Lyars Vsurpers and the Spanish faction in Pulpets and Thrones exalted But if the God of Heaven the God of Truth have writ your Names aright with the beams of the Noon-day Sun in the eies of all the Nations of the World You are the Saviours of the Oppressed the Conquerors of Tyrants and the Breakers of those Clergicall Yoakes whose Authors would still subscribe as the Butcher and Butchers son in Henry the eighth his daies Ego et Rex Meus I and my King I and my Parliament I and my People c. Your Honors have lately been alarumd with the noise of Popish books Blasphemous books c. and had we heard and seen no more but such fair Grass without a Snake and the Plots of our constant Powder-Miners we had held our peace But rummaging in their dark Cellars and finding under the Covers of provision against Winter the horrid store of Gun-powder lie covered We cannot but in faithfullness tell your Honors the Plot is to amuse you with the noise of Popery and Blasphemy and in the interim to spring their Mines to blow up your Selves the Councill and Army our Victories our Families our Freedoms For they hope yet for the day since while you wake they cannot wring it out to steal the Sword of God out of your hands while sleeping For can your Honors imagine that such Licensers who write such language above-said will ever set your Honors Imprimatur to any Lines but of the same unclean and Treasonable Spirit And for the Stationers subscribing to the first second Beacons do all those golden Characters of Zeal Holiness spell any more than plain Presbytery Is not the sale of Popish Books the greatest part of the trade of some of them who are also strongly reported to have a Factor in Rome it self Hath not the most Treasonable book that ever was printed against the State been certainly bought at the shop of some of them even since they fired the Beacon to the Parliament Do not these Mercenaries know that a fair current for sober Disputes and writings in matters of God controversial engageth more Authors to write c. than a stop and stifling to the Spirit of God and Men And as to Books of Heresie Popery Blasphemy if their be equall liberty of engaging against them when did the most glorious Sun Christ Jesus not dare to meet the darkest night attended with ten thousand Popes or Devills And when did they ever meet and he not conquer Yea can it be without amazement remembred that one of their Lords and ours and yours that would be should proclaim that most blasphemous Crack Stupor Mundi Clerus Britannicus the Amazement of the World is the Clergy of Britain And yet our Beacons must be fired and the Alarum given to the Magistrates Sword Arm Arm c. for not a man dare stir of our British Clergy to receive the charge of some few often conquered Religious adversaries We presume not to propose but we humbly conceive that your late former care of the Printers name and readiness to produce the Authors or bringers of their Copies together with some convenient Regulations cannot justly by any just man be complained against And we pray that as it pleased God after the world of Priests and Bishops had burned John Hus at Constance to send immediately from Heaven this inestimable Jewel of Printing so it may still please him as it hath graciously done ever since the burning of Christs witnesses in Q. Maries daies to stir up faithfull and able writers against all sorts of Poperies and Blasphemies and to stir up your Noble hearts to protect and encourage those blessed Liberties and Endeavors For our selves we shal desire to draw in no longer English air than we are cordially ready to draw out our swords and blood at your cōmand against the Violations of such dear bought precious Freedomes and against such Treasonable books and charges a tast whereof is here presented By your Honours most humble servants Thomas Pride Col. William Gough Lie Col. Tobias Bridge Maj. Richard Merest Adjut Gen. William Kiffen Capt. Isaac Gray George Gosfright Citizen Samuel Richardson Citizen The Humble Information of divers Officers of the Army and other well-affected persons to the Parliament and Common-wealth of England concerning scandalous Presbyterian books and designs T Is not any by-respect but conviction of duty which puts us out to this humble address First to the Lord Christ for his wonderful deliverances from a Prelatical bondage and a Presbyterian slavery the last of which though of but a short continuance yet lives fresh in the memory of all good people Secondly to the renouned Parliament of the Common-wealth of England the happy instruments of our freedom and painful Labourers in the work of Christ notwithstanding whose vigilancy we have had a sad experience of the Plots and designs of a Presbyterian party especially in and about the City of London who have not onely kept a correspondence with those of Scotland but also contributed moneys and other encouragements to their several Invasions And have from time to time by most malicious scandals and forgeries both in the Pulpit and at the Press endeavoured to bring an odium on the Parliament and present Government by affirming that the Army was a Popish Army and full of Papists and Jesuits that Mr. Hugh Peters and divers others who had bin principally active for the Parliament were Jesuits and that such lay-people who had a call of Spirit and did dispense their gifts without the formal humane Ordinances of the Presbytery were Popish Priests in disguise Nay which is most abominable even to be repeated they stuck not to affirm such was their malice that my Lord

the Popish Books mentioned in their Catalogue we do beleeve upon good information that the greatest part of them only hold forth Morall Divinity as they call it with exhortation to and rules of good life which it seems the Subscribers do not desire to be guilty of And if those Books have 19 parts of good Matter and the 20th part Popery it were great pitty the much good should suffer for the little evill as it was excellently said by a Worthy Member of Parliament upon occasion of debate concerning the Racovian Catechism who upon that reason passed his Vote against the burning of it For what these Pampheteers urge against Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Josua Sprigg out of their Leviathan and Testimony to approaching Glory we have not time at present to examine whether the points are truly cited however those persons are very well able to answer for themselves only this we may gather that they are the more violent as we conceive against Mr. Sprigg for being the Author of that excellent piece entituled Anglia Rediviva wherin the Noble Acts of that renowned Generall Thomas Lord Fairfax are memorized by whose gallantry and success the Presbyterian Tyranny began first to be abated And to shew the Hypocrisy of these men who though in page third say they fear left we should be tempted for want of other trade to be venders of such loathsome wares as Popish Books or else necessitated to leave our callings to keep our Consciences pure yet it will be sufficiently proved that at least some of these Subscribers do daily sell both Latin and English Popish Books if they can get Customers for them And did lately quarrel with one of their Neighbour Book-sellers because he would not exchange the Books called the Holy Court for some of their Presbyterian Books Now the truth is this party of men make an appearance of zeal against Papists and Popish Books the better to disguise their designs when as their malice and spleen is against the well-affected whom they stile Independents and Sectaries and would fain bring the world to that pass that no Religious person whatsoever should write any Book but what should first pass the Test and approbation of their Presbyterian Censures which we humbly hope the Parliament will never permit The Catalogue and Contents of some of those Presbyterian books the greatest part of which have been printed and published in England within these 3. last years against the Parliament and present government 1. Scotch Papers abundantly extant 2. History of Independency first and second part 3. A plea for Non-subscribers 4. An Answer to Bonds and Bounds 5. Several Pamphlets in vindication of Mr. Love whom they account a Martyr as in the Preface to his Sermons and charge the Parliament with injustice in putting him to death c. More particulary Mr. Calamy in his late Epistle before Mr. Loves 17. Sermons and his funeral Sermon hangs out a Flag of Defiance to the State proclaming Mr. Love to die in and for the Lord. And the Saints he calls Murtherers Traitors Rebels Blasphemers Sooth-sayers Adulterers Perjurers Oppressors c. and chargeth the highest sins to have ascended into Pulpits and Thrones c. 6. Manus testium Linguae testium Digitus testium which in the Epistle hath these words The Dragon seems to have got the better meaning the Parliament and Army and a little further these words Our design is onely to unbowell that little big-bellied viper of the Romish Conclaves hatching the Ingagement which like the Trojan Horse hath concealed in the belly of it the ruin of the lawful magistracy lawful ministry and the lawful reformed Religion c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR A Narration of mysteries of State c. A most malicious and scandalous book against the State and present government the main design of it being to prove that the present Parliament and Army are of the Spanish faction and that the same faction hath carried on a design here ever since King James's time with much bitterness and reproach to the Parliament and Army c. For a tast the Epistle is dedicated to the Renouned Gentlemen of Europe the Merchants of England In the Epistle and throughout the book they charge the Independents to be the Spanish faction Vnnatural Rogues Impudent Traitors and Murtherers and say they have murthered the King and tumbled down his Throne into the dunghil of Democracie And concerning the Lord General amongst other base and scurrilous language against him they call him the Beast the Antichrist Fox Serpent Traitor Lyar Vsurper The like language use they against the Lord Ireton And the Honourable Members of Parliament and the Army they stile Traitors Rebels the Spanish Faction c. This book and others of like nature will be proved to be since the Beacon fired sold at the shops of some of the late Beacon-firing Stationers These with many other Books of like nature have bin printed and published by these Subscribers and their fellow Presbyterians in London within these 3 years last past which we should not have mentioned but through a necessity of quenching the fire of this Beacon And of what more dangerous consequence such Books are as strike at no less than the high scandal and dishonour of the Parliament and the very subversion of the present Government than another sort of Books whatsoever which onely express particular opinions in matters of faith or outward worship we leave to all true lovers of their Country to judge And humbly hope that the Parliament will not restrain any peaceable Spirit from the liberty of prophecying nor shut up the Press from any Godly persons having due regard to the honour and peace of the Parliament and this Common-wealth FINIS