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A16247	Boanerges. Or the humble supplication of the ministers of Scotland, to the High Court of Pariament [sic] in England	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 3171; ESTC S102729	18,586	38

vp printing Presses in priuate houses and iustified their idolatrous meetings as if the Masse meant to outface the Gospel of Iesus Christ frequented the Embassadours houses with much immodest iustificatiō of their Conuenticles threatned zealous Ministers for their inuectiues against Antichrist continued priuate inhibitions that no man should speake write preach or practise any thing against their designes insomuch that diuers haue beene imprisoned for discouering the Spaniards pride and hypocrisie and many put out of countenance for inuectiues against the Kings friends as the terme went Abroad I am ashamed to name the sundry pictures they haue published both in Antwerp and Brussels for all the peace and treaty with Spaine against the King and his children against our Countrey and Religion against God and his Annointed yea it is wonderfull to reade the infamous and scandalous lies they haue exposed as if his Maiesty had gone with his Councell to Masse to please the Pope and the King of Spaine as is apparant in Gallo Belgico What say you to ●oron● Regi● a booke printed in Brussels against his Maiesties royall person an Invectiue against Holland by laughing at her neer nosse vnto hell as being low ground and traducing the vertuous Queene Elizabeth most maliciously Iohn Kings Legacle Bishop of London the Gag for the Gospell the vneasing of heresie with diuers others all which though they be hellish and damnable yet are sold by the Diuels factor or a Spanish Iohn and in a maner winked at in the State whereas other relations tending onely to the discouery of errors and abuses in the Church are not onely suppressed but the authors punished and imprisoned to no other purpose but to discouer our feare that wee should be found guilty in Gods sight so that one hath beene imprisoned for writing a letter to the then Marquis of Buckingham against the Spanish march another for making or publishing a booke wherein Gondomar apprehended himselfe mockt derided a third for preaching a Sermon Be not vnequally yoked with Infidels a fourth for discouering the incestuous mariages of the house of Austria a fifth for reuealing the secrets of that tyrannous Inquisition in Spaine a sixt for applying to the present Ezechias folly in shewing the Baby lonish Embassadours the treasures of the Temple and the riches of the Pallace a seuenth for making a prayer to be deliuered from all infectious Spanish sheep by reason you had once a great rot of sheep in England by an infectious Ewe brought out of Spaine and diuers others for putting the axe to the roote of the tree and applying other texts contrary to your Bishops minds and some other Lords who affected Spaines greatnesse But such is your misfortune 〈…〉 p●o●●●nely abuse Gods prouidence with such ● cha●●cte● or the malignitie of time that hauing two fac●t● and befitting pictures as your aduersaries deserued they were both suppressed the plates cut in p●eces and the sellers imprisoned one was of the Kings holding the Pope● nose to a grind stone with the two Archbishops turning the same another was made by M r Ward of Ipswich concerning 88. and the powder treason and both for Gods glory and Englands honour yet neither they nor any thing else against the Pope or Spaine would be to era●ed yea when your reuerend and honorable Archbishop whose Statue deserues to be set vp in gold proued the Lords Champion against some Papisticall motiues and mixtures to be made amongst you some prophane tongue calld him Puritan Bishop and wicked stomacks belched contradiction in his face but we will vrge this matter no further onely pray that God will protect such as protect true Religion and assure your Honours that the Spirit of God will make them of the synagogue of Satan which call themselues Iewes and are not but such as keep the word of his patience shall be deliuered from the houre of temptation which must come vpon all the world Wee could name other seuerall conferences and disputations since this treaty with Spaine of which with diuellish arrogancie they haue boasted that Fisher the Iesuite so preuailed against Doctor White that many hearers turned Catholicks and how the illuminations of the Priests were diuine from heauen and the Papists Preachers had an Euangelicall spirit oh horrible impudencie and Spanish blasphemie Wee will not be preiudicate most honorable Lords and say it was a iudgement of God in that fatall Vosper of the Blackfriers to kill a hundred people with the fall of a loft and giue you all warning that God will not be mocked that blasphemies shall be reuenged that there is no such enemy to God and his Church as apostacie but wee will be bold to tell you that this disaster is turned vpon your owne heads for at Rome there hath been solemne Procession and from Rome letters of discouery that in England God hath beene so angrie with the hereticks meaning the Protestants that Churches and lofts haue ouerwhelmed many of them in their ominous falls If the diuell now be the father of lies who could inuent such vntruths You had a tempest of lightning and thunder in Iuly last and it spared not the gate-house in the Pallace of Saint Iames we will not say it was to chide you for building a Chappell to Idolatry and swearing to strange articles for the pleasure of the Spaniard but may affirme that if any Bishop was consenting to such a worke is it any other then when the Leuite became Priest to Micha and consecrated his idoll Come come be not deceiued if God be God let him be God if Baal be God serue him and if Spaine will match with England let it be done without fearfull conclusions and be not ouermatched with a prodigious treaty We are the bolder most gracious Lords to enter into these termes with you and to prostrate our selues before the throne of our dread Soueraigne with teares in our eyes and drops of blood from our heart because we desire that he would but consider the many and sundry inconveniences the Country hath endured since the peace with Spaine and with what particulars of disgraces and scorne wee haue all been branded since this last treaty about a mariage let vs then craue pardon great Lords if we make a mixture of triuiall and solid businesse together or are carelesse of method precedencie of time or not ranking the most eminent things in the first place shall wee begin with the complaints of the whole Land the swarming and increase of the poore the decay of trades insomuch that in London there are at least a thousand seuerall houses to be let and in the principal streets inferiour occupations are intruded to the disgrace of that great and famous Citie the exportation of our gold the carying away of our ordnance the anticipation of the benefit of our Virginia commodities by selling vnderhand Spanish Tobacco and such like and the slack eventing of our cloth and cottons by reason Spaine and Italy haue proclaimed inhibitions for bringing

watching without or their negligence within and politikly enter and then who knowes not what a subtil Serpent raging Lion and watching Dragon hee is And abroad iniurious reports that hee was afraid of the Popes and Spaines mightinesse or durst not trust his owne greatnesse against the factious Papists of England if they should vnite themselues to any forrein Prince when yet he hath had experience of his owne preseruation and the many deliuerances of his predecessor that famous Queene of euerlasting memory for the hand of God is not shortned and he hath still a cloudy pillar by day and a fiery pillar by night to conduct his Israel through the wildernesse If there were no more to make you abhorre Papistrie then the martyrdome of the Saints in Queene Maries dayes it were sufficient Oh horrible crueltie to haue men and women burnt for saying the Lords prayer in the vulgar tongue and instructing their families in the word of God The bloody Bishop Bonner in his owne person burnt a poore seruants hand with a flaming linke for saying a part of a Catechisme and to make the spectacle the more vgly he whipped a man with rods in his garden till his fury made his owne blood spurt out of his paunch The rest were not inferiour vnto him for by a Bishops commandement a woman with childe was put to death and when the infant burst out of her womb one of the guard pitcht him backe againe into the fire vpon the point of a halbert To name the rest were to write out the whole booke but for this and the rest wee end with the Poet Horresco referente Shall we step into France and remember those fearfull times of Guisean massacres especially Henry of Bourbons mariage when the Admirall was slaine of which one writes that there was more blood spilt then wine drank Shall we name the Leagures Oligarchy and holy conuention of Catholiks when they had like to haue expeld their Prince out of the kingdome and draue him to a nooke of Normandie the towne of Deep and onely because he was or seemed a Protestant In these warres and times of wickednes so many outrages cruell blood sheddings were committed that Nero's opening his mothers wombe was not comparable You reade of a battell in heauen betweene Michael and his Angels and the Dragō wherein at last the Diuell and all his complices were discomfited if euer this might be rightly applied it was to Queen Elizabeth of whō it may well be said with the Poet Namque haud tibi vultus Mortalis nec vox hominem sonat ô dea certe For if euer the Cherubins spread their wings ouer the Arke the God of heauen tooke a charge of her person else could she not haue escaped so many attempts so many enemies so many mischiefes pistols poniards poisons threatnings insurrections invasions curses excommunications hate deadly malice all which arose from the poisoned spring of the Papists inventions and flowed into streames of monstrous impietie and Popish absolutions for murder If there were nothing in the world to be a motiue to the abhorrencie of their religion and actions the Catastrophe of Henry the 4. of France surnamed the Great would dissolue an heart of adamant and make men wonder that some exorbitant vengeance did not fall vpon the contriuers for when was this done when he had condescended to their owne conditions the Popes Legat and the Papists intercession but Satan hath his instruments and when the Lord giues vs ouer or we giue ouer the Lord we must endure a strange alteration Who can forget or who can euer be reconciled to any adherents of Popery when the Gun-powder plot shall be questioned and the memory of that Satanicall machination be renewed of which I wil say no more but answer with Solon when there was a motion made for a law against parricides You see saith he how murder is to be punished but no man can beleeue that any dare attempt to kill his father so treasons massacres slaughters and villanous attempts may be proiected but it is impossible that there should be such a forge in hell it self to hammer out so vile a work as the destruction of a whole kingdome at once and the blowing into the aire the Nobilitie and principall wise men of a Cōmonwealth Why Neros wish was not comparable to this to haue all the Senators heads set on one necke that he might diuide it asunder at a stroke If it be thus most gracious Lords be iudges your selues of our poore supplication whether it is not high time to roote out Papistrie and crie with Sara that the sonne of the bondwoman should not dwell with Isaac and so neuer left till Hagar and Ismael were thrust out of doores or to take that order that Popery haue not any further footing in in the Land nor that Man of sin that Antichrist of Rome that sonne of perdition that scarlet Strumpet that painted Iesabel and that doctrine of diuels be neuer admitted againe or taught in England to imposture ignorant soules and seduce innocent people Thirdly concerning Spanish practises and the hate that all the nations of the world beare vnto them for the generall most gracious Lords wee refer you to the seuerall tractates of many Historiographers and the great experience of iudicious trauellers but especially to Paragone and Nouita Pernasso written in Italian to a letter to the Duke of Sauoy and a treatise of Figuira a Portingal Gentleman concerning the conquest of Portingall written in Spanish to the Figre of France the Cheualier of France the Leaguers Oligarchy and the Spanish Monarchy compiled in French and for our owne language to Sir Francis Hastings works and a well composed treatise concerning English fugitiues with diuers of this sort wherein you shall see quasi digito demonstrata as in a table well deliniated the 1. pride 2. irreligion 3. tyrannie 4. treasons 5. ingratitude and 6. inhumanitie of the Spanish nation wherein we hope one day to satisfie vnderstanding men and according to the prouerb of Dies dabit quod dies negat make you partakers of such truths that the best friends which Spaine hath shal confesse the Castilian comes of goatish barbarous blood and all the rest are polluted with Mahumetan mixture and Moorish affinitie And although it may be obiected against such an attempter Non tu plus cercis sed plus temerarius aeudes yet iuuante Deo it may be performed and we will rely on Mordechais answer to Hester that if she will not go in to the King to saue her people God will raise them vp meanes of preseruation from some other part of the earth But to come nearer home and to your selues as the present stands Who knowes not since the treaty with Spaine with what insolency the Papists haue proceeded both at home and abroad at home they haue dared to publish and copy deuised pardons scorned the lawes of the Land concerning Recusancie boasted of publicke assemblies set