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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88815	The Antichristian Presbyter: or, Antichrist transformed; Assuming the nevv shape of a Reformed Presbyter, as his last and subtlest disguise to deceive the nations. / By Richard Laurence, Marshal-Generall.	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1647 (1647)	Wing L674; Thomason E370_22; ESTC R201297	13,810	23

to cut the Parliaments throats and by destroying them wholly to inslave and vassalage the people for ever Thus you see what ever he faith you never know what hee meanes till the last What he did in this kind I shall not need to rehearse to you wofull experience I hope hath convinced you though I am able to particalarize as many of his wicked cruell and barbarous actions as any one man in England But for further satisfaction I shall refer you to Faringdon in Berkeshire to Prince Maurice his march through Somerset and Dorsetshire to Gorings Horse in Devonshire and Cornwall to Prince Ruperts march through Lancashire to Layton-Buzzar and Wooburn in Bedfordshire the Queens shriving of Burton upon Trent And if you please to make each of these a Bishop I shall furnish you with as many Rapes Murders Robberies and unheard of Cruelties as shall make them a sufficient Diocesan Priesthood Thus have I endeavoured to trace Antichrist in his own steps to describe his habits discover his practises and have given thee some hint of his actions to this end that if ever thou seest him or hear of him again thou mayest know him For be you sure as long as there is so many great and spiritual Livings in the Kingdom so much Glebe-land and other good things called Tythes He will not out he will assume some other shape he cares not what it is so he may but do his work and receive his wages which is as you have heard to rob kill and destroy you and will make you pay him well for it too Now let me intreat thee by the way to take notice what a wonderfull deliverance God hath wrought for thee by the hands of those men which this Monster would have turned thy hand against that if ever Nation or People ow'd themselves to a Parliament this Nation doth And though there be many Sons of Belial which had rather see the Kingdom ruined so they might have the destroying of it by fighting against them then to have it setled in truth and peace by them yet let them know with all the enemies they have in the world that if that God which hitherto hath been their wisdome and strength doe keepe them close to the work they have begun viz. to lose the bands of wickednesse to take off heavie burdens to let the oppressed go free and to break every yoake though all the power of Hell and Earth should set up themselves against them The Lord of Hosts is our strength why should we fear the God of Battell is our salvation why should we be afraid But now my honest Country-men after all this care taken and hazzards run and bloud spilt when the Parliament with all the rest of their faithfull friends scattered abroad from their owne horns in the Kingdomes service had thought their work had bin done and nothing remained but to receive the fruit of their former labours which is an equall participation with the rest of the free-born people of England of their liberties and priviledges due to them in their severall places and callings yet even while they were all crying peace peace behold warre There appeares another Generation of Earth and Hell like that Beast in the 13. of the Revel vers 11. Whose appearance is like a Lambe and yet speakes like a Dragon his voyce being nothing but of war and bloud-shed Many thousands of such as the Parliament had at their mercy and hath given them their liberties and estates upon easier terms then some thousands of their own friends have preserved theirs by taking their parts And yet all the practice of these men is in speaking evill of the Parliament indeavouring to render them odious to the People saying they are all Independent and will have no King with a thousand such false aspersions and lyes making their boasts they are confident of another day and that the war is not yet begun that they hope to see the Tyde turnd ere long with many such expressions That while the Parliament is disbanding their Armies slighting their Garrisons indeavouring by all possible meanes to ease the people of their burdens they have so long groan'd under by reason of the warre These servants of that wicked One are sowing a new seed fomenting a new warre And because their old Names of Papists Malignants Cavaleeres c. are grown so odious to the people Therefore this cunning High Priest of theirs Antichrist teacheth them to call themselves Presbyterians For saith he by so doing with some other tricks I have wee shall gain the Scottish Nation with a considerable Party in the City to those we have there already and set it ●ard to make a division in the House by being in th● likenesse of P●esbyterians till such time as we have gotten the King into his power and a considerable Army of French and our Catholick Brethren in Ireland about him And then we will put the Scots in minde that they were the Beginners of all our troubles and that they have been twice proclaimed Rebels for fighting against this King We will then tell them of the old saying It is no deceit to deceive the Deceiver We will then put London in mind of their former Zeale to the Parliaments Cause and let them know our good Ki●g hath often times called them the Rebellious City and had long agoe given them us for our Arrears We will then tell our Presbyterian Brethren of their infirmities our faithfull Brother Bishop Maxwell reckons up in his Book entituled Issachars Burden We will then convince them as they would have convinced the Independents with an Ordinance against Heresie and Blasphemy c. Thus friends if ye have not resolved to say its dark when the Sun shines if ever your parsons tell you so you may see this Spirit of Malignanc●e and Antichrist in all parts of the Kingdome in the shape or likenesse of Presbyters If there were but a Garrison slighted or Souldiers disbanded where the Parliament conceives them uselesse to the Kingdome they are told it is because they are Presbyterians If there be but an Officer cashiered in the Army for the most vild misdemeanour that can be committed be it Drunkennesse of Swearing or Whoring or plundering c. be cryes out it is because he is a Presbyterian And thus I could instance in many particulars but I reserve them for future occasion And if this trick be but a little better learned the Parliament shall not call in a Malignant to pay his Composition but hee will presently cry out he is sequestred for being a Presbyter Nor punish a Priest for Faction in the Pulpit in endeavouring to render the Parliament odious to the People but he will cry out he is a Presbyterian As if the being a Presbyterian were a tolleration to commit all kind of wickednesse without controll As if Faction and Sedition with Drunkennesse and Swearing c. in Presbytery were as absolute Jure Divino as their Government Nay further