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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39347	An earnest call to the people of England to beware of the temptations of the regicide. Ludlow, to contract the guilt of the murther of King Charles the First, by a conceit that the shedding of that royal bloud was no murther, but an act of justice.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing E671; ESTC R215003	5,021	23

for fo doing this Blessed Prince throughout all Generations shall have the Praise of all Learned Men that read the Latine Writings of this excellent Prelate and are themselves as he was stedfast and Judicious Adversaries of the grossest Errors of the Church of Rome I do not undertake to Vindicate all his opinions but I can prove that the Errors of his most Confident Adversaries were far worse than the worst of His. p. 15. This State-Sophister falls again upon A. B. Laud Bishop Laud says he took Sibthorp into his Bosome and that he might undermine Good Old Abbot whose Bishoprick he Coveted he put it into the Kings head to require the Arch-Bishop to Licence Sibthorp's Sermon The good Old Man persisted in his Refusal Whose Bishoprick He Coveted This he can never prove to be True unless he can Prove himself to have a Faculty of searching the hearts of Men. I can hardly think that LUDLOW himself could believe that so Wise a Man as B. Laud could be so Silly in any thing as to conceit that A. B. Abbot should have been put to Death or depriv'd of his Arch-Bishoprick that it might be confer'd on him for refusing to Licence a Sermon I never read or heard that Arch-Bishop Abbot was ever Formally Suspended if he were most certainly it was not for refusing to Licence Sibthorp's Sermon but for that casual Homicide which he was guilty of concerning which in the late History of Oxford Writers we find these words At length he being found guilty of casual homicide Retir'd for a time to Guilford in Surrey the place of his Nativity where he had erected an Hospital for Men and Women Here you see the Occasion that the Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction was committed to Five Bishops as Ludlow reports p. 16. The King instantly suspended the Arch-Bishop and also Confin'd him and committed the Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction to Five Bishops all of the New Church of England and Sibthorp's Patrons viz. London Durham Rochester Oxford and honest Laud of Bath and Wells Let any man judge whether honest Laud were for Novelties or a New Church that reads his Book And whether it be not the height of Impudence for Ludlow to endeavour thus to Impose upon the World a conceit that King Charles the First and his Bishops of which Bishop ANDREWS BELLARMINE'S Victorious Antagonist was one Design'd to bring in Popery p. 26. He Charges the King Horresia referens as an Accessory to the Horrid MURDERS of those many Thousands of Miserable Protestants who fell in Ireland Oh my Dear Countrymen can you believe that such words could proceed from any other Principle than the Instigation of the Father of Lyes Hearken I beseech you to these words of Our Gracious Soveraign speaking in his own Defence against this Hellish Calumny Indeed that Sea of Bloud which hath there been cruelly and barbarously shed is enough to drown any man in eternal both infamy and misery whom God shall find the malicious Author or Instigator of its effusion It fell out as a most unhappy advantage of some mens malice against me that when they had impudence enough to lay any thing to my charge this bloudy opportunity should be offen'd them with which I must be aspersed Although there was nothing which could be more abhorred to me being so full of Sin against God Disloyalty to my self and destructive to my Subjects God knows as I can with Truth wash my hands in Innocency as to any guilt in that Rebellion so I might wash them in my Tears as to the sad apprehensions I had to see it spread so far and make such waste And this in a time when distractions and jealousies here in England made most men rather intent to their own safety or designs they were driving than to the relief of those who were every day inhumanely Butchered in Ireland Whose tears and bloud might if nothing else have quenched or at least for a time repressed and smothered those sparks of Civil dissentions and Jealousies which in England some men most industriously scattered See Reader and Admire the Charity of this Blessed Prince Exprest in the Prayer he makes upon this Occasion Let the scandalous and unjust Reproaches cast upon Mc be as a breath more to kindle my compassion Give me grace to heap charitable coals of Fire upon their heads to melt them whose malice or cruel zeal hath kindled or hindred the quenching of those flames which have so much wasted my three Kingdomes O rescue and assist those poor Protestants in Ireland whom thou hast hitherto preserved And lead those in the ways of thy saving Truths whose ignorance or errours have filled them with rebellious and destructive Principles I have lately seen in Print a Device to make people believe that the King was not the Author of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who then why Bishop Gauden At this I should Laugh heartily but that I consider that the Wickedness of the Lye is as Notorious as the Absurdity of the Fiction that the Author of this Malicious Invention discovers himself to be a person Near to Hell and Far from any understanding of the Difference of the Genius and Style of Writers Bishop Gauden's Way of Thinking and Expression was as Different from what we find in this Admirable Book as the Glittering of Ice from the Shining of Diamonds or any thing that is most Loose and full of Air from that which is most Solid and Compact I attribute so much to the Wit and Scholarly Education of LUDLOW as to think He could not but Laugh in his Sleeve as the Vulgar Phrase is at the Absurdity of such a Fiction neither can I conceive but that if He would most seriously peruse all that has been Written by Our Gracious Soveraign on this Subject The Rebellion and Troubles in Ireland Defending his Innocency with that Strength of Reason and Perspicuity of Expression I say I cannot conceive but that if LUDLOW would but Read what the King has written in His own Defence he would Condemn himself if not for his Wickedness yet at least for his Shameful Inadvertency in venturing upon so Notorious a piece of SATANISM as this Hellish Calumny Now Reader let us consider the words of the Challenge of this bold Champion of Malice and Falsehood p. 27. In whatsoever I have said I have had a Due and Faithful Regard to Truth and do Challenge even Pelling himself who ought for his own Vindication to do it if he can to Convict me of Falsehood in any one Particular charg'd upon his INCOMPARABLE PRINCE I am as much Concern'd in the Challenge as Mr. Pelling having in Many Sermons Preacht on the Thirtieth of January set forth the Praise of this Incomparable Prince tho not with so much Eloquence with as much Zeal and Ardency of Love to His Blessed Memory as any Preacher in the Kingdom And by the Help of God I shall be ever ready to Contend with Any Man or Any Number of Men who shall Endeavour to Stain the Honour of so Gracious a Prince so Sincere a Christian a Person so Wonderfuly Adorn'd with All the Excellencies of Wit Learning and Virtue Whether I have Convicted LUDLOW of any Falsehood I leave to the Judgment of any Impartial Reader And in Confidence that I have done so I shall Conclude with these words of the Psalmist What shall be done unto thee thou False Tongue FINIS