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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88379	The Lively character of the malignant partie: wherein their persons, who they are; their actions, what they have already done, and do daily further attempt; with their intentions, at what ends they ayme, are sufficiently set forth, fully described, and plainly evidenced to the indifferent judgement of any ordinary man, who hath had but a reasonable view of the strange passages of these later times. By one who cordially affects his Soveriagne, and really respects the Parliament: which illustrious and renowned senate, hath (for the safetie of the King, and presevation of the kingdome) resolved upon the question, that in this malignant partie, they may not, must not, will not, cannot confide.		1642 (1642)	Wing L2593; Thomason E240_29; ESTC R2828	6,947	8

THE LIVELY CHARACTER OF THE MALIGNANT PARTIE WHEREIN Their Persons who they are their Actions what they have already done and do daily further attempt with their Intentions at what ends they ayme are sufficiently set forth fully described and plainly evidenced to the indifferent Judgement of any ordinary man who hath had but a reasonable view of the strange Passages of these later times By one who cordially affects his Soveraigne and really respects the Parliament Which illustrious and renowned SENATE hath for the safetie of the King and preservation of the Kingdome Resolved upon the Question That in this Malignant Partie they may not must not will not cannot confide Published and Printed in the yeare of Feares and Jealousies plots projects and policies designes dangers and discoveries 1642. THE MALIGNANT PARTIE THat there is a Malignant Partie is confest of all but who this Malignant Partie is that hath generated and somented all the present distempers and distractions of this now languishing Kingdome His labor hoc opus est In the first place I will demonstrate who these are According to their common appellation they are a company of malevolent or ill-affected persons to the peace of this Church and State And these are so many for their multitude that like the Devill himselfe they may be termed Legion as properly as the wicked man These Aegyptian Locusts swarme in every corner of the Kingdome the Hydra of this Malignant Partie doth daily multiply and is now become such an Epidemicall disease that like a Leprosie it hath over-spread the whole body of this Nation I shall onely nominate the chiefe of them who have been and are still designed maine Actors in the fearefull Tragedie of this lamentable Age. In the first Sceane ye may behold if ye please Papists persons popishly inclined their Accomplices and Adherents all the members of the Antichristian Hierarchie as Jesuites the incendiaries of all Christendome and others of that Romish faction They are alwayes christie after bloud affecting rapine torture oppression and crueltie Their machinations have been mischievous and their designes are still destructive They have ever plotted the promoting of hortid warre as the onely meanes to advance the Catholike cause whose end and marke they ayme at is to recover and re-establish the Romish Religion here within this Kingdome Was not the warre with Scotland and the insurrection there two yeares agoe incited and fomented by them Was not the Rebellion in Ireland the last yeare begun framed and contrived by them And is not this unnaturall civill warre now in England occasioned and maintained by them But they who have instigated his Majestie to such a barbarous and bloudy warre against his Parliament and people which is of a confounding nature to the three Kingdomes at once what are they but most desperate Traytors to their King and Countrey most execrable Vipers to God and his Church they hatch Cockairioe egges and weave the Spiders web their workes are workes of iniquitie and the act of violence is in their hands their feet run to evill and they hast to shed innocent bloud their thoughts are thoughts of iniquitie wasting and destruction is in their paths the way of peace they know not and there is no judgement in their goings They have made them crooked paths whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace Isa 59. 5. Their throate is an open Sepulchre with their tongues they have used deceit the poyson of Aspes is under their lips their mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse their feet are swift to shed bloud destruction and misery are in their wayes and the way of peace they have not knowne there is no feare of God before their eyes Rom. 3. 13. They have for many yeares together had an impious designe to alter Religion to defile the puritie thereof and to introduce Popery superstition ignorance the onely way to an arbitrary and tyrannicall Government and to change the frame and constitution of this Government both in Church and State The Master-piece of all their Stratagems a new engine which they have invented to heighten the destruction of this Kingdome was to prevaile with his Majestie by that Proclamation to leavie forces against the Parliament and the Kings loyall Subjects by that meanes to put this Land into a certain combustion inevitable confusion by civill warre and perpetuall slavery upon the surviving part of a then miserable Kingdome For if the power of the sword should come once into their hands which God forbid nothing can be then expected but the most wretched ruine and desolation of this Kingdome and the savage massacre of the Protestants In the next Scean enters upon the Stage to be presented to your view the Prelaticall Partie who have acted a great part in this Tragicall Story of the Malignant Partie These Popish Prelates have corrupted the pure fountaine rather then they would be depressed in power They have brought various innovations into our Church sundry alterations into our Liturgie and Rubrick contrary to the Act of Parliament whereby the Booke of Common Prayer is established vaine Ceremonies Altars and many strange never before heard of doctrines into our Church to make us more consonant to the Church of Rome Amongst these ye may if ye please take notice of Laudles Will of Canterbury and wretched Wren of Norwich both fellow-prisoners in the Tower To these may be added as a Malignant Partie all Arminians an ambitious dissolute and male contented Clergie corrupt and scandalous Ministers their creatures Delinquents obnoxious to the Justice of Parliament who are so farre from being Pastores that they are altogether Impostores not Pastors but Impostors Some of them are superstitiously corrupt in their judgements holding and teaching strange Doctrines others of them ambitious of preferment many of them conscious and guiltie of grosse and foule crimes all of them male contented with the Parliament and their proceedings and so vitiated with idlenesse ease and plentie with the cursed love of lucre and covetousnesse that they would be glad with all their hearts to see the Parliament dissolved hoping thereby to recover what they have lost or at least to hold fast what they have got They make no conscience to starve the soules of their flocke so they may pamper their own bodies The third Scene containes great Personages part of the Nobilitie and Gentry that either feare reformation or else seeke to lay the foundation of their owne honour and preferment in the very ruine of the Kingdome They have a long time lived in a dissolute way of libertie without restraint of their sensuall pleasures and therefore are now unwilling to admit of such Reformation the Parliament in discharge of their dutie and conscience thinke expedient should be imposed upon them These being temerarious rash and unvised in their attempts and actions though Protestants if of any Religion have endeavour'd to bury the happinesse of this Kingdome in the downfall and overthrow of the great Counsell thereof Their precedent