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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75997	An allarme to the city of London, by the Scotch army: discovering most of the damnable, detestable, and exectable plots of the siding, overruling, and prevalent party in both Houses of Parliament, the army of independents and sectaries, &c.		1648 (1648)	Wing A833; Thomason E461_19; ESTC R205175	4,953	8

AN ALLARME To the City of LONDON By the Scotch Army Discovering most of the damnable detestable and execrable Plots of the siding overruling and prevalent Party in both Houses of Parliament the Army of Independents and Sectaries c. 1. To abolish the established Protestant Religion 2. To subvert the fundamentall and knowne Lawes of the Land 3. To imprison and murder their King 4. To burne and plunder the City of London 5. To destroy Monarchy and settle all power upon themselves 6. To enslave all people that are of a contrary judgement to themselves With their Resolutions for the King and Kingdonmes and the settlement of the knowne Lawes and bringing all Offendors to exact tryall Aug the 29 Printed in the Yeare 1648. An Alarum to London c. WERE you not by divine justice blinded and hoodwinkt with more then ordinary stupidity and carnall security you would at last see the manifold mischieves and miseries that are comming on you and your City and in time provide for your safety and be no more gulled with flim flams and rest satisfied with delusive expressions soft oyly answers to your Petitions smooth silken words like Syrens songs to intice you to destruction As Gentlemen if you consider what Declarations Protestations Oathes and Covenants those Libertinismes have taken before God and have broken and altered their Principles according to their successe it will plainly appeare before God and man what Jugglers they are to both therefore heare what they say Declar. Parl. May 26. 164● They doubt not that it shall in the end appeare to all the world that their endeavoures have beene most hearty and sincere for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion the Kings just Prerogatives the Lawes and liberties of the Land and the Priviledges of Parliament in which endeavours by the grace of God they would still persist though they should perish in the worke Does it not appeare to all the world how they have fulfilled this promise concerning Religion have they not suppressed the government by Bishops as ancient as Christianity it selfe the Booke of Common-prayer settled by five acts of Parliament compiled by holy men Reformers and Martyrs and practised in the time of foure Princes though the Law formerly put one Penry to death in Qu. Elizabeths time for writing two scandalous Bookes against Church Government who was indicted araigned attainted of treason and executed at Tyborne Does it not appeare to all the World that this is true and does it not appeare to all the World that they have against this profession not onely altered the true Protestant established Religion confounding all Government and Orders but introduced and tolerated all manner of Heresies Sects Schismes Anarchy Libertinisme and prophanesse and the sam● Law as well deserves the same end as their Brother Penry did 2. Does it not appeare to all the world how they have mai●ayned the Kings just Prerogative or power when against the oath of Allegeance the oath of Supremacy and their owne oathes and Covenants they have divided His politicke capacity from his naturall person and his power from his person have wrested the sword out of his hands with which he was invested withall at his Coronation the Militia that is the power of making peace and war and is trusted only in the hands of the King not only by the Laws of the Land but by God himselfe by whom Kings reigne and Princes decree Justice as one observes excellently saying The sword of the Lord and Gideon is but one two handed sword and when wrested out of the hands of the King by Rebels then God takes it into his owne hands and with it will wound the hairy scalpes of his enemies It appeares that they have against their professions wrested this sword out of his Majesties hands and seized not only of his Majesties Revenue and Shipping but of his Forts Ports and Magazines of War which is no other but high Treason by the Law that they have counterfeited his Seale signed Writs and granted Patents and Commissions and made Officers Justices of Peace and of Assize without his consent divesting the King and the Crown of the chiefe power and government and established it upon themselves voting no more addresses to be made unto his Majesty nor Messages to be received from him intending with the Army as appears plainely by their last Declaration to settle a government without the King and against him and against all that take part with him This makes all your Petitions for a personall Treaty and for his Majesties returne to be so unwelcome to them This appeares to all the world and a little more if the God of this world hath not blinded us That to involve the people in this most execrable damnable and detestable Apostacy from their faith allegeance to God and the King and more subtly to cary on their plots and designs to ruine Monarchy they have framed a desperate ingagement That no maner of person whatsoever shall adhere to any other authority but the two houses of Parliament and to renounce the King his protection and government and to submit to the usurpation of the Rebels at Westminster or else to be adjudged as Traytors and Rebels to the State And this desperate ingagement is by their Proselites caried into all the Counties of the Kingdom and pressed upon the people in all Corporations This is enough and too much for the Kings Just Prerogative which by the grace of God these zealous hypocrites would endeavour and persist in though they should perish in the worke Heer let the World behold their equivocations with God and man and whether their owne words be not a thousand witnesses against them and their base disloyalty and manifest perjury be not layd open to all the world and whether this would not move all maner of persons to oppose and fight against them both for the defence and maintenance of the King and Crowne and the established Government in the Kingdome 3. How they have maintained the Lawes and Liberties of the Land in the end it appeares what Lawes they have kept or broken or whether they have not abrogated all the good and wholesome Lawes of the Land and in●roduced in their places a new brood of pernicious and banefull Ordinances that have not the least reference to any of the ten Commandements have they not put divers to death against Law have they not against Law the better to foment this ungodly war and to enrich themselves raysed Excize Contributions Sequestrations Fifth parts Twentieth parts Meal-money Sa●e of plundered goods Loanes Benevolences Collections upon their hypocriticall Fast-dayes Impositions upon Merchandizes Guards maintained at the charge of private men fifty Subsidies at once Compositions sale of Bishops lands and as if all this were too little Coals foure shillings the chaldron Grindstones and Salt and a thousand more trickes to impoverish and enslave free subjects what guide have the subjects of this Land to direct them but the