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A90114	O friends! no friends, to King, Church and state. Or, Thames, Twede and Tyne paraell'd [sic] with Romes Tyber and king-poysoning Po. With positions and practices from Rome and from Rhemes, from Edenburgh and Geneva, poiz'd to some purpose, as the case now stands : and, presented to all impartiall patriots and Presbyterians. / By Veridicus, præterea nihil.	Veridicus.	1648 (1648)	Wing O14; Thomason E432_25; ESTC R203077	17,850	30

Esa 5.20 the Crow white and the Swan blacke a Plebeian a Preacher a Mechanick a Minister a Dunce a Doctor a Taylor a Teacher a Mute a Vowell a Dulman a Divine and a Divine a Dry vine a blind Guide a seer a Barne-Babler a brave Benclark a poore arrogant ignorant a Prophet a cloud a Juno a Figure a Cypher and a Cypher a Figure Asinus ad Liram asinus ad Tribunal an Asse a Musitian yea an Asse a Magistrate and Balaams Asse a Minister reproving Prophets and Saul seeking Asses a Mushrump Prophet in such an Hysteron Proteron and Phaetonian confusion as though this giddy-headed age should turne every thing topsie turvy susque deque the heavens to stand still as Celum once in the Comody called Lingua and the dull earth to move as Copernicus once conceited all things running on wheeles as some Grandees and Professours rotten at the core go to heaven the clean contrary way So it is and so it hath been for any Jesuitized Papist by his pate or purse or arme for all his charmes to help any Protestant Prince to establish any Religion though Episcopized but his owne as if a Milstone or wedges of lead or irons tied about a swiming mans neck should help him to swim to the shore or as though a handfull of soot ink or tar should better then cleare water oyle of Lillies or of Tartar help a man to wash his face and to take out all abstersive spots I am as sensible as the Spider of the least touch of her web that this pressed point in diebus illis in our ill daies in B. Quondams time had been durus sermo a harsh doctrine it would have incurred either a silencing chiefly at the Court with Prophesie not this in Bethell for it is the Kings Chappell Amos 7.13 or it might have incurred a currish censure of a slit nose or a cropped eare in touching Papists Favorites to many Prelates to their little Laud be it spoken in many things both politicall and Ecclesiasticall as familiarly sympathizing as Simeon and Levi Gen. 49.5 or as Herod and Pilate reconciled amongst other demonstrations more then Mathematicall this is one that for many by-past yeares Episcopacy tutoring Regality that it sailed betwixt two Rocks the Scylla of Popery and the more dangerous Carybdis of Puritanisme as then all true zeal for Reformation was nick-named of the two evills minimum eligendum the lesse being to bee chosen Queen Elizabeth and two succeeding Monarchs after her were perswaded that more favour and connivance was to be used to the first as birds of their owne feather then to the last as more factious and so more perillous to Church and State And for this purpose to make up their mouths and to set a glosse and vernish on their false and frivolous surmises and suggestions one Owen a Papall Proctor in his Antipareus and Omerod a scurrilous fellow in his picturé of a Puritan and the disguised Authour of Lisimachus Nicanor with many such Panders for the Scarlet Whore chiefly that great Dick Ecclesiae Bankcroft the petty Pope of Canterbury in his Theses Periculosa out of the writings of some Presbyterians culls out some positions dangerous and State-firing as they are branded which are wrested and wrung so as a man his nose till it give blood and so set on the Tenterhooks of construction as that Tyrant in History racked out every short guest to fit a long bed to the equallizing of Presbyterians in their positions if not practices to be as great Antagonists to the peace and safety of Princes as the worst of Papists which ever filled the Trojan horse of any State with the armed Greeks of Traitors but they may put all in their eyes which they gain by their sophistry and prevarications making as Bellarmine that Tortus in his torturing the Greek and Latine Fathers and other Postillers quid libet ex quolibet every thing of any thing for he that seriously peruseth Vrsinus his Exercitations a Lib. 2. Exer. 4. Peter Marter upon the Iudges chap. 3. Calvins Institutions b Lib. 4. cap. 20. Sect. 24. Daneus his Politickes c lib. 3. c. 6. l. 6. c. 3. the Scotch Buckanan de Iure Regni pag. 12.13.58.61 and the zealous Goodman p. 180.184.186 and Knox his Historie of the Church p. 265. and his Epistle to the English p. 98. and a book de Obedientia p. 26.259.139 printed by some Exiles in Geneva in Queen Maries daies out of whom pretermitting others these Spiders though from flowers gather poison and he shall see that the substance and result of all they write is onely thus much in effect that si principes tyrannidem exerceant contra Deum cjusque veritatem eorum subditi non tenentur obedire if Princes exercise tyranny against God and his truth and Gospell their Subjects are not bound to any active obebience more then the people were obliged by Oath to obey Saul in his cruell mandates of massacring the Lords Priests 1 Sam. 22.17 and Ionathan 1 Sam. 14.45 or Elias to go to that Idolatrous King who sent his Captaines of fifties for him 2 King 1. or Elisha after the slavish subjection of the Turkish Bashawes to their Ottomans to yeeld his head to that Tyrant who swore to take it of 2 Kin. 32. or the Jewish Captives to worship Nabuchadnezars Image Dan. 3.18 or Irene to worship her Fathers Idolls which she pulled downe as Gideon Baals groves though with the reluctance of authority Judg. 6.31 or no more then any were subjected to yeeld any obedience to Maacha after she was deposed for her Idolatry 2 Ch. 15 16. or to Athalia legally deposed by Iehojada and the Peers of Israel for her usurpations and her cruelties or to Vzzah after he was extruded his Regiment for his Leprosies by those Priests whose office he abused all subjection being in ordine quoad Deum only in God for God and as to God in things legall warranted by God according to the precept and practice of S. Peter Acts 5. Rom. 13.4 However for my part as being homo ecclesiae a man Orthodox and not willing to patronize any errour if once convicted if any can prove that ought in these recited Authours is erroneous as he that reads Scultetus his Medulla Patrum Illiricus his Catalogue of the witnesses of the Truth M. Perkins his Apologie and the writings of the Fathers shall see in Cyprian Tertullian Basill and Augustine himselfe chiefly in Origen grosse mists and clouds in these and others counted the lights of the Church as there is some drosse in every Age in the best gold or if any can prove these their opinions to be private Tenets and not according to the Analogie of faith nor according to the Nicen and the other three first Generall Councells which Gregory so respected nor according to the 39. Articles agreed upon and received by our Church then I say I am not bound to plead for them further then