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A77256	The Oxonian antippodes, or, The Oxford anty-Parliament. First, setting forth who it is that calls that Parliament. Secondly, who they are that sit in that Parliament. Thirdly, what Parliament it is, when the members of it are in one body. Fourthly, to what end this Parliament is called. Fifthly, what they are for their religion, their lives and conversations, that beare armes in defence of that Parliament. Sixthly, that the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawfull Parliament. Seventhly, that whatsoever is done against this lawfull Parliament, is against God, the Protestant religion, the lawes of the land, and the liberty of the subjects. By I.B. Gent.	J. B. (John Brandon)	1644 (1644)	Wing B4248; Thomason E31_8; ESTC R6818	11,624	39

THE OXONIAN ANTIPPODES OR The OXFORD Anty-Parliament First Setting forth who it is that calls that Parliament Secondly Who they are that sit in that Parliament Thirdly What Parliament it is when the Members of it are in one body Fourthly To what end this Parliament is called Fifthly What they are for their Religion their lives and conversations that beare Armes in defence of that Parliament Sixthly That the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawfull Parliament Seventhly That whatsoever is done against this Lawfull Parliament is against God the Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land and the Liberty of the Subjects By I.B. Gent. LONDON Printed for Richard Lounds and are to be sold at his shop neere Ludgate 1644. To the Reader CURTEOUS READER THe inexhausted Treasures of the never-dying vertues of this faithfull Parliament hath incouraged my quaking Pen to salute you by presenting unto your view the weake indeavours of a Souldiers Quill And the rather to give satisfaction to the world that I girt not sword to my thigh till such time I well weighed the reasons that moved me to it which were these To defend the Protestant Religion this lawfull Parliament the Lawes of the Land and my owne liberty from the violence and oppression of proffessed Papists Traitours and Rebels And now having some leisure being in my Winter quarters after a sad contemplation of my Countries misery I thought fit to spend some houres in compiling this undigested fragment for the better satisfaction of some various conceipts that are amongst us and for the stopping the mouthes of malignant spirits who with their stupidity flatter themselves with the bare name of a King never arguing to themselves how farre a King may command or what commands of the King the Subject may not obey Now here is discovered how farre the Kings power doth extend to Command his subjects And what Commands of the King the Subject may not obey Here is set forth what the Ruler is by his Counsell and that a good King will not suffer wicked Counsellours to be about him All I shall adde is one by his request courteously to accept my weake labours And how ever you please to censure I wish you a contented life and an honourable death Yours faithfully affected JO. BRANDON Gent. The Oxonian Antippodes or the Oxford Anty-Parliament KIngs are appointed by God to govern the people committed to their charge with wisdome and knowledge like Solomon who desired of the Lord to give him wisdome and knowledge 2 Chron. the 7.10 that he might go out and in before the Lords people for saith he who can judge this thy people as if he should have said that I may govern this thy people with wisdome and knowledge by establishing to them a saveing Religion and wholsome Lawes both which include a comfortable Libertie as King Iehoshaphat 2 Chron. the 17 the 7 8 9. verses in the third yeare of his Reigne he sent his Princes with divers of his Priests and Levites to Iudah and with them the booke of the Law of the Lord to teach the people of Iudah the Lawes that were written in that booke Now the Law of God exprest in holy Scripture is a Law that is written in the conscience of every man in the conscience of the King so wel as in the conscience of a Subject which Law the Philosophers call the Law of Nature and the Lawyers call it the Law of Nations whereof the Law of Moses is a plaine exposition hence it is that the fundamentall Lawes are grounded upon these Lawes and the King is sworne at his Coronation to maintaine them to the Subjects with such Religion and Liberties as the same Lawes do alow of It remains then that there is a Religion Lawes and Liberties belonging to the Subjects of England and they are to be maintained unto them by the King whence is it then that our Religion Lawes and Liberties had long ere this been taken from us by him that is sworn to maintain them to us had not God of his great mercy stird up the hearts of a Parliament to stand for us by reason his Majestie gave himselfe over to evill Counsellers he did choose rather to come in a hostile manner to the House of Parliament to accuse five of his faithfullest Counsellers of high treason then suffer to be brought to condigne punishment Digby or Germin or Windibancke who are known Traytors to this State and Kingdome such Counsellours they are ro him as Ahab was and Ahaziahs mother was to him she counselled him to do wickedly wherefore he did evill in the sight of the Lord Chron. 2.22 Chap. 3.4 like the house of Ahab for they were His Counsellours to his destruction it must needs follow that the Rulers are such as their Counsellours be that there cannot be a good King that suffereth wicked Counsellours if Kings be intrusted with Subjects Lawes and Liberties to the end they should maintain them by the best meanes they can to the losse of life and inheritance and yet labour to circumvent them of their Religion Laws and Liberties and this being done in a Kingdome which is governed by a Parliamentary government and their Priviledges lying ingaged with the Subjects Lawes and Liberties its time then for that Parliament to be stir themselves and by all the means they can defend themselves their Religion their Priviledges with all the faithfull subjects with their Lawes and Liberties from violence and oppression and from being delivered into the over ruling power of papists and Rebels and Violaters of Lawes and Liberties but now the word Liberty has taken that possession in the harts of English Subjects that all the Monarchicall Prerogatives in Oxford or elsewhere cannot tell how either by declaring against it at common Law by the advice of Bankes and Heath or by preferring a Bill in Chancery against it with the advice of Littelton or by thundering sentencies out of the high Commission and Starre chamber by the Arch-Prelates to put it out of possession when these would not do to bring their designe to perfection they have thundred forth Proclamations to terrifie the hearts of His Majesties loyall and faithfull Subjects by proclaiming them Traytours and Rebels for no other cause then for standing in defence of their Religion Lawes and Lyberties And have raised an Army to suppresse their lawfull Parliament and now they have perswaded His Majestie to call a Parliament to sit at Oxford there to sit in councell as I conceive against God himselfe for the rooting out of the Protestant Religion for the destruction of his lawfull Parliament and the Lawes and Lyberties of the faithfull Protestants in England Scotland and Ireland You may see to what end they call this great Councell if we doe but looke backe for seven yeares before the sitting of this Parliament of blessed memorie who seeing what action they have continually beene in as by private wayes and meanes under pretence of Religion still bringing in

severall Innovations into the Church by limiting the Subjects in their devotion upon Sabbath dayes and others as if they should have said God doth not give men the power of prayer but wee must set them a Forme how they shall pray and for what And if they doe not pray thus God will not heare them with divers other Cerimoniall actions to be used in the Church As to bow to the Table it being set popish Altarwise and to bow at the name of Jesus and in many Churches and Chappels there was set up the Death and Passion of our blessed Saviour And in His Majesties owne Chappell at Whitehall there was an absolute Altar with the holy Booke guarded with Tapers with worshipping of God at that Altar by singing of Anthems in their popish Coapes All which being burthens to tender consciences caused many Ministers of God rather choose to bee silenced other some to leave the Kingdom then to give way to such popish Innovations and to have their consciences limited to such great inconveniences as these were and for other godly learned men whose judgements did foresee what great opposites these mountaines would prove to eclipse the pure divine worship of God for ever being setled in the Church of England These men for the discharging of their consciences to God as it was his honour that then lay at stake to the people of this Kingdome as it was the means of their salvation that lay at stake by making knowne to the people of this Kingdome the private plots these Innovators used under the habit of the Protestant Religion for the circumventing of the true Protestant Religion were some of them pillored and Branded some of them had their Eares cut and some wh●pt and all of them had the sentence of perpetuall imprisonment But it pleased God to raise himselfe Instruments of honour contrary to their expectation to cast out the Babilonish government which was crept into our Church and to raise them up againe who for a long time before lay under the heavy burthens of the prelaticall suppressions when as the Arch-prelates did see that their Gods and god divices must be throwne downe by a Reforming Parliament than they conspire once more to exasperate the businesse a little further and that must be done by protesting against all that ever this Parliament had done to see how it pleased God they should worke their owne ruine I verily beleeve that protestation did disable them for ever having Vote in Parliaments any more or to be so much honoured as to come into the in-side of one or both the Houses unlesse it be to receive sentence for condigne punishment This former consideration being well weighed in an even ballance by every true Protestant the consequence will be that sithence they cannot disinherit us of the pure worship of God by fomenting our Religion and so consequently to have disinherited us of God himselfe for where the pure worship of God is there is God himselfe by subverting our Lawes by protecting of Papists and Recusants and profest Priests and Jesuits from being brought to condigne punishment according to the knowne lawes of the Land It remaines therefore that they will cast in one bone more and try if they can pluck up our Religion the parliamentary government the Lawes of the Kingdome the Liberties of the Subject by the root striking at the very being of Parliaments What colour doe you thinke they have for this They say this Parliament is a pretended Parliament wherefore they will have an Anti-Parliament called to sit at Oxford could not His Majesties Cabbinet Councell with their stupid injenuous advice advise him to appoint this Antippodes to be held at no other place then Oxford there would have been roome enough for himselfe to have sate with His lawfull Parliament at Westminster if He had pleased to have come thither and for His Counsellours too provided he would br●ng them to receive that condigne punishment which justly they have deserved The place where this Anti-parliament must be held is at no other place then Oxford even there from whence should flow both Milke and Honey there where the Gospell of Jesus Christ should be in its greatest splendour It should be a maine light to the Kingdome a place where Kings should be instructed in the wayes of peace and not to warre with His own faithfull and loyall Subjects but to inlarge their Liberties A place from whence should flow such streames of Soveraigne graces and spirituall Balsoms as should purge away all Spanish and French factious Advisers from about His Majestie and heale up all differences betwixt His Majestie and His faithfull Parliament But here wee have it quite contrary for in stead of Milke and Honey thence proceeds gaule and bitternesse In stead of giving light to the Kingdome it yeelds nothing but darknesse In stead of Instructing the King in the wayes of peace there he is advised to warre against his lawfull Parliament In stead of purging streames to purge away Factious advisers there are Rivers that increase and bring them to His Majestie In stead of healing up the differences that are betweene His Majestie and His Parliament there is greater differences made In stead of Advising His Majestie to come and sit with His lawfull Parliament He is there advised to call an Anti-Parliament in opposition to His lawfull Parliament This proves the place to be Antippodes Now it remaines 1. VVHo it is that calls this Anti-Parliament 2. Secondly who they are that are called to sit in this Parliament 3. Thirdly what this Parliament in it selfe is that is called when the Members of it are in one Body 4. Fourthly to what end this Parliament is called 5. Fifthly what they are in their Religion Lives and Conversations that beare Armes for the defence of this Parliament 6. Sixthly that the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawfull Parliament 7. Seventhly and lastly that whatsoever is done against this lawfull Parliament by the Anti-Parliament is against God Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of the Subjects of England Question 1. Who is it that calls this Parliament Answer IT is the King and true it is Kings may Command and Subjects ought to obey their King so farre forth as hee shall Command them nothing but what is warrantable by holy Writ and the Lawes of the Land where he Rules The name of a King that Rules with wisdome and knowledge with peace and Tranquilitie revives the spirits of his faithfull Subjects when as the name of an obstinate King that rules by a Tyrannicall government strikes terrour and makes them carelesse in their dutie to their Prince That King who by his ruling in Justice hath the love of all his faithfull Subjects seemes glorious in his Throne and terrible to his enemies The King is to be ruled by Law so well as to rule by Law as by making the Law his guide or rule how to governe his people in love it is a charge layd upon