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A63550	The True loyalist wherein is discovered, First, the falsehood and deceipt of the solemn league and covenant, Secondly, that there is no salvation out of Christ, Thirdly, that the pope is the Anti-Christ, the man of sin, or the son of perdition, cum multis alias, &c. / by a true loyalist.	True loyalist.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2756; ESTC R31985	66,689	159

eat any food until the evening c. they were no less careful to keep the Kings commandment in regard of their Oath for notwithstanding the rashness of the adjuration the greatness of their distress with hunger and confination and the greatness of their temptation too by the dropping of hony in a private wood Yet no man would put his hand to his mouth because they feared the Oath z 1 Sam. 14. Now if an Oath be so Sacred and blinding when it is only in things indifferent not contrary to the will of God How much rather is it Sacred and obliging when it is for confirmation of such holy things which the word of God hath before bound us to observe a Nehemiah 10.29 Let all be judge that have not shook hands with their rationality I am sure these obligations are more firm than Solomons threefold Cord which cannot quickly be broken b Ecclesiastes 4.12 But 2. If the Oath be rashly taken in such things that be contrary to the word of God I know then that there is none except he be more Infidel than the Devils themselves c James 2.19 but will readily acknowledge that it is absolutely unlawfull d Numb 30.5 8. and consequently the obligation to keep it as absolutely taken away Yea by the Law of contraposition if we will but allow Affirmatives and Negatives to include or suppose one another a man is as much obliged to break an unlawful Oath as he is to keep one that is lawful in all things according to the word of God because as he cannot keep an unlawful Oath without making his sin exceeding sinful so by breaking of it he manifesteth his repentance whereby he makes a re-entry into Covenant with God by a new stipulation How much then was Herod that Fox e Luke 13.32 to blame when he promised upon Oath to give the Daughter of Herodias for pleasing him in a Dance whatsoever she would ask and she being before instructed of her Mother said give me here John Baptist's head in a Charger For instead of putting her off by telling her that his Oath supposed only such requests as were lawful he added sin to sin for though the Hypocrite said He was exceeding sorry nevertheless for the Oaths sake as he pretended and them which sat with him at meat he commanded it to be given her f Mar. 14. Mar. 6. But how much more was Cromwell that Fox and his Park of Presbyterians and Independents to blame when to satisfie the having desire of Mrs. Avarice for pleasing them with a dance in the great Parlor of their large Consciences they bound themselves each to other by a Solemn yet damnable League and Covenant to destroy our Nation and her Religion and to root out all order and Government both in Church and State Herod played only the Tyrant but these were not only Tyrants but Usurpers too besides though they agreed with him in several circumstances of their cruelty and Hypocrisie yet they much out-ballanced him in the mode and hainousness of their Oath and Villany For whereas Herods Oath consisted only of a plain piece of cruelty against a single person their Covenant was taken for the destruction of a whole Kingdom and like the Turkish Alcoran consisted of a Hoch-poch of principles not only bad but some seemingly good too to cover the bad and their evil designs with the vail of Hypocrisie And accordingly herein it was notoriously contradictory to its self it pretended great Loyalty to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and authority and withal to extirpate Episcopacy and Church Government Which could not possibly be without destroying the Kings Authority because they were upheld by the Kings Authority This was so evident that they preceived it themselves and therefore were resolved to contradict themselves further and also destroy the Kings Majesties person too The Presbyterians Preacht him upon the block and the Independents beheaded him and the whole Nation And accordingly when it had once strengthened them the end for which it was taken by tying the Populacy fast to their parties under the terrour of perjury then they quickly * Hist Independ Compleat Part. 1. p. 139. cast it aside and called it an Almanack out of date Yea and punished too many for attempting to keep it And no marvel for their Covenant which they had so rashly and unadvisedly taken pretended so much for the honour and happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity that they saw they could not possibly keep it without its contradicting them in their pulling down of Monarchy and the establishing of their Oligarchy or Tyranny For * Hist Independ Compleat Part 1. p. 113. which cause their Grandees that they might also the better hinder their Vote that they would not alter the ancient form of Government by King Lords and Commons from taking effect caused the Antimonarchical book written by Parsons the Jesuit 1524. under the feigned name of Doleman to be published though they knew it was condemned by Act of Parliament 35 Eliz. But it is no wonder that they should not care for former Acts of Parliment when as they did so lightly esteem of their own as well as of their National Covenant Wherein though they also pretended to be great Reformers from Popish superstition yet you see as the same Author observes that they can joyn interests with France Doctrine with the Jesuits to carry on their design and reduce us to the condition of French Peasants and Slaves under the Kingdom of the Saints And the truth is though the greatest part might do what they did not out of malice but rather as our Martyred Soveraign charitably speaks of them in his ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ out of misapprehension of things or misinformation yet it is notorious that most of the Chief and Heads of them acted against their own knowledge and Conscience no less than Herod did in beheading of John the Baptist for as Herod knew and acknowledged that John was a just man and an holy and had done nothing worthy of death but only a spleen he had against him for telling him that it was not lawful for him to have his Brothers Wife whom he had married So these Covenanters knew not only that they had bound themselves by a solemn Oath with hands lifted up to the most high God to preserve and defend the King but also that he was so just a man an holy that they could find nothing of any moment to stuf out their black charge against him They knew that he comported * Hist Indedend Compleat Part 2. p. 218. himself in his afflictions with such admired temper prudence and constancy that many even of his engaged Enemies themselves became his Converts thereby speaking Panegyricks in his praise Particularly Harry † Hist Independ Compleat Part 2. p. 15. Martyn making a speech in the House upon the Debate touching Kingly Government whether a King or no King gives