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A83701	A disclaimer and answer of the Commons of England, of and unto a scandalous libell, lately published against the Parliament, and espcially the House of Commons and their proceedings: intituled The remonstrance of the Commons of England to the House of Commons assembled in Parliament, and falsely suggested to be preferred to them by the hands of the speaker. Wherein the malicious cavills and exceptions by the libeller taken to the proceedings of Parliament are detected and summarily answered, and the sottish ignorance and wicked falsehood of the libeller cleerely discovered, and the justice of the proceedings of this Parliament and House of Commons evinced and manifested.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; White, John, 1590-1645, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing E2573; Thomason E100_23; ESTC R12060	28,839	39

cannot see it to be lesse then Treason to joyne with the Parliament in this War yet such as have any understanding in the Laws know that to joyne with an Inferiour Court in executing the Processe thereof to bring Delinquents to Justice with the greatest force and power of men if it cannot be otherwise done is lawfull though the King joyne with these Delinquents in resisting the same and endeavour to protect them against it and that it is so far from Treason as that it is Treason in such as raise Force against such Processe and to protect such Delinquents from the Courts of Justice as was judged in Parliament in the cause of Alexander Bishop of Yorke Robert de-Leere Duke of Ireland and others in the time of Rich. 2d. and confirmed after by Statute in the first Yeare of Hen. 4●… Ob. Ninethly he saith That to all the Commanders and Officers of their Army the Parliament gives large and even profuse entertainement and rewardes but out of our purses Sol. We doe not beleeve neither can this false accuser prove this charge that any other entertainements or rewards have been given by the Parliament then were given by the King before this War nor so much as the King hath given sithence and what is here imputed to the Parliament falsely may justly be said of the Kings Army who have free booty and we are delivered over as a prey unto them who make the Proverbe that goes of the Great Turke true in England That where he sets his foote no grasse will grow where the Kings Army goes they take away Plow and Cart-horses cut the Harnesse and use all the wicked cruell meanes they can to destroy Tillage and bring in a famine and the miseries attending it upon us Further for the Liberty of our Persons and proprieties of our estates this Libeller objects that we have little hope of this Ob. First Because the Parliament takes away the Kings Treasure intercepteth his Revenue possesseth his Houses of accesse and pretend all is for his owne service and if any attend or assist him they are condemned as Malignants Popish Evill Councellours and enemies to the State Sol. To this we must answer for the Parliament That if they had taken any of the Kings Treasure the King now upon his Articles of Treaty wherein he demands satisfaction for all he hath any colour or pretence to demand of them The King would have demanded it but he demands no such matter by which this seemes to us an apparent grosse lying imputation and we cannot judge better of it But we heare of the Jewels of the Crowne with which the King is but trusted and which by our Laws are to goe with the Crowne in Succession that they are imbessel'd and sould away a dangerous effect of the evill Councells given unto his Majesty Secondly for his Revenue it is true they have seised on some part of that for the necessary maintenance and support of his owne Children whom he hath left in the power of the Parliament and to them the same hath been disposed according to the proportions of allowance his Majesty hath alwayes set out for them and in no other and without it they might have starved otherwise and if they have seized upon any more of his Revenue it is not considerable in quantity nor fit they should let him have that to maintaine his War against his Parliament and people which is his only for the publike good protection and safety of his people and by our Laws ought to be so imployed Thirdly for his Majesties Houses we know none the Parliament hath medled withall but the Castle of Windsor and that is before answered in what hath been said concerning the Castles and Forts of this Kingdome Fourthly for condemning such as attend or assist him it is not true that any one of his attendants that are bound by speciall service to be with him have been meerely for that condemned as Malignants Popish Evill Councellours or Enemies to the State but such as having no speciall oeconomicall obligation to attend him or have assisted him in this unnaturall War or are Popish or give him wicked and destructive Councell and foment this War and Viper-like endeavour to rend out the bowells of the Countrey that bare and nourished them have been and are justly accounted Malignants and Enemies to the State and their courses evidence them to be such to all indifferent lookers on or that shall heare any true report thereof Ob. Secondly he saith That the House of Commons have by Messages endeavoured to perswade our Bretheren of Scotland to joyne with them in their Rebellion against their Soveraigne and that by Votes of their House Sol. If this Libeller had once proved by any reason or Law that any thing done by the Parliament in opposition of the Kings present courses against his Parliament and people were Rebellion he had laid some foundation whereupon he might have presumed to build so bold an inference but neither he nor any other that we have seen or heard of hath as yet been able to doe that And the Politick constitution of the Kingdome is cleerely against it and the like being done by our Brethern the Scots against his Majesties like proceedings with them hath been by his Majesty and the Parliament judged and declared to the World in an Act of Parliament made lately to deserve no such Imputation and that Judgement and Declaration this Libeller himselfe if he be an English-man is a party to though now he give himselfe the lye If our Bretheren the Scots in taking up Armes and coming into this Kingdome so armed and taking the Fort and Port of New-Castle and Timnoth Castle into their possession to maintaine their Lawes Religion and Liberties against the wicked Councellours that induced his Majesty to endeavour to infring the same were well done and nothing therein done amisse let all the world judge of the proceedings of our Parliament in the same case De similibus idem iudicium And whom have the Parliament called in to their assistance surely no Forraigners nor Papists as the King seduced by evill Councell hath done but our Bretheren interessed in the cause as well as we and of the same Religion Ob. Thirdly he faith The Parliament did a greater Act of barbarous hostility against the King in his owne Person and excuses it by saying it was not their fault but the Kings and his Councellours that he went in Person into the Battle which he did with that Kingly courage at will adde to his honour and their shame while the World endures which action of theirs is become odious to God and man and their excuse for it ridiculous Sol. If the King should appeare in Armes to hinder the Justice of his Inferiour Courts were it an act of barbarous hostility to execute the Processe of such Court notwithstanding and would it argue Kingly courage or adde to his honour or the shame of the Court that awarded that Processe

and speedy Justice with ease to our purses and without great travell to our persons and not be consumed and tired out with endlesse chargeable suites concerning them as we have beene in those Courts and notwithstanding remaine in the long runne uncertaine of Justice And for matters in their owne nature meerely and onely Spirituall as Adultery c. we desire some better course should be set for the punishment of them according to the Word of God and not by the Popes Canon Law and we partly perceive by the Bills that have past both Houses of Parliament that they not only intend but had long before this setled all these things by their wisedomes in the best way if they had not beene hindered by men that hate to be reformed the fault this Libeller would insinuate to be in the Parliament lies not in them but in others that are of the same spirit with this false accuser Ob. Fourthly He saith That under the Name of reforming the Church governement the Parliament endeavoureth to take away the function and very being of Church governours as Bishops Deanes c. and so to take away at once the preferments of Learned men and incouragements of Learning Let the abuses be taken away but not the good uses also Sol. We beleeve this may be as well objected by the Pope his Cardinalls and shavelings as for Bishops Deanes c. whose temporall honours and possessions are greater and by them held the functions and very beings of Church governement and the preferments of Learned men and the incouragements of Learning but we desire all these functions and beings of governement being abuses and equally branches of the Man of sin the Popish Hierarchy and Babell that must fall may be taken away roote and branch out of the Church as they be out of other reformed Churches And that the Gospell-Bishops painefull Preachers of the Gospell that give themselves to prayer and the administration of the Word a Act. 20.28 6.4 may be restored to all the parts of their function and office which these usurpers have a long time deprived them of And that the maintenance devoured by these Idle slow bellies may be distributed among the Churches officers ordained by God worthy of double honour which will be preferments for Learned men that shall make use of their Learning for the saving of soules the highest and most noble imployment of it and incouragement to all true Learning Ob. Fiftly He saith That for rectifying Church discipline and some things in Doctrine also an Assembly of Divines is propounded to be convocated and consulted with The matter is right but the manner amisse for the Divines are not nominated by Divines who can best judge of their abilities which is the Legall way The greatest part of those who are Named are knowne or justly suspected to be persons ill disposed to the peace of the Church and addicted too much unto Innovations and the Parliament being all Lay men are to be the only Iudges of what shall be propounded and determined The Divines are but their Assistants and the King is totally to be excluded from having any voice or hand in it and as it is propounded it is to be a perpetuall Convocation if the Houses of Parliament so please Sol. This cavill might have been made to the Reformation of our Doctrine in the beginning of the Raigne of Qu. Elizabeth wherin if the consultation had bin with Divines named by Divines there should never have been any Reformation at all the legall way had prevented the divine way of Reforming this Church the Divines being then universally corrupt in Doctrine as they now be in discipline Have not the eares of our Divines universally been so filled with Lauds Whites Wrens and their complices clamours of Bishops government by Divine Right and their hearts corrupted with a hopefull expectation themselves might climbe up into the Chaire as they are scarce patient to admit a question to be made thereof and is it in such a time and cause reasonable to leane the Reformation of Discipline and Church-government upon such deceitfull Reeds will they not pierce the hand and deceive and delude us And when our fresh experience in the last Convocation informes us what a dreadfull misery was like to have befallen us had not this Parliament by the good providence of our God prevented it by Divines nominating Divines when both the Electors and elected are birds of a feather like Ieremies bad figgs exceeding bad shall we now againe desire such a choice We conceive it is better never consult with never choose Divines then give way to such elections or nominations If Divines be chosen and those godly and learned that we hope will by their debates endeavour to search out Truth and love and imbrace it found out and not seek themselves what matters it by whom they be nominated And when we find the House of Commons able to judge of and discover the inabilities defects and errours of the last Convocation Divines chosen by Divines and to convince them of their folly and wickednesse shall we question their ability to judge of the abilities of Divines and their fitnesse to nominate them to consult of Discipline and Government of the Church And that the Divines nominated by the Parliament are ill-disposed to the peace of the Church we verily believe is a false groundlesse Accusation and if this man know any such he shall doe a very good office to name them that they may be put out of this great imployment And for their being addicted to Innovation we feare it to be true of such of them as have given testimony thereof in their giving way and yeelding unto the tyranny of the Bishops in their late Innovations pressed without and against Law upon the Ministers and we know there are many such nominated to be of the Assembly But we conceive the Parliament have in their nomination and choice done as those that desire to have the truth and the best way of Church-government and Discipline found out in that they have named men of very different judgements and opinions concerning the same and as neare as they can honest men that will submit to truth discovered and heaten out by debate and dispute among them And though this man call the Parliament Lay-men we know though they be not in orders they are in the language of the Scriptures as much Clergy-men viz. the Lords lot portion and inheritance as the word signifies as those that are in orders and we find by experience they can judge of Church-government and Discipline and of the reasons and grounds upon which Divines found their judgement concerning them as well as Divines can and better too then our Convocation Divines and such as they have been members of the first great Councell at Ierusalem a Act. 15. and of all great Councels in orthodox times And the conclusion and results of the debates concerning Church-government and Discipline being to

be setled for Law by Act of Parliament the Houses of Parliament must necessarily be Judges thereof and that the King is excluded without whose Royall assent the Act cannot be of force is as senslesse an Assertion as it is groundlesse and so is his Suggestion that this may be a perpetuall Convocation when the Divines are to consult of a few speciall matters only and report their Conclusions and reasons to the Parliament and then to end which cannot be a worke of many weeks or months at most Ob. Sixtly He saith That under the colour of freedom of preaching seditious Sermons are preached daily in the hearing of many of the House of Commons who traduce the Kings sacred Person slander his Governement and in expresse tearmes in courage the maintaining and continuing of this unnaturall and unchristian warre and yet none are punished for it Which makes him feare that this is and long hath beene made by some to be the principall engine to kindle this fire of hell to the just scandall of all good men and slander of our Religion this Doctrine comming so neare to that of the Jesuites Sol. If there were any truth in this charge and this man were guided by any good spirit he would rather turne Informer against such Preachers and hearers in a right way by complaining of it to the Parliament or either House as well yea rather then insert it in this Libell and in such a generall manner without certainty or particularity and we believe the Sermons thus clamoured against are printed for most if not all preached before the House of Commons or in the Church where many of them usually heare are published and of these we can judge and must conclude that this report of them is a loud lie like the rest of this fellows scandalls Indeed we know that many wicked Priests Malignant against the Parliament and the good and safety of the Kingdome have preached sundry seditious Sermons tending to the maintenance and continuance of this unnaturall and unchristian civill-warre against the Parliament and excepting such and others of the like spirit as this Libeller is we are confident there is no man especially if he love the King and Parliament but desires there may be an honourable end and buriall of these contentions Ob. 7 Divers worthy and painfull Preachers have been committed to prison by the House of Commons for delivering their consciences freely and religiously and preaching obedience to their Soveraigne These things tend mainly against the maintenance and propagating of the true Protestant Religion Sol. If this man had informed himselfe of the causes for which Preachers have beene committed by the House of Commons by the Articles exhibited and proved there against them he could not be so wicked as we conceive as to publish so notorious a lie as this is For we find upon search that the Ministers by them committed have publickly preached to stirre-up the Subjects to sedition to take up Armes against the Parliament and Kingdome and to corrupt the King and us with the leaven of false flattering Doctrine of absolute Power in the King to doe what he list with us our estates and lives to pusse-up the King above what is meet and to draw us into a willing and conscientious slavery Doctrines destructive to the Kingdome and contrary to the constitution thereof and our Lawes and contrary to Gods command given us to stand fast in the liberty wherof he hath made us free Gal. 5.1 And considering the endeavours of the House of Commons to remove the Papists Bishops and scandalous Ministers and other rubbish that hindred the prapogating of the true Protestant Religion and to plant faithfull orthodox painfull labourers in this Church which is so notorious to us all Malice it selfe cannot deny but that their waies tend unto the maintenance and propagating of our Religion Ob. Secondly touching the maintaining the Lawes hee charges the House of Commons with these particulars First That they assume to themselves power by a bare Vote without Act of Parliament to expound or alter a Knowne Law where that House formerly assumed no such power but in order towards the making of a new Law nor did the House of Peeres challenge any such thing but they having the power of judicatory as Iudges have proceeded according to the Rules of the Knowne Lawes and upon their Honours are answerable for the Iustice of their Iudgements as other Courtes are upon their Oathes Sol. It is plaine that this fellow erres through grosse ignorance of the proceedings of Parliament and of all the Records thereof in which there is nothing more frequent and familiar in all Ages then to find the House of Commons declaring the Law and complaining that the King hath done things against the Law First Judging and determining by Votes and then claiming the Lawes and the Rights of the people and of their House and the Lords in like manner and that in generall as well as particular cases and not to leade the Reader at this time higher This appeares in the Petition of Right wherein the Commons first declare and expound the Lawes concerning these Rights therein claimed and usurped upon by the King 2. The Lords joyn with them in that Declaration And lastly the King gives his Assent to this Declaration before and without which these things were Law the Statute being declaratory of former not introductive of new Law And the Kings Assent was had only to stop the mouthes of cavilling Court and Innes of Court Sycophants and Flatterers the Moth of Kings and Kingdomes against those Laws and the rest of this charge is a grosse lie and groundles imputation Ob. 2 He saith That the Parliament makes their owne Orders and Ordinances to be as Law and compell them to be observed and with a stricter hand which may bind their Members but not have the force of Laws till by the Kings Assent they be confirmed Sol. Besides the two causes here admitted that they may make binding Orders First in order to making of new Laws Secondly To bind their owne Members it is most evident that the Orders and Ordinances of Parliament are binding and are to be obeyed First where they are in pursuance of the Lawes in being for to them principally belongs the care of preserving the Lawes and of inforcing obedience unto them and of giving strength and vigour unto them by the King and his ordinary Judges and ministers of Justice neglected or abused Such was the late Order of the House of Commons for the pulling downe of Crucisixes and Popish Images according to 3o. and 4o. Edw. 6 ti Cap. 10. revived 1o. Iac. Cap. 2. And against Innovations in Religion imposed upon the Subject against Law as bowing at the Name of Iesus which is idolizing a Name against the Law of God and without any Law of man and they deceive their own souls and endeavour to deceive others that pretend they doe it to worship the Person of Iesus for

the Kingdom the Parliament ought to complain of them unto him in a mannerly and respective and honorable way and if that take not effect they ought to take care that the Laws and peace and safety of the Kingdome be preserved not only without but against his personall will So Bracton Fol. 34. If the King shall be without a bridle that is to say shall not governe according to his Lawes the great Court of his Parliament ought to bridle him And so Parliaments have often done as both our Histories and Records of Parliament abundantly testifie * See the book entituled The treachery and disloyalty of Papists c. Thirdly An absolute Monarch chooses what Councellours he will but the Politick Monarchs great Councell for the weighty affaires and urgent businesse of his Kingdome is in greatest part chosen by the people and the rest have it annexed to their honours conferred or descended as the House of Peeres and these are not his Councell only but the Councell of his Kingdom and people Fourthly An absolute Monarch hath the Forts Ports and Ships of the Kingdome to use and dispose at his pleasure But our Politick Monarch hath none of these but in trust for the use and good of the Kingdome to take order they be used kept and imployed for the good peace and safety of the Kingdome according to Law and not to the hurt or endangering of the safety or peace of the Kingdome as is clearely manifested and proved in the Declaration of Parliament concerning Hull 25. May 1642. And in the Reply to the Answer therof and more particularly and largely in M. Prinns Soveraigne Power of Parliaments 5. An Absolute Monarch hath the Militia of his Kingdome and Monarch in his owne hand and pleasure as in truth the Lives Estates and the Whole of his Subjects are But a Politick Monarch hath no power to compell his Subjects to find Arms or serve with Arms except they be bound thereunto by Tenure or Contract and then but as their Tenures oblige them and can only compell his Subjects that have Armes to shew them in Musters before his Commissioners as appeares cleerely in the Declaration of the Parliament concerning the Commissions of Array lately Illegally granted so far is our King from having power over the Militia of the Kingdome without the consent of his Parliament And there having beene a manifest designe to alter Religion and the very constitution of this our Politick Monarchy by a Malignant party prevailing with his Majesty discovered by the wisedome of the Parliament and so far carried on as in a manner all was become subject to will and power and the Laws neither a defence of our persons nor of our rights and our Judges inforced against their Oathes and duties to comply with them and these Vipers finding the whole mould of their hellish devices to be likely to be broken and Lawes to be made for the establishing of our Liberties and proprieties and vindicating thereof and a through Reformation of the Church in Worship discipline and government to be set upon and resolved by the Parliament they endeavoured to get all the strength of the Kingdome into their hands The Lord Digbies advice in his Letter to the King and to that end perswaded his Majesty to possesse himselfe of the Ports and Forts places of strength as they called them that they might without feare of being brought to Justice for their delinquency by the Parliament have accesse unto him to advance their said designe and seduced the Queene out of the Kingdome and raised Armes by open force against the Parliament to destroy it and therein all our Religion Lawes and Liberties and drive the King to owne and take all those things upon himselfe and forged all the false colours and glosses upon those hellish proceedings of theirs that Jesuited devillish wits can invent to deceive the people and to draw them to become Felons and destroyers of themselves Was there not just cause and was it not high time for the Parliament to take care in such case that the Kingdome should be set in a Posture of defence and that the Ports Forts Magazeenes and Ships should be secured for the Peace safety and good of the Kingdome Was this done by designe surely if this had not beene done we had all ere this beene over-runne with tyranny and we and our Posterity made slaves When the King refuses to doe his duty which by Oath and Office he is bound to doe and imploys any thing he is intrusted withall by his Kingdome to the publike prejudice of him his Posterity and Kingdome It is necessary yea just and Legall that the Kingdomes representative the great Court the Councell of the Kingdome should seise upon secure and use the same to the publike defence and for the publike good and prevent the Kings satisfying the base lusts of a few wicked Councellours and Sycophants that would raise themselves on the ruines of the Common-wealth And though many parts of the Kingdome have been wasted and grievously spoiled by forraigne Enemies of which there are very many in the Kings Armies brought from beyond the Seas in great numbers and though we have felt their heathenish and barbarous cruelties this fellow would perswade us they never appeared And though the preservation of the Kingdome against forraigne Enemies were one cause of the Parliaments taking the Forts Ports and Ships into their hands power and disposition yet that was not the only cause as appeares in their Declaration * Declar● 2o. Martij 1641. And the Ordināce for the Militia Ob. Eightly he saith That they who refuse to joyne in this Warre with the Parliament or to contribute unto it they plunder as Malignants and ill affected to the Commonwealth although he sees not how it can be lesse then Treason against the King to joyne with the Parliament therein Sol. We verily beleeve the wayes of the Parliament to be very just and full of reason and Legall to inforce them that have Estates and will not help to quench the publike fire kindled in the Kingdome by the Enemies thereof nor to preserve the Parliament which preserves their Religion Lawes Liberties and all from tyranny and violence with some small part of it and to judge them Malignants and Enemies of their Countrey Did not the Inhabitants of the County Palatine of Duresme when the Scots had broken in upon them to redeeme their Countrey from plunder and spoile compound with the Scots for 1600 Markes and breake open the Chest of William Heburne and take 70. pound from him by force in such a necessity for the publike safety to help make up the summe when he would not let them otherwise have it and was not this judged lawfull by all the Judges of the Kings bench in a Writt of Errour brought Mich. 14. Ed. 2d. Rot. 60. and a Legall plundering and other plandring the Parliament never commanded or countenanced And though this fellow blinded with Malice

House of Commons have had their elections questioned and in two years space have had no leisure to determine them if they incline to the positions they lay down least they should loose such from their party Sol. If this Libeller had instanced in particulars an answer might be particularly given thereunto and he convinced of his forged accusation but to a generall charge we can say thus much in generall That all questions concerning election that have been brought to the House from the Committee of Elections have bin presently upon the Report thereof determined But if the Committee hath not had leisure to sit or opportunity to report because of the great obstructions that have been by the enemies of the publike good cast in the way of the Parliaments proceedings and the House of Commons enforced to spend all their time to resist and to endeavour to remoove the same it is not the fault of the Parliament but the fault of these men of Beliall that are risen up against the Parliament and Kingdom Ob. Sixtly He saith That when a matter of Importance hath beene in debate and put to the question and thereupon determined the same question hath been again resumed at another time better prepared for the purpose and determined quite contrary Sol. First That any such question hath bin received after determination that hath not come into the House upon some new occasion inforcing it we doe not beleeve to be true but that a great Councell upon debate determines one time one way and upon better preparation and second thoughts when it is by some emergent occasion brought againe into debate conclude another way and quite contrary is no newes it being both the priviledge and property of wise men to change their opinions upon better further and more mature deliberation and consideration being better prepared for it then they could be at first when it was suddenly and unexpectedly moved debated and determined Seventhly he quarrells at the Statute by which this Parliament is fixed so as it cannot be dissolved without common consent of the King and both Houses which in truth is a Statute onely declaratory of the Common Law of this Kingdome and no Parliament neither can or ought to be dissolved till they have redressed all the grievances of the Kingdome This wretch in this discovers a heart full of poyson against the publike good that like the raging Sea casteth out nothing but mire and dirt and foming out his own shame A Law made by the Supreame power of this Kingdome the Three Estates cannot escape the virulent tongue of this Rabshekah If this Law may be spoken against or questioned all others may And whereas the King in almost all his Declarations protests he likes well of and will observe and maintaine all the Laws made this Parliament this Villaine forbeares not to say he was over-reached in it Lastly he reckons up the miseries of a Civill War and saith that the Parliament is the cause of it when all men that have observed the History and Acts of these times knowes well at whose doores that sin and mischiefellies and whom it calls Father And he desires amendment of what is amisse without plucking up the foundation of government intended to be pluckt up except he meane the government by that Officer whom we call Bishop which never appeared in holy Scriptures but in the person of Diotrephes which the Parliament desires to remove that the same may be changed into the government of the Church by Presbiters the Officers and Bishops which the Scriptures approve of and give the government of the Church unto we know not what he meanes by foundation of government and we as we conceive all good men also doe doe for our parts desire to have a Church government according to the will of God expressed in his word and not according to the patterne of his professed Arch Enemy expressed in the Popish Hierarchy And we are confident that the Parliament had long before this by their judgement and wisdome provided for and setled our Religion according to God which is the true and indeed onely honour of Religion and the greatest satisfaction to our consciences if they might have had their wills and if it were obtained would procure mercy from Heaven that the Sword should be sheathed and devoure no more flesh and our Lives Estates and Liberties be preserved which are onely secured by our walking according to the Rule the only way in which the Angells will attend us and all happinsse flow upon us and our Posterity for ever And as for burying of by-past Actions in an act of Oblivion we are confident the Parliament neither needs nor desires it for themselves nor their friends being conscious of nothing done by them for which they have cause to feare the hand of Justice and if the honourable peace which they now so sincerely seeke and desire shall not be obtained we protest to all the world that with the utmost hazard of our lives and fortunes and of all we can call ours we will endeavour to vindicate them and our selves from the barbarous inhumane and more then Turkish and Heathenish Tyrannies of the Evill Counsellours about the King which seduce him and their Cavaleres and we doubt not but our God in whom we trust who hath wrought great salvations and done great things for us since the beginning of this unhappy War will be our guide and our strength and fight our battells and goe before us as a devouring fire to consume the enemies of our Peace and his Glory and perfect the worke of Reformation so happily begun and wonderfully carried on hitherto in spight of all opposition and in the sight of them that hate him Amen FINIS