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A70864	Concordia discors, or, The dissonant harmony of sacred publique oathes, protestations, leagues, covenants, ingagements, lately taken by many time-serving saints, officers, without scruple of conscience ... by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P3928; ESTC R22150	38,103	48

so hanging nor after the same cause And that ye take no fee as long as ye shall be Justice nor Robes of any man great or small but of the King himself And that you give none advice or counsell to no man great or small in no case where the King is party And in case that any of what estate or condition they be come before you in your Sessions with force and arms or otherwise against the Peace or against the forme of the Statute thereof made to disturbe execution of the Common-law or to menace the people that they may not pursue the Law that ye do their bodies to be arrested and put in prison And in case they be such that ye may not arrest them that ye certifie the King of their names and of their misprision hastily so that thereof he may ordain a co●●venable remedy And that ye by your self nor by other privily nor apertly maintain any plea or quarrel hanging in the Kings Court or elsewhere in the Country And that ye deny to no man common right by the Kings Letters nor none other mans nor for none other cause and in case any letters come to you contrary to the Law that ye do nothing by such Letters but certifie the King thereof and go forth to do the Law notwithstanding the same Letters And that ye shall do and procure the profit of the King and of the Crown with all things where ye may reasonably do the same And in case ye be from henceforth found in default in any of the points aforesaid ye shall be at the Kings Will of Body Lands and Goods thereof to be done as shall please him as God you help and all Saints Anno 18 E. 3. Stat. 4. The next Oath is that of Supremacy made and prescribed to be taken by all Judges Justices Sheriffs Maiors Recorders Civil and Ecclesiastical Officers Barresters Benchers Graduates Ministers Attornies whatsoever and all Members of the Commons House before they ought to fit or vote therein by the Statutes of 1 Eliz. cap. 1. 5 Eliz. cap. 1. 17 Car. cap. 7. I A. B. do utterly testifie and declare in my Conscience That the Kings Highness is the only Supream Governor of this Realm and of all other his Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and therefore I do utterly renounce all forein Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highness his Heirs and lawfull Successors and to my Power shall assist and defend all Iurisdictions Privileges Preheminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highness his Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the Contents of this Book 5. The 5th Oath of equal Latitude and Extent as the former of Supremacy is that of Allegiance prescribed by the Statutes of 3 Jacobi cap. 4. 7 Jac. c. 6. 17 Car. c. 7 tending only to the Declaration of such Duty as every true and well-affected Subject not only by Bond of Allegiance but also by the Commandement of Almighty God ought to bear to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors which Oath such as are infected with Popish Superstition do oppugn with many false and unsound Arguments the just defence whereof his Majesty King James hath heretofore undertaken worthily performed to the great contentment of all his loving Subjects notwithstanding the gainsayings of all contentious Adversaries And to shew how greatly his Loyal Subjects did approve the said Oath they prostrated themselves at his Majesties feet beseeching his Majesty that it might be enacted that the same Oath may be administred to all his Subjects The words whereof are these I A. B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the world That our Soveraign Lord King CHARLES is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries And that the Pope neither of himself nor by any of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorize any forein Prince to invade o● annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Majesties Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty or to give licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise tumult or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or sentence of Excommunication or deprivation made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be excommunicated by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred unto me and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the expresse words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and Acknowledgement heartily willingly and truly upon the true Faith of a Christian So help me God 6. To these Oaths I shall subjoyn the c Protestation made and taken in pursuance of these Oaths by all the Well-affected Members of the Lords and Commons House the last long Parliament and voluntarily taken by all the best affected

Religion dividing the King from his people or one of the Kingdoms from another making any Faction or parties amongst the people contrary to this League and Covenant that they may be brought to publike trial and receive condigne punishment as the degree of their offences shall require or deserve or the Supreme Judicatories of both Kingdoms respectively or other having power from them for that effect shall judge convenient V. And whereas the happiness of a blessed Peace between these Kingdoms denied in former times to our Progenitors is by the good providence of God granted unto us and hath been lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments we shall each one of us according to our place and interest indeavour that they may remain conjoyned in a firm peace and union to all posteritie And that Justice may be done upon the willfull opposers thereof in manner expressed in the precedent Articles VI We shall also according to our places and callings in this common cause of Religion Liberty and peace of the Kingdoms assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed union and conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause which so much concexneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdoms and the honour of the King but shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever and what we are not able our selves to suppress or overcome we shall reveal and make known that it may be timely prevented or removed All which we shall doe as in the sight of God And because these Kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocations against God and his Son Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof we professe and declare before God and the World our unfeined desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these Kingdoms especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured for the purity and power thereof that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and Transgressions so much abounding amongst us And our true and unfeigned purpose desire and indeauour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publique and private in all duties we owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a real Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdomes in truth and peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed Most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his Holy Spirit for this end and to bless our desires and proceedings with such success as may be deliverance and safety to his people and encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoke of Antichristian tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association and Covenant to the glory of God the enlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths Subscribed by William Lenthal Speaker Sir Henry Vane junior and most now sitting Yet notwithstanding all these most solemn sacred legal Oaths this Protestation Solemn League and Covenant sweetly according with and ratifying each other the remaining Fragment of the Commons House sitting under the power of the Army not only violated them all in the Highest degree by their proceedings against the late King his Heirs and Successors to the Imperial Crown the Royal posterity Kingship Kingdom Lords House and their secluded fellow Members but also took upon them to suppress and set aside these Oathes yea to brand and stigmatize them for Vnlawfull Oathes to absolve themselves with all others from them and to set up an Ingagement of their own framing in diametrical Opposition against all and every of them imposed on all the three Nations with strictest severity by their New Knack of 6. September 1649. disabling all Freemen of this Nation to sue in any Court of Justice whatsoever or to enjoy any Civil Ecclesiastical or Military Office benefice augmentation trust or degree of Learning in the Vniversities or Innes of Court and debarring all Lawyers Attornies from their practice by a new kinde of Praemunire who should not take and subscribe this Engagement which the whole House of Commons having not the least legal Power to g administer any usual Oath to Witnesses or any person whatsoever in any case or Age had neither Authority nor Power to impose upon the Nation were it consonant to the precedent Oaths Protestation Covenant much less then the Vnparliamentary Conventicle sitting after the Kings beheading the Lords and Majority of the Commons forcible seclusion and the h Parliaments actual dissolution thereby when diametrically repugnant to all these legal Oaths and to the Petition of Right it self 3 Caroli complaining providing against the future administring of any Oath not warrantable by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm in precise Terms and whether this Engagement be not such let all Lawyers Divines and consciencious Englishmen resolve I do declare and promise That I will be true and faithfull to the Common-wealth of England as it is now established without a King or House of Lords All the Officers Souldiers of the Army and Garrisons through England and Ireland were the first men who subscribed it and returned their Subscriptions in Parchment-Rolls to their Journey-men and Creatures at Westminster who thereupon thought themselves and their Government though founded upon Bloud Treachery Perjury as lasting and perpetual as if it had been founded on a Rock and the sincerest Principles of Piety Justice Righteousness and general publick National consent But those very first Engagers to them when they had done their Drudgery and oppressed the Nation with doubled and trebled Taxes to support their bloody wars by Land and Sea against their Protestant King and Brethren of Scotland the Netherlands on the 20th of April 1653. i sodenly turned them out of Doors and power with force and highest contempt as persons wholy perverting the ends of Parliament oppressing the people making Gain the main of their Business and utterly impossible in that corrupt estate in the judgements of the most moderate men to come the instruments of our long desired Establishment And then setting up a

praesumptione regnum arripiat nullus excitet mutuas seditiones civium nemo meditetur interitus regum sed desuncto in pace Principe Primates gentis cum sacerdotibus filium ejus Soccessorem Regni Constlio communi constituant ut dum unitatis concordia à nobis retinetur nullum patr●●e gentisque dissidium per vim atque ambitum moliatur Quòd si haec admonitio mentes nostras non corrigit et a● salutem communem cor nostrum nequaquàm perducit audi sententiam nostram Quicunque ergò ex nobis vel totius Hispaniae populis qualibet conjuratione vel studio Sacramentum Fidel suae quod pro patriae gentisque Gotthorum 〈◊〉 vel conservatione Regiae salutis pollicitus est temeraverit aut Regem nece attrectaverit aut potestate Regni exuerit aut praesumptione tyrannica regni fastigium usurpaverit Anathema sic in con●pectu Dei Patris et Angelorum Christi 〈◊〉 Apostolorum ejus Spiritus Sancti et Martyrum Christi atque ab Ecclesia Catholica Quam perjurio prophanaverit efficiatur extraneus ab omni caetu Christianorum alienus cum omnibus impietatis suae sociis quia oportet ut una poena teneat obnoxios quos similis error invenerit implicatos Quod iterum secundo et tertio replicamus et acclamamus Qui contra hanc nostram definitionem praesumpserint Anathema Maranatha hoc est perditio in adventu Domini sint et cum Juda Scarioth partem habeant ipsi socii sui et cum Diabolo et Angelis ejus aeternis suppliciis condemnantur Amen FINIS A POSTSCRIPT MAny are the Presidents of Gods severe personal and National Judgements inflicted upon perfideous perjurious Infringers of their Oaths and Covenants to their lawfull Soveraigns and their Heirs a Both at home and abroad For domestique Presidents of this nature I haue presented you with some signal ones in the Second Part of my Legal and Historical Vindication of the Fundamental Liberties Rights and Laws of England London 1655. p. 29 to 37 44 46 47 56 57 60 to 65 79 80. Part 3. p. 23. 31 54 55 58 85 97 98 102 103 106 136 138 to 146 170 to 175 201 to 229 254 256 258. 260 266 267 322 to 327 333 to 370. before the Conquest The like Presidents since you may peruse in Henrici Huntindonensis Hist. l. 8. p. 291 292 293. Regeri de Hoveden Annalium pars prior p. 483. Holinshed vol. 3. p. 46. and Doctor Beards Theatre of Gods Iudgements Book 1. ch. 28. I shall instance only in two remarkable forein Examples of this kind The first is in the usurping b-c Emperour Rodulph Duke of Swethland Pope Hildebrand antichristanly Excommunicating his Soveraign the Emperour Henry the fourth and absolving his Subjects from their Allegiance to him profered the Empire to this Duke Rodulph who remembring his Oath of Allegiance sworn by him to this Emperor and how vile a part it would be for him to betray or supplant him he had sworn to obey and defend at first refused the Popes offer yet afterwards by the sophystry and perswasion of some Bishops he accepted and took upon him the Title of Emperour opposing his Liege Lord Henry in four several Battels fought between them for the Empire in the last whereof being vanquished he was sore wounded and lost his right hand When he was readie to die of his wounds one brought his right hand cut off in the Battel unto him which he beholding with much regret in detestation of his Perjury and Treachery through the Popes violence brake forth into these memorable words in the presence of many Bishops who had perswaded him to this rebellion Behold here the right hand wherewith I swore faith and allegiance to my Liege Lord the Emperor Henry this will be an argument of my breach of faith before God and of your Trayterous impulsion and advice thereunto Which having uttered he immediately expired of his wounds in a kinde of despairing manner as the just punishment of his Perjury and Treachery by his own confession magnumque mundo documentum datum est ut nemo contra Dominum suum censurgat Nam * abscissa Rudolphi dextera dignissimam perjurii vindictam demonstravit qui fidem Domino suo Regi juratam violare non timuit et tanquam alia vulnera non sufficerent ad mortem accessit etiam hujus membri poena ut per poenam agnosceretur et culpa as an c Historian of that age observes in the life of Henry the 4th Let those perjurious perfidious Army-Saints and other Grandees who have taken subscribed the precedent Oathes Protestation League Covenant with hands layd upon the Bible and lifted up to the most high God and yet have since taken subscribed with the self-same hands an Oath and Ingagement diametrically contrary thereunto to the destruction of our Kings Kingdoms Parliaments and their Privileges and are still stretching out their perjured hands against the lawfull Heir and Successor to the Crown remember this sad president of Rodulph with fear and trembling To which I shall annex another sadder and more tragicall Spectacle never to be forgotten d Vladislaus King of Hungary having made a Truce with Amurath the 2. the sixt King of the Turkes which he sealed and swore unto in the name of Christ by the command of Pope Eugenius and perswasions of his Legat Cardinal Julian and other Prelates who absolved him from this Oath he violated it in a most perfidious manner and soon after taking Amurath unprovided to fight gave him battle at Varna with a puissant Army and was likely to rout him upon the first encounter Upon which occasion Amurath being in extream fear and danger beholding the Crucifix in the displayed ensigns of the Christians pluckt the writing out of his bosome wherein the League was comprised and holding it in his hands with his eyes cast up to heaven used these words Behold thou crucified Christ This is the League thy Christians in thy Name have made with and sworn to me which yet they have without any cause on my part violated Now if thou be a God as they say thou art and as we dream Revenge the wrong now done unto thy Name and me and shew thy Power upon thy perjurious People who in their Deeds deny thee to be their God Upon the uttering of which words the Battel presently turned Huniades that valiant General and the Hungarians fled the whole Army was routed many thousands of them slain and taken Prisoners perjured King Vladislaus Cardinal Julian with most of the Prelates and Nobles who perswaded him to this breach of Faith slain in the field the greatest part of Hungary overrun gained and ever since possessed by the Turks Vdalislaus his head cut off in the Battel after was fixed on a poll carried through Grecia and Asia in triumph and shewed to the people as a monument of Gods justice on him for his perjury And will