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A91187	A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring-blasing-stars, & firebrands, stiling themselves nevv-lights, firing our church and state into new combustions. Divided into ten sections, comprising severall most libellous, scandalous, seditious, insolent, uncharitable, (and some blasphemous) passages; published in late unlicensed printed pamphlets, against the ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and power of parliaments, councels, synods, Christian kings and magistrates, in generall; the ordinances and proceedings of this present Parliament, in speciall: the national covenant, assembly, directory, our brethren of Scotland, Presbyterian government; the Church of England, with her ministers, worship; the opposers of independent novelties; ... Whereunto some letters and papers lately sent from the Sommer-Islands, are subjoyned, relating the schismaticall, illegal, tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there, in gathering their new-churches, to the great distraction and prejudice of that plantation. / Published for the common good by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3963; Thomason E261_5; ESTC R212456	96,461	90

the Court shall be censured upon or else which they most ayme at to have us contrary to knowledge and conscience acknowledge we have wronged them and there in open Court before the Countrey confesse our selves sorry for what we have done this is our misery yea if I shall speak much more write in our owne defence against their Independent Church laying open their factious and schismaticall government and their envying against our Church and Church government and Discipline though they have proofes and grounds sufficient by the word of God to convince them the which I could never yet see disproved by them together with my name annexed thereunto yet if he threaten me for boldnesse herein to have a Counsell Table called against me I am sure of it and there to bee baited and banded to and againe by a whole Counsell together with our Schismaticall Divines even as a Beare at a stake not one to speak one word in my defence nor in the defence of Gods cause but with an unanimous consent and voyce my writings exclaimed against pronounced Libels and ignominious and slanderous writings though none of them approved so to be nor disproved for the Truth I stand for yet shall I be censured by them for them bound to my good behaviour put in sureties and if at any time afterwards I shall divulge any thing either by pen or tongue against this Independent Church their Governours or Government Doctrine or the like I must then presently be declared infamous and lie in prison till to the contrary we heare out of England yea however for want of Sureties in this case to lie in prison notwithstanding till I can or doe put in Sureties the which I did for the space of five weeks to my great damage and charge and also detriment being an aged poore man of 74 yeares of age and five nights in the cold winter time almost drowned in the prison with raine and sore tempestuous weather having no shelter to save my selfe dry These with other things have I undergon too large for to relate and that chiefely from this White of this Independent Church Pastor I meane by his meanes for if hee sayit it must and shall be by our Rulers who indeed ought to be chiefe instruments in removing and casting out such venomous vermine out of both Church and Common-weal●● But how can it be expected when they themselves are inconfederacy with him and joyne hand in to work wickednesse therefore whoever speaks or writes against one doth it against all therefore with a cunning sleight they put it off as not being done in the behalfe of their Church but as that by it I labour the subversion of the peace of our Countrey as much as in me lay as though our Countreys peace rested wholly upon the planting of this their Independent Church whereby they have made more and greater breaches as can be manifestly proved then ever they will be able to make good both in Church and Common wealth yea in private families also the husband against the wife the wife against the husband the children against the parents the parents against the children and the like according as your selfe have worthily noted in your twelve Interrogatories Is not this a great misery in so little a spot even a handfull of people Oh miserable times Oh unhappy conditions Now if you demand a title or name of this their Church or from whence derived I cannot answer you for I suppose themselves know not only framed of their fancie and braines only to get themselves a name fame and popular applause and estimation of the world But thus much I am sure of it is derived partly from the Anabaptists partly from the Brownists but most especially from the Donatists having in it a smatch of each however they feign it to the Church of New England which as they say is the purest Church this day in the world yet come they farre wide of it so that it is but their saying not their doing But grant that they were in their way aright yet hold it we not requisite that their examples should be rules to us to walk by seeing that both the one and the other have beene constituted and erected by an indirect way without the advice and approbation of lawfull Authority of King Parliament and Synod the which our men say they are not to attend or waite upon Princes nor Parliaments leisures the cause being Christs owne and depending only and alone upon him and not upon any humane power and they his servants and Christ their Lord it refteth on them in his behalfe to doe it it being a spirituall and no carnall work And againe some of them have said it that Parliament and Synod can establish no other Church Discipline or Government then theirs unlesse they will goe contrary to the word of God this hath beene publikely delivered yea by the same party such stuffe hath beene delivered that hath made all modest and shamefull faces to blush eares to glow and hearts to grieve that hath heard it yea and that upon dayes of humiliation making divers people both objects and subjects openly to work upon thundering out punishments and judgements both spirituall and temporall against divers persons as though they had both swords in their owne power or as though they had absolutely knowne Gods secret decree and this hath beene held for sound and good Orthodox Doctrine when divers have repented of their hearing and these not once nor twice but often Infinite might I relate even from their owne mouthes which would make wise men admire but I must passe over them to avoyd tediousnesse to my selfe and trouble to you And that in your wisedome you may the better conceive of this their Church The first beginning was a certaine Feast held every week at severall houses which Feast they called a loblolly Feast which for the common fare of our Countrey is as our watergruell in England so they would have it but of a common food at which Feast each did strive to excell another in the difference of making it after they had once gotten a certaine number unto them and so of an ordinary food they made it extraordinary yea so extraordinary that some in few meetings were forced to sell the feathers out of their bedding for milk butter and creame to feed them withall and to make their Loblolly the more dainty and toothsome others againe to maintaine this Feast for one dayes entertainment themselves and whole family must pinch for it two or three months after by which Feast by the shew of neighbourhood or Feast of Love though never none was found in short time they encreased in every parish to a pretty number At which Feast also their bellies and stomacks being well gormondized the Minister propoundeth certaine questions unto them by way of catechising of his owne framing for halfe an howre which each had in writing one from another and

'l not only fall upon your bones himselfe but hee l set his celestiall brother Christopher Scal●●kie his catechisticall brother Rouland Rattle-priest his divine Brethren Martin Claw-Clergy Bartholmew Bang-priest all upon your back and amongst us all we shall in time turne up the foundation of your classicall supremacy and pull down your Synod your Spheare about your ears behold a troop commeth Sir Simon Martin is of the Tribe of Gad though a host of Sir Iohns overcome him yet he shal over come at last yea heel 'e jeere you out of your black Cloaks and make you ashamed of King Henry the seventh's Chappell and he glad to work with your hands or to be content with the good will of the vulgar and then it will too late to compound with reverend MARTIN and his divine Brethren therefore consider with your selfe Sir Simon before the mighty Acts of the house of Martin be come forth against you we do not intend to dally with you wee 'l handle you with Mittins thwack your Cassocks rattle your Jackets stamp upon the panch of your villany and squeze out the filth and garbidge of your iniquity till you stink in the nostrils of the common people yea wee 'l beat you and your sonne JACK guts and all into a Mouse-hole There 's no one of MARTINS Tribe but is a man of Mettall and hates a Tithe-devouring persecuting Priest as he hates the Devill scornes their bribes and bids defiance to their Malice These are to advise you Sir Simon turne ye to MARTIN in Tolleration-street ye stiffe necked generation of Priests lest the fierce wrath and sore displeasure of mighty MARTIN fall upon you confound you and your whole Sir Johns generation Root and Branch hearken ye rebellious Assembly unto MARTIN persecute no more take no more Tithes be content with the good will of the Vulgar Whether these most seditious menacing passages and railing Libels against the Assembly Presbytery and all Ecclesiasticall Parliamentary proceedings be not published in print by seditious Seectaries to stirre up the people to mutinie against the Parliament Assembly Ministery to fire us into new Civill warres and commotions among our selves and that by the underhand plots of some Jesuiticall spirits and Malignant Royallists I shall humbly submit to the saddest thoughts of our supreame Councell which is best able to judge of them and most able to prevent the eminent dangers which they doe portend I shall close this Section with a new printed Libell intituled The Nativity of Sir Iohn Presbyter Dedicated To the Right Worshipfull the ASS of Divines assembled at Westminster with a most rayling libellous Epistle to which these Verses in derision of it are subjoyned Reverend Assembly up arise and jogge For you have fairly fisht and caught a Frog Now have you set two years pray can you tell A man the way that Christ went downe to Hell In these two years what can a wise man think That ye have done ought else but eat and drink Presbyterie climb'd up to the top of fame Directory and all from Scotland came O monstrous idlenesse alack and welly Our learned Rabbies minds nought but their belly Section V. Containing libellous scurrilous prophane and unchristian passages against the Directory established by Ordinance of Parliament YOU have met with some of these Invectives already in the preceding Sections which I shall not repeat but only adde two or three passages more of this nature full of Athesticall and blasphemous scurrillity The Araignment of Persecution p. 44. desires That his Holinesse Sir Simon Synod my Synodecate a full resolution to these ensuing Queres Whether it would not have been more profitable for the kingdome of England to have forth with hired a Coach and twelve Horses to have set a Directory from Scotland then to have spent the learned consultations pious debates and sacred conclusions of such an holy such a reverend such a heavenly such a godly such a learned such a pious such a grave such a wise such a solid such a discreet such a spirituall such an Evangelicall such an infallible such a venerable such a super-celestioll Queer of Angels such a suparlative Assembly of Divines for almost these two yeares space after the profuse and vast expence of above forty thousand pounds besides their goodly fat Benefices upon their devouring Guts for an English DIRECTORY of worship equivalent to the Scotch DIRECTORY Whether this Directory standing in so many thousands to sumble it together and the Copy sold at 400 and 50 l. be not of more value then the writings of the Prophets and Apostles The sacred Synodicall Decretall or Hue and Cry useth the like Dialect p. 23. Be it secula seculorum as authentick as the Directory c. We had better have set two years longer in our most holy Consultations and made our forty thousand four hundred pound Directory a Directory of fourscore thousand eight hundred pound value Pag. 5. Martin will tell the Country That we sanctifie our new DIRECTORY Gospell but to the temper of the City Tell the City That the Country people know not what to do with it except to stop their Bottles unlesse we spend the State the other odde trifle of 40000 pounds to divide it into Chapters and Verses the Lord put it into their hearts and that as the truth is its sanctity is only grounded upon the Divine Ordinance for Tithes some wiser then some for no longer Penny no longer Pater-noster I will defile no more Paper with such horrid blasphemies only adde That Martins Ecco p. 12. makes the Parliaments endeavouring to establish the Directory the cause of the losse of Leicester in these words And now the Parliament being busied to fortifie your Directory c. in the mean time Leicester is taken thousands are put to the sword c. Which is sufficiently answered by Sir Thomas Fairfax routing the Kings whole Army and re-taking Leicester even whiles the Parliament was most busie in fortifying the Directory But I proceed to another Section Section VI. Containing their libellous scandalous seditious passages against our Brethren of Scotland to raise divisione between us and them contrary to the Act of Pacification and the late solemne League and Covenant MAny are their intolerable libellous Invectives of this kinde I shall transcribe but few Hen. Robinson in his Answer to M. Py●nes 12 Questions made the first assault upon our Brethren in this Language And what think we made our Brethren the Scots so successelesse here in England whilest the warres are now beginning to kindle in their own Countrey if it were not that they joyne with this Nation or rather provoke them to establish their so much idolized Presbyteriall discipline of persecutions when they themselves thought they had just cause to be highly offended with the same their own persecuting spirit in Episcopacy When the Lord required the Israelites to appear before him at Jerusalem thrice a yeare he promised that no man should invade their habitations in

own case it was never mine What I have done against the unjust usurpations and illegall excesses of either I did it in a just and Legall way upon such grounds and Authority as was never yet controuled and this I dare make good without vainglory that I have done more reall cordiall service with my pen against the Usurpations of Regality and Prelacy in defence of the Subjects Liberties and Parliaments jurisdiction then all Independent Sectaries whatsoever and that only out of a zeal to Gods glory and the publick good without the least private end or Interest which never yet entred into my thoughts having suffered as much as any man of your Sect if not more for the Publick without either seeking or receiving the least recompence or reward having spent not only my time and Studies but some hundreds of Pounds in the Republicks service since my inlargement without craving or receiving one farthing recompence in any kinde whereas if I had sought my self or been any way covetous or ambitious I might perchance have obtained as advantagious and honourable preferments as any Independents have aspired to if not challenged as their right for lesse meritorious publick services and sufferings then the least of mine As for my importuning the Parliament for continuance of their favours to that people you speak of surely when I finde them more obsequious to the Parliaments just Ordinances and commands lesse willfull and more conscientious I shall do them all the offices of Christian love but whiles contumnacy obstinacy licentiousnesse uncharitablenesse and Schisme are most predominant in them the greatest favour I can move the Parliament to indulge them is to bridle these their extravagances with the severest Laws and to prefer the publike safety of Church and State before their private Lawlesse conceits and phantasticall opinions He addes That I am in this as cruell a Task-master as Pharaoh and that the Son of God and his Saints are but little beholding to me Surely to confine Licencious lawlesse consciences to the rules of Gods word the justLaws of the Realm and rectified reason can Proclaime me no Egyptian Task-master but rather decl●re your Sect meer Libertines who will not be Regnlated by nor confined within these Bounds yea I trust the Son of God and his true Saints are as much beholding to me in your sense as to the greatest Patriarchs of your Independent Tribes be they whom they will This Libeller being questioned before the Committee of Examinations concerning this Letter by their speciall favour returned his Reasons why he sent it in writing which he no sooner exhibited but published in Print the next day after to defame and slander me among his Confederates who give me now no other Epithites in their discourses but a Papist a Persecutor of Gods Saints an Enemy of Christs Kingdom vvho deserve to lose my head for opposing them in this cause c. which I no more value Then the Moon doth the barking of a lousie Cur. In this new unlicensed Paper first he vaingloriously relates his own sufferings and deserts Secondly Traduceth the justice of the Parliament and others against some seditions Sectaries misreciting many of their proceedings to the scandall of Publick justice and the Parliament pag. 3 4. Thirdly pag. 5. He pretends my Books against Independents Licensed by Authority of a Committee of Parliament to be the principall causes of the rigid Proceedings against Separatists especially my Truths Triumphing over Falshood which being subsequent in time to all the particulars he recites could certainly be no occasion of them and therefore he playes not only the Sophyster but Slanderer in this particular Fourthly pag. 5 6. He misrepeats and misapplies some Passages of mine to all of his Sect in generall and to HIMSELF and SVCH AS HE IS in the ARMY and ELSEWHERE Whereas there is not one Syllable in my Passages to that purpose but only against some particular Authors I there mention and such of their Confederates who maliciously and audaciously oppugne the undoubted Rights Priviledges and just Proceedings of Parliament contrary to their Solemne Covenant League and Protestation and if you proclaim your self or any other in the Army or elsewhere to be of this Anti-Parliamentary Regiment as now you do I then professe my self an opposite to you and shall make good against you what ever I have written when and where you please Fiftly He writes That I eagerly endeavour to incense the Parliament against him and such as he is in the Army and elsewhere and in the Conclusion of my Independency examined presse the cutting of them off by the sword executing wrath and vengeance on them upon pain of contracting the guilt of highest Perjury A most malicious scandall For first I never mentioned him or his in particular neither knew I how he stood inclined Secondly In my Independency examined I only in a generall discourse affert that Kings and Civill Magistrates have by the Law of God a Lawfull coercive power thought not to restrain the sincere Preaching of the Gospel and truth of God yet to suppresse restrain imprison confine banish the brea●hers of Heresies Schismes Erronious seditious Doctrines Enthusiasmes or setters up of new Formes of Ecclesiasticall Government without Lawfull Authority to the en●●ngering of mens souls or disturbance of the Churches and Kingdoms Peace These are my formall words which I there make good by Scripture Presidents in all Ages will justifie by Gods assistance upon any occasion against all Sectaries Independents whatsoever After which I close up this discourse in these very words And if any Hereticks false-Teachers Schismaticks chuse which of these three ranks you and yours will fall under obstinatly refuse conformity after due admonition and all good means used to reclaim them the Poets Divinity and Policy must then take place as well in Ecclesiasticall as civill and naturall maladies Cuncta prim tentanda sed immedicabile Vulnius Ense rescidendum est ne pars syncera trahatur Is this any urging of the Parliament To cut you and yours off by the sword and to execute wrath and vengeance on you If you be such obstinate Hereticks Schismaticks or false-Teachers who fall within the compasse of my words God forbid but the sword of Iustice should be drawn out against you as well as others at least to chastise and reduce you to obedience though not finally to cut you off unlesse in case of absolute necessity But if you are none of this obstinate Hereticall Schismaticall Brigade as I make you not unlesse you make your selves my generall indefinite words will relate neither to your self in person whom I never once minded in my writings nor to any of your Tribe And therefore in this particular I charge you for a malicious slanderour and false Informer demanding justice and reparation from you for this and all the forementioned passages wherein you have wilfully done me wrong Sixtly pag. 6. He injuriously chargeth me as guilty of being an Incendiary betwixt

to order under Mulcts and Penalties how we shall worship and serve God Section II. Comprizing their seditious scandalous libellous and daring passages against sundry Ordinances and Proceedings of this present Parliament in particular not to be paralel'd in any Age nor tolerable in this THeir intolerable libellous seditious passages of this nature are so many and various that I must branch them into severall Heads I shall 1. begin with their Invectives against the severall Ordinances of both Houses of Parliament for the regulating of Printing and suppressing the great late abuses and frequent disorders in printing many false scandalous seditious libellous and unlicensed Pamphlets to the great defamation of Religion and Government John Libourne in his unlicensed printed Libell intituled A copy of a Letter to Master Prynne thus declares against these Ordinances pag. 2 3. But being that you and the Black-coats in the Synod have not dealt fairly with your Antagonists in stopping the Presse against us while things are in debate yea robbing us of our Liberty as we are Subjects in time of freedome when the Parliament is sitting who are sufficiently able to punish that man whatsoever he be that shall abuse his Penne so that whilst we are with the hazard of our dearest lives fighting for the Subjects Liberty we are brought into Egyptian bondage in this and other particulars by the Black-coats who I am afraid will prove more cruell Task masters then their deare Fathers the Bishops who cowardly sit at home in my apprehension for no other end but to breed faction and division amongst the wel-affected to to the Parliament promoting thereby their owne interest which is Lazinesse Pride Covetousnesse and Domination endeavouring to lay lower then the dust a generation of men whom they falsly call Sectaries that have in the uprightnesse of their hearts without Synodianlike ends ventured all they have in the world for the good of the Parliament and the Common-wealth of England and who may bid defiance to all their adversaries that brand them with unfaithfulnesse so that by meanes of which I have not been able that way yet to accomplish my earnest desire and truly it argues no manhood nor valour in you not the Black-coats by force to throw us downe and tye our hands and then to fall upon us to beat and buffet us for if you had not been men that had been afraid of your Cause you would have been willing to have fought and contended with us upon even ground and equall termes namely that the Presse might be as open for us as for you and as it was at the beginning of this Parliament which I conceive the Parliament did of purpose that so the free borne English Subjects might enjoy their Liberty and Priviledge which the Bishops had learned of the Spanish Inquisition to rob them of by locking it up under the key of an Imprimatur in whose tyrannicall steps the Synod treads so that you and they think you may rayle at us cum privilegio and ranke us amongst the worst and basest of men as rooters up of Parliaments and disturbers of States and Common-wealths The scurrilous blaspemous unlicensed Libell stiled The Arraignment of Persecution thus contemptuously affronts jeers this Ordinance with the Parliament Synod and Directory in the very Title Page This is licensed and printed according to holy Order but not entred into the Stationers Monopoly and in the opposite page Die Saturni April 6. 1645. It is Decreed and Ordained by the Reverend Assembly of Divines now Assembled in holy convocation that Doctor Burgesse and Master Edwands doe returne thanks unto the worthy Author of this Treatise intituled The Arraignment of persecution for his pious endeavours and vigilant care he hath therein at the entreaty of this Synod And it is further Ordained that they doe desire him to print and publish the said Treatise forthwith and that it be recommended to the people as a divine Hand-maid to the right understanding of the Directory And it is yet further Decreed and Ordained that none shall presume to print or re-print the said Treatise but whom he shall authorize under his owne hand writing till this most holy Synod shall further Order Scribes Henry ROborough Adoniran Byfield I appoint my divine Cozin MARTIN CLAW-CLERGY Printer to the Assembly of Divines and none else to print this Treatise Young MARTIN MAR-PRIEST What more audacious jeering affront could be afforded to the Commons or Assembly then this feigned libellous Order In the Book it selfe page 2. Persecution had a thousand trucks above all the rest for to block up all passages stop all mouths and fortifie himselfe round he turned reverend imprima●ur and here the pursuer was at a stand for all was as fast as the Devil and the Presbyters could make it They sought to authority to o●en the Presse and still the Presbyters as the custome is were in the way that nothing could be done P. 10. This fellow Persecution stoppeth Presses whereby men cannot make their just defence suffers nothing to be licensed printed preached or otherwise published but what himselfe alloweth and having thus bound the hands and stopt the mouths of all good men then he comes forth in print against them like an armed man and furiously assaults them exaults and exalts himselfe over them faineth Arguments for them and then like a valiant Champion gives them a conquering Answer and thus puts them to flight and pursues them with revi●ings scandals forgeries and opprobrious nick-names as Anababaptists Br●wnists Independents Scismatiques Heretiques Thus he dealeth with the godly party How godly you are well appeareth to all the world by these your libellous seditious ungodly Pamphlets The libellous Book in pursuance of this stiled A sacred Decretall c. proceeds in the same language page 24. Lest they should fall upon our reare under pretence of suppressing the Kings papers we bounded the Presse with our Presbyterian compasse that they could not without hazard of plundering transgresse our reverend Imprimatur Then issued out witlesse scholastick Tractates against the Anabaptists c. Having thus neatly stopt their mouths we sophisticated their Arguments c. and then with our politick Answers we present them to the people with an Imprimatur JAMES CRANFORD or the like We imploy Doctor Featly's Devil a very reverend ten pound Sir John to make a discription of the Anabapti●●s c. and this foule spirit for the love he beares to the Black-coats at the Doctors decease transmigrated into old Ephram Pag●t seldome lyes the Devil dead in a dry ditch so that the good old man to confute the mortality of the soule hath made himselfe sure of an immortall spirit Many such scurrilous passages against the Ordinances for regulating printing made by both Houses speciall care and direction before the Assembly met are scattered in their libellous pamphlets which I pretermit wherein they write ●s if there were neither heaven

and reverence ador'd amongst the people or else your esteem will goe downe and this cannot be done without some severe Lawes ordinances and the like to that end which you must put the Parliament upon you know your power and influence upon them they 'le gratifie you with SVCH TOYES c. The late seditious pamphlet stiled A sacred Decretal is yet more vile pag. 3. 4. O ye classicall Clerks and Sextous of the three Kingdomes demolish and pull downe all the Martyns nests from your Church-wals and steeples and have a spirituall care as you will answer the contempt of the new ordinance that hereafter no birds build chatter doe their businesse or sing there but Church-owles Jack-dawes otherwise called Sir Johns blind Bats Presbyterian Woodcocks and the like O ye two Houses of Parliament make another Ordinance to make all the MARTINS flye the three Kingdomes the next midsommer with Cuckowes and Swallowes that we may have a blew-cap Reformation among Bats Owles Jack-dawes and Woodcocks and then blew-cap for us I could furnish you with more such Independent stuffe but I am loth to defile more paper with this infernal language of rai●ing Rabshakeh's and shall here appeale to every ingenuous mans conscience whether he can with any shadow of reason or charity beleeve that this froward libellous generation of Independent Sectaries who thus publikely libell inveigh and oppose themselves against the jurisdiction Ordinances and proceedings of Parliament are the most holy religious conscientious best affected party the most precious Saints and generation of Gods dearest ones the Parliaments best and faithfullest friends who have to their utmost power and divers of them beyond their ability supported ventured their lives in the Parliaments cause and service doing them more reall and faithfull service then any other generation of men in England and the onely Vindicators of the Parliaments Priviledges and Subjects Liberties against presbiterian and synodical usurpations as they boast in every one of these their Libels against the Parliament and its proceedings Or whether they are nor in truth those despisers of government those evill speakers against dignities those resisters of the higher powers prophecied of the last times who have forgotten Saint Paul's Canon Rom. 13. 1. Let every soule be subject to the higher powers c. and Tit. 3. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers to obey Magistrates c. Yea the most desperate unparallel'd publike contemners affronters deriders of the Parliaments power Ordinances proceedings that ever breathed in our English Climate who under the pretext name and colour of the wel-affected faithfull godly party and stoutest Champions for the Parliament endeavour by degrees to advance themselves by policy and the Sword above it and trample its authority as they doe the Ordinance for Tythes and others in the very Front of their sacred Decretal under their cloven feet Doubtlesse they can never fight cordially for the Parliament and its proceedings but onely for their owne designes and interests who that seditiously contemptuously speak write print against them and if their insolencies against the parliament Synod Magistrates be already growne so intolerable whiles their faction is yet but in the birth how transcendently arogant and contumelious will they prove when they have accroached greater power both in our Armies and Councels God give our supreame councell hearts wisdome zeale and fervency seriously to suppresse and punish these Epidemicall growing insolencies in due time for feare they become masterlesse remedilesse in the end else these Anabaptistical sectaries these Germane opinions and practises will I feare sodainly involve us in the Germane Anabaptisticall distractions insolencies warres and disolations recorded by Sleidan and others for Englands admonition Section III. Containing scandalous seditious scurrilous passages against the Nationall Vow and Covenant prescribed by Parliament THis National Vow and covenant was deemed at first the onely probable means under God to unite our three Kingdomes and the protestant party of all sorts together in a mutuall brotherly inviolable League against the common enemies of our Religion parliament Lawes and Liberties It was therefore universally prescribed to the Members of both Houses the Assembly of Divines Lawyers of all sorts the Officers and Souldiers in the Army and to the Ministers and people of all conditions under the parliaments power in all our three Dominions being refused oppugned at first apparently by none but papists Royalists or Malignants And the Houses were so impartiall in the prescription of it that such Members of the Lords or Commons House who did but scruple the taking of it were suspended the Houses till they did conforme But now of late a generation of Independent Sectaries conceiving this Covenant to thwart their licentious schismaticall whimseys not onely generally refuse to take it and plead a speciall priviledge and exemption from it as if they were more priviledged persons then any Peeres Commons or Subjects whatsoever and must be left at large to doe what they lift when all others are obliged and which is strange to me and others some Independent Ministers if not Members of Parliament who have taken it themselves and enjoyned it to others have yet adventured to plead for an exemption of this meer refractory party from it which much encourageth them in their obstinate refusall of it and hath so animated this seditious lawlesse generation that they have lately in print not onely oppugned but derided libelled against this sacred Covenant which we have all most solemnly in Gods presence sworne and under our hands subscribed to maintaine to the utmost of our power euen with the hazard of our lives and fortunes which I beseech you let us all now most chearfully really observe by proceeding against the contemners infringers of it or else for ever as readily as solemnly renounce it to our eternall infamy as we at first chearfully subscribed to it I shall begin with John Lilbournes Letter pag. 6. 7. It may be in stead of satisfying my desire you will run and complaine to the Parliament and presse them with their Covenant to take vengeance upon me If you doe I weigh is not for I blesse God I am fitted to doe or suffer whatsoever the Parliament shall impose upon me but if you doe take these two along with you if you put them in mind of their Covenant tell them I think they have sworne to root out all Popery but yet have established Tythes the very root and support of Popery which I humbly conceive is a contradiction to their Covenant c. A bold censure and scandall The Arraignment of persecution thus traduceth and jeers the reverend Assembly of Divines and Covenannt together page 33. 34. Persecution Is thy name perfect Reformation Perse Yes my Lord Judge Who gave you this name I Reason His God-fathers God-mothers in his Baptisme wherin he was made a Member of the Assembly and an inheritor of the Kingdome of Antichrist Judge Who are your

that he may Synodicate a full resolution to these ensuing Queries 1. Whether it doth not as much conduce to the subjects liberty still to be subjected to Episcopal usurpation as to be given over to Presbyterian cruelty Whether Saint Peters chaire doth not become a Presbyter as well as a Bishop c. As for Sir John Presbit●r this Court hath voted him to the uncleane filthy impious unholy dark and worldly Dungeon called jure Humano c. as for Persecution the sentence of this Court is that thou shalt return to the place from whence thou camest to wit the noysome and filthy Cage of every uncleane and hateful bird The Clergy of Christendome there to be fast bound with inquisition synodical classical Pres●byter al chains untill the appearing of that great and terrible J●dge of the whole earth who shall take thee alive with Sir Simon and his sonne Sir John and cast thee with them and their Confederates into the Lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and the false Prophet are there to be tormented day and right 〈◊〉 ever and ever Here is the Independents incomparible charity to the Assembly Presbyters and their Adherents to adjudge them thus to eternall torments in the fiery Lak● I fear their New-Lights originally sprung upthence without more charity sobriety will undoubtedly be extinguished in this fiery region which they allot to others the rest of the Invectives against the Assembly and Presbytery in this persecuting Arraignment I shall passe by in silence and proceed to some fresher scurrilites of this kind I find another most scurrlous Libell against the Assembly and their proceedings thus intituled A sacred Decretall or Hue and Cry from his superlative Holinesse Sir Simon Synod for the apprehension of reverend young Martin Ma●-priest wherein are displayed many witty synodian conceits both pleasant and commodious printed by Martin Claw-Clergy Printer to the reverend Assembly of Divines for Bartholmew Bang-Priest and are to be sold at his shop in Toleration-street at the signe of the subjects Liberty right opposite to Persecution● Court and it concludes thus Given at our Court of Inquisition in King Henry the sevenths Chappel June 6. 1635. William Twisse Prolocutor Cornelius Burges Assessor Iohn White Assessor Adoniran Byfield Hen. Roborough S●ibes This Libell brings in the Assembly blasphemously abusing the sacred Scripture Names of God as El Eloim Jah Theos Adonas c. in Synodicall Convocation classicall and Presbiteriall Exorcismes pag. 2. Gives the Assembly and Presbiters these most scurrilous railing Epithites classicall Bore-p●gges divine white-faced Bull-calves Presbyterian Turkey-cocks bidding them advance their learned Coxcombs c. Church-owles Jack-dawes blind Bats Presbyterian Wood-cockes Presbyterian Hangmen cruell executioners terrible tormenters synodian Canibals the ravenous tythe-panched numerous headed Hydra of Divines The holy ravenous Order of Syon-Jesuits absolute Jesuites onely a little worse It begins thus page 1. We the Parliament of Divines now Assembly in holy Convocation at Westminster taking into our grave learned and pious consideration all the goodly fat Benefices of the Kingdome the reverend estimation honour and supremacy due unto the Clergy and out of a godly care and pious providence as becommeth Divines for our owne guts having used all subtilty and policy we in our divine wisdomes could devise to take a goodly possession of the dearly beloved glorious inheritance of our Fathers the late Lord Bishops their divine supremacy their sweet their wholsome and nourishing revenues their deare delicate toothsome tythes most supernaturall and pleasant to a divine pallate After which it cals them The p●issant Assembly of Divines Lords Paramount over Church and State in Parliament Assembled at Westminster divine Merchants c. Avers p. 18. That the Order Jesuits may become Disciples to the Order of presby●ers for equivocations mentall reservations dispensations of Oathes Covenants c. Chargeth the Assembly p. 6. For dealing craft●ly with the Parliament and cheating the State Adding this most scandalous seditions passage extreamly derogatory to the Parliaments honour As the way of a serpent upon a rock is unknowable so have our circumventions underminigs and subtill contrivances beene ever invisible insensible to them and so silently secretly and gradually have intic'd them with the bait of Religion and caught them with a synodian hooke we held out the League and Covenant the Cause of God and the like to the Kingdome and at length plucks up a fish called a Parliament out of their proper Magisteriall Element into our synodian spirituallity and thus neatly wrested the Scepter out of their bands that they neither know nor perceive it that in truth the Assembly is Dissembled into the Parliament and the two Houses made but a stalking horse to the designes of the Clergy They say it is decreed and ordained by the Lords and Commons c. but in plaine English it is the Assembly of Divines 't is true 't is the Lords and Commons in the History but the Assembly of Divines in the Mystery as Martin wisely hinted in his License before the booke of the Arraignment for we are become the whole directive and coercive power both in Church and State a supremacy due unto us as well as to the Pope and though we give them as men doe bables to children the title of making and judging of Lawes to please them yet with such distinctions and limitations to speak this under the Rose that we intend for our selves that which we give unto them even as our Brethren of the society of Iesu doe concerning his Holinesse the Pope in the infallibility and temporall power this honour and priviledge was of divine right given and anciently enjoyed by our reverend Fathers the Bishops and why should not we be heires unto it by our legitimate lineall descent All Lawes Statutes and Ordinances both concerning Church and State were Decreed Ordained and enacted by the Lords spiritual and temporal c. And why not now by the Assembly of Divines and Parliament now Assembled at Westminster this is not yet in the History for indeed our matter is not yet ripe for such a discovery c. As all other wicked men so these seditions Libellers grow worse and worse their next most seditious Libell against the Assembly and Parliaments proceedings being intituled Martins Eccho or a Remonstrance from his holinesse reverend young Martin Mar-priest responsory to the late sacred synodical Decretal in all humility presented to the reverend pious and grave consideration of the right reverend Father in God the universall Bishop of our soules his superlative Holinesse Sir Simon Synod It begins thus Whereas his Holinesse reverend young Martin Mar-priest taking into his grave and learned consideration the insufferable arrogance of our ambitions aspiring Presbytery their super-prelaticall supremacy their ravenous blood-thirsty malice against the poor Saints of the most high God their inordinate insatiable covetousnesse after the fat things of the Land their unparallel'd hypocrisie their plausible pretences their incomprehensible policy craft

the Parliament and their faithfull friends and servants and that my actions and practises tend to no better end but to make him and his partie VS to be sleighted and contemned and that they a faithfull conscientious AND CONSIDERABLE PARTY IN THE ARMY and KINGDOM MIGHT BE DISINGAGED and CAVSED TO LAY DOWN THEIR ARMES c. After which he concludes thus pag. 7. Now I appeal to everie true hearted Englishman that desires a speedie end of these Wars of what evil consequence it would be to the Parliament and Kingdoms to have such a faithfull and considerable partie as Mr. Prynne calumni●teth and reproacheth as bad if not worse then ever the Bishop of Canterbury did should be causleslie cut off with the sword or be disingaged by his means especiallie seeing the Kingdoms necessities is such that they stand in need of the help of Forrainers In which Passage he intimates First that those Anti-Parliamentary seditious Sectaries who confederate with this Libeller know their own particular pretended strength in the Army and Kingdom Secondly that they fight only for their own private interests and to erect their own Church Government not for Religion not the publick Cause since my very writing against their Schismaticall seditious wayes but in meer generall terms as this Libeller one of their privy Cabinet Councell intimates and that by Authority of a Committee of Parliament in just defence of the Parliaments undoubted Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and Authority which they most affront of any men whatsoever Is a means to disingage and cause them to lay down their Armes Thirdly I answer that if he his party be such faithfull friends and servants to the Parliament and such a conscientious considerable party both in the Army and Kingdom as he pretends my writing in defence of the Parliaments jurisdiction which they pretend to fight for can be no dis-ingagement or dis-couragement to them And therefore himself alone must be the Incendiary twixt them and the Parliament and the dis-ingager of them to lay down their Armes by these his slanderous Libells against the Parliaments jurisdiction Priviledges Proceedings not I who have only Cordially maintained them according to my solemn Vow and Covenant by publike encouragement and speciall approbation I shal therefore challenge so much Iustice from this Epistoler as publikely to retract all these his malicious Libellous slanders of me without the least provocation given him on my part or else he must expect from God all good men yea from his own best friends and party the brand of a most malicious Libeller slanderer Incendiary and undergoe the punishment due to such To this I might adde a whole bundle of Calumnies and injuries against me in Master Iohn Goodwins Calumny Arraigned and cast wherein he chargeth me pag. 2. for aspersing the Honourable Committee for Plundered Ministers and himself in averting that he was suspended and sequestred by that Committee which all the Committee then and himself with his Confederates since experimentally know to be a reall truth however they outfaced it for a time His other Calumnies are so grosse and triviall that I will not waste Paper to refute them These Libellers are not single but thus seconded by a Brother of their Sect one Henry Robinson in his Pamphlet intituled The Pretences of Master William Prynne c. A meer empty Libell fraught with nothing but railings and slanders against me and in his latter Libell intituled The Falshood of Master William Prynnes Truth Triumphing in the Antiquity of Popish Princes and Parliaments To which he attributes a sole Soveraign Legislative Coercive power in all matters of Religion Discovered to be full of absurdities contradictions Sacriledge and to make more in favour of Rome and Antichrist then all the Books and Pamphlets which were ever published whether by Papall or Epi●copall Prelats or Parasites since the Reformation with twelve Queries eight whereof visit Master Prynne the second time because they could not be satisfied at the first Printed in London 1645. Here is a large Libellous Title but not one syllable of it so much as proved or made good in the Book wherein he convinceth me neither of Falshood nor absurdities nor Contradictions nor Sacriledge And whereas he chargeth That my Truths Triumphing c. Makes more in favour of Rome and Antichrist then all the Books and Pamphlets which were ever published by Papall or Episcopall Prelats or Parasites since the Reformation of which he makes not the least offer of proof in his Book I shall aver to all the world I hope without ostentation being thus enforced to it and appeal to all men of Iudgement who have read it that it makes more against Rome Antichrist and the usurped power of Popish Lordly Prelates and Clergymen in points of calling Councels the Authority of Prelates Clergy men and Synods in making binding Canons c. and other points therein debated then any Book or Pamphlet whatsoever of this Subject written by any Prelate Clergy man Laicke or by all the whole Mungrell Regiment of Anabaptists Sectaries or Independents put together Therefore this Title of his is a most false malicious impudent slander of a Libeller past shame void both of truth and conscience His passage against me pag. 9. 10. Is much of kin to his Title Page where thus he writes The truth is I cannot deny but Master Prynne was once by more then many and they godly too held to be a man of Piety and was highly honoured in whose Books and Pamphlets notwithstanding which have been published of late may be observed more corrupted Principles and a far worse spirit of persecution then ever was discovered in the late Delinquent Decapitated Archbishop from his first ascending unto his highest growth of Authority and greatnesse and in the Diary of his life which I suppose Master Prynne Printed not to do him honour though after Ages will not be tyed to be no wiser then Master Prynne I finde such eminent signes of a Morall Noble pious minde according to such weak principles as he had been bred up in his own persecuting disposition disabling him from being instructed better and particularly so ingenious a passage in his Funeral Sermon whereby he justifies the Parliament in putting him to death as I may safely professe to all the world I never yet could discerne any thing near of like piety or ingenuity to be in Master Pryune by all that ever I yet heard of him from first to last or by all the books of his which ever came to my hands wherein yet I have hitherto done him the honour in being at charges to buy as many I mean one of every sort as I could ever meet withall Surely I am much beholding to this Gentleman for proclaiming me a man of more corrupt principles and a person possessed with a worse spirit of persecution then the late Decapitated Archbishop but the Archbishop far more obliged to him in Canonizing him for such a Saint As for his Diary

of all persons here and of whom he will certainly require it if such an evill as is threatned should befall through your neglect For although the great Antichrist and his Clergy did prevaile to perswade Christian Princes and Magistrates that the Government of the Church and care of Religion pertained not to them but to the Clergy and the like is now here preached amongst us yet I verily trust you entertain no such false principle For to establish true Religion to maintain it and to see that the duties of Religion be duly performed to God and man is almost all that the Law requireth and so is almost if not all the duty of the Christian Magistrate And this being taken from him and put upon the Clergy he may serve as an officer to execute what the Clergy shall decree but ceaseth in a manner wholly to be a Magistrate Thus commending you to the tuition and direction of Almighty God I rest March 6. 1642. Your Worships in all due observance RICH. NORWOOD An Advertisement to such here as have care of the Conservation of true Religion IT is and ought to be the principall care of every good Christian to conserve the knowledge and exercise of true Religion in himselfe and others being the one thing necessary But from this these times have much declined everywhere and even in our deare native Countrey so farre as called for a speedy Reformation or threatned ruine And seeing little hope of the one the latter was justly feared by many and by my selfe I confesse amongst others being the principall cause of my comming hither But the Lord hath mercifully stayed those feares and given us fresh hopes by the Reformation in so great a measure begun by the present Parliament which also they endeavour through many difficulties to accomplish more fully And considering how worthily they have begun and what great things they have effected above all expectation we have no cause to mis-doubt them nor to anticipate their Honourable proceedings but rather to attend what shall be determined by them especially considering that wee of this place as wee have not beene much burthened except by some Ministers so now we are altogether unburthened of the Ceremonies and whatsoever else hath usually beene offensive to good Christians in England For if we should set up a new Government or Discipline and forme of Religion here wee must alter it againe when wee understand out of England what forme the Parliament have or shall establish Some say no our Ministers are as supreame heads under Christ of their severall Churches here and not subordinate in these things Ecclesiasticall to Parliament or any other power upon earth whatsoever but this opinion savors too much of Antichristian pride and presumption Others say the Parliament will establish the same forme that our Ministers will set up here but these conjectures doe much wrong that Honourable Assembly for if the matter were so easie and evident that our Ministers here can presently determine it then what need the Parliament so long to debate and consider of it What need such consultation with the ablest Divines in England and many other from all parts And why hath there beene such difference of opinions touching this matter even amongst the most godly and learned in Christendome for these 100 years together I remaines therefore that wee must change againe when we heare from thence and considering what changes have beene made by some already if we should now make another change in setting up a new Discipline and shortly after another when we heare out of England such mutability would neither be safe for this place not suteable to the stedfastnesse of the Church and people of God which is the Pillar and ground of truth and must not be wavering and carried about with every winde of Doctrine c. The Apostle makes it a signe of a double minded man to be unstable in all his wayes and in the Epistle to the Hebrewes Be not carried about with divers and strange Doctrines c. And the Prophet saith Why runnest thou about so much to change thy wayes It will be answered we intend not to change but to the better but withall remember that such is alwayes the pretence and oft-times the intent in all Innovations whatsoever Therefore Solomon saith My sonne feare God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Not but that even the best Christians may al●er sometimes in some circumstances of Religion some good and weighty causes requiring it but it must not be through levity nor of an high minde nor for selfe ends A restlesse levity and that with contempt of Authority under pretence of greater and new lights is a dangerous signe of an Anabaptisticall spirit Therefore I say what we change ought to be done with the feare of God and the King In the feare of God namely according to his Word and with the feare of the King that is consenting with the Lawes and Soveraigne Authority set over us or at least not with an high hand in contempt thereof For every soule must be subject to the higher powers yea saith Chrysostome though he be an Apostle though an Evangelist though a Prophet Therefore I could wish as I have often perswaded that wee might stay for the determination of the Parliament in these things and likewise the approbation of the Company in those that concern● them But because some here are very impetuous and a further change is daily preached and pressed amongst us I have little hope to stop the violence of this streame Therefore to the intent we may understand and consider what to doe and as the saying is look before we leap I should in the next place desire as many others doe and as it concerns us all to desire of them and of our Ministers especially that they would be pleased to set down in writing whatsoever new thing in Doctrine or Discipline they would have us entertaine different from the practice or tenents of the Church of England that so each thing being well considered examined and adjudged by the Word of God we may entertaine or reject it accordingly I know there are sundry Objections alleadged and pretended more then I need to repeat or answer here For howsoever it is true that we are to submit our selves to the Word of God I meane the holy Scriptures in all things yet not so to men especially when they seek themselves in stead of Christ No though they tell us they are the mouth of God and sit in Moses chaire and therefore must be heard and obeyed and that the government of the Church belongeth to them next under Christ and that even Caiaphas though a persecutor of Christ yet when he had the place of High-priest he prophesied the truth And though they tell us we must not strive with the Priest nor reprove our R●prover and though they accuse us to have rejected and opposed more

unto The Apostle exhorts us all that wee should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints And I may fitly answer them in the words of that renouned Souldier of Christ Doctor Bastwick who being checked by the Bishop of Canterbury in like sort as I am by these that he being a Physitian a Lay-man should presume to write of some points in Divinity answers in Latine to this purpose in English I writ a Book saith he not to finde my selfe employment or to stirre up strife but of a Christian minde and affection according to my duty to God and my Prince The reproach of a Lay-man toucheth not me for he which hath vowed himselfe to Christ is one of Gods Clergy The ancient Church doth not acknowledge that surname of a Lay-man but reckons it among the Soloecismes of the Beast We have given promised and vowed unto Christ in Baptisme our name and faith and have solemnly denounced battell against the flesh the world the devill herefie c. against which wee must fight unlesse wee put off the reverence and respect of our Vow How unseasonable is it then to ask by what authority we fight against these And a little after shall that be a fault in me which is a praise to Divines They exercise physick Grazing merchantdize they husband their grounds plant gather in their fruits they all may doe all things I envy not yet I wonder we should be so streightned whilst they have such liberty But if some blunt fellow should ask a Divine Hear'st thou good man what hast thou to doe with the Court with privy Councell with Seats of Judgement what hast thou to doe with renting lands with planting vineyards with breeding cattell with money the provocation of all evills would he not check such a bold question with some sharp answer yes doubtlesse he would What then should we doe when we are asked What wee have to doe with God with Christ with Religion with the Truth We will laugh to scorne such envious questions and performe with diligence what God calls us to Wee will endeavour with all chearfulnesse the defence of the truth the conservation of Religion the observation of our fidelity and allegiance to that Soveraigne Authority which is over us rendring an account of our endeavours to him to whom wee have vowed our selves c. He that desires to see his defence more at large may peruse his Apology to the English Prelates Now I beseeth you brethren mark them diligently which cause division and offences contrary to the Doctrine which yee have learned and avoid them 18. For they that are such serve not the Lord Iesus Christ but their own● bellies and with faire speech and flattering deceive the hearts of the simple March 30. 1643. FINIS a Psal 73. 9. b Exod 22. 28. Acts 23. 5. c 2 Pet. 2. 10. d 2 Thes 2. 4. e 2 Pet. 2. 11. Rom. 13. f Mar. 15. 7. g Jer. 4. 19. k Martins Eccho p. 5. 6. The Nativity of Sir Iohn Presbyter p. 5. 9. 10. 1● Note n 1 Cor. 14. 34. 35. 1 Tim. 2. 11 12. * Which they used in New port Pa●●ell contrary to the Governours Command a Sl●idan Com. l. 5. 10. Gastius de Anabaptist Erroribus Bullinger advers Anabaptist Guil. de Bres C●ntr Les Anabap●●stes D. Featlies Dippers Dipt p. 199. 200 c The History of the Anabaptists Object Answ * Psal 56. 4. Isa 7. 4. Jer. ● ● 17 * See 31. H. 6. c. 1. * Psal 56. 4. Gen. 3. 1 2 12. 1 Tim. 2. 14. Jude 23. James 2. * Pray God you prove so 1. Libellous seditious passages against the Ordinances in regulating Printing b Neither I nor the black-coats but the Parliament were the sole Authors of these Ordinances * And therefore you who have abused your pen as much as any man c You would say illaffected as your Libels against their power Ordinances and proceedings evidence d So it is in an orderly regular though not in a Libellous seditious way e Liberty to Print Libels standers invectives against Parliamentary proceedings is not the Subjects Liberty or priviledge but his claim and shame f Your Libels carriages proclaim them such g Impious seditious if you will not pious h Rather a Diab●licall Libell against it i Not to print modest and sober Trea●ies but seditious Libels 〈◊〉 blasphemy k It was a Parliamentary Ordinance of both Houses not made by Presbiterians l It seems th●● Libeller denies the soules immortality and writes as it there were no heaven nor hell Libellous seditious passages against the Ordinance for Tythes n They were long before Popery and being the Ministers maintainance warranted not only by the law of Nature of Nations and the old Testament but by the new too 1 Cor. 9. 7. to 16. o If you add by vertue in 〈◊〉 of the Leviticall law to Leviticall Priests your argument might have some weight but if by vertue of the fore-cited Gospel Texts the law of the Land common equity to Ministers of the Gospel as now Tyths are 〈◊〉 your 〈…〉 nonsense Luke 10. 7. 1 Tim. 5. 17 〈◊〉 G●l 6. 6. 〈…〉 He should say 〈…〉 p 〈…〉 q 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Pet. 2. 10. 〈◊〉 13. 2 3. r James 3. 6. 〈…〉 Note A most Independ●nt false calumny s A grosse scandall they never de●●red but to be moderately taxed in equa●ity with others 〈…〉 their 〈…〉 〈…〉 t A very modest Christian Phrase Psal 58. 〈…〉 well 〈…〉 Kingdom 〈…〉 x 〈…〉 y 〈…〉 * And is it not much more so in Independ Churches where the Minister in truth like a Pope rules all the rest at his pleasure will admit none but those of his own faction Note Note Note Note Note Note Note Master Henry Burton his Vindication of the Churches commonly called Independent p. 56. 62 63. Note Note Such were fit to make Independant Members Note Note Note Note 2 Tim. 3. 7. * Gal. 5. 2● Note Note Note * You mean and conclude Erge you must not obey them in pulling down Popery and setting up a Presbyteri●ll Government againstus now * Not so but only in things simply civill and directly against Gods word We must not obey them in things against Gods word but must obey them in all things not repugnant to it is no contradiction * No but when God commands us not to obey * Note the Parliament must have no more power then Independents give or mean to give them * Where any such are imposed on them by the Parliament they may passively disobey not seditiously oppose But this is not our present case but the quite contrary * A presumptu●us censure of the Vow and Covenant and Parliaments pressing of it * You Devil-like omit out of the Vow and Covenant according to Gods word c. * A seditious Quere to stir up the people against the Parliament and reseinds their Acts. * Glanvil l. 14. p. 170. * You should