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A42496	Stratostē aiteutikon A iust invective against those of the army and their abettors, who murthered King Charles I, on the 30 of Jan., 1648 : with other poetick pieces in Latin, referring to these tragick times, never before published / written Feb. 10, 16[4]8, by Dr. Gauden, then Dean of Bocking in Essex, now Lord Bishop of Exeter.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing G372; ESTC R38755	36,903	56

with good cause that ever their Liberties and Properties can be either advanced or defended by you who have been so insolent usurpers over King Parliament and all our Laws and Liberties which our fore-fathers indeed enjoyed many years through Gods blessing and the Fatherly care of their Princes to a greater measure of Peace Plentie and Pietie than ever can be hoped for under such bloody Leeches such numerous and unsatiable Caterpillars as we have felt you to be Nay we tell you we so far disdain your Hipocrisie Treacherie and Tyrannie that we had rather be under the Tyrannie of our rightful King of whose justice and clemencie we nothing doubt than owe our Libertie as you call it to such vile Mushrooms and detested Traitors as you are who boast of Libertie yet are indeed slaves to your damned and desperate lusts studying nothing but how to delude the people with the name and fancy of Liberty as if you would perswade us rather to be the Devils Free-men as you are led Captive by his will than to be Loyal Subjects to our lawful and most hopeful King or humble servants to God whose sacred ties are many wayes upon our souls binding us to fear God and to honour the King and no less to abhorre you and have no fellowship with such as are given to seditious or perjurious changes forbidding us to use our Libertie as men and Christians for a cloak of maliciousness perjury tyranny hypocrisie and all licentious villanies as you have done The next pretence wherewith you bait the Mousetrap and temper the Ratsbane of your Agreement is that of Liberty in Religion Your meaning is That men may be free to profess no Religion or any which they call such so it be not the true one which you know is most opposite to your seditious traiterous merciless uncharitable and bloody Superstitions The very truth is you aim at such an Intolerable tolleration in Religion as you think is most agreeable to the profane hearts and licentious manners of the most debauched lives and Atheistical Spirits with which you have already pestered this English world In order to this Truth-darkening and Soul-damning design we know you follow your Leader the Devil and his Lieutenant General to the utter dissolving of all Government Order and Discipline in the Church to discourage all learned godly and painful Ministers to rob and spoil them of all setled Maintenance to reduce them and the work of the Ministry to that contempt which in the pride and luxurie of these times follows poverty and beggery That they depending on the peoples good will and charity which in many you have made bad and cold enough toward the best and ablest Preachers or upon your insolent and niggardly stipends they and their families may either eat their own dung and drink their own piss or be forced by necessities of life to desert their Function and places so as to leave their Congregations destitute of all holy publique duties or expose them to those Military Wolves and Mechanick Foxes which you have in great store provided for the supply of all places in Church as well as State Thus doth your rage reach as high as Heaven and as low as Hell But we hope the God of Heaven will look down upon us and our children in mercy and by some speedie rebuke of such Satans not suffer your follie and furie to proceed any further it being manifest to all moral and sober men that you are Factors not only for your selves to devour our Estates Houses Lands Liberties Peace and Lives but like the great Dragon yo● pour for●h a Sea of blood and poison ignorance and profaneness such as may for ever drown both our and our childrens souls it Heathenish Barbarism Superstition Atheism and Eternal destruction But know O you neither Milstones you poisonous Asps you King-killing Basilisks you desperate Deceivers and damnably deceived That although you have against all Faith of Turks Jews or any Heathens by fraud and force usurped upon our secular and civil Liberties so that at present we have not any formed power to oppose you and call your Ring-leaders to a severe account for your unheard of crimes and injuries against our King and our Country Yet shall our constancy in and our suffering for our Religion and our incouragement of godly learned and faithful Ministers to our best abilities make the world to see that there is no Agreement between Christ in us and Belial in you our God and your Mammon We hope the Triumphing of such Hypocrites as you are is but short nor shall you long insult over the dead and divided Corps of our late Lord and Soveraign King whose Wisdom Piety Faith and Patience God we doubt not hath crowned with Glorie and Immortalitie having perfected those many Princely gifts and Divine graces in him as God often doth in his dearest Saints and Martyrs after the example of his crucified Son Jesus Christ by his sufferings and your cruelties whose Memory and Posterity will be ever dear precious and honoured to us and our succeeding generations as a King who now appears beyond the Errours and Jealousies of former surmises chiefly raised and fomented by your false and envious Faction to have been the most constant Pillar the Noblest Patron the resolutest Protector and the most patient Martyr for our Laws Liberties Lives and Religion Yea and of our Parliaments true Priviledges which his Majesty best saw and fullest declared at first to have been shamefully invaded and out-raged by your Tumults afterby your Armies next by your new modellings at last by actual mutinings impudent menaces violent and warlike expressions upon their safety libertie faith loyaltie and honour with which purposes you sometime falsely aspersed and afterward accused the King and for which calumnies you most unjustly condemned and traiterously muthered him your selves being most truly and notoriously guiltie of that for which you wickedly cruelly and unjustly destroyed your and our King Shall you escape the righteous judgement of God Will not God visit you for these things Shall he not be avenged of such cruel Hypocrites Nor is it without a special Providence that you should be left wholly naked and destitute of all pretended due Authority in the fulfilling your execrable villanies to which you would now fain invite the people of England not having any shew or colour of any Parliamentary Votes Authority or Commands to countenance your mischiefs murthers and tyrannies not any concurrence of either Lords or Commons whom now under force and without all freedom becoming either Gentlemen or Christians we must tell you we look upon as no House and their enforced or enslaved Votes as null Their after sittings and complyings with you being nothing but infamous and base prostitutings of the Honour of that House and Vassallatings of the Dignity and Liberty both of the Parliament and People of England to the tyranny of a few Mutinous Cut-throats Trayterous Rebels and bloody Schismaticks who are in

of measure sinful and your Treasons incomparably trayterous beyond what any Catelines but your selves ever had the desperate boldness to have conceived or committed Had you been our Open Enemies or self-raising Rebels in a declared rivalry and enmity against King Parliament and Country we could either have prevented and opposed you or have born with less shame and disdain your insolent and prevailing Cruelties against them all But when we consider what ostentation and shew you made of exact obedience and plenary aquiescence in their Votes Results and Orders from whom you had your unhappy Commission also of loyal regard to His Majesties Safety Rights Honour and Posterity to whom some of your chief Commanders as they well know engaged their Souls as much as was possible for any mortal men to do● devoting themselves to all the Curses of God temporal and eternal upon the breach and failer of their words to His Majesty Add to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting of speedy and impartial endeavours to se●tle all things in Peace Justice due Liberty and Piety which how faithfully you have effected the present Deplored state of this Church and state may witness whose face is now miserably squalled and hideously besmeared with the blood of the King and those most indelible Reproaches wherewith you have blasphemed our God our King and our Religion We the People of England of all sorts Lords Gentry Clergy and Commons do again and again declare to God and all the World the present Age and Posterity so long as the World shall endure our infinite adhorrence utter detestation and total disagreement from what you the Officers of the Army and your most slavish ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done or shall further do through Gods vengeance upon this Nation in prosecution of your never sufficiently abominated Villanies Nor do we desire any thing more of the just and Almighty God not in order to the satisfaction of our private malice or desire of revenge on any of you though our particular injuries have been many from you but only in order to the publique Vindication of Gods Glory the Honour of the Reformed Religion the Loyalty Faith and Credit of this Nation the wiping away those foul sins of Treason Perjury Truce-breaking and Regal Parricide in all which Villanies your execrable Faction wallowing in the blood of your King and fellow-Subjects now seek impenitently and irreparably to implunge this whole Nation That we might as some solace under our immense sorrows and tyrannizing miseries inflicted by you but live to see Gods temporal judgements so far upon you as may pull down your Luciferian pride and make your obstinate minds to see the horrour of your Villanies That like Cain you may be afraid of all men like Judas accursed to all Posterity given over to Satan and excommunicated by all good Christians as Murtherers of your Father Killers of your King That you may ever be haunted with the rueful Ghost and hideous Phantasme of the King whom you have trayterously butchered That the exemplary vengeance of God may be upon you and your Adherents so remarkably and in such a Proportion to your Villanies that if there be any place left for Repentance you may find it and yet all the World may see your destruction is the Lords doing and say Doubtless there a God that judgeth the Earth Nor do we despair but God will upon our true Repentance for our great sins and supine folly which gave you advantages to fulfil your most odious Villanies so far remember his mercies to his most deplorable Kingdom and by you as so many wild Bores desolated Churches as to stirre up some powerful Avenger of the Kings blood and all that other innocent blood which the depths and deceits at first the force and violence afterward of your bloody Faction hath occasioned and caused to be shed by your tumultuating the people your instigating the spirits of the two Houses with false and pannick fears Your calumniating the King and perverting his gracious purposes Your enflaming the enmities and heightning the Animosities on both sides Your fraudulently voting No Addresses and publishing that lying and most infamous Libel for your pretended grounds Your widening the differences and hindering all fair equable closings both formerly and in that 〈◊〉 memorable Treaty at Newport of which you were the most rude savage and perfidious Violators that ever History recorded We know that you can now only trust in your Arm of Flesh in the Devils aid and Counsel having in your works denied the Living God instead of whom your Bellie and the present World are become your God and your glorie for the satisfaction of which and the attaining places of profit and power agreeable to your lusts which are enlarged like Hell you have dared to advance thus far to the destroying of King Parliament and Laws which were the only boundaries and conservers of our Peace Properties Lives and Liberties yet after all this you inscribe on your Bloody Banners and impudent foreheads The Agreement of the People and the Restorers of our Liberties Which Plots although you think them your Master-pieces for artifice jugling and policy that so you might by fair words and flattering lies allure the many and meaner People to maintain those Monsters which you have brought forth yet you must know That the People of Englands eyes are not so blood-shotten not their Consciences so ●eared nor their Hearts so disloyal nor their sences so bewitched by your Magick and Charms as not to see through and fully both discover and detest your devilish designs of Tyrannie Anarchie and Profaneness whereto you drive through all these cloudings of immethodical Nonsense and indigested scriblings which like your late damnable Remonstrance and your other illiterate and irrational Papers discover that where there is so much want of grace and common honestie as in you it is impossible not to want even those shews of common sense and vulgar Reason which are necessarie not to justifie which no tongue pen or wit of Devils can do but so far as to palliate your filth and cover your nakedness or to render your wicked projects but tolerably plausible to those that have the grossest perception of things The better to temper this your Cup of deadly poison to please the vulgar relish which you think is gross and undecerning you tempt them with the name of Liberty first in Civil things which all men see is but a meer Cheat while they are like to be held under your Iron hands and squeezed under your tyrannous wills and intolerable Exactions instead of injoying the benefit of our antient and famous Laws the best that any Subjects in the world enjoyed the just and only bounds of our Liberties and Conservers of our both Peace and Prosperities to which all honest men who have no joynt stock with you in Knavery Poverty and Baseness desire most humbly and earnestly to return Despairing and