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A81280	Mutatus Polemo revised, by some epistolary observations of a country minister, a friend to the Presbyterian government. Sent up to a reverend pastor in London. Whereunto is annexed a large tractate, discussing the causes betwixt Presbyter, Scotland, and Independent, England. As it was sent (in a letter inclosed) to the reviser, and penned by C.H. esquire.	C. H.; P. C.	1650 (1650)	Wing C95; Thomason E616_3; ESTC R206715	45,375	60

according to your present light in your wayes of worship of God but in an amicable way to compose such triviall impertinencies concerning which we have so often to no purpose sent overtures unto you ye know that a man once in danger of drowning indifferently catches hold of whatsoever is obvious to his sight or sense though it be a naked sword or hot iron I have seen two beasts fighting that would presently part and fall upon a third common enemy shall we be worse then beasts is there such a necessity in it that you must needs divide from us your heretofore Brethren and unite and joyn interest with strangers enemies aliens forraigners Danes Swedes French Dutch O horrible Irish too c. I must confess self-preservation is the most pressing if not the most legal of all duties but have a care Brethren that you have not learned this maxime out of Machiavel That its convenient for a Christian to agree with the Turk against a Christian for in danger saith he Honesty and fair-dealing may be laid aside and but what seems best may be undertaken this is but to defend a mans self with the left hand Now let the world be Moderators whether you have not gone these sinister wayes to work Good God! what I trow is the end and object of your designs what is there in the cause under which you now warfare that either a learned Doctor may be able to maintain or that a consciencious Presbyter dare excuse I see I must once more impeach you of the highest piece of perfidie and pursue you to the inmost retreates of your plots and see whether as the world gives out your Nation in general or that black counsel under which you now labour be least innocent or most viperous True ye paint over your pretences with the guilded colour of righteousness but seriously wise men judge that there is nothing but a desire to become masters of other mens habitations which makes ye so often desirous to go out of your own It was ever the custom of you cold Nothern ones to come before you were bid and to creep nearer the Sun Lord what a many arguments which now lye in English Jaques were there once rak'd up to prove the conveniencie of our Vnion and your naturalization what oldd remnants were there scrap'd up to assert the legality of your Sixth Jemmies transplantation as intricate as a Welsh Pedigree and because forsooth descended from a seventh Henry we must be your fellow-slaves and this unhappy fancy of yours bringing your third Hobby-Horse because his sons-son will in the end certainly prove fatall to you if you be not the more timely wise ye ran well who hindred you that ye might not obtain that precious liberty chalk'd out by us unto you ye were at your own disposition ye might have been what ye had desired but ah me in the midst of peace ye have the spirit of war and a seditious will and when ye once made us beleeve ye were at rest ye onely then plotted how ye might be more active these tricks will prove State-Torments to you in the end ye will not be at quiet till ye have the rule of our Church and Sate Really a man may read in the white-liver'd physiognomy of ye Scots and our Presbyters that innate Coveteousness in them to rule and raign which burns and consums ye within and is the true internal sign that makes them look as they do T is true your Duke Hamilton who paid so deerly for our University Earldom is now dead but his instructions live still and are now as vigorously on foot amongst you as ever though you invited us when you were well knockt and humbly cried Peccavimus a sinful ingagement because ye saw that unless you took in that young Renegado into your pack it would be as unfeisable for you to win England as those Kingdoms and Provinces which Galileo points out unto you in the Moon but now I le warrant by his help ye are as sure as a gun In good sober sadness the extravagancy of your designs is worthily to be jeered at they are so contemptibly ridiculous in the thoughts of all knowing men would to God ye did but in part understand how mightily you and your Dagon Presbytery is generally laught at in this our Common-wealth But should seem the great wrong we have done you and that which most offends you is our being free you will finde something or you will quarrel at a straw look thorow all our Histories and we finde that as long as Scotland has had a neighbour there never wanted brawlings either by good will or by force ye will enter upon and have to do with the affairs of England truly my brethren ye have always been taken for very bad Accomodators of differences Is this your stating the Cause to fight us if so for what is it I beseech you Is it for the reinstalment of your old Popish Bishop or for the reinvestment of your new sinfull King whom you have made to confess so great a contraction of the guilt of hainous sins and horrid bloudy crimes that you have even perswaded the world he is fitter to be hang'd drawn and quartered by the Laws of God and men at least we for our parts much doubt that Jus divinum of your rotten debaucht Kirk how you can or dare maintain his compurgation upon a meer formally hypocritical verball submission and that for a Jack-a-Lent who would rather turn Link-boy to you then sit out for Gods sake how comes it to pass that ye have not excommunicated him all this while as well as any other of your sinners will ye make him confess guilt and yet say he is not so or can ye dare say that his guilt is not within the line of his excommunication if ye do I dare say ye are all a company of rascally veillacons In the Spanish Schools I have read it was once a very hot dispute and there was cutting and flashing for it to some purpose whether the Indians were of the race of Adam their gold mines made them Scot-like deny their fraternity or a middle bastard species between a man and an Ape I wonder they had forgot you what can any man make of you you will have a King and no King a sinner and no sinner a righteous person and yet his whole house and himself bloody monstrous incarnate devils Well if he be such an one as ye have made him confess and we have not reason to deny then I will not say the habit of Tyranny but without question the Tyranny of habite hath got such predominancy over him that according to his instilled principles which have been drawn from the blood and been breed in his bone will hardly out of the flesh unless it be let out the same way his Tyrant fathers was In the interim me thinks the visible apparancy of his detestable horridness should at least palliate and allay your groundless

Kings * pitching on his knees and their so lifting up their heads in Scotland since the last Bang not a whit inferiour if not over-topping us there also why then no question when our old friends are destroyed our old Enemy and we must go to it again and I hope we have little hopes that the Catholick will take our parts unless as he promises he will the weakest side till we have totally ruined and confounded each other And now Sir I will leave his happy digression to your self to read in his 9. pag. and come back with him to his place of imployment which he sayes was Oxford which being surrendred he with his fellow-Iesuites have not it seems been idle to stir up sad contentions betwixt the Brethren and people of God Pag. 10. And now they have altered their outward Guize and appear almost in all manner of species in hopes to work more good upon us for the Catholick cause and what do they now but down to Newcastle hye they to the King where Pag. 11. they then it seems had hopes so long since to exasperate our Brethren against England which had they no● feared the Kings fickleness they would then have put in action but also that they over much doted on the great summ Page 12. But mark Sir Here he says they found even in our Brethrens army unpardonable Cavaleers and Delinquents more then a good many yea known Priests and Jesuits which truly afflicts my soul to consider it should so be in those times of zealous profession to the contrary to have more then private admittance yea publike acception amongst them not onely to the number of two Regiments of Catholikes Page 13. but one whole Regiment of them reduced under the Lord Synclare who shrouded a Papist under a Presbyterian walking which verily is able to grieve any godly Professor to think it could be possible Nay more Montross who since I doubt is executed rather out of a Royal Politie then a zealous Piety and O monstrous Irish Rebels then to be joyned with as we cannot deny now they are for a war then against England as now But alas our Brethren then feared the imputation of Covenant-breakers which all moderate men would have accused them of had they then begun and whether they have fairly cast it upon England by a two or three years procrastination let the Lord judge I fear but am silent But methinks in good sooth Polemo does a little excuse our Brethrens selling the King when he says their surrendring of him was to no other intent but to furnish them with matter for a new falling out with England being so cunning as to consider that our English Parliament Page 14. being thus necessitated could do no less in Justice upon the great head of their evils then what might furnish them with new pretences for an Invasion and bear them out in the opinion of seduced Englishmen for their endeavouring to raise up new distempers amidst us Of two evils verily this is their greatest if they had taken money for their King all moderate men would in part have excused them Page 15. if it had not been upon such unrighteous grounds and evil designs as are these so that it seems an hard Problem to me whether they are more glad they had so much for him or less sorry they were so conveniently rid of him Page 16. And now Sir our Novice like a mad Rambler flies out into many several odd passages and stories nay he descends to several particulars of persons and places running on in a pretty wilde Discourse but very strongly confirming his Relation by indubitate circumstances which hoping you have wel weighed I shall pass over many pages together for indeed my design at first was no other but to touch upon that which most touches those of our party and where it is possible to wipe off that dirt which is thrown in the face of us that have not yet stooped to bow our knee unto Baal nor gone back from the Covenant of God Page 17. But the next place he leads us to is to that Mother of Reformation that Metropolis of Scotland Edenburgh for to the anguish of my soul he speaks it Page 18. A Catholike delights in no air besides his own so well as in a Presbyterian where belike Montril was at that time egging on our Brethren to fall out with England though there were indeed mature deliberations had upon his Proposals because they savoured too much of a French-English-King and no English-Scotch-King Page 19. nor were our Brethren so valiantly foolish to fall on when the Independent stood so prepared for them they onely made some flourishes as I profess verily I fear they now do meerly to enhance the price of a second bargain Page 20 Page 21. Page 22. Page 23. Besides this great skip many pages more do I now willingly run over as particularly the horrible cunning actings of Hambleton Montril and the Jesuits it s indeed a fitter Lecture for the Cavaleer then us though most horribly have we both of us been deluded by Royal tricks the gratious God be pleased to open their and our eyes that we may see and understand his ways and the evil of our misleadings Ay but Sir I beseech you in the name of Jesus Christ let the words of that cunning Merchant Montril never depart out of your breast O how prophetick are they truly it s a very great discovery and worthy our perpetual consideration Page 24. I mean that additional good news which he spake to the comfort of the Jesuite which came unto him about carrying on their plots in Scotland I doubt not quoth he by what I have already brought to pass with the Scots and English but to see our three enemies beaten by themselves and his Banner of Christ and Standard of his Master to be in time erected amongst us Heretiques for so you see they account us Never a Barrell the better Herring O then good Sir should not this induce us to be all one in one as it becometh the Saints and servants of Jesus Christ shall we rather desire to be governed by a forraign French Foe then a Native-English friend Fie on this carnall mindedness this selfishness and desire of rule and government which thus rules and rages even in the breasts of holy professors truly this becometh not the dear Saints of God Pag. 25. But that which is the most intolerable burthen upon my spirit is when I consider they say they had great hopes by the King and his party but more now then ever if but we of the honest party and those old Reprobate Malignants could be ever brought so to shake hands though but with the teeth outward as to be both willing to accept of aid from the French King which truly I doubt is now past bringing to pass in Scotland and by our Country Club-meetings of both parties too neer wrought