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A75464	The anti-covenant, or a sad complaint concerning the new Oath or Covenant: presented in a letter to a dear and intimate friend, with earnest request for his advice and prayers. By a true loyall subject, and lover of the Parliament.	True loyall subject and lover of the Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing A3489; Thomason E60_10; ESTC R23546	44,797	58

they were not called a Popish Army and it seemes there was not the least cause why they should be so stiled for that no sooner was the Name of Papists or Jesuiticall faction mentioned by them as having ought to doe in that service for the King but presently his Sacred Majesty caused a Proclamation to issue forth given at his Court at Yorke August 10. 1642. expresly commanding that no person or persons whatsoever being Popish Recusants should come to His Court contrary to the Law in that case provided or take any office or place or list himselfe as a souldier in His Service And though the King at the time of that terrible bat●ell at Edgehill had admitted some few Papists of eminent abilities in command and conduct into His Service yet He is graciously pleased to yeeld such a faire and reasonable account thereof in His Declaration to all His loving Subjects after His late victory against the Rebells on Sunday 23 of October 1642. as must needs be to all that will credit the word of a King most abundantly satisfactory And since that battell that maske of fighting for the King being then blowne off with their owne priming powder t is not to be endured in point of Honour by any Protestant that regards the honour of his Religion that any should say the Papists have so outstript the Protestants in loyalty as to win the denomination of the Kings Army to be Popish from their super increasing therein And blessed be the Lord for it they have not the least cause so to brag for what cause soever others have been pleased so to declare Then for the Kings Army in the West so long under the command of that valiant and successefull religious and pious Sir Ralph Hopton I doe not remember that amongst all the lyes and slanders all the calumnies and reproaches that have been preached or printed any have yet been so wickedly impudent as to call that Popish or to affirme that any knowne Papists are listed in it I am sure both Houses of Parliament in their Ordinances made against Sir Ralph and his Forces viz. that in June 27. 1642. for the prevention of a most horrid wicked and unnaturall designe pursued by Sir Ralph Hopton and his adherents c. and that made the same day for the assessing of Malignants in the Coun●y of Sommerset c. never call any of those that have assisted him or joyned with him Papists but only Rebells and Traitors So that we are forced to looke into the Northerne parts to finde out this Popish Army and for the Army in those parts though I finde some Diurnals and other such like lying and slanderous pamphlets wherein that Army was called Popish even at its first advancing into Yorkeshire yet I observed that the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament did not themselves stile it so no not in their Declaration for the suppressing of divers Papists and other malignant persons in the Counties of Yorke Northumberland Westmerland Cumberland Lancashire Cheshire c. Novemb. 23. 1642. They therein declare that the Papists and other malignants and ill affected persons in those Counties had entred into an association and caused great Forces both of horse and foot to be raised to aid and assist the Popish and malignant party in those parts but for all this they doe not yet brand them with the name of a popish Army afterwards indeed when they had found that the name of popish army spread abroad as I but now said by Diurnalls and other lying and scandalous pamphlets the constant pressures to prepare the way for more au●hentick Declarations had somewhat startled and amazed the poore Country people then we heare the stile of an Army of Papists under the command of the Earle of New-castle made use of as in that Declaration of the House of Commons Decemb. 15. 1642. the Declaration of the Lords and Commons still retaining their former stile But passe by the originall of that army Did that army as yet ever merit the name of Popish That there were and are more Papists in that army then in all the Kings armies throughout the Kingdome I do verily beleeve those Counties out of which it was raised abounding with Papists more then other counties by far And yet we have been assured from such as deserve our credit that all the Papists in that army are not a handfull in comparison of the whole body not above one of fifty and in all not so many as to make up two Regiments But why five times so many Papists if there were so many in this Kingdome should not be admitted to take up armes for the defence of their Sovereigne and rights and libertie of the Subject I never yet heard any argument worth answering nay how the papists or any for them could answer their not taking up armes in such a case without incurring the guilt of high Treason is past my resolving And for the Protestant Religion which they so much hate and the power and priviledge of Parliament which they so much maligne whereas it is objected that it cannot be thought that they should fight for the defence of either of them I doe conceive that if they might be let alone quiet and secure without intermedling their love to either is not so great as to inflame their spirits to such a hazard of their lives for their sakes but the pressing necessities of the present times ingaging them in a War and they finding the quarrell to be betwixt the safety of the Kings person honour and estate and the ambitious seditious and rebellious designes and attempts of some of His Subjects betwixt Protestants and some Anabaptists Brownists and other Sectaries betwixt the enjoying the just power and priviledges of Parliament together with their owne lives goods and estates and the being spoyled robbed and deprived of all or the most of these by the arbitrary power and priviledges of a few Lords and Commons t is no wonder to see them to offer themselves willingly to defend and maintain the former rather then to endure suffer the latter Besides when the Protestants in a Kingdome are imbroyled in a civill war amongst themselves or with any factious and schismaticall persons it would not be wisdome in them to suffer the papists to sit quiet and still if they should desire it lest when they have weakned each other the papists prove too strong for both But for further satisfaction in this point I refer you to the Earle of New-castle his excellent Declaration to that purpose and to that witty and solid lettter of a Worthy whosoever it was to his friend in Leceistershire Now these things premised thus cleared I cannot but wonder what is meant by the popish army which hath been raised and is now on foot in divers parts of this Kingdome had we been told that there is such an army flying in divers parts of this Kingdome if we could not have seen it it might happily have been

for the subversion of the true Protestant Religion and the Liberty of the Subject And that in pursuance thereof c. This is the first Credendum set foorth to usher in our Jurandum this we must believe therefore thus and thus we must sweare But why must we believe this because the Lords and Common have Declared it I ow the Lords and Commons my obedience in a subordinate way next and immediatly under my King but I do not yet know that I owe them my Faith in that supreme way as to believe whatsoever they declare Nay I know the contrary and therfore I will be bold to examine the truth of this credendum so far as I am able before I give up my faith unto it That there hath been in this Kingdome a Popish and trayterous plot for the subversion of the true Protestant Reformed Religion is recorded to us and to our posterities with an Act of Parliament for an Anniversary commemoration of our deliverance from the same And I doubt not but there have beene many other plots since to the same purpose by the same faction though God of his mercy hath disappointed them ere they came to any visible maturity Neither will I altogether free the late potent Faction from intending some such mischiefe Nay further I am not very slow of heart to beleeve that there is now at this present in this Kingdome a traiterous plot for the same purpose which may as well be called a Popish as an Anabaptisticall Brownisticall or Separatisticall plot the Papists as well as the Anabaptists Brownists and other Separatists contriving and contributing what they can thereunto and all meeting and consenting in the same positions and doctrines for the effecting thereof For what Luther said of the Anabaptists and Papists we find by wofull experience true of them all Fratres sunt caudis conjuncta sunt vulpes sed capitibus diversa singunt sese foris magnos hostes esse cum tamen intus vere idem sentiant deceant ac defendant they are all brethren and they are crafty foxes linked together by the tales though their heads looke divers waies they outwardly feigne themselves to be great enemies each to other but inwardly they doe verily think teach and maintaine one and the same thing And all these though they pretend too much the liberty of the Subject yet the truth i● they intend only to inlarge their owne liberty and licentiousnesse and to destroy the just liberty and property as well as the duty and loyalty of all Subjects whatsoever Thus farre it is no difficult matter to beleeve that there hath been and now is a plot for the subversion of the true reformed Protestant Religion and the liberty of the Subject and to the lawfull defence of the same thus plotted against I conceive my selfe already sufficiently bound not only by my duty as I am a Protestant and a Subject but also by my late Oath or Protestation as I am thereby a new sworne Protestant and Subject And therefore if that be the true cause why I should take an oath I have very lately for the same cause already taken one and I humbly conceive that having made the former oath so lately for their satisfaction who require this they ought to rest satisfied with the former without urging any other it being a ruled case in Law Date jurejarund● non aliud quaritur quam an juratum sit remissa quastiom an debentur quast fatis probatum sit jurejurand● when once an oath is given no further question is to be made then whether the oath be taken or not all other questions of the proofe of what is controverted are to be remitted as being proved sufficiently by the very making oath thereof and you well know what the Apostles rule in that case is Heb. 6.16 an oath for confirmation is at least ought to be to them to those who require the oath an end of all strife And the multiplying of oaths is perillous as well to the imposers as to the takers But to goe on with the first reason That in pursuance of such o● such a Popish plot c. a Popish army hath been raised and is now on foot in divers parts of this Kingdome here my faith so staggers that I cannot possibly keep it up to this assertion and that for these Reasons First because that an Army cannot truly be called a Popish Army wherein not five of an hundred are Papists unlesse we take Papists in that latitude as to involve all those that imbrace adhere to and maintain the established Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England And if five of an hundred in an Army being Papists may give the name of Popish to that Army what name can we thinke of for that Army wherein there are besides Papists Anabaptists Brownists Familists and other Sectaries an hundred for five true Reformed Protestants T is not denied but that there are now in the Kings Army too many that are Papists and yet there are no more Papists in that army then ought to be there for being Subjects as well as Papists they are bound both by the Lawes of God and of this Nation to assist their King in his warres both against forreign enemies and against native rebels and usurpers and the King is bound to protect them against spoile rapine and other oppression aswell as his other Subjects It is I solemnly professe a sore greefee to my soul and so I am confident t is to all really religious Protestant souls besides that ever our King who hath beene so long and still is so eminent a Defender of the true Protestant Religion should neede the assistance of Papists to defend his Royall person honour and estate as t is a shame to our Religion it self that Papists should shew their Loyalty and Allegiance to their King in such a defence when so many that would be reputed the onely true Protestants either take up or maintaine the taking up armes against him This scandall to the Protestant Religion would scarce ever bee wiped of were there not blessed bee God for it forty Protestants to one Papist that cheerefully and valiantly assist the King in these present warres with their lives and estates Secondly if the army raised by his Majesty and now on foot in divers parts of this Kingdome bee a popish army it were worth the knowing when it became so or when at least it became to be so reputed For that magnanimous and royall army which hath ever attended his sacred person I find severall Declarations of both Houses of Parliament wherein they who levied those forces and they that were levied have beene called ill affected persons Cavaleers Delinquents Malignants and the like but scarce the name of Papists was for a long time mentioned in any of them Since that I finde Papists a Jesuiticall faction prelaticall Clergy and discontented persons added to the former and all called Assistants in and to the Forces prepared but as yet