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The true character of a rigid Presbyter with a narrative of the dangerous designes of the English and Scotish covenanters as they have tended to the ruine of our Church and Kingdom : also the articles of their dogmatic faith and the inconsistency thereof with monarchy : to which is added a short history of the English rebellion / compiled in verse by Marchamont Nedham; and formerly extant in his Mercurius pragmaticus.
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Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.
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Holmby Hampton-court Next from a Palace to a Den Translated to make sport Each State-Buffoon a part did take Some plaid the Fool some Knave But still the Plot was laid to make Their King a Royal Slave Brave Actors we admire your skill Your Play none understands Yet make an Exit when you will We all shall clap our hands At Westminster two wond'rous Beasts This day are to be seen March 14. 1648. Call'd Liberty and Priviledge GOD save the King and Queen Say Monsters strange what kin are ye To Tygers or the Lyon For shame boast not your Pedigree From the sweet Sons of Zion This Liberty first whelpt the Cause The Cause then lay at lurch To gull the City damn the Laws And quite cashire the Church But Priviledge O monstrous Thing Eats up poor Cavaliers Feeds on the Gentry and the King But next have at the Peers Once more the Kingdom lies at Stake No matter then who wins Two Schismaticks the Wagers make And now the Game begins The Scots and Sects two godly Cheats Debar both Ace and Sice To rook each other with fine Feats They both bring in false Dice The first throws for the Covenant Next who shall rule and sway For Jocky now doth swear and rant He 'll have no more foul play The Sectaries cry'd Have at all When first the Dice were thrown But rather then the Scots shall brawle They 'll part stakes in the Crown The Devils reign is short though fierce Then let our Musick sound The Drawers all the Hogsheads pierce And make the Healths go round Here 's a Health to the King in Sack To the Houses in Small-Beer In Vinegar to th' crabbed Pack Of Priests at Westminster Next to revive our fainting States Fill out some Aqua vitae 'T were pity on the Bridge such Pates Should meet in a Committee Let 's water th' Royal Plants with Tears Of rich divine Canary Drink on Cav'liers t' all Loyal Peers Then end with Charles and Mary Full forty thousand Scots by Vote Must visit us ere long Brave Army sure when ev'ry Scot Is forty thousand strong Though th' Houses have deserv'd these plagues GOD keep our Nation free Like Egypt let not us by Rags And Vermin conquer'd be For shame for shame call home your King With Honour let him treat His Nature is without a sting His Motto To forget Return return Disloyal Crew Of men forsworn if not Rather then thus we 'll stoop to you We 'll Idolize the Scot. Come Mahomet thy Turn is next Now Gospel's out of date The Alcoran may prove Good Text In our new Turkish-State Thou dost unto thy Priests allow The sin of full four Wives Ours scarce will be content with now Five Livings and nine Lives Thy Saints and ours are all alike Their Vertues flow from Vice No Bliss they do believe and seek But an Earthly Paradice A Heav'n on Earth they hope to gain But we do know full well Could they their glorious ends attain This Kingdom must be Hell From Prison now return the King The Queen and Prince from France For Cosen Charles the Welsh-men sing And stoutly lead the Dance The Scotch-Bag-Pipes the Pulpit-Drums And Priests sound high and big Once more the Cause and Cov'nant comes To shew's a Scotish Jig The Irish will a Voyage take To jon their force in one And whilst they frisk a Galliard make The Houses sing O Hone. Three Kingdoms thus must dance the Hay But ere the Members run We 'll see they shall the Musick pay And then the Dance is done Seven years by phrentick Votes and Fits Our Worthies bore command Then did they run out of their Wits But now out of the Land No more shall they the City ride Like a fine Golden Ass The Navy's rigg'd with Wind and Tide They stay but for a Pass But if they linger long behind And keep their King in Bands I 'll undertake it shall be sign'd By a hundred thousand Hands For prosp'rous Gales then on the Deep Let their Priests prate and pray By Order and at Margarets keep An Humiliation-day The Factions now each other rout With Jealousies and Fear The Independents face about The rest cry As you were The Presbyters put forth their Horns To guard their Goods and Homes The She-Militia likewise scorns Their Cocks should loose their Combs Then toll I pray the Passing-Bell For our new State-Committee These monstrous Votes which made them swell Are cow'd down by the City Sweet John-a-Nokes and John-a-Styles And worshipful Jack-Straws Of both the Junto's leave your Wiles And give 's our King and Laws Betwixt two thieves our Saviour once Suffer'd for us and di'd So 'twixt two thievish Factions Our King is crucifi'd Caesar not Christ the ancient Jews Paid tribute of their Treasure Our Jews no King but Christ will chuse And rob and cry down Caesar Now for the King the zealous Kirk ' Gainst th' Independent bleats Whenas alas their onely wirk Is to renew old Cheats If they can sit vote what they list And crush the new States down Then up go They but neither Christ Nor King shall have his own The Pox the Plague and each Disease Are cur'd though they invade us But never look for Health and Peace If once Presbyt'ry jade us When ev'ry Priest becomes a Pope Then Tinkers and Sow-gelders May if they can but ' scape the Rope Be Princes and Lay-Elders If once the Kirk-men pitch their Tents With our Assembly-Asses Synods will eat up Parliaments Courts be devour'd by Classes Look to 't ye Gentry else be Slaves To Slaves that can't abide ye Though ye have been cow'd down by Knaves Oh! let not Fools now ride ye But sev'n years of a thousand 't is Our Saints must Rulers be So they shall loose in years of bliss Nine hundred ninety three No more then let those Rabbies trust Unto the Revelation For their Interpreter is Lust And Pride makes Application Religion but a Pack-horse is To carry on Designes The Bible like a Jugglers Box Us'd by our State-Divines Texts are tormented one by one Like Votes now here now there Thus Hocus-Pocus is out-done By them at Westminster The Banes are askt the Marriage next Goes forward in the City For now the Match is made betwixt Them and the State-Committee Thou Strumpet London tell not us Of Babel any more If from thy King thou partest thus Thou art the greater Whore Thy Bags their Portion now are meant As well as Crown and Church But when that all is gone and spent They 'll leave thee in the lurch Thou Bawd of Treason then for all Thy cursed Fornication Thou and thy Priestly Panders shall Be Carted through the Nation The Market's made the King shall treat They say and buy his own But is not this a very Cheat To set the price a Crown Alas the Members run by rote And shew us many a Feat Thus all the year they 'll vote unvote For Money Cloaths and Meat 'T is fit that they
The True CHARACTER Of A Rigid Presbyter With A NARRATIVE OF THE Dangerous Designes of the English and Scotish COVENANTERS As they have tended to the Ruine of our Church and Kingdom ALSO The Articles of their Dogmatical Faith And the inconsistency thereof with Monarchy To which is added A short History of the English Rebellion Compiled in VERSE By MARCHAMONT NEDHAM AND Formerly extant in his Mercurius Pragmaticus LONDON Printed by the Assignes of J. Calvin and are to be sold by Z. Crofton Presbyter at the signe of the Lay-Elder near the stool of repentance in White-Chappel 1661. To the READER 'T Is not unknown to the meanest Capacity I presume that Presbytery has ever been a Faction of a very hot and fiery Constitution And since this later Age has produc'd so many of these Hot-spurs and Pulpit-Firebrands I did imagine 't were no abuse in me to divulge what our most refined Intellects have heretofore penned for I do utterly disown the Piece as the issue of my own Brain and am bound to confess that it is but a Collection of what has been penned by the best of our Modern Age onely huddled into the Mould of a Chararacter not out of any contradictory temper of my own or a vindicative spirit but to satisfie the world that what heretofore hath been predicted or mentioned of them they were resolved to manifest as an infallible truth and prove that an Oracle which was delivered onely as an Opinion But 't is inevitable if we may give credit to what the Satyrist boldly and truely affirms Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu c. The Vessel must of necessity relish of that Liquor that first it contained Wherefore since the Original of this pretended new Light of Religion was Rebellion I am altogether ignorant of any Plea they have to a Jure Divino since to make GOD the Author of so horrid a Crime were absolute Blasphemy Perhaps Reader thou art of an opinion contrary to what is here written I confess that for a time my mind was wandring too till some Causes made me to reflect with an impartial Eye upon our present Government Hereupon I took view of their Reasons and Judgements who I knew to be learned and supposing they who wrote before these times were most likely to speak truth as being uninterested in our affairs from them I drew my Collections then putting them in order and comparing all together they soon made a conquest over me and my opinion I know the high Talkers the lighter and censorious part of people will shoot many a bitter Arrow to wound my reputation and charge me with levity and inconstancy because I am not obstinate like themselves against Conscience right Reason Necessity the custom of all Nations and the peace of our own But this sort of men I reckon inter Bruta animantia among whom to do well is to hear ill who usually speak amiss of those things that they do not or will not understand But prithee read and then do what thou list I have onely one word more and that is to our Modern Pharisee the Conscientious Pretender If he will not be convinced by clear Testimonies but raise more dust about our Ears to amaze the people it must be concluded that all this noise of Church-Reformation Conscience and Covenant is a meer malitious Designe to drive on a Faction and set up themselves in the seat of Authority Being convinced of the truth of these things I conceive my self obliged to satisfie others and therefore whatever I have been heretofore I shall list my self henceforth For King and Parliament Mercurius Pragmaticus THE CHARACTER OF A Rigid Presbyter WITH A Discovery of those dangerous Designes of the English and Scotish Covenanters as they have tended to the ruine of our Church and State TO give you an exact Character of him is impossible he is as changeable as a Proteus yet if you please to have his Genealogie ab origine which may be said to resemble a Welch Pedigree take it as it was left by one of the best Pens of this Modern Age. Never was there such a monstrous Babe as this ruling domineering Presbytery the Father of it is Rebellion the Mother Insurrection the Midwife Sacrilege the Nurse Coverousness the Milk Schism the Coats Armour the Rattles Drums a bloody Sword the Coral Money the Babie it delights to play withal it grows up to be a stripling and goes to School to a Council of War its Lesson is on the Trumpet its Fescue a Pistol its play-days the days of Battel and black-Monday the Day of Judgement it comes of age and is married with a Solemn League and Covenant it begets Children like it self whose blessing upon them is the power of the Sword and whose imposition of Hands are broken Pates This Monster cries down the antient Catholick and Apostolick power which the Bishops had and then takes it up again and exercises it in a higher nature then ever Bishop did even to the deposition of Kings and the delivering them up to the Executioner Should we trace this viperous Brood from their first rise and original we shall finde their Designes founded on Rebellion to the ruine and destruction of the Prince and Bishop of Geneva under whose Dominions the Faction first pullulated 'T would be too prolix and inconsistent with a Character to tell you how they have dealt likewise with our Princes here at home verifying that Maxime NO BISHOP NO KING But take a short Epitomy of their Actions in what followeth And First of Geneva Calvin with his Gladiators having expuls'd the Prince and Bishop of Geneva erects a Government so losty and unexpected that the People would have nothing to do either with him or it and thereupon banished him being in exile he plots and contrives the pacification of the peoples fury by inventing his new fangle of Lay-Elders which made them sharers in the Government and endeared the people to him so that all parties were agreed As for our Princes here at home Do but observe the behaviour of Knox and Buchanan and the rest of that Gang to Mary Queen of Scots as it is related by King James himself in his Discourse at Hampton-Court to the Presbytery These two pre-mentioned viz. Knox and Buchanan came to Mary Queen of Scots telling her That by right no Pope nor Potentate whatsoever had any superiority over her in her own Dominions either in cases Civil or Ecclesiastical but that she was Supreme in both and constituted by GOD as the only nursing Mother of his Church within her own Kingdom and therefore conjured her to have a care of the Evangel of Christ as she would answer it at the dreadful Day of Judgement She first gives them her Ear and at last her Authority they make use of it in the first place to the pulling down of Bishops and exalted themselves in their places and when the Queen expected an absolute Supremacie behold