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A90814	The paper called the Agreement of the people taken into consideration, and the lawfulness of subscription to it examined, and resolved in the negative, by the ministers of Christ in the province of Lancaster. Published by them especially for the satisfaction of the conscience, and guiding of the practise of our entirely honored and beloved, the people of our several churches, committed to our charge; and for the general good of this Church & nation.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing P279; Thomason E546_27; ESTC R203122	28,425	38

not discovered her iniquity 4.13 to turne away her captivity but have ●●ene for her false burthens and causes of banishment they have shed the bloud of the just K. Charles in the midst of her 1.5 Englands greatest Adversaries are chief 5.8 and her Enemies prosper Servants doe beare rule over us and there is none to deliver us out of their hand 4.5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets 5.12 they that were brought up in ●ear let embrace dunghils Princes are hanged by their hands and the faces of the Elders are not honoured Warre desolation and famine with their sad effects foretold in these Lamentations appeare in our Horrison already like Elijahs little Cloud which will shortly overspread our whole English firmament and all these calamities have and will fall upon us 5.16 because the Crowne is fulne from our Head 1.9 the Brittish Josiah K. Charles is taken from us and we have no Comforter and how great and just Causes of our sorrowes are all these Calamities But let this sorrow have the full advantage in its fall to adde motion unto all the turning wheels of our afflicting griefs the fall from our great happinesse in His Majesties Government Let London let England let Scotland let Ireland let every of them Remember as Jerusalem did in the daies of her afflictions and her miseries 1.7 all the pleasant things that she had in the daies of old All the pleasant things they had in the blessed daies of King Charles his blessed Reigne the glory and truth of her Religion the just execution of her Lawes her peace her riches her plenty her liberty at home and her protection and honour abroad 2.15 England was the perfection of beauty and the joy of the while earth The Kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the Adversary and Enemy should have entred into the Gates of our Jerusalem London that Churches should be turned into stables Gods Houses made Coures of Guands the Royall Palaces made Garrisons the Tythes the portion of Gods Ministers made the Soldiers salary that the Law should be turned into wormwood our Religion and Liberty measured out unto us by the Pikus length the Decisions of the Sword become the Principles of Faith and that which is the Cause of all this mechanique Persons Trades men who will certainly marre never can mend so great concernments they never before handled or were acquain-with the sole Moderators of Publique affaires and the chiefe Princes and Potentates of our Kingdome But now the glory is departed from our Israel 1.1 the Arke of God is taken and how is England become a Widow made a prey unto cruell people and skilfull to destroy who daily force and prostitute her unto their wicked purposes for these things let England and every true-hearted English-man say I I weep 1.16 mine eye mine eye runneth downe with water because the Comforter King CHARLES that should relieve my soule is farre from me The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord c. The life of our Religion of our Lawes of our Liberties is taken from us the Image of Gods power in supreme Authority Indemnity Inviolability is taken from us our Physition our nursing Father our Comforter our Protectour is taken from us and for our sins was taken in their pits so that now we want the Wings of his protection among these Heathen among whom we live we are now made very Slaves unto the worst of Heathen a People without God without Faith without Law without Rule without Reason without Humanity without all these and whose unrully will onely is unto them all these These calamities are all fallen upon us because The breath of our Nostrils c. pious King Charles is taken from us like Elias in a fiery Charriot Vit. Const l. 4. c. 73. or as Conctantine the Great after his death was impressed on a Coyne pluck'd up by a divine hand into Heaven that his eyes might not see nor his righteous soule be afflicted with all that evill which is to come upon us to consume us woe unto us for we have sinned These are but the contracted heads of those miseries which we shall all read over in the vast volumes of our approaching woes and justly bespeaks such sorrows as might transforme us into Niobes make our heads rivers of sorrowes and our eyes fountaines for continuall teares The Lond in mercy looke upon us and wipe away these teares from our eyes and their Causes our sinnes from our soules and since the bloud of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church in mercy unto his Church restore the seed of his Martyr King Charles the first unto the Government of these Kingdomes that Religion Peace and Liberty may be restored unto us I conclude these ours Lam. 5.21 22. at the Prophet doth his Lamentation Turne thou unto us ô Lord and we shall be turned renew our daies as of old if thou hast not utterly rejected us heare our prayers O Lord for thy Sonnes sake unto whom with the Holy Ghost be ascribed c. FINIS

men professe that they know God jet in their works they deny him using the name of God and Religion as Conjurers in t heir Incantations to perpetrate those things are most contrary unto God and destructive unto Religion for as the Devill never doth more hurt then when he appeares in the likenesse of an Angel of light so are men never so mischievous as when they drive on wicked designes under the shew of Godlinesse Englands former sins which caused this Gods just dereliction the abandoning them up unto greater were their exceeding luxury in turning the grace of God temporal favours into wantonnes the long continuance of their peace the increase of their Trade riches and plenty begot in them a generall insolency and pride so that when they Waxed fat like Jesurun they kicked against God in the Authority and regard due unto his principall Officers the Prince and the Priest Hence the people of England in their generality became self-willed heady high-minded and incorrigible they slandered the footsteps of Gods Anointed smote him-with the tongue contended with Gods Priests and usurped that sacred Jurisdiction which God had delegated unto them as those Conspirators did Ye take too much upon you ye Sonnes of Levi since all the people of the Lord are holy under pretence of then Ambition of the Clergy and being like Elihu's now bottels ready to burst with that liquor or flatuous and superficiall knowledge instilled into them by the giddy preachments and undigested swelling and tedious prayers of their Lecturers who reduced all Religion unto lip-worship and canting Scriptures Hence came it to passe that contemning the old paths the truth of the reformation in the Protestant Religion they contended unto bloud to corrupt by their phanatick Alterations the pure Doctrine Evangelical discipline established in the Church of England to effect which with the more ease they adventure upon sacriledge to carry on that they must pull down Episcopacy the fence of the Church and here the King as a nursing Father interposing they tender Him unable by encroaching upon his Prerogatives quarrelling him seize upon his Strengths Arme fight against him Imprison and then Murther Him which last Act of Rebellion though the greatest part of the first Engagers may be thought never to have intended yet they may see the first violation of their Obedience due unto His Majesty punished by a guilt thus farre of his Innocent bloud that that power which they raised spilt it So dangerous it is to vary from a Christian Principle or to doe evill that good may come of it God onely having power to direct limit and determine any evill action so that looke over the pedigree of Englands sinnes through the severall descents thereof and you will find it thus peace begot wealth that plenty that pride that vanity that curiosity that contention that hate of the Clergy that sacriledge that the downfall of Bishops that the contempt of the KING that Warre that Imprisonment and that the murther of the King a murther the most horrid murther that ever the Sun saw for Subjects to take away their KING's life without the prescription of a single example or a law nay even against all lawes divine and humance to Trie him after the forme of a Judiciary proceeding this is to entitle God unto the greatest sinne to establish iniquity by a Law and to make God such as themselves Thus the Jewes dealt with our Saviour Ioh. 19.7 We have a Law and by that Law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God although there was no such Law but a new-made Law a Junto-law Straffords law Canterburies law the KING's law consequent Lawes Lawes without names or cognizance made because He was KING Neither doth their Power any more prove the equity of this fact the great scandall of the Christian name and height of Anabaptistical fury then the Devils power which is from God doth justifie his malice which is from himself They have now indeed made King Charles a Glorious King prov'd him glorious in his Personall virtues glorious in his divine Grace but most Glorious in the Christian Constancy of his Glorious sufferings for Gods Cause the true Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of the three Kingdomes thus hath God extorted a truth from them for this spake they not of themselves but God forceing their testimony they prophecyed As we have seen His Majesties sufferings and their causes our sins so let us reflect upon their punishment as the Springs from which our sorrowes should arise l'it Const l. 4. c. 29. The exceeding avarice and hypocrisie two noted Court sinnes with which the greatest Christian Prince Constantine was abused of the State-Grandees the deep pits wherein they laid the fatall snares into which pious King CHARLES fell will be visibly punished for God will not be mocked The pride vanity sacriledge rebellion and the cruell murther of His Majesty will have particular judgements levell'd against these sinnes every mans sinne even of those who have fought for His Majesty who have yet fought against him by their sinnes hath given force unto this great stroked and wound given unto these Kingdomes in His Majesties death and therefore ought every man to proportion his sorrow unto his sinnes As King Josiah from Judah so the strong Barricadoe King Charles is taken away betwixt Gods judgements and this Kingdome the great and wide Inlet of all misery is made by his death could our sorrows answer them like a Torrent it would over flow all the banks of reason and grow too big to be carried away by the chanels of our senses behold every spring of Jeremiah and Judahs sorrow open to send forth these flowing streames of affliction upon us and also arise from the same head The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pice of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall live among the Heathen Those heavie judgements which the Prophet Jeremiah foresaw impending and after came to passe by King Josiahs death are in agreat part by King Charles his death Lam. 1.10 2.7 already come upon us Gods house his beautifull house is laid maste the Heathen have entred into the Sanctuary they have made a noise in the house of the Lord as in the day of a solemus Feast So that they who in the beginning pretended God Religion the Church their Cause have dealt with us as that Faction among the Jewes who called themselves The Zealous in the Warre with Titus did under pretense of defending Religion Joseph Bell. Jud.l. 2. c. 12. and the Law they possessed themselves of the Temple yet were themselves the first who put fire with their owne hands into the holy places How hath the avarice and carnall interests of the Teachers of these times corrupted the purity of our Religion Lam. 2.14 as Judahs so Englands onely Prophets have seen vaine and foolish things for her and they have