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A85282	The fifth of November, or, The popish and schismaticall rebells. With their horrid plots, fair pretences, & bloudy practices, weighed one against another: and in opposition unto both two things asserted. 1 That the supreame authority of establishing, reforming, and vindicating religion is placed in the King. 2 That religion is not to be established or reform'd in bloud.		1644 (1644)	Wing F891A; Thomason E43_8; ESTC R23274	14,141	27

conquests Every battaile of the Warriour is with confused noise and with garments rolled in blood but this of Christ shall bee with burning and full of fire Isay 9.5 with the spirit of his mouth and the brightnesse of his life and doctrine And verse 4. Thou hast broken the yoake of his burden and the staffe of his shoulder and the rod of his oppressour as in the day of Midian Now if you look into the seventh of Iudges you shall finde the conquest strangely gained in that day of Midian not with swords and speares but with Trumpets of Rammes hornes and empty pitchers with Lamps in their pitchers If our adversaries will addresse themselves into a Christian course let them not extinguish the Priests Lamps that were wont to be trimmed with the purest oyle Let them not banish nor imprison the more eminent of our burning and shining lights and so by their absence create a darknesse on purpose that the blinking linkes of their Levits might be seen to shine in it Let us have the libertie to make our Trumpets sound and let that sound have an equall hearing if they can this way accomplish it we shall not envy them this advantage of their Rammes hornes and empty Pitchers let them gaine as many Proselytes as they can to their lewd and groundlesse Reformation But to goe about to make men sull of humilitie meeknesse gentlenesse patience obedience brotherly kindnesse charity righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost and these are those Evangelicall ingredients that make up the constitution of a good Christian to attempt to make men such by fire and sword is an experiment too apparently preposterous to be successefull unlesse we think Christians may be made by an Antiperistasis Mat. 26.55 Are you come out as against a theife with swords and staves to take me saith our Saviour I taught daily in the Temple and ye took me not Hee that is not taken with Christ nor hath a will to take him teaching in his holy Temple if he comes to gaine him by the sword the close of his designe will be Christs shame his crucifixion and he hath no warrant to apprehend Christ in such a manner but what is sealed by the power of darknesse Luk. 22.53 The barbarous crueltie which the Spaniard exercised upon the poore Indians was so far from working their conversion that it provoked them to blaspheme the God of Christians that would suffer himselfe to be adored by creatures so mercilesse and bloudy that they seeme to be meere strangers to humanitie Religion can never be fruitfull in that soyle that is tainted and overflowed with rivers and streames of bloud A sound faith can never be begotten by the sense of feeling when the stripes and prints of the nailes are made upon our own bodies The flaming sword was not put into Paradise to be an Allective an allurement unto the tree of life 'T is onely the outward man not the conscience that is wrought upon by compulsion so that violence may be a meanes to advance Hypocrisie but can bring no advantage unto pure Religion A pillyon and Abaddon a destroyer are not Christian names but Antichristian And how muche are they worse then Iewes that put all the innocent bloud which they pretend they have shed for the Cause of Christ into the treasury of their merits whereas the Iewes thought it not lawfull to put the price of blood into their Treasury To conclude this point let Mahomets Religion be a vine that thrives best and brings forth most grapes when 't is watred with the blood of those that thinke her clusters bitter Let Iesuits draw so much innocent blood from their fellow Christians as may swell into a River and then let them lay the bridge of Religion over it to transport such as are reconcil'd against their wills to the Church of Rome Let Anabaptists persue the same tracke of blood to hunt after preferment for their religious Cause But we have not so learned Christ This is away to winn Converts to the Church that true Protestants never yet travailed in We are not ashamed to professe with the Apostle That the weapons of our warfare are not carnall but yet mighty through God to the pulling downe of stong holdes casting downe imaginations and every high thing that exalteth it selfe agianst the knowledge of God and bringing into captivitie every thought to the obedience of Christ 2. Cor. 10.4.5 The Church hath no sword committed to her but that of the Spirit and their is no other way chalked out for her to travell by unto Heaven but Obedience Patience Meeknesse even under the sharpest persecution And as many as walk according to this Rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God FINES

The fifth of November OR The POPISH and SCHISMATICALL REBELLS With their horrid Plots fair Pretences bloudy Practices weighed one against another AND In Opposition unto both Two things asserted 1 That the supreame Authority of establishing reforming and vindicating Religion is placed in the King 2 That Religion is not to be established or reform'd in bloud 1 CHRON. 22.7 8 9 10. And David said to Solomon My Son as for me it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God But the word of the Lord came to me saying thou hast shed bloud abundantly and hast made great wars thou shalt not build an house unto my name because thou hast shed much bloud upon the earth in my sight Behold a son shal be born unto thee who shal be a man of rest and I wil give him rest from all his enemies round about for his name shal be Solomon and I wil give peace and quietnes unto Israel in his daies He shal build an house for my name 1 KINGS 6.7 So there was neither hammer nor axe nor any toole of Iron heard in the house while it was in building OXFORD Printed for H. Hall and W. Webb 1644. To the Popish Rebell To the Schismaticall Rebell I Take the boldnesse for the present to put you both together for I need not be at the charge of a several glasse to represent you If you will take the paines to look upon one anothers eyes you may therein discover your own pictures I know the comparison will be odious to you both you think that none but a blind man would father this resemblance Herein you are like two women equally famed for their deformity yet cannot endure to be told they are of the same complexion Why should you be angry that I take notice of your reconciliation when all the world that runs not a madding with you see you shake hands together I have read of waters that run unmixt in the same channel What communion is grown betwixt you I know not but your course speaks you both to have drawn and drunk at the same fountain Neither of you commits a wickednesse so lewd or broaches an Errour so grosse and palpable but can doth pretend an infallibility to warrant it The Oracles of holy men inspired were never uttered w●th more confidence and zeale then your blasphemies against both God and King and both of you by murdering such as are faithfull to their Church and Soveraigne climb the ladder to your pretended martyrdome You have divorced that couple which the Son of God came from Heaven to knit together and instead of Mercy Truth which were sweetly met together instead of righteousnes peace which were wont most lovingly to kisse each other your execrable practices have from time to time bin ready to betray us to those fatall meetings wherein bloud toucheth bloud Though you be together by the eares in other matters you are together by the hearts in treason and rebellion and your design is as good as that which procured the atonement of Herod and Pontius Pilate Since Lisymachus Nicanor did congratulate your offer of the right hand of fellowship in the treachery how strangely have you younger brethren been encouraged What a progresse have you made since you walkt by the staffe of his instructions Me thinks the holy leagues are entred upon the Stage of England to play those parts over here which they did in France in the time of the third Henry The same designs are here cloathed with the same pretences Their intent was saith the Historian to incroach upon the King to leave him nothing but a vain shadow of Royal authority under the conduction and direction of their tyrannie to make their way to this devilish design the fairer they cast scandalous aspersions upon all the Kings actions to render them odious and intolerable And lest the smooth glasse of peace should represent things in their true proportions undeceive the people the waters must be kept troubled to make them appeare on the Kings part crooked and distorted The people are stirred up to oppose the Kings edicts of peace and desires of accommodation In the interim the Leaguers goe on pretending they were for God for the honour and increase of Religion the utter extirpation of Heresie to preserve the estate and Crown of the King and to maintain the rights priviledges of the Subject yet they swore obedience to the General appointed without yea against the Kings commandement and engaged their lives honours estates to adhere unto him and all that would not associate in this holy league were persecuted as enemies to God rebels to the state perturbators of the publike good I beseech you what difference does the late Covenant bear to distinguish it from that holy League Are they not as much alike as a bond is like an obligation Do not therefore allow that in your selves which you abominate in one another but take notice from one anothers practices how pernitious and detestable those principles are that your severall sides do build upon His Holines can give no better dispensatiō for murder or rebellion then John of Leyden and what is treason in subjects that dissent in other matters from you is a crime of the same complexion in your selves though your Assembly of Divines joyne with the remnant of your Members to Vote it otherwise Therefore let me expostulate with you in the language of the Historian What think you to do O you Covenanters and Leaguers for God for the faith for the King You undertake Arms for God who desires nothing but peace You publish Rebellion he commands obedience you trouble the rest and quietnesse of a Christian King God willeth us to endure at the hand of a Prince although he be a Pagan you doe it for God whose name you call upon and deny the power you do it for God who detects your actions and knows your thoughts you do it for God that will confound al those that breed confusiō among the people you undertake wars for religion and nothing hinders that more then wars you fight for holines and yet you authorize blasphemies plant Atheisme impiety and despising of devotion in all places you march under pretence of the Churches cause and yet spoile the Clergie and destroy the Churches c. You say t●s for the King it it be where are his Commissions if for his service where are his cōmandements If for him why do you it without him If for his obedience wherfore do you adhere to the head of that league covenant which is made against him can you serve two Masters be bound by one oath to two contraries c. Know you not that all bearing of Arms is treason without the Kings authority That the Subject cannot make any league without the Prince c. Pardon me I beseech you saith he Nobles Princes Prelats Lords Gentlemen if I tel you