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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56200	Sad and serious politicall considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Protestant brethren in Scotland, their late great overthrow, and the probable dangerous consequences thereof to both nations and the Prorestant [sic] religion which may serve as a satisfactory apology for such ministers and people, who out of conscience did not observe the publike thanksgiving against their covenant, for the great slaughter of those their brethren in covenant.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing P4058; ESTC R5356	63,285	75

or if they miscarry to his Sister matched to the Prince of Aurenge or if they all should fail descending to the Queen of Bohemia and Prince Elector Palattine their severall new Titles and Interests will find means to infest us with new Warres till they have either obtained their rights or rui●ed both themselves and us So that unlesse God put so much wi●dome and spirit to the English Nation as to restore the King to his just Rights upon safe and honourable terms according to their Oaths Covenant Protestations Declarations to all the world and Principles of their Religion we can in humane proba●ility expect nought else but the utter ruine both of our Religion Nation Kingdoms and totall extirpation by Forraign enemies And certainly if we seriously consider 1. The infinite divisions discontents oppressions that are every where amongst us 2. The Heresies Blasphemies Sects and Schisms that are lately broached and publikely countenanced by us 3. The Generall contempt and neglect of the publike Ordinances of God and free toleration granted to all to withdraw themselves from them without the least censure or punishment 4. The generall contempt hatred discountenancing reviling and persecuting of godly and faithfu●l M●nisters throughout the Nation and the snares that are daily laid to intrap and ruine them 5. The extraordinary Apostacy of many Professors from the truth purity and power of Religion almost to professed Atheism contempt of the Word Prayer Preaching Sacraments and all other O●dinances to meer licentiousnesse lukewarmnesse and Prophanenesse 6. The generall inclination of the people to errours E●thusiasmes and seducing spirits 7. The little cordiall reall love and affection between Professors of Religion and the great animosities hatreds and divisions amongst them both in Opinion● Practise and affection 8. The little conscience of Oaths Protestations Covenants Promises and great hypocrisie covetousnesse oppression self-seeking envy hatred and malice that is in the Nation and amongst those especially who professe themselves Saints of the highest form 9. The universall inundation of all kind of sin and wickednesse and open profession thereof in all places 10. The extraordinary Injustice Tyranny Cruelty and Mercilesnesse that all parts of the Land complain of and groan under 11. The great effusion of Christian bloud and of the bloud of our Christian Brethren in Covenant that our whole Land is polluted with and our rejoycing in this bloud-guiltinesse instead of repenting and mourning for it 12. Our present decay of Trade and Merchandize 13. Our intolerable Taxes and Impositions o● all sorts 14. The extreme poverty of our Kingdom and increase of poor people in all parts which have little work or none and will not sta●ve 15. The divisions of our Forces into Ireland and Scotland where standing Armies and Garrisons must be constantly maintained for fear of revolt 16. Our great breaches with France and Portugall and no good quarter with any Forraign States or Kingdomes which as yet will neither own nor hold full and open correspondency with our new Governours or Government 17. The revolt of most of our Forraign plantations from us and the late Declaration against them as Traytors and Rebells who count us such 18. The Negotiations with the Pope and Popish Kingdomes and most Protestant Princes and States to incense them all against us as enemies to all Magistracy and publike Government and to mankind it self as Salmatius hath published us in print 19. The spreading the pestlence in many places and the feared famine throughout the Realm 20. The manifold injuries and afronts offered to all the Nobility and most of the Gentry of the Na●ion and the whole Nation it self in the change of the Government without and against their consent in contin●ing and increasing their burthens Taxes and out-lawing many of them because they will not subscribe the Ingagement in erecting new High Courts to take away their lives without any legall Triall by their Peers for offences punishable by no common Law 21. The Ex●cution of so many Protestants and not of one Papist whatsoever by these or other Courts of Justice though the chief contrivers of our late unhappy Wars and discontinuance of all Capitall proceedings against Priests and Jesuites since the abolishing of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance made principally against them and the Popes Usurpations and practises 22. The injustice of our present cause and Warre meerly against Monarchy Presbytery and old English Peers and Parliaments purposely to support the present Government set up by the meer power of the sword yea founded on the bloud of a Protestant King and ruine of the very best of Parliamen●s to prevent a settlement of peace and Religion by an unbloudy Treaty And then compare them with the Premises and Cardinall Richelieu his Instructions and advice to the late French King a little before his death published by an Italian of good note and printed in Italy Anno. 1645. to foment the late differences between the late King and Parliament all he could and if possible by the solicitation of his instruments to draw the Commons to change our Monarchy into a meer Republike thereby to imbroil all our Kingdomes in civill Warres against each other as the only and best policy of all to weaken and destroy both our power and Religion and advance the interest of France and Catholike Religion which we see now accomplished according to his advice and then we have just cause to fear an inevitable approaching ruine both of our Religion and Nation notwithstanding our late Victories and Successes which do but weaken impoverish destroy our selves and promote the designs of our common enemies unlesse God give us a timely sight and Reformation of this our impolitick oversight and incline our hearts to a generall peace and unity th●oughout our Kingdome by restoring every man to his just right and inheritance from the highest to the low●st and abolishing all future seeds and occasions of our intestine Warres The serious consideration of all which Premises are a sufficient satisfactory Apology for all Ministers or others now questioned for the Non-observance of the late Thanksgiving day ●or the great rout and slaughter of our Protestant Presbyterian Brethren of Scotland against all their persecutors We shall therefore close up all with Abners Speech to Ioab in case of the civill Wars between the House of David and Saul wherein the Is●aelites of the same Religion and Nation unnaturally fought and slew each other Ioabs souldiers pursuing and slaughtering Abners whom they had discomfited in battell addressing to those in present power 2 Sam. 2.26 27 28. Then Abner called to Ioab and said shall the sword devoure for ever knowest thou not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end how long shall it be then ere thou bid the people return from following their Brethren And Ioab said as God liveth unlesse thou hadst spoken surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following their Brethren So Ioab blew a trumpet and all