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A85856	Hinc illæ lachrymæ. Or the impietie of impunitie. Containing a short, serious and most certain demonstration of the main (if not, only) rise and originall of all the grand grievances, and obstructions of piety and justice, over the whole kingdome. Together with a soveraign salve, and precious plaisture, for the unquestionable cure thereof (by Gods blessing) if it be seriously and seasonably applyed, according to direction herein, humbly prescribed. / By a faithful friend to the truth and a most humble servant to all the loyall and religious Presbyterian Members of Parliament.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1647 (1647)	Wing G358; Thomason E421_6; Thomason E540_16; ESTC R204669	24,859	31

commend and encourage in their most erroneous yea blasphemous and seditious practises witness blasphemous Best that bold and abominable Beast indeed not worthy to live seditious lying Lilburne Overton and such like turbulent trash who though some of their persons are I confess or have bin but with no little struggling only imprisoned where truly they are just as the Romish Jesuites were better maintained than abroad yet are still strangely permitted to foment and scatter in scurrillous Pamphlets their most blasphemous opinions and pernicious practises yea and are most unworthily and wickedly justified and commended even by very many of our Sectarian disaffected Members of Parliament Alasse what 's become now adayes of the pristine power dignity equity gravity and awefull and lawfull severity of our former ancient English-Parliaments Heretofore it was as terrible criminall and punishable to speak especially to write against the justice acts and edicts of the Parliaments of England as to speak or write treason against the Person or Crown of the King But that now in these our dayes every base and ignoble Sectarie should be thus permitted presumptuously to speak write and preach against it and that with the most false and ignominious acrimony of spirits and pens that possibly may be I am confidently perswaded it is not to be paralell'd by any by-past ages or Histories What hath amiable Astraea quite forsaken our Parliaments on earth and is impartiall and Majesticall justice no where to be found for if not there where shall we find it Shall honest peaceable and humble hearted Presbyterians be thus enforced which God forbid and which as yet we heartily abhorre to feare and suspect that those audacious and contumelious aspertions and we hope and believe most slanderous Calumnies of seditious lying Lilburne and the rest of his rebelliously rayling and scribling Comrades are like to prove too true assertions and all because of such delatory obstructions yea even vitious violations and infringements of the course and current of justice and the Subjects hereditary just Liberties equally as precious to them as due priviledges are to the Parliament God forbid I say we should have continued cause to feare it But if it be otherwise How then comes it to passe that the wheeles of the glorious worke of a deeply desired and most duely promised and long expected Reformation turne and roule so slowly and heavily How is it that Votes and Ordinances for the advancement of pure Religion the power of godlinesse and our Covenanted Presbyterian Church Discipline are so extremely delayed and with such admired difficulty even as it were but pedetentim or guttatim obtained and produced and when any doe come forth how is it that they are so void of expected and necessitated strength and corroboration for their work intended or rather by some but deceitfully pretended But only by reason as it is Vox populi which men commonly say is Vox Dei that those disaffected Members especially of the Honourable House of Commons doe so craftily and vigilantly watch their owne seasonable opportunities by the improvident and sometimes I confesse necessitated absence and thereby paucity too often of the honest and truly pious and zealous Presbyterian party either to null them or at least to delay obstruct and invalidate them and to make them of little or no solid use when they come forth unto us Wherein also which fetches a most just and deep figh from my soule the known Independents are not a little backt and abetted a most foule shame to be spoken of them by many who formerly at least in shew were clearely for us but now a-dayes though we beleive not properly principled the Schismeticall-way yet are mightily byassed wheeled and blown about I know not by what unhappy fate or flate of winde unlesse as I heare and 〈◊〉 a Golden-ayre or Silver-blast in voting and acting for the 〈◊〉 almost on all occasions who they are I spare to name though I could many of them Et digito monstrare quod his est but they themselves best know and are conscious to their own hearts of this their great evill of so unworthy doubling Tergiversation and though we pitty and pray for their Soules yet they may and must be assured we look upon their persons with very sore-eyes and sowr faces Great and grave Senators of England I speake to the truly pious Presbyterian party thereof in both Houses I beseech you for the Lords sake think often and earnestly on that faithfull for heaven and earth shal perish before one jot or title of Gods Word shal not come to passe yea think upon even with trembling that fearefull threatning of the Lord our God Jerem. 48 19. which also I have formerly made serious use of in another piece of mine entituled Instices Plea Cursed be he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently or deceitfully as some translations notably render it and cursed is he that withholdeth his sword from bloud Yea I say from bloud when the Lord requires it even the bloud of Blasphemers and bloudy Malignants especially in these our late and most lamentable lawlesse Wars on the Royall Party for then to spare is so farre from Piety or pitty that it is egregious impiety to God and our sacred Covenant and Diabolicall cruelty against men yea and a most dangerous hazarding of the ruine of your own lives if not of Parliament State and the whole Kingdome as Ahab for sparing Benhadad and Saul for sparing Agagg found it too true and we may justly feare the like when such whom God hath appointed to death live so confident and that not without cause that the bitternesse of the feare of death is over past with them and all by reason of the strange Impunity of the bloudy Impiety even of grand Offenders of all sorts to this very day There was a time I must and doe ingeniously confesse when the great and then very just apologie and plea of our great and wise Parliamentary Master Builders why the work of Reformation in Religion for I desire mainely to harp upon this string as the summum though I will not say Vnicum necessarium and speedier building of Gods House Church-Discipline went not on more soundly and seriously was That the prudence and providence of the Parliament must first see to the very being before the well being of the Kingdome which then indeed was in continuall hazard of ruine and destruction by the great hostile powers on the Kings party True I easily and willingly grant this But now that the Lord hath most graciously banisht those our great and just feares hath like dust dispell'd our enemies and given us opportunity even ever since the ruine of Sir Iacob Ashleys forces and the rendition of Oxford to build our own houses in most sweet security and which we doe indeed with both hands but scarcely care to build Gods House with one hand O what now hinders this best and most blessed worke but onely and unquestionably these

dayes they also having like the Ingling Iesuits craftily and cunningly found by practice and experience that this Bolt was like to shut them out of the Parliament Conutry-Committees and other eminent gainfull gracefull and over-awing places both Martiall and Majesteriall they now therefore just I say like the Jesuits of Rome for the propagation of their Cacolick Cause also I meane Tolleration of All-Religions and diabolicall and accursed Liberty of Conscience aliàs most prophane Libertinisme doe most dissemblingly falsly and fraudulently using the said Sacred Covenant as those Jesuits did the Sacred Scriptures only as a Nose of wax or a Saylers Breechs to help them in a storme or at a dead-lift give selfe-dispensation of Liberty to their Consciences to submit to the taking thereof as well and readily to see to as the best of us all but still with the Jesuits old tacite-trick of Equivacation or mentall-Reservation taking it in their own-sense as most malevolently hating the litterall and genuine sense thereof and the positive and plain intentions and ends of the Parliament in generall in the Covenant as is and long hath been apparent by their practises and professions also both by word and pen among us not only in the Parliamentary and Country-Committees but also and most especially in the Army where most Insolently and audaciously as was toucht before the Commanders Officers and Souldiers slight reject and scorn all Ordinances of Parliament yea and the very Covenant it self as it relates to Church-Government especially and suppression of Errours Schismes and Blasphemies yea not withstanding that some of them pretend they have taken the Covenant which must needs shew and assure us most undoubtedly in what sense and with what Conscience and to what ends they tooke it The serious consideration whereof makes me here also to fetch another deep sigh for his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax who of late hath not a little overclouded and eclipsed the former radiant lustre and most specious splendor of his then justly merited Fame and Honour both by some late strange miscarriages in the Army in generall and also in so improvidently and doubtless insnaredly admitting and entertaining as his chief Chaplains for the Army two dangerous and audacious Soul-seducing Schismaticks as Mr. Dell Mr. Saltmarsh together with their bold blustring brother Peters who are most pernicious pestilent instruments to infect poyson the whole Army if it be possible with their seditious and damnable Doctrins by which deceitfull designe of theirs I say forementioned in thus taking the Covenant they most Satanically keep-up and drive-on their owne hopefull and underhand mischeivous Machinations and thereby also mightily molest obstruct and retard almost all our pious Presbyterian-Actings accor ding to our Conscience and Covenant as the fear of the Lord whose vowes are upon us do most importunately command us and our fervent and deeply obliged love to Truth and Peace doth constantly constraine us And thus wee see to our sad sighing indeed that no bands nor bounds will hold or keep in these vild and wild Beasts but that most craftily and unconscionably they break through all and we have now therefore but one only way under God alone which is the last and maine thing I aime at in this discourse to help our selves out of the tearing and tyring troubles of these Bryers and Brambles our Sectaries and Schismaticks and that I humbly conceive is only this and it is backt also with a fresh and experienced pregnant example among our selves some few years past which is as followeth There was as we all well remember at the beginning of this present Parliament a great Complaint and that not without great and just cause against Popish Lords and Prelates sitting in the House of Peeres and of rotten-hearted Malignant Members in the House of Commons who in those times mightily molested and obstructed the most waighty and great affaires of the Parliament and so consequently perturbed the good of the whole kingdome especially then also in matters of Religion and due execution of Iustice upon offenders whereupon the most famous and ever to be honoured and renowned City of London bravely began to Petition the Parliament for the expulsion of them out of both Honses and immediately thereupon almost all the well-affected Counties of the kingdome followed their worthy example and most eagerly and earnestly fell a petitioning against them and continually came flocking up to London to the Parliament in most numerous and mighty multitudes to that purpose yea and so importunately prest their desires therein till at last by Gods wonderfull providence and the Parliaments most favourable acceptance of their Petitions and so far then from calling or accounting it a breach of Priviledge of Parliament that they gave them all great thanks for their Love and Zeale therein And all these things thus concurring together strook as it was apparent such terror and amazement into the hearts of the Popish-Lords Prelates and Malignants in both Houses that speedily upon it partly by the Prelates own remarkable pride and folly and partly by an univerfall Conscience-accusing fright and terrour at these things both Houses of Parliament were most admirably freed of them and all things thereupon presently after were carryed on most prosperously and with singular smooth successe to the great comfort and universall high content of the whole kingdome and so continued a long time after untill these present crafty Sectarian Mombers unhappily crept into the house of Commons and others have since been poysoned by them And have not We my deare Presbyterian Brethren for to you now I apply this my main and most earnest desire in these our dayes as great and just cause considering all I have already said before and much more that might be said therein as ardently and earnestly to complaine protest and petition against some disaffected Lords in the House of Peeres and against many Independent Members in the House of Commons who next to our own sins are the main if not only restlesse Remora's and most dangerous disturbers and delayers yea mockers and deluders of our Covenant-engaged Reformation to Gods most high dishonour the most justly incensing of his devouring-wrath against us and the deepe heart-wounding griefe and sorrow of all the truly pious and peaceable people throughout the whole kingdome by reason of their hopes thus unhappily damped and delayed yea I say jeered and abused by those Sectaries and Schismaticks in the House of Commons Slight not I beseech you my dear Presbyterian-Brethren both in City and Country this my serious and I hope seasonable advice by supine security in regard of the present seeming serenity of things which hath been the bane of many famous and flourishing States and Common-weales and yet all things considered we have little cause to conceit so of the present times But if they were so yet know that I have read long since in Plutarch's Lives of a Governour of Thebes or Athens if my memory much faile me not