such cause only they made use of that suggestion to further their mischievous designe of murthering the innocent had at last the Romans brought upon them indeed and were utterly ruined by them The factious tumultuous people of this Nation have in all other things the most resembled the pharisees that ever did any people God of his mercy grant that they do not also resemble them in this 3. Next to the consideration of the dangerous and deplorable condition of Religion here in this Kingdome be pleased as many of you as have any spark of Religion in you timely to consider the state and condition of your King I forbeare the assaying any description of his condition because 't is so well knowne and so far beyond the being comprehensible in a description by the best of Artists as I likewise abstaine from all Epithetes or Periphrases to set it out by or to set mens passions on worke to condole it the condition of our King being above all sympathie of passion even of his most loving and compassionate Subjects as well as expression of language of the most fluent and passionate of Orators I have heard it objected against a reverend and deare brother-sufferer in these times though without any just cause alledged that he ascends too high when he compares so many of our Kings sufferings with some of our Saviours which I am assured he did neither with the least intent of flattering his Majestie then in no condition to be flattered nor without all due feare of approaching neer the verge of Blasphemy then and ever so much abhorred by him but on the other side with all due honour to our blessed Saviours sufferings and with no small comfort to the King and to all that suffered with them that his sufferings were and are so conformable to them and he himselfe therein to his and our Saviours image And although I sleight the objection Phil. 3.10 Rom. 8.29 yet I shall avoid the occasion of having any such throwne in my way and because I may not without some scandall taken make use of any such comparison I shall not compare them at all with anie other sufferings there being none other that ever I have read or heard of that do in all respects match them Take them therefore in their bare narration thus Charles King of Great Britaine the first of that name the only surviving Son and the immediate successour to his royall Father King James to whom this whole Kingdome by their Representatives in Parliament after a large commemoration of the inestimable and unspeakable benefits as they truly called them powred upon this Nation by his becoming our King 1. Jacob. 1. and after great and high expressions of joy and rejoying at the same not forgetting their thanks to Almighty God for that blessing as also after a modest repetition of that their Soveraignes personall gifts and graces and the assured fruits and effects thereof which they had tasted in that little time of his Government together with an humble and hearty profession of constant faith obedience and loyalty to his Majesty and to his Royall Progeny made this acknowledgement and promise in these very words We therefore your most humble and loyall Subjects the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottome of our hearts yeeld to the diuine Majesty all humble thanks and praises not onely for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings before mentioned but also that he hath further inriched your Highnesse with a most Royall Progenie of most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most excellent Majesty that as a memoriall to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for euer to endure of our Loyalty obedience and hearty and humble affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the saute that we being bounden thereunto both by the Lawes of God and man doe recognize and acknowledge and thereby expresse our unspeakable joyes that immediately upon the dissolution and decease of ELIZABETH late Quéen of England the Imperiall Crowne of the Realme of England and of all the Kingdomes Dominions Rights belonging to the same did by Inherent birthright and lawfull and undoubted succession descend and come to your most excellent Majesty as being lineally justly and lawfully next and sole Heire of the Blood Royall of this Realme as is aforesaid And that by the goodnesse of Almighty God lawfull Right of Descent under one Imperiall Crown your Majesty is of the Realmes and Kingdomes of England Scotland France and Ireland the most potent and mighty King and by Gods goodnesse more able to protect and gouerne us your louing Subjects in all peace and plenty then any of your noble Progenitors And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully submit and oblige our selues our Heires and Posterities for euer untill the last drop of our bloods be spent And do beseech your Majesty to accept the same as the first fruits in this high Court of Parliament of our loyalty and faith to your Majesty and your Royall Progeny and Posterity for euer O the shamelesse degeneration and falsification of these times CHARLES to whom his Subjects each one for himself and in particular every Member of the House of Commons when he was admitted a Member of that House solemnly sware That he did testifie and declare in his conscience that he the Kings Highnesse is the onely supreme Gouernour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries as well in all Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall things or Causes as Temporall c. And that he would beare Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successors and to his power assist defend all Iurisdictions Priuiledges Preheminences Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highnes His Heires and Successors c. as followes in the Oath of Supremacy as also againe in the Oath of Allegiance That he would beare Faith and true Allegiance to His Majesty his Heires and Surcessors and him and them would defend to the uttermost of his power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoeuer which should be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and Dignity by reason or colour of any sentence of Excommunication or Depriuation made or granted by the Pope c. or otherwise and would do his best endeauour to disclose and make known unto His Majesty his Heires and Successors all Treasons and traiterous conspiracies which he should know or heare of to be against him or any of them Oh the damnable perjury of these times CHARLES whose Person Honour and Estate the same Members of the House of Commons did on May 3. 1641. in the presence of Almighty God promise vow and protest to maintain and
now after the taking away of Bishops lands and revenues with the other dignities and honourable maintenance of the Church most sacrilegiously torn from the Governours and Ministers thereof labour and endeavour nothing more For then to bee sure none should dare to speake ought in Pulpits no nor whisper ought any where else against any errour or heresie or against any vice or wickednes whatsoever that should finde any favour or countenance in his Parish or in any of his parishioners of power and ability for fear of being cut short in his allowance if not for the present yet at the next Session of Commissioners who would perhaps be so wise of themselves as to think the case might otherwise be some of theirs or to be sure that would be intimated to them as it hath been too often suggested unto Juries in tryals for Tythes And then doubt not but the Popish party would be as active and subtill in stealing in their leaven into every Parish as any other hereticks could be and a little more able to enforce arguments for the promoting it for the Church of Rome wants no policie nor meanes nor instruments to improve it And if the maintainance of the Protestant Clergie were but as poore and contemptible as is desired by many the Clergie it self would soon be as base and despicable as could be wisht by any and then besides the peoples growing like their Priests which constant observation hath made a Proverb it would be no small temptation to such a Clergie upon hopes and promise of recovering their old ancient honorable portions and revenues to desert that Religion which allows their Ministers such miserable starving pittances and to embrace that which rewards theirs with such liberall plentifull rewards Much more might be said to that point but I touch it onely in relation to the designe of the Popish party who have been and still are the principall instigators to all sacrilegious acts and resolutions in this Kingdome and will be without all peradventure the greatest gainers thereby not that they themselves would practise the same when they should come into power but because they know there is no more ready way for them to come into power then by such practisces of ours which would both render the Clergie of this Kingdome contemptible to the people and the people not a little odious to them as also otherwise fit and prepare both for their working them into what they shall please To tell you that a prodigious rabble of damnable heresies and pernicious errours are crept or rather brought with full sayles at mid-day into this miserably distracted Kingdome and that multitudes are daily bred and hatcht up within were but to tell you your own dreames the true fathers and mothers of diverse of that spurious issue Jude v. 9. Filthy dreamers that defile the flesh despise Dominions and speake evill of dignities But who have been the principall factors for the bringing in and the cheife brokers for the venting of those from other parts as also the chief fomâ—nters of these started up here at home why who but the Jesuites and their complices who have for that purpose transformed themselves like their great master into all shapes and become Anabaptists to the Anabaptists Antinomians to the Antinomians Familists to the Familists and all things to all men that they might deceive the more And no more probable way of making proselytes to themselves then this For the most of that numberlesse number that have been poysoned or tainted with those heresies and errours are either such as have no principles of Religion at all in them but are like those Saint Jude speaks of clouds without water carried about with windes Iude. v. 12. even every winde of doctrine by the sleight of man and cunning craftinesse Ephes 4.14 whereby they lye in wait to deceive and such are as fit to be carryed about by the winde of Popery as of any other doctrin or else they are such as have in them already good store of Popish principles properly so called how odious so ever for the present the name of popish or papists be or seems to be unto them and of these there are a vast number as will easily appeare to any understanding man that shall but compare the frequent tenets or positions held and asserted in these times with the known principles of Popery truly so called The Gangraena a booke written by Mr Edwards and so intituled will furrish any man with enough and yet he leaves out some Principle ones as THAT T IS LAWFULL FOR THE SUBJECTS TO TAKE UP ARMES AGAINST THEIR SOVERAIGN That Ecclesiasticall Courts are independent on the Civill That officious lying and equivocating is justifiable with many others Now how easie will it be for the Serpent when he hath thus gotten in a part of his body to winde in all the rest and how hard will it be when such poyson and infection hath diffused it selfe through so many parts of the body to purge it out againe Men are too prone of themselves through their pride selfe-love and perversenesse to defend their own errours to their utmost and will oftentimes deny many known truths rather then be brought to acknowledge one received errour yea will sooner part from those remains of truth that are in them then part from some errours taken up by them what then will such men doe when they shall be backt and encouraged therein by so powerfull and subtill a party as the Romish is Besides if the Popish party should gaine no more proselytes as who sees not that they gaine more in one moneth then they did formerly in seven years and have gained more in these six or seven years last past then they had done in all those other years past since the Reformation yet if they can by their broaching of and by their inviting and inciting to heresies and errours bring but our Church to confusion they hope to triumph and insult upon our ruines Lam. â— 18. like those Foxes upon the desolate mountaine of Zion And if any Church be raised out of the rubbish and ruines of ours or any Religion be generated out of the corruption of ours they presume and not without cause that it will be theirs And that they expect some such day may be many wayes collected and particularly from their sparing ingagements for the King in all his distresse either by their Persons or Estates excepting onely some few loyall and noble spirited ones that were to their honour be it acknowledged as liberall of their Bloods and Estates as Subjects could be as also from their present forbearing to appear for him To all which I must confesse they have been well incouraged for the most of them have enjoyed more of their Estates and made easier Compositions for them then the most known Orthodox Protestants have And here by the way I cannot but recall to your memories some letters sent down to some of you from
defond as far as lawfully they might with their Lives Power and Estates according to their allegiance and that they would according to their Power and as far as lawfully they might oppose and by all good waies and meanes indeavonr to bring to condigne punishment all such as should either by force practise counsell plots conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrarie c. Which Protestation was afterwards recommended by the Vote of the House July 30. 1641. to be taken by everie person well affected in Religion and to the good of the Common-wealth and was accordingly taken by the most of the Kingdome Oh the multiplied perjurie and the sacrilegious breaking of Vowes Promises and Protestations perperated in these times CHARLES whose Supremacy and power over all Persons and in all causes within his Dominions the Subjects of this Kingdome have so many yeares acknowledged unto God in their praiers in their Publike Liturgie and in their praiers before their Sermons and for whom they have pretended to beg so manie mercies and blessings and to returne to God such hearty and solemne thanks and praise Oh the abominable juggling with God and mocking of him and lying to him discovered in these times CHARLES the Defender of our Faith the Protector and Patron of our Religion the Nursing father of our Church and Common-weale Lam 4.20 the light of our eyes the breath of our Nostrills of whom we said as the people of Judah did of Josiah under his shadow wee shall live yea of whom we must confesse that we did live under his shadow for manie yeares together and might have done to this instant Iudges 9. had we not run from the Olive tree to a Bramble Bush in that peace and tranquillity in that honour and renowne in that abundance of wealth and plenty of all things that could render us happy save grace to know it and be thankfull to God and him for it that never any people enjoyed greater if anie so great Oh the fordid ingratitude of these times CHARLES not the RELIGIOUS onely or the JUST or the MERCIFULL or the CHARITABLE or the VALIANT or the WISE or the TEMPERATE or the CHAST or the COURTEOUS or the LOVING or the MEEK or the HUMBLE but all these and a compendium of all other graces and virtues and they in such supereminency as that it hath been thought an eternall honor to other Princes to deserve the title of but one such to adorn their other glories and perpetuate their memories O the prodigious wickednesse and impiety of these times This verie CHARLES Be astonished O ye Heavens and stand amazed all ye Nations of the earth This verie KING CHARLES by his owne Subjects by his own Servants by his own professed Friends by his own great Counsell called by his Writ to advise with him and authorised by his power alone to sit in Parliament with him hath been driven from his great Councell forced to flie from one part of his Kingdom to another hunted like a Partridge on the mountaines pursued with Armies fought with in sundrie battailes struck at and shot at with all the force and malice that hands and hearts strenthened and incouraged with rage and furie and compleatly furnished with all the bloodie instruments of Warre could possibly lay on betrayed sold hurried from Prison to Prison separated from his dearest Consort and Children mocked seorned contemned railed on libelled in Pamphlets Hues and Cries Votes Declarations Sermons Prayers and robbed of all his revenues plate jewels and regall ornaments deprived of verie necessaries both of food and raiment Gush out O teares or break O heart for I am not able to go on till my head or heart hath given one the other some ease This verie King Charles hath been at the last after all these and many other barbarous cruelties practised on him thrust into close Prison denied the comfort of any Chaplaine the attendance of any other servant and the accesse of anie faithfull Subject treated worse then anie villain or murderer assayed by villaines to be murthered and to incourage them thereunto Votes have been passed in both Houses for no further addresses to be made to him and no message to be received from him but he adjudged unfit to governe And why I beseech you why this King Charles will not break his oath solemnly taken at his Coronation he will not consent to Sacriledge he will not yeild unto a toleration of Poperie and of all other Heresies and Schisms under the title of Libertie of Conscience he will not part from all his power of punishing those that do wickedly and of protecting those that do righteously upon that pretence of setling the Militia in safe hands he will not suffer an Armie of 50. or 60. thousand under that name Militia to be kept and quartered in this Kingdom for the oppressing of himselfe his Posteritie and his Subjects he will not grant Libertie to those Houses to sit where they please who have alreadie so ill requited his former grant of sitting as long as they please least they and their Armie should keep house together and when the Citie will no longer endure them the Countrie be forced to beare them or break under them he will not indure compeeres and copartners with himselfe in his Royall Throne Rights and Prerogatives under the name of a standing Committee or States Commissioners he will not deliver up his Loyall Subjects and faithfull friends and servants to the mercilesse cruelties of his and their implacable enemies and in a word he will not betray that trust that God hath committed to him and that his Subjects repose in him These must be confessed when mens consciences are awakened to be the principal causes so far as concerns the provoking of men why this so supereminently Gracious King hath and doth yet suffer such inexpressibly grievous persecutions And amongst all these causes his not yeilding to a toleration of Poperie other Heresies and Shisms is none of the least provoking as may well be thought if the reflecting upon the principall contrivers and continuers of his Majesties and this Kingdomes miseries hath that inpression in our thoughts that it ought to have for what else can it be that should render so religious and virtuous a Prince so distastefull and hatefull not only to all Hereticks and Shismaticks here at home which everie one knowes but also to all or the most Jesuites and Priests beyond the Seas which is sufficiently known to those men of Honour and worth that have lived among them there being no man more distasted and hated of those of that stampe then the persecuted King of England And if those King-killers can but prevaile with their fellow Jesuites the furious Sectaries of these times as they have throughly prepared them for it to take away his precious life to be sure it shall be suddenly done for no man lies long under their hatred that they can possibly remove out of the way
And what a justification would this be to all their assassinations what a satisfaction to their desires what a staine and wound to the Protestant Religion and what an advantagious service to the Romish and what vengeance of vengeances must it needs pull upon this whole Nation that have had so often and so loud warnings of it and do not as by severall oaths and manie other bonds they are obliged hazard their owne lives to prevent it but still contribute towards it by assisting those that contrive and complot it 2 Chron. chap. 3 5. Lam. 4.20 It is recorded of Josiah one of the best Kings of Judah that being taken in the pits of the Aegyptians as Jeremies phrase is and slaine by them both the Prophet Jeremiah lamented for him and all Judah even the singing men and the singing women spake of him in their lamentations for a long time after his death and they made them an Ordinance in Israel it seems the remaines of Israel joyned with Judah in that mourning for the lamenting of him And this was such a great mourning that the Spirit of God speakes of the greatnesse of it many yeares after Zech. 12.11 But should our Josiah which the Lord of Lords and King of Kings of his mercy forbid be slaine by those Aegyptians that have him now in their pits not onely our Jeremiahs our great Prophets but all the Prophets and Prophets Sons throughout this Nation the lying Apostatizing Prophets only excepted that have deserted their Religion upon that destructive alteration suggested yea and all the men women and children of these three Kingdomes that wish well to the Protestant Religion and the good of these Kingdomes would excessively lament it unto all posterities though we have too much cause to believe that we should never obtaine an Ordinance for it from those Ordinance-makers that now beare rule beware then in time and that time is very short You have had such triall of King Charles his fidelity and firmnesse to the Protestant Religion as never Prince gave the like and I hope never Prince either in this or any other Nation shall be put to the like for he hath had as great and as strong temptations as prosperity and adversity in the height and depth of both could court or torment with even such as would have made a Luther or a Calvin a Cranmer or a Ridley or anie other of the most renowned confessors or Martyrs of the Reformed Religion either to have sunk or shrunk under them or else would have rendered them far more glorious then their confessions or suffrings did or could render them though they want for no accesse of Glorie on Earth or reward in Heaven Beware then I say in time for if King CHARLES should come to resist unto blood as he hath alreadie often done to the extremitie of hazard of it and that Royall Religious blood of his should be shed by you that professe your selves to be of the same Religion with him if of anie at all either by your contributing money horse armes personall assistance or ought else to those that thirst and hunt after his blood and to the resisting of those that seek with the expence of their own to save it or else by their not contributing what is in your power to the hazzard of your own lives for the preservation of his still in such known hazzard for they that preserve not blood from being shed when it is in their power to preserve it are undoubtedly guiltie of shedding it Besides the deep everlasting staine that you would thereby bring upon the Protestant Religion such a guilt and horror would withall seize upon your soules when God should come to set your sinnes in order before your eyes as doubtlesse he will sooner or later that if ye did not like some Murtherers beleeve that whatsoever ye lookt on Psal 50.21 ye behold King CHARLES his bleeding sides and whatsoever ye eat or drank ye tasted King CHARLES his Blood yet would ye wish ten thousand times over that you had lost everie drop of your own bloods and of the bloods of those that are most yours that ye had but done your dutie in time for the preserving of his Of all blood-guiltinesse take heed of being guiltie of the blood of a King for as he that is guiltie of anie mans blood is in that guiltie of more bloods then the blood of one and therefore the Scripture speaking of the shedding of blood does commonly if not constantly use a word that signifieth bloods in the plurall number so they which are guiltie of the blood of a King are in that guiltie of the bloods of a whole Kingdom everie Subject losing blood in the losse of his Soveraign Yea what if I should say that they which are guiltie of the blood of their King are to be reputed as guiltie of doing their utmost to shed the blood of God if I may so speak after the manner of men or of Christ himselfe I should not need to be put to prove it if what is most true be but confessed namely that Kings are Gods immediate vicegerents and the most representative image of his Majestie Psal 82.6 and therefore called Gods which may be one reason if not the main one why the shedding of the bloods of the most wicked of Kings by anie of their own Subjects hath been alwaies so publikely and severely avenged as in severall stories is recorded But above all abhorre the thought of being guiltie of King CHARLES his blood least in it you prove not only guiltie of what is alreadie told you but also of more Protestants bloods then have yet been shed since the Reformation as well as of the best that ever ran in anie veines And to you my deare Countriemen I adde this one short caution more Take you heed least as your Ancestors the religious Protestants of this Countie are highly honoured in the Acts and Monuments of our Church and in the Annales of our Common-weale for the discharging their dutie in that height of equitie and fidelitie as to be the prime aiders and assisters of Soveraigntie in the setling and establishing the last and for persecuting the professors of the Gospell the worst Popish Prince that ever swaied the Scepter of this Kingdome so ye your selves be eternally stigmatized by all records of Church and State for deserting your dutie and becoming the abetters and maintainers of Rebells and Traitors in the deposing and murdering for that 's known to be their designe of the last for so 't is resolved if they can compasse their resolutions and the best Protestant Prince that ever yet swayed this or anie other Scepter whatsoever Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things And so I passe from the King to your fellow Subjects and your selves and with the consideration of the severall and joynt present State and condition of both I shall conclude this faithfull and faire warning
plead for your selves or who will regard your plea Againe as it is to be feared that some will deliver ye up to God for his avenging their sufferings and wrongs on you and yours so it is not to be slighted what others may doe in prosecuting their owne revenge on you for how may every Countie of this Kingdome be inraged against you when they shall see that you thus desert them in all their endeavours and labours for Peace and Truth and joyne with those that are the vowed enemies of both Who knowes whether all the other Counties may not like those other Tribes of Israel when the Tribe of Benjamin struck in with those sonnes of Belial that had abused the poore Levits Concubine and refused to deliver them up to Justice when their Brethren demanded them Judg. 20. arise as one man and come against you to battaile And though perhaps like those Benjamites you give them a foyle or two at the first yet at the last being the more incensed smite you with the edge of the Sword as well the men of every Village as the beast and all that come to hand and set on fire all your habitations that they come to The like sinnes in Israel and England have beene often and often punished with the like punishments In the next place thinke of the evill that is comming to you though we hope it will be to the good and peace and happinesse of this whole Nation besides out of the North and that great destruction Lift up your eyes saith the Prophet unto them of Judah and behold them that come from the North What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee for thou hast taught them to be Captaines and chiefe over thee Shall not sorrowes take thee as a woman in travaile Jerem. 13. v. 20.21 The same may I say to you word for word and every one of you if you will may see cause enough why I should say so 'T is often threatned in Scripture as an aggravation of judgements That God will give up such or such a people into the hands of strangers And it must be confessed That 't is most just with God to give you up into the hands of strangers who have so unworthily deserted your owne King and fellow Subjects and the justice of God will be somewhat the more remarkable in his giving you up to those Northerne strangers of all others because they were they whom ye your selves formerly called in and contributed so liberally to their comming in to your assistance against your King though ye pretended to them that it was to fight for him And therefore now it must needs be the more observable justice both in God and them that they should come in of themselves to the assistance of the same King and his faithfull Subjects against you that deserted him and them so shamefully and have thereby discovered your former hypocrisie other iniquitie so notoriously And let me further tell you That if those Strangers should not avenge the King and Kingdoms wrongs sufficiently 't is to be believed some other Strangers more fierce bloudy cruell shal do it For remember I beseech you that famous and pertinent Story of Gods dealing with the men of Judah when they deserted their King though the most wicked of Kings Ahaz by name because he was brought low and made a confederacie with those two tayles of those smoaking fire-brands Rezin and Pekah For that very cause as God by his Prophet gives the Reason Isa 8. did the Lord threaten to bring up upon the men of Judah the King of Assyria and all his hosts called there his glory compared to the waters of an over-flowing river strong and many and that he and they should passe thorow Iudah and should over-flow and goe over and reach even to the neck c. which was all accordingly done as you may finde by comparing Isa chap. 7. and 8. with 2 Chron. chap. 28. and 32. And do but observe further how God Isa 8. from v. 9. to v. 16. scornes and mocks at the men of Iudah's associating themselves and joyning their forces with others against their owne King and how earnestly he calls upon his Prophet not to walke in the way of that people himselfe and to instruct others not to joyn in confederacie with them nor to feare their feare nor be afraid which is the principall cause of such Rebellious Confederacies but to sanctifie the Lord of Hosts and to let him be their feare c. promising them safetie that shall avoyd such a Confederacie threatning ruine to such Confederates and to those that joyn with them So spake did the Lord then and he is the same Lord still changeth not and they that commit the like sins may justly fear the like punishmens And now answer to that question which God by the same Prophet though in another chapter propounds unto you unto you my lamented Countreymen who have joyned in a Confederacie with those who as the Prophet describes them with a woe to them prefixed Isa 10. decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievousnesse which they have prescribed to turn aside the needy from judgement and to take away the right from the poore c. that widowes may be their prey that they may rob the fatherlesse What will ye do in the day of visitation and in the desolation which shall come from far to whom will ye flee for help and where will you leave your glory Jer. 17. v. 5. Psal 5. v. 6 Will you flee to the Army for succour Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arme especially such men and such flesh that are themselves so neer a curse But ye shall not need to flee to them for they will flee to you or come to you and will be the first that will helpe to devoure you For if the Army should swallow up Colchester which God of his mercy keepe them from and so Essex be wholly worsted where must they give themselves and their Horses the next bait but in the well stored houses and faire pastures of Suffolke And who must recruit their consumed army with more men but they who have furnished them with so many Give the Devill or any of his Imps but a little that gives them power over all that ye have and now that they have gotten you into the same way with them they 'l find allurements enough to draw you on or fears enough to frighten you on or force enough to drive you on as far as they please Then if other Counties rise up against them joyn with the Northern Army which private as well as publike interest will perswade them to unlesse God should give them up to a reprobate sense as he hath done some of you Suffolke must then be the Stage of War at least Suffolke-men must be the chiefe Actors on that Stage and to be sure the most desperate parts of that Tragedie