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A63464 The true character of an ordinance of Parliament in generall written by Tho. Tel-troth, clerk to the long-abused Commons in England, Scotland and Ireland. Tel-Troth, Tom. 1647 (1647) Wing T2599; ESTC R12623 5,511 10

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THE TRUE CHARACTER OF AN ORDINANCE OF PARLIAMENT in generall Written by Tho. Tel-troth Clerk to the long-abused Commons in England Scotland and Ireland Printed at Amsterdam 1647. AN Ordirance of Parliament without the Royall assent is an illegitimate Monster or State-bastard begotten between Pride and Disobedience and forc'd upon the Common-wealth to keep It hath so many fathers that one cannot tell who had the greatest share in begetting it unless the Devil the father of Lies who is the grand cause of its Production It enters into the world in a confused and monsterous shape not much unlike to a Bear-whelp which some Knave or Promoting Varlet in a City or Company licks into a forme and so draws it up or apparells it in the Cobweb-lawne Ragges of his own ignorance folly madnesse or Knavery till it be dress'd up and made ready to be presented to the gods of this world to be dipped or sprinkled The God-fathers consist most of Commons and many times of LORDS and COMMONS the Gosips are Mrs. Trouble-state and Mrs. Wood-have-all The Holy Synod that are alwayes too officious to undoe the poor Common-wealth sprinkles it and prays over it which besides THE ORDINANCE God save us from a gun which this young babe of grace in stead of Crossing is mark'd withall in the fore-head when it receives the adoption with a new Ceremony or Subscription at the tayl made by the Clerk H El. That hereafter it may not be ashamed to fight under their banners All which Ceremonies being performed it is committed to the care of that learned Typographist E. Husbands to be schooled or taught to speak plain English at his school on Addling Hill He many times hath a lease of his life and continues sometimes a yeer sometimes more and sometimes lesse he hath a numerous issue and all named alike Ordinance is a common Name for them all onely their sir-names are all as different as their natures for there is such disparity between them that they seldom agree in one and the same thing therefore it is not much amisse to ranck them in order Ordinance for raising men under the E. of Essex to murder his Majesties Loyall Subjects as if then our happy peaceable estate under the government of so pious good and mercifull a Prince that all Christendom cannot paralell had procur'd such an universall Plague that nothing could cure the same but the sword to let out the very heart-blood of his nurse the Common-wealth to the utter ruine of millions both in lives and Estates Ordinance for the Earl of Straff●rds blood written in so red a Character and cry'd so low'd to heaven for Justice that it immediately brought the Plague of the bloody-issue over all Ireland nay and England too V●x sanguinis fratrum vestrorum clamat de terra The voice of the blood of their murdered brethren cryeth out of the earth against them And this voice it is that hath had so powerfull and forceable a working amongst them The Ordinance to butcher the Bishop of Canterbury so eagerly prosecuted by the over-blinde zeal hate and malice of his cruell persecuters that the rather wrought home their own Plagues then that Martyrs punishment when they preferred him to more Titles and greater glory by put●ing him to death When they condemned him then they crowned him when they killed him then they gave him life when they spoiled him even then they inriched him Plures efficinem quoties metimur a vobis semen est sanguis Christianorum Our number increaseth so often as you reape us and the seed of the Church is the blood of Christians The more the Children of Israel were oppressed the more they increased and so it is in all true Protestants as Saint Augustine saith 22 de civitat cap. 7. Resurrectio immortalitatis pullulabat faecundius cum in Martirum sanguine sereretur The resurrection of Immortallity sprong more fertilly when it was sown in the blood of Martyrs The sweet spice yeeldeth the better scent when it is bruised or pounded when you persecute such Men you but till manure the ground of the Church and though you think by such means to root out her corn you but sow seed that soon after will spring with a more glorious and plentifull harvest I might inlarge my self much upon this subject and tell you of many other things that are not halfe so strange as true to remember you of one Timkins Challoner His Majesties Messenger and many others that dy'd with no more Law then you your selves had Gospel when you condemned thens These are all notch'd upon your Parliament-tally and must for certain in the end come to a strict reckoning The great constancy of these mens sufferings inciteth all Loyall Subjects to look the more stedfastly into their Cause that so by seeking they may finde understand and beleeve and become all as ready to die in the just Cause of so good a King as these men did If you daily devise to vex and grieve his Majestie with Propositions which yourselves know before you frame them that it standeth not with his Majesties honor neither can he signe unto them without danger of a perjur'd conscience that must needs render him as odious both to God and all honest men as your selves are for the breach of your severall Oathes of Allegiance unto him or if you carry this Royall Ark to any one of your four Prisons as the report goeth you must expect plague-fores swellings risings and blanes breaking forth too it will not be the fear of Prisons Racking Hanging Drawing nay grinding to pieces that will affright thousand of thousands of Loyall Subjects from their obedience to His Majestie all the Tyranny you can invent or inflict upon us shall be but a testimony and proof of our Allegiance and Fidelity to our Gracious Soveraigne that God hath placed over us so long as that impregnable Fort Royall holds out there is not the least doubt of Victory since it is so strongly fortified with Grace and arm'd with the compleat armor of Righteousnesse man'd with Angels whose chief Governour is the Lord of Hosts in whose hand the heart of the King is If Sir Thomas lay siege to this Fort as God forbid hee l loose more men before it then ever the Conqueror did before Bazing-house But I hope better of that Noble Generall and am perswaded that though never so many rebellious Monsters should rise up against Him and should imbrue their bloody and cruel hands in the fresh bleeding wounds of Him and his Loyall Subjects and make never so loud a noyse of victory yet when it commeth to the proof God will shew them by rufull experience that all the noyse and sound of victory was but the sound of their own fall and ruine and his Majestie appear the more glorious and His Honor not one whit hurt thereby but much bettered by their treachery Ordinanes for Contributions Assessments Excizes Sequestrations and an infinite many more force free-quarter