many antient Noble Protestant Families Knights Gentlemen and others both in England Ireland Scotland and of the Royal Protestant Family since our late Warrs Changes of Government Parliaments and extirpation of all our Fundamental Laws Liberties Properties by the Iesuits and their Instruments O let our whole Nation and Republican Members too once shamefully ejected by those now calling them in consider consider consider this over and over and lay it close to heart least closing with the Iesuites now again in this New Convention as they assuredly did in the Old since December 1648. till April 1653. they incurr that sad fate of u King Henry the 4th of France who after the execution of some and banishment of all Iesuites out of France upon Iohn Castles one of their disciples stabbing him in the cheek with an intent to murder him and afterwards recalling favouring flattering them by building a stately College for them entertaining one of them for his Confessor and bequeathing his very heart unto them to be interred with them after his death together with a very large Legacy of Plate and Lands yet they soon after procured their desperat Assassinate and Disciple Ravilliac to stabb him to the heart in the open street in Paris An. 1610. A Just reward for his neglect contempt of his Parliaments timely admonitions in sundry Remonstrances presented to him never to trust or recall them more and the notable Epigram against the Iesuits tendred to him by a true Philopater Anno 1603. wherein there is this memorable passage in relation to their subversion of all antient Fundamental Laws Cuinam Hominum ignotum est Iesuitas nocte dieque Nil meditari aliud quam qua ratione modove Prisca Statuta queant Patriasque evertere Leges Inque locum Antiquis totum in contraria Nobis Iura dare sanctos privata ad commoda Ritus Flâ—ctere nulli unquam quod post mutare licebit c. M. Prynne considering all these particulars and knowing that this sodain re-assembly of the old eiected Republican Members now sitting originally proceeded from the Jesuits projection sollicitation and Anabaptistical Sectarian party formerly combining with them in all their proceedings against the late King at whose execution the Queens own Confâ—ssor was present in a Soldiers habit flourishing his sword when his head was off as well as other Iesuits Popish Priests overjoyed with that spectacle the secluded Members the House of Lords and transformation of our Kingdom into a Commonwealth to accomplish their remaining designs left unfinished proâ—ected in terminis by Father Parsons and the Jesuites and violently pursued in the short Mock-Parliament nominated at Whitehall by the Army-Officers themselves 1653. viz To eradicate the National Church Ministers Ministry of England Advowsons Tithes Glebes with Parochial Churches Chapels as Antichristian and leave not one stone of them upon another Which Iohn Canne the new-voted Diurnall-man in his Voice from the Temple then dedicated to them particularly excited them to with all speed and earnestness as their Generation-work expected required of them by God and all the Saints of the Land To sell all the Crown Colleges Vniversities and Corporations lands yet remaining to support and pay the Iesuited Army kept up so long on purpose to ruine eat us out M. Prynne thereupon held it his bounden duty both as a Mâ—mber Lawyer Englishman and former Patriot of his Countries Liberties against all Iesuitical Vnderminers of them and our Protestant Religion truly fully to discover the same to the whole English Nation Army and those now sitting and to press it home upon their Consciences by this his Narrative whether they will hearkeâ— to believe obey it or not since he was forcibly secluded from doing it by Speech having sufficient warrant encouragement and protection for it as he apprehends from God himself Ezech. 2.4 5 6. and Jer. 1.18 19. For they are hard of face and stiff hearted Therefore Son of man I do send thee unto them and thou shalt say unto them thus saith the Lord. And they whether they will hear or whether they will forbear for they are a rebellious House yet shall know that there hath been a Prophet among them And thou Son of man be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words though briers and thorns be with thee and thou doest dwell among Scorpions Be not afraid of their Faces nor be dismayed at their Looks though they be a Rebellious House And thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear But thou Son of man hear what I say unto thee and O that all the seduced Army Republican Members and their confederates would now hear and obey it too Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious House For behold I have made thee this day a defenced City and an iron pillar and brazen walls against the whole Land against the Princes thereof and the Priests thereof and against all the people of the Land engaged against thee and thy true Good Old Cause And they shall fight against thee by sundry scurrillous Pasquils Petitions Slanders Reproaches and armed secluding Guards but they shall not prevail against thee For I am with thee saith the Lord as well now as in all former Engagements Trials for this Good cause to deliver thée The assurance whereof hath made him so resolute as singly by himself to encounter an whole armed Host and House at once and throuh Gods blessing to rout them in a manner by his bare presence and their Good Old Cause in a great measure by his single Opposition The sole praise whereof he desires to render wholly and solely to the Lord of Hosts and God of the Spirits of all Flesh and not in any kind or part to himself a meer worm and not a man an earthen Vessel yea one of the weak base despised things of the world and a thing that am not whom yet God can and may make use of to confound the things that are mighty and to bring to nought things that are that no Flesh shall glory in his presence and that the excellency of the power might be of God and not of him who hâ—th promised that One of his faithfull people shall chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight in a true Good Old Cause and Quarrel for the Lord their God he it is that fighteth for them as he hath promised What then might all the secluded Members and old Lords House do and all the well affected Orthodox Protestants in our three Nations had they but hearts wisedoms courage to joyn their Counsels and endeavours together according to their Solemn League and Covenant to vindicate their true Old Cause and Parliamentary privileges against all inconsiderable Oppugners and Subverters of them Mr. Prynne having neither Wife nor Child to provide for not much to care for and never yet desiring any New Office Advancement or Employment in this present
their former force upon seclusion of them to be a Backsliding and wandring into UNRIGHTEOUS PATHS which they seemingly repented of promising to yield their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety and praying for the presence and blessing of God upon their endeavours And if now within few hours after this Remonstrance published they thus highly and publikely violated it in the view of all there present by returning to their former Backslidings and Unrighteous paths in secluding those who were Members afresh and violating their own Declaration none would henceforth credit them or it Upon which one of them told M. P. He knew he was none of them who sate since 1648. till 1653. therfore they were not bound to let him in being not within their Declaration Who retorted he thought their repentance had been universal not partial of all their forces upon the House and Members especially of their greatest Dec. 6. 1648. when they not only secluded but secured and imprisoned him and 40 more in Hell and other places forced away 3. times as many more for discharging their trusts asserting the true GOOD OLD CAUSE against their Commissions trusts Protestations and printed Remonstrances which if they would look back upon and well consider as they proclaim they had don in their New Decl. they would find to be one of their greatest Backslidings where they first turned out of the way which caused God to withdraw his presence and GOOD SPIRIT FROM THEM ever since and give them up to the prosecution of a New Romish GOOD OLD CAVSE which had brought us into a sad posture occasioned many vicissitudes of dangers and caused God in his Providence to make all their Essaies to settle us utterly ineffectual to convince them of reclaim them from their Error which they now pursued afresh as vigorously as ever That for his own part after his Impisonment by them against both Lawe and Privilege in 1648. in sundry places he was again forcibly seised by some of the Army in his House in 1650. and kept a close Prisoner near 3. years under armed guards of Souldiers in 3. remote Castles farr distant froÌ„ thâ—se thâ—n sitting Therfore they could not make their unrighteous Imprisonment of him then without any cause or hearing a just ground to seclude him from sitting now But all these expostulations of M. P. and others not prevailing they desired all present to take notice and bear witnes of this high affront and breaâ—h of Privilege in this their forcible seclusion And so departing Mr. Knightly meeting Major General Lambert in the Lobby complaiâ—ed to him of this Forcible seclusion who gave him a civil Answer to this effect That things were now in an hurrie and their entring at this time into the House might causes me disturbance but doubted not such course would be taken by the Officers of the Army in few daies that none should be forcibly secluded and so they went from the Lobby into the Hall from whence they came acquainting those Members they left there with the premises After some conference with one another it was thought fit they should meet about 4. a clock in the Evening under Lincolns Inne Chappel and in the mean time that every one should inquire what old secluded or secured Members were now in town and how many Members of the long Parliament were yet living chosen or sitting before December 6. 1648. when they were first forcibly secluded by the Army Some met accordingly and upon conference found there were about 80 secluded Members then in London and Westminster being near double the number of those sitting that day and above 300 Members of all sorts yet living chosen or sitting in the Commons House before Decemb. 1648. over and above those that now sate all which they conceived ought in justice to be summoned by the Speakers Letter freely to meet and sit in the House at a convenient time to be agreed upon In order whereunto some ten of them met in the Counsel-Chamber of Lincolns Inne where the old Speaker used to sit in Counsel as a Bencher with the rest of the Benchers concerning the affairs of the Society as the fittest place to write down a Catalogue of all the surviving Members names by the help of their Memories and the printed list of them which having finished they departed agreeing to meet in Westminster Hall about 9 of the clock on Monday morning whither M. P. carried the list of the names he had formerly written digested into an alphabetical order to communicate it to other Members Those that sate meeting on the Lords day adjourned their House till ten of the clock Mondâ—y morning But the Courts not sitting in VVestminster-Hall that day Mr. P. found the Hall very thin few Members in it Whiles he was standing in the Hall expecting those who promised to meet there he was twice informed one after another that there were no Guards at all at the House D or that any person might freely go into it without examination there being but few Members within and the Doors standing open Whereupon he spake to 4 or 5 Members there met to go along with him into the House and if they were freely admitted to give notice of it to the rest to follow after if they pleased Some of them were unwilling to go being formerly repulsed thinking it better to make a Narrative of their former forcible seclusion on Saturday and to signifie it by a Letter directed to the Speaker subscribed with their names which Mr. P. conceived superfluous since the Door now stood feeely open to all without any Guards to seclude any and that as he apprehended in pursute of Major General Lamberts promise to Mr. Knightly And it would be idle to complain of that force by Letter wherewith they might now acquaint those then fitting by their own mouthes if there were cause Vpon which ground M. Prynne Mr. Annesly and Mr. Hungerford about ten of the clock went to the House where the doors of the Lebby House were at first knock opened to them by the ordinary Door-keepers upon their telling theÌ„ they were Members there being no Guard at either door who delivered to each of them as Members a printed Paper intitled A Declaration of the Parliament assembled at Westminster Saturday 7. May 1659. They found not about 9. of 10. of those who sate within the House who courteously saluted them After some short discourses Mr. Annesly and Mr. Hungerford leaving Mr. Prynne in the House out of which he resolved not to stir upon any occasion for fear of a new forcible seclusion went back into the Hall to acquaint the Members in it they might freely enter if they pleasâ—d Mr. Annesly returning was forcibly kept out from re-entring by some Soldiers sent thither as he conceited for that purpose Wherwith he acquainted Mr. P. by a Note desiring to speak with him at the House door which being opened Mr. Annesly pressed to go in to speak with
to keep out what Members they pleased Then returning again into the Hall a secluded Member he there met pressing him to know what passed in the Lobby he related the sum of what was done and said which divers pressed about him to hear and some common Souldiers among others who when he had ended his Relation said he was an honest Gentleman and had spoken nothing but truth and reason After which meeting with Colonel Oky in the Hall who came over to transport him from Iersy into England they had some discourse touching his forcible seclusion and the great scandal and ill consequences of it which divers pressing to hear Mr. P. went out of the Hall to avoid Company and meeting with the Member who drew up the Letter to the Speaker perused and signed the fair Copy and so departed to Lincolns Inne without any Company This being an Exact Narration of the truth substance of what passed between Mr. P. the Army-Officers and those now fitting on the 7th and 9th of this instant May both in the Lobby House and elsewhere Mr. Prynne being since necessitated to publish it to prevent and rectifie the various misreports thereof He shall now relate as a Corollary thereunto the true and only reasons then inducing him after earnest Prayer to God for direction and protection in this Grand Affair to press the admission of himself and other Members into the House to correct the manifold contradictory censures of what he then did and spoke Some have been staggared and amazed at it as if he were now turned an Apostate from his former principles acting both against his Judgement and Conscience to cry up and make himself a Member of that old Parliament which he publickly printed to be dissolved above ten years since by the Kings death Others have censured it for a rash foolish and desperate attempt A third sort condemn it as a seditious tumultuous if not treasonable Action prejudicial to the publick peace and settlement deserving severe exemplary punishments A fourth Classis doome it as a scandalous Act dishonorable destructive to our Religion A fifth sort cry it up as a most necessary heroick national zealous Action deserving everlasting honor prayse thanks from the whole English Nation and a necessary incumbent duty as a Member of the old Parliament though legally dissolved being pretentionally now revived against Law Truth by those very Army Officers who six years past ipso facto dissolved and declared it to be dissolved yea have held many new Mock-Parliaments of their own modelling since all proving abortive by forcible ruptures as the long Parliament did It is not in Mr. Prynnes power to reconcile or controll these contradictory censures neither was he ever yet so foolish or vain-glorious as to be any wayes moved with the censures opinions or applauses of other men nor so ambitious covetous as to pursue any private interest of honor profit revenge c. under the notion of publick Liberty Justice Reformation as many have done nor so Sycophantical as to connive at others destructive exorbitances guilded over with specious Titles this being his constant rule to keep a good Conscience in all things both towards God and man Acts 24.16 to discharge his publick trust duty towards God and his Native Country though with the probable hazard of his life liberty estate friends what else may be precious to other men to trust God alone with the success reward of his endeavors to let others censure him as they please to fear no Mortal or power whatsoever in the discharge of his duty who can but kill the Body Mat. 10.23 nor yet do that but by Gods permission being utterly unable to touch the Soul but to fear him alone who can cast both Soul and Body into Hell The only ground end motive inducing Mr. Prynne thus earnestly and timely to get into the House was no wayes to countenance any unparliamentary Conventicle or proceedings whatsoever nor to own those then sitting to be the old true Commons House of Parliament whereof he was formerly a Member as now constituted much less to be the Parliament it self then sitting but to discharge the trust to which he was once â—nvoluntarily called without his privity or solicitation by an unanimous election a little before the last Treaty with the King having refused many Burgesships freely tendred to him with importunity both before his election at Newport and since being never ambitious of any publick preferments which he might have easily obtained had he but modestly demanded or signified his willingness to accept them After his election against his will and inclination he came not into the House till the Treaty was almost concluded and that at the request of divers eminent Members only with a sincere desire to do that cordial service for preservation of the King Kingdom Church Parliament Laws Liberties of England and prevention of those manifold Plots of forein Popish Adversaries Priests Jesuites Sectaries seduced Members Army-Officers and Agitators utterly to subvert them which other Members overmuch or totally neglected coldly opposed or were totally ignorant of What good service he did in the House during that little space he continued in it is fitter for others then himself to relate How fully he then discovered to them the true original Plotters fomenters of that Good Old Cause now so much cryed up and revived how strenuously he oppugned how truly he predicted the dangerous conseqnences of it since experimentally verified beyond contradiction his printed Speech Decemb. 4. 1648. can attest and his Memento whiles he was a prisoner For this Speech good service of his in discovering oppugning the New Gunpower-Treason then plotted and ripened to perfection to blow up the King Parliament Lords Laws Liberties Religion at once violently prosecuted by the force Remonstrance and disobedient practises of the rebellious Army Officers and Souldiers he was on the 6th of December 1648. forcibly seised on at the Lobby-Door as he was going to discharge his trust and caried away thence by Col. Pride and others How unhumanly unchristianly Mr. Prynne seised with other Members at the House door Decemb. 6. was used by the Army-Officers who lodged him them in hell on the bare boards all that cold night almost starved him and them with hunger and cold at Whitehall the next day imprisoned him many weeks in the Strand and after seised kept him by a new Free-state warrant a strict close Prisoner in three remote Castles nigh three years for his Speech in the House against their most detestable Treasons and Jesuitical proceedings against the King Parliament Privileges and Members of it is elsewhere at large related This being all he gained by being a Member and for asserting that true Good Old Cause against the new Imposture now cryed up afresh to turn our antient Kingdom into a New Republick and our Parliament of King Lords and Commons into a select unparliamentary juncto or forty or fifty Members of the old
A true and perfect NARRATIVE OF What was acted spoken by Mr. Prynne other formerly and freshly secluded Members the Army-Officers and some now sitting in the Lobby House elsewhere the 7th and 9th of May last The grounds inducing Mr. Pr. to go into the House The Evidences Reasons by which he intended to demonstrate to them That their New-Common Wealth or Good Old Cause was originally projected by the Iesuites and other forein Popish Enemies erected by the Army Officers and those now convened as their seduced Instruments to destroy our Protestant Religion Church King Kingdoms Parliaments Laws Liberties with the visible effects thereof since its erection That the Old Parliament was absolutely dissolved by the Kings beheading notwithstanding 17 Car. c. 7. That the Commons sitting since 1648. and now neither are nor can be the House of Commons much lesse the Parliament within that Act. That our hereditary Monarchy is the divinest best happyest durablest of all other Governments and its speedy restitution the only means to prevent impendent ruine and restore our Pristine Peace Safety Honour Vnity Prosperity both in Church and State With some seasonable Applications to the Army the sitting secluded Members Lords and all Well wishers to the Publick By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Printed and published to rectifie the various Reports Censures of this Action to give publick satisfaction to all Members of the Old Parliament the whole English Nation especially those Vianders and free Burgesses of the Borough of Newport in Cornwall who without Mr. P. his Privity or liking unanimously elected him for their Burgesse Anno 1648. though soon after forcibly secluded secured and now twice re-secluded in like manner by the Army-Officers Of his sincere Endeavours to the uttermost of his power to preserve OUR RELIGION fundamental LAWS LIBERTIES GOVERNMENT the Essential Rights Privileges Freedom of Parliament and all we yet enjoy according to his Oaths Covenant Trust as a Parliament-Member against the utter Subverters of them by a NEW REPUBLICK meer armed force arbitrary will and tyrannical power through the apparent Plots Seductions of our professed forein Popish Adversaries and their Instruments here clearly detected in their native Colours fruits Psal. 3.6 I will not be afraid of ten Thousands of men who have set themselves against me round about Psal. 27.3 Though an Host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear though war should rise against me in this will I be confident London Printed for Edw. Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britaine 1659. A true and full Narrative of what was done and spoken by and between Mr. Prynne other secluded Members Army Officers c. ON the 7th day of this instant May Mr. Prynne walking to Westminster Hall where he had not been six daies before meeting with some old secured and secluded Members of Parliament summoned by King Charles his Writ and Authority for these only ends expressed in all writs of Summons to the Lords and of Elections issued to Sheriffs of Counties for electing Knights Citizens and Burgesses of Parliament and in the Indentures themselves by which they were retorned Members To confer and treat of certain great and ardâ—ous affairs concerning the defence of the King Kingdom and Church of England and to do and consent to those things which shall happen to be therein ordained by Common counsel of the King Lords and Commons touching the aforesaid businesses which Parliament began at Westminster the third day of November 1640. They shewed him a Declaration of the Officers and Counsel of the Army made in such hast and confusion that they mistook the Month wherein they made it dating it April 6. instead of May 6. published by them that morning which Declaration the day before was presented to the Speaker of the said Parliament at the Rolls by divers Officers of the Army in the name of Col Fleetwood and the Counsel of Officers of the Army in presence of many Members of the said Parliament containing their earnest desire That those Members who continued to sit since the year 1648. untill the 20 th of April 1653. would return to the exercise and discharge of their trust expressed in the foresaid Writs and Indentures alone by those who impowred elected entrusted them as their Representativs without any other forged new trust whatsoever inconsistent with or repugnant to it Promising their readiness in their places as became them to yield their utmost Assistance to them to sit in safety for improving the present opportunity for setling and securing the peace and freedom of this Common-wealth praying for the presence and blessing of God upon their endeavours who after they had sate many years in performance of the trust reposed in them by the people and being in the prosecution of that Duty assembled in Parliament at Westminster upon the 20 th day of April 1653. were then interrupted and forced out of the House from that time untill this very day Of which force they seemed in this Declaration unfeinedly to repent by an actual restitution of the Members formerly forced thence much more then of that greater and more apparent force of whole Regiments of Horse and Foot drawn up to the house it self in a violent maner Dec. 6. 1648. where they seised secured Mr. Pr. with above forty and secluded forced away above 300 Members more of the Commons House only for the faithfull discharge of their Trusts and Duties therein according to their Oaths Protestations Vows Covenants Consciences wherin most think they first turned out of the way by wandring into other wayes from righteous equal paths which Members though they do not particularly invite to sit again yet they having proved no breach of trust against them do not in the least measure intimate that they would forcibly seclude them from sitting if that Parliament should be publickly voted still in being by vertue of the Statute of 17 Carolâ— c. 7. as they in their Counsel of the Army have actually resolved by their invitation of the Members thereof to sit again as Mr. P. those Members who shewed it to him conceived upon their perusal thereof Mr. P. being after informed that the Old Speaker and sundry Members of the long Parliament were then met in the painted Chamber to consult together in order to their meeting again in the House was moved to go thither to them which he refused because it was no place where the House of Commons ever used to meet or sit as an House but only as a Committe upon conferences with the Lords Soon after Mr. P. heard by some Members and others that the old Speaker and about forty Members more with the Mace carried before them were gon from the Lords House into the Ho. of Com. there sate as an House by vertue of the Stat. of 17 Car. c. 7. and their old Elections by the Kings Writs Vpon which there being then above 30 of the old secluded Members in
going up with him When he came at the House door to enter several Officers of the Army there placed one of them sitting in a chair told him That he must not enter and that they had special Order to keep him out of the House Wherupon he Protested against this their forcible double seclusion of him as an high contempt and breach of Privilege contrary to their own and the sitting Members Declaration published that day demanding in the name of all the Commons of England and those for whom he was elected free admission for himself and other Members they kept out by a visible force of horse and foot which was a worse and more real levying of warre against the Paâ—liament then the beheaded King or his party were guilty of whose imprisoning prosecution of MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT for opposing his unlawfull will after the Parliament and coming to the House only to demand the 5. impeached Members without offering force or secluding any Member but ABOVE ALL HIS LABOVRING THE ENGLISH ARMY TO BE ENGAGED AGAINST THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT being a thing OF THAT STRANGE IMPIETY UNNATURALNES that nothing can answer it but his being a foreiner with his breach of Faith Oath Protestations in levying war against and offering force to the Parliament only at a distance without keeping out any by armed Gards being the principal unparale'ld Treasons for which the most of those now sitting in their very Declaration of 17 Marâ—ii 1648. expressing the grounds of their late proceedings against him and setling the pâ—esent GOVERNMENT in the way of a FREE STATE now cryed up as their GOOD OLD CAVSE appealed to all the Woâ—ld to judge whether they had not sufficient cause to bring the K. to Iustice and execute him as they did Of all which they were formerly now far more guilty in placing Gards of Horse foot at the Parliament Doors to keep out him other Members it being a force and levying of war upon the House it self and Members which would null all their Acts and Votes as the sitting Members in their Declaration Speaker in his Letter An. 1648. upon the London unarm'd Apprentices Tumults at the House Doors though they kept out none yea some now sitting in their Speeches in the last dissolved Assembly at VVestminster declared very lately After which some of the Officers said Pray talk no more with him whereto he replies he must talk a little more to them in their own Language That the Army-Officers and Counsel themselves had forcibly turned those now sitting out of Doors 20 April 1653. and thus branded them in their Declarations and other Papers he had then about him for their Dilatory proceedings in the House unlimited Arbitrary proceedings at Committees their wâ—oly perverâ—ing the end of Parliaments by becoming studious of parties private Interests neglecting the Publick so that no Door of Hope being opened for redress of their grievances nor any hope of easing the people in their burdens it was found at length by these their exorbitances That a standing Parliament was in it self the greatest grievance which appeared yet the more exceeding grievous in regard of a visible design carryed on by sowe among them to have perpetuated the Power in their own hands it being utterly impossible in that corrupt estate even in the judgement of moderate men that they who made gain the main of their business should become instruments of our long desired establishment Therefore it became an Act no less pious than necessary for the Army now to interpose upon the same equitable ground as heretofore in the like cases of extremity no ordinary medium being left to provide for the Main in a way irregular and extraordinary by their most necessary and timely dissolution Yet notwithstanding all these brands they have publickly layd upon them which they and others never yet wiped of by any publick Answer as the formerly secluded Members had refuted those base aspersions and calumnies the Army had falsely cast on them they had now invited those very Members to return and fit again without secluding any of them and engaged to yield them their best protection as the Assertors of the Good Old Cause who had a special presence of God with them and were signally blessed in the work yea as the only Instruments for setling and securing the peace and freedom of this Common-wealth Therefore they had far greater reason to invite call in him the other first secluded Members than thus forcibly to exclude and ascribe and give to them alone the Supreame Authority of the Nation which they have engrossed to themselves without the peoples Vote or Election in whoÌ„ alone they have formerly voted it A presage of their subsequent Free-State proceedings when once setled in their Government and a strange contradiction Wherefore they should much more invite him and others they formerly and now afresh have forcibly secluded against whom they had not the least Exceptions to settle us again in peace and freedome which they had done when they sate had they not secluded them After which one of the Army Officers told Mr. Prynne he had deserted the Good Old Cause To which he replyed That the true Good Cause for which they were first raised was only to defend the Kings person Kingdom Parliament all its Members Privileges and secure them against all force and violence whatsoever which cause they had not only deserted but betrayed and fought against contrary to all former Engagements to which cause he adhered and defired entrance to maintain it To which he answered That indeed was once their Good Old Cause but now it was not so for since they had pursued another Cause Mr. P. replyed that then they were real Back-sliders therein and their Cause neither old nor good but bad new and destructive to the former old one In conclusion Mr. P. pressed them to shew their order forbis seclusion tell him their names They answered they would not shew it nor tell their names He then told them That certainly their Good Old Cause was in their own Iudgements Consciences very bad since they durst not own it by name They answered That Mr. Annesly the last day when they refused to tell their names as they do now had inquired out some of them from whom be might learn them In conclusion when he could not prevayl he told them they declared themselves and those now siting arrant Cowards and their magnified Good Old Cause to be very bad since they were afraid of one single person without Arms when as they were a whole Army of armed men and bad above 40 voyces to his one yet were afraid to admit him in for fear he alone should blow them all up with the breath of his mouth and goodness of his cause And so departing he met Mr. Prydeaux in the Lobby and desired him to acquaint those within that he was forcibly kept out of the House by the Souldiers who beset the passages
dissipated House of Commons elected impowred only by the Army not People to act what they prescribe to extirpate King Lords Monarchy Magistracy Ministry Laws Liberties Properties and reduce them all under Jesuitisme at first and our forein Enemies Vassallage in conclusion Mr. Prynne then being most clearly convinced thereof by what he formerly published as a Member in his Speech and Memento and since in his Epistle to a New Discovery of Free State tyranny his Ius Patronatus his historical and legal Vindication of the fundamental Laws Liberties Rights Properties of all English Freemen A new Discovery of Romish Emissaries his Quakers unmasked and in his Republicans Good Old Cause truly and fully anatomised wherin he infallibly demonstrates their converting of our late English Monarchy into a new Common-wealth or elective Protectorship to be the antient projected moddles of Father Parsons and other Jesuites and Tho. Campanella the Italian Frier specially recommended by them to the pursuite of the King of Spain who prosecuted it all he could to promote his universal Monarchy and so much rejoyced at it that he was the first foreign King who presently sent an extraordinary Ambassador to congratulate the accomplishment applaud the constitution of enter into a League of Friendship with it whose flattering panygerick in his Great Catholique Kings name in prayse thereof and what an honour it was to them that he was the first forein Prince that owned them for a Common wealth made the Commons House so intoxicated that they gratified him in all his requests and pursued all his designs only to ruine us and the Netherlands layd down by Campanella De Monarchia Hispanica c. 25 27. by furnishing him with many thousands of Irish forces quarrelling with the Hollanders maintaining above three years bloody wars with them with infinite losse and expence to both Nations taking the French Kings Fleet provisions merely designed for the reliefe of Dunkirk whereby he presently regained it to our prejudice And on the other hand Cardinall Richlieu of France the great Incendiary of Christendome and fomenter of all our Domestick wars in his life the French King and Mazarine by his instructions in writing after his death vigorously pursued this very design His instructions to this purpose recorded by Conte de Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato an excellent Italian Historian are very memorable who relates That Cardinal Richelieu Anno 1642. after he had involved the King Parliament and Ireland in a bloody Civil war being near his death delivered these politick instructions for the King his Master to pursue for carrying on his designs in relation to England with successe That above all other things he should endeavour to keep the Government of Great Britain divided and dis-united by ayding the weaker party that the other might not make it self too powerfull By causing the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland to be divided either by nominating other Kings elective of another family accomplished by erecting an elective Protector or by moulding them into a Common-wealth as our Republicans have formerly and now done again Yet with this caution That when they are reduced into a Common-wealth so to order the matter That it may not be united into one but divided How punctually Cardinal Mazarine prosecuted these instructions ever since and accomplished them at last the Letters taken in the Lord Digbyes Cabinet printed by the Parliaments order 1646. and O. Cromwels late intimate correspondency with Mazarine discover And how much the Iesuites and Catholicks in France in November 1648. approved applauded the turning of our hereditary Monarchy which they irreconcilably hated envyed as well as the late King and turning the Old Parliament into a new Republican Representative and that all their hopes to effect it were in the Army to whom they wished all prosperity therein you may read in a Letter sent from thence by the Armies Agent to a fitting Republican Member soon after published by Mr. Prynne who got the original Mr. Prynne knowing all this and clearly discovering a fresh combination between the Sectaries Republican Anabaptistical Iesuitical levelling party to pursue their designs afresh and accomplish what they formerly attempted in the short Mock-Parliament of their own election creation Anno 1653. and what was then passionately recommended to them by Iohn Canne the Anabaptist in his Voyce from the Temple dedicated to them as their Generation work which God and all his people then expected and required from them even to extirpate the Church Ministry of England Advowsons Glebes Tithes and demolish all Parish Churches as Antichristian to extirpate the Law root and branch under pretext of reforming and new-moulding it to sell all Corporation and College lands and set up a popular Anarchy or tyrannical Oligarchy among us under the disguise of the Old Dissolved Parliament sitting from 1648. till April 20. 1653. after six years violent ejection of them with highest scorn and reproach yet now invited by them to sit again to effect these Romish designs to our utter Confusion but secluding all those who were like to obstruct or defeat them Upon this consideration Mr. Prynne as a secluded Member of the old Parliamemt wherein he detected oppugned all these Treasonable Designs heretofore and since its dissolution by the Kings beheading held it his bounden duty to prevent defeat them now and nip them in the bud whereupon so soon as those now sitting entred the House he assayed to go into it with as many old secluded Members as he could there being 80 of them in London For although his judgement be that this Parliament is quite dissolved by the Kings beheading as he oft declared in print yet since the Army Officers and those now sitting with sundry others pretend it still in being and under that pretext alone have acted all their publick Tragedies and Innovations he conceived himself bound in Conscience upon their Concessions to endeavour to prevent these mischiefs and do all Publick good he might with better warrant and reason than most Ministers Lawyers Justices Magistrates Members of late Parliaments as they style them have prayed for complyed with acted in under those late Governors Governments mock Parliaments as he is confident some now sitting among them in this new Convention believe it dissolved and yet go in only to prevent and allay those mischiefs which others violently pursue which their own Consciences and our laws resolve them without scruple to be utterly illegal whereas this old Parliament whereof he was a Member was most legallie summoned and convened beyond dispute and hath the colour of a legal Act of Parliament for its continuance which those since have wanted of which Act the greatest part of those now sitting taking advantage notwithstanding their new Instruments Declarations Petitions Advises Addresses and Sessions in other new Parliaments since and it being a great dispute now among most secluded Members whether that Parliament was not yet alive though
the King be dead the majority of their Voyces over-ruling his private Judgement as in all other Parliamentary Votes and proceedings gave a present sufficient call warrant to him and others to enter the House to debate it and act what and as they did which will satisfie all those who censure it as unwarrantable or contradictory to his judgement especially when they shall hear what he really intended to propose to the sitting Members when he got into the House had they not gone out to prevent it 1. He intended to inform them of those destructive Jesuitical ends and designs forementioned which they were now purposely called in to accomplish carrying along Thomas Campanella Richilieus Instrnctions with other Books papers of theirs and some printed Copies of the Republicans and others Good Old Cause truly and fully anatamised now put out and published to dis-engage them from its pursute at the first before they were engaged therein by any Votes or Actions if he could but gain audience or patience to hear them pressed on their Consciences Viva Voce But their unparliamentary adjourning on purpose to prevent it when he was in and forcibly resecluding him by armed Gards when once out he held himself bound in Conscience to publish that to them and the the world in print which he was not permitted libertie to speak as he formerlie did when forcibly imprisoned and kept from the House by the Armie as now upon the like account in his Brief Mememto to the present unparliamentary Iuncto from his Pison-Chamber at the Kings Head which they soon after took of Ian. 1. 1648. 2ly He intended to propose That all armed Gards of Souldiers in or near the Cities of London or Westminster might by publick Proclamation be removed to a convenient distance thence according to the antient Custome Presidents and Privileges of Parliament prohibiting not only all armed forces but the very bearing of any Arms or weapons in or near the place where the Parliament did sit under severest penalties lest they should over-awe the Members or any way interrupt their proceedings which the undutifull mutinous Officers Souldiers now in and near the City though raysed purposely to protect the Parliament and its Members from all force whatsoever have frequently done nay forcibly secluded imprisoned ejected the Members themselves sundry times yea turned the now sitting Members out of Doors and now again on Saturday last and this very Morning secluded him and sundry Members when they came to enter in 3ly That all the Lords all secured secluded Members of the old Parliament not sitting after Decemb. 8. 1648. now about the City being double in number to those now sitting might presently be called and freely admitted into the House And all living Members of the old Commons House elected or sitting at or before that time might by the Speakers Letter be desired in all their names to meet together in the Commons House forty daies after the ordinary time limited in most writs of Summons or Resummons of Parliament and nothing acted or voted in the inteâ—val as a House of Commons till they were all assembled after their ten years seclusion dissipation by the Armies force and war upon them This suddain unexpected Clandestine stealing into the Commons House of about 41 or 42. Members alone without any general notice given thereof to all the other surviving absent Members or places which elected them sitting presently as an House of Parliament accompanied with a present forcible seclusion of all but their own Confederates being a most unparliamentary practice conspiracy surprise unworthy Saints or persons of Honour destructive to the very being Privileges of Parliament injurious to the whole Nation as well as absent and secluded Members yea contrary to their own Republican Votes Principles That the Supream Authority of the Nation resides only in the Generality of the people That it cannot be transferred from them to any others in or out of Parliament but by their free consents and elections That their Representatives in Parliament ought to be equally distributed throughout the Nation No Member to be secluded when duly elected and all things to be carryed only by majority of Voyces Contrary to the principles of Law Equity common Iustice Reason which resolve that publick Acts of Parliament bind all men because they all are Parties and Assenters to them by their election of Knights Citizens and Burgesses impowred intrusted by them and present when they passed by their common assent Which they cannot be when the farre greater number are absent secluded and have no notice of their present sitting Contrary to common Right and that just Maxime inserted into some antient Parliament Writs of Summons and elections to Sheriffs quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur that which concerns all ought to be approved by all And not only so but this their surreptitious fraudulent suddain sitting and acting by themselves as a Parliament if they proceeded would make them far more criminal and guilty of highest Treason than King Richard the 2d of old impeached and dethroned in the Parliament of 1 H. 4. amongst other Articles for this That the said King in his last Parliament at Salop purposing to oppress his people subtlely procured and caused to be granted That the Power of the Parliament by the consent of all the States of his Realm should remain with certain Persons to determine after the Parliament dissolved Certain Petitions delivered in the same Parliament at that time not dispatched By colour of which Concession the persons so deputed proceeded to other things generally touching that Parliament and that by the Kings will In derogationem status Parliamenti in magnum incommodum totius Regni pernitiosum exemplum In derogation of the State of the Parliament and to the great disprofit prejudice of the whole Realm and pernitious example And that they might seem to have some kind of colour Authority for this kind of their proceedings the King caused the Rolls of the Parliament according to his Vote to be changed and deleted contrary to the effect of the foresaid Concession which is likewise mentioned in the printed Act of 1 H. 4. c. 3. and thus amplyfied That a certain power was committed by authority of Parliament to certain persons to proceed upon certain Articles comprised in the Rolls of the Parliament thereof made and by authority aforesaid divers Statutes Iudgements Ordinances and Stablishments were made ordained and given erroneously and dolefully in great disherison and final destruction and undoing of many honourable Lords and Liege-people of the Realm and their Heirs for ever wherupon that whole Pariament of 21 R. 2. with all the circumstances and dependents thereupon were wholy reversed revoked voyded undone repealed and annulled for ever If this then were so high a crime and breach of royal Trust in King R. 2. even by consent and authority of the whole Parliament and three Estates subtilly to procure the power of
world nor receiving the least reward for all his faithfull publick services nor recompence for his manifold losses sufferings expences for the Publick to whom he hath ever been a faithfull unmercinarie Servant is in good hopes that the serious perusal of the premises will convince the Good Old Cause now cryed up to be a cheat of the Iesuites put upon the Army as Hugh Peters apprehends stiles it in his Letter the 10th of this May to a chief Officer of the Army and also wipe of all the Mis-reports Scandals Reproaches Censures yea acquit him from the heavy charge of Sedition Mutiny Treason against the Infant House and Republick cast upon him for his actions or discourses here related by those who are reallie guiltie of these Crimes in the highest degree by subverting our antient Kings Kingdomes Kingship Parliaments Peers Privileges Laws Liberties Properties Oaths by their Iesuitical plots and innovations and making a prey of all the publick wealth Lands Revenues of the Crown to enrich themselves and maintain a seditious Army utterly to devour the small Remainder of our publick and private wealth almost drained to the dregs and betray us into the hands of our forein Enemies when they have left us neither hearts hands wills mony nor means manfully to resist their invading power and reduced us to that slavery as rather to live under any forein Tyrannie than an oppressing Sword of their own domineering Hirelings As for the thing they stile Sedition it is but seorsum itio when a few confederated Innovators shall seperate themselves from the General body or Assembly of the Kingdom Chuch Parliament House whereof they are Members and act a part by themselves as a divided Republick Church Parliament House without and against the Generalitie and true lawfull Members and seperate them from their company And if this be truth as our Statutes Lawbooks Casuists Canonists and Historians accord we shall know in whose Hearts House Sedition truly dwells And if Aristotle Aquinas Angelus de Clavasio and sundâ—y others who write of Sedition may be credited He who disturbs the Rule or Government of any unlawfull Vsurper is no seditious Person because such a usurped Government or Power is not ordained for the commoâ— good whatever pretended but for the private advantage of the Usurper Therefore the disturbance of such a Vsurper hath not the reason of Sâ—dicion yea it is to be commended because it freeth the Generality of the People from a Tyrannical Power usurped over or forcibly imposed on them against their wills and it is the â—surping Tyrant only who truely is seditious as they all define in direct words And whether Mr. Prynne and other secluded Members and Lords being â—ive times their number or those who seclude them be seditious let the whole Kingdome resolve Mr. Prynne not knowing whether he shall have the like opportunity again shall for a Conclusion of this Narrative addresse himself and direct some things he intended to have spoken 1. To the Army-Officers and Souldiers Remember I beseech you in the bowels of Jesus Christ what your own Army-Chaplain Iohn Sedgewick in his Iustice upon the Armies Remonstrance from St. Albons Nov. 16. 1648. and Rebukes of that evil Spirit that leads them in their Counsels and Actions hath written to them therein and to the Lord Fairfax then General and the General Counsel of war in his Epistle Dedicatorie to them when they first espoused their present Good Old Cause His words are home and piercing Destruction you practise it is your work it is your end you cannot see beyond it and you are hastning to it it is the center to which you tend and therefore I cannot but shew it to you that you may stay your course before the pit shut her mouth upon you You are full of glorie in the great things you have done wonderfull thing a mighty presence of God But in sum what is it You have torn a poor sinfull Kingdom in pieces you have executed wrath upon your Brethren Friends and Countrymen you have laid desolate your Father the King the Parliament your Mother your own Country This is your glorie to be Executioners Assyria the Rod of mine Anger what a Crown is this Have you restored blessed healed comforted saved any No You have but plunged the Kindome and your selves into a Pit of Darknesse and Confusion You drive furiously over the King Parliament Laws Conscience Loyalty Privileges so as no human nor sacred thing can stand before you It is high time to withstand you for it is not men onlie that suffer from you but the Lord Your Sword goeth so deep that it pierceth through his Soul also You are gone is farre in dissolving the Foundations of Government that you are come to him who upholds the Pillars of the earth you reach to the head of Principalities and Powers to the Lord who is the Author and Upholder of all these things He is in these despised broken Ordinances of his and sensible of everie blow that is given to them You have digged through the wall of Flesh and men and through the partition wall that divided them from God and now you are in the bowels of the Lord these miserable broken Powers are now the Lord. Go on tear and rend you will at last look upon him whom you have pierced and mourn O that you would now do so in good earnest as you pretend only in your Declaration of May 6. 1659. and yet go on still in your former Trespasses for which God will wound your hairy Scalps O consider that Jesus Christ whose Servants ye pretend to be is both a King of Glory a King of Saints That the Gospel you professe is the Gospel of the Kingdom not Republick yea the Kingdom of God and of Heaven in Gospel-language That his Church whereof you pretend your sâ—lf Members is frequently styled a Kingdom never a Common-wealth or at least bnt once and that not in opposition or contradistinction to a Kingdom which is the first excellentest of all Common-wealths as Heathen Philosophers Polititians and Devines accord but as the verie same with it That the Saints themselves are styled the Children of the Kingdom not Republick Companions in the Kingdom of Christ even in this world yea a Kingdom of Priests a Royal Priesthood Nay Kings and Priests to God the Father and that by Christs own constitution Consider yet further that Heaven it self into which you expect at last to enter is ever stiled the Kingdom of Heaven an heavenlie and everlasting Kingdom a Kingdom which cannot be moved a Kingdom which shall have no end never a Common-wealth That in this Kingdom we read of nothing but Crowns Scepters Thrones Robes of Glory and Majesty and of reigning in it for ever and ever That Christ himself hath promised appointed and his Father given to all his Saints the
of God or prudent Senators or Statesmen No no but to be that generation of spoylers and treacherous men no more to be believed trusted by any though you speak fair words nay swear and vow who have spoiled and dealt very treacherously with your brethren and the House of your Fathers who raised entrusted you for their defence and preservation against whom God denounceth a Woe and answerable retaliation in conclusion to be spoiled and dealt treacherously with your selves as some of you your new Protector and those now sitting have been already dealt with and others who made them treacherous Is. 33.1 Jer. 12.1 2 6. c. 3.4 Yea such Neighbors brethren as will utterly supplant deceive slander their very nearest dearest relations whose habitation is in the midst of Deceit whom God himself commands us to take heed of and not to trust for they are all an assembly of treacherous double-minded men unstable in all their wayes empty clouds carried about with a tempest raging waves of the sea which cannot rest foaming out their own shame casting out mire and dirt wandring stars to whom are reserved the blackness of darkness for ever as three Prophets and 3 Apostles resolve in express terms Isay 57.20 21. Ier. 9.2 3 4 5 6. Mich. 7.5 6. Iam. 1.6 7. 2 Pet. 2.17 Iude 12 13. O therefore now at last repent repent with greatest grief shame horror of this your Treachery Inconstancy and harden not your hearts as in the day of temptation and provocation Decemb. 6. 1648. May 7. 1659. when you erred in your hearts wandred out of the way of God peace truth justice righteousness honesty piety duty into such Iesuitical paths wherein there is nothing but wasting and desâ—râ—ction as God resolves all men find by 11 years sad experiment else he will swear in his wrath you shall never enter into his rest If these Evangelical Scriptural Expostulations will not perswade you to sound a present retreat sue out a Bill of divorce from your false Good Old Cause for our future publike safety peace settlement M. P. shall then intreat you to believe your own Declarations In your last May 6. 1659. you truly declare to the world That the only wise God in the course of his providence hath disappointed all your endeavours and rendered all your means to obviate the dangers and settle these Nations in peace and prosperity VTTERLY INEFFECTVAL Will you know the true reason of it It is because ever since you have interrupted and forcibly dissoved the Treaty of Peace between the late King and his Parliament Decemb. 6. 1648. you have walked in such crooked counsels pathes of iniquity bloud violence Treason destruction as whosoever goeth therein shall NOT KNOW PEACE and have neither known nor pursued the true way of Peace as God himself resolves you if you dare credit him Isay 59.2 to 16. which you may do well to study If you will not believe God nor Mr. Prynne herein pray then believe your own selves whiles in your right senses before the good spirit of God departed from you and now pursue that only way to our peace and settlement you then at least 4. times successively prescribed In your humble Remonstrance from his Excellency and THE ARMY under his command presented to the Commissioners at St. Albans 25 June 1647. p. 12. these are your own printed words We doe further clearly confess We do not see how there can be any peace to the Kingdom firm or lasting without a due consideration of and provision for the Rights Quiet and Immunity of His Majesties Royal Family and late partakers And herein we thinke that tender and equitable dealing as supposing their case had been ours and a Spirit of Common love and Iustice diffâ—sing it self to the good and preservation of all will make vp the most Glorious Conquest over their hearts if God in mercy see it good to make them and the whole people of the Land lasting friends The like words expressions to the same effect you use in your Representation of the Army 14 Iune 1647. in your Generals Letter to both Houses of Parliament 6 Iuly 1647. Declaring it the General sense of all or most of the Officers of the Army to avoid all Harshness and afford all kind usage to his Majesties person Family aud late Party as the most honourable prudent and Christian way and the most hopefull course to take away the present and future seeds of Warr amongst us to posterity and to procure a lasting Peace and a Government in this distracted Nation And in your Proposals 1 Aug 1647. for The settlement of a firm peace you have the like expressions again as Mr. Prynne in his Speech in Parliament Dec. 4. 1648. p. 79 80 81 82. evidenced to the House of Commons perswading them to pursue this only way of Peace and not your quite contradictory Remonstr 20 Nov. 1648. when debauched by the Iesuits the only way to unsetlement tumults warres desolation as experience hath now sufficiently demonstrated O therefore now at last embrace pursue this true and only way to safety peace settlement by your own quadruple Resolutions and then we shall soon have peace quietness safety and assurance for ever Mr. Prynne having thus discharged his Conscience towards the Army-Officers and Swordmen the Primum mobile of all our late present motions and commotions wheeling about all the rest he shall in the second place addresse himself to their subordinate selected Westminster Conventicle now sitting under their force and lure to act vote what they prescribe them forcibly separating their old fellow Members from their company and himself above all others who hath lost suffred spoken written acted more from time to time for God Religion Laws Liberties Properties Parliaments and their privileges against all Iesuitical underminers than all of theÌ„ put together notwithstanding all discouragements ingrate requitals from them and others He shall only desire them in relation to the old and newly secluded Members to answer that one expostularie Text Mal. 2.9 Have we not all one Father Hath not one God created us yea one Mother Church Countrey engendred nourished entrusted us all alike Why then doe ye deal treacherously every man against his brother by prophaning the Covenant of our Fathers As for your New erected revived Republike you so much dote on Wherin ye have reigned as Kings without yea against us and we would to God ye did reign that we also might reign with you He shall desire you for your own our Churches Religions sake safetie honour to consider its Papal Jesuitical Antichristian Spanish French originals and its sad effects to their advantage and the ruine of our Religion alreadie discovered which you cannot gain say To weigh his former expostulations with the Army-Officers Soldiers and these few Scriptural to omit manie other Political Historical considerations beyond all refutation and more to be valued than all Politicks of carnal heads or hearts to enamor
I am now ready to be offred and the time of my departure is at hand I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which God the righteous Iudge shall give me at that day At my first answer no man stood by me but all men forsook me I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge Notwithstanding the Lord stood by me and strengthned me that by me the preaching might be fully known and that all the Gentiles might hear and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lyon And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me to his heavenly KINGDOM to whom bee glorie for ever and ever Amen Isay 8.9 to 16. Associate your selves O ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces gird your selves and ye shall be broken in pieces take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shâ—ll not â—tand for God is with us For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong â—eud and instructed mâ— that I should not walk in the way of 〈…〉 saying say not a Câ—nfederaâ—ie to whom this people shall say a Confederacie neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid But sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread and he shall be for a sanctuarie Ps. 26.3 4 5. O Lord I have walked in thy Truth I have not sat with vain persons neither will I goe in with dissemblers I have hated the Congregation of evil doers and I will not sit with the wicked Pro. 29.25 The fear of man bringeth a snare but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe Ps. 18.46 48 50 Ps 144.10 The Lord liveth and blessed be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted He delivereth me from mine enemies yea thou liftest me up above those that rose up against me thou hast delivered me from the violent man Therfore will I give thanks unto thee O Lord among the Heathen and sing praises unto thy name It is he that giveth Salvation unto Kings that delivereth David his servant from the hurtfull sword Great deliverance giveth he unto his KING and sheweth mercy to his anointed To David and to his seed for evermore Thomas Campanella De Monarchia Hisp c. 30. Omnis haeresis cum ad Athâ—â—ismum delapsa est per sapientem Prophetam in veritatis viam reducitur habent enim haereses periodum suam ad modum Rerum publicarum quae à Regibus in Tyrannidem à Tyrannide in Statum Optimatium et inde in Oligarchiam atque tandem in Democratiam in fine rursus in statum Regium revolvuntur William Prynne From my Studie in Lincolns Inne May 18. 1659. FINIS ERRATA Page 34. l. 15. dele it p. 35. l. 4. Melston r. Millington p. 41. l. 18. Precope p. 48. l. 10. r. 1648. p. 49. l. 38. erecting r exciting p. 69. l. 16. both r. doth p. 75. l. 7. as r. was * See the Epistle and Appendix to my Speech in Parliament and the 2d part of the History of Independency (a) The true State of the case of the Common-wealth in reference to the Government by a Protector and a Parliament maintaâ—ning therein a full conformity to the declared prâ—nciples and engagements of the parliament and Army Iâ— being the opinion of divers persons who throughout the late troubles have approved themselves faithfull to the cause and Interest of God and their Country Presented to the publick for the satisfaction of others printed 1654. p. 9.11 which Mr. Prynne had then in his pocket * Ian. 6.1 * Comforting supporting himself against all persecutioÌ„s reproaches libels calumnies cast upon him With Mat. 5.10 11 12. 1 Pet. 3.14 16 17. c. 4.12 13 14 16. Phil. 1.29 2 Cor. 4.8 9 10 11 16 17. c. 1.3 4 5 12. (a) See Mr. Prynnes Epistle and Appendix to his Speech in parliament His 2d part of the Narrative of the Armies force 1640. and A new Discovery of Free-State Tyrany 1655. (b) See his brief Memento to the present unparliamentary Iuncto 1648. (c) In his Memorial for Reformation of England 1590. Watâ—oÌ„s quodlibets p. 92. to 96.310 to 334. Wil. Clarks his answer to Father Parsons Libel p. 75. (d) De Monarchia Hispanica c. 25 27. (e) Romes master piece and hidden works of Darkness brought to publick light (f) Historia part 3d. Venetiis 1648. p. 175 176. (g) See the instrument of Government and petition and advice Section 1. * A Collect p. 849 858 862 863 867 868. i Appendix to his Speech p. 118. and relation of the Members seclusion * See Mr. Prynne Good Old Cause stated stunted p. 3 4 5.6 10 k See Mr. P his Gospel plea Watsons quodlibets and rhe Case of â—he Common wealth of England rightly stated l See his legal plea against Illegal Taxes his legal Vindication p. 3 â— 4. his Brief Register of Parliamentary Writs and Plea for the Lords l â— E. 1. Restall Armor 1. Cooks 4 Instit. p. 14. Mr. Prynnes Brief Register of all Parliamentary writs p. 27 28.177 215 216. Exact Abridgement of the records in the Tower p. 11 12 14 17 19 22 27 36 38 195. m Mr. Prynnes Brief Register and Survey of Parliamentary writs p 431. n See their Votes Jan. 6. Declaration 11 Martii 1648. The Agreement of the People and Armies Remonstrance and Petition Nov. 16 1648. Ian. â—0 1649. o 1 Jac. ch 1. Ash-Parliament 10. p Cl. 33 E. 1. m. 4. dors q 1 H. 4. Rot. parl n. 25. Plea for the Lords p. 434. Canterburies Doome p. 27 31. Mr. Pyms Speech 16 Fâ—br 1640. * See his legal Vindication against illegal Taxes p. 44. to 51. His Plea for the Lords and Brief Register * Mr. Rushworths Historical Collect. p. 2â—0 271. s Cooks 4 Instit c. 1. Cromptons Jurisdiction of Courts Br Tit. Parliament A Brief Register Survey of Parliamentary writs p. 42â— 423 424 432. Mr. Rushworths Historical collection p. 423. t Cooks 7 Report Calvins case f. 10. * 4 E 4. 44. v See Mr. Prynnes Brief Register Kalendar Survey of Parliamentary Writs a Cooks 1 Instit p. 181. b. 5 Rep. f. 9. Dyer 190 191 Ash. Authority 22.24 the Books there cited 19 H. 7. c 7. * Dyer f. 60. b Modus tenendi Parl. H. de Knyghton de Event Angliae l. 5. col 2680.2681 Grafton p. 349 350 Mr. Prynnes Plea for the Lords p. 27 29. Exact Collection p. 125.142.360 c Plowden f. 117. Dyer f. 107. b. Mr. Seldens Titles of Honor Mr. Prynns Plea for the Lords and House of Peers d Cooks 4â— Instit. p. 25.51 E. 3. rot Parl. n. 47. â— R. 2. rot Parl. 2 n. 52.11 H. 4. n. 30. e Exact Collection p. 163 164 250 316 317 318 312 793 794. x Cooks 7 Report Calvins case f. 10 11. y See the
27.1.6 c Num. 16.22 c. 27.16 d Ps. 22.6 e 2 Cor. 4.7 1 Cor. 1.27 28 29. Deut. 32.30 g Jer. 46.16 c. 50.16 h Calipine Hâ—liokâ— summa Angelica Tit. Seditio Ciceâ—o de Repub l 6. Lu. 23.19 i Luke 6 22. k See the Appendix to Mr Rushworths Historical Col p. 30. to 40 41 42. l Polit. l. 3. Ethic. l. 8. m Secunda secundae Artic. 12. Qu. 11. n Sâ—mma Angelica Tit. Seditio o See the soveraign Power of Parliaments part 4. p. 187 188.192 a Ps. 68.21 b Ps. 24.7 8 9 10. c Rev. 15.3 d Mat. 4.23 c. 9.35 c. 13.19 c. 14.24 e Mat. 10.7 c. 12.28 c. 21.43 c. 4.43 c. 8.1 10. c. 16.16 Acts 20.25 f 1 Cor. 15.24 Col. 1.13 Rev. 12.10 g Eph. 2.12 h Aristot. Polit. l. 3. c. 12. l. 4. c. 2. i Mat. 13.38 k Rev. 1.9 l Exod. 19.6 Rev. 1.6 c. 5.10 c. 20.6.1 Pet. 2.5 m Mat. 5.3.19 c. 7.21 c. 8.11 n 2 Pet. 1.11 2. Tim. 4.18 o Heb. 12.28 p Daâ— 7.27 Lu. 1.33 Is. 9.1 q 2 Tim. 4.8 1 Pet. 5.4 Ps. 45.9 Mat. 19.28 Rev. 3.21 c. 20.4 c. 9.11 c. 7.9.13 14. r 2 Tim. 2.22 Rev. 22.5 s Lu. 12.32 c. 22.22 t Iames 2.5 u Mat. 25.34 x Ps. 47.7 Gen. 18.25 y Rev. 5.3 c. 19.16 1. Tim. 6.15 â—it 1.16 â—ib 6.9 â—cts 26.27 â—al 6.16 â—ay 1.24 Tim. 2.1 â—ee Tertuiâ— Apologia e Isay 1.2 Ps. 114.7 f See the True Old Cause truly stated g 1 Iohn 9.12 to 23. h Act. 13.22 i Sam. 24.3 to 20. c. 26.8.9 11 c. k 2 Sam. 4.10 11 12. l 1 Sam. 24.4 5. m Job 11.44 n Mat. 27.35 2 Sam. 18.3 * 2 Chron. 13.20 o Ezech. 21.27 p Isay 10.5.7 Ier. 25.9 c. q Isay 10.6 c. 7 18 19. r Lu. 13.25 to 30. s 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Gal. 15.20.21 5.5 Ps. 15.1.23 4 5. t Mat. 26.47 67 68 c. 27. to 38.66 c 28.11 to 16. John 19.23 24.32.34 t Mat. 26.47 67 68 c. 27. to 38.66 c 28.11 to 16. John 19.23 24.32.34 u 1 Chron. 22.8 c. 28.3 x Heb. 7.2 Isaiah 9.6 1 Pet. 4.9 y Rom. 10 15. Eph. 6.16 c. â— 17 z 2 Cor. 5.20 c. 14.32 Eph. 2.17 a Rom. 14.17 b Isay 59.7 8. 2 Chron. 15.5 6. Ier. 4.10 19 20. c. 8. 15 16. c Mat. 10.9.10 Lu. 9 3. c. 22.35 Maâ— 6 8 9. d Gen. 32.10 Exod. 12.11 c. 21.19 2 Kings 4.29 * See Knolts Turkish History Pauli Orosii Historia The History of the Albigenses * See Mr. Edwards Gangraenaes e Relatio de stratagematis Sophismatis Iesuitarum c. 4. f Lud. Lucius Hist. Iesuit l. 1. c. 7. p. 156. Cornelius Cornelii Epist Com. in Minores Prophetas And his Epistle to his Historical and Legal Vindication c. h Mat. 16.24 Mar. 10.21 Lu. 9.23 c. 14.27 i Mat. 19.21 22. * Psal. 95.8 10 11. * Isay 59.8 Nota. d Lu. 6.22 e 1 Cor. 4.8 f Dan. 2.47 Col 1.16 17. c. 2.10 1 Tim. 6.15 16. Rev. 17.14 c. 19.18 Eph. 1 21. Bp. Vshers â—ccles Brit. â—ntiq c. 3 4 â— 6 7.8 Spelâ—anni Concil â—om 1. Eâ—â—st Ded. to Fox Acts â—on in H. 8.6 Qu. Eliz. their Staâ—es to this â—pose â—almsb de â—stis Regum c. 13. Mat. â—stm Anno 5. Polyâ—on l. 6. c. 18 â— Dunelm 136. â—mton col 955. A elâ—â—s de Vita â—irac Edw. â—fess 〈◊〉 9.19 r. 10.22 * 2 Kings 17.20 21 22 23. * 1 Tim. 6.15 Dan. 2.21 c. 4.25 35 c. * 2 Sam. 7.12 1 Kings 11 36. 2 King 8.19 Psal. 132.11 12 13 14. * See Bishop Vshers Annal. vet Teâ—t p. 132. * 2 Chron. 23.2 Kings 11. ‖ 2 Chron. 24 25 26. c. 25.1 2 3 4. 2 Kings 14. to 7. * 2 Chron. 33.20 21 22 23 24 25. 2 Kings 19 to 26. g 9 E. 2. c. 8. Mar. ses 2. c. 7 H. 7. c. 1. h Aristot. Pc lit l. 3. c. 12. l. 4. c. 2 I Case Sphaera Civitatis l. 3. c. 5. â— 238. l. 4. c. 3. â— 324. * Worthy seâ—ious particuâ—ar perusal ‖ Prov. 19.10 c. 30.21 22. Eccl. 10.5 6.7 a Dion Cassius Dionys. Halicar Polybius Livy Justin Eutropius Godwins Roman Antiquities Bodins Common-wealth (b) Aelian Var. Historia l. 5. c. 53. c Grotius de Jure Belli l. 3. c. 15. p. 537. d See my Speech p. 102 103 104. e Psal. 11.3 ‖ Ibid. p. 10 11. Nota. ‖ See here p. p. 43 46 62 63. ‖ See my Epistle to a Seasonable Vindication c. Edit 2. 1655. My Quakers Unmasked A New Discovery of Romish Emissaries 1656. The Plots of the Jesuites printed 1653. And the Jesuits undermining of parliaments and Protestants By William Castle 1642. ‖ Printed in my Hidden Works of Darkness c. Mr. Rushworths Historical Collections p. 41. to 44.128 129 185. to 190 140 141 510 568. Exact Collection p. 5. to 20. ‖ Romes Masterpiece p. 14 15. ‖ Ludovicus Lucius Hist. Jesuit l. 3. c. 2. p. 271 294 374. l. 3. c. 2. p. 607 609 610 611 614 639 671 673 c. Hospinian Hist. Jesuit l. 3. 4. speculum Jesuiticum ‖ See Lucas Osiander contra Anabaptistas ‖ Prov. 24.21 1 Pet. 2.17 ‖ Exact Collection P. 17. a Iud. 18.7.27 b Mat. 16.25 c Prov. 29.25 Isay 8.12 13. c. 7.4 c. 41.14 c. 44.8 Mat. 10.28 d Isay 13.6 7.8 c. 27.11 c. 24.17 Iudg. 20.41 42 Is. 3 4. Ier. 48.43 44. c. 49.24 29. Lam. 3.47 Ezech. 30.13 14. e Collect. of Ordinances P. 420 to 427. e Mat. 21.25 f Exact Collection and a Collection of them The Good Old Cause truly stated g See the Letany Collects for the King Queen and Royal Issue Canons 1605. Can. 54. h Tertulliani Apolog Euseb de Vita Constantini l. 4. c. 19 20. Cassiador Hist. Tripartita l. 5. c. 22. Athanatius Apologia ad Constantinum Imp. Sozomen Eccles. Hist. l. â— c. 18. l. 4. c. 13. Surius Concil Tom. 1. p. 617. Tom. 2. p. 670 737 738 739 740 762 853 869 871.875 887 891 925 926 1022 10â—4 1039. Tom. 3. p. 8.238 Cl. 1 E. 1. d 17. Cl. 24 E. 1. d. 10. Cl. 34 E. 1. d. 9 16. Cl. 35 E. 1. d. 15. cl 9 R. 2. d. 11. cl 15 R. 2. d. 56. cl 16 R. 2. d. 11. cl R. 2. d. 35. * 2 Chron 10.6 to 18. See My New Discovery of Freâ— State Tyranny And Englands New Chainâ— * 2 28.2.3 â—2 to 36. k Psal. 20.8 l Chytraâ— Chron Saxonia l. 14. p 411 to 4â—4 m Munsters Cosmog l. 3. c. 142. Slâ—iâ—ian Commens l. 10 n Psal. 4. 8. Psal. 119 41 ‖ See Polybii Hist. lib. 6. p. 521 to 527.