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A28915	The mysterie of iniqvity yet working in the kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the destruction of religion truly Protestant discovered, as by other grounds apparant and probable, so especially by the late cessation in Ireland, no way so likely to be ballanced, as by a firme union of England and Scotland, in the late solemne covenant, and a religious pursuance of it.	Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3877; ESTC R211746	35,663	51

the apprehensions of this cannot but shake their Prerogative faith and make them appreh●…nd them●…elves in more danger from their confederates then t●…eir supposed 〈◊〉 I●… this labour to them be lost I am sorry but g●…ad it was ●…o more 〈◊〉 me ●…peak to them who are counsellable that is ●…hose who in the trut●… a●…d uprightnes●…e o●… their Hearts have ●…ntred into this 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 engaged 〈◊〉 to the pres●…rvation o●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…nd Libe●…ty such must labour ●…or sted●… in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lest out medicin●… prove our poyson Let none of us go about to deceive our selves with unprofitable Treaties or hopes of a yet impossible Accommodation but cheerfully and faithfully accomplish a speedie and firm Union with the Councels and strength of Scotland which will encourage not onely religious but wise men to joyn with us it being beyond a reasonable expectation that by our own strength or wisdom we should extricate our selves from this growing calamity in which we are daily more and more involved It now becomes every man to wind up his thoughts to a Christian resolution befitting the present necessities and Condition of the Church of God and walk worthy of it and let the Lord do what seemeth good unto him I might now make my self a great deal of more work and create some trouble to my Reader if I should after this satisfaction I have given to my own heart and the friends of this Cause of Religion go about to satisfie the world and answer their severall quarrels with this undertaking but I will be more mercifull to the Reader and more just to my self then to accuse my self by excuses Onely I will give you a taste of that which I am like to have plenty The first Question will be Who is this I answer it matters not who but what The next is a position Sure he was a mad-man thus to provoke Maiesty it self did he ever learn that verse in Homer {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Yes but he hath and that in Iob too In such a cause as this let me not I pray you accept any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man I hope to see the day when I shall be accounted a better subject to the King then he that accuses me In the meane time I am satisfied with being a good subject to the Kingdom no Traitor to the Church If I have incurred any danger it is to shew thee thine if a good Protestant But there need not have been so much bitternesse used which often disadvantages a good Cause It is the language of the times and not mine A filthy ulcer must have a sharpe lance the massacre of Ireland is a bitter cup Quis temperet invectivis Here are many things produced in this Treatise that are but slender proofs Then take them altogether Altogether are but a rap●…idy scraped up out of the Parliament Declarations and such scandalous pamphlets as Plain English and the English Pope Truth is a common inheritance and now so scarse that I was glad to take it where I could find it Tush I can tell mrre of these affairs then this Discoverer Then tell them or tell me and I will But Mercurius Aulicus will be sure to meet with you This is no time to be afraid of Court Bull Beggers but if he meet with me he must go out of his way I tell truth he tels lies But I have now done and it may be done that which hath provoked almost every body but my own conscience which witnesses with me that I have not written any willing or negligent falshood nor to my best understanding any unseasonable or unnecessary truth There is no man but will stand in need of some charity I shall find it from them that have it from those that have it not I will not expect it There are other Mysteries in this world of Iniquitie carried on by them who under the pretence of Service do the greatest dis-service and dishonour to the Cause of Religion and Liberty which must either be amended or not concealed let other men do their share as I have done mine and the world will certainly be either honester or wiser This Discourse cannot be better concluded then with that which is the earnest and constant request of the Author to the Lord God of Hosts the God of Israel that seeing wisdom and might are his he would vouchsafe wisdom to the Councellors courage and constancy to the Souldiers willingnesse to the people and faithfulnes to all those that have or shall engage themselves in this great Cause so infinitely valuable beyond the estates and lives of all that undertake it To him be glory and peace upon Israel FINIS Imprimatur hic Liber Decemb. 12. 164●… IOHN VVHITE O du●…um a Pu●…itan in another copy * This discovery was p●…nned upon the sight of the na●…ed Cessation as it came from ●…reland before the short cove●…ing of the Grounds and Motives c. which are not so considerable ●…s to occasion ●…ny alteration unlesse of the ●…ord pretended

Cause of so great consequence as the imminent danger of the Protestant Religion as to examine some of his Actions and see whether they have been more suitable to the Commission o●… Proclamation The Proclamation it selfe though in its nature opposite yee in its time and circumstances was too suitable to the Commission being deferred from the latter end of October to the first of January and then so sparingly printed so warily published as if it had been under the controll of some former Act whose leave must first be craved But his Majesty hath reason to expresse violence against these his Catholike Subjects or to chastise them at least for they went beyond this Commission though supposed reall that gave but a Yard they took an Ell though they were allowed to sei●…e the goods estates and persons of his Majesties Protestant Subjects yet they were not allowed to cut their throats unle●…le the private Letters concomitant can help out at such a pinch and their very transgression in this matter might justly occasion and provoke the title of mercilesse wicked Rebels But to return to Actions the best Commentaries upon words it is to be feared they will be found more agreeable to the Commission then the Proclamation as may be discerned in the unanswered Remonstrance of the rise and progresse of the Grand Rebellion in Ireland For instance What shall indifferent men think of his Majesties withdrawing himself from his Parliament declared by the then reall though now pretended Parliament to be a great obstruction to the prosperity of the Irish undertakings Of his raising war against his Subjects here the greatest service that could be done to the pretended rebels there being a diversion of that strength and a distraction of those Counsels that should have suppressed them Of his granting passes for notorious Papists as Butler the sons of the ●…ord Nettersfield and others to go thither for which see the Declaration of Parliament March 16. 1641. and if you will the Answ March 19. The stopping of provisions going to the supply of the Army against them taking away the horses prepared by the E. of Leicester for that service as appears by his complaint in a printed letter to the Earl of Northumberlana Of the free accesse of those that have been active in that Design to his Majesties camp and Court Of his putting in demu●…res to the Bill of pressing souldiers and deniall to the sending ships for that service It must not be denied that his Majesty was earnest in pressing care of that businesse of Ireland upon the Houses and passed some things to the advantage of it and in a message of the 8. of April 1642. spared not to offer his going in person to chastise those wicked and detestable Rebels with the renouncing of all other Ends but if his Majesty had continued in that angry minde hee might with ease have chastised them when they came over to him as they have done ●…ince plentifully I wish I had many more such actions to repeat But it must be considered there was a Proclamation that required some countenance and could not well have lesse then it had but I forestall no mans judgement but leave the impartiall reader to the weighing what hath been said and what hath been produced upon Oath in the Declaration of the Commons Iuly 25. 1643. And if the ballance be equall I shall only cast in some scruples of the late Cessation which unlesse the beame be false will make the Commission weigh down the Proclamation 1. First the scruple of c. in the nomination of the parties in this Treaty Is his Majesties Title of Defender of the Faith come to an intricate c. Y●…s and good reason for the other party with whom his 〈◊〉 treats upon equ●…ll terms are content with an c. and are called His Romane Catholique Subjects now in armes c. whereas it should have b●…en added according to the Acts of K●…lkenny for the Exaltation of the Holy Roman Catholique Church 2. The scruple of their sudden transformation from monstrous mercilesse Rebells into Subjects conj●…yned with other his Majesties good Subjects What shall the 〈◊〉 of Scotland thinke of this who hardly obtained the l●…ke retractation when they defended the P●…orestant Religion or the Parliament of England and their Adherents who cannot yet finde that favour But yet Mopso Nisa datur quid non speremus c. His Majesty sure had thoughts of this dishonourable recancation when hee was so loth to publish the Proclamation against them 3. The third scruple is ●…ersecute for that is the word in the Irish coppy not pros●…cute A license granted to 〈◊〉 ●…ure the Bishops had a finger in this Article and that Persecuted Protestants should expect no protection from his Majesty nor any of his forces against the Parsecution of the Papists but rather have occasion to feare the joyning of the forces the King shall have interest in in the Pers●…cution as is desired by the Catholiques to whom no such trifle must be denied is to me a sad story 4. The fourth scruple that these Catholique Subjects shall have liberty to send such Agents to his Majesty as th●…y shall thinke fit from time to time Priests and Iesuites not excepted If the Scales be not yet turned take the whole Cessation and the thirty thousand eight hundred pound and that will 〈◊〉 weigh it downe to the ground But I have much 〈◊〉 leave the contemplation of this Cessation Let us take a second view 1. Of the time wh●…n it was granted mo●…t seasonably when the P●…pish party was driven to great Extremities for want of victual ●…nd had b●…en in greater had nor the Forces raised and 〈◊〉 by the Parliament b●…en seduc●…d into a disaff●…ction to their service 2. O●… the Grounds all Acts of importance that are to passe the eye and censure of the world use to come armed against a●…l Exceptions with a preamble shewing the ground and necessity of them How comes it to be here ●…mitted that we have neither real nor * pretended causes and considerations but a down-right Ces●…ation or rather Accommodation as Souldiers judge it Was it such broad●●ced iniquity that no mask neit●…er in Oxford nor Dublin would fit it Was it neither for the preservation of the Protestant Religion nor affection to the ancient and native ●…ingdom of Scotland nor for the reconciling of the Distractions of the Kingdome of England Since those dull contrivers could f●…nde no matter for a foundation give us leave to ●…upply Seing the Catholike cause which the King of England is induced to serve either nakedly or cloathed with this pret●…rce o●… upholding his Powe●… and Prerogative which is suggested to be invaded and endangered by the Puritans there is now very much concer●…ed in the due ordering of the affaires of Great Brittain a●…d Ireland And whereas the Irish Catholikes have given so good t●…stimony of their approved zeal and cruelty in massacring near two hundred thousand Hereticks

and the fruit of their doing It is said the Archbishop of York if he have not too much or too little Grace can tell you more of this businesse Let our trembling pen passe on to His now Majesties reign and here doubtlesse some Apologie is expected but I hope to say nothing that needs it I shall endeavour to avoid known falshoods or unseasonable truths An earnest affection to the Preservation and Reformation of the Church of God hath put me upon this disquisition and the desire of preserving good men from a snare which shall be in vain spread in the sight of any bird hath prevailed with me for the discovery of my thoughts It is in service to that Cause which I desire not to over-live the welfare of And therefore without any more complement Let us begin to search out the Pla●…formes Groundworks Materials Instruments of this great service for recovery of Britain to Babylon In the beginning of His Majesties reign the Popish Faction having in Spain and otherwise obtained testimonies of His disposition a strange wi●…e is prepared for him which according to Scripture truth is a dangerous preparative for a strange god Surely they will turn away your heart after their gods 1 Kings 11. 2. Upon this marriage is the Court sufficiently loose and luxurious enough at all times dissolved into Riots and Masquings and in the midst of that noise were our Counsells and Enterprises most perfidiously mis-laid and betrayed as those of Ree and Cales and especially that of Rochell which as if no sleighter a Complement could be thought of for the fair Lady received from France must by English hands and Popish Councels be betrayed in its Religion and Liberty Thus is our guilt increased and our strength diminished and lest the Remainder of it should be imployed according to the Interests of our Religion and Nation a peace with Spain is concluded the Palatinate left to that which leaves it yet miserable and is hastening us after it a Course of treating with them who carry destruction and misery in their paths but the way of peace they have not known These things have been long known but little considered and it stands well enough with my intent and purpose to repeat things mentioned by others because I aym at shewing the dependance of the Jesuiticall proceedings one upon another and all upon the main end of subverting Religion and Liberty After these parts so well plaid abroad Let us consider how the design was carried on among our selves from the fourth yeer of His Maj●…sties reign And here as good workmen use to do They forecast the manner and provide the Instruments of their work It must be done either by force o●… fraud the first is disapproved probably upon these reasons 1. The King could not be supposed to yeeld to an invasion of His own Kingdom and it was pitie to betray so hopefull a Prince 2. It was more full of hazard as subject to the Accidents of warre as also that a violent attempt would probably joyn the Prot●…stant and Puritan against the Papist whereas a fraudulent graduall proceeding might possibly unite the Papist and Indifferent Protestant against the Puritan which they have now accomplished The latter way is resolved upon and Instruments accordingly fitted which are certainly the most considerable requisites in any work And because it was of very great concernment That the King should be brought to favour and further these Popish proceedings and preparations He must be ingaged either upon religious or politike considerations to promote this Reconciliation with Rome Not to dispute how farre He was prevailed with in matters of Religion if not for an absolute alteration yet an Accommodation or whether the ultimate End and full Design were discovered to Him or rather He made to prosecute it under another Notion This is certain That He manifestly favoured those Courses that made way for Popery and Tyranny and it is to be conceived rather with respect to power and profit which were alwayes observed to be His Majesties well consistent Interests then to the Popish or any other Religion which is evidenced by that passage that fell from His Majesty observed by the Venetian that wrote the Narrative called the Popes Nuntio sc. That His Majesty could at that time reconcile Himself to Rome with much advantage And when it was discerned that the Interest of absolute Rule with its advantages was so firmely setled in His Majesty and that He was subject to be violent in the prosecution of it and not likely to stumble at small blocks which they might well ghesse by the dissolution of Parliaments billeting Souldiers the design of the German●… horse c. They cherish him in it and set France with its broken Parliaments and full power as an Object of Emulation before him as finding the Interests of Popery and Tyranny very well to agree Now therefore is His Majesty perswaded that His Crown and the Popes Chair have common Friends and common Enemies Parliaments and Puritans are their Enemies Prelacy and Prophanenesse their Friends Let us see how things were carried with respect to them all First For Parliaments which the Popish Party knew to be very good advantages in their constitution to the preservation and reformation of the Protestant Religion they represent them to his Majesty as most disadvantagious to his desired power and profit These were onely times of recompence for wrong of petitions for right Controllers of Prerogative Assertors of popular Liberty and therefore are they dissolved disgraced by scandalous Declarations publikely aspersed both from the Presse an●… Pulpit as by Doctor Alablaster Beale Manwaring and others of that stamp And that there might be no occasion of drawing supplies of money that way which had so many other Inconveniences attending it severall exquisite Engines of iniquity and oppression were found out by Weston Noy and others as Loans Patents Ship-money c. And thus for twelve years or thereabouts were Parliaments intermitted and the hopes if not remembrance of them almost worn out Then for Puritanes men cordially Protestant and zealous of their own Religion which no where but among us is a fault because they were tenacious of just Liberty and true Religion how studiously and spightfully are they disgraced as men of Antimonarchicall Principles factious spirits ranked with Iesuites who were yet better used as the Incendiaries of Churches and States For the suppressing these men the authority of the High Commission Star-chamber Bishops Courts and the ordinary Courts of Justice through the corruption of Judges and other inferiour Officers were made very serviceable and that they might have no shelter neerer then New-England most of the faithfull Ministers and religious Justices were for some pretence or other discountenanced displaced and it was grown to that passe that he that departed from evill made himself a prey For the rooting out of Ministers whose onely fault was painfulnesse in their places severall artifices were used And because there were