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A30774	A letter from Mercvrivs Civicvs to Mercurius Rusticus, or, Londons confession but not repentance shewing that the beginning and the obstinate pursuance of this accursed horrid rebellion is principally to be ascribed to that rebellious city.	Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1643 (1643)	Wing B6324; ESTC R5573	26,143	35

their maintenance by Ecclesiasticall censure To this purpose they attempt the buying a Commis●aries place there where they intended to make any speciall plantation who being after their own hearts might winke at their irregularities and though the Church-wardens should by chance be so honest to regard their oathes and present them yet by the purchased or bribed Commissary they may secure them from the danger of the Court Lastly for feare least any of their Creatures should fall from them and desert the Cause as some had done when they had got what they looked for wisely they provide that their maintenance shall be dependent on the pleasure of their good Masters the Feoffees alterable by addition or substraction according to their merits or demerits and their persons subject to be Casheered if they Preach not to the advancement of their holy cause and according to the directions sent unto them from the Conclave of their Elders at London That so as much as humane Policy could invent they might to use Mr Foxlies own words speaking in this argument Establish the Gospel by a perpetuall decree When all things were now ready their Emissaries having prepared the hearts of the people to Rebellion first alienating them by frequent slandering the footsteps of Gods annoynted decrying the Government both of Church and State fomenting the causelesse discontents and aggravating the necessities of State with the odious names of Tyranny Arbitrary power Violation of the Subjects Liberty and Property and likewise possessed the credulous multitude that the conformeable Clergy had made a Revolt from the Protestant Religion and had an earnest intention to introduce Popery at last was fulfilled that Prophecy of Iudicious M. Hooker toward the end of the Preface to that incomparable work of Ecclesiasticall Policy that after the Puritans have first resolved that attempts for Discipline are lawfull it will follow in the next place to be disputed what may be attempted against Superiors who will not have the Scepter of that discipline to rule over them Which Prophecy we see exactly fulfilled in our dayes for the Puritans having first rebelled by a Proxey they then thought it seasonable to take an essay what an entertainment the doctrine for taking up Armes against the King would find amongst their Disciples To this purpose Doctor Downing a man fitted for any base imployment and one that what ever he counterfeited ever looked awry on the Church in which being setled and in peace he could never hope to advance farther then Vicar of Hack●ney was to feele the Pulse of the Citty while therefore discontents runne high in the North the Scots having in a hostile manner entered the Kingdome the People every where especially in London stirr'd up by some agents to Petition the King for this Parliament D. Downing Preaching to the Brotherhood of the Artilery Garden positively affirmed that for defence of Religion and Reformation of the Church it was lawfull to take up armes against the King He having thus Kindled the fire in the City for feare of being questioned for as yet it was not lawfull to Preach Treason retired privately to the Earle of Warwicks house in Essex the common Randevouz of all Schysmaticall Preachers this Sermon in every place administring matter of discourse People censured it as they stood affected which gave occasion to the Ringleaders of this faction to enter upon a serious examination and study of this case of Conscience and it seems consulting the Iesuites on the one side and the Rigid Puritans on the other or indeed because without admitting this doctrine all their former endeavours would vanish into smoak they stood doubtfull no longer but closed with these two contrary Factions yet shaking hands in this poynt of Rebellion and subscribed to D. Downings doctrine as an Evangelicall truth And that in this I may not be thought to speak as if I were a Parliament intelligencer still for the truth of this I appeale to M. Stephen Marshall himselfe who being pressed by M. Simons that her●of●re he was of another opinion ingenuously confessed it but withall affirmed that on D. Downings Sermon having a hint given them the Brethren did enter upon an examination of the Doctrine and upon examination found it tru● T●ough the truth is they whispered this doctrine long before in their Conventicles but never durst proclaime it in their Pulpits before they saw an army in the bowells of the Kingdom to make it good by the sword and a Faction in a Parliament comeing on that would Authorize Rebellion under this pretence by their Votes and Ordinances After it was once owned as a Truth and a Truth first scann'd and then avowed by Marshall Calamy Downing and Colonell Cornelius Burges and the rest of their Elders That for the cause of Religion it was lawfull for the Subject to take up Armes against his Lawfull Soveraigne good God! how violently did the People of London rush into Rebellion how plyable did the Faction in Parliament find them to raise Tumults make outcries for justice call for innocent blood subscribe and preferre Petitions against the holy Lyturgy and the Hierarchy Root and branch if Doctor Burges did but hold up his finger to his Mermidons or Captain Ven send his summons by his Wife to assemble the Zelots of the City But because all other attempts had been to little purpose while the power of the sword remained in His hands into which God had put it the Heads of this Rebellion consider that it was more seazable by secret practises to render the King unable to withstand them then for them openly to oppose the King therefore their main indeavour is to wrest the power of the Militia out of the Kings hands by degrees and to put it there where they might place the greatest confidence But this was a work not easily effected great Changes could not be ushered in but by great preparations to make it way for them hereupon the Faction in Parliament make it their first work to make this City wholly theirs that one soule as it were might animate both representive bodies That of the Kingdome and this of the City knowing that it was in vaine for the Faction in Parliament to contrive unlesse the Faction in the Common-Councellin London would execute for though there were some flourishes made from Buckingham-shire in the behalfe of M. Hampden and from Leicester-shire in the behalfe of Sir Arther Hasterigge and the like yet the standing Guard and power of the Faction in Parliament on which they relied to affront the King and save themselves from the justice of the Laws was that fixed here in London And because where feare doth possesse the multitude it makes them work not like agents but like instruments and moulds them to a Temper fit to receive impressions from those in whose wisdoms or Loves they repose themselves making them plia●le to all directions and Counsells which shall be given by them whom they esteeme Patriots of the Common-wealth and Assertors of