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A56200	Sad and serious politicall considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Protestant brethren in Scotland, their late great overthrow, and the probable dangerous consequences thereof to both nations and the Prorestant [sic] religion which may serve as a satisfactory apology for such ministers and people, who out of conscience did not observe the publike thanksgiving against their covenant, for the great slaughter of those their brethren in covenant.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing P4058; ESTC R5356	63,285	75

all their former frustrated successelesse and almost hopelesse malicious designs against the Puritanicall and Religious party in both Kingdoms and the intended accomplishment of the Presbyterian Government and R●formation of Religion in them which they so much feared and opposed by open force of Arms and secret policies who will now indeavour to continue and heighten our open divisions first plotted by them till we have weakned and destroyed each other by our civill wars and made our selves fit to be suddainly surprised and destroyed by their party when we have consumed and undone each other Thirdly That in these respects the Successes great Victories and slaughters in this unnaturall and unchristian Warre against our Protestant Brethren in Covenant are no matter of publike joy thanksgiving and triumph to the Conquerours as some vainly conceive but of greatest publike lamentation Humiliation and mourning it being both unnaturall uncharitable and unchristian for Members of the same body of Christ and sworn Christian Brethren ingaged by Covenant and God himself to protect and love each other with a pure heart fervently to murther and destroy each other an argument of Gods heavy wrath against us● tending to our desolations as the sacred Tex●s and Presidents compared together will fully resolve the conscientious perusers of them Iudg. 21.1 to 18. 2 Sam. 1.12.17 18 c. 2 Sam. 2.12 to 29. to 3.30 c. 39. c. 4.8 9 10 11 12. c. 19.1 2 3 4. 2 Chron. 28.5 to 16. Ezek. 19.12.2.33.14 Ezek. 35.1 to the end Obad. 1. to the end Amos 1.9 10 11 12. Gen. 37.26 27. 1 Sam. 14.7.7 1 Kings 13.30 Psal. 35.14 Isay 9.19 20 11. c. 19.2.3 2 Chron. 15.5 6. Ier. 22.17 18. Ezek. 38. 21 22. Mich. 1.2 c. Zech. 7.9 to the end Mal. 2.10 Mat. 10.21 c. 1 Iohn 3.10 21 12. Exod. 2.11 12. Iudg. 9.5 to the end a sad story 1 Kings 12 14.15 2 Chron. 11.4 c. 21.4.12 13 14. c. Neh. 5.1 to 10. Iob 6.14 15. Prov. 6.16.19 Isay 66.5 Acts 7.26 Mat 12.25 Mar. 3.24 25 26. Gal. 5.14 15. Iam. 3.14 15 16 18 18. c. 4.1 9 10 11. Fourthly that the continuance of this unbrotherly Warre with Scotland will be the utter ruine of all the Presbyterian godly Party in that Nation● if God shall frown upon them and the utter subvertion of the Presbyterian Government there where the Prelaticall and Malignant party will soon get head and sway all to the strengthning and reviving of their numerous party in England or in case God give them after some overthrows a glorious Victory over the English Independent Forces as he did to the defeated Israelites over the Benj●mites Iudg. 20. it will certainly ruine all the Independent party in England who have so cheated and tyrannized over all sorts of men that they will never be able to make head again if once defeated and find all mens hearts and hands against them for their manifold extravagances and tyrannicall proceedings against all ranks and degrees of men subverting the whole frame of our civill and Ecclesiasticall Government And if the Presbyterian party in Scotland be much weakned and impoverished by the Victory and the Presbyteriall Ministers and Gentry of England discountenanced and thrust out of all power and reputation in the interim as they are through their cowardize and folly how far this may indanger and expose them to the Popish and Prelaticall parties power and malice hereafter is very considerable and how far their present Contributions though not voluntary without distresse or forcible coaction against their King and Brethren of Scotland and sitting still like idle neutrall Spectators without contributing the least visible assistance to either of them may be interpreted by their King and them to be a b●each of ●heir Nationall League and Covenant and of their Allegiance to their Soveraign in case they should prevail and restore the King to the Crown of England by their own Forces only without the English Presbyterians assistance to the indangering of their persons and Estates and the losse of all that favour and respect from either which their actuall conjunction with them might procure to the ruine of the Presbyterian as well as Independent party in England and setting up of the Popish and Prelaticall Malignant party in Supreme power and favour in this Realme is very considerable Fifthly that if the Scottish Presbyters and the Kings party in Scotland shall be both conquered by the English Independent Forces and unable to defend themselves or their King and to settle him in his Kingdoms then greater dangers are like to insue to our Religion and Kingdoms then otherwise in some wise mens judgments because the Independents as their present violent proceedings manifest wil probably use their Presbyterian Brethren in England no better then those in Scotland and extirpate them if they can and the King then will be necessitated to cast himself wholly upon the assistance of forraign States and Kings and their Forces as his last refuge which he hath hitherto declined as dangerous both to himself and his people If he in this extremity throw himself upon any Forraigners they must be either Papis●s only or Protestants alone or both of them joyntly If on Papists only which some think most probable First in regard of his Queen Mothers great interest in that party both in France and Italy being of that Religion Secondly in respect of the open differences and Wars already between us and France and Portugall two Popish Kingdoms which are like to continue and grow greater every d●y Thirdly in respect of that parties constancy and fidelity to the King and his Father Fourthly because that party is most powerfull and most likely to close with the King for the advantage of the Catholike cause and reducing of England to it's former obedience to the See of Rome so that without Gods infinite mercy it will necessi●ate him for a full compliance with them First to match into some great Popish Family upon the same and harder A●ticles then were inforced on his Fathes by Spain or France Secondly to alter his Religion and professe himself a Roman Catholike and obedient son to the Roman Pontife as King Henry the fourth of France did Thirdly to Covenant and ingage with them for an utter extirpation of the Protestant Religion and of all Independents and Presbyterians as not only Heretikes in Religion but Regicides Traytors Rebells Covenant breakers p●rjured persons who make no conscience of Oaths Vows Protestations Declarations and professed enemies to Monarchy who have murthered his Father banished his Mother disinherited him of three Crowns and indeavour to imbroil and subvert all Monarchies and Kingdoms in Christendome Fourthly to swear and ingage to set up and tolerate none but the Roman Religion in his Kingdoms when he shall be restored to them by their assistance and Forces Fifthly to promise satisfaction of the greatest part of their expences in this war out of the Puritans and Protestants estates who have

rebuild their Temple but God destroyeth them all by Lightnings and Pestilences Horrible Earthquakes cast up into the Air the foundations which had been buried in rubbish till then Therefore Daniels compute of the Temples finall ruine must but begin then there begin his two Numbers Chap. 12. ver 11 12. of 1290 and 1335 which in all must but make 1335 years which added to 363 make up and point to Anno Christi 1698 the joyfull Jubile of the Churches Deliverance from all Adversity Anno Mundi 4373 The first Trumpet blown Fire and hail war and bloudshed Anno Christi 426 cast into the troublesome Sea of the Roman-Western-Empire by Valentinian and the succeeding Emperours untill the end of the Western-Empire The savage Inundations of Goths Huns Vandals and Bulgarians into Italy Revel 8.7 Anno Mundi 4553 The second Trumpet blown Boniface that Mountain of fiery Anno Christi 606 Combustions obtaineth of Phocas the Popish Supremacy Hence wars betwixt the Emperours and Popes Revel 8.8 9. Anno Mundi 4613 The third Trumpet blown The Romish Bishop the great Anno Christi 666 Star of the Western Christian Clergy falleth from the Heaven of Truth and Godlinesse and of a vigilant Pastour becomes a ravenous Robber of the Church and the gifts thereof Revel 8.10 11. Anno Mundi 4946 The fourth Trumpet blown The Pope fallen from Piety Anno Christi 999 and his Clergy from the Pulpits Christ the Sun of righteousness with his Merits the Church the Moon and the Ministers the Stars thereof are eclipsed and vilified by Sylvester II Revel 8.12 13. Anno Mundi 5018 Satan loosed out of prison beginneth to rage by Gregory VII Anno Christi 1071 against the Gospel of Christ Revel 20.4 Anno Mundi 5140 The fifth Trumpet blown The Vicar of Christ with his Anno Christi 1195 Keyes openeth hel's mouth to let out his Cloister-fiends and satanical Locusts to overspread the Earth of Christendome described by Iohn most graphically Revel 9.9 to 13. Anno Mundi 5245 The sixth Trumpet blown The Ottoman Empire ariseth invadeth Anno Christi 1300 first the Eastern-Empire of Constantinople and winneth it then flieth upon the Germane Emperour with barbarous millions of invincible Armies Revel 9.13 to the end The saying Revel 9.15 of the Turks preparation for a day a moneth and a year beginneth now Which Number allegorically taken maketh 398 years which added to A. 1300 the year of the original of the Turkish Empire sheweth that A. 1698. shall be the final down●al of the same Anno Mundi 5462 The last Trumpet is blown The Thrones Principalities and Anno Christi 1517 Dominions in Heaven rejoyce that God would now at length take his Churches Cause in hand and raise up Luther and other Sons of Thunder to vindicate the quarrel thereof against the Romish Antichrist to the ruine of his Kingdom Revel 11. from ver 15. to the end By eating of the Book Chap. 10. Measuring the Temple and slaying the Witnesses Chap. 11. is understood the Reformation by Luther and downfall of the Papacy under Charles the fifth Anno Mundi 5504 The first Vial poured out England Scotland and Ireland by Anno Christi 1559 the Reign of Queen Elizabeth renounce the Papacy which generates the ulcers of spight and malice in the Romish Church against England Revel 16.2 Anno Mundi 5518 The second Vial poured out Martin Chemnitius and others pronounce Anno Christi 1572 the vengeance of God against the mortiferous Sea of the Councel of Trent Revel 18.3 Anno Mundi 5528 The third Vial poured out The stinking Waters of the Papacy Anno Christi 1583 are infected with bloud in murthering of the Popes and Romanists in Rome the slaughters of the Spaniards in the Low-Countreys and the Discomfiture of the Spanish-Armado in Anno 1588. Revel 16.5 6 7. Anno Mundi 5540 The fourth Vial poured out The Protestant Champions Pareus Anno Christi 1605 Polanus Whitakers Perkins Andrews King Iames and others pour light upon the Sunne of the Gospel in writing against Bellarmine Stapleton Campian and other Papists Revel 16.8 9. Anno Mundi 5565 The fifth Vial is now pouring out The Swedes in Germany Anno Christi 1630 An. 1632. The English in England 1640 combine against the Papists Jesuites proscribed in Poland and Swethland Anno 1648. This Vial shall end in the ruine of Rome Anno 1666. Revel 16.10 11. Anno Mundi 5594 The sixth Vial beginneth to be poured out Three barbarous Anno Christi 1659 Nations sack Hydruntum in Apulia made enrodes into the Eastern Coasts of Italy and sack them with fire and sword Factions and Massacres in Rome and Tuskany The Pope contemned and invaded The Western Christians make an Army and fire Rome in the 2419 year after Romulus laid the foundation thereof as Sibylla prophesied Oracul lib. 4. Revel 16. from ver 12. to 17. Anno Mundi 5595 The faithfull and true Warriour riding upon a white Horse Anno Christi 1660 descendeth from heaven with his Souldiers riding upon white horses to fight against the enemies of his Church The Angel in the Sun calleth to all the fowles of heaven to come to the feast of God to eat the flesh of Kings Captains mighty Men and horses Rev. 19.11 17 18. And I saw the beast and the Kings of the earth and the Warriours gathered together to warre against him that sate on the horse and against his Souldiers But the beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that worketh miracles before him whereby he deceived them that have received the beasts mark and them that worship his image These two were cast alive into the lake burning with fire and brimstone c. Ibid. 19 20. Anno Mundi 5601 Vrbs antiqua ruit multos dominata per annos Anno Christi 1666 Destruiturque armis gens scelerata suis. Go out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins nor receive of her plagues Forasmuch O Rome as thou glorifiedst thy self and livedst in pleasure saying I sit a Queen am no widdow and shall see no sorrow therefore shall thy plagues come upon thee in one day death sorrow and famine and thou shalt be burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God that judgeth thee The Kings of the earth shall bewail thee and thou shalt never more be inhabited the light of a candle shall shine no more in thee and the voice of the Bridegroom and of the Bride shall be heard no more in thee Rejoyce O heavens for righteous are Gods judgements He hath condemned the great Whore Then they sung Hallelujah and her smoak arose up for evermore Rev. 18.7 8 20. 19.3 Anno Mundi 5614 Rome being destroyed Jews dwell amongst Protestants and begin Anno Christi 1679 to search into the Scriptures and learn the waies of God Anno Mundi 5618 A g●eat Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in Leo. The Jews Anno Christi 1684 converted in the West prepare to unite with their Brethren