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Bloody Babylon discoverd
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[Londinatus, Christianus].
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together against the reall Protestants who onely maintain truths fundamentall against Jesuiticall Heretical and Schismatical tenents witnesse the new-coined distinction of these Jesuitized factious persons between the Kings Vertuall and Personall power To this purpose how have they bawled out their pretences of fighting for the Kings personall defence yet brought Armies to fight against his Person an Argument left onely to be maintain'd by the cruell yet silly non-distinguishing Bullet or others as irrationall as it How often have they in their Pamphlets declared that they onely took up Armes against his Majestie 's evill Councell when as they could produce no witnesse nor example of any Counsell that was evill unlesse it were ill for a man to be Rationall a Christian or a Loyall Subject How have they Notwithstanding their Declarations of making him a most Glorious King excelling all his Royall Predecessours First Collect Ord. Par. F. 21. Protesting to maintain his Honour Crown and Dignity yet baited him with Propositions altogether destructive to his Honour and Power as a King 19. Prop. the end of their taking up of Armes appearing nothing lesse then the end of their pretences Unlesse they intended thereby as indeed some of them have done to make him a Glorious Saint in Heaven And all this nay more than this acted not by heathens who knew no better nor by profess'd Papists whose rebelliously-religious Principles teach no better but by Pretending-Protestants O let not this be told in Gath nor published in the streets of Askelon lest the Daughters of the Philistines rejoyce and the Daughters of the uncircumcised triumph How have they rattled out Resolves to maintain the established Lawes vid. Collect Ord. Parl. especially that part thereof which concerneth the liberty of the Subject View all their Declarations not one but speaketh somewhat to that pretended purpose Neverthelesse how have they in the beginning and progression of their designe trod down all appearance of Law Witnesse their unjust imprisonments Sequestrations Taxes and Excise and many more illegall squeezing Engins Contracting the liberty of each particular subject by a written Law his owne Right into the narrow Compasse of some few mens unwritten Lawlesse Wills nay Is not the Liberties of Nineteen Parts of the People of Great Brittain swallowed up by an One twentieth who revell it in Libertinism upon the Ruines of their liberties and the unjust possession of the Estates Handling * Englands liberties Confirmed Magna Charta so absurdly in their furious and hot declarations that like Parchment against the fire it is now shrunck up almost to a Non-appearance How have some men of all degrees actively contributed their assistance in Men Money and Plate upon invitations literally different from the ends of these Eradicating Conspiratours although I must acquaint them upon no reall grounds of Reason Religion or Law but my Charity telleth me they were abused by such specious pretences into such ill actions Witnesse that Ordinance of the 12th January 1641. whereby Skippon was made Serjeant Major Generall of London who commanded the imployment of the Trained Bands for the reall they are the words of that Ordinance good Service of his Majesty the Parliament and City according to his Duty Protestation and Lawes of the Land Fine words truly in appearance but deeds lurking under as black as hell Witnesse the progressive and Conclusive part of their ugly Designe Again 19. Prop. Coll. Ord. Parl. pag. 173. in their Declaration of the 5th of May 1642 concerning the Militia all mens obedience is invited to the Execution of their Commands according to the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome as they tender saith that Ordinance the upholding of the True Protestant Religion The safety of his Majestie 's Person And his Royall Posterity with the Peace of the Kingdome Alas what fundamentall lawes do they mean Aiery lawes surely whose existence is no where to be found but in their meer verball asseverations and that also in a reall opposition to those Lawes whose Established foundation as Lawes indeed should plainly appear to every Loyall Subject's Obedientiall eye True Protestant religion saith the Ordinance But more truly Erroneous Protestant religion falsly by them styled True whose practicall principles overthrow the principles of all religious truth and fight against the practicall piety of the true Protestant Religion Established and the practice of all the primitive Christians and truly-Christian * Mr. John Bradford advised all to be obedient to the Queen and by no means to resist vid. Book Martyr fol. 1491. 1477. Martyrs Safety of his Majesties Person and Royall issue Dangerous safety of their Royall Persons whose security must depend on the sure rock of Certain danger opposing Armies under pretence of their preservation with ready-drawn Swords and surely-destroying bullets endeavouring their absolute ruine O strange Paper-protection vaine and weak from a pretended hazard of being untimely deprived of life thus to expose them to a reall danger of an unnaturall Death Peace Stranger peace whose fruits must be a bloody war Ord. and its effects nothing but murder perjury sacriledge oppression tyranny and indeed a generall poverty Kingdom A dumb Kingdom without a speaking King Ord. or rather to expound their then intended monstrous sense mysticall onely to the common people a deformed Anarchy in place of an unparalle'd Reformed Monarchy But O Lord of Hosts that judgest righteously Jer. 11.20 and tryest the reins and the heart grant them suddain repentance or let thy servants see thy vengeance on all such obstinately persisting sinners for unto Thee I have and shall open Great Brittain's cause Consider Isaiah 29.13 O Father how these people seem to come near to thee the God of truth with their mouth and to honour thee with their lips but their hearts are far from thee Again In the Propositions and Orders of the Two Houses for as yet the * Presb. Indep Factions like Simeon and Levi remained united in the bonds of iniquity for bringing in of Plate and Mony to maintain Horse Horsemen and Arms c. you were all promised you I mean the contributers upon such quaintly-deceiving invitations that your mony so brought in shall onely be employ'd to maintain the Protestant Religion the King's authority and his person in his royall dignity A free course of Justice Collect Ore Parl. fol. 343. June 1642. the Laws of the Land and the Peace of the Kingdom when as in the prosecution of their Rooting designe the irreligiously religious Turk and Pagans by their actions may rather claim them as adherents to their Principles nay the Jesuite embrace them as his dearest dear obedientiall darlings than the Protestant Church of England own them as her children The Kings Authority and Person after a retrograde manner by them maintained their Ordinances Declarations Oaths and actions speaking a denyall of their obedience to the one and but a verball protection onely of the other themselves not then so
continue adherents to those first begun erroneous Principles of extirpation of Governments by bloody force Some affirming strangely and falsly that they did oppose the tyranny of the late martyr'd King but never the Title or Office which to my mean apprehension and I could wish some of the Presbyterian party would otherwise inform my judgment seemeth to oppugn reason it self his Majesty having before ever sword was drawn granted all things necessary to the well-beeing quiet and peaceable living of the lowest as well as the highest of his Subjects their possession on of their lives Confessed by themselves Collect. Parl. Ord liberties and estates and a just reformation in Religion He himself having raised such Bulwarks for us to this purpose that nothing was left for the people of England to desire as additionall to their future security and happinesse And had not this * Presb. Kingly-power rooting-partie stepped in or in their own irregular demands been but modestly moderate these second bloodiest-rooting Independents had never commandingly appeared to the world's eye but England had still remained the glory of Nations an earthly Paradiâ—e and not an habitation of Bats and Owles Foxes and devouring Wolves blind ignorance heresie sâ—hism and Jesuiticall bloody-minded men Besides the former and still wilfully continuing Presbyterians having neither reason in Law nor ground in Religion for such their aâ— first undertakings or still continuing inolinations thereunto as I have already made good Maketh me to pray that God would more clearly open the Eyes of their understandings and in the bowells of Christ Jesus desire them that they would weigh all things by the ballance of the Sanctuary without interjection of the least part of a grain of Private Interest and affectâ—onate cleaving to Parties in any thing unwarrantable by the Everlasting Standard of Gods word and at last return from whence they were fallen and do their first workes But this by the way However if â—n this I have displeased any man I â—am Confident I have herein neither displeased nor dishonoured the God of â—ruth therefore shall be bold to tell â—hem that they do not well to be angry with me for speaking the truth I returne to my former Method Why thinke you were so many Reverend Bishops and other Orthodox Divines as Dr. Featly Dr. Oldsworth Mr. Shute with many others disgraced or imprisoned not because the Law spake them guilty but because they were as so many walls of Brasse able to Oppose their Proceedings and would if suffered to Preach have informed the people their better duties and thereby prevented the progresse of their desigues Garraway Why were so many Lords Imprisoned the Mayor of London some Aldermen outed and dispersed unto Several Confining Castles Why were most of the Common Councell â—men disgracefully thrown out of the Court But only to make way for the more factious Spirits who would more readily comply in their turnings windings with the first Moving Wheels of the Rooting-faction Why did they then and still do both admit and tolerate ignorant-Laymen to belch out new fangled false Opinions Hereticall and Schismaticall positions but thereby to bring the Clergy into dishonour and disrespect with the people distracting the brains and dividing the affections of the Multitude well knowing Machiavells rule divide et impera for rebellion and treason will never harbour in breasts united by the bond of true religion they that conscientiously affect Christ and his Church will not be wrought upon to destroy his Servants the Pastours or any Member thereof nor ever give eare to such babblers the Devill 's Chaplaines Nay their Present toleration of all in matters of religion Indep Faction under the Pretence of having a regard to tender Consciences is only done out of Policy or if you will rebellious Knavery not that they intend you after that you have been instrumentall to their compass'd Ends such a liberty out of a conscientious Courtesy But hear hear you deceived people of England Their Reason is Lest the Ignorant Rabble the walking instrumentall feet and active hands of their designe like your lesse knowing Papists taking all things by the hand of an implicit beliefe should being denyed any one thing grow into a discontent which seconded with a Serious Repentance and its effects a desertion of these Plotters manifested by a generall insurrection their only fears should occasion these Rooters suddain downfal utter destruction For a division in opinions and affection at first raysed them a Power enabling them to raze down Englands Monarchicall goverment So a unity in iniquity a Linck'd wicked brotherhood must settle them in this their destructive power But O Lord notwithstanding thy enemys have taken Crafty counsell against thy people and have consulted against thy Secret Ones although they say Come let us cut them off from being a Nation and let not the Name of a Christian Protestant King or people be any more in Remembrance Give not thou the Soule of thy Turtle dove unto the Beast and forget not the Congregation of thy Servants Consider thy Covenant for many Places in England Scotland and Ireland are full of the habitations of Cruell men Judg the Cause of the fatherlesse and oppressed Arise arise O God maintain thy owne Cause here help and deliver us So we thy People and sheep of thy Pasture shall prayse thee for evermore Let us descend to examples of a Lower nature Why suppose you is Lilly somuch imployed by these bloudy Statists but onely to unhindg the faith of the common people from adhearing to the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures which like a two-edged sword would soon cut their designe in peeces for had the people's faith been kept to a close dependence on the Word of God and their actions onely regulated thereby or had * Presbyt others more knowing or at least pretending to more knowledge weighed all their undertakings without the addition of unbridled passion and irregular though seemingly zealous affections exactly according to this everlastingly just Standard so many formerly now penitentiall men I hope had not then been deceived into a rebellious Army nor would so many continue their Adherents at this very day But no wonder if those men who first rebell against the King of Heaven and his Son our Saviour Jesus Christ fight against his commands the practice of the whole Army of Martyrs the glorious company of the Apostles and Prophets the example of the holy Church thorough the whole world no wonder if such destroy and murder their Soveraign God's Vice-gerent on earth and all true Christians and faithfull Subjects No wonder if such men having thus forsaken the fountain of living waters the Scriptures do frame to themselves new Cisterns even broken cisterns of dependence on Lilly's politick discourses which will neither hold water upon Scripture-tryall at present nor be able to save or satisfie a poor soul at the great day of tryall of particular persons at the hour of death or that