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A56129	The arraignment, conviction and condemnation of the Westminsterian-Juncto's engagement with a cautionarie exhortation to all honest English spirits to avoid the danger of perjurie by taking of it.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3896; ESTC R22420	10,872	15

King or Lords the principall Designe of this new Oath and Engagement against so many Oaths Lawes and E●gagements of former later times inviolably to preserve them with our lives estates last drop of our bloods and that by the far lesser part of the Kingdome and House of Commons against the wills and Protestations of the Major part who are most co●cerned therein and without hearing their reasons and objections to the contrary or convincing them of the necessitie or conveniency thereof by a free hearing and debate thereof in a full and free Parliament specially conv●ned for that purpose is not only a most u●j●st illegall and tyrannicall act contrary to the Lawes of God Nature and the Realme a great scandall to our Religion and injury and dishonour to our whol English Nation not to be presidented in any age especially by so great pretend●rs to publique Liberty but likewise an undertaking of such dangerous consequence as none endowed with right Reason the feare of God or any reall love to their Country durst once for to attempt as is clear to us by these particulars 1. It will involve us in perpetuall Warres and troubles so long as there are any of the blood Royall who have title to the Crowne or any of the Nobility endowed with any sparkes of honour left alive who will never desist from attempting the recovery of their lost Rights and Priviledges 2. It will sever the united Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland from and engage them and all the Kings forraigne friends and Allyes against us and necessitate us to mainta●n a perpetuall Army and Garrisons by Land and Navy by Sea which will undoe us with Contribution Excise Free-Quarter expose us to perpetuall Murthers Robberie Outrages Tumults Opprssions Discontents Decrease and Decay all Trading and end in our absolute Slaverie Miserie Ruine 3. It will nece●ssiate our new Governours after the sale of the Kings and Deanes and Chapters Lands to help ease the People for a time only and support their Army and Navy to seiz● and sell the Lands of all Corporations Companies Colledges Hospitalls Schooles and Rectories of Churches in the Kingdome a thing already projected by some and to find out some device or other to make new Delinquents of purpose to Sequester and Confiscate their Estates till the whole Kingdome be Sequestred made Malignants to help pay the Soldiers one ●eared Designe of this new Oath and Engagement against those who out of grounds of conscience Law and solid prudence refuse to subscribe it 4. It will dissolve all our ancient L●agues with forraigne Kingdomes and States made only with our King and Kingdome and by the Law of Nations give them advantage and occasion to seize our Ships Merchants Merchand●ze without breach of League in the behalfe of the King and those who stand for the Kingdomes continuanc● with whom only the Leagues were made and stand firme against others who oppose them 5. It will lose our Interest honour and reputation in and withall other Kingdomes or States who will refuse to owne or treat with us a State thus forcibly and treasonably erected o● else treat with us as the puniest and meanest State in the World whose Agents and publique Ministers must give place to those of all Kings Princes and other States ●hatsoeve● which are ancient●● then it ●ver by the [v] Law of Nations and resolution of all Heraulds which the generosity of the English Nation the ancientst and first Christian Kingdome in the Christian World [x] claiming preceedency of all other Kingdomes in Generall Councells add Assemblies heretofore will hardly brooke 6. It will null dissolve and extinguish all the Corporations Tenures ancient Customes Rents Services Courts of Justice ancient Seal●s Processe Writs Legall Proceedings Charters Liberties Customes Forfeitures u●pon penall Lawes Titles of Honout that are either hereditary or during life and currant Coynes of the Kingdome which being derived only the Kings and ancient Parliaments of England for them their Heires and Succ●ssors or reserved to them their Heires and Successors and none others and be●ring their stamp and image on them must all fall expire and vanish together with them as the House falls all to pieces when the foundation is subverted the R●vers quite fule when the springs from whence they flow the ●ffects c●ase when the cause is destroyed and the derivatives expire and vanish quite away when the primitives are abolished And what confusions and mischiefes will ensue let the World judge 7. If wee shall once give way that our Kings Kingdome P●ers and Parliaments setled established secured and fenced with so long Prescriptions Lawes Oathes Covenants Engagements and Securities of all sorts that humane wisdome can invent shall be thus overturned destroyed dissipated annihilated in a moment at the wills and lusts of our present Usurpers against all their Solemne Oaths Covenants and Protestations not to doe it wee cannot but imagine conceive and believe that every particular persons estate goods life liberties and enjoyments in the Kingdome not halfe so well established and fenced as they can be secure or exempt from their violenc r●pine but subject to their lawlesse wills courts acts seizures disposals to deprive us of them at their pleasures which will render us the miserablest slavishest People under Heaven instead of a free Republick of which the late illegall proceedings in martiall arbitrary Courts and Committees against the beheaded King Lords and others with their late imposed arbitrary Taxes Excises Acts for new Treasons and this very Oath and Engagement give us undeniable experiments Upon which and sundry other weighty considerations we are peremptorily resolved by the grace and assistance of our Omnipotent God rather to endure ten thousand Sequestrations Imprisonments Deaths then to betray our King Kingdomes Parliaments Lawes Liberties Religion all our earthly comforts wound our Consciences damn our immortall Souls by our submission or subscription to this irreligious flagitious pernicious scandalous illegall irrationall unconscionable treasonable New Oath and Engagement and adhere to the death constantly and sincerely to our former Oathes Covenants and Engagements which they diametrically oppose maugre any humane powers or forces whatsoever To close up all wee heartily wish all perjured Prescribers of this New Oath and Engagement especially apostate Assembly-men D●vines and Lawyers who contrary to their former Oathes Covenants Pretestations and Subscriptions have subscribed this new Oath Conscienciously and sadly to consider and peruse Levit. 19.12 Psal. 15.1.2.4 Iosh. 9.18.19.20 2 Sam. 21.1 1 King 1.29.30 c. 2.42.43.46 2 Chron. 13.5.6 N●h. 5 12.13 Ier. 34.8 to 20. Ezech. 17.11 to 22. Zech. 5.1 to 5. Mal. 3 5. Rom. 1.28.31.32 2 Tim. 3.1 to 6. Dr. Beards Theatre of God Judgements L. 1. c. 27 28. of Perjurers divine punishments especially the example of Rodulph p. 174. with another of that nature p. 176. and the example of that perjured Usurper of the Crowne against his Oath King Herauld Math. West An. 1066. p. 430.438 with the sad St●ri●s of Archbishop Cranmers tortures of Conscience and Mr. Bilneys for subscribing against their Consciences to save their Lives in Mr. Fox his Monuments And then they will eyther with Peter after he had abjured his Lord and Master with an oath goe forth and weep bitterly if they have any sparkes of Grace or hopes of Salvation remaining in them or else with treacherous Iudas who betrayed his Lord and Master to gratifie the High-Priests goe out despairing and hang themselves to avoid the shame of the World and anguish of their tormenting Consciences A Quaere touching an English Monarchy and a Low-Country Free-State which of them is the Freest and most to bee desired An English Monarchie Is a most Honorable free Government by an hereditary King according to the Lawes of the Kingdome supplyed only without any standing Army Garrisons Free-Quarter Excise or Monethly Contributions by a bare Ordinance of a few Commons with a Subsidy or two in divers yeares freely granted by the Laity and Clergy in full Parliament by distinct Acts of Parliament A Low-Country Free-State Is an Ignoble Servitude under the Militarie Command of many selfe-Created new States erected and supported by the meere Power of a standing Army constant Garrisons Citadels accompanied with perpetuall Monethly Contributions Taxes Excises and Free-Quarter imposed on the Clergy Laity by these new States alone without common consent or Act of Parliament and augmented and disposed of at their owne Will and Pleasures Utrum horum mavis accipe FINIS Levit. 19.12 Deut. 5.11 Ier. 5.2 c 7.9 Ezech. 17.12 to 20. Zech. 5.3.4 Mal. 3.5 Math. 5.34 Rom. 1.31.32 2. Tim. 3.3.4 [b] 1. Iac c 1.2 4.3 Iacobi 1.2 [c] A Plea for the Lords [d] Votes of Octob. 11.22 1649. [e] 25 H. 8 c. 22. all Act● of the Subsi●ies granted by the ●●aity or Clergy in their reignes [f] Exact Collections p. 14.15.16 696. [g] Exact Collection p 712.713.714 [h] Psal 15 1 a Rom 1 31 3● [i] ●sal 22.1 Psal. 47 2.7 Psal. ●9 ●● [k] Psalm 6 Prov 9 7 Luke 1 33. [l] Psal 10.16 Psal. 47 2. Psal 89 13. Ps 48 2 Ps 95 3. Ps 149.2 Ps 33 17 20 1 Tim. 1 17. [m] Seld●ns titles of honor part 1. c 1.2.3 [n] Acknowledged by M. Pym himselfe and the house of Commons Canterburie's doome p. 29 Exact Coll●ctions p 696. [o] 1 Iac c. 1.2 3. Iacobi c. 1.2.4 [p] Exact Collection p. 6. [q] Mr. St. Ioans Argument at Law [r] Condemn●d in the Petion of Right 3. Caroli * Exact Collection p 262.282 284 〈◊〉 289.297.298.500 514 517.521 522.526.528.530 531.534 550 551.554 558 561.562 A Collection c. p. 177 worthy o●● serious consideration * Exact Collection p 695.696 657 658 A Collection c. p. 420. to 428 698 699.700.877.878 [s] Math. West An 185.307 Speed Godwin Spelman Usher De Eccles. ●rit. Primordijs [t] Psal. 145.11.13 Isay 9 7 Dan. 4.35 c. 6.27 Math. 3.2 c. 5 7.19 c. 12.28 c 21.43 c. 25.34 c. 26.25 Lu. 3.33 c. 10.11 1. Cor. 6.9 Col. 1.13 1. Tim. 4 1.18 Jam. 2.5 2. Pe. 1.11 Rav 12.10 [v] Cassanaeus Catalogus gloriae Mundi Hist. of the Cou●c●ll of Trens [x] Seld●ns Titles of Hon part 2. ch. 11.