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A26065	Evangelium armatum, A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c.	Assheton, William, 1641-1711.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing A4033; ESTC R4907	49,298	71

while been preserved by what hath been done Little cause have we to be discouraged for those we have to deal with their spirits are base and vile why should we fear those uncircumcised Philistines If you say Well but were it not better we bent all our forces to some Accommodation To that we answer you thus You have to deal not onely with his Majesty but with a Popish party that are about him and what security you can ever have of your peace as was worthily said before except the Scotish Nation comes in for to fasten it it is easie for any one to judge I will tell you but one story about that and because it is suitable unto you I will therefore relate it here It is a Story that I find in the Chronicles that in the days of King Edward the sixt King Edward sends to this City for assistance against the Lords and the Lords send to the City for their assistance likewise and the Common-Councel was called I suppose in this place and there stands up as the story saith a wise discreet Citizen in the Common-Councel and makes this speech unto them First he acknowledges that the cause was right for the Lords for the Kingdom though it were against the will of the King because the King would not then put in execution those Laws that should be but hindered them but yet saith he let me remind you of that that I have read in Fabians Chronicle it was one George Stadley that stood up let me remind you of that when there was a fight between the Lords and the King the Lords send for assistance to the City the City granted their assistance the Lords prevailed the King was taken and his Son a Prisoner afterwards they were both released upon Composition and amongst other things this was one that howsoever the City should be preserved that the City should suffer nothing for what they had done and this Composition was confirmed by Act of Parlament but saith this Citizen what came of it did the King forgive No nor forget for afterwards all our Liberties were taken away strangers were set over us for our Heads and Governours the bodies and the estates of the Citizens were given away and one misery followed after another and so we were most miserably persecuted and here was their Accommodation Have not many of you spent your blood in this Cause yea how many young ones in this City have lost their blood Me-thinks a spirit of indignation should rise in you to vindicate the loss of the blood of your Servants and Children many precious ones that might have lived many years to have done good service for the Lord. Know there shall come a day wherein you shall be calling and crying to God for mercy the success of this evenings work will be recorded against that day when you shall cry for mercy Out of Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. I Know many Objections might be made You have done much already and the sum is great I say no more There is nothing great to a mind that is great and the Cause is great and though the sum of money be great yet their love is greater than all you can lay out to answer their love And say not grumbling we have done often and often I say to you as Christ said to him that asked him How often must I forgive my brother Why seventy times seven times So will I say for this publique Cause you must do and you must do and yet you must do and yet you must do as long as there is a penny in thy purse as long as there is strength in thy hand as long as there is breath in thy body you must be all Servants to Christ and Servants to the Churches of Jesus Christ. The Independents Conclusions from the Presbyterian Principles Mr. John Dury's Considerations concerning the present Engagement with Mr. Caryl's Imprimatur An. Dom. 1649. THe Oath of Allegiance as you know did bind all men as Subjects in Law to be true and faithful to the Kings Person to his Heirs and Successors as they were invested with the authority which the Law did give them nor was it ever meant by the Parlament which Enacted the Oath of Allegiance that any should be absolutely bound to the King and his Heirs as they were men to be true and faithful to their Personal Wills but onely to them and their Wills as they had a Legal standing that is to the Authority conferred upon them by the consent of the People which was testified in and under a Law whereunto the King and his Heirs were bound for the Kingdoms good by Oath So that the Obligations of King and Subjects are mutual and must needs stand and fall together according as the condition by which they are begotten is kept or broken which is nothing else but the Law according to which he and his Subjects agree that he shall be their King and they shall be his Subjects For as you were sworn to the King so he was sworn to you as you were bound to be faithful to him so he was bound to be faithful to his trust nor is he your Liege further than he is faithful thereunto If then he be found unfaithful to his trust you are ipso facto absolved from your Allegiance unto him and if according to Law he receives not his Authority you are not in Law his Subjects at all Now the just and natural foundation of all Laws is the Reason of the Body of every Nation in their Parlament which hath the sole Right to propose and chuse the Laws by which they will be Ruled Where it hath been as I suppose a perpetual custom in this Nation for the Commons at all times to ask and propose the making of Laws and for the Lords and King to give their consent thereunto The Lords as the Judges in cases of transgression and the King as the Executor and publick Trustee for the administration of the common good and wealth thereby for in a Kingdom there is a Common-wealth as the intrinsical substance of the Being thereof for which all things are to be done by King and Lords as the publick servants thereof and Ministers not Masters of State therein If the King then should set himself wilfully to be above this Reason of the Nation which is the onely Original of the Law and refuse obstinately the Laws which they shall chuse to be setled he puts himself ipso facto out of the capacity of being a King any more unto them and if this can be made out to have been the way wherein the late King set himself and that it was the design of the House of Lords to uphold and enable him to follow that way it is evident that so far as he did by that means actually un-King himself as to this Nation so far also they that assisted him in that design did un-Lord themselves

denyed and too impious to be defended though I could answer that I am not at all beholding to a Chirurgeon for setting that leg which he himself first put out of joynt yet I desire them to remember that they never attempted the Restauration of his Majesty till they were visibly in the very jaws of the Fanaticks who were then seizing upon their Tythes and Churches the last morsell of the spiritual Revenue so that it is shrewdly to be suspected that had not the Tythe-pig cryed lowder in their ears than either their Conscience or the word of God they had never been awakened to attempt that which since it has been effected so many of them have not obscurely repented of And so much may suffice to answer their Pretences to Piety and the power of Godliness To their next plea that they are now persecuted I shall only make this reply That I desire the World to take notice that those Persons who turned almost all out of their livings that adhered to their lawfull Soveraign who sent suc●… with their Wives and Families a begging as durst not deflower their Consciences with down-right Perjury and having sworn Canonical Obedience to the most Reformed Church in the World durst not by a contrary Oath swear and endeavour its extirpation Those also who procured that murdering Order from a bloudy Tyrant and Usurper that every Episcopal Divine should not only be uncapable of a Benefice but also disabled to exercise any act of his ministerial Function as Preaching Baptizing or the like nor yet suffered to get some little subsistence by teaching School no nor lastly to live in any Gentlemans house who out of Pity might take him in to keep him from Starving All which are such unheard-of Instances of barbarous Tyranny that the Spight of the Heathen Neros Dioclesians Julians all circumstances considered was much inferiour to them Now I say I desire the World to take notice that those who were partly the Authors partly the Procurers of these hideous remorseless Actions are those poor gentle suffering Lambs of Christ that now bleat out Persecution Having thus answered their pleas or rather their Noise I shall in a word or two give an account of the following book It presents us first with a short Collection of the Sayings and Doctrines of the great Leaders and Abetters of the Presbyterian Reformation of their pious and peaceable maxims which like razors set with oyl cut the throat of Majesty with so keen a smoothness and then to bring up the rear of this spiritual Brigade and withall to shew further that the cause of our Church is so united to that of the Crown that the same who malign one strike as boldly at the other I have thought fit to bring the Papists and the Hobbians upon the same Stage as venting Doctrines no less pernicious to the Civil than to the Ecclesiastical State For a testimony of which I have here given a Taste of each of them of the first out of Mr. White of the second out of the Author of the Leviathan and great Propagator of the Kingdom of Darkness I selected the writings of Mr. White as being the most Compendious and effectual way of Probation For if He who writes and pretends enmity against the Jesuites for being Disturbers of the Peace of States and Kingdoms and underminers of the Prerogative of Kings and so by this catches at the reputation of being moderate I say if this Person shall yet be found a pestilent assertor of such maxims as eat out the Rights and Titles of all lawfull Princes then let men take an estimate of their known Treasons and King-killing Doctrines from the Poyson and Virulence of their very moderation And therefore I earnestly entreat the Reader diligently to peruse that Paragraph that exhibits to him the collection of Mr. Whites Principles I have this now in the last place to add that the Reader must not here expect a full rehersal of thes●… mens Doctrines but only a Taste or Specimen He that can endure the raking of Dunghils longer than I can let him have recourse to their Writings let him lanch out into the Ocean of the Presbyterian Pamphlets and Sermons an Ocean in which the Papists may see the face of their disloyal Doctrines as in a Glass and in which the Leviathan himself may sport and take his pastime There seems to be a more than ordinary Significance in that Saying of the Prophet that Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft and that I conceive not only for its equal malignity but also for its peculiar Analogy and cognation for if we reflect upon the late Instances of it amongst our Selves we shall find that the People could never be brought to Rebell till their Preachers had first Bewitched them But I hope the World will be so far unbewitched as to read this Collection with their farewell-Sermons lately printed together and exposed to sale with so much Ostenta●…ion Of which I shall say this that they may very properly be called Fare-well-Sermons since experience is like to manifest that their Con-gregations never fared so well as when such Seducers preached their Last Mr Edmund Calamies Theses Pag. 22. THE Lords and Commons are as the Master of the House 2. The Parliament whom the people chuse are the great and only Conservators of the peoples liberties p. 38. They are the chief Magistrate Custodes vindices utriusque tabulae p. 37. for they are the Ministers of God for good and revengers to execute wrath upon him that does evill Rom. 13. 4. which being by Saint Paul expressly spoken of the Highest Powers he applies to that part of the two Houses that sat at Westminster without nay against the Kings command p. 9. That all those that fought under the Kings banner against this Parliament fought themselves into slavery and did endeavour by all bloudy and treacherous waies to subvert Religion and Liberties p. 12. That the King that should have been a head of gold was an iron head to crush its own body in pieces p. 18. Those that made their peace with him at Oxford by returning to their Loyaltie were Judasses of England and it were just with God to give them their portion with Judas p. 13. Those that ingaged in this Cause and in the Covenant which was an oath for their goods were unjustly charged with Rebellion p. 38. That it was Gods cause and it shall prevail at last p. 29. That it is commendable to fight for Peace and Reformation against the Kings command These are Mr. Calamies Doctrines in his Sermon preached before the Lords Dec. 25. 1644. printed by ●…hristopher Meredith by his own appointment directly contrary to St. Peter who tells us that the King is the Supreme and not any one or two Houses of Parl●…ament without him contrary to St. Paul who ●…ells us that whosoever severally or conjunctly shall resist much more that shall fight against this Highest Power resist the ordinance of God and

had without contribution towards the bringing in of the Scots and that is the reason for the promoting of this peace this blessed peace that we have appeared here this day and me-thinks Gentlemen the very sight of these worthy Divines methinks so many Divines so many Orators so many silent Orators to plead with you to be willing to engage your selves to the utmost to help forward the Nation of Scotland to come to our help And likewise I would put you in mind of the 10 th of Numbers there you shall read that there were two silver Trumpets and as there were Priests appointed for the convocation of their Assemblies so there were Priests to sound the silver Trumpets to proclame the War And likewise in the 20 th of Deuteronomy you shall finde there that when the children of Israel would go out to War the sons of Levi one of the Priests was to make a speech to encourage them And certainly if this were the way of God in the Old Testament certainly much more in such a Cause as this in which Cause Religion is so intwin'd and indeed so interlac'd that Religion and this Cause they are like Hippocrates his twins they must live and dye together And Gentlemen if Religion were not concerned in this Cause and mightily concerned and if Religion did not live and dye with it we had not appeared this day And I hope this will be a sufficient answer unto this Objection But there is another Objection which I will answer and then briefly give leave to my other Reverend Brethren that likewise are prepared to speak here The great Objection of all is this that the City is already exhausted and so much money hath been lent already that there is no hope of lending any more this is the grand Objection But truly Gentlemen for my part this is one of the chief Arguments I have to perswade you to lend a little more because you have lent so much give me leave to put you in mind of that Story in the 2 Kings 13. the Story of King J●…ash that came to visit the Prophet Elisha when he was ready to breath out his last the Prophet Elisha gives him a bow and arrows and bids him shoot he shoots and bids him smite he smites the ground thrice and then he ceased the Prophet was exceeding angry with him and tells him you should have smote the ground 5 or 6 times and then you should have utterly consumed the Assyrians whereas now you shall smite them but three times Give me leave to apply this Gentlemen you have smote the ground thrice you have lent once twice and thrice indeed you have been the fame of England and the Repairers of England and the Ornaments of England you have lent much but let me tell you you must smite the ground 5 or 6 times if ever you look to consume the Assyrians if ever you look to bring this War to a happy Peace that your posterities may rejoyce in this Peace you must shoot one arrow more and then through Gods blessing you may utterly consume these enemies that you and your posterity may rejoyce in a happy peace It is a famous story of Johannes Eleemozinarius that when he had given even almost all he had to the poor his friends were exceeding angry with him and told him he had undone himself what was his answer O saith he I have not yet shed my blood for Jesus Christ Jesus Christ he emptied himself of his Divinity to make us rich he became poor and shed his blood for you You have not yet made your selves so poor as Jesus Christ was that had no house to lodge in and he did all this for your sakes You have not yet shed your blood for the Cause of Christ We read that Moses was willing to be blotted out of the book of life for the Cause of God and we read of Paul that he was w●…lling to be accursed for the people of Israels sake And will you not be willing to venture your earthly provisions for so good a Cause as this is which I say England was never engaged in the like Religion hath produced all the wealth you have all your wealth is but the child of Religion we have a saying Religio peperit divitias divitiae devorarunt matrem Religion hath begot wealth and the Daughter hath devoured the Mother filia devoravit matrem but give me leave and I hope through Gods blessing you will invert this saying Religion hath got you all the wealth you have you Gentlemen and I hope the Daughter now will preserve the Mother I hope Riches will preserve Religion and not destroy Religion A famous example of Polanus Nolinus that when he had given all that he had away and being asked why he would give so much to the poor he gave this answer Ut levius ascenderem scalam Jacobi that I might the easier get up Jacobs ladder And let me assure you in the word of a Minister the contributing to this Cause for Gods sake and for the glory of God and for the peace of the Gospel I say will be a means to make you the sooner ascend up Jacobs Ladder not for the giving of the money but for the evidence of your Faith through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ by your giving of the money And certainly that man will never get up Jacobs Ladder that hath the rust of his money to bear witness against him at the day of Judgement especially at such a time as this Give me leav●… to put you in mind of one other story and that is of one Bernardinus Ocanus that was so liberal to the poor that every peny that he gave to the poor he would call it a holy peny and a happy peny and he would bless God that he had that peny to give indeed he was a Papist and his ordinary spe●…ch was O happy peny that hath purchased immortality to me inde●…d this speech was not good for it is not our money that doth purchase heaven that is an evidence of the truth of our Faith that lays hold upon Chris●… for salvation But let me tell you if ever Gentlemen you might use this speech O happy peny you may use it now Happy money that will purchase my Gospel happy money that will purchase Religion and purchase a Reformation to my posterity O happy money and blessed be God that I have it to lend And I count it the greatest opportunity that ever God did offer to the godly of this Kingdom to give them some money to lend to this Cause And I remember in this Ordinance of Parliament you call it Advance money It is called an Ordinance to advance money towards the maintaining of the Parlaments forces and truly it is the highest advance of money to make money an instrument to advance my Religion the Lord give you hearts to believe this You shall have the Faiths of both Kingdoms ingaged in this

Cause the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England and surely the publick Faith of Scotland will secure the publick Faith of England I speak now of secondary causes through Gods blessing I am informed by the Commissioners of Scotland that the Nation of Scotland are now tak●…ng the Covenant that we took the last Lords day in this City And you know that a Scotch Covenanter is a terrible thing you know what mighty things they did by their last Covenant you know that the name of a Covenanter the very name of it did do wonders And I am assured by them that there is not one person in the Kingdom of Scotland that is not a Covenanter and there shall not one abide among them that wi●…l not take this Covenant and there shall not one of those 21000 that are to come over in this Cause not one of them shall come that will not take this Covenant but they must take th●…s Covenant before they come O that the consideration of these things might work up your hearts to a high degree of Charity to a superlative degree and that the Lord would make you more active and more liberal in this great Cause For my part I speak it in the name of my self and in the name of these reverend Ministers we will not only speak to perswade you to contribute but every one of us that God hath given any estate to we will all to our utmost power we will not only say ite but venite we will not only speak to you to lend but every one of us as we have already lent so we will lend to our utmost power and bless God that we have it to lend for indeed it is now a time of action and not of speaking only because it is an extraordinary business therefore here is an extraordinary appearance of so many Ministers to encourage you in this Cause that you may see how real the godly Ministery in England is unto this Ca●…se The Gospel it is called a Pearl of price by our Saviour Christ and I hope all you Merchants will part with your goodly pearls to buy this pearl of pr●…ce You Tradesmen the Gospel is called a Treasure hid in the field so our Saviour Christ calls it I hope you will be willing to part with your earthly treasures to preserve this blessed treasure that is hid in the field you have parted with some goodly pearls already I hope you will part with your other goodly pearls There is an excellent Story of one Nonius a Roman Senator that had a pearl that 〈◊〉 did prize above his life and when Anthony the Triumvir one that was then in great power when he sent to Nonius to have the pearl he would not send it him and he told him that if he would banish him he would be willingly banished so he might save his pearl if he would take away his life he would die with his pearl he did not regard his Countrey so he might have his pearl he regarded nothing so he might have his pearl but he would not part with his pearl what-ever he parted withall This pearl it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that you have professed in this City and I hope you have professed it with power and certainly you have the name of those that have professed the Gospel in the greatest purity of any under heaven This pearl is this Gospel I hope you will part with all willingly and cheerfully rather than part with the Gospel though you go to prison carry the Gospel with you nay though you lose your lives it shall be with the Gospel and for the Gospel I hope so There is one Argument more and then I have done and that is from the inveterate hatred they have at Oxford against the City of London and against you for your good because you have been so well-affected to this Cause Gentlemen I beseech you give me leave that am no Statesman nor acquainted with the affairs of policy yet give me leave to put you in mind of this that surely the plundering Army at Oxford conceive that they shall find a great treasure here in the City though many pretend they have no money Though certainly you have done well and lent much yet the plnndering Army give out that if they get possession of the City they shall find a treasury to be able to pay all they have been at And if ever you should be driven which God forbid to make your peace it would cost you twenty times as much then to procure your peace and such a pe●…ce it may be that would be rather a War than a Peace and a death better than that peace which now you may have for a very little a most happy Peace There is a famous story of Zelimus Emperour of Constantinople that after he had taken AEgypt he found a great deal of tre●…sure there and the Souldiers came to him and asked him what shall we do with the Citizens of AEgypt for we have found a great treasure among them and we have taken their Riches O saith he hang them all up for they are too rich to be made slaves and this was all the thanks they had for the riches they were spoiled os And it may be though some of you that stand Neuters or some of you that are disaffected to the Cause of the Parlament may think that if the Lord for our sins should give up this City unto the Army that is with the King you may think that you shall escape yet be assured that your goods will be Roundheads though you be not your goods will be Gybellins though you be Guelfs as the story is Certainly there will be no distinction in the plundering of your goods between you and others and therefore let me beseech you that as the Lord hath made you instruments to do a great deal of good already for indeed you are the preservers of our Religion and you are the preservers of our Parlament by your liberality and by your former contributions and by your assistance and the Lord hath made you mighty instruments of our good let me beseech you that you would persevere and now we are come to the Sheat Anchor we are now come to the last cast I beseech you you would persevere and hold out and O that my words might add somewhat to help forward this contribution It hath pleased God to make me a setled Minister in this City and I have now been here almost five years in this City and though I had never ●…one any good in my place I should now think it a great fruit of my coming to this City if after five years unprofitableness I might speak somewhat this afternoon that might enlarge your hearts to a greater measure of liberality All I will say is this We Divines say that Perseverance is the onely grace that Crowns a Christian Methushelah lived nine hundred ninety and nine years if he had fallen away from

Prince the hurt will be their own and they punish themselves but if it be necessarily to their well-fare it is no injury to him But a King that by war will seek reparations from the body of the People doth put himself into an hostile State and tells them actually that he looks to his own good more than theirs and bids them take him for their Enemy and so defend themselves if they can Pag. 424. XVII Though a Nation wrong their King and so quoad Meritum causa they are on the worser side yet may he not lawfully war against the publick good on that account nor any help him in such a war because propter finem he hath the worser cause Thes. 352. And yet as he tells us pag. 476. we were to believe the Parlaments Declarations and professions which they made that the war which they raised was not against the King either in respect of his Authority or of his Person but onely against the Delinquent Subjects and yet they actually fought against the King in person and we are to believe saith Mr. Baxter pag. 422. that men would kill them whom they fight against Mr. Baxter's Doctrine concerning the Government of England in particular HE denies the government of England to be Monarchical in these words I. The real Soveraignty here amongst was us in King Lords and Commons Pag. 72. II. As to them that argue from the Oath of Supremacy and the title given the King I refer them saith Mr. Baxter to Mr. Lawson's answer to Hobb's Politicks where he sheweth that the Title is often given to the single Person for the honour of the Common-wealth and his encouragement because he hath an eminent interest but will not prove the whole Soveraignty to be in him and the Oath excludeth all others from without not those whose interest is implied as conjunct with his The eminent dignity and interest of the King above others allowed the name of a Monarchy or Kingdom to the Common-wealth though indeed the Soveraignty was mix'd in the hands of the Lords and Commons Pag. 88. III. He calls it a false supposition 1. That the Soveraign power was onely in the King and so that it was an absolute Monarchy 2. That the Parlament had but onely the proposing of Laws and that they were Enacted onely by the Kings Authority upon their request 3. That the power of Arms and of War and Peace was in the King alone And therefore saith he those that argue from these false suppositions conclude that the Parlament being Subjects may not take up Arms without him and that it is Rebellion to resist him and most of this they gather from the Oath of Supremacy and from the Parlaments calling of themselves his Subjects but their grounds saith he are sandy and their superstructure false Pag. 459 460. And therefore Mr. Baxter tells u●… that though the Parlament are Subjects in one capacity yet have they their part in the Soveraignty also in their higher capacity Ibid. And upon this fa●…se and trayterous supposition he endeavours to justisie the late Rebellion and his own more than ordinary activeness in it For IV. Where the Soveraignty saith he is distributed into several hands as the Kings and Parlaments and the King invades the others part they may lawfully defend their own by war and the Subject lawfully assist them yea though the power of the Militia be expresly given to the King unless it be also exprest that it shall not be in the other Thes. 363. The conclusion saith he needs no proof because Soveraignty as such hath the power of Arms and of the Laws themselves The Law that saith the King shall have the Militia supposeth it to be against Enemies and not against the Common-wealth nor them that have part of the Soveraignty with him To resist him here is not to resist power but usurpation and private will in such a case the Parlament is no more to be resisted than he Ibid. V. If the King raise War against such a Parlament upon their Declaration of the dangers of the Common-wealth the people are to take it as raised against the Common-wealth Thes. 358. And in that case saith he the King may not only be resisted but ceaseth to be a King and entreth into a state of War with the people Thes. 368. VI. Again if a Prince that hath not the whole Soveraignty be conquered by a Senate that hath the other part and that in a just defensive War that Senate cannot assume the whole Soveraignty but supposeth that government in specie to remain and therefore another King must be chosen if the former be incapable Thes. 374. as he tells us he is by ceasing to be King in the immediately precedent Thes. VII And yet in the Preface to this Book he tells us that the King withdrawing so he call the murdering of one King and the casting off of another the Lords and Commons ruled alone was not this to change the species of the Government Which in the immediate words before he had affirmed to be in King Lords and Commons which constitution saith he we were sworn and sworn and sworn again to be faithful to and to defend And yet speaking of that Parlament which contrary to their Oaths changed this Government by ruling alone and taking upon them the Supremacy he tells us that they were the best Governours in all the world and such as it is forbidden to Subjects to depose upon pain of damnation VVhat then was he that deposed them one would think Mr. Baxter should have called him a Traytor but he calls h●…m in the same Preface the Lord Prorector adding That he did prudently piously faithfully and to his immortal honour exercise the Government which he left to his Son to whom as Mr. Baxter saith pag. 481. he is bound to submit as set over us by God and to obey for conscience sake and to behave himself as a Loyal Subject towards him because as he saith in the same place a sull and free Parlament had owned him thereby implying That a maimed and manacled House of Commons without King and Lords and notwithstanding the violent expulsion of the secluded Members were a full and free Parlament and consequently that if such a Parlament should have taken Arms against the King he must have sided with them Yea though they had been never so much in fault and though they had been the beginners of the VVar for he tells us in plain and express terms VIII That if he had known the Parlament had been the beginners of the War and in most fault yet the ruine of the Trustees and Representatives and so of all the security of the Nation being a punishment greater than any faults of theirs against the King could deserve from him their faults could not disoblige him meaning himself from defending the Common-wealth Pag. 480. And that he might do this lawfully and with a good Conscience he seems to be so

Now is Christ set upon his throne Pag. 21. * Noble and resolute Commanders go on to fight the battels of the Lord Jesus Christ for so I will not now fear to call them Pag. 21. * All Christendom except the Malignants in England do now see that the question in England is whether Christ or Anti-christ shall be Lord and King Pag. 21. Ten thousand times cursed are they who have provoked Our Soveraign to raise Arms to destroy his Nobles and Commons and Divines and this most honoured City and even all who have been faithful Pag. 28. Mr. Stephen Marshal after Naseby fight in a Thanksgiving Sermon on Psal. 102. 18. ALL the Countries where the Gospel had prevail'd have faithsully stood to God in his cause the rest nurst up under Popery and Superstition both Lords Commons and Gentlemen and whole Commons did endeavour to fight themselves into slavery and labour to des●…roy the Parlament that is themselves and all that is theirs Mr. Marshal in his Sermon on Micah 7. 1 2. 1644. BElieve this cause must prosper though we were all dead our Armies overthrown and even our Palaments dissolved this cause must prevail Mr. Edmund Calamy in his Sermon before the House of Peers June 15. 1643. on Joshua 24. 15. REligion is that which is pretended on all hands The defence of the Protestant Religion this news we hear daily from Oxford and for this purpose there is an Army of Papists to defend Protestant Religion just as the Gun-powder Treason that would have blown up the Parlament for the good of the Catholike Religion Pag. 24. Few Noblemen and Gentlemen appear on the Parlament side not many mighty not many Noble thus it was in Christs time the great men and great Scholars crucified Christ. Pag. 30. The Cause you mannage is the Cause of God the glory of God is embark'd in the same Ship in which this cause is and you may lawfully say as Joshua does Josh. 7. 9. What wilt thou do unto thy great name and Numb 14. 15 16. And as Joshua said to Israel Numb 14. 7. So doth God to you fear not fear not the people of the land for they are bread for us their defence is departed from them and the Lord is with us fear them not Pag. 53. I may say without uncharitableness you have the major part of Gods people on your side Pag. 55. He that dies fighting the Lords battel dies a Martyr Pag. 57. Mr. Thomas Case in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Commons House in Parlament before his Sermon on Ezek. 20. 25. GOd in you hath graciously begun to make good that Evangelical promise Zech. 12. 8. In defending this his English Hierusalem he hath made him that was weak among you as David you have conquer'd the Lyon a●…d the Bear and shall not that uncircumcised Philistine that numerous Beast who hath not ceast to blaspheme the Armies os the Living God become like one of these behold ●… he lies groveling at your feet there wants nothing but cutting off his head They cryed down the S●…bbath as a ridiculous or at least a superfluous Ceremony Pag. XI * thus they make the King glad with their wickedness and he that could bring Jeroboam an argument to justifie his Idolatry he was a well-come man at Court Pag. 12. Mr. Case on Ezra 10. 2 3. Preach'd before the House of Commons SOme have sinn'd seducingly and Jesuites could never have been more desperate I am sure they might have been less guilty they have sinn'd against their light murthered their Principles they have suck'd in with their Mothers milk* spare them not I beseech you though they crouch and cringe and Worship you as much as they have done their high Altars Pag. 15. Ah Brethren I would not have you redeem their lives with your own heads Pag. 16. How the Presence and Preaching of Christ did scorch and blast those Cathedral Priests that unhallowed generation of * Scribes and Pharisees and perfected their Rebellion into that unpardonable sin against the holy Ghost Pag. 33. Mr. Case on Dan. XI 32. 1644. Before the House of commons on a day of Thanksgiving for the Victory given to Sir William Waller against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton HAd not the Spirit of the Lord wrought to a wonder of wisdom and power we might have sate down long before this made our Wills an●… bequeath'd our poor children every one of them Popery and Slavery for their sorrowful Patrimony Pag. 9. Cursed be he that withholdeth his Sword from blood that spares when God saith strike that suffers those to escape whom God has appointed to destruction Pag. 24. Mr. Case on Isa. 43. 4. In a Thanksgiving for taking Bridgwater and Sherbourn * WHat a sad thing is it my Brethren to see our King in the head of an Army of Bahylonians refusing as it were to be call'd the King of England Scotland Ireland and chusing rather to be call'd the King of Babylon Pag. 18. Prelacy and Prelatical Clergy Priests and Jesuites Ceremonies and Service-Book Star-Chamber and High Commission Court were mighty impediments in the way of Reformation God hath mightily brought them down Pag. 19. * The Father having given to him Vid. Christ all power both in heaven and in earth and the rule and Regiment of this Kingdom he hath committed to Monarchies Aristocracies or Democracies as the several combinations and associations of the People shall between themselves think good to elect and erect God leaves people to their own Liberty in this Case Pag. 26. Mr. Thomas Case Psal. 107. 30 31. in his Thanksgiving Sermon for Surrender of Chester * ALas alas they have put out the eyes of his Majesty and carried him away Captive our King is in Babylon among Idolaters and Murtherers we have no King Mr. Joseph Caryl in his Sermon on Nehe. chap. 9. vers 38. Preach'd at the taking of the Covenant Octob. 6. 1643. THere is much sin in making a Covenant on sinful grounds and there is more sin in keeping it but when the preservation of true Religion and the Vindication of just Liberties meet in the ground-work yea may swear and not repent yea if you swear yea must not repent Pag. 18. Take the Covenant and ye take Babylon The Towers of Babylon shall quake and her seven hills shall move Pag. 21. It is Shiboleth to distinguish Ephramites from Gileadites Pag. 22. When we provoke God to bring evil upon us he stays his hand by considering the Covenant Gen. 9. 15. Now as the remembrance of the Covenant on Gods part stays his hand so the remembrance of the Covenant will be very effectual on our part to stay our hands tongues hearts from sin Pag. 27. Not onely is that Covenant which God hath made with us founded in the blood of Christ but that also which we make with God Pag. 33. Mr. Caryl on Revel XI vers 16 17. before the House of Commons April 23. 1644. OUr war has been proved over and over to

in the State thereof and if this was the guilt of the House of Lords by other practices and proceedings more than by an indifferencie and compliance with the Hamiltonian invasion to help the King to such a power I know not what to answer for them It is then undeniable that the third Article of that National Covenant was ●…ever meant by those that made it or that took ir to be opposite to the sense of the Oath of Allegiance but altogether agreeable thereunto What then the meaning of that Article is must needs also be the true sense of the Oath of Allegiance That Article then doth oblige you to preserve the Right and Privileges of the Parlament and the Liberties of the Kingdom in your Calling absolutely and without any limitation but as for the Kings person and Authority it doth oblige you onely thereunto conditionally and with a limitation Namely in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of this Kingdom If then the King did not give to the Representatives of the Nation that assurance which was satisfactory and necessary that their Religion and Liberties should be preserved none of his Subjects were bound either by their Allegiance or Covenant to defend his person and the Authority which was conferred upon him The Oath of Allegiance therefore was bottomed upon the Laws which the Representatives of the Nation in Parlament had chosen to be observed concerning their Religion and the Liberties of the Kingdom which he refractorily either casting off or seeming to yield unto in such a way that no trust could be given him that he would keep what he yielded unto the Parlament did actually lay him aside and voted that no more Addresses should be made unto him from which time forward he was no more an object of your Oath of Allegiance but to be look'd upon as a Private man and your Oath by which you were engaged to be true and faithful to the Law by which the Religion and Liberty of the Kingdom was to be preserved did still remain in force which if it may be the true substantial sense of the present Engagement which you think is contradictory to this Oath and to the National Covenant then you are to look well to it that you be not mistaken for to an indifferent eye it may be thought so far from being opposite to the true sense of either that it may be rather a confirmation of the ground for which both the Oath of Allegiance and the third Article of the National Covenant was then binding And then also this I am confident of to be able to let you see further that although you may think that the effect of this Engagement is materially contrary to some intention which you had in the third Article of the Covenant yet that by the Act of the Engagement you are so far from breaking your Covenant that except you take it and observe it faithfully you will not onely materially but formally break that very Article of the Covenant for which you scruple the taking of the Engagement For the words must be taken in the sense which they can directly bear ●…nd which do impart the main end for which the Covenant was taken for the main end of this very Article whereof you make a scruple was evidently to preserve the Parlament and Common-wealth for it self and i●… need so required also without the King Now this is that which the Engagement doth directly also require for which cause I say that by vertue of this very promise you are bound to take the present Engagement and if you take it not that you make your self a transgressor of that very Article which you pretend to keep for if you refuse to be true and faithful to the Common-wealth as it is now established you do what in you lyeth to make the remaining Knights of Parlament and the beginnings of our settlement void which though at first it was not intended to be without a King yet it was cleerly presupposed in the Article it self as possible to be without him and consequently that although he should not be yet that the Common-wealth by the Rights of Parlament and the Liberties of the Nation should be preserved which is all that now is sought for by the Engagement Where you may take notice that although you and I as private men ought not to make our selves judges of the rights which superiors pretend to have in and to their places yet that they are not without a Judicature over them in those places for the subordinate Officers belonging to a State are bound to judge of the Rights of those that are over them both by which they stand in their places of Supremacy and by which they proceed in their actings toward Subjects lest they be made the instruments of Arbitrary power and tyranny and then also the law-making power which in all Nations resides by the Law of Nature in the convention of the Representatives of the whole body of the people whether it be made up of the heads of families or of chosen Deputies who are intrusted with a delegated power from all the rest doth make or unmake Rights in all places and persons within it self as it from time to time doth see cause HAving thus surveyed the dangerous Positions and Principles of the Presbyterians their brethren that it may be evident to the world that the enemies of our Church are equally enemies to our Monarchy it will not be amiss to lay down some of the Principles of the Papists and the Hobbians In which not to multiply citations we will for one of the first of these take father White who is counted the most moderate of them in his Book Intitled the Grounds of Obedience and Government And for the next Mr. Hobbs himself in his Books one called Leviathan and the other de Cive which he so magnifies that he affirms that part of Philosophy to which the handling of the Elements of Government and Civil Societies belongs is no older than that Book Of the dispossession of a Supreme former Governour and of his Right by Mr. White a Romanist pag. 132. c. in His Grounds of Obedience c. NOw our Question supposeth the Governour not to have come to that extremity but either to have been good or innocent or that it is doubtful whether his excesses deserved expulsion or at least if they did deserve it of themselves yet the circumstances were not fitting for it but the expulsion hapned either by the invasion of a stranger or the ambition of a Subject or some popular headless tumult for these three ways a Magistrate comes forcibly and unjustly to be outed of his power And first if the Magistrate have truly deserved to be dispossessed or it be rationally doubted that he hath deserved it and he be actually out of possession In the former case it is certain the Subject hath no obligation to hazard for his restitution but rather to hinder