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The causes of the diseases and distempers of this kingdom; found by feeling of her pulse, viewing her urine, and casting her water. The remedies are left to the skill and direction of more able and learned physitians. / Written by John Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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Wing T437; Thomason E305_20; ESTC R200327
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Queene and Prince or Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to the King or Prince and all Officers to be put out and your selves or your Creatures placed in their roomes because this could not be granted then you will have it by violence of Fire and Sword And this was the great necessity you pretend and speake of Because these things could not be obtained you finding the multiplicity and simplicity of Sectaries you have made execrable use of their Repugnancie to our Church-Government established by Law hoping that by your Cunning fishing in these troubled Waters to gaine your ends of ambition profit malice and revenge which doth now appeare to all seeing men to be the ground of this horrid Rebellious Warre For first to beginne with the Church what can you find there amisse for Reformation that you do not first condemne the Apostles themselves and all the Catholick Church ever since for is it possible you can perswade Rationall men that the Government of the Vniversall Church could be so suddainly changed from the Prâ—sbyterian Government which you straine to support supposed or seeming to you to be setled by the Apostles Is it not meer madnesse to thinke that the Government so setled of Bishops should so quickly cast out the Presbytery and that the said Episcopall Function and dignity hath so continued these 1600 years and not one Godly Christian in so long time to be found no not one of note or Antiquity untill k Mr John Knox his time But more strange it appears to me that in all other Reformed places there is not that warmth or fire of zeale to be found anywhere but in Scotland only that will kill and slay all the English to make them obey their Kirke or rather Querke Government which is to pretend holinesse and brotherly love to cheat us of our Wealth quiet and Peace I will not meddle or speake of Reformed Churches God keep them in unity and Tranquillity But because I have been in Scotland and have seen somewhat but have heard and Read much more of their Querk and their Ecclesiasticall government I will say this that I cannot find any great difference between the Iesuit and them The Jesuit would have the Pope only to have all the Spirituall and Temporall powers of the World in him And the Presbyterians would be every one a severall Pope And this I will say and my opinion hath thousands to agree with it that it is more milde and tolerable to live under the Spanish Inquisition then under their Presbyterian Querke Authority and Tyranny which in a word hatches Rebellion seems and seeks sway and domination over their King with all his Loyall Subjects Lands and Riches and this is truly verily and sincerely their only zeale They may remember that the Raigne of Queen Elizabeth and hir Royall favour with the Ayde of the English Nation should not ingratefully be forgotten it is not many yeares since that they fear'd that the French made Warre in Scotland to settle the Romish Religion there which they then thought to be an unreasonable proceeding by Strangers at which time they had recourse to the Crowne of England for their preservation which then relieved them and I have read in their Service-Book of their Church of Prayers Thanks and Vowes that they would never be against the English Crowne but spend their lives for the service thereof And now behold the Perfidious and most abhorr'd ingratitude of these Monsters their thankfulnesse is exprest in Killing and Ruining us and taking our Townes from us But l Mr Henderson will say that the Scottish Nation in thankfulnesse for that good turne they come now in Gud suith to shew their brotherly love to deliver us from Popery I must confesse that in your comming you shew'd a great deale of Affection to us but you should have been better welcome if you had had so much manners to have staid 'till the King had sent for you Besides your care for us is very much to be admired and Respected that you took our danger of Popery into your gud Considerations when as neither the King or His Counsell nor any honest man in the whole Kingdom neither could can or shall perceive any such an alteration or purpose O but my Lord Lowden and my Lord Say and Mr Hambden perceived it through the Perspective Glasse of their high Wisdomeâ—and they sent for you But was your Prayers and Vowes made to my Lord Say or Mr Hambden or for and to the Crowne of England I know you will say it was not to the Crowne but to the People that you owe your thankfulnesse though it may be made good by Record that that vast expence for your deliverance was meerly from the Crowne and then so acknowledged by Record as may be proved But the Scriptures are now better understood by my Lord Lowden and Mr Henderson for now the People are above the King for Kings and Emperours are but the Presbyterians m Curredoggs to keep the Wolfe from their Flock when they command them And therefore they say they being called into England by the Parliament they understand in their Politique Capacity that they are called by the King when God knowes the King had too many English Rebells and Traitors to molest Him His People and Kingdom so that we had no occasion to send for strange Rebells of another Nation to ruine us n totally I will say nothing by whose authority the Parliament is called nor by whose Writ they meet nor that there was ever any Act or Law made without the Kings Confirmation these things have been handled discus'd by more Learned men then my selfe I will have nothing to doe with things that are so transcendent above my Reach But I would gladly let you know we are not Ignorant of your craft and subtilty in seeming to make those few Members at Westminster to be the Parliament because you and they have Covenanted to divide the Spoyle and Government of this Kingdom amongst you For first you know when you were on your Mattch with your Army there were three times the number of Lords wrote unto you from Oxford to disavow your calling in then there were at Westminster to call you Besides the promises therein made o you the which it is not unlikely but you may have cause to repent the not accepting And for the Members of the Commons House the World knowes that the Major part were then at Oxford But you will make walls and Stones to be the Houses of Parliament to serve your ends even as the Westminster men doe to cover their Treason and Rebellion cause and appoint their p Tub-Orators and Pamphletteers to inform the People that the King makes Warre against His Parliament when in truth if they mean the Parliament by the greater number of the Lords and Commons the Parliament in that sense are either with the King or for the King But the Authors and pursuers of this accursed