A grave Protestant Gentleman of the Temple last Trinity Term riding up to London meeting with a Popish Gent. of his acquaintance on the way they discoursing of these last Revolutions and changes of Government the Protestant told him that these alterations were but the Plots and productions of the Jesuites and those of his Religion who did but laugh at us in their sleeves to see what fools they made us At which the Papist growing somwhat angry He desired him to be patient since they were antient friends and what he spake was not in jeast or scoff as he took it but in sober sadness desiring him having great acquaintance amongst the Papists to inquire out the truth of what he spake when he came to London where most Papists in England were then assembled for both their satisfactions and to give him an account thereof which he promised to do About 5. or 6. dayes after this Papist told him That according to his request he had made diligent inquiry of the truth of what he spake on the way and that he found all or most of the Iesuites were Knaves they and most of the Iesuited Papists being against the King and wholly for a Commonwealth as being most advantagious for the King of Spains Interest using more words to the same effect Which the Protestant being my old familiar acquaintace about two dayes after related to me in Westminster-hall as a concurrent testimony with that I had published to this effect in my True and perfect Narrative and the Republicans Spurious good old Cause truly Anatomized 3ly Lilly a zealous Republican in his Almanack Anno 1651. prognosticated That the Stars did then promise Acts of Grace and Favor to Popish Recusants who in their Zeal and Loyalty to the New Republike exceeded most Presbyterians An argument it was a creature of the Jesuites and their projection to procure them more grace and favor than before and promote their designs against us 4ly Nedham Rogers his Consederate and fellow Champion against me makes use of the Jesuit Barclay his forecited Iesuitical Principle as the chief corner-stone of our New Parliaments and Republikes structure whereon they are both built And not only so but he useth the very Arguments of Campanella which he prescribed the King of Spain to suggest to the English Nobility Protestants and Clergy to hinder and keep out King James from the Crown of England upon Queen Elizabeths death to disswade and draw them all of from King Charls and oppose his restitution now Campanellaes words are these cap. 25. De Mon. Hispanica p. 207 208. Praeterea suspitionem incutiat amicis Elizabethae saepius iis inculcando fore ut Jacobus in amicis Elizabethae caedem maternam vindicaturus sit c. praesertim cum Maria ipsius mater moriens ei Religionem Catholicam et sue caedis vindictam serio commendaverit Exasperandi etiam sunt mimi Episcoporum Ministrorum Anglicorum proponendo illis Regem Scotiae Calviniâ—mum amplexum esse spe et cupiditate Regni adactumique vi a Baronibus haereticis Quod it vero Regnum Angliae etiam obtineat tum illum cito priorem Religionem revocaturum esse quanddquidem non solum Mater defuncta verum etiam â—ex ipse Galliarum summopere et illam commendarint Quibus modis fier ut semina belli inextricabilis inter Angliam Scotiam â—aciantur c. to keep King James from the Crown Which Nedham thus imitates and pursues with a little variation in his Interest Sect. 3. of the Presbyterians p. 12 13. The Royal party will never leave buzzing in C. Stuarts ears to quicken his memory that the interest of your party was in its infancy founded upon the ruin of HIS GRAND-MOTHER continued and improved by the perpetual vexation of his GRAND-FATHER and at length prosecuted TO THE DECAPITATION OF HIS FATHER Be not so weak as to fool your selves that you shall fare better than others It is the common sence of the Cavaliers that you prepared his FATHER for the block and are incensed at others because they took from you the honour of the execution Dr. Creiton told him That the Presbyterians pulled his FATHER Down and held him by the hair while the Independents cut off his head And after him it was more elegantly expressed by Salmatius Presbyteriani Sacrificium ligarunt Independentes jugularunt c. And p. 5 6. The PAPISTS having had so fair a Creature of the Father for many reasons they have no cause to fear foul dealing from the Son As for HIS RELIGION if any it is at best but a devotion to Prelacy which was bequeathed to him by Legacy All his other pretences of Religion in Scotland he forfeited before ever he left that Countrey What profession he hath since owned abroad hath for reasons of State been kept very close yet not so close but he discovered it But if this be not evident let us have recourse to reason and then consider HOW LONG HE WAS UNDER THE WING OF HIS MOTHERS INSTRUCTIONS IN FRANCE and what a Nursery Flanders hath been for him since which IS THE MOST JESUITED PLACE IN THE WORLD consider also the urgency of his necessities disposing him to imbrace any thing or take any course to get a Crown being under the same influence of the wandring Starre called Reason of State as was his GRAND-FATHER H. the 4th of France who shifted his Religion to secure a Crown c. These put all together into the ballance are ground enough to believe him sufficiently affected if not sworn to Popery Here we have Nedham plowing with Campanella his heifer using his very policy words arguments in substance to exasperate the Presbyterians Independents and Protestant party against Charles Stuart and keep him from the Crown as Campanella suggested to the King of Spain and the English Protestants and Prelates to exasperate them against his Grandfather King James for the self-same end by traducing both in their Religion and meditation of revenge of their respective Mothers and Fathers decollations Here I shall desire the Readers to take special Notice of 4. particulars 1. Of Campanellaes the Jesuites forein Popish Princes and their Instruments Machiavilian practice secretly seriously frequently to suggest to Protestant Subjects that their most Orthodox Protestant Kings and right heirs to the Crown are inwardly inclined and well-affected to Popery that they profess themselves Protestants only for politick ends to gain or retain the Crown that when they are setled in their thrones they will either profess or introduce Popery which would be the Jesuits and Papists greatest advantage who thus suggest it if true purposly to exasperate their Protestanâ— Subjects against and alienate their affections from them yea make them the visible instruments to keep them from their hereditary Crowns to the scandal prejudice of the Protestant Religion though they be most real cordial constant Professors of it And whence such scandalous suggestions originally spring 2ly Of the
A Brief Necessary VINDICATION Of the Old and New SECLUDED MEMBERS from the false malicious CALVMNIES AND Of the Fundamental Rights Liberties Privileges Government Interest of the Freemen Parliaments People of England from the late avowed Subversions 1. Of John Rogers in his Un-christian Concertation with Mr. Prynne and others 2. Of M Nedham in his Interest will not lie Wherein the true Good Old Cause is asserted the false routed The old secluded Members cleared from all pretended breach of trust The old Parliament proved to be totally dissolved by the Kings death The sitting Juncto to be no Parliament and speedily to be dissolved by the Army-Officers The Oathes of Supremacy Allegiance Fealty to the King his Heirs and Successors to be still binding continuing The New Commonwealth to be the Iesuites Project Ch. Stewart not sworn to Popery as Nedham slanders him The restitution of our Hereditary King and Kingly Government not an Vtopian Republike evidenced beyond contradiction to be Englands true Interest both as Men and Christians and the only way to peace safety settlement By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Swainswick Esq a Bencher of Lincolns-Inne The Second Edition Jer. 51. 9 10. We would have healed ENGLISH BABYLON but she would not be healed forsake her and let us go every one to his own Country for her judgement reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God Ps. 63. 11. But the mouth of them that speak Lies shall be stopped London Printed and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1659. A brief necessary Vindication of the Old and New secluded Members c. ON the 17. of this instant September during my private retirement in the Country for my health and quiet I received 2. Books fraught with malicious calumnies bitter scoffs insufferable Reproaches against my Self and other secluded Members yea destructive to the very fundamental Rights Liberties Privileges Government Interest of the Freemen Parliaments and Realm of England for which we have so many years contested The 1. of these thus intituled A Christian Concertation with M. Prynne M. Baxter M. Harrington for the true Cause of the Commonwealth c. by J. Rogers A most scurrilous 〈…〉 fraught with absurd impertinercies conjuring canting new coyned a swelling words of vanity odious comparisons bitter scoffs raysing Epethites b loathsom stinking obscene Queres defiling the very air c boyish tricks playing with mens names and reputations which he d severely censures in others yet is most guilty of himself displaying him to be rather a e conjuring Sorcerer than Gospel-Minister an Apostate scoffing Lucian than sober real Christian standing much in need of the f several Pills he prescribes Mr. Baxster to purge his filthy stomack spleen brain heart pen from such rotten stinking humors for the future almost every page in his book being either g Scandalum Magnum or Scandalum Magnatum to use his own expressions against all dissenting from him but an h egregious flattery of his own faction The 2. Interest will not lie Or a View of Englands True Interest by Marâ— Nedham which had he intituled Interest will lie Or a View of Englands False Interest by Mar. England it had been a true Character of it The first most furiously chargeth me and my secluded companions in the Van the later in the Rear The one with whole Vollies of fired squibs more like a Whiffler than a Mâ—skateer shooting nothing but wild-fire and i bitter words without bullets The other like a Trumpeter rather than a Trooper sounding a fierce charge against us with his Trumpet without wounding us with his Lance or Sword which are very obtuse To avoid prolixity impertinence and repetitions I shall reduce all the material Differences between us into 6. distinct Questions wherin I shall refute what they have published relating to my self the other secluded Members the Rights Privileges Interest of our Parliaments and Nation with all possible Brevity omitting their personal scoffs and scurrilities The 1. Question Question 1 between J. Rogers and Mr. Prynne wherein Nedham hath no share is but this Whether the Defence maintenance of the true Protestant Religion the Kings royal person authority government posterity the privileges and rights of Parliament consisting of King Lords and Commons the Laws Statutes of the Land the Liberty Property of the Subject and peace safety of the Kingdom were the only True and Good Old Cause for which the long Parliament and their Armies first took up Arms in 1642. and continued them till the Treaty with the King 1648. as Mr. Prynne asserts and proves like k a Lawyer by punctual Evidences Witnâ—sses Votes Declarations Remonstrances Ordinances of both Houses yea of the Army-Officers Generals Council during all the wars in his Good Old Cause rightly stated his True and perfect Narrative The Re-publicans and others spurious Good Old cause briefly and truly anatomized and in his Concordia Discors Or whether the erecting of a New Commonwealth and Parliament without a King and House of Lords and Majority of the Commons House upon the ruines of the late King Kingdom Parliament since 1648. to 1653. and the reviving of it May 7. 1659. by some swaying Army-Officers and the farr Minor part of the old Commons House confederating with them by meer armed power secluding the greatest Number of the surviving Members and whole House of Lords Which J. Rogers endeavors to prove like a Logician without any evidence witness but his own Ipse scripsit though l professedly disclamed by both Houses of Parliament and the Army too in sundry printed Declarations as the highest scandal never once entring into their loyal thoughts When this Logician with all his Sophistry Anatomy Pills Physick can make that which was never in being but since 1648. as we all know and himself asserts in his Concertation p. 7 9. to be the Good Old Cause in being m long before the last Parliament of King Charles for whose defence they first took up arms in 1642. Or that cause which never once entred into their thoughts and was professedly disclamed till 1648. to be the cause they proclamed and fought for from the wars beginning he must yeeld up his Spurious Good Old Cause as desperate his scurrillous Goos-quils to use his n own words dashing the GALL of his ink upon Mr. Prynnes former papers to little purpose in this particular but to blot them a little not to answer them a line nor the Argument of them in the least The 2. Question is this Question 2 Whether Mr. Prynne with the Majority of the Commons House and whole House of Peers were forcibly secluded the Parliament by the Army for any real breach and forfeiture of their trusts in 1648. or ever legally impeached convicted thereof either then or since before any lawfull
though afterwards watching their opportunity they cut off the Kings head and some of the Lords as he did his Friends suppressed the whole House of Lords and secluded most of their fellow Commoners yet they do not set either their heads sculls or any of their surviving persons before them in the House when they consult upon every or any weighty matter nor tell them what they purpose And yet they and these their Advocates tell us and others They do not violate their Protestations Vows Covenants nor yet break their Oathes Whether of them are the greatest Hypocrites Impostors let the world now judge The 5. Question between John Rogers and me alone is this Whether the Jesuites and our forein Spanish Quest 5 French and other Common Popish Adversaries were the Original Plotters and Vnder-hand fomentors of the change of our antient Hereditary Kingship and Kingdom into a NEW COMMON-WEALTH and of the late Exorbitant violent Proceedings against the King Parliament and secluded Members to accomplish this their design Mr. Prynne hath abundantly proved the affirmative by punctual Testimonies out of Parsons Campanella Watson Clerke Richelieu's Instructions Conte Galeazzo the Lord Digbies and others Letters Mutatus Polemo and other Evidences by pregnant Reasons and Demonstrations both à priori et posteriori in his Speech Memento Epistles to his New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny Jus Patronatus Seasonable Vindication The Republicans Good Old Cause anatomized and in his Narrative p. 18 19 20. 40 to 64. 85 to 89. These Evidences a J. Rogers neither doth nor can deny in any particular only he contradicts the Conclusion as not sufficiently warranted by the premises when as most judicious Protestants of all professions and degrees who have seriously perused them are abundantly satisfied and conclude the contrary to this Johannis ad oppositum who bestows whole sheets and vollies of rayling Epithites Scurrilous scoffs unchristian * obscene Quaeres and sarcasmes upon me only upon this accompt that I have translated the Odium and guilt of the contriving someting the late Gunpowder Treason which blew up our King Kingdom Parliament Lords House and Kingly Government to erect a New Republike from the Protestants to the Jesuits and those of their religion who plotted the old one and would have fathered it on the Puritans had it taken the like effect as this hath done which I thought would have deserved thanks rather than such reproachfull usage from such a Zealot as he pretends to be But since he will needs appropriate the glory and honour of this last Powder-Plot transcending the former to those worthies for whom he pleads and to himself and his disciples and allow the Jesuits a many of whom he confesseth are doubtlesse in England under disguises and folding-dores p. 35. no share at all in its projection or execution I shall no waies envy them this new Garland wherewith he Crowns their Temples let them wear it in triumph to their graves or Tyburn I shall not envy them this new Crown of glory of which they are so ambitious that Rogers spends many leaves p. 27 to 37. to evade the Authors I quote to prove the Commonwealth a spurious issue of the Jesuits projection by his impertinent answers to them 1. He endeavours to evade my quotations of Parsons and Campanella the first projectors of turning our English Kingdom into an Holland Commonwealth by the agency of the Jesuits confederating with Anabaptists and other Sectariet agreeing with them in Antimonarchical principles by the help of a prevalent seduced party in the Parliament house when purged reformed after Parsons new models and by raising wars tumults in the Realm and then infusing this Principle into the Common Soldiers people and every Precape or factious multitude getting the Title of a Publique State or Helvetian Commonwealth to examin their Soveraigns by what Title they hold their Crowns and to alter change the course inheritance and succession of the Crown and publike Government at their pleasures and disscise the right heirs general to the Crown and put them to their Formedon to recover them To which he answers 1. That these their Politicks were calculated to the State of the Nation as it was in Queen Elizabeths time when they writ to divide us with factions and divisions at home stir up the seeds of an inexplicable irreconcilable war between England and Scotland to deprive King James of the Crown of England to promote the Spaniards interest and hinder the English from infesting his Fleet and Indies Ergo the Jesuites were not the original projectors of turning our Kingdom into a Common-wealth though he produceth none else before or besides them nor yet prosecuted this design so long since laid afresh as I have proved they did in 1647. and 1648. for the self-same ends in substance by the self-same means and instruments 2ly He saith I should prove that This this is the same Commonwealth they plotted then in every circumstance I prove it produced by the same instruments means pattern they prescribed and that it pursued the same ends designs which is sufficient and punctua◠The rather because himself and those he pleads for are not yet agreed what form or kinde of creature their new Common-wealth shall be they being much divided about it as himself attests who spends some sheets against Mr. Harringtons and others Models of it 3ly He adds their design proved abortive in Qu. Elizebeths reign and in the powder-plot against King James What then Ergo they pursued it not since as I prove by late pregnant Testimonies and more than probable arguments is a meer inconsequent 4ly He objects the Jesuits Commonwealth admits no toleration of Religions never was against Kingship and the Office of it as theirs is nor hath any similitude with Jesuitism All false the Jesuits pleaded alwayes for i a free toleration of religion in England that themselves might be tolerated though they deny it elsewhere they are k professed enemies to the office as well as persons of all Protestant yea and most Popish Kings and projected to make us a Common-wealth upon this account in opposition to Kingship it hath similitude with Iesuitism both in its principles witness those of Barclay and Mariana cited by Nedham whereon he founds it and in its practices of murdering Protestant Kings blowing up Parliaments absolving Subjects from their Oath and Allegiance c. by which it was founded supported revived What else he allegeth is but meer Froth of his wanton brain and scurrillous pen unworthy reply Only because he calls upon me for more evidence if I have it to prove his Good Old Cause and Commonwealth a Plot of the Iesuites I shal gratify him herein 1. Hugh Peters himself very well acquainted of late years with the Jesuits persons plots principles practices in his Letter to a great Army-Officer quoted by himself p. 12. stiles it A Cheat of the Iesuites put upon the Army and that with much regret of heart and spirit 2ly
Person and support his Estate with our lives and fortunes to the uttermost of our power And by our loyal affections actions and advice lay a sure and lasting foundation of the greatness and prosperity of his Majesty and his royal posterity in future time Mark their reason For though the happiness of this and all other Kingdoms dependeth chiefly upon God Yet we acknowledge that it doth so mainly depend upon His Majesty and the Royal Branches of that Root that as we have heretofore so we shall hereafter esteem no hazard too great no reproach too vile but that we shall willingly go through the one and undergo the other that we and the whole Kingdom may enjoy that happiness which we cannot in an ordinary way of providence expect from any other Fountain or Streams than those from whence were the poyson of evil Counsels once removed from about them we doubt not but we and the whole Kingdom should be satisfied most abundantly The Philosopher * Seneca asserts That all Nations are most ready not only to guard and defend their King though old or decrepit but to preserve his life with the hazard of thousands of their own not out of any basenesse or frenzie but because it is their own interest and safety Ille est enim vinculum per quod Respublica cohaeret ille spiritus vitalis quem haec tot millia traâ—unt nihil ipsa per se futura nisi onus praeda si mens illa imperii subtrabatur * Rege incolumi mens omnibus una Amisso rupêre fidem Hic casus Romanae I may add Anglicae paciâ— exitium erit hic tanti fortunam populi in ruinas aget Tamdiu ab illo periculo aberit hic populus quamdiu sciat ferre fraenos quos si aliquando abruperit vel aliquo casu discussos reponi sibi passus non erit haec unitas et hic maximi Imperii contextus iâ— partes multas dissiliet idemque huic urbi Dominandi finis erit qui parendi fuerit which we have found true by sad experience Ideo Principes Regésque non est mirum amari ultra privatas â—stam necessitudines Nam si sanis hominibus publica privatis potiora sunt sequitur ut 〈◊〉 quoque carior sit in quem se Respublica convertit Olim enim ita se induit Reip Caesar ut diduci alterom non possit sine utriusque pernicie nam ut illi viribus opus est ita et huic capite Therefore let Nedham Rogers or other Pseudo politicians scrible what they please to flatter any prevalent ambitious covetous faction or Grandees whatsoever yet if all our antient Parliaments Lords Commons Seneca our own experience God himself or Solomâ—n the wisest of men of Kings may be credited Prov. 24. 21. c. 28. 2. Eccles 8 2 3. c. 12 13. Hos. 10. 3 7. Hab. 1. 10 14 15. Ezech. 37. 19. to 28. Zach 9. 9. Lam 4. 20 there is no other probable safe speedy way to prevent our ruine cloze up our breaches settle our Church State upon lasting foundations and recover their pristine honor wealth peace unity prosperity but by restoring our hereditary King and Kingship the real Interest of all England and of Scotland and Ireland too both as Men and Christians which we ought in prudence justice conscience dutie pietie loyaltie now zealously constantly unanimously to pursue against all contradictions oppositions of any private persons parties self interests whatsoever who if they had any true fear of God any conscience of their former Oathes Protestations Vows Covenants Declarations Remonstrances any Loyaltie to their hereditarie King any bowels of compassion or cordial affection to their Native Countries peace safety ease settlement or zeal to the Reformed Religion would like that heroick publike spirited Pagan Roman Emperor * Otho chuse rather to make a voluntary sacrifice of themselves and all their usurped power as he did against all the dissuasions of his Army Soldiers Friends relinquishing the Empire to Vitellius his competitor than imbroil the Empire and Romans any longer in bloudy destructive wars not against Hannibal Pyrrhus or any other common Enemies 〈◊〉 â—ome 〈◊〉 against the Romans themselves wherein both the 〈◊〉 and conquered did but weaken ruine and destroy their own Country Nation by their contests and make themselves a derision prey to their forein Enemies as our Grandees do now For the Negative That the late revived yet unformed Commonwealth and its future establishment to prevent a Relapse to Kingly Government neither is nor can be Englands true interest as men or Christian is evident by the premises and these ensuing Reasons 1. It never was once in imagination or projection of the Parliament or Army before the year 1648. but only of the Jesuites Campanella and our Spanish French Popish adversaries purposely to ruine our Protestant Kings Kingdom Religion 2. It was professedly disclaimed * voted declared against as Treasonable and destructive to the being of Parliaments and fundamental Government of the Kingdom when objected by the Kings party 1642. and propounded to the House by the Levellers and Agitators by both Houses of Parliament and the General Council of Officers in the Army in June July August November 1647. 3. The Commonwealth contested for as Englands Interest is as yet but only Ens in potentia or meer Chaos a rudis indigestaque moles b without form and void and darkness is upon the face of it the chief Sticklers for it being not yet accorded what kinde of creature it shall be and much divided both in their debates judgements affections opinions concerning it Some would have it to be an c Aristocraty others a Democraty many a Theocraty some an Oligarchy Many are for a Roman some for an Athenian others for a Lacedemonian not a few for a Venetian another partie for a Helvetian or Dutch Commonwealth Some for a vast body with two heads others for a head with two bodies a third sort for a body without any head printing against each others models with much eagerness Now that such an Individuum vagum rude Chaos and Commonwealth as this not yet agreed upon should be Englands Interest and THE GOOD OLD CAUSE aâ—Rogers Nedham Harrington and others would make men believe is not only a Fancy but Frenzy to aâ—â—irm seeing Englands Interest was ever in being since it was a Kingdom and their Vtopian Republike like the Chymists Philosophersâ—stone never yet in esse but in fieri or fancy at the most and a meer NEW NOTHING as their Mercuries inform us 4ly The late unshaped revived Commonwealth and pretended Free State at its first erection like a prodigious All devouring unsatiable Monster raiâ—ed our monethly contributions from 3â— to one hundred and sixscore thousand pounds contribution each moneth and since its new revival hath raised a whole years tax upon our exhausted purses in 3. Months space and then imposed no lesse than one hundred thousand pounds each Moneth in
lieu of the former 35 thousand besides Excises Customs New intollerable Militiaes amounting to thrice as much more Besides it consumed all the Crown-lands Church-lands publike Revenues of our 3. Kingdoms with thousands of Delinquents estates all alienated dissipated being more expensive oppressive wastefull to our Nation in ten years space than all our Kings since the Norman Conquest or Saxon line only to make us greater slaves to our late Mercinary Army Servants Fellow Subjects than ever we were to our beheaded King or any of his roial predecessors whose a loyns were nothing so heavy as their little finger chastising us with Scorpions in new arbitrary tyrannical Committees High Courts of Justice and other exorbitant Judicatures when as our Kings corrected us but with rods It hath subverted our Kings Parliaments Peers Laws Liberties Properties Great Charters legal Courts Writs Seals Commissions Judges Justices Sheriffs Officers Coynâ— Government destroyed our publike and private wealth Trade Unitie Amitie Peace Timber Palaces Woods Shipping and many thousands of our gallantest Sea-men Land-men by bloudy wars with our Protestant Brethren Allies and brought us to the very brink of ruin in all our Civil Concernments as Men As Christians by its toleration fomentation of Sects Heresies of all sorts it hath shaken undermined in a great measure the very Deitie of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost the Trinitie of Persons and Unitie in the Godhead the Authoritie Divinitie of the Scriptures all the Artiâ—les of the Creed the Sacraments Ministers and Ministrie of the Gospel the Fabricks of many the Freeholds of all the maintenance of most of our Churches Ministers all now meer Tenants at sufferance and removable sequestrable taxable at our Republican Grandees pleasures yea their new Heralds Baylifs to proclame in Churches whatever they prescribe under pain of ejectment or their heaviest indignation In brief the introduction of our unshaped Republike by Perjurie Treacherie Violence bloud fraud Injustice destruction of our Protestant Kings Lords Parliaments hath made many zealous professors of Religion Jesuites in their policies principles practises a Atheists in their works Christ himself and the Gospel as the Atheistical Pope esteemed them a meer Fable in the repute of many yea the Protestant Religion a meer seminary of Treason Rebellion Sedition Hypocrisie Perjury Disloyalty Villany Ataxy Antimonarchy and the zealous Professors of it the meer firebrands of Rebellion Sedition high Treason against their Soveraigns in the estimation of b Foreign Jesuits Papists and Popish Princes who endeavour their total extirpation throughout the world as such And can it be then Englands true Interest as Men or Christians 5. J. Rogers himself the Grand Champion for the Good Old Cause and Commonwealth in his Concertation p. 100 103 104 116 117. informs us That Commonwealths are alwayes subject to frequent changes and alterations every one more oppressive tyrannical cruel bloudy prejudicial destructive to the peoples Liberties properties lives than the other instancing in the Romans and Athenians which committed the greatest outrages upon the people being little better than a daily Massacre of the most eminent Worthies and Hangmen Tormentors of the Commons Which Vicissitudes Alterations proved the Athenians utter destruction and may be a fair warning to us because the Causes of such mutations are the most dangerous Commotions which tend to the Ruine of All as he proves but of Aristotle Polit. l. 5. c. 1. for prevention whereof he prescribiâ— 12 Considerations unable to cure the fluctuatinge uncertain state and mischief of a Commonwealth of which we have already had and shall sodenly have again sufficient experience And can a Commonwealth then be Englands present or future Interest in any sence In brief as it is the beautie safety interest of every natural living body whether of men beasts fowls fishes or creeping things to have only one head to govern one Soul to animate it by Gods own most divine and wise institution a two-headed bodie being an unnatural uselesse Monster and a double-souled man creature unstable in all his wayes Jam. 1. 8. So it is the safetie beautie interest ligament of every Politick bodie whatsoever Hence we find not only in all Monarchies but in all Republikes themselves one Master over every Family one Mayor over every City one Rector over every College School Hospital Fraternitie one Sheriff over every County one Governor over every Province one Rector over every Parish Church and Congregation as there is but ‖ one King Lord Head Mediator Jesus Christ over the Catholike Church one Pilot over every ship one Admiral in chief over every Fleet and in Armies themselves one General and Chief Commander over every Army Brigade Partie one Colonel over every Regiment one Captain over every Companie Troop one Governor over every Fort Garison both abroad and at home a Pluralitie of Lords Masters Generals Governours Rectors c. being alwaies in all and every of these not only dangerous troublesom inconvenient chargable but distractive and destructive too as all Ages Nations have concluded from reason and experience Therefore a Monarchical hereditarie Kingly Government let Rogers Nedham and our Innovating frantick Republicans prate what they will must be Englands true and only Interest honor safety felicity both as Men and Christians so long as there shall be but * one Sun in the heavens to rule the day and one Moon the night Monarchy and One-nesse being the only Ground ligament of Peace Unity Safety both in Church State but Polarchie the cause of ruin confusion as God only wise resolves against all brain sick Novellers Ephes. 4. 3 4 5. 6 1 Cor. 8. 6. c.. 12. 4 5 6 11 to 31. Pro. 28. 2. Isay 19. 2 3. c. 9. 19 20 21. Ezech. 37. 22 to 28. 1 Kings 14. 30. c. 15. 7. 16. Let this last Question be now put to all the Freemen of the English Nation and of Scotland Ireland too whom it all alike concerns and the a Army with those b now sitting have formerly voted TO BE THE ONLY SUPREME AUTHORITY OF THE NATION and themselves to be but their Servants not their Soveraigns and therefore cannot in reason justice conscience deny them or any of them the freedom of their voices herein in the present juncture of our affairs and then I dare pawn my reputation life against my Antagonists I shall have above a thousand voices concurring with me to one consenting with them And having both Vox Populi and Vox Dei too thus suffragating with me in the Supreme universal Parliament of all English Freemen without the House I hope no private Persons not commissioned by the peoples free elections will presume to contradict or repeal their Major Vote within the Commons House though they have thrice secluded me out of it by armed guards before any legal Accusation trial or conviction whatsoever from pleading of this their publike cause therein which I wholly submit to their Universal Censure and Decision
till we can gain a full and free much-desired legal Parliament in both houses to resolve this doubt which Gods wonderâ—working Providence I trust will ere long effect by dashing the Army and their new Juncto sudainly in pieces against each other and turning them all out of dores with greater contempt violence hatred dissipation than before April 20. 16â—3 〈◊〉 being a principle in Law Policy Nature Eodem modo quo quid constituitur dissolvitur and a just Judgement of God to cast them out of the House for their most treasonable Vsurpation of a Regal and Parliamental power over the whole three Kingdoms and secluding the majority of their fellow Members against all Rules of Law Justice Conscience the Rights Privileges of Parliament and their former Protestation League Covenant Remonstrances by the self-same Armyâ—Officers who secluded them by their confederacie and now have called them in again for the ends recited in my Narrative Which if they refuse to prosecute at the Armies and Sectaries instigation John Rogers his scurrilous Passages and Queres against the old secluded Members p. 7 38 39 c. and Neâ—hams large Justification of their former seclusion upon false irrational Jesuitical Principles will sufficiently animate them to thrust their Masters out of doors uppon the self-same reasons and false pretences he allegeth for that seclusion with their approbation yea Rogers his discontented Passages forecited p. 46 47. threaten some sudden approaching storm and ejection to them which they shall not escape Nec enim Lex justior ulla Quam necis artifices arâ—i perire suâ So that all the surviving re-secluded Members and our oppressed wearied Nations shaâ—e ere long once more have cause to say and sing with the Kingly Prophet Ps. 9. 15 16. The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net which they â—id is their own foot taken The Lord is known by the judgement which be executeth the wicked is snared in the works of his own hands Haggaion Sâ—lah 〈◊〉 Sept. 23. â—6â—0 FINIS a 2 Pet. 2. 18. Jude 16. b In his p. 35. to 41. c Page 4. 119. d p. 20 21 22 24 98 57. e His own phrases p. 3 4. f p. 59 65 26. g p. 24 25. h p. 10 17 18 19 c. i Psal. 64. 3. k Rogers p. 2. l See my Speech Dec. 4. 1648. p. 79 to 94. m As himself proves Concertation p. 43 44. n page 1. a Page 36 3â— * Recorded in the Statute Books of â—topia or his lying Mercuries but no where else b In my Epistle before my speech Dec. 4. 1648. And Vindication of the secured and secluded Members a Tertull. Apologia pro Christianis * Col. Rich his election at Cyrencester as foul as any * And 8 of them by writs after the Kings death as Mr. Cycil that self-degraded Earl of Salisbury and others a See the Epistle Appendix to my Speech 1648. a John 8. 44. a The Armies Declaration Apr. 20 1653. August 22. 1653. And a true state of the Common-wealth of England p. 8 10. a See the second Part of my Register Kalendar of all Parliamentary Writs Objection a Nedham p. 31. * As they have done now again Octob. 13. since this was first printed a See their Declaration c Votes M. 17. for suppressing the Lords House b See my plea for the Lords * Pag. 35. to 42. a Deut. 17. 8 c. 19. 15. John 7. 51. Acts 19. 38. c. 25. 17. Magna Carta c. 29. Cook ibidem b see my Plea for the Lords p 424 to 460. * In his Bridebush * He dyed a Jesuit in the Jesuits College at Rome * See Speed Tâ—ussel Holinshed Walsingham Hall Stow and others in R. 2. H. 4. My Plea for the Lords p. 424 to 456. * Especially the Members sitting by writs issued by the Keepers of the Liberties of England after the Kings beheading †Of 120 â—00 thousand pounds a Month by a Whitehall Ordinance * which by the fame Law reason they have since thrust out of dores usurped the Supreme Legislative power to their General Council of Army Officers Committee of Safety repealing nulling their Junctoâ—s Acts Orders Proceedings to all intents whatsoever in their Declaration Oct. 27. 1659. a See the Acts Votes Declarations against them * As the General Council of Officers of the Army in their Declaration Octo. 27. 1659. p. 18 19. intend to do * Much lesse their General Council of the Army-Officers and New Committee of Safety * And Fleetwood with his New Committee of Safety now * Page 40 41. * Totles Magna Carta f. 52. Hen. de Knyghton de Event Angl. l. 3. c. 14. My Plea for the Lords p. 268 269 278 279 280 193. Exact Abridgement p. 53. 195 368 376 to 385. * Hobards Reports p. 155. 183. a P 27 to 36. * P. 34 to 41. i See their printed Petitions to that effect to King James Mr. Edwards Gangraenaes and Treatise against Toleration k See my Epistle before my Historical and Legal Vindicaâ—ion e {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 235. to 251. a See Militiere his victory of truth dedicated to him Mutatus Polemo P. 32 33. a Rerum Anglicarum Annales Lond 1616. p. 3. p. 116. Mr. Fox Vol. 3. b Acts and Monuments Vol. 3. p. 101 102. a Jer. 2. 12. b See the General History of France Hospinian Ludovicus Lucius Hist. Jesuitica l. 3. c. 2. Speculum Jesuiticum p. 75. 80. c Mat. 7. 16 20. d Jer. 5. 9 29. e True perfect Narrative p. 62. a 23 Eliz. c. 1. 27 Eliz. c. 2. 1 Jac. c. 4. 3 Jac. c. 5. * Rogers p. 6 10 37 38. 119. Nedham p. 32 c. * See Gildas Beda Aethelâ—ed 〈◊〉 Mat. Westminster Geoffry Monmouth Wigorniensis Malmsbury Huntingdon Hoveden Matt. Paris Walsingham Simeon Dâ—nelmensis Brompton Knyghton Holinshed Grafton Speed Fox Baker Cambdens Britannia * 25 H. â— c. 22. 1 Eliz. c. 1 3 4. 5 Jac. c. 1 2. with the Acts in the Narrative 〈…〉 * See Rastal Treason Crown Provision Praemunire Rome Recusants †See An Exact Collection and Collection Of them My Speech Memento Prynne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrester The Good Old Cause truly stated * Isay 49. 23. c. 60. 3 10 11. †Ps. 72. 10 11. Isa. 42. 4 12. c. 51. 5. c. 60. 3 9 10. c. 66. 19. * Ps. 63. 3. a Cl. 22 E. 1. dors 10 11. Cl. 24 E. 1. d. 8. 10. Cl. 27 E. 1. d. 7. Cl. 32 E. 1. d. 7. 16. Cl. 34 E. 1. d. 9. 16. Cl. 35 E. 1. d. 9. 15 17. b Liber Regalis Ms. The Breef of the Rites Prayers used at the Kings Coronation Ms. * Gal. 6. 7. a See their Declaration May 6. 1659. b Exact Collection p. 663 664 695 696 See p. 631 632 633. 641 to 645 657 658. * De Clementia l. 1. c. 3 4. * Virgil Georg l. 2. * â—uetonius Tacitus Eutropius plutarch Grimston in his life * Exact Collection p. 657 658 695 696 See my Speech p. 80 81 101 102 103. a Ovid Metamorph lib. 1. b Gen. 1. 2. c Rogers Concertation p. 62 70 c. a 2 Chron. â—0 10. a Titus 1. 16. 2 〈◊〉 1. 1. Jude 4. b Cornelius Cornelii Praefatio in Minores Prophetas Militiere his Victory of Truth See my Narrative p. 55. ‖ Ezech. 37. 23. Ephes. 4. 4 5 6. 1 Cor. 8. 4 6. * Gen. 1. 16. Psalm 136. 8. a In their Agreement of the people Declaration 20. Nov. 1648. b Jan. 6. 1648.