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A91153 A brief necessary vindication of the old and new secluded Members, from the false malicious calumnies; 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; ... / By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns-Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1659 (1659) Wing P3913; Thomason E772_2; ESTC R203220 47,789 64

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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 nad 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 acquaintance 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 excéeded 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 Confederate and fellow Champion against me makes use of the Jesuit Barclay his forecited Jesuitical 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 off 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 suae caedis vindictam serio commendaverit Exasperandi etiam sunt mimi Episcorum et Ministrorum Anglicorum proponendo illis Regem Scotiae Calvinismum amplexum esse spe et cupiditate Regni adactumque vi a Baronibus haereticis Quod si vero Regnum Angliae etiam obtineat tum illum cito priorem Religionem revocaturum esse quandoquidem non solum Mater defuncts verum etiam Rex ipse Galliarum summopere ei illam commendarint Quibus modis fiet ut semina belli inextricabilis inter Angliam Scotiam jaciantur 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 into C. Stuarts ears to quicken his memory that the interest of your party was in its infancy founded upon the ruine of HIS GRANDMOTHER continued improved by the perpetual vexation of his GRANDFATHER 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 honor of the execution Dr. Creighton 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 jugularent 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 Flaunders 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 Star called Reason of State as was his GRANDFATHER H. the 4th of France who shifted his Religion to secure a Crown c. These put altogether 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 Independent and Protestant party against Carles 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 Jesuites and Papists greatest advantage who thus suggest it if true purposly to exasperate their Protestant 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 inexcusable malice of Nedham professing himself a Protestant not only in imitating this Jesuitical Romish practice against his own hereditary Protestant Soveraign Ch. Stewart but transcending it many degrees First by pretermitting his beheaded Fathers long education of him in the Protestant Religion whiles he lived and this charge unto him in e Writing a little before his death viz. Above all I would have you as I hope you are already well-grounded and setled in your
manifold affronts injuries provocations reproaches persecutions of some of their own Protestant Subjects their exile from their Protestant Kingdoms their Protestant Friends in France Holland their extreme pressing necessities and the frequent sollicitations arguments perswasions promises temptatious of Priests Jesuites Papists and Popish Princes a to turn Papists as the only means to regain their rights and restore Ch. Stuart to his Crowns and Kingdoms Now that this his forced Exile into France and Flanders by a prevailing party of his own Protestant Subjects against all their Oathes Protestations Vowes Covenants Remonstrances Declarations Allegiances Duties our Known Laws the practice of all the primitive Christian and other Protestant Churches the principle of Christian Religion and of our own Protestant Church both in our Articles Homilies Canons Writers Liturgies and his forced sojourning there amongst Jesuites Papists with his grand necessities of which they have been the only Authors to their own eternal infamy and intollerable scandal dishonour shame reproach of our Protestant Kingdoms Churches Religion enforcing him to cry out with holy King David when forced by Saul and his rebellious Son Absolom out of his Kingdom from Gods Ordinances among Pagan Idolaters Ps. 120. 5. Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech that I dwell in the tents of Kedar My soul hath long dwelt with them that hate peace c. should be thus objected against him by this rayling Shimei and the Authors of it over and over as a convincing evidence that he is sufficiently affected if not sworn to Popery notwithstanding his open constant avowed profession of the Protestant Religion to the admiration of the world the joy of all true Protestants and Gods great glory as well as his own and made now a motive to excite his Protestant Subjects in this juncture of time and revolution of affairs to take up arms afresh against him to keep him still in exile amidst Jesuits Papists and hinder his restitution to his hereditary Kingdoms and the benefit of Gods Ordinances among his own Protestant Subjects for his and their preservation and of the reformed Religion now much endangered by intestin wars the policies of Jesuits and combination of the Pope and Popish Princes to be totally extirpated throughout the world is not only a most unparalleld piece of malice and calumny but the very quintessence of Jesuitism and Jesuitical policy The rather because all our Protestant Bishops Ministers Martyrs in Queen Maries daies when imprisoned by her for their Religion though restored to her Crown against the usurpations of Queen Jane a Protestant by their assistance and the a Suffolk Protestants quorum propter Religionis causam propensissimus favor Janae adfuturum inde sperabatur by their joynt Letter to all their Protestant Brethren recorded in b Mr. Fox not only declared Queen Maries open obstinate profession of Popery to be no just cause in Law or Conscience to keep her from her hereditary Right to the Crown but likewise humbly required and in the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ beseeched all that feared God to behave themselves as obedient Subjects to Her Highness and the Supreme powers ordained under Her and rather after their example to give their Heads to the block than in any wise to rebell against the Lords Anointed Quéen MARY in no point consenting to any Rebellion or Sedition against Her Highness Much lesse then ought his slight suggestions of Ch. Stuarts secret inclination to Popery against his constant avowed profession of Protestantism in the very midst of the most Jesuited Papists to be any argument at all for his Protestant Subjects not to assist but to rise up and rebell against him to keep him from the Crown 3ly The extraordinary sottishnesse and infatuation of those Protestants who will be cheated seduced by such Jesuitical suggestions calumnies as Nedham and others have published of him touching his inclination to Popery to withdraw their affections assistance from him either to supply his necessities or restore him if not to his hereditary Civil Rights yet at least to the comfortable fruition of Gods Ordinances and Christian Society in our Protestant Churches and Kingdom for his spiritual Consolation and Salvation 4ly The most barbarous infernal matchlesse malice of those degenerated Republican and Army-Saints professing themselves Stars of the greatest Magnitude in the Protestant Orb in expelling their undoubted natural hereditary Protestant King not only out of all his own Protestant Realms Dominions but likewise out of Holland and France where he lived in exile and had the relief and society of Protestants into Flanders the most Jesuited place in the world as Nedham prints where are none but Papists enforcing him there to live upon their alms alone and keep him there in Exile on purpose to necessitate him with his Brothers followers adherents to renounce the Protestant Religion and party and become professed Papists to destroy murder his and their souls and bodies at once and deprive him of his eternal Crown in heaven as well as of his temporal Crowns on earth a Be astonished ô heavens and be ye horribly afraid at this unpresidented Tyranny and Treachery the highest Malignity of Jesuitism and express revived Image of the Jesuites design against his Grandfather King Henry the 4. of France who shifting his religion by the Jesuites perswasion to secure his Crown and Life against their malicious designs was soon after b by their instigation deprived of both if not of his eternal Crown by a stab through his heart by one of their disciples though he had bequeathed his heart to them by will and built them a magnificent College richly indowed by him with lands and plate If then c the tree as Christ himself resolves may be certainly known by its fruits we may easily judge from whence these rotten bitter fruits of Jesuitism originally sprung and who were the planters of those trees which bear them But if they cannot effect this infernal design to destroy his Soul and body together yet they will make use of it to murder his reputation and render him a suspected if not a devoted proselyte to Popery to debarr his return to his Protestant Kingdoms d And shall not God visit for these sins Shall not his Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this I shall add a 4th Evidence I only pointed at e before worthy special observation which will fully answer the late printed Sheet intituled A clear Vindication of Roman Catholicks from a foul aspersion cast on them by Mr. Prynne and Mr. Baxster as if they made and headed Sects had a powerful influence upon the Army in relation to their proceedings against the late King and Changes to reduce us under the power of ROME which the namelesse Author saith the chiefest of their Clergy and Laity with whom he hath spoken protest to be a black Calumny Mr. P. and Mr. B. do neither of them charge the Roman Catholicks in general but only the Jesuites