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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44838	The Common-wealtsh's [sic] remembrancer for discovery of the disturbers of her peace with a loving reproof to such offendors and a caveat to others to beware of them / by a friend to peace with truth and true liberty, R.H.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3222A; ESTC R6707	26,466	36

pressing and earnestly perswading men speedily to take that solemn Oath and many that could not be so brought under their yoke must be enforced thereto some by losse of Estates or liberty others by losse of their Places Offices and Imployments and all refusers thereof stiled Malignants and enemies to the Common Wealth though many such refusers were then with their Swords and lives as in their hands for the Parliament and your Liberties whereby divers of your friends and faithfull servants were displaced and rejected as Offenders and then under this Cloak and Mask of naming the most high God and that Covenant all other their inventions must be sheltered ushered in and carried on and the greatest part of their Sermons be of the excellency of your so entering into Covenant as they said with God and of the benefits thereby accruing to them that so did and the danger of refusing such an opportunity so to do and this being thus carried on to the height in the next place they could tell you how the Oath of God was upon you how you had lifted up your hands to God and of the great Danger of breaking Covenant with him with their then new sense and Meaning thereof according to the then occasion to be observed upon the highest penalties although it may be boldly asserted and let that of God in every mans Conscience answer him whether themselves that made it taking them severally and jointly or any other persons that took it then did or yet do understand it so as to say positively this and no other is the meaning of any one of the six branches thereof the interpretations thereupon may be and are so particularly various Neither is it to be supposed that the Contrivers thereof ever intended it should be understood by any man but that all should admire it and be satisfied with their respective meanings thereupon however differing therein not onely one from another at one and the same time but on all occasions using the same as a Ladder to climb up into Authority over your souls bodies and estates more generally and Tyrannically then the later Bishops exercised could they have gotten up to their intended height And were not some of these the men that stirred up discontents in the Citizens of London against divers faithfull men there intrusted with the Militia perswading that none were fit to have to do with the Militia in that City that were then of the Parliaments Army they call'd Sectaries or disaffected to the ends of their said Covenant holding forth this Covenant to make way for them in all their Designs new Canons Constitutions Directorie c. whereby their Congregationall Classicall Provinciall and Nationall Courts were to take their Rise and be established to enslave and vex you with continuall suits and attendance from one of their said Courts to another and all under the specious pretence of Religion Rules and Ordinances for the worship and service of God and good of his Church 12. When the faithfull servants of the Common-Wealth in the Army and elsewhere were discouraged and divers of them displaced as aforesaid where or what sort of men procured also the bringing into these places many loose prophane and disorderly persons that could complie take Oaths and Covenants as directed And were not the Parliaments then three Armies thereby speedily brought into a kind of Confusion amongst themselves and rendred unfit for your service and on the other hand the King not onely became Master of the considerable Garrisons but also of the field it selfe and was it not even then many of these mens great cry that God was against the Armies and they prospered not because their Covenant was not generally taken and strictly observed and that the Government of the Church was not established as they advised and directed whereupon the Parliament was necessitated to take notice of the approaching danger to themselves you the Lord in mercy directing then drew forth of those three Armies one intire Army and therein again imployed these faithfull and valiant men that before were so put forth and others like faithfull persons were therewith joined and united hearts and hands together under their then truly noble faithfull and self denying Generall their Lieutenant Generall and Major Generall and other like Officers and obedient valiant Soldiers to the great and generall dissatisfaction of those Covenant Makers yet still they presse to have their Covenant enforced upon that Army also as knowing no other way to break it and that at such time when under God the very safety and externall welfare of this Common-wealth lay at the stake upon that Armies Proceedings and here none else to stand in the gap c. and when some of the said Covenant-Makers and others of that sort had by their endeavours as was then said prevailed with the Scots Officers and other old Souldiers to withdraw themselves from and leave that Army as designed for destruction whereof the Lord of Hosts was pleased to make another manner of use contrary to their expectations and when that Design took not how shamelesly did divers of those men rail against revile and asperse that Army labouring by all means to bring an Odium upon it by false Reports and slanders and who were they that then prevailed with the said Scottish Officers and others to wait in London and Westminster untill they should see the destruction of that Army they call'd the inconsiderable number of Rawheads new Noddle c. whom said some the Kings Party will soon make an end of and then the said Officers would be sought to might make their own conditions be imploy'd according to their desires What should I say more of the railing accusations then brought against that Army they called Sectaries prophesying the ruine of the whole c. in case these men were continued in Arms thereby to weaken all hands in the time of the Parliaments greatest weakness how many of these troubles did manifest their grief and sorow of heart when they understood the King prevailed not against that army they called sectaries at Naseby fight much taken notice of in and about the said Cities at that time whereby it is evident that these of that sort of men with the King and others from him were then indifferently agreed any way to do their own business as hath appeared since to your sorrow sad sufferings and loss 13. Who were they that held correspondence one with another and employed spyes in all parts of the land under colour of getting intelligence of errours and heresies held as they said by some Officers and others of that Army which one called Dr. Edwards a Priest then in London did especially manage and what strange things had they thereby invented to charge that Army with and which were then put into print in severall books one after another by the said Edwards called his Gangreens stuft with Mistakes forged inventions and filthy lies stil pressing their Covenant to prevent

and how Authoritatively did they then act as if they had been again in Convocation as and with Bishops and as if no man were to doubt of their Determinations or question their contrivances some Writing and others speaking as in Acts 15. that it might be said of their proceedings It hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to them to order direct c. so that every man should receive rules from them in all things pertaining to the Worship and Service of God But he that sits in Heaven laughs them to scorn It is also like many of you may remember what great hast they then made to have their Decrees established accordingly and bow they took their opportunities for it when divers Members of Parliament were imployed in the Countrey and Army their favourites for the most part being then in the House thereby to settle themselves so as to be able with assistance of their Lay-Elders they would chuse sufficiently to Master and deal with all Sectaries and other persons that should prove refractory or any way disobedient to them or their Decrees either by their Parochial Classical Provincial or National Inquisition or High Commission Courts 10. Is it here requisite to be remembred what Charge that Synod was to you at 4. s. per diem each man and large Benefices besides the Allowances given to some of them by the Committee they obtained called The Committee for plundered Mi●isters when few of them were plundered and in case some one of many did lose that way he must be speedily and sufficiently repaired out of your moneys or else that would serve for a railing Theme to fill up divers of their Hour-Sermons Are not these persons the now great Plunderers in all parts of the Common-Wealth forcibly taking and causing to be taken away mens Corn Cattel and other Goods what and when they please under colour of their Office and Ministry and nevertheless now prevailed to have their said Committee revived as for plundered Ministers whiles thousands of poor whereof divers have been plundered and remain without any relief not onely vvant Bread but Imployments vvhereby to labour for the relieving of themselves Wives and Children But what at last did the said Assembly or Synod bring forth but a National Covenant a Chatechize and a dead Directory for the living God to be worshipped by with their establishing themselves as rightly ordained before by the Bishops and a new Way Method and Manner of ordaining others wherein their Brother Calamy led them to begin with seven young men in his Meeting-house at Aldermanbury in London for an introduction into that new devised Way and Worship wherein the Lord God is not so mock'd however they deceive themselves and others but as for any Benefit Commodity or Advantage unto you concerning your souls or bodies that seemed not their business neither would they willingly then nor since suffer other persons to do their duties therein and deal plainly with you concerning your souls when they could or can prevent it lest they should thereby lose their praise with men their Fame fat Benefices for they wel know that when you shall withdraw your breath from them they presently wither dye and become as empty Idols so that all men will then see whereof they are made but while you put into their mouths what they would have fit your selves in gay and gaudy Apparel and so fall down and worship before them own them because of their Book-Learning to be the onely persons to speak to you from God and to God for you give your Honors Wisdoms Wealth and strength that the Lord God hath given you for his service to them for the service of their lusts and excessive pride of their Wives and Children and pay all Military Taxes and other-like Charges for them and they have the Gleab-Lands Tythes Stocks Estates and Incombs they get from you altogether free to maintain them in ease and idleness without working with their hands the thing that is good and eating their own Bread when many of the poor amongst you labouring and toiling hard must pay Contributions and Taxes over and above what may or can be well spared from the thin backs and hungery bellies of their Wives and Children I say While you thus do no wonder if you continue in blindness errors and ignorance without the knowledge of God to your shame and neither see nor desire to be free from these afflictions they bring upon you which on you are just that so uphold and maintain the Enemies of Christ of your own souls and the Nations peace Need I yet further remember you how some of them have strugled for and got Augmentations to their former Benefices How divers also have got fifty pounds each man to carry them for Ireland and when there 100. l. or 200. l. by the year and some more for preaching or rather deceiving that people with their lying Inventions and causing punishments to be inflicted upon those that shall therein contradict them whereby it is evident that whosoever hath gained by these times of Trouble they have not lost theereby nor their favourites failed them therein though it is or may be clearly seen that far greater things have been expected by them 11. You may not forget the said Solemn League and Covenant nor need I further tel you who brought forth that birth and gave it that Name as also sometimes calling it the Oath of God and National Covenant as their Brethren of Scotland had but so cunningly contrived of ambiguous Words and Terms to answer all the Authors ends as no Antinomian Independen Anabaptist Seeker or other Sectary by them so called or person in any kind or sort differing from them might find a way to escape out of their net with full confidence also that they the said Authors should be the onely Interpretors thereof whereby they might turn the sence and meaning any way at any time or on any occasion to serve their turns and teach their younger Brethren to doe the like assuring themselves that none they call'd Lay persons ought or would presume to interpret or give the Meaning of any part of so Excellent a Piece of their workmanship and then how highly did they extoll that new Idol their Covenant and preach'd it up as a thing so absolutely necessary that none ought to refuse it remaining as restless untill they had prevailed with most of the Members of Parliament to lift up their hands to it and subscribe it and therewith got the stamp of Authority upon it That all men in the Nation should be called to lift up their hands to the most high God before that Covenant and swear c and then how was the sound of that solemn League and Covenant in every mans ears of Cities Town Countrey and Army by the makers thereof and their younger Brethren riding and running from place to place from one part of the Army to another in all hast to surprise men thereby eagerly