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A77870	A vindication of the ministers of the Gospel in, and about London, from the unjust aspersions cast upon their former actings for the Parliament, as if they had promoted the bringing of the King to capitall punishment With a short exhortation to their people to keep close to their covenant-ingagement.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1649 (1649)	Wing B5690A; Thomason E540_11; ESTC R205758	4,953	14

assure us if we understand them they would never alter Yea we hold our selves bound in duty to God Religion the King Parliament and Kingdome to professe before God Angels and men That we verily beleeve that which is so much feared to be now in agitation the taking away the life of the King in the present way of Trial is not only not agreeable to any Word of God the principles of the Protestant Religion never yet stained with the least drop of bloud of a King or the fundamentall constitution and government of this Kingdom but contrary to them as also to the Oath of Allegiance the Protestation of May 5. 1641. and the solemn League and Covenant from all or any of which Engagements we know not any power on earth able to absolve us or others In which last we have sworn with hands lifted up to the most high God That we shall with sincerity reality and constancy in our severall vocations endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve and defend the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliaments and the liberties of the Kingdomes and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority in the defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes That the world may bear witnesse with our consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no thoughts our intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatnesse And we are yet further tied by another Article of the same Covenant Not to suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terrour to be divided or withdrawn from this blessed union and conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary party or to give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this Cause which so much concerns the glory of God the good of the Kingdomes and honour of the King but shall all the daies of our lives Zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all lets and impediments whatsoever And this we have not only taken ourselves but most of us have by command of the Parliament administred it to others whom we have thereby drawn in to be as deep as our selves in this publike engagement Therefore According to that our Covenant we doe in the Name of the great God to whom all must give a strict account warn and exhort all who either more immediatly belong to our respective charges or any way depend on our Ministry or to whom we have administred the said Covenant that we may not by our silence suffer them to run upon that highly provoking sin of Perjury to keep close to the waies of God and the rules of Religion the Laws and their Vows in their constant maintaining the true Reformed Religion the fundamentall Constitution and Government of this Kingdome not suffering themselves to be seduced from it by being drawn in to subscribe the late Models or Agreement of the people * Declared by both Houses for the substance of it to be Destructive to the being of Parliaments and to the fundamentall Government of the Kingdom in Decemb. 1647 yea condemned heretofore by the General and his Councel of Warre and one of the souldiers shot to d●a●h for promoting it which directly tends to the utter subversion of the whole frame of the fundamentall government of the Land and makes way for an universall toleration of all heresies and blasphemies directly contrary to our Covenant if they can but get their Abettors to cover them under a false guise of the Christian Religion as also in preserving the Priviledges of both Houses of Parliament and the Union between the two Nations of England and Scotland to mourn bitterly for their own sins the sins of the City Army Parliament and Kingdome and the wofull miscarriages of the King himself which we cannot but acknowledge to be many and very great in his Government that have cost the three Kingdomes so dear and cast him down from his Excellency into an horrid pit of misery almost beyond example And to pray that God would both give him effectuall repentance and sanctify that bitter cup of Divine Displeasure that the Divine providence hath put into his hand as also that God would restrain the violence of men that they may not dare to draw upon themselves and the Kingdome the bloud of their Soveraign And now we have good reason to expect that they who brought us under such a bond and thereby led us into the necessity of this present Vindication and manifestation of our judgements and discharge of our consciences should defend us in it However we resolve rather to be of their number that tremble at his Terrours who is a consuming fire and will not fail to avenge the quarell of his Covenant upon all that contemn it then to be found among those who despise the Oath by breaking his Covenant after lifting up the hand although it had been made but in Civil things only Lev. 26. Ezek. 17. 2 Sam. 21. and that with the worst of men C. Burges D.D. Preacher of the Word in Pauls Lond. Will Gouge D.D. Pastor of Black-friers Edm. Stanton D.D. Pastor of Kingston Tho. Temple D.D. Pastor of Battersey Geo. Walker Pastor of John Evang. Edm. Calamy Pastor of Aldermanbury Jer. Whitaker Pastor of Mag Bermunsey Dan. Cawdrey Minist of Martins in the Fields William Spurstow Minist of Hackney La. Seaman Pastor of Alh. Breadstreet Simeon Ashe Min. of Michael Basingshaw Tho Case Minist of Magd. Milkstreet Nich. Proffet Minister at Fosters Thom. Thorowgood Minist of Crayford Edw. Corbet Minist of Croyden Henry Roborough Pastor of Leonards East-Cheap Arthur Jackson Pastor of Michaels Wood-street Ja Nalton Pastor of Leonards Fosterlane Tho Cawton Past of Bartholomewes Exchange Charles Offspring Pastor of Antholins Sa. Clark Minister of Bennet Fynk Jo. Wall Minister of Michael Cornhill Fran. Roberts Pastor of the Church at Austins Mat. Haviland Pastor of Trinity John Sheffield Minister of Swithins William Harrison Minister of Gracechurch William Jenkyn Minist of Christchurch John Viner Pastor of Buttolph Algate Elidad Blackwell Pastor of Andrew Vndershaft John Crosse Minister at Mathews Fridaystreet John Fuller Minister at Buttolph Bishopsgate William Taylor Pastor of Stephens Colemanstreet Peter Witham Pastor of Albanes VVoodstreet Fran. Peck Pastor of Nich. Acorne Christopher Love Pastor of Anne Aldersgate John VVallis Minister of Martin Ironmonger-lane Tho. Watson Pastor of Stevens VValbrook Tho. Bedford Pastor of Martins Outwich William VVickins Pastor of Andrew Hubbard Tho. Manton Minister of Stoke Newington Thomas Gouge Pastor of Sepulchers William Blackmore Pastor of Peters Cornhill Robert Mercer Minister of Brides Ra Robinson Pastor of Mary Woolnorth John Glascock Min. at Vndetshaft Thomas Whately Minister at Mary Wool-Church Jonathan LLoyde Pastor of Iames Garlick Hithe John Wells Pastor of Olaves Iury. Benjamin Needler Pastor of Margaret Moses Nath. Staniforth Minister of Mary Bothaw Steven Watkins Minister of Mary Overies Jacob Tice Pastor of Buttolph Billingsgate Iohn Stileman Minister at Rotherhithe Iosias Bull Pastor of North Cray Ionathan Deverux late Minister at Andrews Holburne Paul Russell Preacher at Hackney Iosuah Kirby Minister of the Word Arthur Barham Pastor at Hellens FINIS

A VINDICATION OF THE Ministers of the Gospel in and about London from the unjust Aspersions cast upon their former Actings for the Parliament as if they had promoted the bringing of the KING to Capitall punishment WITH A short Exhortation to their People to keep close to their Covenant-Ingagement Isaiah 62.1 For Zions sake I will not hold my peace and for Ierusalems sake I will not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof go forth as brightnesse and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth Prov. 24. 21 22. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both LONDON Printed by A. M. for Th. Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet 1648. A VINDICATION OF THE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL in and about London from the unjust Aspersions cast upon their former Actings for the Parliament as if they had promoted the bringing of the KING to Capitall punishment IT cannot be unknown how much we and other Ministers of this City and Kingdom that faithfully adhered to the Parliament have injuriously smarted under the scourge of evil tongues and pens ever since the first eruption of the unhappy differences and unnaturall warre between the King and Parliament for our obedience to the Commands and Orders of the Honourable Houses in their contests with his Majesty and conflicts with his Armies We are not ignorant of the over-busie entermedlings of Prelates and their party heretofore in over-ruling civil affairs to the great endangering of Kingdoms and of this in particular when private interests ambitious designes revenge or other sinister ends engaged them beyond their sphere Howbeit it cannot reasonably as we conceive be denied that Ministers as subjects being bound to obey the Laws and to preserve the Liberties of the Kingdom and having an interest in them and the happinesse of them as well as others may and ought without incurring the just censure due to busie-bodies and incendiaries to appear for preserving the Laws and Liberties of that Common-wealth whereof they are members especially in our case when it was declared by the Parliament that all was at stake and in danger to be lost No nor as Ministers ought they to hold their peace in a time wherein the sins of Rulers and Magistrates as well as others have so far provoked God as to kindle the fire of his wrath against his people And yet for this alone the faithfull servants of God have in all ages through the malice of Satan and his instruments been traduced as Arch-incendiaries when only their accusers are indeed guilty of both laying the train and of putting fire to it to blow up a Kingdom An Ahab and his sycophants think none so fit to bear the odium of being the grand Troubler of Israel as Elijah Thus the popish device was to charge the Gun-powder Treason had it taken effect upon the Puritans And if you beleeve Tertullus even a Paul is a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition throughout the world a ringleader of a sect and what not but what he is Yea Christ himself though a friend to Monarchy even of heathenish Rome is proclaimed an enemy to Caesar to open a way to his destruction by their malice who never cared for the interest of Caesar Wherefore although with us who have had experience of like usage it be a small thing to be thus judged of men when we regard only our own particular persons For if they call the master of the house Beel-zebub how much more those of his houshold yet when we consider how much it concerns the honour of our Master and the good of all to preserve our ministeriall function immaculate our good names being in that relation as needfull to others as a good conscience to our selves we dare not but stand by and assert the integrity of our hearts and the innocency of all our actings in reference to the King and Kingdome for which we are so much calumniated and traduced This we are compelled to at this time because there are many who very confidently yet most unjustly charge us to have been formerly instrumentall toward the taking away the life of the King And because also there are others who in their scurrilous Pasquils and Libels as well as with their virulent tongues present us to the world as a bloudy seditious sect and traiterous obstructors of what all the godly people of the Kingdome doe earnestly desire for establishing of Religion and Peace in that we stick at the Execution of the King while yet we are as they falsly affirm content to have him convicted and condemned all which we must and do from our hearts disclaim before the whole world For when we did first engage with the Parliament which we did not till called thereunto we did it with loyall hearts and affection towards the King and his posterity Not intending the least hurt to his Person but to stop his party from doing further hurt to the Kingdome not to bring his Majesty to justice as some now speak but to put him into a better capacity to doe justice To remove the wicked from before him that his throne might be established in righteousnesse not to dethrone and destroy him which we much fear is the ready way to the destruction of all his Kingdomes That which put on any of us at first to appear for the Parliament was The Propositions and Orders of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Jun. 10. 1642. for bringing in of money and plate c. wherein they assured us that whatsoever should be brought in thereupon should not be at all employed upon any other occasion then to maintain The Protestant Religion The Kings Authority his Person in his royall dignity the free course of justice the Laws of the Land the Peace of the Kingdome and the Priviledges of Parliament against any force which shall oppose them And in this we were daily confirmed and encouraged more and more by their many subsequent declarations and protestations which we held our selves bound to beleeve knowing many of them to be godly and conscientious men of Publike spirits zealously promoting the common good and labouring to free this Kingdome from tyranny and slavery which some evill instruments about the King endeavoured to bring upon the Nation As for the present actings at Westminster since the time that so many of the Members were by force secluded divers imprisoned and others thereupon withdrew from the house of Commons and there not being that conjunction of the two Houses as heretofore we are wholly unsatisfied therein because we conceive them to be so farre from being warranted by sufficient Authority as that in our apprehensions they tend to an actuall alteration if not subversion of that which the honourable House of Commons in their Declaration of April 17. 1646. have taught us to call the Fundamentall constitution and government of this Kingdome which they therein