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A40040	The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints representing the beginning, constitution, and designs of the Jesuite : with the conspiracies, rebellions, schisms, hypocrisie, perjury, sacriledge, seditions, and vilefying humour of some Presbyterians, proved by a series of authentick examples, as they have been acted in Great Brittain, from the beginning of that faction to this time / by Henry Foulis ...	Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing F1642; ESTC R4811	275,767	264

Middlesex who by Order had commanded those men to keep watch but sent one of them viz. Justice Long to the Tower This favour of the Commons so animated the people that they thought sedition was then lawful and those tumults a glory to the City because they shewed its strength And therefore many thousands of them run crowding to Westminster crying out No Bishops no Bishops and having thus ranted it in the morning they come again in the afternoon armed with swords and staves and other weapons and then they domineer to the purpose running up and down Westminster inquiring for the Bishops protesting they would pull them in pieces whereupon they were desired by the Marquess of Hertford to stay in the house all night the people vowing to watch their going out and to search every Coach with Torches it being then dark that they might not escape And when the Lords sent down to the Commons that an order might be taken with the tumult and care of the Bishops lives they would do nothing in the business laughing in their sleeves that they had thus brought that great City to worship them and Villainy Yet were the Bishops some way or other cunningly stoln out of the house to the great grief of the blood thirsty Rebels that they had thus lost their sacralegiously intended sacrifice Yet what they mist then they hoped to obtain the next day and therefore away they hurry again to Westminster having Sir Richard Wisman for their Captain And being thus spurr'd on they assault the Abby where the Archbishop of York was then but the doors being strongly lock'd and barr'd and good opposition made they gain'd nothing to boast of and Sir Richard's head was so broke with a tyle thrown from the Leads that he dyed of it nor did John Lilbourn one well known depart without the loss of some rebellious bloud being with some others pelted with stones to the purpose This repulse did something discourage them yet the next day they were coming again but at White-Hall were stopt by the Train-Band and forced to return back some of them being well cudgell'd which action was highly resented by the Parliament who therefore ordered that those who stopt the Londoners coming to Parliament should be found out and examined before a Committee which Order was a good New-years-gift to the seditious Schismaticks Such is the malice of Presbytery against Bishops as if they were all inspired with the same spirit of venome and hatred that he had who long ago cryed out Short red God red shea we the Byshop And accordingly was the Bishop with a hundred men murthered And not inferiour to the former was he in London when the Tumult was railing against the Reverend and Learned Bishop Morton some crying Pull him out of his Coach others acting so violently that the Bishop believed he should never have escaped alive if a leading man amongst the rabble had not cryed out Let him go and hang himself words wicked enough and vomitted with as much malice though by Providence they saved the good Bishop's life The chief men tamper'd withal by some of the factious Members to stirr up these Tumults were Alderman Pennington and Venne two King-Tryers and Manwaring nominated one of the Kings Judges and other such like Instruments they could not want Venne pleading to the people That the worser Party was like to have the better of the good Party and used to imploy his Wife as a Mercury to run about and stir up the people And it is an old Note that Sectaries used in the first place to tamper with such soft-hearted Creatures The truth on 't is the audaciousness of these men was intolerable being like one of their Predecessors Constantinus who is branded for a lover of Tumults and then confidently to glory in such villanies Yet had his Majesty but stript himself of so much mercy as to have eas'd the Nation of the Ring-leaders of these disorders by some meritorious exemplary punishment it may be the rest of the rabble would have learn'd better manners by the Precedent of such an execution But the Kings tenderness made them more audacious so that they never left murmuring and tumultuating till they had terrified the King from White-Hall where he could neither stay with safety nor honour having his power so much scorned that when he went into London the Rabble rung nothing in his ears but Priviledges of Parliament Priviledges of Parliament Alderman Fowke one that went under the notion of one of the Kings Judges as long as the Times were accordingly but they no sooner change but then he denyes and publickly clears himself this man made a worshipful Speech to the King taking upon him to vindicate the accused Members and to give his Majesty advice concerning Fears and Jealousies Nor was this all but that City also protects the accused Members and brings them again to the Parliament-House in the greatest triumph that their wit could imagine with Guns Trumpets flying colours and such like bravado's which was not only an absolute defying but contempt of his Majesty So that Hugh Peters that scandal to the Pulpit spake no false Doctrine when he affirm'd in Alhallows Church in Lumbardstreet That If ever this Kingdom was brought into slavery this City would be the cause of it These Tumults though confest by the Common-Council of London to be the great trouble and affrightment of his Majesties good Subjects and experience also proved it yet must they not be supprest though the Lords earnestly perswaded the Commons to it because as they affirm'd They must not discourage their Friends this being a time they must make use of their Friends Mr. Pym saying God forbid that the House of Commons should proceed in any way to dishearten people to obtain their just desires in such a way The favourablest construction of which words must be by Petition and yet this way was not then acted without Tumults it being then grown to a custom as their own Historian confesseth for a Petition to be backt by great multitudes to Westminster or White-Hall As that was from Kent which was brought to Westminster by about 5000. all a Horse-back and all this noyse was to thank the Lords for their acting so bravely against Bishops And with such like Presbyterian trash were most of their Papers stuft and in so plentiful a manner that if Visions had been then in frequent use that as the Priests formerly saw St. Peters Church in Rome full of Serpents so might England but London especially have been view'd cramb'd full of Devils But where the Albertus Magnus would be I know not And yet the simple people are easily drawn to fancy that Tumults are the only way to make a Nation happy though the ingenuous Tasso will assure them in the contrary Quando sia poi di sì gran moti il fine Non fabriche di Regni

bradg'd of their Loyalty but if there be Knaves in all Families much more are there Rogues in all Provinces But not unlike to the former was the letter of Exceptions and Doubts made by sixteen Kentish Gentleman as they titled themselves directed from Maidstone to Speaker Lenthal for which they had not only his but the thanks of the house to boot In the next month the fatall stroak was given in which month for the more hastning of the Execution several Petitions made haste from many parts of the Nation to the same intent as the former One was presented to the General from the then Capt. Smiths Troop in Oxfordshire another from Hartfordshire with a third from Surrey and a hot-headed one from London to the House of Commons which was seconded by one from the Common-Councell of the same City to the same purpose and members But that which gave the deepest stroak of all was that Long winded Remonstrance from the General Counsel of Officers at St. Albans wherein after many extravagant expressions against his Majesty and some Common-wealth-like puny reasons for their so doing they think it fitting to proceed against the King the which thoughts of theirs they at last vomit out with more impudence malice and inhumanity then an Army of Savage Canabells could in these astonishing words That that capital and grand Author of our troubles the Person of the King may be speedily brought to justice for the Treason Blood and mischief he is guilty of Desires so abominably wicked that it is impossible for any but their inspiring Satan to give them a befitting descant And that they had before this an intention to alter the Government is palpable by the often consultations and proposals of their Agitators and themselves in 1647. about the Government of the Nation by succession of Parliaments some advising Biennial others Triennial and some other modells And now Cromwell and Ireton all along cheated the King under specious pretences Major Huntington demonstrated in his Articles against them to the Parliament Yet could Cromwell with good store of seeming sanctity by his natural brasen face presume to bring off all those his seeming pretensions for his Majesty under the Hypocritical and sacrilegious Vizard of profound Revelations from some Deity or other By which means he would seem to patronize all the Armies wickednesse upon Divinity So that the jugling humour of this Army well considered we may well question both the modesty and Religion of one of their scribling patrons who had confidence publickly to assert that the Nation had far lesse cause to be jealous of the innocency or integrity of the Army then the Disciples of Christ These treacherous dealings of a perfidious Army not a little assisted by the self-ended members brought his Majesty to his Tryall a thing found out but as a politick trick to blinde the people with their open intentions as may appear not only by their ridiculous indictment but their former votes and actions whereby 't is palpable that they were pre-resolved not only to alter the Government but also to cut him off as accordingly hapned to the astonishment of humanity And how ancient these wicked intentions of some of them were hatch'd was not a little hinted at by one of Cromwels Captains two years before at Daintry who then fully related the resolutions of the Army and himself to bring the King to destruction Nor was the Revelation of Mrs. Grace Cary of Bristol though I do not use to give credit to such whimms much out in this exactly pointing out before these Warrs the Beheading of the King And whether all Poets are Prophets or no need not here be discuss'd though I am confident that an ingenious Gentleman did prognosticate better then those time-serving Schismatical Scriblers Lilly Booker Culpepper or such like Sectaries when he sung the Requiem of the King and Kingdome at the beginning of the Warres They would not have the Kingdome fall By an ignoble Funerall But piously preferre the Nation To a Renowned Decollation The feet and lower parts 't is sed Would trample on and off the Head What e're they say this is the thing They love the Charles but hate the King To make an even Grove one stroak Should lift the shrub unto the Oake A new found musick they would make A Gamut but no Ela take This is the pious good intent Of Priviledge of Parliament Thus fell the best of men by the worst of Devills so that this one wicked action will verifie that old saying that Brittain is crouded with the multitude of Tyrants and the horrid Actors may be for the future judged by the more Noble inhabitants of Nicaragua in America who formerly as Solon appointed no Law for a mans killing of his Father had none for the murtherer of a King conceiving no man to be so unnatural as to commit such crimes And for that vast Chaos the City of London who thus basely suffred their King to be murthered before their faces their Ancestors will rise up in judgment against them nor will the valour of Sir William Walworth a former Lord Maior of that City be mentioned but in derision of those Schismaticks of late daies When King Richard the second was in danger of his Life and Crown by Wat Tylers Rebellion Walworth raising up the Citizens by crying out Yee good Citizens help your King that is to be murthered and succour me your Maior that am in the like danger Or if you will not succour me yet leave not your King destitute By means of which the Rebells were dispers'd and the King rescued This was the loyalty of that City in former times But how little they have trod the steps of their Ancestors let themselves judge and blush for shame For being no small occasion of the ruine of his Majesty The Beheading of whom puts me in minde of a story recorded in our Chronicles in King Richard the seconds time viz. Of an Image of Wax or an Head of Earth framed by Necromancy at Oxford which at a time appointed spake these words Caput decidetur caput elevabitur Pedes elevabuntur supra caput The Head shall be cut off the Head shall be lift up The feet shall be lift above the Head And never did it happen so true as at this time when a company of beggerly peasants by horrid Rebellion did not only cut off their Kings head but also made themselves supream But whether this was made for a prophesie or no I know not yet Nostradamus Physitian to Henry the second King of France one much given to predictions and in great repute in those times for them had a happy guesse when long since he prognosticated that Senat de Londres metront a mort leur Roy. The London Parliament shall kill their King An action so treacherous that it would not be expected from the Devill himself after so many vows and protestations

of the Earl of Manchester In which two Universities there was a thorough Purge to the perpetual reproach and ignominy of the Undertakers many famous and learned Doctors Heads of Houses Masters of Arts and others were turned out of their Fellowships and Colledges because they would not submit to that which was contrary to their Oaths and the Priviledges of both places imposed upon them by those who had no more authority in such things than they had to behead or rebel against their Master IX Contzenus saith these Revolutions must be done moderately and with abundance of cunning the first step being to make the followers and abetters of the contrary Opinion odious and as it were a scorn in the Countrey and this by disgracing them especially with things which seem most ridiculous absurd and hate ful to the common people either by nick-naming or any way else The scandalous Reports and Pamphlets thrown against both King and Bishop as Popish though they thought nothing less may be some sign what good use hath been made of Contzen's Observation What disgrace cast upon the decent Habits of Church and University though the first according to the Canons and the other appointed by the Statutes of the place What unseemly Titles given to Organs as Bag-pipes and what irreverent names to Churches as Steeple-houses How were the Clergy nick-named with the title of Hirelings Humane Learning as Heathenish and Scholars as professing enmity against the Gospel How Cromwel's Faction spread abroad Pamphlets against King City and Parliament 1647. that the people might take the Army for honest men is somewhat pointed at by Mr. Walker And since that What scurrilous Books hath been contrived by Needham Goodwin Milton Rogers and such like Billingsgate Authors is not unknown to to any Nor is it forgot what impertinent Reports the Long-Parliament spread amongst the People to make the King odious as that he was a Favourite to the Catholicks and those call'd Arminians which sufficiently demonstrated a Presbyterian malice since the first was false and the other no crime And this must also be laid in the dish of Archbishop Laud though Prynne and they knew that he wrote more against the Romanists than all our Brittain Presbyterians who have spent more time in the commendation of Rebellion than in the Service of God And certainly I may as well call Prynne a Stage-Player for writing his Histriomastix as he the Archbishop Papistical because he wrote so learnedly against them And as if this were not mischief enough the People must now and then be alarum'd with strange Reports of Forces from Denmark Lorraign and other strange places as if the Nation were to be conquer'd and the Natifs throats cut which if we yield yet will the ignominy only fall upon the Presbyterian Party who by their want of Allegiance would bring the King to such straits that his own Subjects were not able to defend him from their Tyranny They thought it fit for us to send aid into the Palatinate and yet unlawful for Denmark to assist his own Kinsman against his Rebellious Subjects It was convenient they thought to give help to the French against their lawful King yet held it abominable for Forraigners to give a good wish to the King of England against his rebellious people The Covenanters in Scotland might with honesty crave aid from the French King though a Roman-Catholick against their Anointed Soveraign But so must not the King of England from the Duke of Lorraign though his life endangered by his bloud-thirsty Subjects The Parliament forsooth may make a Pacification with the Irish Catholicks but the King must not harbour such a thought without grand aspersions If the King but march towards Scotland the malignity of envious tongues endeavours to blast his Reputation as not fit to wear the Crown But many thousands of the Scotch-Covenanters may come into England fight against their King kill his faithful Subjects and inrich themselves by their plundering and stealing from the honest People and for their villainies receive large rewards with the Epithet of Brethren and so they were but in Iniquity being guilty of High-Treason because marched and acted against the Kings consent who is the Supreme Authority of the three Nations And that the Supream Head may when rebell'd against for his own security and defence desire help of his Neighbours though of a different perswasion in Religion I think needs no dispute He that would lose his Kingdom quietly is as simple as the Rebel 's wicked and if his own Sword be not long enough for the tryal he may lawfully borrow his Friends If the Parliament stood so much upon their Priviledges I know no reason but that the King might maintain his Prerogative and if any Contradiction be betwixt these two they are obliged to yield to their betters Nor doth it thwart the practise of former times for the Supream Authority to desire assistance from people of a contrary Religion as may be seen by the following examples as I find them set down to my hand in a late French Treatise Aza the good King of Judaea procured assistance from Benhadad the Idolatrous King Syria And so did the Great Constantine imploy in his Armies many Heathenish Goths So were the wicked Vandals call'd into Africa by good Boniface And after this manner did Narses under the Emperour Justinian imploy the Pagan Lombards The good Arcadius Emperour of Constantinople though a Christian delivered the tuition of his young son Theodosius and the Government of the Empire till his Son came to age into the hands of Isdigerdis King of Persia a Heathen who accordingly kept his promise with the Emperour Heraclius the Emperour was beholden to the Saracens as Basilius and Constantine's sons to John Emperour of Constantinople were to Ostelzi And by these people were also Henry and Frederick Brothers to the King of Castile mainly benefited in their Wars against the French Ludouick Sforza Duke of Milan and others begg'd assistance from the Turk against the French as Maximilian of Austria did against the Venetians And if it be lawful to procure aid from Heathens certainly a Christian may seek help from those who profess Jesus Christ though in every thing they cannot absolutely agree But enough of this since the Presbyterian commits ten times more sin in Rebelling than the wickedst man can do in defending his own right though by the assistance of Turks and Infidels X. What a great stickler Robert Parsons the Jesuite was to overthrow both England and the Protestant Religion in it is well known the great States-man Cardinal D'Ossat taketh notice several times of his designs against these Kingdoms Some of his Plots and Contrivances shall follow as they were publisht by some Roman Catholicks One of his means is to alter the Municipal Laws of the Land that the Civil Laws might have sway 'T is needless to relate how the Laws have been chopped and changed by diversity of Governments not

to them by their own fears they skud to their Dam with all speed and secure themselves in the same paunch whence they first proceeded At this time I dare boldly say that there is none pleads more in behalf and toleration of the Phanaticks then their Presbyterian Mother doth under the specious and whining pretence of Tender Conscience though when they were on Cock-horse none did more oppose that plea than themselves as I shall shew hereafter Which abominable jugling with many others used by this Fraternity prompts me to so much indignation that I can scarce allow the Foundation of Presbytery so charitable a thought as I do that poor miserable fellow who being accused of Bestiality at his Arraignment confessed it yet that it was not out of any evill intention he had done it but only to procreate a Monster with which having nothing to sustain his life he might win his bread by going about the Country to shew it These Puritans having formerly stirr'd up the Rabble by their seditious Pamphlets and Lectures to Rebellion against King Charles the Father are now driving the same way against the Son as a preparative to which they are daily instilling into the peoples Noddles Principles of disobedience schisme discontent and Rebellion for they Still find it good To keep th' infection high i th' peoples blood For Active Treason must be doing still Lest she unlearn her Art of doing ill I shall not tell the Londoners how King Henry III and King Richard II used them nor how Frederick Barbarossa the German Emperour clawd the Milanois and their City but it will not be amisse to hint to our factious Presbytery how the same Emperour made Hermon the Elector Palatine with his associates carry dogs upon their backs then held a punishment and disgrace for being disturbers of the peace And were the same inflicted upon our Boute-feu's Good God! what snarling would there be at Christ-Church in London and the lecturing junctos how zealously would the sister-hood meditate on the Temple-Barre Off-spring of Lay-Elders how would it puzzle the tender-hearted souls to decide the grand controversies which ears were longest or which animal best conditioned Thus would the Pulpit be guarded like St. Malo And our Non-conformists would have another plea against Tobit as Apocryphal because not agreeable to their practise his Dog running before but these lugd behind By this means dogs would be used to smell out a Presbyter as the Italian dog could Fornicators and Adulterers and it may be by this conjunction the Brethren might smell Popery in Obedience and Decencie as they do Idolatry in kneeling and loyalty in opposing the King For Monsieur Borel tells us of a man that by the biting of a dog had his common smelling rais'd to the sagacity of a hound or spaniel And possibly the presence of those crafty and cruel Hyena's might make the dogs as silent as those found in Africa and the East-indies or those in Virginia which cannot bark but howle and since fair means and gentlenesse will not work upon the churlish humour of the men they should blame themselves if severity like a Wolfe should appear to silence them otherwaies if the dog and man should be thus coupled together our Curs at London and other places would in time be brought to be as devout at Lectures and Conventicles as the Lisboan dog Tudesco so call'd I suppose in hatred to the Dutch as a Lancashire Gentlewoman call'd her three Cats having no ears Pryn Burton and Bastwick was serious and zealous for the Romish Church But because they may grumble and call this railing though you see how merry I make my self at their Worships I shall since they will not give me leave to anger them make them so odious to posterity that a sign of Jack Presbyters head would intice no Customers but Fauxes Ravilliacks Olivers and such like detestable animals And for these things in this and the following Chapters I shall go no higher than our late times which may serve as part of a Supplement to the Reverend Bishop Bancroft But it may be said To what purpose is all this since they themselves do not deny it and all the world knows it 'T is true However a few hints will not be amiss if it be only to tell the people that these Blades are still of the same mettall So that I dare boldly affirm that if this Loyall Parliament or the Reverend Bishops would make these Incendiaries recant their former Rebellious and seditious speeches formerly affirm'd in Pulpit and Writings it would be the greatest blow that ever the enemies of Church or State received and the only way to make the simple people see how they have been misled and abused If they refuse such Recantations it must either be through scorn and contempt or that they are still of the same Rebellious humour for both which the Laws provide punishment and I hope their interest would not be so great as to stop This. I need not tell you who they were who Rebell'd lately against his Majesty yet would I gladly have the Consistory to enform me in these three Quaeries First Why the Non-conformists and only the Non-conformists did oppose fight and rebel against the King Secondly Why the Episcopal part of the Lords and Commons with the Judges Lawyers and others who followed his Majesty should not did not or could not understand the Prerogative of the King Priviledges of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject as well as the Puritanical party which opposed his Majesty Thirdly Why since the Reformation None of the Reformed Episcopal perswasion have in Arms Rebelled against their Soveraigns Whereas ever now and anon we are alarm'd with some Presbyterian Rebellion or other The Proverb assures us that There is no smoak without some fire And why all these men should be seditious as experience assureth us I shall leave to the consideration of Dr. Burges being one of the oldest amongst them But it may be some of them in answer to these Quaeries will say in the seditious Tenent of that Scotch-firebrand Mr. Robert Blair who taught his Schollers in his Lectures upon Aristotle That Monarchial Government was unlawful And were not the blew-capt Covenanting Brethren pretty birds that could finde no fitter man to make Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews then this furious Orestes Some it might be would affirm that they only fought to obtain the desire of that Scotch Bully who in his sermon thus stirr'd up his Auditors Let us never give over 'till we have the King in our power and then he shall see how good Subjects we are Others it might be were weary of the Kings ruling over them and so might act for England as others belcht out concerning a neighbour-Kingdome viz. That Scotland had been too long a Monarchy and that they would never do well so long as one of the Stuarts was alive And possibly some

mad-caps of the Long-Parliament declared the legality and necessity of the Warr against their King Nor how they they voted all his Loyal Subjects Traytors because obedient to him these things be as well known as their Prosperity they driving all before them being thrust on with a mischief as if they had the command of Dame Fortune as Ericus Ventosi Pilei King of Sweadland had of the Windes by the turning of his Cap. And whatsoever they did their white-eyed Pulpiteers vindicated and whined it out to their affected people with abundance of Ha's Oh's and O's to be agreeable to Gods Secret Will for alas every puny of these Saints understood his Revealed too well to be Catechized in such things How pitifully these Schismatical Cushion-Thumpers abused the simple multitude into Rebellion you may in part perceive by one instance out of their own Historian After the Battel of Edge-Hill the Earl of Essex with several of his Regiments went to London Novemb. 1642. The Sabbath-day after their arrival to London the Godly and well-affected Ministers throughout the City preached and prais'd the Lord publickly for their so joyful and safe return home to their Parents Masters and Friends Exhorting those young Souldiers of Christs Army-Royal still to retain and be forward and ready to show their Courage and Zeal to the defence of Gods Cause and their Countreys Well-fare Shewing them the Plots of their Adversaries to have Introduced Popery and Tyranny into the Kingdom and assuring them that this Warr on their parts was waged and managed by Papists An Army of Papists being raising by the Kings Command contrary to his Vows and Protestations and deep Asseverations to the contrary And were not these sweet-souls to preach Peace and Repentance Just as some forraign Priests by hearing Confession instead of a rebuke perswade the simple women to act the same sin over again with themselves Nay so farr had our rebellious Thunderers proceeded as to make the People believe that those who sided with the King were in a manner past hopes of any happiness in the World to come concerning which I shall tell you a Story upon the credit of honest Jack Taylor One Francis Beal dwelling in the Axe-Yard in Kings-street Westminster with his Wife were throrow-paced for the Parliamentary-Cause yet had a Son who like an honest Subject faithfully served the King in the Wars which so troubled his zealous Mother that she caus'd a Bill to be written to have him pray'd for in the Church which Bill was delivered in Martins Church near Chearing-Cross to the well-known Mr. Case the Lecturer there on Thursdays the form of the Bill was as followeth These are to desire you to take into your Christian Considerations the grief and sorrow of one Mistris Beal of Westminster whose son Francis Beal is faln away from Grace and serves the King in his Wars Wherefore she most humbly beseecheth the Prayers of this Congregation that He may Return and be Converted Is not this abominable Hypocrisie as bad as the poor ignorant Irish who when they went a stealing pray'd to God for good Fortune and if accordingly they got a good Booty used to render God thanks for his assisting their Villany and so lookt upon it as the gift of God Oh what will men not dare if thus they dare Be impudent to Heaven and play with Prayer Play with that Fear with that Religious awe Which keeps men free and yet is mans great Law What can they but the worst of Atheists be Who while they word it ' gainst Impietie Affront the Throne of God with their false deeds Alas this wonder in the Atheist breeds Are these the men that would the Age reform That down with Superstition cry and swarm This painted Glass that Sculpture to deface But worship Pride and Avarice in the place Religion they bawl out yet know not what Religion is unless it be to prate Meekness they preach but study to Controul Money they 'd have when they cry out the Soul And angry will not have Our Father said ' Cause it prays not enough for dayly bread They meet in private and cry Persecution When Faction is their end and State-confusion These are the men that plague and over-run Like Goths and Vandals all Religion Vain foolish People how are you deceived How many several sorts have you received Of things call'd Truths upon your backs laid on Like Saddles for themselves to ride upon They ridd amain and Hell and Satan drove While every Priest for his own profit strove They close with God seem to obey his Laws They cry aloud for him and for his Cause But while they do their strict Injunctions preach Deny in actions what their words do teach O what will men not dare if thus they dare Be Impudent with Heaven and play with Prayer Besides the many wicked Declarations of the Juncto of the Lords and Commons and the seditious Pulpit-Talkativeness of their puny Muffti's many Pamphlets were sent abroad to incite the people to Rebellion and this by Authority too a sight of which I suppose their zealous Journey-man Sam. Gellibrand would not deny a friend Nay they were gon so farr as to think the Rebellion so laudable and necessary that they perswaded the people that it was not lawful to suffer patiently and with-draw themselves from its calamities contrary to the express command of our Saviour who bids us fly from City to City rather than resist to which purpose one of their Beloved Mr. S. T. put forth a small Treatise in which he tells the World That when a Parliamentary-State is ingaged for the repressing of Injuries and maintenance of publick Liberties and mens Estates this calls in all private thoughts of escape to contribute them to the publick defence and then furiously exasperates them against the King and his Loyal Subjects by infusing into them strange things of the dangerous distemper spread over all our Body the discord in our own Bowels an Abominable Army Idolatrous Ensignes the Romish Banner And therefore Things stand now in such posture that God requires our deep Engagement and that we should banish all thoughts of declining In this great hazard that Liberty Laws and Religion run to leave our ground were to leave Popery Mastery of the Field And at last concludes What comfort can this be if we run away from a good Cause as if we were afraid to own or afraid to assist it and unwilling to suffer and be lost with it And who must be the promoter of Printing this Seditious Pamphlet but Mr. Edm. Calamy the famous hinter of Aldermanbury London But it was not only Printing which they made use of to vindicate Rebellion but also and that a main one too Pulpit-prating for I dare not call such babling Preaching where nothing was yell'd out but Persecution Persecution O the cruelty and knavery of the King O the Idolatry of the Queen O the wickedness of the Malignant Antichristian