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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91149	A brief apologie for all non-subscribers, and looking-glasse for all apostate perjured prescribers & subscribers of the new engagement, wherein they may clearly behold their presidents, sin, horrour, punishment.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing P3907; Thomason E593_12; ESTC R33922	9,998	16

A BRIEF APOLOGIE For all NON-SVBSCRIBERS AND LOOKING-GLASSE FOR ALL Apostate perjured Prescribers Subscribers OF THE New Engagement Wherein they may clearly behold their Presidents Sin Horrour Punishment LONDON 1649. A BRIEF APOLOGIE For all NON-SUBSRIBERS c. HE that being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Prov. 29.11 How often the Prescribers and Subscribers of the New Engagement against their manifold former Oaths Vows Protestations Covenants and Engagements to the contrary have been admonished both in Press and Pulpit of the impiety danger and destructiveness of this their Apostacie and Perfidiousness both to God and Man without any fruits of Reformation or Repentance of this their execrable wickedness is well known to their own self-condemning consciences and the world Let them therefore now in this small Looking-glass behold both their Presidents Sin Horrour of conscience and their Punishments for the same which if duely pondered may through Gods mercy bring them to sincere Repentance or else create a tormenting hell within their Consciences here and plunge them into everlasting Hell-tormentings hereafter to their just destruction who would receive no admonition in due season The Presidents they follow in Prescribing and Subscribing this Oath and Engagement and very fatal and dangerous even the very worst of our English Rebels and Traytors in former Ages * Jo. Stow his Survey of London p. 88 89 c. Hollinshed Speed Stow in 4 and 5 of R. 2. In the fourth yeer of King Richard the second Walter Tyler Jack Straw and their rebellious rout of the Peasantry made a great Insurrection and Rebellion against the King and his Counsel and marching up to London in a numerous body by the favour of the meaner sort of Citizens who confederated with them entred both the City and Tower beheaded the Archbishop of Canterbury with divers others affronted commanded and insulted over the King and Nobles at their pleasures as the onely Kings of England tendring the King very high and insolent Propositions to signe and notwithstanding his present condescention to them conspired to seize upon his Person and keep him alive amongst them for a time that people might the more boldly repair to them and think whatever they did was done by the Kings authority till they had gotten power enough that they needed not to fear any force which should be made against them And then they resolved to stay all the Nobles that might give any counsel or make any resistance against them together with all Lawyers with the Knights of S. Johns and the Rhodes And lastly they would have killed the King himself with all men of possessions Bishops Canons Parsons of Churches and Monks except Friers Mendicants and have burnt and plundered the City of London it self and then have created Wat Tyler King in Kent and others of the Chief leading Rebels Kings in other Counties And to engage all men in this Confederacie with them they tendered an Oath to them somewhat better then this New Oath and Engagement viz. That they should keep Allegeance to King Richard and TO THE COMMONS and that they should accept of no King that was named John and that they should be ready to assist them whenever they were called and that they should agree to no Tax to be levied or granted in the Kingdom except a Fifteen Which Oath they enforced all they met to take and those that were not sworn to them they took off both their Hoods and Heads But after they had thus played Rex and Lorded it over King Nobles Gentry Country and City a little space Wat Tyler their new King and General who made this vaunt that before four days came to an end all the Laws of England should proceed from his mouth was struck off his horse by William Walworth Lord Maior of London and slain in Smithfield in the view of his Commons and his head set upon London-bridge and by the assistance of the Lord Maior and about a thousand loyal Citizens in whose hearts the Law of the King was ingrafted the King was rescued f om their power and butchery and the Rebels subdued who threw down their weapons fell to the ground and craved pardon their principal Leaders and designed Kings taken and executed in all places and their heads and parts hanged up for monuments to deter others their confederates all dispersed imprisoned and put to great fines and ransoms to redeem their lives and liberties And so their new Kingdom and Republike quickly ended in a fatal Tragedie The King for the Lord Maiors and Citizens good service in perpetual memory of all of this their Loyalty Knighted the Maior and added the Dagger to the Cities Arms which the present Lord Maior Aldermen and packed Common-Councel-men may do well to consider for fear they alter the Dagger into an Ax or Halter for the future and the Prescribers of this new Oath and Engagement who tread in these rebellious Traytors steps and prosecute their very designes and Engagement may do well in time to remember their sad Story lest they arrive at their fatal ends to their temporal and eternal ruine The like designe and project in effect was afterwards hatched and set on foot by Jack Cade and his rebellious rout under pretence to reform Laws and Government who were all scattered came to the like Tragical ends and for ever branded by an Act of Parliament 31 H. 6. c. 1. for wicked Rebels and Traitors to posterity In the Month * Fox Acts and Monum 1640. Vol. 2. p. 665. to 677. of July 1549 in the third yeer of King Edward the sixth as the Commons of Devonshire and Cornwal raised an Insurrection against the King and his Councel in the West so the Commons in York-shire at the same time raised a Rebellion in the North principally out of their traiterous hearts grudging at the Kings honourable proceedings in reforming Religion and trusting to a blinde Prophecy wherewith they were seduced which themselves thought should shortly come to pass by reason of the Rebellions then on foot in Norfolk and Devonshire the tenour of Prophecie and purpose of which Traytors together was THAT THERE SHOULD NO KING RAIGN IN ENGLAND Nota. THAT THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN SHOULD BE DESTROYED AND THE REALM SHOULD BE RULED BY FOUR GOVERNOURS TO BE ELECTED and APPOINTED BY THE COMMONS HOLDING A PARLIAMENT IN COMMOTION without King or Lords to begin at the South and North Seas of England c. Whereupon to execute this their designe and erect this their new Government and Parliament without King and Lords the very project now on foot and scope of this new Oath and Engagement they resolved to seize and murther such Nobles and Gentlemen of Estate in their Houses and Counties and in executing the Kings Commissions as were favourers of the Kings proceedings and likely to resist them Hereupon the King sent his gracious Pardon and perswasions to them to reduce them by all

Great day of Judgement before the searcher of all hearts c. sadly and seriously consider of these doleful Examples and with what face or conscience he can henceforth lift up his perjured hands to God in Prayer or look any conscientious Covenanter in the face till he hath with horrour of conscience and whole rivers of tears sighs and groans of spirit and publike abjuration and recantation of this his Perjury Treachery weakness and wickedness and renounced bewailed and abjured this his New ungodly Subscription And then he will either imitate these eminent Martyrs in their horrours of conscience contrition compunction confession and abjuration of this their Subscription and suffering manfully if there be occasion for their Oathes Vows Covenant Protestation and Engagements or else fall into absolute desperation of any pardon or remission from God and man and with Judas and Abithophel two Arch traitors hang and execute themselves for this their abominable Treachery Perjury to God the King Parliament and Kingdom Which consideration and Presidents may be a sufficient Apologie and Satisfaction to justifie and excuse all Non-subscribers of this Engagement against all imperious Prescribers and Inforcers thereof especially if pretenders to Piety and Liberty of Conscience in so eminent a degree as the chief Contrivers thereof pretend themselves and exempt them from all injurious Penalties Forfeitures or Losses menaced for their Non-subscription before all the Tribunals of heaven and earth which cannot but give sentence of absolution in their behalf since God himself expresly and peremptorily commands them Levit. 19.12 Ye shall not swear by my Name falsly neither shalt thou prophane the Name of thy God I am the LORD and denounceth many severe Judgements against breakers of Oathes and Covenants thorowout the a Neh. 5.12 13. Jer. 34.6 to 20. Ezek. 17.11 to 32. Zech. 5.1 to 5. Mal. 3.3 Old and b Rom. 1.29 30 31. 1 Tim. 1.10 2 Tim. 3.3 4. New Testament A Corollary to the Premises UNto all these ancient and most memorable Examples of Gods apparent displeasure and Consciences fearful workings against all ungodly actings and engagements against lawful Authority and former righteous and religious Vows Oathes and Covenants might here most pertinently be added three or four more remarkable and most fresh Examples of Gods just indignation and Consciences affrightings fallen out very lately among us in these our most disloyal apostarizing days upon the perju ious taking and subscribing to this present new Engagement As namely of a Scholar in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge a Minister in Essex and a Cirizen of Whitington-Colledge in London But there is one more lately fallen out among us which shall be instar multorum in stead of many other as coming up more clearly and closely to this our present occasion And O that such a sad and sorrowful story had never been told in Gath nor published in the streets of Askalon But Divine providence having so ordered that it is so publikely and notoriously known we cannot but make this publike use of it for just terrour and affrightment of all such like offenders whereof both City and Country at this time too rankly abound among us Now the sad relation or story is this One M. Tho. Hoyle late Lo. Maior of York and one of the most unhappie Members of the Juncto of Westminster who having been in all the former part of his life lookt upon and known to have been a most eminent professor of Religion and of an unblameable life and conversation But since his being a Member of the House of Commons having been made Master of Sir Peter Osborns Office a place of much credit and profit and a Committee of the Kings Revenue fat morsels to stifle and choak Conscience when the House was purged by the power of the Army this Gentleman abiding still in the House with the rest of the Juncto and acting all along with them was listed in the number of those that were to be Judges of the Kings life or death but as it is certainly reported was not present at the Kings Condemnation But afterward when the Juncto enacted the taking and themselves also took this New Engagement he not onely consented in it but though against the dictate of his conscience as he had often professed to divers upon several occasions thereunto himself also took it and subscribed to it wherefore after this thus taking of the Engagement being as it too apparently was manifested in him greatly troubled in conscience about it he formerly I mean before this ensuing fatal act was effected had attempted to have destroyed himself but failing thereof upon the 30 of Jan. last 1649. about the fore-part of that afternoon being in his house at Westminster and watching and obtaining an opportunity of being retired from all company in his chamber having provided a Cord in his pocket he most wofully hanged himself therewith Of which his most lamentable and desperate self-Murther although divers do give various censures especially the Malignant or Royal party principally because he was listed one of the Judges of the King and this his woful self-ruine fell out on the very same day twelvemonth and neer upon the very time of that day whereon the King was put to death which I cannot but acknowledge was very remarkable yet the first and safest use thereof which godly Christians ought to make may be Caution to every one of us seriously to consider what the Apostle Paul says 1 Cor. 10.12 Let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall Secondly let O let those most ungodly self-seeking Prescribers of this perjurious Engagement look unto it and be terrified by it whom in a most special manner it most neerly concerns Yea in the third place let all those falfe-hearted posted perjured Divines which have so sinfully subscribed this Engagement lay this lamentable example close to their hearts especially those two unworthy low-spirited yet busie Champions for the Engagement though God be thanked with very ill success both to the Scribler and Licenser M. John Dury and M. Joseph Caryl who have so strugled to bring others into the same condemnation with themselves And in the fourth and last place let all Conscience-muffled and perfidious Malignants or Royallists also lay this most woful example very close to their souls and consciences who notwithstanding they most falsly pretend themselves to be the loyallest and most loving Subjects to our late deceased King and his Posterity and such fast friends to Monarchy and Kingly Government yet have most disloyally and and perfidiously taken this Engagement and that upon a most wicked and base Maxime of theirs lately taken up among them that He is a fool that will not take it and he is a knave that will not break it Thus like Atheists indeed either believing there is no God to punish their perjury or else that they have God at command to repent when they please But let them see and know as here by this most woful Example is most evident how severely and wrathfully the Lord will sooner or later be avenged on all Perjurers and Covenant-breakers And let them therefore as that even Prophetical Author of The Arraignment of the Engagement lately published did religiously advise all Prescribers and Subscribers of the Engagement in the closure of that his said Treatise a passage most remarkable especially considering this most sad example which fell out so immediately after it and which therefore cannot be too often inculcated and repeated Let them all I say either with Peter after he had abjured his Lord and Master with an oath go forth presently and weep bitterly or else with treacherous Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master to gratifie the High-priests go forth despairing and hang themselves to avoid the shame of the world and intolerable anguish of their tormanting Consciences Optimum est alienâ f●ui insaniâ FINIS