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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

against peace 'T is the sword not disputes nor Treaties that must end this Controversie Wherefore turn your plow-shares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears to fight the Lords battels to avenge the blood of Saints which hath been spilt It must be avenged either by us or upon us I have sometimes feard alwaies praid that too much mercy and pitty in our State Physitians i. e. the Parliament might not retard the healing of this land Men who have deserted their trust falsified their Covenants how soon are they received into favour enjoy their Estates as if they were never enemies Oh! how are Neutralists and Malignants spared I have often thought that too much mercy towards Malignants hath made more Delinquents than ever justice hath punish'd mercy should not weigh down justice in God they are both equall why should it not be so in man Pitty to the bad hath proved cruelty to the good the sparing of Offenders hath made many worse few or none better To them that have shewd no mercy let judgment be shewd without mercy Guilt hath been contracted much innocent blood hath been spilt which must either be aveng'd on us or by us Oh there are many Malignant humours to be purged out of many of the Nobles and Gentry in this Kingdome before we can be healed The Lord heals a Land by cutting off these distemper'd members that endangers the health of the Land 'T was the Lord troubled Achan and cut him off because he troubled Israel O that in this our State-physitians i. e. the Parliament would resemble God to cut off those from the Land who have distemper'd it Melius est ut pereat unus quám unitas Men who lye under the guilt of much innocent blood are not meet persons to be at peace with till all the guilt of blood be expiated and avenged either by the sword of the Law or Law of the sword else a peace can never be safe nor just And then at the last tells you that the Parliaments cause and men are so good but the Malignants so abominably wicked that Heaven and Hell may almost as soon meet as these two make a peace I might also tell you how he hints upon the perfidiousnesse of Princes upon the deaths of King James and Prince Henry upon the losse of Rochell and the Irish Rebellion but I shall leave such false dirty slanders to be swallowed down by those Puritans who first spewed them forth yet did Ja Cranford think this houre of Rebellion very worth printing the better to perswade the people to embrace such wickednesse Which calls to my memory one expression then utter'd by Love That it was a very hurtful opinion that people must not defend themselves by force of Arms against their King What wickednesse this rebellious barrangue boaded I shall not say only desire you to observe that his Sacred Majesty was murther'd the same day four years that this blood-thirsty doctrine was vomited out by Love and the same day that Love dyed on was also honourd with the death of that bloody Tyrant Richard III. What do you think of another of these Champions viz. Mr. Samuel Rutherford No lesse man then Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews who thus yell'd out his malice against the Kings friends Bloody men who defend a cursed cause O enemies of the Gospel O Malignants and haters of the Lord and his Saints Malignants are but drawing blood of Christs heele in these bloody Warres He God suffereth Malignants to ride over his people that he may perfume the work of Hell in the enemies who are as it were skullions to purge the vessels of mercy and to humble them Malignants plow the Church and sow blood in the three Kingdomes The wicked of these Kingdomes malignants bloody-Irish rotten-hearted men such back-sliders and perjured Apostates as are in Scotland delivered to Satan and Excommunicated And after this speaking concerning the reasons of Gods judgments upon the Nation he thus delivers himself Others say Rebellion against the King is the cause but rather the not timous rising to help the Lord and his oppressed people against the mighty is the cause The defection of both Kingdomes to Altar-worship Imagery Idolatry Popish and Arminian doctrine c. And a little after this throws more dirt upon the King and his party than half his enemies had done before Yet was all this very pleasing to the Lords house then at Westminster who like true English Barons who should neither suffer their King nor their Peers to be abused the next day having consulted with their Pillows like themselves Order thanks to be given to Rutherfurd with desires also that he print his gudly geere I could also tell you how Samuel Anneley L. L. D. and Preacher at Cliffe in Kent very manfully perswaded the Parliament to do justice upon the King and not to treat with him any more yet highly extols and affirms the obligation of the Covenant so that some can cut off the Kings head by authority of the Covenant for which pretty salvo it may be the Commons ordered Mr. Boys to give the Dr. thanks where also they desire him to print this Queer come off I would also tell you of Mr. Matthew Barker formerly of James Garlick hithe London whence Mr. Freeman was wrongfully sequestred and plundred and his Curate Mr. Anthony turn'd out then of Mortlake in Surrey who earnestly in the pulpit perswaded the Parliament to continue in the wicked ways they had begun And that they do by all means execute justice And not to have any more Treaties and this man must have their thanks too from the mouth of Collonel Harvy I would also tell you how Mr. Tho. Brooks of Thomas Apostles whence Mr. Cooper was sequestred plundred and sent Prisoner to Leeds Castle in Kent furiously stirr'd up the Rumpers to do justice but because this was after the seclusion I shall neither speak of him or his being thankd by Sir John Bourchier The plain truth is should I give you a Bead-role of all the Treasonable rebellious and seditious expressions only utter'd from the Pulpit before the Parliament it self from the beginning of these warres till the Kings murther as I could soon do did I think it worth the while a Stranger might well suppose our English Pulpits not to be unlike that dreadful passage in Sir John Mandevile where so many Devills cunningly acted their parts to intise passengers to their perpetual ruine and well might he judge every Presbyterian black coat a Cataline whose only businesse is to promote Rebellion and Bloodshed yet was none of them ever checkt by but had the hearty thanks from the Parliament for so doing which shall stand as a perpetual in famy to the Presbyterians in the house whether secluded or a Rumper For had they any respect to his Majesty they would never have suffered him

accident though false will force the poor souls to a blessing of themselves from such people against whom God hath such an enmity Thus at the beginning of the Warres John Vicars afrighted many of the weaker sort from having any agreement with the Kings party by fobbing into their heads strange stories of Gods wrath against Cavaliers And thus they now set themselves awork again by abusing the vulgar with such fopperies What strange judgments do they threaten to these Nations if Episcopacy and Common-prayer book be not taken away And what sad Revolutions do they denounce if they be not remov'd To which purpose Mr. Ed. Bagshaw one now well known amongst the Brethren hath lately put forth a Sermon enough to make a whole Country distracted And to carry on this great work the dropping Anabaptist and Millenary make a great noise in which Throng H. Jessey holding up his ridiculous Pamphlet The Lords loud Call to England which is seconded by another forging zealot under the title of Mirabilis Annus both which are as free from truth as Tom. Scot from chastity here you may be as long finding a true story as Diogenes an honest man in Athens In both which books to my own knowledge and eye-sight are some most abominable lies and forgeries that were but St. Quintin now alive to pull them by their Noses those parts would soon fall off and leave the Sectaries mark'd for lyers Not unlike one Harris a Gold-smith who in the straits of Magellan going to blow his Nose instead of the snot threw the nose into the fire so violent was the cold and so Antony Knivet drew his benumm'd toes off with his frozen stockens But I hope Jessey and the rest of his Sectarian Associates will have no more influence upon the people than He Knolls and others of his Club had over the old blind woman neer Algate in London who by their anointing with oil thought to restore her to sight But alas these Dreamers can do no miracles unlesse like the two Priests of Orleance by deceipt and cunning But of these things I could pay them in their own coin if I thought it worth the while I could tell them of a great Lord a mortall enemy to Bishops and Cathedrals who March 1640. told some other Lords I hope one of us shall live to see no one stone left upon another of that Building meaning St. Pauls And after going to storm Lichfield-Close being all compleatly armed was in March 1643. shot in the left eye by a Gent. that was both dumb and deaf and which is also observeable he was thus slain upon St. Ceddes day who is the Patron of that Cathedral I could also tell them of Col. Hambdens being slain in that very place where he first took up Arms against the King I could also tell them of Mr. Tho. Hoyle Alderman of York and a Parliament man who hang'd himself in his own House at Westminster upon the same day and hour twelve-month that the King was murdered I could also tell them the rumours of Essex's death the storys of Pyms eating-disease and how the Lord Gray welterd in his own blood I could tell them of Mr. Hall of St. Needs in Huntingtonshire who hang'd himself of Sr. Tho. Martin of Cambridg-shire who said that he had rather wash his hands in the blood of the young King of Scots then in the Deer then slain and the same day brake his skull and shoulders of which he died I could tell them of one adventuring to climb up to pull down Cheap-side Cross slipt his hold and falling with his ribbs upon the Iron pikes wounded himself to death I could tell of another that endeavouring to tear down the Organs at Worcester fell down upon the Pavement broke his bones and dyed I could tell of another who had his hand shiver'd to pieces by the breaking and splitting of his gun as he endeavour'd to shoot at the similitude of Christ over All-souls Coll. gate in Oxford and of another who thinking to do the same at Martin Colledge had one of his eies blown out and the other little better I could tell the Anabaptists of one Anne Martin and another woman who got their deaths by the new mode of dipping And I could tell the Quaker how Lieutenant Thomas lately poyson'd himself and of a woman of his Tribe endeavouring to do miracles fell presently mad And as for the Presbyterians I could tell them a story of a great Preacher of their Faction viz. Mr. Barker of Pitchley in Northamptonshire and was by them held a godly man who was publickly hang'd for incest and murder who defil'd his Niece and had the child murdred which he had by her And let them consider the temperature of Dr. Cheynell But 't is a mark upon all this Fraternity to be hot-headed which doth make good the Description of a Puritan made long since by Dr. Butler of Cambridge viz. A Puritan is a Protestant frayd out of his witts I shall say nothing of Mary Gadbury a great Follower of Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Case then of Goodwin and Jessey nor what pretty pranks she plaid to prove her self to be the Virgin Mary nor of Mr. Woodward Minister and his Wife great actors in that story yet it will not be amisse if I tell you one Covenanting passage On the same day that Mr. Joseph Caryll preach'd to exhort the people to the taking of the Covenant This following Bill was given to him to be read and praid for One that through much passion oftentimes grievously offends the Majesty of God by cursing and swearing And that since his late TAKING THE COVENANT desires the Prayers of this Congregation that his Offence may be pardoned and that he may be enabled to overcome that temptation from hence forwards Let Mr. Caryl make what interpretation he pleaseth the Reader must have as much power to judge as he Should I be as impertinent as these men I could give them story for story as long as they would and yet it may be scarce a true judgment of either side though highly fancyed so to be by the people Like the Country fellow who thought that the Astronomer taking the height of something with his Jacobs staffe had shot down the starre which by chance then fell as we usually say Tom Coryat tells a story of a fellow that mending a Clock in Venice and being very busie about the Bell at the same time one of the great men of Brasse that us'd to strike the Quarters of the hours with his great brazen hammer gave him such a violent blow that he knock'd him dead on the place should I tell the Brethren that this man was a Roman Catholick they would cry out a great judgment of God upon a Member of Anti-christ But 't is ridiculous to make every accident a judgment and 't is unchristian to question that God doth not sometimes manifestly revenge himself and cause

they are delivered to us by Adam Contzenus a deep observing Jesuite which our late English Law-choppers have observed to a hair as is obvious by the sequent Rules I. The Intent of the Calvinists in altering Religion in the Palatinate by extirpating the Lutherans was conceal'd lest the vulgar having knowledge of it should tumultuate After this manner were the Orthodox Divines in England weakened The Presbyterians at their Initiation into this Kingdom not going openly like honest men but skulking up and down to private Conventicles which they call'd Synods or Assemblies according to the directions of their great Mustaphi's such as Cartwright Snape Gibby Travers Gillebrand Whittington Goodman c. But having once increast the number of their Disciples into a formidable body took the impudence to affront King Queen Laws and all their Superiours Nor of all these many Opinions we have had two pregnant and powerful amongst us few were observed how they took root till like Cadmus his Souldiers they shew'd themselves so potent that they might scorn a resistance Nor could we dream of any intentions lurking in the breasts of our pretended Potentates tending any way to the introducing of a motley-Babylonick Herd of Religions since Prelacy was murdered out by a drove of Villains seeing they so solemnly protested against any such endeavour as you may see by these following words And we do here declare that it is farr from our purpose or desire to let loose the Golden Reyns of Discipline and Government in the Church to leave private persons or particular Congregations to take up what Form of Divine Service they please For we hold it requisite that there should be throughout the whole Realm a conformity to that Order which the Laws enjoyn according to the Word of God This Protestation is something serious But alas it may be they looking upon themselves as our Lords and Masters Dissimulation is a thing permitted them by a French States-man though I believe in equality they are more our Neighbours and so could not demand the same priviledge granted by de Marnix to Kings What they meant by the Laws of the Land I know not but it is certain they favour'd Episcopacy more than any other Government And it is as true what the old Poet sung 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whilst we are rul'd by wilful power and might Laws cannot do so much as do us right And what validity can we expect in a Declaration from those who can swallow down Oaths with more content and celerity than Lazarello de Tormes could a Saucidge or a little Sack Who look upon Allegiance to others as a nicety of State yet make it Treason if not observed to themselves But if our own Laws cannot be in force I wish the Aegyptians might who held perjury a double offence against God and Man and so rewarded the guilty with death II. Some more craftily suborned humbly to petition the Prince though he earnestly long'd for the change himself and so possibly might prompt them to it that the Exercise of their Religion might be granted None can be ignorant of the same manner of Jugling in England for these many years last past in so much that we have had scarce any Petition concerning Religion or the Change of Government but what trucking collogueing and running about to get peoples hands to it most of them being either Servants or such mean Handy-craft-men that want brains to apprehend either the advantage or damage of any Publick concern but are driven on with such hasty fury that nothing can satisfie them but a present performance though with as much ignorance and envy as those who rail'd against the Innocent Aristides because he was too just and honest to live amongst such wretches Of this manner of cheating up Petitions the famous Dr. Hammond takes special notice And that great Prop of Learning the late Arch-bishop of Canterbury gave a large hint in his Speech upon the Scaffold in these words Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then to go to the great Court of this Kingdom the Parliament and clamour for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not do justice but at their appointment A way which may endanger many an Innocent man and pluck his bloud upon their own heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self the Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from Parish without check many well-meaning people are caught by it Of this clandestine way of Jugling up Petitions several Counties did publickly complain about the beginning of these Wars to the Parliament in their Petitions for Episcopacy but to small purpose the Members resolving to break the Laws did not like that which would confirm them This way of begging was used above a dozen years ago by some Privado's in the County of Buckingham Essex Oxford and Barks to decide and lessen the Parliament and promote an Independent Army and Faction against them And thus as it was thought did the well-known Committee of Derby-house imploy Col. Rainsborough to go up and down and solicit the common sort of Marriners to subscribe and present the House of Commons with a Petition against a Personal Treaty with the King which other places Petitioned for And to make them more complying gave 12 d. a piece to those who would subscribe it And this way of hudling up requests was used by those Bloud-thirsty Canabals for the bringing of his Majesty and others to the Block In this Art of State-craft Oliver Cromwell was excellently well seen and made it one of his main blinds to deceive an easie believing multitude which he thought both lawful and commendable in himself but when once raised to a Protector thought it little less then Treason in others greatly complaining of such actions to his mock-Parliament Thus the Priest forgets that ever he was Clerk every man thinking himself in the right and so did the three poor Nuns of Mergate when they drew up their Innocent Petition as here followeth by the By though now converted to a wrong sense We thre poor Nuns of Mergate Piteously compleineth to your gud Estate Of one Sir Johnne of Whipesuade Who hath stopped our Water-gate With two Stons and a Stake Help us Lord for Cryst hys sake These poor women through their simplicity dream'd of nothing but what was honest desired nothing but what was just a reparation of their wrongs being the only thing they aimed at not like our self-ended Time-servers who from the Noddles of three or four like a Multiplying-Glass can produce you many thousands Thus five or six in Decemb 1653. when Oliver was scarce warm in his Protectorship to make his footing the more sure drew up an Address to him and sent it through the three Kingdoms as a pattern for

might be said as Platina said of the same Pope Thus expired these Bonte-feus who rather endeavour'd to make themselves a terror to Kings Magistrates then study the increase and propagation of true Religion However if after all this we should grant though I see small reason for so doing that the Presbyterians did contribute something to his Majestie 's restauration yet will the credit if rightly considered be so little that they have aboundance of confidence who can boast of it It being done supposing that they were assisters rather for their own ends then any real love which they bore towards his Majesty And what will not these men do for their own advantage We need not tell here of some Patrons of that Faction who first subscribed to Episcopacy then took the Covenant against it then took the Engagement against Kingship and since have embraced both King and Episcopal Government And certainly most ignorant must that man be who supposeth that those who thus vary do it really by perswasion of the excellent goodness of that thing they then engage for rather then a time-serving humour for a private benefit And what little thanks much lesse reward the Puritans merit by their assistance supposing that they were advantagious may be hinted at by these following parallel stories At that famous Siege of Ostend a Frenchman by disobeying his Serjeant caus'd a Tumult for which he was condemned by a Councel of War to be Shot to Death Yet at the intercession of the French Captain that renowned General Sir Francis Vere granted him life upon condition he asked the Serjeant forgiveness This he scorned however had eight days allow'd him to consider at the end of which he seeming still obstinate was Ordered to Execution and accordingly was tyed to a Stake But no sooner did the Monsieur see the Harquebusiers ready to discharge but the fear of death falling upon him he desired to be unbound and so asked the Serjeant forgiveness Our Brittish Presbyterians by disobedience to their King caused a most wicked war to the ruin of many Noble families and the King himself The merciful King for the preservation of his Subjects bloud sent to the Malefactors Post after Post a full pardon provided there might be a sure peace and a perfect Amnesty To these propositions they scorn to hearken and by their Covenant swear to ruin all the King's friends and in this manner being confident in their own strength they run on in obstinacy and in this stubborn fashion did they continue many years thinking themselves secure But at last to their amazement they beheld the Independent ready to cut their throats this fear of a sudden destruction brought such a terrour upon these zealots that they were even at their wits ends they look round about for relief cast out many a sigh to obtain favour but they perceive no safety unless they would acknowledge themselves Subjects to their King This they thought a hard lesson and contradictory to their Christian Liberty but taking it for a good rule that of two Evils the lesse is to be chosen they with a low voyce not willing to be heard mumble out that Charles II. is their King and so through his Majesties mercy were relieved from their bondage though innocent souls they scorned to ask pardon for their former villanies in which they came short of the French mans ingenuity But to bring the Simile somewhat more pat in respect of the relation betwixt a Soveraign and a Subject Above 300. years past the Danes banished their King Christophorus II. and Imprisoned his eldest son Eric in the strong Castle of Hadersleben in the Dukedome of Schleswick These dissentions having weakened the Nation those of Holstein endeavour'd to get Denmark under their subjection which the Danes perceiving were glad to re-call their King and set free his Son This story will unfold it self in the application of the following Narrative which is exactly to the business and hath formerly been used by an Ingenious Gentleman in a speech at Nottngham though in the relating I shall not only somewhat differ from him but also inlarge my self out of the Chronicles themselves James I. King of Scotland when but Prince and young going into France was taken Prisoner by the English 7. Henry IV. 1406. where he was detain'd some 18. years In the mean time the Government of Scotland was usurped by Robert Steward Duke of Albany and Earl of Fyfe after whose death his Son Mordack or Murdo got the command never endeavouring the resettlement of his King but lorded it over the Nation wasting and alientating the King's Revenue and the Churches Patrimony turning all things upside down according to his Tyrannical humour In the mean while Mordac had three sons Walter Alexander and James though André de Chesne through brevity taketh no notice of the latter who grew very unruly and imperious obedient to no laws but their own wills presumptiously destroying what their Father most delighted in to his great grief and discontent And not being able to endure their sawciness he resolved to free himself from their Tyrannical yoak to which purpose he told his eldest son Walter who had just then snatch'd a Faulcon from his fathers hand and wrong off her neck that since he would not be obedient to his government and pleasure he would procure one who should rule them both After which time all his Counsels were for the restauration of King James resolving rather to be a Subject to a lawful King then a slave to his own Children For which purpose he gets a Parliament call'd at Saint Johnstown where all being weary of the present Government and Tyranny it was unanimously concluded to send for their own King home again which accordingly was done 1424. and he presently restoreth both the Crown and Church Revenues And in a Parliament held at Sterling Mordacus with his two sons were condemn'd as Traytors and beheaded his youngest son flying into Ireland where he dyed The Application of this Story is obvious Our present King when also but a young Prince by the malignancy of self-ended Traytors being secluded from his own for the space also of eighteen years The Government of the Nation was seised upon by the furious Presbyterians who Tyrannize to the purpose over the distracted Country getting the King's Lands selling his Woods loading the Nation with Excise and Taxes ruining the Church imprisoning and murthering the Bishops and others of the Chief Gentry whose estates they also put into their pockets imposing wicked oaths upon the people vilifying their King murthering his Subjects and in a word violating all Laws After this fashion did old Father Presbytery Tyrannize for some years But at last Independency Anabaptism and the Fifth-Monarchy-men the three ungracious sons of Presbytery began to perk up grow headstrong and so malepert as to contemn scorn and deride their Father spitting in his face and throwing all reproaches they could upon him

Kings Oath and other mens Oaths must submit to the Laws of the Land I know no reason but the Covenant should too being expresly against them So that either the Covenant must null the Laws or the Laws the Covenant If the first then farewell Poulton since the swearing of Presbytery can make those Statutes useless if the latter then adieu Covenant and Presbytery not forgetting the League and since that the names of the Parliament-men subscribers in Parchment a great sign of the Loyalty and good Religion of the present Commons who in this have excell'd all other Parliaments for many Generations past let others commend themselves for me that were burnt by the hands of the Hangman in London by Authority of Parliament a Supream Power to that which made and forced it But that you may see the folly of some Oaths and how the Swearers are sometimes even necessitated to smooth them over with a gentle Interpretation and a slender performance I shall tell you one story Bretislaus or Bisetislaus Son to Udalricus Duke of Bohemia fell in love meerly by report for as then he had not seen her with Jutha Daughter to the Emperour Otho II call'd Ruffo To obtain her he goeth under the shew of Religion to Ratisbone or Regenspurg where she was in a Monastery and after some contrivances gets her on Horseback and gallops away with her to his Father and by her own consent marryed her The Emperour enraged at this raiseth an Army and solemnly swears a mischief to Bohemia and never to return with his Army till he had placed his Throne in the midst of that Countrey Against him Bretislaus and his Father raise Forces the Son also swearing to carry fire into the middle of Germany and that so near the Imperial Court that Caesar himself should be constrain'd to shut his eyes for the greatness of the light and splendour of those flames The Armies drawing near together and preparing for battel The Lady Gutta grieved that so much blood should be shed for her sake tearing her hair and face exposed her self to all danger by running betwixt the two Armies and over-whelm'd with sorrow having found out the Emperour earnestly pleads in behalf of her husband the strength of Love the Child within her c. With which Caesar was so moved to compassion that with tears he told her of his willingness to Peace but that his Oath obliged him to the contrary She told him that her husband had sworn too but that he should consider the vanity of that Religion which alloweth of and giveth place to wickedness since Oaths should not strengthen the foundation of sin and mischief Well Peace is made they having found out as they thought a way to keep them both from Perjury the Emperour going to Boleslau then held to be the middle of Bohemia where a Throne being made with a few stones he sits him down as Conquerour And Bizetislaus for so some also call him to save his Oath went into Germany and the Emperour being by set fire to a few Cottages and spoil'd two or three little Fields for which damages he presently satisfied paying the value The Brethren think they have got another salvo for their honesty when they would make people have a good opinion of the Covenant because several of the Royalists took it and in this accusation Crofton is impudent to a Wonder especially to his Betters But is it any honour to the Independent Engagement against King c. nay the Covenant too because some great Presbyterians took it The truth is the Presbyterians by the fortune of Warr becoming Masters seiz'd upon the Revenues of those who had been faithful to his Majesty not suffering many of them to Compound but upon abominable terms for their Estates unless they would take the Covenant to boot which shews the implacable malice of the Puritans who in this like the Italian made it their business to destroy the soul too And this may serve to shew what small reason they have to demand Toleration of those whose Consciences they formerly so wickedly forced Which horrid act will remain as a mark of Ignominy upon this Faction to Eternity And in behalf of the Royalist I shall afford you another Story which will apply it self Emuanuel King of Portugal with-held from a Bishop his Revenues The Bishop complains to the Pope who sends a Legat either to perswade the King to Restitution or Excommunicate him and upon the Kings refusal the latter was denounced and so the Legat departs towards Rome again The King enraged at this Sentence mounted on Horse-back to follow the Legat and having over-taken him drew out his Sword threatning to kill him unless he would absolve him which was done and the King return'd to his Court The Legat being got to Rome and told the Story of his Journey The Pope was very angry and sharply checkt him for absolving the King to whom the Legat reply'd Most holy Father had you been in danger of your life as I was you would have given the King absolution double and treble No People rails more against the Pope and a Jesuite than a Puritan and yet in their destructive Principles of Government none agrees more with them Tell them but of the Pope's Excommunicating of Kings and disingaging their Subjects from any more obedience to them and you shall hear nothing but roaring against Antichrist and Babylon and stories of the Whore Beast Horns and enough to fright Children out of their Wits Yet if you tell them that they are guilty of the same by dispensing with the Peoples Oaths to their Kings and Bishops then will they call it the Cause of God the Interest of Jesus Christ and a good sign that they are the true Saints of God and the sureness of their Election thus though seeming mortal Enemies are they united to destroy the Civil Power If the latter Oath especially when wickedly and villainously impos'd cannot take away the Obligation of the former and that agreeable to the cause as the Reverend and Learned Patron of the Church saith whose single testimony is of more worth than the opinion of a whole Assembly of Covenanters I cannot conceive how a company of Noddles being but a piece of a Parliament pratling at Westminster and in active Rebellion against their King can quit honest men for Knaves can ease themselves from their Oaths and Subscriptions to Kingly and Episcopal Obedience by an after-Imposition of a contradictory and wicked Oath But it may be they may suppose that if Hortensius shed tears for the death of a Lamprey If Macarius Abbot of Alexandria penitentially tormented himself in Bryars and Thorns six Moneths or seven years for the death of a Flea If the Aetolians and Arcadians Warr'd together for a wild Boar If the Carthaginians and the People of Piraca for a Sea-Rovers ship If the Scots and Picts for a few Dogs If Charles Duke of Burgondy