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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90788	The plot discovered and counterplotted commended in a letter to a private friend, / from a true-hearted well-wisher to great Britains happinesse.	True-hearted well-wisher to Great Brittanes happinesse.	1641 (1641)	Wing P2593; Thomason E171_25; Thomason E171_26; ESTC R16974	12,786	31

Ceremony The second principle that a papist is much honester then a puritan and much more to bee favoured a damnable principle according to the intention and application of it and of the effects that have followed in this Kingdome No question Machiavil Ignatius or the Devill began to apply this old Hereticall name in such an extended and generall way For in these latter times every man that subscribed unto the Doctrine of the Church if he was tender in matter of ceremonie hath beene reputed a Puritan nay every man that will not sweare be drunk wanton scoffe and jeere others he is a puritan though conformable to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England so that the late projectours have united together in this principle and by it have much advanced their designes upon this ground the Papist hath beene cherished as the honester man men of most refined life and exact godlinesse and have shewed forth eminent vertue in practice have beene brow-beaten discountenanced and persecuted drunkards have beene the good Sonnes of the Church temperate men the stubborne children of their mother O Tempora O Mores what strange times were we fallen into when light was called darknesse and darknesse light sweete sower and sowre sweet good evill and evill good when the wicked shall bee justified for a reward and the righteousnesse of the righteous shall bee taken away from them This principle hath beene followed with such hellish zeal that Religion and Vertue are almost bereft of life and sense for this principle hath put out the eyes cut off the legges and hands of Religion and Vertue Help Lord for faith and truth are almost perished and discouraged for looking amongst the sonnes of men Thirdly libertie is sweet a principle which is acknowledged most true provided it be not extended in longitude and latitude above the true naturall dimensions of it If it had beene stretched no further then Gods service it had beene perfect freedome but let it be onely understood of the satisfaction of the carnall will and sensuall appetite then liberty is dangerous and of bad consequence Now Sir survey seriously the latter times you shall observe the scandalous Minister the corrupt Magistrate the innovating Prelate and his Officers the professed Papist the Popish Protestant the rigid Arminian and the Libertine all sayling in one and the same channell of carnal libertie and crying out Te te nos poscimus omnes all of them with one consent desire libertie not freedom of conscience in indifferent undetermined things for this you shall scarce have one hand amongst them but libertie to sin to have their lusts their heterodox and unsound opinions libertie to cast off the bonds of truth This principle doth cement their affections one to an other and unite them more strongly against all divine obedience and hath hetherto made the late conspiracies against Church and State more formidable and dreadfull These and the like diabolicall principles our late projectors have mannaged with what faithfulnesse they can against the God of order the law of charitie the rules of piety so that the beautie of these glorious Islands by these and the like devises is much defaced and obscured Sir having thus surveyed these Projectors and their principles methinks it seemes our dutie and the dutie of all good Christians and true English hearts to Petition unto the high and honourable Court of Parliament against these as underminers of State happinesse either for their reformation or else punishing or discountenancing of them for so long as these have publique encouragement in our State neither can religion be secured nor the throne and tranquility of the Kingdome well established It s true whiles we looke upon the numbers of these confederates upon their strength for they look like the sons of Anak or upon their union for they seem like the scales of a Whale which a sword cannot pierce and divide easily they render themselves to our eyes like the Moabites and Amonites to Jehosaphat in a very terrible forme and for our parts wee seeme a little flock of sheepe and like grassehoppers in comparison Yet mee thinks under correction of your better judgement unto whom I render my selfe as a learner there is hope in Israel concerning this thing provided the countermine be wel wrought and managed I shall therefore crave your assistance to make up by your mature thoughts what is wanting in my conceit of a Counterplot THE COVNTERPLOT SIR there is no better Counterplot to the workers of iniquity then for the opposite side to worke contrarily to countermine errors with truth unrighteousnesse with righteousnesse uncharitablenesse with charitie violence with moderation and all sinne with a sincere practice of pietie This for a generall will hold as the great mine which the Church of God is to raise against the enemies of it But besides this there are three particular mines which I conceive are most fitting at this present to raise against the aforenamed confederate projectors against great Britain The first a well managed Commission the second is a well constituted and orderd Church-assembly the third is a right frame of Ecclesiasticall government First a well managed Commission I understand by that first Commissioners chosen by the house of Commons approved by the House of Lords which shall bee no parties nor delinquents as far as can bee discerned these chosen out of every Shire or Dioces If the Shire be barren of able and sufficient men then to appoint strāgers rather then delinquents and those qualified with integritie wisdome and resolution Secondly when the Commissioners are thus chosen for both the houses to move his Majesty for sufficient authority for the managing of the said commission That the Commissioners may bee enabled to give oaths to call before them any parties offending or others for witnesses as they shall see cause and to have as large power to punish contempts non aparences or abuse of the Commissioners as the Archbishops Visitors were wont to have in their Metropoliticall visitations Thirdly when the Commissioners are thus chosen and armed with authority then to have a booke of Articles according to the tenour of what I shall propound in the latter end of the discourse and the said Commissioners to have power to admonish to enjoine recantation and to deprive Ministers or else to return their names into the House of Commons to bee censured there and haply it might conduce well to the worke to have a Register allowed to the Commissioners for every Shire or Diocesse and some small fee to be paid to the said Commissioners towards the charges of the said Commissioners and Register by every delinquent as in like cases hath beene allowed in Bishops visitations Secondly a well constituted assembly or Synod I meane an assembly of godly orthodox learned wise and well tempered Divines gathered by the singular prudence and providence especially of the House of Commons which haply might be done most opportunely 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