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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47914	A seasonable memorial in some historical notes upon the liberties of the presse and pulpit with the effects of popular petitions, tumults, associations, impostures, and disaffected common councils : to all good subjects and true Protestants.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1301; ESTC R14590	34,077	42

by he cry'd unto him thus saith the Lord because thou hast let go a man whom I appointed for Destruction therefore thy Life shall go for his Life Now see how the King of Syria after this answers Ahab's love about three years after Israel and Syria engaged in a new War and the King of Syria gives command unto his Souldiers that they should fight neither against small nor great but against the King of Israel Benhadads Life was once in Ahabs hand and he ventur'd Gods displeasure to let him go But see how Benhadad rewards him for it Fight neither against Small nor Great but against the King of Israel Honourable and Worthy If God do not lead you to do Justice upon those that have been great Actors in shedding Innocent Blood never think to gain their Love by sparing of them for they will if Opportunity be ever offer'd return again upon you And then they will not fight against the poor and mean ones but against those that have been the Fountain of that Authority and Power which have been ●mproved against them 〈◊〉 you not sins ●now of your Own says another but will ye wrap 〈◊〉 selves up in the Treachery M●ther Blood C●uelty and Tyranny 〈◊〉 ●thers p. 17. Set some of those Grand Malefactors a mourning that h●e caused the Kingdom to mourn so many years in Garments roll●d in blood by the Execution of Justice c. P. 19. Tamum Religio potuit suadere Malorum And we are not yet at the Top on 't neither For to look back upon that hideous Impiety not only without remorse but with satisfaction is a piece of hardness and Inhumanity till this Age and this Case perhaps unheard of Worthy Patriots says another of the same Order you that are our Rulers in this Parliament 't is often said we live in times wherein we may be as good as we please wherein we enjoy in Purity and plenty the Ordinances of Jesus Christ praised be God for this● Even that God who hath deliver'd us from the Imposition of ●relatical Innovations Altar-Genuflexious and Cringings with Crossings and all that Popish trash and Trumpery And truly I speak no more then I have often thought and said The Removal of those Insupportable Burthens Countervails for the Blood and Treasure shed and spent in these late Distractions Nor did I as yet ever hear of any Godlymen that dest●ed were it possible to purchase their Friends or Many again at so dear a rate as with the return of these to have those soulburthening Anti-christian Yoaks re-imposed upon them And if any such there be I am sure that desire is no part of their Godliness and I PROFESS MY SELF IN THAT TO BE NONE OF THE NUMBER And M. Baxter likewise in effect says as much viz. That having often searched into his heart whether he did lawfully engage in the War or not and whether he did lawfully encourage so many thousands to it he tells us that the Issue of all his search was but this that he cannot yet see that he was mistaken in the main Cause nor dares he repent of it nor forbear doing the same if it were to do again in the same State of things We might carry the aggravation yet a step farther in a Remarque or two upon his Political Theses where he took as much pains in 1659. to keep out his present Majesty as he did in the late War to drive out his Royal Father casuistically resolving upon the point then in Hope and Prospect that in that state of things the King himself could not justifie the resuming of his Government nor his People the submitting to it But this is enough to recommend the same persons over again to the care of another Reformation that were so dutifull in the former and the Government needs not doubt but they will be just as kind to his Majesty as they were to his Father Good God! That any thing in Humane shape that Glories in the Murther of his Sovereign should make a face at a Ceremony Here 's no amplyfying of the Matter no forcing of constructions Packing of Presidents or suborning of Proofs But the Doctors of the Schism Cited Produc'd and Judg'd out of their own mouths and in so clear a manner too as to leave no place for a doubt either of the Fact or of the Designe We could give you an account of the many good Offices they did in the various Revolutions of the War and upon the Pinching Exigences of the State As the promoting of Petitions Tumults Protestations Oaths and Covenants of all sizes and colours the Consecrating of the Rebellion by Authorities of Scripture Dividing Wives from their Husbands Sons from their Fathers Preaching away the Apprentices from their Masters and setting Jesus Christ in the Head of the Sedition The artifices of their Fasts and Thanksgivings their Cajolling the City out of their Bags and the simple multitude out of their Lives and Duties the Influence they had upon bringing in the Scots their faculty both of Creating Fears and Jealousies and of Emproving them their miraculous Discoveries of Plots of their own making Their Sermons were a kinde of Domestique Intelligence and people went to Church as to a Coffee-house to hear News and Fables We could shew you likewise how they shifted their Principles with their Interests and from 1640. to 1660. how these Mercenaries of the Pulpit complied with every turn of State But we have rak'd far enough already in this puddle and it is high time to proceed If a man might with a fair Decorum call so direfull a Tragedy a Puppet-play we should tell you that you have hitherto seen only the Puppets of this Pretended Reformation and that they signified nothing of themselves but as they were guided by the Masters of the Machine from under the Stage or behinde the Hanging Now we cannot better lay open this Practice and Confederacy then by setting forth the admirable Harmony and Concert that appear'd betwixt the Lay-Caball and the Ecclesiastick agreeing in the same method in the same steps in the same cause and in the same Opinions Only that which was matter of Policy in Private was made matter of Conscience and Religion in Publick First they finde out Corruptions in the Government as matter of Grievance which they expose to the People Secondly they Petition for Redress of those Grievances still asking more and more till something is deny'd them And then Thirdly they take the Power into their own hands of Relieving themselves but with Oaths and Protestations that they Act only as Trustees for the Common Good of King and Kingdom From the pretence of Defending the Government they proceed to the Reforming of it which Reformation proves in the end to be a Final Dissolution of the Order both of Church and State This we shall deduce as briefly as we may After the Fatal Pacification at Berwick June 17. 1639. upon the Scotts