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A76759	A rejoinder consisting of two parts, the first entituled, The ballance, or, A vindication of the proceedings and judgement of Parliament and their ministers, in the cases of William (called lord) Craven, Christopher Love. : From the scandalous allegations and ironical reflections of Ralph Farmer ... in a late infamous libel of his, named, The imposter dethron'd, etc. ... Wherein the Commonwealth's case as to the one is briefly stated, and the treasons of the other are rehearsed as a looking-glass for the priests, and an awakening to England. : The second, Evil scattered from the throne, and the wheel brought over the wicked: in an examination of that part of The imposter dethron'd as is in way of reply to The throne of truth exalted, etc.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1658 (1658)	Wing B3004A; ESTC R170664	67,249	93

all abominable lyes especially the last which I neither saw nor came into my thoughts And as for the rest of what thou sayest thou hast by information but dost not mention of whom and thy Queries whether I said not so and so to one in my study at White-Hall whom thou namest not when I shall see any thing relating unto me deserving an Answer under the hands of either of them to whom thou pretendest I may make a Reply To close this particular Had any thing been in design as R. F. and his Confederates would fix upon me otherwise might have been found then by medling with that Estate which could not otherwise be●● expected then to raise a clamor to have answered such ends of which neither he nor his Accomplices might have once heard so much as a whisper but as J was clear so J proceeded boldly knowing that innocency would in the end triumph and my open contracting at that time was not vvithout reason as to the publike it being a demonstration to honest men that if J had knovvn any thing but honesty in the bottom on vvhich vvas grounded that Judgement J vvould not have contracted my self for part of the Estate vvhich by that Judgement vvas confiscated As for Major Fanconer J neither knevv him nor heard that such a man vvas beyond the seas till after his comeing from Breda vvhere he vvas at the time of the Treaty between the Scotch Commissioners and their King he was brought to me to give an account of what designs he knew there to have been hatch't against the Common-Wealth which I received according to the Trust committed to me by the Council in things of that nature and finding it to be of seasonable and great importance to the safety of the Common-Wealth it being of designs generally laid over the Nation and of several of the Heads and chief Actors therein particularly in Norfolk which a few months after brake forth into an open insurrection and it agreeing in many particulars with what I had received from other of my Agents I gave credit thereunto And this as J have said is the first knowledge J had of the man and that which gave the occasion of my conversing with him but as for any thing designed by me against Craven and then sending Fauconer over the Seas to effect and act it as hath been whispered into the ears of some in chiefest Authority or corrupting of Fauconer by moneys or otherwise to swear falsly or any knowledge or apprehension that he had in any particular untruly deposed or putting him upon straits of time or any other inconveniences whereby he might be surprised in his understanding or memory or using any provocation for that purpose or that he might give in a wrong information J am in the presence of the Lord who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and coming clear and innocent And thus much in reference to my self As to the STATE THE question in the Case is not Whether the Words Barbarous and inhumane Rebels were in the Petition of the Officers presented the King at Breda in which William called Lord Craven is said to have assisted or whether what Fauconer gave therein be a true Testimony as that on which the Parliament grounded their Vote of Confiscation at first and afterwards their judgement for sale of his Estate though it hath been the design and artifice of his Agents and Advocates and of R F. in particular thus fallaciously to state it and in prosecution thereof having got a Verdict of Perjury against Fauconer as to that clause onely have thereupon founded this loud lying outcry viz. That upon the single Testimony of that scandalous and perjured person the Parliament did give judgement for the sale of his Estate and have upon this Wheel turned all their late transactions for the retrival thereof to the undermining the Act of Parliament and blemishing their Justice But whether he the said Craven being a Native and Subject of this Commonwealth did not repair to the declared Enemy thereof viz. Charles Stuart Eldest SON to the late King then at Breda in Treaty with the Scotch Commissioners for the instateing of him into the Throne of England and where it was agreed to instate him by force of Arms into the said Dominion and where many of his Councellors of State and Officers were met and were there hatching and laying designs to be acted throughout the Common-wealth of England and which afterwards were endeavoured to be put in Execution And whether he the said Craven had not then and thereat and during the time of the aforesaid Treaty and the conclusion thereof where it was agreed as aforesaid converse and familiarity with the said King the declared enemy of the Common-wealth in his privy chambers and otherwise and with his Councellors of State select Juncto and Officers which to do is adherency to the declared Enemy of the Common-wealth and consequently Treason by the known Laws of the Land And that he the said Lord Craven hath so done is positively proved to say nothing of Fanconers Testimony to invalidate which as to what he hath said in this particular nothing hath yet been offered not onely by four Witnesses viz. Reyley Ketchingman Benson and Moubray sworn before the Vote of Confiscation and in consideration with the Parliament when they resolved that Vote but by Bardsey sworn before the Council of State and before the Parliament when they ordered his Name to be put in the Bill for his Lands to be sold and by Priswick sworn before the Commissioners for Sequestrations Nov. 18. 1●51 and by Drury and Brisco in their Examinations which they owned upon their oaths at the Upper-bench on the Tryal of Fauconer where they being produced in Cravens behalf as the onely Witnesses for Fauconers conviction of Perjury proved his Delinquency And the Aherency aforesaid to the declared Enemy of the Commonwealth thus proved is * When I speak of that on which the Parliament grounded such their Vote and Judgement I speak Ex manifesto upon what the Testimonies themselves say but as for that which directed every individual member to give his Vote Judgm●nt and what further Evidence might be of or amongst themselves when they debated and pronounc't i● I meddle not with that on which the Parliamen● have grounded such their Vote and Judgement as aforesaid Against which and its proof nothing hath yet bren offered as J have seen or have heard So that Cravens Case as it is stated by his Agents and Advocates to have been grounded by the Parliament as to the Confiscation of his Estate on those Words Barbarous and inhumane Rebels and on the single testimony of Fauconer therein on which particular clause of his information onely they have endeavoured to fix a Perjury withall they have said thereabouts the clamors that have been made the noises raised are clean out of doors as is manifest for neither was the Parliaments Vote and

behalf of the Commonwealth either tempted or drew forth nor do I believe any did the Treasons aforesaid which secretly lodged in the discontented brests of Christop Love and his Brethren for ought I know and I am perswaded his and their own spirit was the father and mother of those Conspiracies or to give them their own word back again the Trepannor of them all Nor if his bosom friend who was as his Confessor before his death cannot do I guess who of his generation or any other can give satisfaction to this question except this lyar who asks it though he saith I know what this last meaneth To the fourth I neither thirsted after the blood of these nor any man but these and all other who thirsted after the blood of the Common-Wealth and not onely endeavoured but put these Nations into War and Blood to effect it I sought to discover as was my place and Trust and their designs for that purpose upon which discoveries some of the chief of them were brought to Justice whereby the spilling of blood was much prevented my heart being more tender to the blood and being of a Common-Wealth such a one as England and the hundreds of thousands of innocent persons therein that it might be preserved then to one man who sought and designed its ruine and destruction and to me he that by design counsel and contrivance effects that which sheds the blood of men though he draw it not with his own hand is a Murtherer in a higher degree then he that violently doth the execution And whoso sheddeth Gen. 9. ● mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man is the Law of God unto which agreeth that of God in every mans conscience Now in case of the Treasons aforesaid there was one patticular which put it out of the capacity of pardon viz. The assuming unto themselves ● supreme Power within the Jurisdction of the Common-wealth to give Commission and Instructions to divers persons authorizing them to treat with a forreign State the Scots and the proclaimed Enemy to the Common-wealth Charls Stuart King of Scots for the setting of him by force of Arms into the Throne of England which Treaty they effected and at which Treaty it was so ●●●cluded from whence sprang the War aforesaid Whi●●●eing a most transcendant Act of High Treason and ●●●king at the very Root of the Authority then in bein● for it 's impossible that two Supreme Powers in o●e Common-Wealth can consist and if that War had ●●complished the said result of the Treaty the Common-Wealth had not been the Parliament saw it not onely just but necessary for the safety of the Common-Wealth to make it exemplary in his Execution To the fifth and last I wrote many Letters when I was at White-hall and much business was upon me and went through my hands it is impossible for me to remember precisely all that I wrote so many years ago nor do I remember whether I wrote the matter of this Question but this I say Produce my Letter and what I wrote I shall not deny in the mean time and for the close of this case let Edmund Calamy and his Brethren take heed lest what this Lyar hath queryed concerning him and them they prove it to be a truth It 's good advice however it be received from him who knows what he saith and wishes no evil to him or them or any man but an irreconcileable Enemy is to the spirit of darkness which worketh in the dark by design war and blood-shed to set up its own dark domination over State and Conscience of which even of his and their generation as hath largely been made to appear England hath been of late made deeply sensible And now R. F. let me ask thee one question Is not the hand of Joab in this business were not those of Christopher Loves brethren confederates who were lately at Brist thy No Babes in the world and yet honest or some of them by whom those questions aforesaid were proposed and who desired thee to ask them of me and advised thee as aforesaid or from whom or by whose intimation or direction or instigation thou hast charged wrote and reviled as aforesaid Are not these thy Rowers and have they not brought thee into deep waters Thus much of the Case of Christopher Love and in vindication of the Proceedings and Judgement of Parliament and their Ministers in the Case of him and of the said William called Lord Craven from the sc●ndalous allegations and iro●ical reflections of this Lyar R. F. in his Libel aforesaid as to both and in conviction of his false charges therein of corruption as to Fauconers Information and other indirect dealing in the Case of the one and of blood-thirstiness blood-sucking c. in the Case of the other and of all his mire and dirt cast up at me in the management of each on purpose to render me if he could the vilest of men Upon serious consideration of all which the wise and sober may judge whether his Exemplifications as he ●earms it prove me to be such a man as he hath represented me to be or the rottenness of the people called Quakers conversion and perfection in the general as he blasphemeth or that I am the busie Bisho● in medling with that which I should not as he affirmeth or whether that be a truth which he saith by occasion of my practises in special instanced against the Estate of the first and life of the last is asserted viz. If we may judge of the conscience honesty and perfection of the quakers in general by this man in particular a man be as vile a person as any under heaven and yet a perfect quaker as his Title-page and other parts of his Libel hath it Or whether I have not proved this to be a truth viz. If the conscience honesty and profession of the Ministers of England in general may be judged by Ral●h Farmer and what he writes in particular a man may be one of the vilest of men yea a notorious traytor and yet a professed Minister of the Gospel And lastly Whether by any thing he hath said the Declaration of my innocency in the Case of Craven is impeach't or convict Thus much in reference to the first part of this Rejoinder for the rest of his stuff as to the cases aforesaid I reckon it not worth any further Reply but do leave it to fall with its foundation which is thus raced down and overturned WHITE-HALL May. 1652. So much of the Examination of Coll. Edward Drury as relates to the business of Craven HE saith That whilst he was at Breda he this Examina●t and several Officers of the King of Scots as Lievt Coll. James Bardsey Capt. John Brisco Capt. Tho. Hutt●● Capt. Tho. Hunt Major Rich. Fauconer and others to the number of five or six and twenty did joyn together in a Petition to the King for some

in by the jury against him And so what doth there remain as a ground of clamour For on these two hinges viz. That his information as to these words Barbarous and Inhumane Rebells was designed feigned and packt and that he wilfully and in malice and being corrupted thereunto sware it doth turn all the late endeavours for the Retrivall of this Estate and on these two Pillars is founded all the outcryes that hath been made of Fauconers Perjury and of the injustice and indirect dealing of the Parliament Counsell of State their Committee for examinations c. and of my selfe their secretary in order thereunto as the onely Game they had left to play and the last stone they had to turn for that purpose which neverthelesse after all this great a do is but as aforesaid by their own reckoning for after twenty Weeks sickness this was done my bodie being low and in much haste being much infeebled and three quarters of a year after I came over so that I did not then absolutelie remember whether the word Barbarous and inhumane Rebells were expunged saith the paper And that Fauconer drew the Petition and that he put into it those very words Drury and Brisca the onely witnesses against him at the tryal confessed on their Oaths though they said they were afterwards expunged so that as he solemnly protests he did not well remember wheher those words Barbarous and Inhumane Rebels which as I shewed you before he motioned to have put into the Petition and might therefore have some confused remembrance of them I say he could not well then in haste as he saith remember whether they were expunged or no saith R. Farmer Page 89. Here is the sum of this whole matter and the Criticisme on which it hangs and the narrow compass into which it is drawn by the friends of Craven and Fauconers enemies And thus hath their evidence over-turned their cause and their management thereof declared against their wils their jugling to Posteritie But whether the said pretended paper and the whole contents thereof be really Fauconers and of his hand writing and signing I shall offer a few particulars to men of understanding to consider and as I have said to those who are concerned to look after 1. I have by me a Declaration every line of his own hand writing and signing to the contrary which he sent to me to publish in his vindication without any fore-knowledge of mine direction or preocupation either of the thing or matter therein contained directly or indirectly which followeth in these words A Declaration of Major Ric. Fauconer Prisoner in the Upper Bench humbly tendred to all honourable persons of trust and imployment and to all other impartiall Readers HAving endured a strict imprisonment these two years His death pr●vented the publishing of this Declaration and a quarter being exposed to all wants and extremityes that possible a prison can reduce a man unto languishing also in a deep Consumption contracted by my cruel sufferings And for that I perceive the malice of my adversaries to be most insatiable by rendring me daily more more odious thereby to invalidate my testimony concerning the Lord Craven I have therefore after a strict examination and scrutiny into my very soul issued forth this ensuing declaration most humbly tendring it to the just censure of all honourable persons of trust and imployment and to all other Impartial Readers And first I declare of my self that as by Birth and Education I claim a parity with the better sort of Gentlemen so my affections were shewed most early to the Parliament when the Fature Mountaynous troubles were but an Embryo In the service I continued constant in armes even to the latter time of the late war I also expended out of my Patrimony foure hundred Pounds and upwards in raising Horse in Wales as hath been and will be attested to by severall Officers under Major Generall Horton of all which I never received yet one Penny After this I undertook my imployment beyond Sea there I run many hazzards travelled many hundreds of miles through France Flanders Holand Iersey c. to and again peformed matters with all vigilant care On my return for England after a year and a halfes time in the Packet Boat of Ostend the said Boat was robbed and some seventeen or eighteen Passengers carryed Prisoners and my selfe onely and the Boatmen free surely in this I observed the hand of Providence then which preserved me to come safe to London where I rendred an ample account all of the whole Treaty at Breda and all the transactions with divers matters of importance As my services were many so I shall instance but one to avoid prolexity and by that the whole body of the other may be judged Expede Herculem At Breda severall commissions were granted by the Scotch King for the raiseing of horse and foot in divers parts of England by those numerous insurrections to have gained a Body of an Army whereby to have diverted the Lord Generall and the Army from hindering the Scotch in their design for England this was carried with much secresie by the principall Agents there the chiefest and most desperate of those insurrections as well as the rest notwithstanding the great secresie I gave a particular account of four Months before it hapned nay of the Colonell who was chief Agent and taken an actor with severall others By this timely hint the Parliament had time enough to prevent their enemies which they did and by crushing them all the intended insurrections in the West and Wales they vanished The Parliament and councill of State did solemnize a day of thanksgiving at Margrets in Westminster and orderd a day to be observed thorough the whole Nation for that great deliverance of which instrumentally under God I was the principal Author and Judge Jermine was pleased to tell Mr. Maynard who was most bitter against me that without that service of mine and some others neither he had set there nor Mr. Maynard pleaded there I wonder Drury and Brisco did not acquain● th● State with the intended dangers they both knew it a● Breda No they stayed to see the last man born of all the Royal Games and then came into England after they could act no more mischiefe as good Common Wealths men And now a word or two of them the chief evidence against me I have in part related what I have been what I have acted and what J am and let the indifferent man Ballance us Drury was alwayes a Papist in armes against the Parliament so irreconcileable an Enemy that after all endeavors at home he Petitioned the then Scotch King as himself confessed at the Upper Bench Court to be enabled to serve him as he had done his royal father one who went from Bredato Antwerpeto place his sonn there with the Jesuits this he cannot deny J am sure divers can testifie it For Brisco there was enough declared on Oath

of the one the other with this my defence let him judge whether Ineed desire amore fair fuller vindication And whether any man besides R. F. and such as are led by his spirit pretending to ingenuity or honesty would not have blushed so to have produced misused them as he hath done whose cankered bowels so plainly work to convert against me what is my justification and whose black malitious spirit so apparantly runs through the body and members of what he hath written as the very source and contagion thereof that I need not give it any further demonstration And indeed were it otherwise yet it is so circularly interwoven with mingle mangles and wrapt up with such interrogatory uncertainties and Ironicall reflections that there is nothing so positive as might deserve a rationall reply and the ground work or foundation falling or rather shakeing of what he hath sought to build thereupon what he hath endeavored so to raise must needs come to the ground True it is I readily lent him at his desire the Book aforesaid partly to try what he would do therewith partly to leave him without excuse although I then expected some such wretched mis-use thereof as he hath made poysonous extraction which the Book it self corrects to the recording of his shame and disingenuitie for ever And now having or rather what he hath produced as evidence against me cleared my innocencie from his gross and slanderous imputations I shall proceed to speake a little more particularly of this matter the clamor whereof hath made such a ring in this Nation To what hath been already said I do further declare that as I have used no indirect dealing so it hath not been in my heart or desire at any time to do this man wrong much lesse to designe the ruine of his Estate that J might have part as is most falsely suggested my soul even abhorr'd and my hands have alwayes been kept clear from any such wickedness as my whole course in publique affairs many families in this Nation whom J freely endeavoured as J saw just cause to keep from ruine and was instrumentall to preserve can witness But being intrusted by the State J was faithfull thereunto that the Common-Wealth might receive no detriment and did in the discharge thereof communicate what came to my knowledge of him as of others to those in authority whom it did concern who considered and did therein as they saw appertained to justice And that I neither desired nor designed to do him wrong but the contrary I shall give one plaine I may say undeniable Demonstration of which I leave the reasonable to judge viz. Drury and Brisco the two onely Witnesses against Fauconer as to perjury being in custody by vertue of the Council of State 's Warrant as Traytors and under my Examination J had then an opportunity had J desired or designed any such thing as R F. layes to my charge or had been such a man as he represents me to have shut the door against this last attempt viz. the conviction of Fauconer for the retriving of this Estate and consequently to have prevented all that wrong and abuse which in order thereunto hath been since done me bo●h in print and otherwise by his Agents and Advocates For these two having been alwayes Enemies to the Common-we●lth and in arms against it the o●e a Collonel a Papist the other a Captain and having been at Breda in the time of the Treaty there and the conclusion thereof between the Scotch Commissioners and their King where and in those parts they waited for new Employment under him against the State till they were ready to perish and then petitioned him to take into his Princely consideration their extremities who had been alwayes ready to prostrate their lives in his Majesties most royal Fathers service and were no less willing and ready to prosecute the same in what he should command and that some course might be taken for their present subsistance that their future endeavors might not be buryed in that unavoidable calamity which their known loyalty had reduced them unto as the Petition hath it which Drury upon examination tendered to me as the original draught of the Petition presented by themselves and other Officers to the said King for the effecting of their desires wherein they entreated the Lord Cravens assistance And Drury appearing to me as did Brisco by his pleading on Cravens behalf before I asked him one question or signified the reason of his apprehension and by his continual interjecting his Plea to the same purpose throughout his examination to have come over from beyond the seas upon some such Errand as they were afterwards made use of And they both having given me in their Examinations under their hands an account of their bearing arms against the Common-Wealth from first to last and of their being at Breda and doing as aforesaid I might either have recommitted them to prison or in prison detained them or have procured them to be tryed for their lives and executed as Traytors they being desperate Enemies to the Common-Wealth and without the Act of Pardon and coming over without the allowance of the State and their own Examinations as well as others witnessing against them or have taken from Drury the original draught of the said Petition wrote as was said with Fauconers hand and so there had been neither matter on which to raise or Witnesses whereby to effect what hath been done against Fauconer But contrary hereunto I continued their liberty upon paroll and took not from Drury the said draught of the said Petition and when I was asked by some why I did so as foreseeing and being sensible of the use that would be and which hath since been made of it against the Common-Wealth and expressing somewhat to that purpose I replyed to this effect That J did so in regard there were mutterings abroad as if the Lord Craven had received wrong and now that there were some which could testifie in his behalf the Council had laid their power upon them And I added That whatever were the issue yet this I had done in uprightness and that the Common-Wealth might not sustain the least blemish upon their proceedings And this is the naked truth as it was in my heart for it was always my desire and I often exprest it That the Common-Wealth might not have a Tittle of any mans but what was right and the same I pursued as I saw just cause and had opportunity and power and bore my Testimony against such as endeavoured the contrary Now whereas it may be said How do these things agree with the remanding Drury to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms and detaining of him there till the end of that Sessions wherein the Indictment was found against Fauconer so that a Tryal could not be had before his conviction and before the next Sessions the vote passed for sale of his Estate And with the

Capt. Potter in another upon the arraignment for the said Treasons at the Bar of the said Court pleaded guilty as the Examinations Papers Indictments and Proceedings upon record do make more at large to appear to which I refer to the Book entituled A short Plea for the Common-wealth c. Where they are set down with their effects and the Tryal of Christopher Love and his Demeanor thereupon and on his Examination and Sentence and his application to the Parliament together with the generation this case respects their deportment ab initio their influence Number opportunity and Principles and the danger of the Common Wealth as to all For should I herein be particular and draw what naturally would flow from thence I might fill a Volume the very confession of one of them viz. Doctor Drake upon his examination which he gave me with many teares and which I took from his mouth with my own hand whereunto he signed being as I remember neer twenty sheets of Paper wrote on the right side and Captain Potters as many more Neverthelesse through the mediation of the now Prorector whom and the Army of which he was then Generall they had in the highest hatred and sought to cut of they received mercy and pardon from the State after such their Arraignment and confession though sentenced to dye as did the rest who were not so much as brought to the Barr though they were some of the most transcendant acts of high Treason that records witnessed to have been discovered brought unto and proved at Barr of justice in this Nation designing and endeavoring by secret Plots and open force the total overthrow subversion and destruction of the Parliament and Government of the Common-Wealth their Army friends yea the very cause of Liberty in which themselves engaged and acted many of them in the beginning worthily in their generations And for this purpose espousing falling into and joyning with the contrary interest viz. the King against whom they drew the first Sword and vehemently sounded out the Alarum of war and with the Queen whose Idolatryes as a Papist they had bewailed publikely on their dayes of humiliation and charged to be a cause of the Plagues on the Nation And with Je●myn and Percy And with the Episcopalls under whom they had suffered so much and of whom they cryed out so loud that the sword was awakened and taken up to avenge their quarrell And with all the parties of the bad men of these Nations whose Wickednesses Bloodsheds and Delinquencies they had publiquely confessed And with Papists and Rebel●s for haveing espoused the interest they must needs be partakers with the friends thereof Carriers of it on against whom they declared themselves to be in the most Irreconcileable opposition with Forraigne Souldiers so highly enveighed against by them in the late King viz. the design of the Germans Horse and laid to his charge And lastly with another Nation viz. the Scots and those People therein whom they opposed at first upon the account of their being for the King to bring whom and their King and all these Interests together they become the third Party to which each apply and by whose warmth and influence they are all united and made one with them they enter into a strong confederacy and joyntly proceed in the laying of the foundation and carying on of a New Desperate and Bloody War wherein thousands lost their lives and the three Nations were hazarded in such a manner and for such ends as hath been in part exprest Unto which should I add how this spirit ran generally through the men of the same * VVhen I so speak I do not intend all that are called Ministers for those of the Independent and Baptists and Seekers so called were faithfull to the Common-VVealth and many of them in armes nor all that are called Presbyters for there were divers even in Parliament and the Council who abominated d●nyed and acted against this Spirit those practises of some to the b●inging of Christophes Love to justice Principle in this Nation what designs were hatched how subtilly contrived how deeply plotted how strongly laid by the Cavaleirs and them in order to the same end over the Counties chiefe Towne● Garrisons Feild and Navall Forces thereof by the Cavaleirs on the Parliament and Council of State and chief members and Ministers of each and of the Army at Land and Sea by Assassinations Po●s●nings Murthers Fireings Vio●ences Blood to have cut them off What numbers of thousands of men listed What Armes and Horse provided What monyes raised and how What Forraign Princes and Forces treated with engaged and how prevented What men of Estates Conduct In●e●est concerned What Armyes formed how ●imed in all things for generall insurrections to answer the S●ots preparations and motions in the Field and their Councils and Motions depending upon and answering unto the intelligence of the state of these designed insurrections whether as to their perfection or irruption the Army in the mean time abiding the sharp colds necessities and Hardships of that naked countrey during the winter-season waiting upon their motion and action out of and from their Fastnesses or should I be particular how they were discovered traced from the beginning certainly known all along and understood with their Agents Heads Principals Variations Extents and limits and in the Nick of time when they were known to be ripe and the time of Execution even come utterly broken in pieces and with that junctures of Providence as well beyond the Seas as in these Nations as were all their Forces in the Field their King Nobles Councellors great Men Captains Ministers and Soldiers or could this place admit of so large a Discourse it might prove an astonishment to the World in the Narration as the total rout of the other was in the Report and evidently manifest that no other thing but the all-seeing eye and outstretched arm and tender bowels of the Lord did discover or could deliver the Parliament Council of State Armies at land and sea and honest people of these Nations from being wholly cut off and destroyed even our Enemies themselves being Judges and would prove a warning to all Nations especially to England upon whose high places in fields of blood and the sad cala●ities of many years War it hath been sorely experimented to take heed of and watch over that spirit and generation who to effect their tyrannical domination over State and conscience to which they would give the Rule but will not receive it from any appear not to care with whom or with what they ioyn or to what they turn or how they engage their countrey and themselves into ruine and destruction under the pretence of Religion and Conscience whereas Christ Jesus saith My Kingdom is not of this world if my Kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight And his Apostles and Ministers declared That their weapons were not carnal but mighty through