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A96838	Sober sadnes: or Historicall observations vpon the proceedings, pretences, & designs of a prevailing party in both Houses of Parliament. With the resolution of all loyall subjects, and true Protestants of the Church of England thereupon.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3352; Thomason E94_28; ESTC R8232	37,456	54

an inveterate malice unto Majestie It was an expression of but little loyaltie and not the further from truth because uttered in a Taverne that They would make the King as poore as Job unlesse he did comply with them That Champion that wrestled to stoutly with his Soveraigne at Law in the case of Ship-money might have come off with honour if he had staid there But seeing him after satisfaction one of the first in the field desperately provoking His Majesty to the sharpe we suspect malice though we hope he will be deceived in the length of the Kings weapon and so perish by it Others know and have protested the King cannot in honour pardon them and if they should submit to the Law they are too sure that would prove a killing letter to them and therefore they dare not abide the issue of an Accommodation Others having transformed themselves into Angels of light possest the people that they were of a nearer communion even of the Cabinet-Councell with God himselfe and broached their illustions for divine Revelations These men could see that God had plainly chalked out a way in his holy Word which our fore-fathers for 1500 yeeres together could never see That Jesus Christ had sate all this while besides his Throne and they must dispossesse Antichrist whose spirit and manner of working by lying wonders c they are very well acquainted with before our Saviours government can be established These men being canoniz'd for Saints by the ignorant multitude that understand not the depth of Satans delusions thinke it too great a disgrace to be stigmatized with an ignominious death for Sedition which they know they are by Law guilty of Those men that began the Warre upon such unwarrantable grounds and have purused it to the murdering of so many thousands will undoubtedly ●●ive it if it be possible to the last pinch For although migh●●ope they shall never comprimise differences to their owne personall safety and preferment and our irrevocable slavery as one of their Clerkes in his frivolous paper saith they may doe yet they will drive it on as long as they have any hopes to get so great a pawne into their hands as shall inable them to make their owne conditions If this faile having shipt away so much of the Treasury of the Kingdome as may make them considerable and welcome guests to New-England or such other places they care not how miserable they make this Land before they leave it And her● by the way we could wish that our own mony that was ordered to be transported in Trunkes without searching might not be brought backe to buy our goods withall for our stocke being plundered by them if they may have the liberty as they take liberty to doe any thing to prize it for themselves we may presume they will afford good penny-worths and never leave us till they have removed both the Exchanges with the Kings Exchequer and the Chamber of London into the Earle of Warwickes new Liberties 'T is time to look about us for we are to play our game with the greatest Cheaters in Christendome who think they have as good a Warrant to spoile such as they have call'd Mal●gnant for no other reason then their loyalty as ever Israel had to spoile the Egyptians Let us no longer suffer our selves to be abused and mis-led by those false lights which they have hung out to deceive us Doe not all their practices runne counter to their pretences Doe we not perceive them look one way and steere the contrary Let us learne to know their aimes not by their words but by their actions If we trace them through all their proceedings we shall find they have given the lie to every particular pretence though never so speciously alledged for their justificaon in this warre Who was more cryed up then the defence of the true Protestant Religion This was the very shield and buckler of their Army This is made the Generalismo of all their Arguments and marcheth in the front of all the battaile If this were not at the stake most men conclude the warre absolutely unlawfull But how a quarrell can be justly made to defend a Religion that condemnes such a quarrell and such a defence as the true Protestant Religion doth I professe I understand not If our Religion did runne an aparent hazard I am confident this scandalous and offensive defence cannot be justified but by such Iefuitidall principles as all the Schooles of Protestants except the Scots and not all of them neither for the Ministers of Aberden have declared themselves clearly and solidly of this opinion in their Duplies have unanimously exploded But we have sufficient grounds of suspition that the Religion which is so barbarously militant in a Buffe-coat is not the same Religion which was peaceably obedient in a Surplice Wee reade in Plaine English of hopes they have not onely of reforming that is rooting out our Discipline but also of purging our Doctrine notwithstanding they have bound themselves by a solemne Protestation if any such thing can binde them for they have done as much for the Kings Person Rights and Dignity to maintaine it We had thought they would have made their new experiments onely upon our old Government but it seemes that wise Colledge of State-Physicians think it fit to make the Doctrine of our Church their Patient and we are afraid they will let too much bloud there too and their purge if they be suffered to administer will be strong enough to overthrow it Well! whether the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion be the Argument of this sword-dispute may be decided by a speedy tryall Let them reduce the Fabricke of our Religion according to the Model of Queen Elisabeths time in which those foundations were laid which made the Church of England the most eminent and glorious of all Protestant Churches If His Majesty consents not to all this and to something more upon the advice of a grave and learned Synod for the satisfaction of tender consciences but recedeth from His many free and gracious offers to that purpose then let those bitter and scandalous imputations of inclining unto Popery be never washt away from Him But if this be one of the maine Arguments of His Majesties taking up just necessary and defensive Armes against Anabaptists Brownists and Sectaries who have already throwne downe the hedge and now fall to pillaging of the grapes of the Lords Vineyard and that with countenance and encouragement from a party in both Houses then we may conclude we approach very fast unto Atheisme and Prophanenesse and are fallen into those times which Sir Walter Raleigh speakes of in his Historie of the Word B. 2. Chapt. 5. sect 1. speaking of the care that Moses had of all things that concerned the worship and service of God which care of his all ages have in some degree imitated Yet sayes he and we may say so more truly it is now so forgotton and cast away

being called to an account by the Bishop as we are credibly informed for keeping another mans wife left his Cure and then pretended he was driven away because he would not submit to Innovations Master Goodwin of Coleman-street in great esteem amongst some of them yet let him spin his opinion into never so fine a thred a Socinian Master John Sedgewicke of London-wall a simoniacke and perjur'd both upon Record And every one hath heard of that light and prophane speech of M. Evans that hee did breake the poore womens hearts with preaching of damnation and carried the pieces in his pocket And if wee may touch the apple of their eye we have heard for our eyes are not every where to see them that Master Marshall hath a powerfull faculty of perswasion with the weaker sex and all seducers after their old master goe that way to draw the affections and then the estates from brothers children unto his owne By these instances it is evident that notwithstanding their zeale for a thorow reformation they can dispense with offences aswell in the Clergy as in the Laity if they will become serviceable unto the present designe Another thing pretended to be reformed in the Church was Pluralities and Non-residence and this was not so much because they thought these things unlawfull as to make roome for their owne Emissaries Who would think that men who have voted it a thing unlawfull and unconscionable to hold two Livings or but one and not reside upon it should practice it themselves Nothing hath been cry'd downe more by divers Lords and Commons since the sitting of this Parliament and yet we find many late examples of their owne making Master Goodricke of little Houghton hath been taken from his residence at his Cure and made Lecturer at Tottenham by the meanes of Sir Edward Barkeham and Master Stroude Master Theodor Graves Parson of great Linford in the County of Bucks made non-resident by an Order of Parliament Master George Horiford of Stutsbury in the Diocesse of Peterborough made Vicar of Banbury by the Lord Say it seems his Lordship can dispense with a double Benefice in his own Chaplains Doctor Wincop whose new preferment hath made him forget some of his old principles though he had the fleece of a good flock before the House of Commons hath given him Institution and Induction into Doctor Brayes living S. Martines in the fields but whether they can vote him into the profits as they have done into the paines is doubtfull Many other Pluralists have been made this Parliament and some since the Bill was drawne up against them Master Henry Trewman Rector of Cornwall and Newarke by the Earle of Clare Master Tho Caril of Slindon and Harting by the Lord Saint-Iohns Master Iohn Dixon of Glenfold and Baynes by the Lord Hastings Who can think that these men were in earnest and not rather upon designe when they cry'd out so bitterly against Pluralities We would faine know what gift of Vbiquity hath been voted into Master Marshall that he should be able to officiate at S. Margaret Westminster Windsor or any where and yet not neglect his Cure at Finchinfield in Essex Master Case officiates at London and leaves his Cure in Cheshire to be supply'd by Rawbone an illiterate Lay-man Another thing pretended for the advancement of Religion was the establishing of a Preaching Ministry throughout the Kingdome Certainly a very pious work if Orthodox men be planted in all Parishes But if such be rooted out as are of ablest parts to instruct and men of desperate principles and factious spirits thrust into their places this as by too wofull an experience is now made evident will prove destructive both to Church and Common-wealth Yet this is the great work for which way must be made saith the Authour of Plaine English by displacing idle scandalous superstitious ignorant persons And how must these be displaced Why saith he If this advantage against them of stirring up the people to spoile and rapine were taken it were a good likely meanes very warrantable and honest meanes surely according to Wat Tylers and Iacke Strawes Doctrine of rooting out them who had shuffled their Cards so cunningly as to be out of the reach of the Law in other respects This puts me in mind of that which Colonell Cromwell said to Master Gatford at Cambridge when he took away his book out of the Presse for speaking for obedience unto Magistrates against the Anabaptists He told him he had been a great opposer of the Archbishops Innovations but carried himselfe so cunningly that the Law could not lay hold upon him and so he told him he had behaved himselfe now in opposition to the Anabaptists but though the Law could not lay hold upon him they had a power could reach him and this was the power of the Dragooneers which brought him up a Prisoner forthwith to Ely-House The truth is what ever they say their aime is not so much at the idle and ignorant for the one winkes at all their false and odious principles and the other concurre with them in the practice of them Their chiefe envy is at the most learned and most painfull Preachers if they keep not silence at their faction Why is the Lord Primate of Ireland Bishop Morton Bishop Hall Bishop Prideaux Bishop Brownrigg Doctor Hildsworth Doctor Featly Master Shute and others of singular learning and piety under a cloud with them and some of them ordered to be imprisoned Why are so many Prisons full of men that are Preachers as well by their Examples as their Sermons Master Squire Master Stone Master Swadlin that are scarce allowed straw to lie on whilest His Majesty is exclaim'd against when he affords Rebels better usage Master Reading of Dover Master Griffith of London Master Ingoldsby of Watton in Hartfordshire Master Wilcocks of Goudhurst in Kent These and many others having done nothing worthy of death or of bonds are inserted into the black bill of scandalous and superstitious Ministers for preaching nothing but obedience to Soveraigne Authority and points consonant to the Holy Scriptures and the Doctrine of the Church of England as it stands established by Act of Parliament I confesse Master Ingoldsby aggravated his crime of preaching for obedience by setting forth the Doctrine of our Church in six Homilies established by Parliament for the use of every Parish against Rebellion and the oathes of Supremacy and Allegeance with the Protestation and an Epistle prefixt to light the people unto their duty for which he was sent for up the second time with a Troope of Horse but escaping from them he came of his owne accord to his prison desirous to make his answer which they find no leisure yet to hearken to Nay they will not permit that holy man Master Thrush-crosse to teach White-Hall to continue loyall and Protestant He seem'd to taske the Justice of this bloudy Warre with reflection upon this new designe and presently an inquisition is made after