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A25942	Articles of peace made and concluded with the Irish rebels and papists by James Earle of Ormond ... also, a letter sent by Ormond to Col. Jones, Governour of Dublin, with his answer thereunto : and a representation of the Scotch Presbytery at Belfast in Ireland : upon all which are added observations.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1641-1649 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.; Milton, John, 1608-1674. Observations upon the articles of peace with the Irish rebels.	1649 (1649)	Wing A3863; ESTC R495	49,636	68

the bold ignorance and sloth of our Clergy tends no less now then in the Bishops days to make thir bare sayings and censures authentic with the People though destitute of any proofe or argument But thanks be to God they are discern'd Thir next impeachment is that we oppose the Presbyteriall government the hedg and bulwark of Religion Which all the Land knows to be a most impudent falshood having establishd it with all freedom wherever it hath been desir'd Nevertheless as we perceave it aspiring to be a compulsive power upon all without exception in Parochiall Classicall and Provinciall Hierarchies or to require the fleshly arm of Magistracy in the execution of a spirituall Discipline to punish and amerce by any corporall infliction those whose consciences cannot be edifi'd by what authority they are compell'd we hold it no more to be the hedg and bulwark of Religion than the Popish and Prelaticall Courts or the Spanish Inquisition But we are told We imbrace Paganism and Judaism in the arms of toleration A most audacious calumny And yet while we detest Judaism we know our selves commanded by St. Paul Rom. 11. to respect the Jews and by all means to endeavor thir conversion Neither was it ever sworn in the Covnant to maintain a universal Presbytery in England as they falsly allege but in Scotland against the Common Enemy if our aid were calld for being left free to reform our own Country according to the Word of God and the example of best reformed Churches from which rule we are not yet departed But heer utterly forgetting to be Ministers of the Gospel they presume to op'n their mouths not in the spirit of meeknesse as like dissemblers they pretend but with as much devillish malice impudence and falshood as any Irish Rebell could have utter'd and from a barbarous ●ook of Ireland brand us with the extirpation of laws and liberties things which they seem as little to understand as ought that belongs to good letters or humanity That wee seisd on the person of the King Who was surrendred into our hands an Enemy and Captive by our own subordinate and paid Army of Scots in England Next our imprisoning many Members of the House As if it were impossible they should deserve it conspiring and banding against the public good which to the other part appearing and with the power they had not resisting had bin a manifest desertion of thir trust and duty No question but it is as good and necessary to expell rott'n Members out of the House as to banish Delinquents out of the Land and the reason holds as well in forty as in five And if they be yet more the more dangerous is thir number They had no privilege to fit there and vote home the author the impenitent author of all our miseries to freedom honour and royalty for a few fraudulent if not destructive concessions Which that they went about to doe how much more clear it was to all men so much the more expedient and important to the Common-wealth was their speedy seisure and exclusion and no breach of any just privilege but a breach of their knotted faction And heer they cry out An action without parallel in any age So heartily we wish all men were unprejudic'd in all our actions as these illiterat denouncers never parallelld so much of any age as would contribute to the tithe of a Century That wee abolish Parlamentary power and establish a representative instead thereof Now we have the hight of them these profound Instructors in the midst of thir Representation would know the English of a Representative and were perhaps of that Classis who heretofore were as much staggerd at Trienniall Thir grand accusation is our Justice don on the King which that they may prove to be without rule or example they venture all the credit they have in divine and human history and by the same desperate boldness detect themselves to be egregious liars and impostors seeking to abuse the multitude with a show of that gravity and learning which never was their portion Had thir knowledge bin equall to the knowledge of any stupid Monk or Abbot they would have known at least though ignorant of all things else the life and acts of him who first instituted thir order but these blockish Presbyters of Clandeboy know not that John Knox who was the first founder of Presbytery in Scotland taught professedly the doctrine of deposing and of killing Kings And thus while they deny that any such rule can be found the rule is found in their own Country givn them by thir own first presbyterian institutor and they themselves like irregular Friers walking contrary to the rule of thir own foundation deserv for so grosse an ignorance and transgression to be disciplin'd upon thir own stools Or had thir reading in history bin any which by this we may be confident is none at all or thir malice not highth'n'd to a blind rage they never would so rashly have thrown the dice to a palpable discovery of thir ignorance and want of shame But wherefore spend we two such pretious things as time reason upon Priests the most prodigal mis-spenders of time and the scarsest owners of reason T is sufficient we have publishd our defences giv'n reasons giv'n examples of our Justice don books also have bin writt'n to the same purpose for men to look on that will that no Nation under heav'n but in one age or other hath don the like The difference onely is which rather seemes to us matter of glory that they for the most part have without form of Law don the deed by a kinde of martial Justice wee by the deliberate and well-weighd Sentence of a legal Judicature But they tell us It was against the interest and protestation of the Kingdom of Scotland And did exceeding well to joyn those two together heerby informing us what credit or regard need be givn in England to a Scotch Protestation usherd in by a Scotch interest certainly no more then we see is givn in Scotland to an English Declaration declaring the interest of England If then our interest move not them why should theirs move us If they say wee are not all England we reply they are not all Scotland nay were the last year so inconsiderable a part of Scotland as were beholding to this which they now term the Sectarian Army to defend and rescue them at the charges of England from a stronger party of thir own Countrymen in whose esteem they were no better then Sectarians themselves But they add It was against the former Declarations of both Kingdomes to seize or proceed against the King We are certain that no such Declarations of both Kingdomes as derive not thir full force from the sense and meaning of the Covnant can be produc'd And if they plead against us the Covenant To preserve and defend his person we aske them briefly whether they take the Covenant to be absolute or conditionall

Articles of Peace we see as good as done by the late King not to friends but to mortall Enemies to the accomplishment of his own interests and ends wholly separate from the Peoples good may without aggravation be easily conceiv'd Nay by the Covenant it self since that so cavillously is urg'd against us wee are enjoyn'd in the fourth Article with all faithfulnesse to endeavour the bringing all such to public Triall and condigne Punishment as shall divide one Kingdome from another And what greater dividing then by a pernicious and hostile Peace to disalliege a whole Feudary Kingdome from the ancient Dominion of England Exception we finde there of no person whatsoever and if the King who hath actually done this or any for him claime a Priviledge above Justice it is againe demanded by what expresse Law either of God or man and why he whose office is to execute Law and Justice upon all others should sit himself like a demigod in lawlesse and unbunded anarchy refusing to be accountable for that autority over men naturally his equals which God himself without a reason givn is not wont to exercise over his creatures And if God the neerer to be acquainted with mankind and his frailties and to become our Priest made himself a man and subject to the Law we gladly would be instructed why any mortal man for the good and wellfare of his brethren beeing made a King should by a clean contrary motion make himself a God exalted above Law the readiest way to become utterly unsensible both of his human condition and his own duty And how securely how smoothly with how little touch or sense of any commiseration either Princely or so much as human he hath sold away that justice so oft demanded and so oft by himself acknowledg'd to be due for the bloud of more then 200000. of his Subjects that never hurt him never disobeyd him assassinated and cut in pieces by those Irish Barbarians to give the first promoting as is more then thought to his own tyrannicall designes in England will appeare by the 18th Article of his peace wherein without the least regard of Justice to avenge the dead while he thirsts to be aveng'd upon the living to all the Murders Massacres Treasons Pyracies from the very fatall day wherein that Rebellion first broke out he grants an act of Oblivion If this can be justified or not punisht in whomsoever while there is any faith any Religion any Justice upon Earth there can no reason be alleg'd why all things are not list to confusion And thus much be observd in brief concerning these Articles of peace made by the late King withhie Irish Rebells The Letter of Ormond sent to Col. Jones Governour of Dublin attempting his fidelity which the discretion and true worth of that Gentleman hath so well answerd and repulst had pass'd heer with out mention but that the other part of it not content to doe the errand of Treason roves into a long digression of evill and reproachfull language to the Parlament and Army of England Which though not worth their notice as from a Crew of Rebells whose inhumanities are long since become the hornour and execration of all that heare them yet in the pursuance of a good endeavour to give the world all due satisfaction of the present doings no fit opportunity shall be omitted He accuses first that we are the Subveters of true Religion the protectors inviters not only of all false ones but of irreligion atheism An accusation that no man living could more unjustly use then our accuser himself which without a strange besottednesse he could not expect but to be retorted upon his own head All men who are true Protestants of which number he gives out to be one know not a more immediate and killing Subverter of all true Religion then Antichrist whom they generally believe to be the Pope and Church of Rome he therefore who makes peace with this grand Enemy and perscutor of the true Church he who joynes with him strengthens him gives him root to grow up and spread his poyson removing all opposition against him granting him Schools Abbeyes and Revenues Garrisons Fortresses Townes as in so many of those Articles may be seen he of all Protestants may be calld most justly the Subverter of true Religion the Protector and inviter of irreligion and atheism whether it be Ormond or his Maister And if it can be no way prov'd that the Parlament hath countenac'd Popery or Papists but have every where brok'n their Temporall power thrown down their public Superstitions and confin'd them to the bare enjoyment of that which is not in our reach their Consciences if they have encouragd all true Ministers of the Gospel that is to say afforded them favour and protection in all places where they preacht and although they think not money or Stipend to be the best encouragement of a true Pastor yet therein also have not been wanting nor intend to be they doubt not then to affirm themselves not the Subverters but the maintainers and defenders of true Religion which of it self and by Consequence is the surest and the strongest Subversion not onely of all false ones but of irreligion and atheism For the Weapons of that Warfare as the Apostle testifies who best knew are not carnall but mighty through God to the pulling down of Strong Holds and all reasonings and every high thing exalted against the knowledge of God surprising every thought unto the obedience of Christ and easily revenging all disobedience 2 Cor. 10. What Minister or Clergy-man that either understood his high calling or sought not to erect a secular and carnall Tyranny over spirituall things would neglect this ample and sublime power conferrd upon him and come a begging to the weak hand of Magistracy for that kind of ayd which both the Magistrate hath no Commission to afford him and in the way he seeks it hath been alwayes found helplesse and unprofitable Neither is it unknown or by wisest men unobserv'd that the Church began then most apparently to degenerate and goe to ruine when shee borrow'd of the Civill power more then fair encouragement and protection more then which Christ himself and his Apostles never requir'd To say therefore that We protect and invite all false Religions with irreligion also and atheism because wee lend not or rather missapply not the temporall power to help out though in vaine the sloth the spleen the insufficiency of Church-men in the execution of spirituall discipline over those within their Charge or those without is an imputation that may be layd as well upon the best regulated States and Governments through the World Who have been so prudent as never to imploy the Civill sword further then the edge of it could reach that is to Civill offences onely proving alwayes against objects that were spirituall a ridiculous weapon Our protection therefore to men in Civill matters unoffensive we cannot deny their Consciences we