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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52770	The true character of a rigid Presbyter with a narrative of the dangerous designes of the English and Scotish covenanters as they have tended to the ruine of our Church and Kingdom : also the articles of their dogmatic faith and the inconsistency thereof with monarchy : to which is added a short history of the English rebellion / compiled in verse by Marchamont Nedham; and formerly extant in his Mercurius pragmaticus.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1661 (1661)	Wing N406; ESTC R29555	36,798	96

all that this Rabble would allow her was not so much as to have one private Chappel for her self nor one Priest to serve GOD according to her own Conscience She finding her hopes frustrated and her self so much deluded endeavours to recal her Authority she takes up Arms they oppose her combat her beat her out of her Kingdom she flees into England for refuge they follow her with Invectives thrust jealousie into the Queen of England's Bosome concerning her whereupon she was consined and after a long and tedious imprisonment put to death Thus King James having put a period to his Discourse directed to Dr. Reynolds Knewstubs and the rest turns to the Bishops and closes his Oration with this Animadversion Wherefore my Lords I thank you for my Supremacie for if it were at these mens disposals I am very sensible what would become of it If you desire to be satisfi'd concerning their dealings with King James her Son Father to the Martyr CHARLES the First of blessed memory you may finde it in his Basilicon Doron Crebrae adversus me in Tribunitiis Conscionibus Calumniae spargebantur non quod ordinem aliquod designassem sed quia Rex eram quod omni crimine pejus habebatur Are these men fit to make good Subjects Did they not convene him and catechize him like a School-boy Did he not protest unto his son Henry that he hated their proud and haughty carriage ever since he was ten years of age Did he not say That Monarchy and Presbytery agreed like GOD and the Devil And have not we found it so if we consider the carriage of our new-fangled Presbyterians in England to CHARLES the First his Son But alas I am mistaken they fasted and pray'd preached and writ against it praying for a diversion of all such black intentions and yet the Presbyterian took the Scepter out of his hand in taking away the Militia of which it was an Emblem cast down his Throne by depriving him of his Negative Voice took his Crown the Fountain of Honour off his head by denying those Honour on whom he had worthily conferred it without them took away his Supremacy signifi'd by the sacred Unction wherewith he was anointed in denying him the Liberty of his Conscience in the point of Episcopacie and Church-government nor would they treat a minute with their King till they had made him acknowledge himself guilty as they say of all the blood that had been spilt throughout his Dominions and notwithstanding all the Concessions on his part that could possibly be granted even to the very grating of his Princely Conscience when he bid them ask flesh from his bones and he would not deny it if it might in any measure redound to the benefit of his people praying that he might keep his Conscience whole the Queen Regent of all good mens actions and he hoped there were none would force this Queen before him in his house as Ahasuerus said to Haman yet not withstanding all this was it voted unsatisfactory so long till the Independent Army came from Edinborougb surprized and murdered him He that said The Presbyterian held him down by the Hair while the Independents cut off his Head said true enough They murdered him as a King before ever they murdered him as a Man And when time serves the Philosopher's Maxime will pass for good and currant Logique at Court Qui vult media adfinem vult etiam ipsum finem He that wills the means conducing to the end wills also the end it self Ergo will the Royalists say since the Presbyterian put such courses in practise as tended to the King's ruine they certainly intended it and are as deeply guilty as others Nay may not the Independent say You took off his Authority and we took off his Head you made him no King and we made him no Body you made him a Man of Blood and we treated him accordingly Therefore at your doors O ye Presbyterian Hypocrites his innocent Blood is lay'd nor is it any other then your Actions have been all along and those committed by your Ancestors to former Princes and Kings But sure there is some Excuse remaining they fought for Religion I wonder when the Church did change her Weapons Must Prayers and Tears be turn'd into Pike and Musquet Did GOD refuse to have his Temple built by David a Man after his own Heart because onely his hands were bloody And will he now condescend to have his Church repair'd and her Breaches made up with Skulls and Carcasses Must Blood be tempered with the Mortar that must binde the Stones of his Temple in Unity Or are the smitings of Brethrens strokes fit to polish her Stones withal Hath GOD refused the soft voice to remain in thunder Or hath his Spirit left the gentle posture of descending down upon his Apostles to the approaching of a mighty and rushing winde To go about the reforming of a Church by humane strength is quite as opposite to the nature of Reformation as is the going about the repairing of a Castle-Wall with a Needle and Thred He that looks to finde such inestimable goodness within Iron-sides may as well expect to finde a Pearl in a Lobster No no the Church must not be defended with Helmets the Resisters of blows but with Miters which have received the cleft already not by broken Pates but by cloven Tongues not by Men clad in Buff but by Priests cloathed with Righteousness Decisions in matters of Faith must not be determined by Armour of proof nor did the Sword of the Spirit ever make way to the Conscience by cutting through the Flesh He therefore who takes up Arms against his Soveraign with pretences of defending his Religion doth but take such courses as are condemned by the same Religion he would defend and indeed he doth but make Religion his stalking-Horse to blinde him whilst he aims at that which he would have least suspect him which when he hath effected he means to get up upon the Horse and ride him at his pleasure they pretend the good of the Church and intend nothing more but the Goods thereof and like dissembling Lapwings make a shew of being nearest the Nest when they are farthest off it But they fought for Liberty These are piaefraudes Religiosi doli pious Frauds religious Deceits for pray what Liberties did they fight for If for Liberty of Conscience What do you mean thereby If by Liberty of Conscience you mean That it shall be lawful for every one to make a free choice of his own Religion or to be of his own Opinion these are things which we ought not to have much less to fight for for then let us not blame every Painim that bakes his cake to the queen of heaven or every ignorant Votary who creeps to his own Image or makes his own Idol for in this kind of liberty we do but sacrifice unto the net wherein we see our selves caught and burn incense to the drag