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A93350	The Protestant informer, or Information to all Protestants: shewing the causes and end, of this unjust warre, plotted by Romish Jesuites, and now managed by English papists, and their abbettors against this Parliament, and in this all other Parliaments: proving by forepast proceedings, present actions and persons acting that: this warre is no new quarrell, nor caused by the militia but divellish malice, against the true Protestant religion, and lawes of this kingdom, to set up, and establish popery, and hath beene fifteene, or sixteene yeares last past, preparing. Also justifying this Parliaments proceedings, by nature, law, and religion, against the false calumniations of all malignants: with an exhortation, to courage, liberality, patience, and constancy, to the hazard of life, and fortunes: in defence of Gods true worship; your own rights, liberties, and this present Parliament; with confidence of a blessing, and victory, like Caleb, and Ioshua: for your God is with you. Published for information to the ignorant. By Gregory Thims Gentl.	Thims, Gregory.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4038A; Thomason E91_17; ESTC R13261	21,917	24

The Protestant INFORMER OR Information to all Protestants Shewing the causes and end of this unjust warre Plotted by Romish Jesuites and now managed by English Papists and their abbettors against this Parliament and in this all other Parliaments Proving by forepast proceedings present actions and persons acting that this warre is no new quarrell nor caused by the Militia But divellish malice against the true Protestant Religion and Lawes of this Kingdom to set up and establish Popery and hath beene fifteene or sixteene yeares last past preparing Also justifying this Parliaments proceedings by Nature Law and Religion against the false Calumniations of all Malignants With an exhortation to courage liberality patience and Constancy to the hazard of life and fortunes in defence of Gods true worship your own Rights Liberties and this present Parliament with confidence of a blessing and victory like Caleb and Ioshua For your GOD is with you Published for Information to the Ignorant By Gregory Thims Gentl. PSAL. 37. 14. The wicked have drawne out their swords and bent their bow to cast downe the poore and needy and to slay such as be of upright conversation JUD 5. 23. Curse yee Meroz saith the Angell of the Lord Curse yee bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not forth to the helpe of the Lord to the helpe of the Lord against the Mighty GAL. 5. 15 But if ye bite and devoure one another take heed that ye be not consumed one of another London Printed 1643. The Protestant Informer WEE all complaine of our present misery by the bloudy distractions of the kingdome by this unnaturall Warre But few of us consider seriously of the cause whence these distractions come For information herein take notice that sinne is the only cause of every affliction and of all punishments whether to private men or whole kingdomes Wee by our sinnes have provoked God Esay 26. 9. Deut. 6. 15. Deut. 28. 63. to anger and God sheweth his anger by his judgements upon us King and Subjects have sinned and now King and Subjects are punished God causeth us to punish one another He doth it either to reforme us or to destroy us But God is the efficient cause of all The cause of all causes all other causes are but Gods instruments Now the instrumentall cause of our distractions is wicked men God useth one sinner to punish another as Israels 2 Chro. 12. 2. Esay 10. 5. 2 Sam. 12. 11 12 sinnes was punished by wicked Shishake and by Idolatrous Asher Whom God calleth the rod of his anger and the staffe in his hand So God punished Davids sinne by wicked Absolom and King Rehoboams 1 King 14. 16. sinne by his rebellious people and the sinne of the people by their King Jeroboam Yet bee informed that though God doe use wicked men for his instruments wicked men do wickedly even in the things which God useth them to doe his will for they are naturally the Devils instruments to execute his will and their owne devillish malice as we see in Iob. That which God Iob 1. 15. doth by wicked men is just but that which wicked men doe is unjust for they have no eye to the doing of Gods will but to their own wicked ends which is alwayes unjust and sinfull For example It was just with God to punish Davids bloud-guilt nesse and adultery by Absoloms rebellion and defiling of Davids concubines But it was unjust and wicked in Absolom to doe it It was just with God to punish Rehoboam by the revolt of his people but unjust in them to cast him off from being their King So it is just with God to punish us at this day by these distractions and unnaturall warres and to suffer the King to be misled by a wicked counsell to afflict and spoile his people but it is unjust in that counsell and error in the King to be led by them to doe such things For their ayme is wicked and devillish and are naturally the Devils instruments to make warre against Christ their end is to destroy the true protestant Religion to subvert our good Lawes and to establish popery and bring us and our posterities our bodies and soules into spirituall and slavish bondage for ever and to root out protestant Religion from all places in Christendome This is a certaine truth and will clearely appeare to any rationall man That will but take a view of their fore-past proceedings Their pres●nt war and the persons contriving and acting it First take a view of their fore-past proceedings and consider not to looke so farre as to the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth or King Iames both of blessed memory in whose times that Jesuiticall faction were active in treasons by poyson stabbing blowing up Parliaments destroying postrities of Kings Nobles and massacring whole kingdomes Onely note their proceedings in the passages of things since the first of his Majesties Raigne at which time we may remember the Duke of Buckingham was the great Favourite who by confederacy which Jesuites and Priests First in Spaine and after in France when his Majestie married with the French Kings Sister gave great incouragement to the popish party in all places and furthered their designes in England by uncontrolled power For through the favour and authority the Duke 〈◊〉 from the King hee ruled and swayed the course of thing● in the Kingdome and it was evident by those times that the Jesuites swayed him And by his greatnesse brought many of their owne faction into the greatest places of command whom they desired hee put in and whom they disliked he put out that most at the Counsell-Table were their such 〈◊〉 such as 〈◊〉 not oppose them And to make way for their designe upon England they set upon the protestants in France to weaken them and to that end His Majesties Shippes were ●ent against Rochell which destroyed their shipping and blocked up the passage and when the Duke was questioned in Parliament The answer was the Ships were not lent with intention to hurt Rochell but in complement to the King of France Then a Fleet was prepared the Duke himselfe ●ould go with it pretending to relieve Roc●ell but when they came to the Isle of Ree al our brave Souldiers were betrayed to the Sword Rochell robbed of their provision and the protestants Sold into their enemies hands What other Voiages were made to Cadis and other places we remember too and observed then that their end was nothing but to weaken the kingdome and prepare to the ensuing treason against our Religion and Lawes Then they began the work of England by crying up Arminianisme defending those tenents patronizing their writings printing and publishing those dangerous books of Mountagues which before King James had seene disallowed condemned and forbid to be printed Mountague was made a Bishop and Doctor White also for defending those bookes at a packt conference All others were presently preferred that favoured those tenents as Conzens Wrene Corbet c. Thus

he common-prayer in any assembly Yet I am con●●dent and I th●nk upon good ground that the common-prayer hath some nee●lesse things in it and some offensive as they may bee in the worst sence interpreted thus much for information of the present war Lastly consider who and what persons are the contrivers and actors in this war which are all of one of these six kindes First Jesuits and professed Bapists Secondly Bishops and corrupt Clergy Thirdly Lords and Gentlemen popishly affected Fourthly Delinquents and Pattentees Fiftly men of broken fortunes Sixtly Athiests and extreme deboyst men And these al● agree in one finall e●● viz. to betray Protestant religion Luies and the just Luierty of the subject But the three last s●rts named ●ave each a particular end to themselves The Delinquents aime is their ow●e present preservation to rescue their persons and estates from the iustice of the Law preferring themsel●es before Religion Law or Posterity Those of broken fortunes aime at pillage to make themselves great estates out of the ruines of the Kingdome which they cannot doe if law bee not destroied The deboyst Athiests seeke to enjoy their licent●ous liberty which they prefer before Law or Religion They hate the very name of reformation in others yet these are the men that tell us they fight for the Protestant religion priviledges of Parliament and the Subiects liberty But we must believe that they have learned that damnable art of equivocation or mentall reservation of the Iesuits That when they p●otest to fight for the Protestant religion priviledges of Parliament and the Subiects liberty their meaning is that they fight for all these as ours to take them from us as they doe our estates or as a chiefe fights for a true mans purse and this is these mens warre Now if we examine why the Parliament and Kingdome have raised an army and consider their forepast proceedings their present actions and the persons engaged in their war we shall plainly see that they aime at nothing but Gods glory the safety of the Kings person and posterity the defence of the true Protestant religion Parl. priviledges and the iust Liberty of the Subiect against those that say they fight for them and would take them from us all which are at once assaulted by the severall armies of the Cavaleers In their proceedings in this Parliament consider the declined and adulterated condition of things in Church and State as they found them when the Parliament began And then take notice of their care and wisedomes to make pe●ce betweene the two nations England and Scotland His Maiesty being then by a malignant counsel engaged in a warre against h●s good Subiects of Scotland which that counsell could not manage for him not his Maiesty desert with honour they vindicated his Maiestie stayed bloodshed reconciled the nations satisfied the wronged Scots payed the Kings armie disbursed great sums out of their owne purses and engaged themselves for much more Consider their pious care for the setling good order and government in the Church presenting their most humble desires to the King that learned and godly divines might consider of it and his Maiestie passe a bill to that purpose declaring their purpose was not to destroy our Liturgy onely take away unnecessary Ceremonies but were denied Their diligence to suppresse and take away our many oppressions and free us from the vexations of them Their Iustice and good endeavour to put the lawes in execution against Iesuits Priests and Papists addressing themselvs in all humility to his Majestie for the same but could not prevaile Their industry in providing severall Bills for the good of the Subject besides those his Maiesty was graciously pleased to sign as they made known to us by their first Remonstrance Their thankfull gratitude in readinesse to raise monies for his Maiesties present occasions and future store promising to make him the richest ●ing in Christendome Their unwe●ried pairs for almost two years and an half in spending their time strength and estates neglecting whatsoever was their owne for the common good Their carefull provision for the safety of the Kingdome against Papists ●nd popish affected by putting the Militia of the Kingdome into trusty hands when they saw eminent danger which hath hitherto preserved us and disappointed them which till they saw eminent danger they medled not with nor desired a guard for their owne safety in sitting but his Majestie then promised they should need no guard but should be as safe ●s his Queene or children yet within very few dayes after he came in person with about foure hundred desperate Cavaleers armed with swords pistols c. against some of them therefore no marvell if the Parliament doubt to trust the King with all our rights religion lawes and lib●rties Kings are not Gods but men and subject to mens infirmities yet I say not the King is not to be trusted God forbid I am bound to judge the best and believe when his Majesty promised safety to his Parliament hee intended it and was thrust upon that breach in some violent passion caused by that wicked counsell on purpose You will say the King hath acknowledged that fault and i● is no more to be thought on Answer acknowledgement is nothing without repaire 1 Sam. 24. 16. 17 1 Sam. ●6 read the l●ves of King Iohn Hen. 3 Ed. 2. R●●h 2. and consid●r but no repaire is made Saul confessed his fault in seeking Davids life and confessed it with teares ye● Saul by the wicked counsell of the Ziphites sought it againe And whilest his Maiesty still retaines such counsellors hee may still forget his promises That which hath been may be againe Who is that man for his owne particular that would bee willing at the Kings request to cancell all his evidence for his lands and inheritance and rest onely upon a bare word to posterities much lesse a Parl●ament to trust all the righ●s and inheritance of a kingdome upon the bare word of a King when guided by a malignant counsell who seeke the kingdomes ruine Consider also their tender care of Ireland to suppresse that bloody rebellion so soone as it was discovered earnestly supplicating his Mai●sty to ioyne with them by passing a bill for a speedy and sufficient expedition thither which was graciously promised why not performed let the world iudge Their many messages and petitions to the King sent from place to place till at York their messengers were beaten Parliament men threatned their houses besieged plundered their friends abused and pillaged before the Parliament had any Army on foote and after they had an army they never struck before they were strucken such was their backwardnesse to warre else they might easily have fetcht all that masignant counsell from Yorke and prevented all the mischiefe they have since made and done in the Kingdome which if the Parliament had foreseene and prevented men would not have believed what now they see but would have blamed the Parliaments forwardnesse

they sowed the seeds of popery through the whole kingdom which shewed they expected to have a crop of pure popery To bring this forward the power and professors of protestant Religion were disgraced and persecuted I will only give you a view of some particulars and you may Judge of the whole as the Geometrician did at the body of Hercules by his foot We can remember it is so lately that all our best Divines and honest Orthodoxe professors of Religion of the Laity were by Authority scoffed at and persecuted in the High Commission and all other Courts of that nature if it were but for going from a dumb arminian Reader out of his owne parish to heare an Orthodoxe Preacher All laborious Orthodox Preachers were pecked at and by some foule mouthes almost devoured I am sure very many suffered under the little Wren for he peckt up all those pretious plants out of his Diocesse Then Lectures were put downe in all places and afternoone-Sermons forbidden on the Lords day Books were also published and commanded to be read in all Churches giving liberty to prophane that Holy day contrary to the expresse command of God and against the enacted law of the kingdome all Ministers that refused to read these books were suspended thus good men were weeded out in all countries and all to displant religion and plant popery The Arminian Priests and Court-Chaplains cryed out against the Sanctifying of the Lords day called Sunday no Sabbath and denied the morality of the fourth commandement c. And these men would not be called Preachers nor Ministers names that Saint Paul gloried in but called themselves Priests the holy Table might no longer be called table but Altar and the standing of it was altered and it made a reall Altar ascended to by steps with bowing cringing and reverence to it Crucifixes set up Basons and Tapers were set upon it nothing was wanting of Popery but the name popery and the Idol Sacrifice of the Masse Nor was that Idoll altogether wanting for it was daily in Summerset-house Saint Iames-house and divers other places common to all that would go to it nor durst any man question those that went though they were seen to go every day Prieste frequented Papists houses in all counties and no man might question them if any by lawfull authority did apprehend a Priest they were checked for it and the Priest discharged by speciall command from the Queene or under some Privie Counsellors hands Court Chaplains and Bishops preached justification by works free will seven Sacraments and consubstantiation a faire way to transubstantiation with a number of other popish doctrines and maintained that there might easily be a conjunction between the Papists and us so it is plaine that we must have gone wholly to them for they professe they will not come one jot to us The presses were allowed to Arminians and the popish faction to print any popish tenents but forbid to the good Protestants none might preach against their positions much lesse print any thing for confutation of their errors or heresies upon paine of imprisonment fining suspension pilloring cutting off eares slitting noses banishment c more cruelty that hath beene inflicted upon any Protestant among the Turks when these and more have been questioned in Parliament our Parliaments were broken the evils increased Yea Parliament men were disgraced and imprisoned and because Parliaments would not give the kingdome money without redresse of these and other evils they devised wayes to rest by force great summes of money out of the subjects purse by illegall and unsufferable taxations First by loane and the refusers were imprisoned or put to intollerable charges by continuall attendance at the Councell-Table and many eminent Gentlemen died without mercy in the prisons others p●●sent into remote Counties Then Souldiers were billeted in all Counties and many Horses which their riders were sent for from beyond th● Seas to awe and subdue the kingdome and by strong hand to wrest from us our religion and lawes but divine providence by Feltons hand cut off the actor of that designe at that time Here observe and cleerely see that this warre is no new or sudden thing nor occasioned by the Militia as they now pretend but the same in effect that was intended fifteen or sixteen yeers agoe after this another Parliament was called voices were forced and illegall meanes used but when this would not serve to their purpose that Parliament as others was dissolved Then came other taxes for non-knight-hood who and what persons See the first Remonstrance of bo●h the Houses was brought within this taxation we all know and the multitudes that were imprisoned and made to attend the Counsell-Table we cannot forget After that came shipmoney a boundlesse and endlesse tax also taxes for compositions for Cottages for Forrest-lands Timber Woods c. Mighty exactions upon customes and Monopolies almost of all things of If this Parliament had not taken away those Monopolies and taxe● the kingdome had suffered as much by this time in their estates as they have by this wa●re except the spoile by plundering which is not the Parliaments fault necessary use thereby inhaunsing the prizes to the prejudice or the whole kingdome yea to the utter ruine of divers Trades and Corporations So that multitudes of Masters and Prentises cried out of the burthens which is now forgotten by them and no thankfulnesse is returned by them either to God or the Parliament Other cruell taxes were imposed upon buildings together with many other oppressions all against law and yet law could not helpe us all Courts of law and our Courts of justice were corrupted Iudges and great Officers bought places deer and sold their service in them deerer to make themselves gainers Besides many Iudges were displaced for doing Iustice or for refusing to judge unjustly the whole kingdome was oppressed all were wronged and all left without remedy Gunpowder and other ammuniti●n was taken from us and we left destitute of necessary defence Popery broke in upon us Parliaments were neglected Prerogative was set up and they began to promise themselves a speedy accomplishment of all their designes onely they had some feare that Sco●land might be some obstacle in their way as indeed it prove God infatuating their counsels to thrust upon the Scots their new Liturgy and Popish Canons before they had fully finished the worke in England though under a faire pretence of a glorious uniformity which our brethren of Scotland did not so well fancy as we nor did they give Land any great praise for the present but refused it though it was manifest that it was no worse then was contrived A great providence of God at Rome and from thence sent into England Then the little great Bishop like a Pope sent his commands by his Legats and Commissioners that they should receive that Liturgy but not obeyed the honest Scots were proclaimed rebels and traitors and and an army raised to