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The Dovvnfal of Dagon: or, Certain signes of the sudden and unavoidable ruine of this Parliament and Army. With a caveat to the City of London.
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depopulating and finally the destruction of it For now the main Project that they have in hand is the altering of the Law and joyning the Counties into Provinces and then to adjourn the Terms into the several Provinces so that the Term that is the main supporter of the Retayll Traders and upholder of the pride of the City being taken away the inhabitants must either be inforc'd to go down into the Country to self their commodities or else starve for want of Trading Besides this divers other ways there are now under consultation for to bring down the pride and arrogancie of this London and make it know that God can and will make wicked men the executors of his just indignation against this so rebellious and seditious a City as this is and hath been And moreover if it doth not suddenly repent for all the blood that it hath been the onely causers to be shed in this Kingdom God will very suddenly pour out his vengeance upon it and as the Prophet saith will make it a reproach unto the heathens and a m … unto all Countries Next of all I will shew you that God who is the avenger of the oppressed a father the fatherless and the comforter of the widow is now making inquisition for the blood of the King of the Noble-men of the Ministers and all the blood that hath been spilt in these Nations of England and Scotland among the privie actors of their murthers And that he is now bringing the Destroyer to destruction as it is said in the twelfth Psalm and fifth verse For the oppression of the poor and for the sighting of the necdy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him God will not let blood go long unrevenged And although there can be no account given to the Nation of all or any of the vast sums that they have raised in or since the late Wars yet God he will make them account for all their wickedness and make them know there is a God although they deny him in all their actions We may see plainly that God hath designed them to destruction in raising up the Dutch against them and giving them good successes this last yeer by beating their invincible Navie which they so much vaunted of as if no power on earth could overcome out of their own Sea as they call it burning and sinking their ships in their Harbours landing their men and plundering the Country so that the very name of a Dutch-man is enough to fright their guilty consciences into a Tertian Ague Besides the Dutch the Dane is making great preparations against next Summer for to jerk their spiritual Army by Land The Highlanders in Scotland have beaten them out of the High-lands into the Low-lands and do there get ground of them every day more and more but not one tittle of this must come into their feigned Letters out of Scotland that are printed in their weekly News-books The Irish they quit themselves like men standing up manfully in defence of their Country and will accept of no Parley since Cromwel in the yeer 1649. under a pretence of a Confederacie lurched Oneal they have gone so resolutely on that they cannot deny but that they have taken some petty Garisons as they call them The King of France he demands satisfaction for Pyracie that they have committed and withal for taking his Ships going to the relief of Dunkirk so that he having received no satisfactory answer as yet by his Ambassadour sent to them lately is making all the preparations he can to joyn with the Dutch and right himself as well as he can of all the wrongs he and his Subjects have received from them Now joyn all these Preparations of our Neighbours together and consider withal these mens guiltiness of Conscience and despairing of Pardon their distrustfulness of one another and the divisions among themselves and then consisider also whether it is not plain that God hath a special hand in all this How hath he beset them on every side above before behinde and every way God he is above fighting against them their Neighbours round about them so that they stand like a Murtherer on the Gallows hedged in with Halberdiers to perform the execution Then at last they shall see that there is a God that doth â—â—â—â— in heaven and from his all-seeing eye there is nothing 〈◊〉 he knoweth their secret consultations as well as their open practices He hath suffered them for a while to Lord it over us and to run their courses that so the measure of their sins might be full and that then God might pour out the vials of his wrath and indignation upon their heads So let all thine enemies perish O Lord. FINIS
France and divers other parts of Euâ—ope how hath it flourished for the many excellent Laws in it established and blessed I may say for the light of the Gospel which it enjoyed when other neighbour-kingdoms wandered in the darkness of Popish Errours But now O England how is thy former glory vanished away how contemptible art thou become to all round about thee a scorn to all Nations This is fallen upon us by suffering a base mercenary Army and a few men that carried the name of a Parliament to murther our lawful King that so they mâ—ght establish a Government that the like was never heard of before but now when they had murthered the King they immediately leap up into the saddle and spur out the very heart and blood of the people by their Oppressions The first thing they do is to make us a Free State that is our estates purses and persons must be free at their disposing Then next we must sit down like silly Asses and let them load us with Excise of all things Contribution Free-Quarter Taxes Vexations and what else they please to lay upon us And yet Ship-money that was a tyrannical illegal Tax although the King did it out of a pure necessity his Neighburs at that time he being so weak at Sea offered him many affronts denying to strike Sayl to his ships as the custom of the Sea is when they came in the Narrow between France and England His Guard of shâ—ps being then so slender that our Neighbours had them in contempt Yet for all this the King was so unwilling to impose any new Tax that first he would have the advice of his Councel then of his Judges that so he might not go contrary to the Laws of the Land They all agreed that it was warrantable and produced divers Records how that many of his Progenitors had done the like before in case of necessity The King being thus convinced of the lawfulness of it he then commanded that it should be levied but in such a manner that it should be employed to the same end and purpose that it was levied for and not to run in by-Chanels into any private mens purses nor to the enriching of himself or any of his Court but for the good of his subjects and the honour of the Nation Compare Ship money to those many Taxes that we lie groaning under and judge who have been the greatest Tyrants and Oppressors of the People either the late King or as you call it the Parliament We will begin first with Excise that insensible devourer of the Poor and impoverisher of the Rich you see our Curs our Powdering-Tubs our Washing-Bowls our Kettles our Hats Doublets Breeches Stockings Shooes and nothing we eat or drink or wear is free from being devoured by these men that thus complained of the King for that inconsiderable Tax of Ship-money Sequestration that is another way they use to gull men of estates How many thousand families in this Nation have they utterly beggered by Sequestration Most of the Nobility and Gentry if they have had out the least spark of honesty in them they have brought into as great a Want and Poverty as some of them were in when they waited on the Drays with the Slings on their backs or with the Tallies by their sides But now they have killed and have also took possession the King 's Queens and Prince's Lands the Lands of the Nobility and Gentry they have shared amongst themselves and yet all this and much more is too little to satisfie their insatiable appetites And for all this our mouthes must be buttoned up so that we are not suffered that filly comfort of venting our griefs by way of complaint but upon every light word a man is in danger to be made an offender to the utter ruine of him and his posterity O London these are thy golden Calves that thou hast set up and dost worship these be the Idols to whom you have sacrificed your sons and servants to maintain their Oppressions over you Excise and Sequestrations are too little to quench their insatiable covetousness but they have another way to drain the Treasury of the Nation and that is by Contribution These Monsters of men that like Vipers eat out the bowels of their mother having no regard at all to the groans of the poor nor the miserable slavery that we lie under worse then the Israelites under their Egyptian Task-masters do persist in their abhorrible practices to suck the blood of the people and will at last inforce us to sell our wives and children for to satisfie their greedy desires You may see plainly that they are fully bent to strip us naked of all that we have by that late Act of theirs for the raising the Tax thirty thousand pounds a month more then ever it was before I shall say nothing of Free-Quarter and many more exorbitancies and outrages committed in the Country by the Souldiery But now we see by woful experience the difference between the milde Government of our late Soveraign King CHARLES and the destructive domineering of our new-fangled State They cried out on him for his Oppressions and have themselves gone beyond him and all others that our Modern Histories ever make mention of But who have been the main causers of all our sorrow even this rebellious City of London a most ungrateful City the King making it his Royal Seat and place of abode whenas he might as well have removed his Court to York or some other place for the more commodious addresses of his people of Scotland and Ireland unto him and all to make it famous and flourishing but in requital they have been the onely stirrers up of Sedition and Rebellion against his person and at last have made themselves infamous by being accessary to the murther of their King But now behold the just judgement of God that ere long will undoubtedly fall upon them for their unparallel'd wickedness I may very well pronounce this judgement against it which was once pronounced against Jerusalem in Ezekiel the twenty fourth and the sixth Wherefore thus saith the Lord God wo to the bloody city to the pot whose scum is therein and whose scum is not gone out of it Bring it out piece by piece let no lot fall upon it And in the two and twentieth Chapter the Prophet giveth a reason for the Wo he had pronounced against it For saith he thou art become guilty in the blood that thou hast shed and hast defiled thy self in the idols which thou hast made And thou hast caused thy days to draw neer and art come even unto thy yeers Wherefore I have made thee a reproach unto the Heathen and a mocking unto all countries Without question the judgements of God will suddenly fall upon this City and Gods Justice will the more manâ—festly appear in causing those Idols that they have set up the Parliament that they so much adore to be the main causers of the