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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56425	The Parliaments petition to the Divell to the most high and mighty emperour of darkenesse, Don sel de Lucifer, King of Acheron, Styx & Plegeton, Duke of Tartary, Marquesse of Cocitus, and lord paramount of Limbo.		1648 (1648)	Wing P520; ESTC R33019	4,341	12

THE PARLIAMENTS PETITION to the Divell To the most high and mighty Emperour of Darkenesse Don sel de Lucifer King of Acheron Styx Plegaton Duke of Tartary Marquesse of Cocitus and Lord Paramount of LIMBO Printed in the Yeare 1648. The Parliaments Petition to the Devill SHeweth that wee your Infernall fatherhoods most obedient sonnes and servants in the two Houses of Parliament of England doe heere most humbly present our grievances and lay them prostrate before the cloven feet of your gracelesse Majesty it is not unknowne that wee to serve you have layd aside all service of God all Loyalty towards our King and all Christian love and charity towards men wee have robbed God of as much of his glory as wee possibly could and because we could not imprison him wee have either imprisoned ruined or murthered all his servants spirituall and temporall and not any honest man Christian or true Subject that dared to oppose such direction and orders as wee have from time to time from your superpotent commands received which wee have dutifully obeyed and wee have inflicted the most rigid and inhumane punishments upon all refractory and inveterate Malignants as could be invented Thus wee prospered and flourished under your gracelesse defence and protection wee have wallowed more then 7 yeares in all voluptuous and luxurious sensuallity wee have allowed and maintained most execrable and horrible blasphemies all manner of Sects and Heresies wee have given large rewards to Traytours and Villaines wee have cast downe all Law learning and knowledge and set up and magnified all barbarous impudence and ignorance as is manifested in both our famous and learned Universities The Son of God because he is the greatest and most mighty destroyer and hater of your power and eminency the maine enemy of our designes and practises wee have used all our endeavours to roote out all memory of him wee have made his houses stables brothells and dens for worse Inhabitants then ever lodged in Newgate wee have for the advancement of your Cimerian Kingdome forbiden all Christian reverence to his name that the people doe expresse or shew no more adoration or respect when Jesus is mentioned then they doe when your Hellhood is nominated or our elder brother Judas Iscariot remembred We commanded his owne prayer which himselfe commanded us to use and pray to be supprest and commanded long prayers and babling repetitions to be frequently used which he plainely did forbid Wee have as much as in us lyeth worshipped all the memories of Saints out of Churches and Kallenders and all the dayes which were wont to be called Holy-dayes wee have changed into wicked ones only wee have ordained that every last Wednesday in every Moneth shall be kept as a holy Fast-day in honourable memory of Saint Rebell and Saint Hypocrite And many times when your malevolent mighty assistance hath given us any notable glorious victories against our lawfull Soveraigne and his Loyall Subjects then wee have caused publique Thanksgiving-dayes which wee have daubed over with praises to God when our intentions were to thanke your execrable Majesty for your accursed ayd in the murthering of our bretheren and if wee should publiquely have given thankes to you in your owne name the people would have been mad at us therefore wee gave God thankes with our lips but our hearty thankes were meant to you for whom they were due for you alone helped us and at those exercises wee had not any Preacher but he truely proved to be the Legitimate son of thunder who had such care in avoyding ill examples that they never prayed for the King or scarce mention him except to slander or revile him for these purposes wee had and have a Marshall a Cornelius an Adoniram or a Nodi-Ram a Peters a Dell a Temple a Staunton a Nye a Cawdry and 500 such now and anon too at all times these blew the bellows of Sedition these filled England with blood and these have sent seduced and unprepared soules to your Kingdome of darkenesse by thousands Indeed when wee first entred into the service of your gracelesse Excellency wee had strange oppositions in the Church There was not a Preacher who was not your deadly enemy they made no scruple to call you the Father of lyes that you were as a roaring Lyon continually seeking whom to devoure That you were a murtherer from the beginning with all the invective words of defamation to your name and honour as could be exprest Those were Bishops Doctours and other fellows who made it their chiefe trade of life nothing else but to draw the affections of people from you they talked in their Pulpits of faith hopt charity obedience Loyalty and such things as the practice of them would have undone us all and we are sure they are all repugnant and malignant to your glorious government and if wee had not banished and supprest them and the professors of them wee had beene ruined long since and your black Territories had not beene so fully furnished with seduced soules Concerning the Lawes and knowne established Statutes of the Kingdome wee have layd them by as uselesse and altogether repugnant to us and our glorious designes and proceedings for wee know that if ever the Lawes doe come to be in force againe what will become of us The execution of the Lawes wee doe know will execute us and then our lives and estates will be all forfeited and lost and the King be made more rich and glorious then any of his Predecessors as wee promised him once or twice as concerning those Shires Counties Cities Townes and Corporations which put us in trust to redresse and ease their grievances it is knowne that the King himselfe eased them of all the old ones but wee have layd 100 times more new ones upon them and wee humbly thanke your damnable assistance for that you have so blinded and benumed them that many of them doe not feele the weight of them and whereas wee were elected and chosen by the Countrey as Proctors Aturneyes or Advocates and in a manner servants to doe our best endeavours for the services profits and utillities of the Church and Kingdome in generall and particular But for your deare and damnable sake wee have broken all the trusts which wee were entrusted with wee have made our selves our Masters Masters with the helpe of their owne money and armes and wee have done the worke so throughly that your Devillship could never have done it halfe so well your selfe and in stead of enriching the Kingdome wee have made our selves rich with the spoiles and ruines thereof Concerning the King wee have playd our parts sufficiently with him we have handled him to some tune we have coursed him like a Partridge over the Mountaines we have robbed and devested him of all Royall dignities and deptived him of all Regall Revenues and Possessions insomuch as wee have not left him a house of his owne to put his head in except a Jayle where wee