Primer in Politicks nor their Catâ—…hisme in Divinity I. 18 The Church of England is a True whorish Mother and they that were of her were base begotten and â—… astardly Children and she neither is nor ever was truly married Ioyned or United unto Iesus Christ in that Esponsal Baâ—…d which his True Churches are and ought to be but is one of Anti-Christs Nationall Whorith Churches and Cities spoken of Revel 16. 19. c. The Church of England is False and Anti-Christian and as she is a False and Anti-Christian Church she shall never make True Officers and Ministers of Jesus Christ As Iâ—…nnes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these Men also Resist the Truth Liâ—…urn Cited by Bastwick Indep c. P. 315. Yea when they write most mildly against the Presbyterians they call them Lyons Bears Wolves Tygers Baals Priests The Limbs of Anti-Christ the Anti-Christian Brood the Devils Ministers Presbyterants Ibid. P. 316. P. 19 The Independents are taken up in Biting and Devouring one another in Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings c. Bastwick's Indep not Gods Ord. P. 330. I. 20 I Challenge our Brother for taking Christs name in vain when in stead of finding Christ set upon his Throne in their Congregations we find there no more then an Image such as Michal had made up instead of King David or as those that in Mockery made of Christ a Pageant King Stripping him and putting on him a Scarlet Robe and on his head a Crown of Thorns and in his hand a Reed Saluting him with Hail King of the Jews Burton cited by Bastwick Independency not Gods Ordinance P. 312. P. 21 I here present ye with a Catalogue or Black Bill of the Errors Heresies Blasphemies and practises of the Sectaries of this Time Broached and Acted within these Four last Years in England And that in your Quarters and in places under your Government and Power for which I tremble to think lest the whole Kingdom should be in Gods Black Bill Edwards Gangren 1646. Ep. Ded. to the Lords and Commons I 22 This whole Postcript of Bastwick is a very Cento and farrago or hodge-podge of Invectives Sarcasms Scurrilous Scoffs Incendiary Incentives to stir up the State and all sorts of People to root out and cut off all those that are of the Independent way as they call it Burtons Brief answer to Bastwick Postcript P. 23 Oh the Faithfullness Dutifullness Patience Long-Suffering Forbearance of the Presbyterians Their Dutifullness and Patience in waiting upon the Parliament their Faithfullness in not abating in their zeal and Respects to them Oh their Love Kindness and Tenderness to the Independents yea to other Sectaries also who have had something of Christ and Grace in them and have not fal'n into Errors and Blasphemies rasing their foundations But now on the other hand the Sectaries though a Contemptible number and not to be named at the same time with the Presbyterians have not waited upon the Parliament and Assembly for the Reformation but Preach'd against it and stir'd up the People to Embody themselves and to Joyn in Church Fellowship gathering Churches setting up Independent Government Re-baptizing and Dipping many hundreds c. Edwards Discovery P. 51. I. 24 Such an Oracle of Infallibility and sâ—…ch a Supremacy as 〈◊〉 True-bred-English-Christian can Interpret for other then Anti-Christian Tyranny And all under the name of a Christian-Presbyterian Church-Government Burtons Conformities Deformity P. 21. P. 25 Ambitious Proud Covetous men Libertines and Loose Persons who have a Desire to live in Pleasures and Enjoy their Lust and to be under no Government they are Fierce and Earnest for Independency and against Presbytery All wanton-witted Unstable Erroneous Spirits of all Sorts all Heretiques and Sectaries Strike in with Independency and Plead they are Independents Edwards Further Discovery P. 185. I. 26 Their Ordinary Councells the Presbyterians drive at two Main things yet both reduc'd to One Head to wit Tyranny The one Tyranny over our Bodies Estates Free-holds Liberties Laws and Birthrights of all English Free-born Subjects The other Tyranny over our Souls and Consciences Burtons Conformities Deformity Ep. Ded. 1646. P. 27 Independents are most Obstinate Rebells both in Opinion and Practise and Perfidious Violators of such a Main and Principal Foundation as will Inevitably Ruinate all other Fundamentals of True Religion if allow'd unto them Colemanstreet Conclave Visited Pref. 1648. I say and hold that all sorts of Independents among us Separating themselves into their Private Conventicles and Unwarranted Church-way as they call it against all Authority and Power of the King and Parliament the Unquestionable Sovereign and Supreme Magistracy ordain'd by God himself and in resisting whose ordinance they apparently oppose and resist even the Lord God of Heaven Himself are not by any means to be admitted or permitted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—… 〈◊〉 is â—…heir Separation or Division from us to be so 〈◊〉 or so 〈◊〉 by us as to give any the least allowance to them Ibid. I. 28 Is Presbytery because Parochial Classical Provincial lâ—…ss Tyrannical then Episcopacy because many Rule in that and in this but One Or rather not more Tyrannical because One Tyrant is not so much as many together Evil in a Community is stronger and more diffusive then in Unity Saltmarsh'es Answer to Ley. 1646. P. 5. P. 29 Korah Dathan and Abiram rose up against Moses and Aaron as our Independents do now adays against the most Just and Righteous Authority of Parliaments and their Power in constituting under them for their assistance in matters of Religion the Synods or Assembly of Divines at Westminster Even as the Lord appointed and constituted Aaron under Moses in Holy things Coleman-street Conclave Parallell to the Reader 1648. I. 30 The Idolatrous Heathen sought to maintain their Idolatrous Religions by the same Stratagems Methods and Ways which the Ord'nance for the Preventing of the growing and spreading of Herefies proposeth for maintaining the Religion of Christ. Modest and Humble Queries Printed London 1646. p. 2. P. 31 The Apostles in many Places of their Writings speaking of Heretiques and false Teachers in their times and Prophâ—…sying of those in after times both the Popish Faction and the Sectarian speak of them as Apostates Antichrists False Prophets Seducers Deceivers Idolaters Blasphemers and their Doctrines and ways as Apostacy Idolatry Blasphemy worshipping of Devils Seducing and such like Edwards against Toleration 1647. P. 185. I. 32 In the Latter days False Christs and False Prophets shall arise saying Loe Here is Christ Or Loe there he is c. Wherfore if they shall say unto you see here how our Saviour Ingeminates the Caution as a thing of Serious Consideration Behold he is in the Desert Go not forth Behold he is in the Secret Chambers Mark her 〈◊〉 how near our Saviour comes to our Sectaries Practices and Rebellious Church-ways as they call them now adays Or he is in Shops Barns and such like Private Conventicles Believe it not
Dissenters Sayings The Second Part. Published in their own Words FOR THE INFORMATION Of the People And DEDICATED to the GRAND-JURY of LONDON August 29. 1681. By Roger L'Estrange LONDON Printed for Ioanna Brome at the Gun at the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard 1681. To his Unknown Friends the GRAND-JURY for LONDON August 29. 1681 viz. Will. Whitehill Fore-man Henry Strode Ioas Bateman Tho. Shepherd Ralph Cooke Joseph Caril Valentine Adams Joseph Bowles Anthony Sâ—…oman Andrew Boult Theophilus Hawson Maurice King Jâ—… Bâ—…ll John Cutloâ—…e John Cowley Jonathan Leigh William Pendlebury Daniel Mercer Gentlemen THE Kindness you have already shew'd to the Observator I cannot but in Common Honesty take as done to my self and I dare here assure ye that what Obligations soever you shall hereafter lay upon L'Estrange shall be acknowledg'd by the Observator You were pleased on Wednesday the 31. of August last at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily to Present Nathaniel Thompson Benjamin Took and Joanna Brome for Maliciously Printing and Publishing or causing to be Printed or Publish'd three Scandalous and Seditious Papers and Libels Entitled 1. The Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Intelligence 2. Heraclitus and 3. The Observator tending to the Advancement and Introduction of Popery and to the Suppression and Extirpation of the True Protestant Religion within his Majesties Realms and Dominions And this Terrible Presentment was Usher'd into the World with this Preface We the Grand-Jury Sworn to Enquire of Offences committed within the City of London do upon our Oaths Present c. Now there are Three Quaeres Gentlemen which if I durst be so bold I would presume to offer ye upon this Prologue First Being Sworn to Enquire Have you Impartially Enquir'd or not 2ly If ye have Enquir'd Are these Three Pamphlets all the Enormities that you have Discover'd upon that Enquiry 3ly What 's become of all the Rest for you are as well Sworn to Present as to Enquire These are Quaeres that I have sometimes formerly mov'd and the Answer was That these Three Papers were thrown in your Porridg-dish Now if ye stumbled upon 'em by Chance where 's your Enquiry upon Oath Or if ye found any thing else what 's become of your Oath of Presentment If ye had but taken me to your Assistance I 'de have carry'd 〈◊〉 where you should have 〈…〉 and Sedition Pulpits Cabals and Coffee-houses of the same Cloth and colour I 'de have brought ye acquainted with the Voxes Vindications and the Black-Box men A New Set of Jack Straws Waâ—… Tylers But where 's Old Walworth with his Dagger I 'de have shew'd ye Twenty New Schemes of Christianity as well as of Policy the Doctrine of the Insufficiency of Christs Death and Passion of Deposing Kings of Placing the Fountain of Power in the People Scripture-Proofs for speaking Evil of Dignities And in one word the Scenes dispos'd and the Stage fitted for the Second Part of the Tragedy of Muncer and the Curtain ready to be drawn I could have gotten ye a Key to the Soul-Saving-State-Confounding-Sheriffs Case and let ye into the Mystery of that Incomprehensible Dispensation It is a great Blessing to a Government for men upon their Oaths in the Administration of Publique Duties to be Nicely and Casuistically Instructed in the Bounds and Measures of Swearing And this is a Piece that cuts out Perjury from Damnation to a hairs breadth and will bring ye a True-Protestant Conscience within the very smell of Fire and Brimstone and yet carry him off again as whole as a Fish into his ready way to the Land of Promise Now here would have been Enormitywork e'en as much as ye could have turn'd you 〈◊〉 to But what 's all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Dick Janeway's Paper says that First He hath Wickedly and Maliciously Endeavour'd to Sow Dissention and Discord amongst Protestants thereby to render them an easier prey unto their Common Enemies the Papists Pray Gentlemen d' ye call this the Presentment of a Grand Jury or a Final Verdict upon the Merits of the Cause to say First that a Man has done such a thing and then to Pronounce that he did it with such an intention or to such an end But now to the Article So far has the Observator been from Labouring Dissention and Discord that no man has more declar'd himself against it or taken more pains to lay open the Moral Impossibility of Peace in the State according to this Constitution without a strict Uniformity in the Church But if you would have fix'd your Presentment aright upon this Head you should have presented the Enemy in the Parable that Sow'd the Tares And if you will but look into the Third Section of this Book for your better satisfaction you will find that the Dissention and Discord that you talk of was Sow'd Forty years ago and that what we see now is only an After crop The Second Point is Countenancing and Abetting the Villanous Contrivances of the Popish Conspirators who have endeavoured to cast Fictitious Plots upon Protestants thereby to make way for their own Hellish Plot to take effect That is to say The Observator is in the Popish Plot. Why do ye not inform against him to the King and Council then and say Where and When and How and What Why do ye not Name the Contrivances and say who are the Conspirators Or what if ye should set forth your Grievances in a Protestant Mercury or get little Hancock to open your Case in one of his News-Letters He 'l do 't for Pence a piece and that 's just Eighteen pence for his Reward I do assure ye Gentlemen I am in no other Contrivance then to do the Part of an English Protestant a Loyal Subject and an Honest man towards the Upholding of the Government and I was once within a Trifle of a Halter for being in that Popish Conspiracy as they call'd it once before with the Late King And if the same Word and the same Humour be now taken up again I am in just such another Plot. The Third Charge is the Vilifying and bringing into the Disesteem of his Majesty and the whole Nation the Commons of England when Assembled in Parliament by Arraigning and Impudently Condemning their Proceedings You forget my Masters that Impudence is the Surname of the Greatest Phanatique in the Three Kingdoms and that the Epithete Villanous fits him too as if it had been made for him Therefore for the future I would advise ye to put your Slanders 〈◊〉 better language And now to the Accusation The Observator does first defie ye to shew One Line in all his Writings that will bear the sence you have Impos'd upon 't And 2dly The late Long Parliament which the Fanatiques have Loaden with so many Reproaches had at least as many Good Patriots Protestants and Subjects in it as any Parliament since Nay there is One of your Number at least who has said Positively that L'Estrange is a Papist which is as False
Colemanstreet Conclave Visited P. 1. 1648. P. 33 The Congregationall men swore to Endeavour Uniformity and yet practice this day Multiformity of Religions have put to the sale the Bloud of many Gallant men in Scotland that so they may buy with their lives Cursed Liberty of Conscience But will it not be bitterness in the End Rutherfords Free Disputation 1649. P. 256. We know no service to the State done by these men but that they set up with the sword all the Blasphemous and Hereticall Sects and Religions that Tho. Muncer or Iohn of Leydâ—…n fancy'd contrary to the Oath of God Ib. 259. I. 34 Was there ever any thing done in the Bishops time or any thing attempted to be done by this Generation of men in the day of their Greatest Interest and Power in the Kingdom of that Bloudy Consequence to those Godly Persons Ministers or others whom they most hated and sought to crush as this Ord'nance to Prevent the Growing and spreading of Heresies c. if once Establish'd is like to be to far greater numbers of truly Pious and Conscientious Men. Some Modest and Humble Queries P. 7. Notes upon §. 3. I Shall not need to cut up this Section by Paragraphs but rather recommend it whole to the Consideration of any Indifferent Reader These are the People that assume to themselves the Title of the Kings best Subjects and the Church of Englands True-Protestants when yet at the same time they do with their own Lips and Pens declare themselves the Implacable Enemies of Order and of One another They call for Indulgence contrary to Law from those whom they themselves destroy'd for Living and Acting according to the Law and to whom so far from Mercy they never shew'd so much as Humanity or Common Pity They demand a Comprehension with that Church which they do Ioyntly pronounce to be Anti-Christian They make use of Religion and Tenderness of Conscience as their Plea for a Common Union with the Church and yet what is it but the same Pretense of Religion and Conscience that Causes all those Mortal Feuds among themselves What Religion can be expected from men of these Outragious Principles What Peace with so many Implacable Antipathies and Oppositions What Truth from such a Medly of Pernitious Errors and what Trust can be given to those that never kept Faith either with God or Man Nor ever agreed but in order to the Ruine and Confusion of the State Would they be United ye see 't is Dangerous and Impossible Dangerous in respect of the Publique and Impossible among Themselves for they make it no less then Matter of Damnation to Suffer one Another Now according to these Practices and Positions let the world Iudge of the Design §. 4. The Dissenters Behaviour toward the Government and first the Clergy 1 PErnicious Deceivers Presumptuous Shepherds Baalamites Blazing-Stars Glosing Hypocrites with God Fasting-Pharisaicall Preachers Miserable Guides Counterfeit-False Prophets Sycophants Trencher-Priests Conscience-Brokers Dangerous and Pestilent Seducers Sectary-Precise Preachers Trecherous Watchmen Sworn Soldiers of Anti-Christ c. Barrow and Greenwood Cited in Bancrofts Survey of Holy Discipline P. 355. 2 This new Parcell of Mockery and Iesuited Popery as bad as any in the Mass-book i. e. A Collection of Prayers and Thanksgivings used in his Majesties Chappel c. and publish'd by his Majesties Command 1644. 3 Croaking Frogs Clergy that crept into the Kings Chambers who are known by the Gutter whence they came out of the Dragon out of the mouth of the Beast and the False Prophet They are the Spirits of Devils who go forth unto the Kings of the Earth to gather them to Battle c. The Frogs Heads are like their Caps Quadrata Ranarum Capita Here is work for the Parliament that the King may have no more Croakers in his Chambers Wilson to the Commons Sep. 1642. 4 A Stinking Heap of Atheisticall and Roman-Rubbish a Rotten Rabble of Slanderous Priests and Spurious Bastard sons of Belial who by their Affected Ignorance and Laziness their False Doctrines and Idolatrous Superstitious Practises in Gods worship by their most Abominable Evil Lives and Conversations had like Hophni and Phinehas made the Lords Ordinances to be even abhorr'd by the People Vicars Iehovae Iireh P. 88. 1644. 5 Who among us 7. years ago Imagin'd that this Land should be healed of the two Great Plague-Sores of this Land viz. The Common-Pruyer Book and Episcopacy of the lesser Scabs of Deans and Prebends Chancellors Arch-Deacons Queristers Promoters c. Together with the Spiritual Courts and all the Trumpery of their Superstitious Ceremonies Loves Sermon at Uxbridge Ian. 30. 1944. P 29. 6 If Justice be at a stand and cannot take hold of Living Delinquents to keep the Ax from rust Let Justice be Executed upon Liveless Delinquents Are there no Altars no High-Places no Crucifixes c. Greenhill to the Commons Ap. 26. 1643. P. 37. 7 Throw away the Rubbish out with the Lords Enemies and the Lands Vex the Midianites Abolish the Amalekites else they will vex you with their Wiles as they have done heretofore Let Popery find no favour because it is Treasonable Prelacy as little because it is Tyrannicall but Establish God his Truth and ways Coleman to the Commons Au. 30. 1643. P. 64. 8 God was weary of our New-Moons and Sabbaths and the Calling of our Assemblies He could not smell in our Common Feasts our Sacrifices were an Abomination to him through the Noisomness of those Corruptions which Hophni and Phinehas Superstitious and wicked men in the Priesthood mingled with them Strickland No. 1944. P. 33. 9 The Hierarchy is become a Fretting Gaugreen and Spreding Leprosy an Insupportable Tyraany Up with it Up with it to the Bottom Root and Branch Hip and Thigh Destroy these Amalckites and let there Place be no more found Coleman to the Par. Au. 30. 1643. P. 39. 10 Our Cathedralls are in a Great part of late become the Nest of Idle Drones and the Roosting Place of Superstitious Formalities Coleman to the Commons Au. 30. 1643. P. 39 11 How was this Honourable and Famous City of London furnish'd Even just as Ieroboam furnish'd Bethel with the Idlest the most Superstitious of all the rest Id. Ibid. 12 An Ungodly Generation that weep with a Loud Voice and Complain their Gods are gone their God Episcopacy their God Liturgy the Organ and the Surplice the Cross c. Stanton to the Commons Ap. 24. 1644. Epistle 13 Our Religion and Liberties are setled by the Laws of the Land not so Israels in Egypt And therfore the Anti-Christian Party in their attempts to wrest them from us are more Unjust and cruell then of Old was Egypt Ibid. P. 5. 14 How many Dumb Devils are now casting out of many Parishes in the Land Bond to the Commons Mar. 27. 1644. P. 44. 15 What had we got if the Prelaticall Party had been set up What could we have Expected from them but superstitions Innovations Illegalities Bondage
of our Estates I iberties and Consciences Burroughs to the Commons Sep. 7. 1641. P. 40. 16 I profess that I cannot Expecta Complete deliverance from these and other like Oppressions but by the Extirpation of the Frame of Prelatical Government Ash to the Commons Mar. 30. 1642. P. 61. 17 The Violence that is done to me and my Flesh be upon thee O Papacy shall the Inhabitants of Ireland say And my Bloud upon Thee O Prelacy shall England say Newcomen to the Commons Nov. 5. 1642. P. 38. 18 Prophane sons of Belial the Clergy who like Ely's Sons made the People Abhor the Offering of the Lord. Love Ian. 30. 1644. P. 18. The two Plague-Sores Episc pacy Common-Prayer-Book P. 22. Episcopacy Iure Diabolico P. 28. 19 The Church Committed to Persons Illiterate and Insufficient Dumb Dogs Men swallowed up with wine and strong Drink whose Tables are full of Vomit and Filthyness Whoremongers and Adulterers who as fed Horses neigh after their Neighbours wives Priests of Baal Bacchus and Priapus Sons of Belial c. Whites first Century Epistle to the Reader 20 Of all the Nations that have Renounc'd the Whore of Rome there is none in the world so far out of Square as England in retaining the Popish Hierarchy Epist. before the Demonst. 21 The English Prelacy is the Product of proud Ambition and Arrogancy and Contrary to the Express Command of Christ. Baxters 5. Disputations P. 45. 22 Bishops are Thorns and Thistles and the Military Instruments of the Devil Baxters Concord P. 122. 23 Prelacy is a Government which Gratifieth the Devil and wicked men 5 Disputations P. 36. Contrary to the word of God and Apostolical Institution Ibid. P. 51. Against the will of Christ and the wellfare of the Churches Ibid. Pref. 16. 24 Your Churches bear with Drunkards Whoremongers Railers Open Scorners at Godlyness 5 Disputations P. 37. The most Ungodly of the Land are the forwardest for your ways You may have almost all the Drunkards Blasphemers and Ignorant haters of Godliness in the Country to Vote for ye 5. Disp. Pref. P. 17. to the Adherers to Prelacy 25 What is this Prelacy A mere Anti-Christian Encroachment upon the Inheritance of Christ. D. Owen Thanksgiving Sermon Oct. 24. 1651. P. 5. 26 They the Episcopal Clergy are as zealous for Crosses and Surplices Processions and Perambulations reading a Gospel at a Cross-way the Observation of Holy days the Repeating of the Litany or the like Forms in the Common Prayer the Bowing at the Name of the word Iesus while they Reject his Worship the Receiving of the Sacrament when they have no Right to it and that upon their Knees as if they were more Reverent and Devout then the true Laborious Servants of Christ with a Multitude of things which are only the Traditions of their Fathers I say they are as zealous for these as if Eternal Life Consisted in them Where God forbids them there they are as forward as if they could never do enough and where God Commands them there they are as backward to it yea as much against it as if they were the Commands of the Devil himself And for the Discipline of Christ though all parts of the world have much opposed it yet where hath it been so fiercely and Powerfully resisted The Lord Grant that this Harden'd willfull Malitious Nation fall not under that Heavy Doom Luke 19. 27. But those mine Enemies which would not that I should reign over them bring them hither and Slay them before me Baxters Saints Rest. Part 3. P. 91. 27 If the Parliament should hereafter see a Convenience in Prelacy for this Kingdom were not this Oath then Prejudicial either to the Parliaments Liberty or the Kingdoms felicity This Objection Supposes that the most Wicked Anti-Christian Government may be a Lawfull Government in Point of Conscience Coleman at St. Margarets Westminster upon Entring into the Covenant Sep. 29. 1643. P. 37. 28 Who cannot witness the Superstitious abuse of Englands Liturgy Superstitious say I nay Idolatrous What was by the Smectymnuan Episcopo-Mastix alledgâ—…d of the Liturgy twenty year ago I doubt is verify'd of it still Ierubaal Ridivivus P 22. 1663. 29 The Church of England Evidently Declare themselves Limbs of Anti-Christ Therefore there is no Communion to be kept with such in their Publique worship Vindicia Cultus Evangelici 1668. P. 39. 30 The Ministry of the Church of England is False Superstitious and Idolatrous therefore it is Unlawfull for the People of God to Joyn in it Ibid. P. 42. The Persons Performing the Publique worship in the Church of England are no Officers appointed by Christ but an Anti-Christian Ministry such as Design'd the Ruine of Godlyness and Idolaters Ibid. 31 I mean to make the Godly Reader see the distress and Danger we were Plunged in by the Nefarious Plots of Iesuiticall Priests and Perfidious Prelates for I may most Justly link them together like Simeon and Levi brothers in Iniquity Combining and Complotting to reduce us to the accursed Romish Religion Vicars Iehovah Iireh P. 6. 32 How comes it to pass that in England there is such Encrease of Popery Superstition Arminianism and Prophaneness more then in other Reformed Churches Doth not the Root of these Disorders proceed from the Bishops and their Adherents being forced to hold Correspondency with Rome to uphold their Greatness and their Courts and Canons wherein they Symbolize with Rome and whether it be not to be feared that they will rather consent to the bringing in of Popery for the Upholding of their Dignities then part with their Dignities for the Upholding of Religion Smectymnuus P. 66. 33 The Prelates Late Canonsand Oath purposely contrived for the perpetuating of their Hierarchy and their other Treacherous Endeavours against the State joyning with the Papists and with them labouring to bring all into Confusion hath helped thus far toward the taking them away Root and Branch Marshall to the Commons Iune 15. 1643. P. 19. The Roman Emperors wasted the Saints in Ten several Persecutions but all these were nothing in Comparison of this Destroyer all their loins not so heavy as the little finger of Anti-Christ Ibid. P. 25. 34 We may answer all Queries about the Reign of Christ thus the Blind begin to have their Eyes Unseal'd the Lame do walk at Liberty Proud ones are abas'd the Mighty ones are put from their Seats Errors Discountenanc'd Truths Enquir'd after Ceremonyes and Superstitions are cast out Monuments of Popery and Paganilâ—…i cast down Caryl to the Commons April 23. 1644. P. 35. 35 Never were there Grosser Idols in Rome then those things as they were used by some and what is abus'd by Superstition ought not to be retain'd Sedgwick Iâ—…n 6. 1643. P. 33. 36 Such a Generation of men there were amongst us that by Complyances with Idols and Idolatry went about to Drive God away and what Consistence can there be between the Ark and Dagon between God and Idols Strickland No. 5. 1644. P. 32.
Catechising the Anti-Christian Papists Malignants Incendiaries and other ill-Affected Persons under the name of CAVALIERS 10 I went saith he The King of his going to the House of Commons attended with some Gentlemen Gentlemen indeed the ragged â—…fantry of Stews and Brothels the Spawn and Shipwrack of Taverns and Dicing-Houses Iconoclastes P. 25. A Prayer for the Preservation of his Majesties Person c. Priest Right Responds 11 O Lord Guard the Person of thy Servant the King From Jesuites Papists Irish Rebels and Evil Councellors about him People Resp. Who putteth his Trust in thee Not we hope in the Arm of Flesh as Cavaliers Delinquents and such Enemies to the Kingdom Priest Resp. Send him and his Armies help from thy holy Place Not from Denmark Belgia France Spain and Ireland People Resp. And evermore mightily defend them From the Insinuations of Incendiaries other Promoters of this War Priest Resp. Confound the Designs of all those that are risen up against him To withdraw him from his Parliament and the Protection of his best Subjects People Resp. And let not their Rebellious Wickedness approach near to hurt him Nor any more to Rob Spoil and Kill the Poor People of this Nation Priest Resp. Oh Lord hear our Prayer That our King may speedily return home from destructive Misleaders People Resp. And let our Cry come unto thee And the Cry of thy Peoples blood in Ireland and England Cavaliers New Common-Prayer-Book Unclasp'd P. 3. 12 The Woful Miscarriages of the King himself which we cannot but acknowledg to be many and very Great in his Government that have Cost the Three Kingdoms so Dear and cast him down from his Excellency into a Horrid Pit of Misery almost beyond Example c. Vindication of the 59 London Ministers P. 6. 7. 13 The Kings Letter full indeed of much Evil and Demonstration of no Change of Heart from his former Bloody Cruel and Unkingly Practices of the Ruin of himself and his Kingdom as much as in him lay Vicars Chron. P. 43. 14 All Good Consciences shall Condemn that Course It shall be Easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than for such a Court. Admonition to the Parliament P. 3. Notes on §. 5. THis Section is of the same Spirit with the former and only a Malevolent Continuation of the same design for the overturning of the Government by rendring the King his Majesties Ministers and his Friends and the whole Frame of the Civil State Despicable and as Odious as the other did the Bishops and the Clergy What a Rabble of Bug-words have we here hudled together in the First Paragraph Num. 1 What a Diabolical and Uncharitable Iudgment pronounc'd upon the whole Party of the King 2 and 3 What an irreverent Mockery upon the Catechism of the Church 4 What can be more Insolent toward the Person of our Sovereign 5 How Rude and how Un-Christian is the Character pronounc'd upon the Cavaliers From 6 to 11. And then see the Turning of his late Majesties Devotions in his distress into Droll and Buffon 11 The lewd Reproaches cast upon That Pious Prince in the depth of his Afflictions by the London Ministers even in their Pretended Service to him 12 The Clamorous Outrage of Vicars's Revilings 13 And the Parliament as ill treated by Others of the same Stamp as these People treated the King §. 6. The Presbyterians Opinion of the Covenant 1 THE Covenant was the Parliaments Sword and Buckler for when the Cavaliers shall see ye come Armed with the Covenant they will Run Run Run from the Presence of the Lord of Hosts Colemans Exhortation-Sermon to the Commons 2 As God did swear for the Salvation of Men and of Kingdoms so Kingdoms must now Swear for the Preservation and Salvation of Kingdoms to Establish our Saviour Iesus Christ in England Nye upon the Covenant 3 We Know O Lord that Abraham made a Covenant and Moses and David made a Covenant and our Saviour made a Covenant but Thy PARLIAMENTS Covenant is the Greatest of All Covenants A Lay-Preacher at Banbury in his Prayer 4 Look upon your Covenant I beseech ye and do Justice upon Delinquents Impartially and without Respect of Persons Palmer to the Commons Aug. 13. 1644. P. 48. 5 None but an Atheist Papist Oppressor Rebel or the Guilty Desperate Cavaliers and Light and Empty men can Refuse the Covenant Coleman Sep. 27. 1643. P. 23. 6 This Despised Covenant shall Ruin Malignants Sectaries and Atheists Yet a little while and behold he cometh and walketh in the greatness of his strength and his Garments Dyed with Blood Oh for the Sad and Terrible day of the Lord upon England their Ships of Tharshish their Fenced Cities c. Because of a Broken Covenant Rutherfords Letters P. 555. 7 I think it my last Duty to Enter a Protestation in Heaven before the Righteous Judge against the Practical and Legal Breach of Covenant and All Oaths Impos'd on the Consciences of the Lords People and All Popish Superstitious Mandates of men Ruth Lett. P. 575. 8 In the League and Covenant that have been so Solemnly and Publiquely Sworn and Renewed by this Kingdom the Duty of Defending and Preserving the Kings Majesties Person and Authority is Joyned with and Subordinate to the Duty of Preserving and Defending the True Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms Gillespy's Useful Cases of Conscience P. 55 56. 9 Look upon the Covenant to which we have Lift up our Hands I Tremble when I read it We Covenanted not only against Prelâ—…ey but Popery not only Hierarchy but Heresie not only Sin but Schism Watson to the Commons Decemb. 27. 1649. 10 Will not these Abjurers of the Covenant of All others be the very Chief of Sinners whilst they become Guilty of no less then the very Sin against the Holy Ghost Or at least border as near to it as possibly may be O amazing Vengeance Oh most dreadful of all Iudicial Strokes that can fall upon the Reprobate minds of men May not the dismal Doom of Francis Spira be here remembred and Solomons Backslider in Heart who shall be fill'd with his own ways Prov. 14. 14. Though to commit Murther upon the High-way and to do it deliberately and in cool blood too be a most horrid Crime against the very Light of Nature and against the second Table yet how short doth it come of This the highest of all Crimes imaginable A Crime that murthers Conscience that murthers Souls that murthers Religion it self a Crime against the First Table most immediately against the Sovereign God! and the greatest of that nature that men can be guilty of Three Mens Speeches P. 6. 11 Q. Whether seeing the Covenant was made to God Almighty All Persons by the Covenant were not bound to bring Delinquents to Punishment And whether the Long Parliament did not Declare the Late King to be a Delinquent let God and the World judge The Valley of Achor 1660. Q. 16. 12 I do Solemnly declare as a
Abihu and Saul will intermeddle with Gods Warrant as she Q. Eliz. hath done with matters of Religion with God's matters she must think it no Injury to be Disobey'd Soldier of Berwick Cited by the Author of an Answer to a Factious Libel Entitled An Abstract of several Acts of Parliament c. 2 Kings no less then the Rest must obey and yield to the Just Authority of the Ecclesiastical Magistrates Ecclesiastical Discip. P. 142. 3 The Consistory may and ought to admonish the Magistrate which is negligent in Punishing Vice Danaeus Par. 2. Isag. li. 2. Cap. 62. And also may upon Knowledge of the Cause taken Excommunicate even the Chief Magistrate unto the which he ought to submit himself Ibid. ca. 67. 4 Princes must remember to subject themselves to the Church and to submit their Scepters to throw down their Crowns before the Church yea to Lick the dust of the Feet of the Church T. Cartwright P. 645. 5 Every Eldership is the Tribunal Seat of Christ. Beza de Presb. P. 124. 6 The Holy Discipline ought to be set up and All Princes to submit themselves under the Yoke of it What Prince King or Emperour shall Disanul the same he is to be reputed Gods Enemy and to be held unworthy to Reign above his People Knox Exhort to Eng. P. 91. c. 7 Our Church-History tells that Mr. Andrew Melvin that Faithful and Zealous Servant of Christ would not answer before the King and the Council for his Alledged Treasonable Discourse in a Sermon until he had first given in a Plain and Formal Protestation and the like was done by Worthy Mr. David Blake upon the like occasion and the Protestation was Approved and Signed by a good Part of the Church of Scotland 1596. Hist. Indul. P. 14. 8 The Irreligiousness Antichristianism and Exorbitancy of this Explicatory and as to some things Ampliatory Act and Assertion of the Kings Supremacy in Church-Affairs of Nov. 16. 1669 this Supra-Papal Supremacy Hist. Indul. P. 27. 9 The Accepters of the Indulgence are Chargeable with High Treason against the King of Kings our Lord Iesus Christ. Hist. Indul. p. 86. 10 Christ breaks and moulds Commonwealths at his Pleasure He hath not spoke much in his Word how long they shall last or what he intends to do with them Only this That all Kings and Kingdoms that make War against the Church shall be broken a pieces and that in the end All the Kingdoms of the World shall be the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Saints and they shall reign over them Marshal to the Commons June 15. 1643. p. 47. 11 What was our Posture and Practice after we had so stupidly stood by till we saw the whole work overturn'd without offering to Interpose effectually to prevent its ruine or to fall with it Hist. of Indulgence Pref. 1678. Speaking of the Action of Bothwell-Bridge 12 The Father having given to Christ all Power both in Heaven and in Earth and the Rule and Regiment of this Kingdom he hath Committed to Monarchies Aristocracies or Democracies as the several Combinations and Associations of the People shall between themselves think good to Elect and Erect God leaves People to their own Liberty in this Case Case on Isaiah 43. 4. p. 26. 13 They were carrying on a Malignant Interest to wit The Establishing the King in the Exercise of his Power in Scotland and the Re-investing him with the Government in England when he had not yet Abandoned his Former Enmity to the Work and People of God and the securing of Power in their own hands under him Gillespies Useful Case of Conscience p. 66. 14 There was a sin in the Peoples Joyning because few or none of those who did Joyn did give any Testimony against the Magistrates Employing of the Malignant Party Ibid. 15 After the Treaty was brought to some close the King did before his coming to Sea Receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper from one of the Prelatical Chaplains and according to the Service-Book c. notwithstanding the Commissioners of the Kirk did represent the Evil thereof to him Gillespies Useful Case of Conscience Discuss'd p. 56. Another Exception That the King did not think his Father Guilty of Blood Ibid. 16 Was there not Cause to Scruple at the taking of this Oath of Allegeance which would have Imported 1. A Condemning of the Convention of Estates in Scotland 1643. 2. A Condemning of the Parliaments An. 1640. 41. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. As also the Committees and Parliaments thereafter An. 1649. 1650. 1651. 3. A Condemning of all the Acts made by These Parliaments 4. A Condemning of all the Meetings Councils and Conventions of the Subjects at the beginning of the Late work of Reformation 5. A Condemning of the League and Covenant 6. A Condemning of Scotlands Joyning with and Helping of England in the day of their streight 7. A Condemning of the Renewing of the National Covenant 1638. 1639. 8. A Condemning of the General Assembly 1638. and several others thereafter 9. A Condemning of Scotlands Rising in Arms in their own Defence against the Popish Prelatical and Malignant Party 10. A Condemning of their seizing upon Forts and Castles in their own Defence An Apolâ—…getical Relation of the Sufferings of the Scotch Ministers 1665. p. 127. 128. 17 We ought to consider the Conditions of the Kings Letter of Indulgence to the Kirk Iune 7. 1669. what is accounted living Peaceably and Orderly by such as propose this Qualification And that sure to speak it in the smoothest of Terâ—…s is a Negative Compliance with all their Tyranny Oppression of Church and Country Blood-shed Overturning of the Work of God Establishing Iniquity by Law Perjury Apostacy Re-establishing of Perjur'd Prelates and Abjured Prelacy Hist. of Indulg p. 7. 18 We Remarque further that the Letter saith that none of these Ministers have any Seditious Discourses or Expressions in Pulpit or Elsewhere And what is understood here by Seditious Discourses or Expressions we cannot be Ignorant But now what Conscientious Ministers can either Tacitly promise such a thing or upon the Highest Peril forbear to Utter such Discourses Or who can think that any such thing can be yielded unto who considereth what God requireth of Ministers in Reference to a Corrupted and Apostatized state And what the weight of the Blood of Souls is Hist. Indul. p. 11. 19 The Unparallel'd Perfidy and Breach of Covenant The most Abominable Irreligious Inhumane and Tyrannical Acts made for Establishing of this Wicked Course of Defection Hist. Indul. p. 12. 20 Christ and his Apostles were the Greatest of Conventicle Preachers and almost Preached no other way wanting always the Authority of the Supream Magistrate and yet not waiting upon their Indulgence Hist. Indul. p. 17. 21 They have power to Abrogate and Abolish all Statues and Ordinances concerning Ecclesiastical matters that are found Noysom and Unprofitable and agree not with the time or are abused by the People 2 Book of Discipline cap. 7. To
he so Imposes E. Bagshaw of things Indifferent Part. 2. p. 3. 5 Our Fundamentals were not made by our Representatives but by the People themselves and our Representatives themselves limited by them which it were Good that Parliaments as well as People would observe and be faithful to For no Derivative Power can Null what their Primitive Power hath Established The English-man p. 11. 6 Royal Primogeniture alone without the Peoples consent is no Rightful Title to the Government nor hath the Eldest Son or Heir of the King any Right to the Government by Birth unless the People consent to chuse him thereto Mene-Tekel p. 10. 7 The Parliaments of England and often the People without the Parliament have in their Addresses to the King given him the Title of Lord in a way of Honour and Respect but when he hath refused to perform his Duty to them and endeavoured by his Unlawful Prerogative to abridge them of their Liberties they have made him understand his Relation and by force of Arms Asserted their own Privileges and sometimes compelled the King to Perform his Duty other times Deposed him from the Government as the People of Israel did Rehoboam upon the same account and so have most if not all the Nations in the World done the same Ibid. pag. 36. 8 Rising up against Authority it self the Ordinance of God and Disobeying the Powers therewith vested standing and acting in their Right Line of Subordination is indeed Rebellion and as the sin of Witchcraft but to Resist and Rise up against Persons Abusing Sacred Authority and Rebelling against God the Supream is rather to adhere to God as our Liege Lord and to Vindicate both our selves and his Abused Ordinance from Man's Wickedness and Tyranny Naphtali p. 157. 9 The Power of the King Abused to the Destruction of Laws Religion and Subjects is a Power contrary to Law Evil and Tyrannical and Tyeth no man to subjection Lex Rex p. 261. 10 If we consider the Fountain-Power the King is Subordinate to Parliament and not Co-ordinate for the Constituent is above that which is Constituted Lex Rex p. 377. 11 Whensoever a King or other Supream Authority Creates an Inferiour they Invest it with a Legitimacy of Magistratical Power to punish themselves also in case they prove evil doers yea and to act any other thing requisite for the Praise and Encouragement of the Good Io. Goodwins Right and Might well met 1648. p. 7. 12 The People is not King formally because the People is eminently more than the King for they make David King and Saul King Lex Rex p. 156. 13 The Laws are in the hands of the Parliament to Change or Abrogate as they shall see best for the Common-wealth even to the taking away of Kingship it self when it grows too Masterful and Burdensome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 101. 14 The Parliament sit in that body not as his Subjects but as his Superiors call'd not by him but by the Law not only twice every year but as oft as great affaire require to be his Counsellors and Dictators though he stomack it nor to be Dissolved at his pleasure but when all Grievances be first removed all Petitions heard and answered Ibid. p. 110. 15 Our Covenant was not taken without the Royal Authority of the King though it be Condemn'd by his Personal Command for as long as this Parliament of England continueth the Royal Authority and Power is annexed to it by vertue of that Act of Continuance So that the King of England in his Power may still be at Westminster though King Charles in his Person be at Oxford or elsewhere The Covenanters Catechism 1644. p. 16. 16 If a People that by Oath and Duty are obliged to a Sovereign shall sinfully Dispossess him and contrary to their Covenants chuse and Covenant with another they may be Obliged by their latter Covenants notwithstanding the former Ho. Com. p 188. 17 Though the Perfidious Parliament or rather Mock Parliament have lately betrayed their own Trust and our Liberties making it Treason for us to mention the Cruel Tyranny and Oppression we groan under yet by the Ancient Laws of England this Man that Rules at present is no Rightful King of England but by Oppressing the Nation and Persecuting the Lords People hath loss the Title of a King and the Name of a King doth not agree to him but Tyrant is the Name due to him Mene-Tekel p. 63. 18 Q. Whether the Title of Supream be not rather Nominal than Real Valley of Acbor p. 1. 19 Our War has been proved over and over to Unbiast Consciences to be Just. Caryl to the Commons April 23. 1644. p. 15. 20 If the King raise War against the Parliament upon their Declaration of the Dangers of the Common-wealth in that case people may not only Resist him but also he Ceases to be a King Baxter H. Common-wealth Thes. 368. 21 It is our Duty to yield to this Authority all Active and Chearful Obedience in the Lord even for Conscience sake Ibid. 22 A Refusal to be subject to this Authority under the pretence of Upholding the Title of any One upon Earth is a Refusal to Acquiesce in the Wise and Righteous pleasure of God Ienkins Petition Printed Oct. 15. 1651. 23 The King must Command not only according to God's but Man's Laws And if he do not so Command the Resistance is not a Resistance of Power but Will. Bridges to the Commons Feb. 7. 1642. Pref. 24 Let not the Sons of Belial say there is no Law now let them not be as when there was no King in Israel every man doing that which was right in his own eyes let them know that the Kingly Power Resides in the High Court of Parliament Pickering No. 27. 1649. Epist. Ded. 25 Subjects do promise Obedience that the Magistrate might help them which if he do not they are discharg'd of their Obedience Goodman p. 190. 26 Judges ought by the Law of God to Summon Princes before them for their Crimes and to proceed against them as against all other Offenders Obedience p. 111. 27 Scotland fought for themselves and their own safety and whatever Law will Warrant Nations now to joyn together against the Turk will Warrant Scotland their joyning with England against their Common-Enemy Apologet. Relat. p. 138. 28 A War raised by the Parliament against the Common Enemy in defence of the Kings Honour the safety of the People and the Purity of Religion cannot be Condemned as Unjust and Illegal Apol. Rel. p. 142. 29 It was the common practice of the Parliaments of Scotland and Lex currit cum Praxi to rise in Arms against their Kings when they turned Tyrants Ibid. 143. 30 It is lawful for the Inferiour and Subordinate Magistrates to defend the Church and Common-wealth when the Supream Magistrate degenerates and falleth into Tyranny or Idolatry for Kings are subject to their Common-wealths Canterburies Doom p. 290. c. 31 The Parliament have declar'd
one of the most Diabolical and Flagitious Villanies imaginable Even allowing that they had no other way left them for their security But alas you will find in the Next and Last Section this Plea remov'd where ye shall see the same Persons that here cry'd Crucifie him Crucifie him Triumphing and only for the Malice sake Exulting in the Contemplation of that Hideous Murder §. 14. The Kings Murder Iustifi'd 1 IT is now high time after so long an Interruption of Enemies for the Parliament and Army concurrently to appear to do their duty not only by Executing Justice upon the Person of the King and his Adherents but also in New Modelling and settling such a Frame and Fundamental Constitution of Government in the Kingdom as God shall put into their hearts to be most Convenient and Useful for the welfare and safety of the People Little Benjamin Licensed by Gilb. Mabbot p. 11. 2 Did not this Grand Pretended Father of this Nation destroy a Multitude of his best Children And would he not gladly have Slain all the rest upon further opportunity Was it not high time the Parliament should Execute Judgment upon him Ibid. p. 12. The General and his Councel do and have performed their Duty in all their Proceedings Concurring with the Parliament to Execute Justice upon the Grand Delinquent and also upon some of the Chief of his Wâ—…cked Counsellors and Adherents Ibid. p. 30. 3 Hath not the King been a Corrupt Fountain Poysoning every Stream and Rivulet he had access unto And would he not have done so still if he had not been cut off Aâ—… is not Justice Executed a good means to Establish the Faith of the Land in Rest and Peace with their Lives Estates Laws Liberties and Privileges Anciently and Inherently in themselves Ibid. p. 15. 4 Shall the Parliament of England be now Blam'd for cutting off that 〈◊〉 of Uâ—…pers and Tyrants and Reducing affairs to their first 〈◊〉 and Right Principle Or will the People of England after 〈◊〉 Experiences Center tâ—… Liberties and Freedoms in a Câ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Succession and lose their Common-wealth 〈◊〉 Personal Glory of a Young Pretender The Portraicture 〈◊〉 Kings of England 1650. p. 15. 5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no Power but â—…s of God Is not the Late King with his Heirs and Sâ—… is Dâ—…p â—…ssed by God Saunders aâ—… â—…ter to the Judges March 23. 1â—…50 p. 24. 6 God hath been pleased of late to make a sad Breach among us taking away from us our former Pilot the late Renewâ—…d Protector who when he had fought the Natâ—…ons Battels carried through the Wilderness preserved us from the 〈◊〉 and Fury of our Enemies and brought us within sight of the Premised Land gave up the Ghost laid down his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his Life together with whose fall the Nation was 〈◊〉 His death covered all the Faces of Sobâ—… and Considerate Persons with Paleness and their Hearts with Sadness as if Peace Prosperity Reformation the Gospel all lay drawing on and would be buried in the same Grave with him But blessed be God therâ—… and her 〈◊〉 placed in his room while he directs the Course let us till the Sails with our Praying Breath Moses it is true is dead but we have a 〈◊〉 succeeding him Let as pray that what thâ—… other happily begâ—…n this may more happily finish and bring the accomplishment of all your right-brâ—…d hopes And what they said to 〈◊〉 let us say unto his Highness According as we hearkâ—… unto Moses in all things so 〈◊〉 we hearken unto thee Only the Lord thy God be with thee â—…s he was with Moses Slater's Protectors Prâ—… or the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a Praying People Octob. 13. 1658. p. 57 58. 7 For my part I have oppos d the Tyranny 〈◊〉 the King Love 's Speech Sect. 20 I did 't is true 〈◊〉 is my Pâ—…ce aâ—…d Calling the 〈◊〉 of the late Kings and were he alâ—…ve again and should I live longer the Caâ—… being as thâ—… it was I should oppose him longer Englands â—…per Sect. 14. 8 As for the Title of this Prince who would fain be accounted the Right Heir let us but remember from whence he had it and how 't is now tainted Were it never so just the Treason of the Father hath cut off the Son True Port. p. 39. 9 Charles the Father is gone to his own Place and so is Charles the Son likewise he being in his own proper Nation Scotland let us keep him there iâ—… we be wise and intend to be happy let England disdain to be under the Domination of a Foreign Power for the future The True Portraiture p. 42. 10 If the God of Heaven the God of Truth have writ your Names aright with the Beams of the Noon day Sun in the eyes of all the Nations in the world You are the Saviours of the Oppressed the Conquerors of Tyrants and the Breakers of those Clergical Yoaks c. The Beacons Quench'd Dedicated to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England 1652 11 There are great and mighty works in hand in this Nation Tyrants are Punish'd the Laws of Oppressors are broke Bloody Revengeful People in War disappointed I. O. A Thanksgiving Sermon for the Scots defeat at Worcester Oct. 24. 1651. p. 2. A Monarchy of some hundred years Continuance always affecting and at length wholly degenerated into Tyranny destroy'd pull'd down swallow'd up Ibid. p. 6. 12 If any Persons in the world had cause to sing the Song of Moses and the Lamb we have this day The Bondage prepar'd for us was both in Spirituals and Temporals About a Tyrant full of Revenge and a Discipline full of Persecution hath been our Contest Whether the Yoke of the one or the other should by the Sword and Violence be put upon our Necks and Consciences is our Controversie Ibid. p. 7. 13 He that is Entrusted with the Sword and dares not do Justice on every one that dares do Injustice is affraid of the Creature but makes very bold with the Creator Owen to the Commons Jan. 31. 1648. p. 15. 14 Doubtless never was there any person under Heaven speaking of the late King Sentenced with Death upon more Equitable or Just grounds in respect of Guilt and Demerit Jo. Goodwins Defence of the Sentence passed on the King p. 91. 15 Gods Providences that is his permission of Events and Success are Antecedent Declarations of his Good Will and Approbation A Resusal to be subject to this Authority the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England under the pretence of upholding the Title of any one upon Earth is a Refusal to acquiesce in the Wise and Righteous Pleasure of God such an Opposing of the Government set up by the Sovereign Lord of Heaven and Earth as none can have Peace either in acting in or suffering for W. Ienkins Petition Octob. 1651. 16 If there be any in this Assembly that thinks not this Union a sufficient Retribution and Satisfaction for all his Twentieth part for all his
Contributions for all his Payments and Hazards I say he is blind I say his heart is not right with God Marshal to both Houses Jan. 18. 1643. p. 20. All Christendom except the Malignants in England do now see that the Question in England is whether Christ or Anti-Christ shall be Lord and King Ibid. p. 21. 17 Q. Whether the whole Kirk of Scotland in their Letters sent to the King at Oxford as in Mays History hath not judged the late King Guilty of the Blood of Thousands of his best Subjects And if so whether the Laws of God or Man give any Pardon or Dispensation to Kings more than to others If not whether his Judges are not sufficient to justifie it Valley of Achor Q. 8. Q. Whether beside the Guilt of Blood contracted upon himself in the Wars of England and Scotland he was not also Guilty of the Blood of Ireland Ibid. Q. 9. 18 No Sober and Impartial Person can Condemn their Position who denying that a Tyrannous Magistrate was the Minister of God to them for their Good did plainly assert the Lawfulness of Self-defence and Holy Reformation without the Violation of the Ordinance of God Naphtali p. 30. 19. As he The late King to acquit himself hath not spar'd his Adversaries to load them with all sorts of blame and accusation so to him as in his Books alive there will be us'd no more Courtship than he uses but what is properly his own Guilt not imputed any more to his Evil Councellors a Ceremony us'd longer by the Parliament than he himself desired shall be laid here without Circumlocutions at his own door That they who from the first beginning or but now of late by what Unhappiness I know not are so much affatuated not with his Person only but with his palpable faults and dote upon his Deformities may have none to blame but their own folly if they live and dye in such a strucken blindness as next to that of Sodom hath not happen'd to any sort of men more gross or more misleading Miltons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pref. 20 The People exorbitant and excessive in all their motions are prone oft-times not to a Riligious only but to a Civil kind of Idolatry in Idolizing their Kings though never more mistaken in the Object of their Worship heretofore being wont to repute for Saints those Faithful and Couragious Barons who lost their lives in the Field making glorious War against Tyrants for the Common Liberty as Simon de Momfort Earl of Leicester against Henry the Third Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster against Edward the Second But now with a Besotted and Degenerate baseness of spirit except some few who yet retain in them the Old English Fortitude and love of Freedom and have testifi'd it by their matchless deeds the rest Embastardiz'd from the ancient Nobleness of their Ancestors are ready to fall flat and give adoration to the Image and Memory of this Man who hath offer'd at more fetches to undermine our Liberties and put Tyranny into an Art than any Brittish King before him Ibid. Pref. 21 Whosoever sheddeth Man's Blood by Man shall his Blood be shed we find here no exception If a King therefore do this to a King and that by men also the same shall be done Ibid. pag. 229. 22 To have brought the King to Condign Punishment hath not broke the Covenant but it would have broke the Covenant to have sav'd him from those Judicatories which both Nations declar'd in that Covenant to be Supream against any person whatsoever Ibid. p. 237. God hath testifi'd by all propitious and evident designs whereby in these latter times he is wont to testifie what pleases him that such a solemn and for many Ages unexampled act of due Punishment was no mockery of Justice but a most grateful and well-pleasing Sacrifice Neither was it to cover their Perjury as he accuses but to uncover his Perjury to the Oath of his Coronation Ibid. 23 This is the Cause of the Kingdom the King should have helpt c. but did not then it became the Duty of the Parliament to have relieved the Kingdom but they did not her necessities great and many Petitions concerning them were slighted and burnt waited many years for help our Oppressions not removed all complain dangers encrease no remedy appears they not help us nor tell us how long it will be before this Parliament will be at an end that we may have another to see if they will help us when all falls no ground of hope of life is left danger eminent and no other means of help left this is a cause of Necessity Now it 's the duty of the Army to help and if they had not it had been their sin if not their overthrow if they had suffer'd it to Perish the Kingdom had been well holpen up with a remedy in extremity An Answer to John Geree c. 1649. p. 4. 24 As to the Blood of the King I have not in the least any Guilt lying upon me for I have many a time sought the Lord with tears to know if I have done amiss in 't but 't was rather confirm'd that the thing was more of God than of Men. Nine Mens Speeches Harrison p. 2. I go to suffer upon the account of the most glorious Cause that ever was in the world Ibid. p. 6. Blessed be the Name of God that I have a Life to lose upon so Glorious and so Honourable an account p. 10. 25 I dye not in the Lord only but for the Lord and think not that this Blessed Cause shall be lost for it shall reach to the end of the Earth Think not your Prayers lost for your Prayers and Tears with our Blood shall come down shortly upon Babylon Mr. Carew's Speech p. 15. 26 I cannot Confess any Guilt It is such a Cause that the Martyrs would gladly come again from Heaven to suffer for if they might I look upon it as the most Noble and High act of Justice that our Story can parallel Nine Mens Speeches Cook p. 41. 27 I Bless Gods Name he hath engaged me in a Cause not to be Repented of Scott Ibid. p. 71. 28 In all that is past I could never yet suffer so much as a wish to pass through my thoughts Oh that I had not been engaged in this thing Or that I had before Forty-eight deserted this Cause Barkstead to a Friend Three Mens Speeches 29 I do believe at long-run there is not a man that Fears the Lord will have any reason to be sorrowful for engaging in that Good Old Cause which I am now to Seal with my Blood again as I have many a time done I am satisfied in my soul that it is a most Just and Glorious Cause c. Three Mens Speeches Coll. Okey 30 As it is unquestionably lawful on serious and real grounds to Depose and do Justice on Kings and Princes as other Magistrates so never was there a greater and more