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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77067	The labyrinth the kingdom's in: with a golden threed to bring it forth into light, liberty, and peace agen. Being a brief but impartial history of the good and evil of the former, later, and present power of the nation, as it relates to God and the people. The result is a plea for the restauration of all in Christ (the kingdoms rest,) who is expected to appear more in the present, then in any former power of the nation. / By R. Bacon, a lover of mankinde.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1649 (1649)	Wing B369; Thomason E541_26; ESTC R204342	33,585	52

it was from the Episcopall her elder and first rejected sister I say first rejected out of the bed of God for they like a woman prone to Adultery have multiplied their whoredomes in calling to remembrance the dayes of their youth wherein they all knew themselves and others know it of them that they had plaid the harlot in the Land of Aegypt in the state of Egyptian darknesse in the Bishops dayes wherein they bowed the knee to the same Idolls they did so that they have doted every one upon their paramore of Aegypt whose flesh as the Prophet speakes is as the flesh of Asses and whose issue is as the issue of horses that is that which to the full gives content to the unsatiable appetite of carnall and corrupt principled professors i. e. such who notwithstanding their great pretence of Religion and Reformation intend nothing but the washing of the outside of the cup and platter and under a pretence of long prayer and strict government devoure widdowes houses loving one part of them to be called Rabbi another domination or tyranny of another kind building and setting up like Jeroboam that made Israel to sinne two Calves gilded indeed with gold having for it a glorious pretence of holinesse and conformity to the Scripture that every thing might come forth from them in the name of jus Divinum these they set up in Dan and Bethel Dan being in signification the place of judgment Bethel the house of God one in the place of common justice corrupting the very principles and glory of a true and right Magistracy the other in Bethel called the Church or house of God being nothing else but a dead woodden weak worthlesse Idoll yet done over all with gold intitled in all the pieces and parcells of it Directory for Worship Confession of Faith Forme of Church-Government Catechisme the mother and the daughter the greater and the lesse to a justification from the Scripture Scripture being made now adaies to speake to every mans fancy and thus whiles it was boasted we had arrived in a Land of promise far remote from Romish Popish and Episcopall tyranny and superstition we were as now we see now our eyes are open led back again as that Army of men was that came to besiege Elisha brought as it were blindfold and set downe in the midst of Samaria we find our selves in the midst of Rome Egypt and Babylon but as it now falls out in the power and hands too of those Prophets these Reformed Romanists had shut up and besieged who are now as many as are such in truth preparing food and necessaries for those that would have been the slaughter of them § 4. Thus Aholah was no worse then Aholibah and Aholibah no better but of the same complexion and adulterous disposition with Aholah Judah as Israel and Israel as Judah the Presbyters as the Bishops and the Bishops as the Presbyters and both as the Papists for what was said of the one mutato nomine might be said of the other hence it was they loved exceedingly and longed to be together in one as appeared by the Scots complying with the King and that party as yet corrupt first at Oxford secretly after at Newcastle Holmby London Hampton Court Isle of Wight openly in all which they had the concurrence of the English Presbyter who together like an imperious whorish woman open their feet to their Lovers whom they had courted before in private upon every mountain and hill to the apparent view and discerning of all so that there is now a marriage made or a reunion at least in heart and will betwixt the King and Parliament Bishops and Presbyters which the King observed well enough and therefore being at the Treaty asked by one of his friends what he thought of M. Seaman and others he answered him in the eare yet so as others heard why they would be Bishops man this union was not in God or in Christ but in the common enemy of both Satan the Accuser and destroyer of all good in all so that the Bishops now lived in the Presbyters and the Councell Table and other the high Commission and the Courts Ecclesiastick Monopoly-men in the Parliament and Synod and their first borne their severall Committees so that by this means a bridge is made for one to passe over to the other plain and easie CHAP. III. How this present Army appeared first in the light of God and after that in the darknesse of this world § 1. BUt Captaine Army or rather Mr. Agitator otherwise and since call'd Leveller steps in as one late jeeringly writ and forbids their actuall outward and open coming together seeing it so illegitimate and tending so to the prejudise of all even of the very parties themselves and to that end whiles the King longs or rather lusts after the Parliament and the Parliament after him This bold young manly and yet faire and as yet untoucht Virgin at least so in her own account and in a good measure so in truth and certainly so in comparison of others those adulterous women or people I have spoken of hitherto I mean that honest principle and people in and out of the Army these I say are so bold to demand the King as though they meant a marriage with him which they did not out of pure love but to prevent his union with either of the two former which they judged as unfit for him as he for them and to that end possesse themselves of his person and so in him or because of him they take the greater boldnesse to seize upon the Parliament whom the King liked better as being more like him in disposition and complexion and this they did having the sword the better end of the staffe of power in their own hands not first at least appearingly by the approvement and some think scarce really at all or at least not till afterwards and that rather out of necessity then good will concur'd with and assented unto by many if not almost all the heads of the Army but for one end or another they are now all united as one man having an evident and manifest presence of God upon them they resolve to be his Subjects and servants for the Kingdomes good and peace and to withstand all without difference opposing it seeking without respect of persons the profit and honest interest of all the King Queen and Cavaliers not excepted as appeares in their Proposalls and therefore they make addresses to him sometime more open and sometime more private that upon his concurring with them they would prosecute his just and lawfull interest as well as their owne and upon this account they march to London to chastise the follies of the Parliament and checke and put a stop to her unreasonable lustings after the King and other the onions and garlick of Aegipt as apt to breed evill diseases in them so that in this they were a reviving to the King and those of