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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52770	The true character of a rigid Presbyter with a narrative of the dangerous designes of the English and Scotish covenanters as they have tended to the ruine of our Church and Kingdom : also the articles of their dogmatic faith and the inconsistency thereof with monarchy : to which is added a short history of the English rebellion / compiled in verse by Marchamont Nedham; and formerly extant in his Mercurius pragmaticus.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1661 (1661)	Wing N406; ESTC R29555	36,798	96

that hales us to destruction Christians are not to be at such Liberty loose Christians are but lost men true Christians will be contented to be bound up in the Unity of the same Spirit and with the bond of Peace if the bond be broken the Sheaf of Corn is but so many loose Ears and no way fit to be carried into the Lords Barn if we be Sons and Daughters let us belong all to one House if we be Servants let us be all of one Family if we be lively Stones let us be all of one Building if we be several Grapes yet let us be all of one Cluster if we be several Clusters let us be all of one Vine if we be Saints let us have a Communion for this is it which is called the Communion of Saints this is it which is called Religion which is derived à Religando which signifies to binde Wherefore for the Puritan not to think himself bound to those Articles the Church proposes is to be of no Religion and ●o fight for this is to fight for nothing Perhaps the Presbyter may likewise maintain that he fought for Liberty from Oppression That is but a weak Excuse and carries little of Reason or Sence in it for there is not any Man or Woman of what Quality or Condition soever he be that understands what belongs to any such thing unless it be some few that have liberty to do what they will with all the rest But what if they took up Arms for the property of the Subject Alas I presume the Subjects had then so altered the property of their Goods that had they but the old properties restor'd they would not think it good fighting for a new their expectations being so much deceiv'd that instead of fighting for the property of the Subject they rather found themselves subject to have all things in common If for the Laws of the Land Whose Laws were they Were they not the King's And was it probable that he would not maintain the Foundation of his House from sinking Would he not maintain his Leggs under him Were they not Supporters of that Body Politick whereof he was Head Nay does he not maintain himself when he maintains them for the King and his Laws may without absurdity be compared to GOD and his Word both inseparable for as GOD is the Word and the Word is GOD so the King is the Law as the Life thereof and the Law is the King as the Body of that Soul Wherefore there needed not any fighting against the King upon this account except it were by those who were ambitious to be Kings themselves As for Priviledges of Parliament which possibly may come into the number of their pretences I have read of Jack Cade Speed's Chronicle in the Reign of Richard the Second who coming up as far as London-Stone and resting himself thereon vowed That within three days there should be no other Law but what did proceed out of his own Mouth Now if it stand with the Priviledges of Parliament to have a few Jack Cades relying on their London-Stones to tell them what they must do and they will have if it stands with the Priviledges of the Presbyterian Parliament to have Tumults to drive away their King Armies to awe themselves Countries to send up their Inhabitants in Multitudes with Petitions in their Hats Cudgels in their Hands and Threatnings in their Mouths then they have fought to some purpose But admit the Puritano-Parliament fought for all these Particulars so did the King too so that the King might safely expostulate with his Parliament as St. Paul did with the rest of the Apostles Are ye Fighters for the Protestant Religion so am I Are you for the Liberties of the Subject so am I Are you for the Laws of the Land so am I Are you for the Priviledges of the Parliament so am I And in all these things I have laboured more abundantly then you all Where lies the Quarrel then It must of necessity consist in nothing but this That they did not believe one another and in that they both fought for one and the same Thing the means of Reconciliation is taken away for had they differ'd in their Grounds the Law might have been Judge between them Reason might be Judge the World might be Judge but Rebus sic stantibus instead of having reason to fight they did but fight against Reason both contended for the same Power like the two Women that contended for the same Child Solomon judged the Child to belong to her who would rather part with it all then have the Child divided Now the Parliament would have this powerful Child divided half to the King and half to themselves the King rather was contented to lose all In whom there is most affection and pity in him is the Right of true Parentage But because there were no Solomons in that Age we will go the downright way to work The Presbyter fought in defence of the King's Person Crown and Dignity can you believe him I 'm sure you may believe and be confident the King did They took up Arms to unite him to his Parliament and make him a most glorious Monarch by reviling his sacred Person and bespattering him with malevolent Tongues did they not then fight upon false Grounds Did they not give themselves the lye and shall they be believed still But instead of being instructed by Solomons divided Child they divided their Solomon But if they had remembred what ill luck the Nation ever had by imprisoning their Kings onely they would have desisted speedily from their hellish Enterprize for when they had imprisoned the old Lion and the young within their Grates the third Henry and his Son did they not make the whole Land shake Had not the whole Kingdom a shrewd Ague-fit at that very time Did they not like fire too close besieg'd with Clouds sally out in Thunder and Lightning to the terrour and destruction of all those that stood in the way What success had the imprisonment of Edward the Second Upon his Imprisonment followed his Deposition and the murder of his Person was the consequent of the deposement of his Dignity But what became of those that were the occasion of it and did it Is there one remaining of the Name of Mortimer Was not that Mortimer who was the cause of his imprisonment beheaded Were not all those who had a hand in it condignly punished Nay was not the immediate Heir of this too much Conniver at his Fathers Sufferings and too ready Accepter of his Fathers Office imprisoned deposed and murdered And pray satisfie me in this likewise What success had the imprisonment of Richard the Second It cost the Kingdom whole Ages of miseries 80 of her Nobility and 100000 of her Commons the disposing of all her Royal Roses in their Buds before they were half blown until there was but one of a colour left in the Royal Garden of Great Britain and