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A62103	A vindication of King Charles: or, A loyal subjects duty Manifested in vindicating his soveraigne from those aspersions cast upon him by certaine persons, in a scandalous libel, entituled, The Kings cabinet opened: and published (as they say) by authority of Parliament. Whereunto is added, a true parallel betwixt the sufferings of our Saviour and our soveraign, in divers particulars, &c. By Edw: Symmons, a minister, not of the late confused new, but of the ancient, orderly, and true Church of England.	Symmons, Edward.; Symmons, Edward. True parallel betwixt the sufferings of our Saviour and our Soveraign, in divers particulars.	1648 (1648)	Wing S6350A; ESTC R204509	281,464	363

did hurt or harme unto us they that brought you into these miseries however they courted and encouraged you before will reject your complaints with a quid haec ad nos you should have looked to these things before hand for Pharisees will be Pharisees unto the worlds end It is a fearefull thing to be given up to shed bloud King James would say if God should leave him to kill a man he would think God did not love him and I believe your selves were of the same opinion all the while the Doctrine of Jesus Christ which commandeth love to enemies did season your hearts but what a strange alteration is there now in your dispositions since the Doctrine of Devils hath been preached unto you for no other is this of butchering your brethren of killing slaying and destroying then the doctrine of him who is a murtherer from the beginning you would not have been hired heretofore to have acted the executioners part which is a lawfull office upon a Malefactor condemned by lawfull Authority so tender you were of shedding bloud but now you make no scruple at all of it you are greedy and thirsty many of you to spill the bloud of Innocents only for their constancy in that Doctrine of Obedience and Loyalty to the King which your selves also in Christs Schoole have been instructed in meerly upon the temptation and motion of them you call the Parliament who have no more Authority over the lives of men without the Kings allowance then your servants have over yours nay which is more strange yet you are bewitched by their seduction to think that in killing your Brethren you do God service though our Saviour fore-speaking of this very particular shewes the ground of this ill opinion to be only ignorance of God and want of knowledge Nay not only those that have been Agents or Souldiers in this Rebellion but in like manner all you who have willingly contributed Plate Moneyes Horses or any thing tending to the advancement of it I feare you are under the guilt of bloud and will be indicted one day at Gods barre as accessaries to all these evills that have been committed against the King and against your brethren all the men and all the women that brought in their Salts Spoones Rings and Thimbles by the suggestion and perswasion of false Teachers must hold up their hands at Gods Tribunall as guilty persons for doing things by the seduction and example of others so cleane contrary to that light of the Gospell which so many years together had been taught unto them O friends strong and strange is the delusion that is fallen upon you and thick is the veile that is over your eyes farre are you gone without looking back and most difficult is it yet to perswade you to it I have often feared with my selfe that place in Esay to have too neer a relation to you The hearts of this people are made fat their eyes dim and eares heavie and to continue so till the Cities be wasted without an inhabitant the houses without man and the Land be utterly desolate I beseech you in the bowels of Jesus Christ think seriously upon the matter O that I could perswade you to it while there is time for repentance and save your selves at length yet from this untoward generation break their yoak from off your necks renounce their societies have no more to doe with them read mark and ponder upon that place Prov. 1. 10. to the 20. Verse and remember from whence you are fallen and return to your Loyalty O Countrey-men Return return and to provoke you more earnestly hereunto consider with your owne hearts of these particulars 1. Whether this way wherein you have gone be not directly opposite both to Christs Doctrine and example doth not the Gospell command to give tribute to whom Tribute is due feare to whom feare and Honour to whom Honour belongeth and doth it not teach that all these appertain to the King and yet have they not all been with-held from him was not our Saviours practice in this particular most remarkable for our imitation He wrought but one money miracle while he was on the Earth and that was to have wherewithall to pay Caesar his Homage and himselfe sayes he did it least he should offend so carefull was he not to displease the King and being tempted at another time to give some countenance for with-holding the Kings Rights disclaimed the motion and cryed out redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris Deo quae sunt Dei inferring that God and Caesar in such matters go together to injure the one is to wrong the other for God hath commanded that Caesar be honoured and that all which is his be rendred to him Now whether you and your Leaders have done according to this doctrine and example let your own consciences judge 2. Consider whether this way wherein you have gone be not also contradictive to the Law of the Land The denyall of the Kings Supremacy in this Kingdome hath been wont to be accounted so heinous an offence that he who is guilty of it is judged by the Law to die as a Traytor And the doing of any thing in prejudice of the Kings Authoritie as the raising of Forces without him nay the having but thoughts of mischief towards him though they never breake forth into Action is reckoned by the Law for no lesse then High Treason and some have suffered death for such things nay further yet the bare instilling misconceits of the King into the people to with-draw their affections from him hath even in this very Parliament been cald High Treason Now whether the Kings Supremacy not only in things Spirituall but also Temporall be not denied and whether by your opposition to his Majesties Person and commands and by whispering yea by open speaking evilly of him and consenting to what hath been written against him you have not made your selves guilty of that grand Crime let your own consciences also determine unto you 3. Consider whether it be not against common equity to practice the taking away from any one that which comes unto him by lawfull inheritance succession or just election whether you would not so judge it if any should divest you of what was left you by your Parents and whether the Kings Authority and Revenews which you with others have endeavoured to dispossesse him of be not of the same Tenure and held by the best Title indeed if men come to power and Authority by fraud and violence as your new Masters have done the case is otherwise lives lost in conspiring the downfall of such may be reckoned well sold every man in common equity were there no tie of duty or allegeance is to help him to right that suffers wrong but to concurre in oppressing the Supreme Magistrate and in taking from him what belongs unto him if conscience be suffered to make report it will be confessed to be the

promises with an Oath but they being otherwise resolved as now appears would themselves believe neither nor would they so much as in them lay suffer any others to credit any thing which the King did say or swear How many loyally disposed Ministers did they imprison and take their livings from only for endevouring to make their Soveraigns honest mind known unto his Subjects by publishing his Declarations upon his Command to that purpose And how many times also did themselves set forth perverse notes and contradictory glosses upon the Kings Books that so the people might learn from them to misconstrue his sincere and good intentions Indeed because they were but new State-men many of us thought it rather an ignorance in them of wars miseries then any resolved purpose of acting Nero in destroying their own Mother Church and Nation which caused them at first to take up Arms for though an easie Capacity might foresee that they could do nothing by such an enterprise but increase their own sins and the sins of the Kingdom yet we were willing to lend what charity we could to the worst handed undertaking but their persistency in their savage course makes us now fear that even Ahab-like they strook at first of all a Covenant with Hel it self and sold themselves to work wickedness But alas alas besides their losse of Christ and God what wil they purchase hereby to themselves not the Titles of Fathers of their Country as they might have done had they behaved themselves accordingly and believed their Soveraign But Masters of a slaughtery wil they be called because they delight so much in the slaughtery of mankind Posterity wil judge them to have bin Satans darlings in their generation the fore-men of his shop whom he imployed to act his most glorious Stratagems his generosa scelera his choicest villanies his divina mysteria iniquitatis his divine mysteries of iniquity Indeed they have Manasseh-like filled the Nation with innocent bloud and made the whole Land a very Acheldama or field therof And oh that it would please the Judge of all the world to deal with them as he did with that Manasseh bring them into Bonds and Chains that so if possible they might be humbled as he was before they go hence and be no more but I return to them It is yeilded as they see that 't was the truth they spake when they said their Cause was stil the same as when the King first took Arms and as when he made most of his Oaths and professions And so in like sort is our God the same stil as when the King was first at Nottingham and there set up his Standerd But they tel us further to their former purpose that their demands at the Treaty in February were no other then those sent in June 1642. before any stroke struck Which Argument they repeat over the second time in the 53. Page of their notes to the same end also our demands say they at Uxbridge in February 1644. were the very same as they were in June 1642. indeed they are as bold as high as unreasonable to the full Ergo say they The King hath no reason to look upon us now any otherwise then as he did then All this is very true who denyes it these men sure love to dispute with their own shadows The King had cause to look upon them then as he doth now though now he hath cause to express himself further against them then he did then It is the course which God himself takes when people Rebell against him He endeauours at first to reduce them by promises and allurements unto obedience but if they slight and contemn these and oppose him the more for his lenity and goodness he then useth to express himself with more wrath and severity against them and hath reason for it we doe not apprehend that the King can transgress whatever these wise men say so long as he walks in the way of God though he did not call them by their proper name at first yet now he may But for this their Argument which they seeme by their often use of it to be so proud of had they any true touch or tast of Christianity in them they would blush to use it The Propositions are the same now as they were two or three years agoe scil●ful as high full as unreasonable and is this to their commendation Is it to their praise that the shedding of so much Christian bloud hath wrought no Remorse at all in them no obedience at all to Gods word which commands if possible to live peaceably with all men no submission to their King who hath so often wooed them with the tenders of mercy and pardon to be quiet No Humanity no Piety to their poor native Countrey that lyes a bleeding to destruction is this a matter to be gloryed in now that they are still as stiffe as ever as far from practicing the first lesson in Christs Schoole the point of self-denyall as if they had never heard one word of Christianity surely this their glory will one day be their shame and God grant it may so be before the great day that then if possible they may find mercy Truely this their impenitency and hardnesse of heart may afford us great matter of Admiration that neither all the bloud that is shed nor Gods protection of the Kings person among so many treasons and dangers from their malice and against such multitudes of men who both by secret treacheryes open Hostilityes foul mouthes black pens and bloudy hands have endeavoured his ruine Nor yet those remarkable judgements upon Brook Hampden and Hotham three of the first instruments of motion in this Rebellion together with many other Notable Accidents of Gods providence upon many other of their Associates I say it may well be matter of amazement to us that none of these things have been able to worke any touch of Conscience or alteration unto good in them pray God therefore they be not given up to a Reprobate sense and that the seal of damnation be not set upon them Indeed they say they have rather straitned then enlarged their Complaint of which this their libellous and defamatory book is a sufficient witnesse their propositions also they have straitned from 19 to 3. but it is proportione Arithmeticâ non Geometricâ for these three containe in them fully as much as those 19 and more if possible Well but what be these 3. Propositions which they now stick so close unto themselves say they are these in their order The first concernes the Abolition of Episcopacy or pulling down of the Church The second concerns the settling the Militia of the Kingdome in good hands by the advice of the Parliament or the pulling down of the Kingdome or Kingly state The third concernes the Vindication of the Irish Rebells or the full completion of a perfect Babell Indeed the method is rightly suted for the restauration of a

better habitation And thus we see that to argue from success is but a weak kind of Arguing nay these very men that now use the same in their own behalf were wont to say heretofore when others have prevailed against their faction The m●re Knaue the better luck I know no reason but that Proverb is stil as t●●e as ever ● But I shal now shew in the next place that the worst men have always ●in wont to plead this Argument Two or three examples amongst many shal be alleaged to this purpose The Scripture tels of ●●bsakeh when he moved the people of Jerusalem as these men do us to make a general revolt from Hezekiah he pretended that God had set him on work and had said Go up against this land and destroy it and his main Argument was his Masters extraordinary great successe to which purpose he reckoned up as our enemies do a great many Cities Towns and Castles which he had taken as H●nah and Ar●●●d Sepharvaim Henah and Iva● And so the Turke argue at this day against the Christians that their Religion excels ours because they have prospered better and prevailed more then we have done And in like sort the Independent faction may urge the same thing against the Presbyterians here amongst ●s for they have been the most succesful and if the Argument be good then down must go the Presbytery as wel as Episcopacy r●●t and branch and the Parliament have erred in Voting for it yea and the Covenant taken to conform the Government of this Church to that of Scotland becomes frustrate and of none effect But to proceed As Ra●s●akeh and the Turks so the Popish Bishops in Qu. Maries time did insist much upon this Argument as Master Fox witnesseth they would urge upon the Martyrs their extraordinary successe which they and their cause had by King Edwards death and Queen Maries coming to the Crown against such great endevours to the contrary these very men who now use the same Argument in their own behalf wil not allow that it was sufficiently good then in the behalf of the Papists I ●il mention but one example more and that is of Pope Alexander the third who as story speaks him was none of the best men when he had prevailed against the good Emperour Frederick the second his Liege-Lord as these have done against their King by getting a great victory against him wherein most unfortunately his son was taken prisoner for redemption of whom the Emperour was forced to prostrate himself upon the ground and yeild his neck to be troden on and to acknowledge Alexander to be rightful Pope which by reason of a schisme was before denied and to restore what ever had been taken during the war on his part when I say the Pope had brought him to all this and to such like things would these men now bring their S●veraig● as is evident by the Doctrine of their Preachers who tel the people that God wil bring the necks of Kings under the feet of his Saints that is as they interpret under the feet of their faction then did He the said Pope insult and glory as these already begin to do in his Extraordinary great success and made it his Argument to perswade the foolish world after these mens fashion that his cause was Gods and that God had favoured his quarrel as the most just and lawful Henry King of England and Lewis King of France were both in the Seduction in token whereof being both on foot they held the Bridle of the Horse on which the Pope rode the one with the right hand and the other with the left And thus also we see that the worst men have bin wont to use this kind of Arguing which our Adversaries now think to be so good and do stand so much upon But from this consideration we for our parts shal beware of being swayed by it or of judging Gods love or hatred from outward Accidents fools only build upon such foundations Evil is the touch-stone of Good and often gets the better of it to try goodnesse Constancy The Arke was taken Prisoner by the Philistines it doth not follow thereupon that God did hate the same no more doth it now follow that he hates the King because he lets his Enemies for the present prevaile against him For Israels sin God suffered the Arke of his glory to be obscured for a season so for our sins it is that our Soveraign is afflicted And let not these Insulters perswade themselves that our Allegeance is so weakly knit that it can be loo●ened with this Argument we are not of them that draw back nor yet of them that blush not to affirm that so long as the King is able to protect them they are bound to serve him but no longer these waters of affliction that have so plentifully showred down upon his Head are not able in the least degree to quench the heat of our love they are as oyle rather to inlarge the flames of our affections the Enemies success against him and ill usage of him doth but make him appear in our eys more like our Saviour and so locks our hearts the faster to him And let these King-Tormentors know that God hath an hook for their Noses and a Bridle for their lips and the things that are coming upon them make hast Nulla sors l●nga est the weather-cock may turn alieno in l●co haud stabile regnum est there is no constant sitting in anothers seat ima permutat brevis Hora summis who knows what a year a month or a day may bring forth quos foelices Cynt●ia vidit vidit miseres abitura dies Great and wise Agamemnon professed that he had learned by his victories 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that great things are overturned in a monent Troya nos tumidos fecit nimium feroces saith he Troyes Conquest hath made us proud and cruel fierce and haughty Et Stamus nos Danai loco unde illa cecidit we the Conquerours are in the same condition from whence she fel Hodie mihi cras tibi is the Motto of all Mortals our portion of sorrow we have to day they shal have theirs to morrow the times may so alter that Affliction may chance to stand again for a mark of Gods Children even in their Calender res Deus nostras celeri citatas turbine versat And so I have done with this particular and come to that which these Libellers adde in their next words Having minded us of their late extraordinary successe in the field they proceed and say Yet stil this Clandestine proceedings against us here condemning all that are in any degree Protestants at Oxford as also granting a Tolleration of Idolatry to Papists indemnity to the Murderous Irish in a close trading way for meer particular advantage cannot be defended by any but by the falsest of men Papists and by the falsest of Papists Jesuites SECT XVII

intelligence with the Cardinall Mazarine Though I will not swear saies he that Lenthall says true yet I am sure 't is fit for thee to know Pap. 1. Here was another Clandestine businesse And further he doth consult with her about supplies of Men Monies and Powder for defence of his life against them of Westminster Pap. 3. and gives her direction for the conveyance of it in some other Papers a businesse Clandestine and shrewd too And in Paper 6. he assures her in private that Hertogen the Irish Agent was an arrant Knave a particular which might concerne the men of Westminster and touch them more close then perhaps every body will yet beleeve Besides in most of these Letters we shall finde the King and his Queen comforting and supporting each other under their heavy burdens with mutuall intimation of perfect love and patheticall expressions of conjugall affection All which are notable proceedings indeed against them at Westminster and great obstructions to their endevours which are to breake the Hearts of both and sinke them to their graves presently And thus we see the nature and danger of the first particular in the Charge concerning Clandestine proceedings which are so evident that we can say nothing against it The 2. followes the proof whereof is more and obscure and that is condemning all that are in any degree Protestants in Oxford by which they would have it beleeved that the King is so great an Enemy to Protestant Religion that his very friends at Oxford who have forsaken all they had for his sake are hated by him for their Religion sake so many of them as are Protestants in any degree But how this is manifest in these his Papers we are to seek for though these men have forehead enough to affirme it yet their fortune is not good enough to prove it Indeed we find the King in his Letters to Ormond Paper 16. and in his Directions to his Commissioners at Uxbridge taking great care and giving strict Charge for the preservation of his Protestant Subjects in Ireland but in no place can we see so much as a sillable tending to the condemnation of Protestant Religion But these men cannot leave their old trade of Taxing the King with their own Conditions Heaven and Earth can witnesse that never was there in England greater enemies to Protestant Religion then themselves have been never was there so much Protestant Bloud spilt in this Nation since the beginning of the world as hath been by their meanes within these foure years Never was London so full of Prisons never the Prisons so full of Protestant Divines Protestant Nobles Gentry and Christians of all sorts as they have been since these good men kept Court at Westminster Besides how they have Countenanced and brought into the Church all kinde of Sects and Heresies to the ruine of Protestantisme which the King for the Honour and Health thereof was alwayes carefull to suppresse and keep out How have they maintained and preached Doctrines of Devills scil of strife murder of Brethren Rebellion against Princes oppression of neighbours and practised the same which are all directly opposite to the Religion of the Protestants How have they abolished the Book of Common-Prayer established by Parliament to be the Protestants publick forme of Worshiping and serving God in this Kingdome Had the King done but any one of these things or were he not himselfe a most constant and zealous Professour of Protestant Religion in his daily practice these men might happily have had some Colour for this their confident Charge against him and so to have created suspitions of him But seeing all things are so cleare contrary we learne onely thus much from this particular on their charge that they are men whose hearts are not overspiced with honesty They passe not what they say nor with what face so they say no truth The third particular which they load their King withall is Tolleration of Idolatry to Papists which they speak as if Idolatry sub eo nomine were already allowed and set up by the Kings Authority in contempt of God and true Religion and so doubtlesse they would have it apprehended Reasonable men will yeild that there is a difference betwixt Idolatry and the Penalty thereof the penalty may be suspended altered or taken away for the time and yet the sinne it selfe not tollerated or allowed These doubty Champions will not yeild that their Parlia have granted a tolleration to Adultery though they have abrogated the penal Lawes against that sin and so taken away the meanes to punish it Nor can they prove that the King hath promised any more to Papists then the Parliament hath already granted to fornicatours In their after-notes where they make repetition of this matter they referre the Reader to Paper the 8. for their ground of it In which we finde the King relating to His Queen how the English Rebells had transmitted the Commands of Ireland from the Crowne of England to the Scots an expression worthy by the way to be observed by all Englishmen that regard the honour of their Nation considering that the King Himself is a Scot and that the men of Westminster intend if they cannot kill Him to thrust Him and His Children as some of their Hang-bies have whispered to His Ancient Inheritance in Scotland when they have made use of His People of that Nation to help to destroy His Kingly Power here not one Scot of them all shall have any footing or any more to doe in this Kingdome I say considering this every true Englishman hath cause most highly to reverence the King for His Justice unto and His care of the dignity of the English Crown But to proceed the King tells His Queen that by that Act that base and ignoble act He found Reformation of the Church not to be as they pretended the end of this Rebellion and concludes it would be no piety but presumption rather in Himselfe not to use all lawfull meanes to maintaine His righteous Cause And as one mean to that purpose not thought of before He gives His Queen leave to promise in His Name that all penall Lawes in England against Roman Catholicks shall be taken away as soone sayes He as God shall inable me to doe it upon this Conditiion so as by their meanes I may have so powerfull assistance as may deserve so great a favour and inable me to doe it Now how truly from these words that accusation is collected let the Readers Judge Here they see is no absolute grant or tolleration of Idolatry as they pretend but only a conditionary promise of withdrawing the penall Statutes against the Papists His Subjects if by their meanes He may be delivered from this bloudy raging and malicious persecution of the Puritans and settled in His power and throne again And well may the Papists expect as much favour from the King for such a service as Adulterers have had already from the Parliament gratis Nor perhaps

the King vows Constancy to the Queens grounds and documents was written Jan. 2. 1645. when there was a way making for the Treaty at Uxbridge And a Rumor of somewhat the King would do had beed presented to the Queen as appears by the Letter in the ugliest form which also Her love to Her Husband might make more affrightfull perhaps it was that He would trust his person among them But what ever it was it seemes the Queen had writ thereof unto the King in Her former Letter and receives his Answer in these words IF thou hast not Patience to forbeare judging harshly of my Actions before thou hearest the reasons of them from me thou mayest be often subject to be doubly vexed first with slanders then with having given too much eare unto them To conclude esteeme Me as thou findest Me constant to those grounds thou leftest Me withall Now from hence they gather that The King vowes Constancy to the Queens grounds and documents as if at Her going away She had left certain Grounds and Documents as rules of direction for the King to go by whereas the words are not to the Grounds Thou leftst with Me as then they ought to have been but to those Thou leftst Me withall that is which I had formerly resolved upon thou shalt finde me constant in my ways and purposes I am still the same I was when thou leftst Mee and thou shalt never find Me swarving from the Grounds of Conscience Justice and Honour which Thou knowest Me to be balanced withall Let the world now judge of the Honesty and truth of these observatours by this their manifest forgery and of the Honour which the Parliament have purchased to themselves in publishing this Observation by Speciall Order The 38. Paper from whence they conclude that the Kings Councels are wholly managed by the Queen and nothing small or great is transact without her privity and consent begins thus Deare Heart I Never till now knew the good of Ignorance for I did not know the danger thou wert in by the Storme before I had an assurance of Thy happy escape I think it not the least of my misfortunes that for my sake Thou hast run so much Hazard in which thou hast expressed so much Love to Me that I confesse it is impossible to repay by any thing I can doe much lesse by words but my Heart being full of Affections to Thee admiration of Thee and impatient passion of Gratitude to Thee I could not but say something leaving the rest to be read by Thee out of thine owne Noble Heart By which words we see that the Letter was writ to the Queen after She had lately been in a great danger by Sea even to the hazard of Her life for the Kings sake and had thereby as also by Her discreet and faithfull management of affaires for Him beyond the Seas given the largest testimonies of Her true Affection as in his judgement could possibly be given Now therefore if in his Passion of Gratitude to use his own phrase he had professed to make Her of His Councell in all His Affaires yea and that He would thenceforth think it a wrong to Her to do any thing without Her I beleeve it would have been with men not disposed to quarrell a very excusable errour Some more expressions then ordinary or Con●ugall indulgence are allowable to any wife after so great an affright and danger as must needs be supposed the Queen was in to revive and lighten Her Spirit again But to a Queen to a Kings daughter to a Lady of such splendour and parts that had run so great an Hazard as a greater could not be imagined for the love of Her Husband what wel-bred Gentleman under the Sun but will blush to say that any expression of esteem can be too Honourable or too High to be used unto Her But if we look further yet into the Paper unto the words which they ground their observation upon we shall find them ●ttered upon another particular occasion for when His Majestie had testified his joy in gratulating His Queens deliv●●ance He discourseth to Her of another matter scil of His being persecuted it is his own word for places with importunity of suitors whereby He was put to a kind of distresse for an evasion that he might not if possible offend any by granting to some what others also gaped after for alas such hath been the Condition of our good King that He hath been forced to feare to offend and such hath been his infelicity that too many of those that served him did more seek themselves then him proposing as himself saies in another place severall recompences to themselves for their paines and Hazard in this Rebellion and if to one was granted what others expected and sued for these being frustrate of their expectations conceiving themselves slighted have grown sullen upon it and no more service would they do Nay peradventure dis-service rather to revenge themselves upon him and happy had it been if all Suitors for places had been discarded at their first appearance For doubtlesse those of best desert and most faithfulnesse have had more modesty and wisdome then to persecute and torment the King with any such selvish motions in these times of distraction as might any way tend to his disadvantage But the King tells the Queen in that his Letter of those his straits and how he delivered himselfe I answered saies he that having professed to have thy advise it were a wrong to thee to do any thing before I had it This is all yet from hence these nimble-witted spacious conceited fellows make shift to collect all this long matter and that plainly too as they think It is plain say they here that the Kings Councels are wholly or altogether managed by the Queen though She be of the weaker Sex born an Alien bred up in a contrary Religion yet nothing great or small is trans-acted without Her privity and consent and for this see Paper 38. Truly I hope all the world sees that this adds but little more to the credit of the Authorizers of this Pamphlet then the former observation did And thus have I also discovered the vanity of their exceptions against the King for his loving the Queen SECT XXII Of the Kings fault in labouring to uphold Monarchy His soliciting the King of Denmark to this purpose no whit Contradictive to his former resolutions of not calling in forrein aid ANother Grand particular beside this they have against Him and that is His imploying Collon●ll Cockram to solicite the King of Denmarkes assistance Whence they Conclude thus He makes not onely Papists our Enemies for Religion sake but all Princes though Protestants for Monarchy sake From whence all people must learne and beleeve three things 1. That 't is onely Religion and nothing but their Religion which the King doth oppose these men for yea and for their pure Religion it is that he makes Papists their Enemies 2.

highest injustice for as to detract from the Standard which is the rule of measures is the greatest sinne so is it to detract from the King who is the Standard of righteousnesse in his Kingdome 4. Consider whether the demand of having the Militia out of the Kings hand wherein his Authority and Power consists which your Leaders and you insist upon be not against piety and a plaine urging the King to act Esau's part in resigning up his birth-right and whether you think in earnest as some of your Preachers have suggested that you have a sufficient ground to expect Gods blessing upon your undertaking though it be unlawfull because Jacob was blessed afterward though the means which he used to accomplish his design were not approvable nay seeing the King is not like Esau so easily drawn to part with his birth-right but rather like Naboth will keep his inheritance for feare of Gods displeasure consider I pray whether you in going about to force him thereto by violence are not all the while acting the parts of Ahab and Jezabel who were persons that had sold themselves to work wickednesse nay whether you are not more deep in the evill then they were in regard the King is not to you as Naboth was to Ahab a subject nor have you as he did tendred an answerable exchange or rather a better for what you demand from him consider I beseech you and thinke well in your owne hearts of this particular 5. Consider and call to mind whether those Teachers who have been most active and busie in drawing you into this your way have not hereby contradicted their own former Doctrines It was said of Stephen Gardiner that no man in the daies of Hen. 8 had spoken better for the Kings Authority then he had done in his Book de vera obedientia and yet no man more violent then he was in Queen Maries time in persecuting those that held fast to the same truth and Doctrine may not the like be said and affirmed of many of your Preachers that no man taught the duty of Obedience better or inveighed more against Rebellion and shedding of bloud then they heretofore have done but now none more violent then themselves in opposing those that practice according to the same Doctrine if it be lawfull to resist defame and oppresse the King now why did they then speak against such doings or if good language of him as their Soveraign and humble obedience to him was true Doctrine then how comes it to passe that 't is not preached still now there is such need of it truth is unalterable They tell you of a certaine New Light received which it seems was an attendant upon the Militia for till this was seized on by their Faction that was not seen and had not this been first obtained probably that had been still concealed may not this New Light therefore be suspected and the rather because 't is so contrary to that which Gods Word holds out unto us which as a sure and certaine guide we are commanded to take heed unto Esay affirmes that whoever speaks not according to the written Testimony bath no light in him And Saint Paul is resolute that if an Angell from Heaven shall teach contrary to that Gospell himselfe had preached which was the Doctrine of obedience to Princes and of love to his Brethren he ought to be held accursed wherefore consider seriously in your own hearts whether you have done well in suffering your selves to be thus led by your new lighted Teachers 6. Consider whether they doe not onely oppo●e their owne former Doctrines but also their own former doings and perswade you to goe with them in those wayes which heretofore they exclaimed much upon others for going in did not they complaine much against forcing tender Consciences and against urging subscription to things of an indifferent nature though allowed by Law because scrupled at affirming the same to be against Christian Liberty and yet do not they now countenance farre greater violence in pressing of things more directly unlawfull As for example would not they have the King forced against his Conscience to consent to the altering of that Church-Government which he in his soule is perswaded to be most Orthodox and agreeable to Gods Word and to the State of this Kingdome and which this Church and Nation hath so thrived under yea and which himselfe at his Coro●ation took a solemn Oath to maintain And have not their very selves been the chief Instruments of urging their Brethren to the taking of new and unlawfull Covenants and when unto tender and scrupulous Consciences the offensive Oath hath been tendred in one hand and an Halter in another with a furious Commination that they should have the one if they did not presently accept of the other a course which the Bishops never used have not some of these Ministers approved of this rigorous dealing yea and when some of the members of Christ have been at the place of Execution to be murthered and Martyred by their Faction for their Loyalty to their Prince or for falling off through trouble of Conscience from their ungodly Covenant and way have not some of their Preachers stood barking at them on purpose to disturb their spirits and to hinder their quiet passage out of this miserable World even as that bawling Fryer did doe unto Archbishop Cranmer when some have seen or heard them acting their parts in this manner they have thought of that Fryers Picture as it standeth there in the Book of Martyrs And here by the way let me exhort all men to read that Book often in these times and they shall find a very great resemblance between the bloudy Persecutors of those dayes and these now and a great similitude in their courses it was not doubtlesse without a speciall providence that the said Book was of late twice reprinted that so there being a greater plenty of them we in these times might being many of us be more enlightned supported and comforted in our sufferings And I would have you observe among many other things that Note of Mr. Fox How Henry the Fourth that deposed Richard the Second was the first of all English Kings that began the mercifull burning of Gods Saints for their standing against the Papists so that we may thence learn that 't is no new thing for them to be given up to the acting of cruelties against Gods Church and people who have first given up themselves to practise Rebellion against their Soveraign these two sinnes as it seemes before now have gone together But I return Did not many of those your Ministers complain most fearefully in times past for the meer change and alteration of some few phrases and expressions in the Common-Prayer-Book holding it then as it seemed so perfect a platform of Church-Service as that no word or sillable ought to be altered in the same and yet now upon the suddain have not