the heads or rulers and famous men amongst them called the congregation or the renouned of the congregation Numb 1.16.16.2 who did in that dismal time wherein so much sin did break forth and so much wrath from the Lord attending sin meet with Moses the chief Magistrate Numb 25.6 to lament the abominable idolatry and bodily filthiness committed at that time and to consult and advise about the authoritative restraining of this wickedness In the mean time when the great Council are humbled before the Lord for the common wickedness and for the wrath that was upon them Zimri a Prince of Simeon with his Midianitish woman are in their very sight going into the Prince of Israels tent and Josephus tells us that before Moses and the Council he justified the fact and pleaded frowardly to have and retain her In this case of so effronted wickedness Phineas then one of the congregation or great Council 7. ver Rose from amongst the congregation or great Council which shews he was sitting amongst them and under the eye and knowledge and approbation of Moses the supreme Magistrate pursued them both to the tent executing judgment on them and thrusting them through The words of Diodat on ver 8. are That this was an act of extraordinary zeal and motion of Gods Spirit in a cruel and fierce delict which was approved in Phineas by God after the act was done And n. b. by Moses the supreme Magistrate the execution being done under his eyes and known of him Thus Diodat To this purpose Aquinas 2◠2ae quest 60. Art 6. where he disputes Vtrum Judicium reddator perversum per usurpationem Resolves That judgement cannot be execute upon any without publick Authority more then a Law can be made without publick Authority and speaking of the fact of Phineas he sayes He did this by divine inspiration being moved with the zeal of God and adds Albeit he was not the high Priest yet he was the Son of the high Priest and the executing of judgement belonged to him as to other Judges to whom that was commanded of God Gerhard de Magistratu P. 841. Phineas non fuit omnino privata persona he was one of the chief Priests who as Aarons rod tells us lib. 1. cap. 1. had equal power with all other members both in decrees and executions of judgments So that he in all probability being no meer private person and doing what he did with approbation of the Soveraign Magistrate it is a very weak argument that is brought from him to enstate any private persons in a power of executing judgement 2. Suppose Phineas to have been a meer private person yet seing he did this act under the eye and presence with the approbation and good-liking of Moses as Diodat rationally saith and of the great Council there assembled and he is to be looked upon as the executor of their unaninimous sentence against effronted villany As at another time Exod. 32.27 28. Moses as Gods Vice-gerent set the Levits and others on work to execute judgment by the sword upon an idolatrous people in which case they were satellites Magistratus and had his Commission and why might not Phineas have here the like warrand from Moses If any say it is not written it may be answered In rebus facti à non scripto ad non factum non valet consequentia all things done are not written We have heard famous Authors accouning him to have had warrand whether as a Judge or Executor of the will of the great Council and of Moses who did well approve his deed But how absurd is it to bring an argument from this instance to warrand any private man to do justice when he thinks there is need not only without the Magistrates consent but even upon all Magistrates supreme and subordinate which is the scope this mans writing drives at 3. The case wherein Phineas executed judgement was when horrible idolatry and villanous whoredom was avowedly and with an high hand committed in the sight of the Sun and in way of open doing despite to God and to all Magistrates and the supreme Council then assembled to mourn before God and to take course for remedying by their Authority the horrible looseness broken forth at that time But dare this man say that there is now such horrid wickedness although he is bold to call all the Magistrates supreme and subordinate Patrons of abominations and men acting in the meer spirit of wickedness while the true Protestant Religion according to the Scriptures and the Laws at our first Reformation and Confession of Faith recorded in Parliament is sincerely and constantly held There is a change and regulation of the exterior form of Church-government anent which godly men differ and the change that is made will be maintained against this man to contain nothing contrary to Gods Word Yet forsooth this is the great abomination and so gross that it may licence every private person to rise up against all Magistrates supreme and subordinate to depose them or cut their throats and this must be called executing judgement for the Lord and a Phineas-like fact 4. Let it be so that Phineas was a meer private man and had no warrand from the supreme Magistrate to do what he did which yet cannot be proved his fact can be no warrand for private men to attempt the doing of such acts unless they can shew as good warrand and approbation from God as he could God who is the Lord of all Magistrates and of all mens lives can when it pleaseth him cross ordinary rules and can appoint some to execute his judgements extraordinarily wherein they are not to be followed by such as have not the same spirit the same warrand and command or commission He may send Moses to kill the Egyptian Eglon to kill Ehud Elias to destroy companies of men with fire from Heaven or to kill Baals Priests an instance which it is strange the Libeller omitted seing it is the ordinary dialect of the Faction as may be seen in the Apology and elsewhere to call most wickedly all Church-men dissenting from their way Baals Priests God may command Abraham to kill his Son Isaac he may excite David to a bloody duel and Samson to murther himself with others so also might he stir up Phineas though a private man to execute judgement but 1. he had the motion and direction of Gods Spirit setting him on to that work such motions were loco specialis mandati as Divines speak and Calvin Ps 106. speaking of this same fact saith he had singularis extraordinarius motus qui ad communem regulam exigi non debet And when he hath compared Moses killing the Egyptian with this fact of Phineas he saith Talis fuit impulsus in Phinea nam et si nemo putabat gladio Dei esse armatum ipse tamen potestatis divinitus concessae probe sibi conscius fuit Augustin speaking of Samson lib. 2. de civit Dei c. 21.
the Presbytery Otherwise what marvel is it that they be looked upon in the esteem of these who value them as involved in the guilty connivance and consent to all the vile things that issue from Napht. and his party And that this Libeller be looked upon as the common allowed Advocate of the Presbytery and who reads the Book will with some ground say crimine ab uno disce omnes Neither is it our design or will to grieve or give offence to the generation of the humble meek and self-denyed seekers of Gods face partakers with us of the same pretious faith and running to obtain the same prize of the inheritance with us however differing in judgement in some particulars nor shall we take them as partakers with this furious Author and his adherents For who can imagine that a meek people who hath the promise of Gods teaching should be so far transported as to take the circumstantials of Religion for the great and weighty matters of the Law and Gospel without which known and beloved none can come to God Who can think that an intelligent people should account that the concerns of Christs Kingdom and their own salvation doth lye with so much stresse upon this point that the weakest and most ignorant Minister shall have a potestative parity with the man of greatest Gifts Learning and Knowledge that the Minister weakest in his Prudentials should have equal Authority in mannaging the matters of Gods house with the wisest and one of the most noted prudence that the youngest rawest most unexperienced Minister should have as much power in ruling the house of God as the man fullest of years whose judgement is consolidated and ripened for Government and who hath for a long time given such documents of good and wise behaviour that makes him fitter to rule the younger sort then to be ruled by them Or who can see the prejudice to Christs Kingdom and pretious souls if such a worthy person as is described be intrusted with an inspection over other Brethren and Churches in a reasonable bounds not with a dominative or lordly power but paternal and fatherly not to do after his own arbitrement and as one unchallengeable in his actions but to be regulated by acts of the Church and Land and to be responsible to his Superiors in case of maleversation not to rule solly but with the consent and counsel of Presbyters Can this way be disrellished by sober Christians being so strongly pleaded by the light of sound reason making so much for the comliness and order of Christs Church being so suitable and correspondent to the antient Government of the Church of Israel where there were Priests and chief Priests and several ranks of Ministers an order which was neither typical nor temporal but hath a standing reason reaching us being so conform to the beginnings of Christs ordering the New-testament Ministry where there were Apostles above the seventy Disciples being so agreeable to the Apostles constitution of the Government of the Churches of the New Testament which was in an imparity of Power in Ministers as is luculently exemplified in the Power of Timothy and Titus who were no Evangelists nor ever accounted so by the Spirit of God And finally our ascended glorious Saviour having honoured persons invested with that precedency by Letters written by his Secretary John unto them Rev. 2.3 chap. wherein he shews the approbation of their office and power reproving their neglects yet honouring them with the stile of Angels to the Churches or his Messengers in special manner To the Angel of the Church of Ephesus c. which cannot without notable perversion of the Scripture be otherwise understood but of single persons presiding over Presbyters And this order Christs Church and dear Spouse having since that time retained in all places where Churches were constitute without exception in all times without interruption untill this last Age wherein through hatred of corruptions adhering thereto under Popery and because of the enimity of the popish Bishops to the Reformation some have utterly without any reason rejected the office it self Who can think that a Christian people will not readily follow the foot-steps of the flock in former generations Neither is there any intention to provoke any fearers of God who have been perhaps in an hour of tentation miscarried to irregular courses following too readily in the simplicity of their hearts cunning leaders who have had too much dominion over their faith these we judge worthy of greatest tenderness in dealing with them nor are we without hope that God who stills the noise of the seas the noise of the waves and the tumult of the people Ps 65. v. 7. will in time allay their animosities and rebuke the stormy wind and seas of their passions that they may be still and that he will bring them to consider their wayes wherein they have exceeded and give them to know how ill and bitter a thing it is to forsake their own mercies in the ordinances of God for the want or having of this or that form of external Government But these we aim at in this parallel with Anabaptists are the Naphtalian party i. e. the furious sort of these who under the conduct of this teacher and his like make sport of rebellions murders assassinations that have so hardened and harnessed their hearts as appears by their writings and deeds that they have become stout in a dedolent greediness to commit any wickedness which they account meet to serve their design as if their supposed good cause could legittimat the worst course who make no reckoning as their Doctor here professes of overturning Thrones making the Land drunk with the blood of the Inhabitants multiplying fatherlesse and widows in the midst thereof and introducing greatest confusions and calamities that may make all faces gather blackness and all to smite on the thigh crying alas for the day if so be they may upon the ruins of all erect the idol of pretended parity of Ministers which when they have set up the imperious agitators will as they have done formerly baffle if any offer be to level them to others and howsoever the weaker brethren must be entertained with fair words and noddified with notional disputes anent their parity with the best that they may think themselves somewhat yet how disdainfully was it and yet would be taken if these low shrubs should essay a practical parity with the tall Cedars in the Government of affairs Imparity was then without a title now it is with it and there is our change and great defection and surely that which hath been will be and there is no new thing under the Sun This furious Napht. coming in upon the back of the Apology as another invenomed Egg hatched be-like by one and the same Cockatrice the second justifying the rebellion to which the first did instigate and inflaming to more may let them who will not shut their own eyes see the mystery of Anabaptistical
Satyrum for hardly can a man meet in any book with more bitter invectives against all Authorities and Dignities appointed and approven by God then are here to be found All that have gone that path before him seem but children in wickedness in comparison of him He deserves to be in the first classe of these Jude 8. who despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities Yet it must be confessed that the man deserves well albeit beside his intention of all the Authorities civil and ecclesiastical in the Land for while others do politickly keep in supprimit Orator quae rusticus edit inepte He hath plainly laid open the spirit of the faction for which he is Advocate and gives as we will hear fair warning to the King that he must not expect impunity if they can have their will and to all the Nobles and Magistrates whose places and dignities forfeited as he saith by them private persons in a Phineas-like spirit are allowed to possess removing and taking order with them for great apostasie and patronising abominations as he speaks but especially to all the ministry whom he calls Wolves and Theeves and mainely to the Bishops what they are to expect for loading them outragiously with all sorts of reproaches which his wicked heart could prompt him to utter he directly endeavours to stir up the people to embrew their hands in their blood and to destroy them in their innocency with tragical oh s awakening the rage of the rudest multitude which he calls zeal of God to execute judgement on them that the fierce anger of God may be turned away and tells them if they do not so they are plagued with stupidity and blindness All sorts of rulers in the Land may see their dittay and their doom drawn in this Libell and the man should have thanks for discovering the malitious bloody and cruel designs of his party that these who are concerned being fore-warned may be fore-armed professa perdunt odia vendictae locum when the snare is sett in a mans sight he deserves to fall into it that will fall into it When a mans deadly enemies proclaim their intentions if he take not warning and be not upon his guard who will not think that in his lifetime he were worthy of a fair hood and bells and because he perishes in the snare that was set in his sight he will be thought worthy of Abners Epitaph Dyed Abner as a fool dyeth This man will make us wise whither we will or not and force us to keep our eyes in our head But as to this infamous Libeller how irksome a thing were it to follow him closely in all his foolish reasonings that are continually interlaced and larded with foul revilings How unsuitable were it for one who desires to keep the constant composure of a Christian spirit to indulge a humour in retaliating according as the indignity of his abuses requires verily in dealing with men of this stamp outragious in their opprobrious speeches defenders of the truth are at a great disadvantage in regard of these who have sober and grave adversaries to deal with But it almost transcends humane patience to treat myldly with such an insolent one as this who transgresseth so far the bounds of all humane modesty in dealing with all sorts of persons in Authority as will be seen anone Although then a more then ordinary vehemency of a keen stile should be used in beating down the fierceness of one so excessively insolent whose intemperate pride despiseth moderate remedies good and wise men will not judge it very criminal but at least somewhat excusable Shall Masters of confusion indulging themselves in their proud morosity unworthily demean themselves toward the sober defenders of the truth and will not this be sufficient Apology for them to put forth some sting and use some measure of vehemency in this case Should such a person as this who as the Poets feign of Hecuba metamorphosed into a mad barking bitch after the destruction of Troy barks and bawles and dares with his furious petulant and pestilent pen overrun and bespatter King Parliament Council Nobles Judges Bishops Ministers and all ranks of people in the Land should he be smoothed and stroaked with soft words might not possibly a too faint-like and toothless defense of the truth tend to harden him and his complices and breed suspition of some signs of diffidence distrust and timorousness in owning the truth and rightousnesse of the cause that is owned against him Sed motos praestat componere fluctus It shall be fitter to consider what becomes us to utter then what becomes him to hear or what he is worthy of There lyes indeed a tentation in these nameless writings which therefore it is to be wished were not in use to exceed in passions and to utter words incognito that will not be stood to but remembring that we have not so learn'd Christ as to render revilling for reviling and that mans wrath works not the rightousness of God though sometimes it is for peoples edification to see the due characters of such as lead them out of the way so far as humane infirmity permitts the truth shall be searched after and spoken in love all bitterness wrath anger and clamour with all malice being put away but if any thing aculeat and pungent do escape it not being used in any private cause or quarrel but in the publick concerns of truth of the Church of God and of the State of the Common-wealth nor proceeding from any private revenge there being room enough in our fraternal affection for any who will leave their unchristian sanguinary and inhumane wayes it will at least be excused by the judicious and wise And if any such thing be it is heartily wished it may prick the Libeller to repentance for these things wherein he hath already put himself to shame But to prepare for consideration of the matter of this infamous Libel it shall be fit to advert how palpably and closely this man treads in the foot-steps of the old Masters of confusion the Anabaptists It shall not be said that his complices or he are arrived to the owning of the highest mysteries of that Sect in the points of Enthusiasme and Libertinisme nor that they are so cruel as to exclude Christian infants from their Birth-right priviledge of Baptisme howbeit it is worthy to be considered how far the common demand of expresse command or example in Scripture for Episcopacy may reach the Anabaptists conclusion concerning infants And this man doth let fall such tenets as smell too rankly of the foul scum of the high flown Anabaptistical and Enthusiastical way while he tells us pag. 21. c. That meer private men may now a dayes take their impulses of Zeal as a sufficient call to pull down all Magistrates from their seats which they abuse to execute judgement on them and to place themselves in their rooms thinking that Phineas act may justifie them and while he tells us
insurrection all sorts of which he holds out as unlawful given even where obedience cannot be given and Page 319. persona invadens potest esse talis aliae etiam circumstantiae ut magis invasum deceat mortem ipsam pati quam tali desensione propulsare To these may be joyned moderate Papists Aestius Lib. 2. in Sententias cap. ult privato nâ—mini licet superiori etiam tyrannice imperanti resistere multo minus è medio tollere Tollet Lib. 5. de instruct sacerdotis cap. 6. non licet cuiquam se defendere a Judice vulnere vel pugna licet sit innocens Many moe might be cited But it may be evident that this Libellers doctrine of the lawfulness of private persons one or moe resisting the Magistrate violently with destroying him in self-defence far more taking on them a vindicative and punishing power of which in the following Chapter is against the common sense of Protestant Divines and of the founder Papists also Whatever may be said of moral or legal self-defence against the Soveraign by way of petition or plea in Court for safety of a mans person or Estate And whatever may be said of warding off and defensively putting back personal injurious assaults to the manifest and immediate peril of life without any colour of deserving of Reason of Law or judicial proceeding or of a Womans violent resisting attempts against the honour of her chastity dearer to her then life and tending to ensnare her also in sin against God whereof her non-resistance makes her formaly guilty And whatever may be done in the case of most habited not our and compleat tyranny against all appearance of Law manifestly tending to the destruction of the body of a people or greater part thereof by hostile furious actions or in the case of violent attempts of destruction of all known legal liberties and the beeing of Religion according to Law or in the case of vendition alienation of and giving a whole Kingdom to forrainers or strangers or some such like What ever I say in such horrid cases which for most part cannot befall a Prince in his natural and right wits a case wherein provision may be made that he hurt not himself nor his Dominions may be done comes not at all within the compasse of our question although most disingenuously the discontented and seditious do strive on all occasions to aggravate matters so that the case concerning them may seem co-incident with these or the like that so they may justifie their violence against the powers But the question is as hath been said whether when the Magistrate proceeds according to Law agreed unto by himself and the body of the Community suppose upon the matter it be Lex male posita or no right or just Law may any part of the people or meer private persons who think themselves in capacity so to do offer violence to the Magistrate or to his Ministers and Officers proceeding according to Law or if they ought to submit to punishment or else flee if they cannot obey the praeceptive part of the Law being bound up as they say in conscience As for private persons going out further to revenge wrongs done them on the Magistrate or punishing them that is to be spoken to hereafter But this now is the true state of the business at this time anent violent resistance of the Magistrates all of them from the highest to the lowest and of the whole body of the Nation by any minor part of private persons who apprehend themselves in capacity for that work It ought to be well considered and it may be easily perceived how Satan in these last and worst of times is mainly labouring to bring in confusion into humane Societies to raise scandals upon Religion and to tempt and provoke the Princes of the World to dislodge the Church of God out of their Dominions because of the seditious Principles and unquiet Practices of some Professors thereof though Religion is innocent as to these which tend to the dissolution of the State-government yea and also of all Church-government It is to be marked that when Lex Rex had in several places See Pag. 463. and Pag. 313. vented that Principle in reference to the Civil Government That no Man is bound in Conscience to subjection passive under unjust punishments inflicted by the Magistrate more then to active obedience unto unlawful Comands and that passive obedience under unjust Sentences comes under no Command of God Yea that it is a sin against Gods Command to be passively subject to an unjust Sentence And that it is an act of Grace and Vertue for a Man to resist the Magistrate violently when he does him wrong and a self-murther against the sixth Command not to resist when he offers to take the life without cause though not without Law pag. 314.322 When I say these Doctrines were broached in reference to the Common-wealth they were very quickly translated and applied to the Church by this man and his party who pleaded some years ago very strongly as they thought for non-submission unto and counteracting of all the Judicatories of the Presbyterial Government whensoever the persons injured thought the Sentence wrong and unlawful so that no excommunicate private person ought to submit to the Sentence of any or all the Judicatories if he thought the Sentence wrong and unlawful and no Minister should leave his Minstery but continue acting in it if he thought the Sentence of deposition given against him by any or all the Judicatories of the Church unjust And they cryed out if this might not be admitted for sound Doctrine that Presbytery was turned into Papacy and absolute Tyranny yea they proceeded further then the point of counteracting for the Agitators of the schimatical Party would take upon them to possesse the power of the most eminent Church-judicatories they being the far minor Part and did in that self-created capacity of Government over all others in this Church act excluding others who were the greater Part thinking that though they were the far lesser Part yet being the founder in their own judgement the Government and managing of it belonged unto them and not unto the corrupt plurality of Ministers who behoved all to bow before them And how well their Practices in the Church do homologate with their Practices as to the State proceeding from one and the same Principle we may now see For it is the way which they clearly own that every private person when and so long as they are able or are in probable capacity to act violently against the Magistrate ought to counter-act him violently when he thinks the Magistrate wrongs him for this must be referred to every Mans private discretive judgement as Naphtali tells us pag. 148. and nothing excuses from this violent resisting but quando desunt vires temporales No submission is to be expected from them by Magistrates when they Govern not according to their mind but when they cannot otherwise do nor any
his Spirit with heroical motions to such acts as were not according to ordinary rules of procedure thence they would bring warrand for their irregularities and for going out of their line This vain Orator Naph p. 21 22 23 24 25. catches hold on the instance of Phineas Numb 25.7 8. executing justice upon an Israelitish Prince and will have that a precedent for any private persons such as lately did rise under colour of high pitches of zeal and fortitude whereto they are incited as he sayes by Gods Spirit to execute justice upon all the powers and people of the Land they being fallen in such a fearful apostatic as keeping the true protestant Religion to vary from them in the external ordering of the Ministry of the Church and embracing that way and order against which there is no command of Christ yea for the consonancy whereof to his word much and very much may be said and hath been And although he cannot but see the dreadful consequences of extracting a general rule for these times out of such an example yet though he turns himself Proteus-like into many shapes distinguishing about heroick and extraordinary motions denying Phineas act to be extraordinary but only heroical talking much of good intentions warrandableness of the work in it self deficiency of others in doing it and of Gods power to give rare heroick incitations c. he cannot by any thing he sayes put a sufficient bar against confusions under such pretexts but he opens a door he cannot close again And the result of all is to fasten the last insurrection upon the holy spirit of God to justifie their attempts against all Authorities in the Land and to assert they were no more to be condemned as Traitors then Phineas should be for his executing judgement seing they were led with the same spirit and had as good warrand as he And the design further is to inflame people again to the like courses under the like pretences for justifying the same When this mans discourse concerning Phineas fact and the exemplariness thereof and concerning pretended extraordinary or heroick incitations he talkes of was first looked upon men of any judgement consider'd that as the former bloody insurrections were endeavoured to be justified by him so he was laying down grounds for some merciless massacre or horrid assassinations on persons in power and others if any people might be found so deserted of God as to be serviceable to him in that wickedness for now no man can have security of his life if any private persons be allowed under Phineas cloak to come and cut the throats of all whom this man will point forth as black Apostats Such deeds must be fatherd upon the holy Spirit of God and his excitations to zeal which are held a sufficient calling though that so called zeal will prove no other but a corrupt lust proceeding from another spirit And we must forsooth when these men will have us so do own these irregularities as being from God and say He is employing the weak things and foolish of the world to confound the mighty and wise and must not condemn them as Vsurpers or Intruders although they be but meer private men more then we would have done Phineas in his fact Thus he What great Villanies have been under such pretences carried on in the world by persons taking their heroical motions and excitations of zeal for a sufficient calling to their irregular actions which is the direct Doctrine of this man the World knows well How the Munster madness was carried on under extraordinary shewes of zeal is known and how also God confounded that way The murthers of the two Kings Henries of France the third and fourth have been famous or infamous in this last age by the cruel hands of two Zelots inflamed by seditious Predicants and Jesuits they fell The assassinates actions were cryed up by such as set them on against these Neroes of the time as these Kings were called by them as actions most heroically zealous most Phineas like proceeding not from common vertue or grace sed à dono speciali Spiritus Sancti proh nefas And they taught that it was of God to excite these miscreants to cut the Basilick vein as they spake to prevent the State and Churches falling into a burning feaver And to come neerer home the remembrance of the Gun-powder Traitors who attempted at one blow to destroy King James and all his Family and Parliament is yet recent a deed which wanted nothing of the high commendation of an heroical and Phineas-like fact amongst the Zelots of the antichristian party but that it wanted successe which marred all Further in the time of Queen Elizabeth of England Anno 1591. Some male-contented Presbyterians being taken in the head with the same fancy of Heroical motions of zeal as a sufficient calling to attempt something beyond rule in the desolate and colapsed estate of the Church as they call'd it began first to question and propose it as a case of conscience If in such a case God might not give such high measures of zeal fortitude courage and rare excitations of his Spirit to meer private persons against oppressing powers which might be a sufficient call to attempt somewhat against Magistrates not suiting ordinarily rules and committing the event to God The men were Arthington Coppinger and Hacket the chief of the three as they were all marvelous zealous for the discipline So this third having debauched his estate surpassed in zeal this way perhaps looking for some reparation by it and was as the History tells us a man of highest pretences of the internal unction of spirituality and of pure zeal and one who could ex tempore pray to admiration The godly Ministers who were of their perswasion in matters of discipline for the most part disliked and disswaded them from their course albeit some too furious entertained and encouraged them After this they went to action Hackets two complices went to the most open and publick streets of the City of London declaring to them that Hacket who was to be found at his lodging in one Mr. Walkers in Cripple-gate was sent of God to represent Jesus Christ on earth with his fan in his hand to separate the pretious from the vile and to erect the holy discipline in all Europe they having a great concourse of people flocking about them declared themselves to be his extraordinary Prophets the one to preach vengeance to them who would not obey them the other to preach mercy to all who would obey them And in the great concourse of people they ceased not to cry repent repent O England and embrace the Gospel and opportunity of Reformation As for the Queen they cried she had fallen from her right to the Kingdom And that most of her Councellours were but betrayers of the Kingdom And all their doctrines they set forth with terrible imprecations against themselves if they spake not truth The Queen being at Greenwich and