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A90227	The araignement of Mr. Persecution: presented to the consideration of the House of Commons, and to all the common people of England wherein he is indicted, araigned, convicted, and condemned of enmity against God, and all goodnesse, of treasons, rebellion, bloodshed, &c. and sent to the place of execution. In the prosecution whereof, the Jesuiticall designes, and secret encroachments of his defendants, Sir Symon Synod, and the John of all Sir Johns, Sir Jonh Presbiter, upon the liberty of the subject id detected, and laid open, / by yongue Martin Mar-Preist, son to old Martin the Metrapolitane. This is licensed, and printed according to holy order, but not entered into the Stationers monopole.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.; Robinson, Henry, 1605?-1664?,	1645 (1645)	Wing O620; Thomason E276_23; ESTC R209849	47,185	54

such a spirituall such an evangellicall such an infallible such a venerable such a super-celestiall Quire of Angels such a superlative Assembly of Divines for almost these two yeares space after the prosuse and vast expence of above fourty thousand pounds besides their goodly fat Benefices upon their devouring Guts for an English DIRECTORY of worship equivolent to the Scotch DIRECTORY 3. Whether this Directory standing in so many thousands to fumble it together and the Copy sould at 400. 50. l. be not of more value then the Writings of the Prophets and Apostles 4 Whether St. Peters Chaire doth not becomme a Presbyter as well as a Bishop 5. Whether the late divine Ordinance for Tythes Offerings Oblations and Conventions be not better Gospell and in all Presbyterian wisedome to be preferred and provided before the Directory for the worship of God O Cives Cives quaerenda pecunia primum Virtus post nummos Judge And as for Sir JOHN PRESBYTER this Court hath Voted him to the uncleane filthy impious unholy darke and wordly Dungeon called JURE HUMANO there with Arch-Bishops Bishops c. the Grand-Presbyters his Fore-fathers to be fast bound with the Majesteriall Chaines of humaine Lawes Ordinances Edicts c. and in them to be kept in safe custody till the aforesaid great Assises in the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Christ there and then to be brought forth to the Tryall of that Great and terrible DAY Now to the Prisoner PERSECUTION hould up thy hand Thou hast been Indicted and Araigned of emnity against God and all goodnes of Treasons Rebellion Bloodshed c. and for thy tryall hast put thy selfe upon thy Countrey which Countrey have found thee guilty and to award the Sentence of death from passing upon thee thou hast had the liberty this Court in justice could permit to make thy defence we have heard thine allegations evasions the the Reasons and Pleaes of thy Defendants to whom was given all freedome of Defence could be desired also We have heard the distracted jubitaine mediation of J. Conformity in thy behalfe yet notwithstanding all that can be made for thee thy guilt is so palpably apparant and grosse that all the subtilety craft and policy thou and thy Confederates can devise cannot obscure thee from the eye of justice for this Court upon thy tryall hath found out thy villany Treason and Bloodshed and how thou art guilty of all that is laid to thy charge Therefore the Sentence of this Court is that thou shalt returne to the place from whence thou camest to wit the noysome and filthy CAGE of every uncleane and hatefull Bird the GLERGIE of Christendome there to be fast bound with Inquisition Synaddicall Classicall Preist-bitter-all Chaines untill the Appearing of that Great and terrible Judge of the whole Earth who shall take thee alive with Sir SYMON and his Son Sir JOHN and east thee with them and their Confederates into the LAKE of fire and brimstone where the Beast and the False Prophet are there to be cormented day and night for ever and ever Rev. 19. 1. 2. 3. And after these things I heard a great voyce of much people in Heaven saying Allelujah salvation and glory honour and power unto the Lord our God For true and righteous are his judgments for he hath judged the Great Where which did corrupt 〈◊〉 Earth with her Fornication and avenged the blood of his servants at her band Again they said Allelujah And her smoak rose up for ever ever The POSTSCRIPT Least the honest innocent intentions of Yong●e MARTIN should receive some Synoddicall misconstruction he desires to be his owne Interpreter concerning some passages and for the rest he leaves so the fate of the publicke censure Now whereas his Licence may seem to be an immitation of an Order of Parliament it is only to shew the estentation pride and vaine glory of the boasting Presbyters And whereas he ascribeth many Epithites as divine holy c. to the Ordinance for Tythes they are not intended in derision to the Parliament or to any of their Lawes Statutes or Ordinances whatsoever but are used in the fence of Presbyterian acceptation and of the reverend estimation they would perswade us of that above any other whatsoever And the use of the late League and Covenant is likewise only in the Presbyterian sence simply respecting that Tribe according to Edwards Inerpretation thereof Honest MARTIN would not be mistaken he is no enemie to the vnity of the two Kingdomes in Civill League and peace but it is his hearts desire and prayres that not only they but that all the Nations of the Earth were so in themselues and one with another And for the Advance of the Scots that is used only to shew how those Presbyterian Jesuites would make that which the two Kingdomes intend for the common good to be perveted only to the Advance of their persecuting Faction And this MARTIN proclaimes to be his own genuine meaning FINIS

warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice Peace-with-all-men for the Constable Mr. Reward-of-tyranny to attach him who takes with him two approved men of the Parish old Mr. Woefull-experience and honest Mr. Sound-judgment and making strict search and inquiry after him front Religion to Religion found him at length amongst the Papists under the name of Mr. Spanish-Inquisition but the suitable Fox no sooner perceived their Authority but shrunke out of his Roman Papall Robe and presently turned Protestant clad with an English Episcopall habit under the name of Mr. High-Commission but Constable Reward-of-Tyranny with old Woefull-Experience and honest Sound-Judgment being acquainted with his trikes made after him whereat he cast of his Lawne sleeves Hoode Typpit c and forthwith least all Trades should faile became a zealous Covenanter in the godly shape of a Presbyter changing his name into Classicall Presbytrie a new cheat to cosen the world and then Scholer like as if it had been for a goodly fat Benefice in the twinkling of an eye jumpt out of Scotland into England and turn'd a reverend Synodian disguis'd with a Sylogisticall pair of Britches saving your presence in Bocardo and snatching a Rhetoricall Cassok he girt up his loynes with a Sophisticall Girdle and ran into the wildernesse of Tropes and Figures and there they had lost him had it not been for the Spirits Teaching by whose direction they trac'd him through the various winding subtile by-Pathes secret tracts and cunning Meanders the evening wolves wild Boares and Beasts of the Forrest in the briery thickets of Rhetoricall Glosses Sophistications and scholastick Interpretations had made but being sit to lay hands on him the cunning Hocus Pocus vanish'd out of their sight and presently takes Sanctuary for lookeing about for him Behold he was doing his busines Sr. Beverence in the Pulpit thumping it devoutly and most furiously like the Son of Thunder he ratl'd the Anabaptists Brownists c. letting his bolts which according to the Proverbe were soone shot sly at randome against them but thinking to apprehend him he skipt from them from Pulpit to Pulpit from Vniversity to Vniversity from Colledge to Colledge even through all the Pulpits Vniversities and Colledges in Christendome and then he hied him from Parsonage to Parsonage where the Parsons Wifes had thought to have hid him amongst the Heards of Tyth Pigges flockes of chickings geese c. but that failing he ran as if he had been wild through the Gleabe Land and skipt over into a Tyth Cocko and thought all had been cocke sure but perceiving they espy'd him up starts the Fox and presently fast by the Synod he caught hold on the Altar but fearing least he should be made a burnt Offering he vanished into 12. Articles but that businesse not thriving the next sight that was made of him was in a petitionary garbe in the behalfe of the London Ministors And a thousand other trickes that I cannot reckon he had but one above all the rest I must not forget which was the master peace of all the rest for to bloke up all passages stop all mouthes and fortifie himselfe round he turn'd reverend Imprimatur and here tho pursuers were at a stand for all was as fast as the Divel and tho Presbyters could make it they sought to Authority to open the Presse and still the Pres-byters as their custome is were in the way that nothing could be done Well no good was to be done in publike they then goe to it privatoly and to worke a deliverance fell into dangrous labour and at length brought forth the villaine into publike vew and notwithstanding all his trickos detected apprehended and caried him to Justice Reason who hauing examined the Malefactour sets downe his Examination and binds over Gods-Vengance to prosecute the Malefactour at the next Assizes and finding him not baylable makes his Mittimus for the Cohstable to commit him to the Goale there to be kept in safe custody without ● 〈◊〉 ● or Manuprise till the next Goale delivery Now for the better understanding of this Araignment this ensuing Catalogue of the names of the severall Officers of the Court is here annexed The Court of Assizes held at the Araignment of Persecution 1645. Lord Parliament The Judge Justice Reason Humanity Conformity Justices the Peace Sir Charles-Royall-Prerogative The Kings Sergeant Sir Peter-protestant The Kings Arturney Sir John-Equity High-Sherriffe Mr. Obedience Under Sherriffe Clarke Cryer   Mr. Soveraignty-of-Christ Power-of-Parliamentes Vnity-of-Kingdomes Nationall-Strength Setled-Peace Humaine-Society Grand Jnquest Vnited-Provinces Desolate-Germany Blood-of-Primes Publike-Good Nationall-Wealth Civill-Government Domestick-Miseries Mr. Creation Gospell Politique-power State-policy Innocent-blood Good-samaritane Trueth-and-peace Orphan Jury of life and death Light-of-nature Day-of-judgement National-loyalty Liberty-of-Subject Mr. PER SECUTION Prisoner Mr. Gods-Vengence Prosecutour Caffar Christian Martyrs Liberty-of Conscience Evidences Sir Symon Synod and Sir John Presbyter Defendants A new Jury for Life and Death endeavoured by Sir Symon Synod Mr. Satan Antichrist Spanish-inquisition Counsell-of-Trent Rude-multitude Sr. John Presbiter Scotch-government False-prophets Sir Symons Jury men Eccles -Supremacy Pontificall-Revenue High-commission Assembly-of-Divines THus Reader the Court being compleat for thy more speedy progression through the matter intended suppose the transaction of many passages in these Assizes here in this Relation omitted as needlesse the repetion the Essentialls thereof being so tedious to the impatient Reader yet not unnecessary and uselesse I hope to the diligent peruser for wherein without prejudice to our present matter an omission may be my silence for formality sake gives place to a supposition thereof otherwise I shall transgresse upon the Readers Patience Thus then the Grand Inquest the matter being thus far brought fall into debate 1. Mr. Soveraignenity of Christ Gentlemen our Lord of Lords and King of Kings whose Image and expresse prerogative I am hath by the price of his blood constituted himselfe sole Head and King so everover the Consciences of men and therefore he chargeth his Housholders the Kings of the Earth to let the Tares and the Wheat grow together in the Field of the World untill the Harvest the Day of Judgement therefore this Malefactour Persecution in my Judgement being in his Inclinations and Actions altogether averse thereto is an Arch-traitour to the Preagative Royall of Jesus Christ over the Consciences of men and therefore Lawfully and Justly charged with this Bill 2. Mr. Power of Parliaments My Verdict Mr. Foreman is that Persecution for Conscience is Inconsistant with the Soveraignty of Kingdomes for it divideth their Powers one against another and in themselves occasioneth murmurings grutchings and repinings which in in time breake forth into Conspiracies Rebellions Insurrections c. as well to the prejudice of Soveraignity as to the ruine of the Subject and which is more the tendency operation and end of Persecution is to reduce the Power of Kingdomes and Parliaments from themselves into the hands and disposall of the Pontificall Clergie according to the divelish Decree of Pope Paul

And besides this my Lord to testisie what I have said to be anthenticke there are hand reds 〈◊〉 the mickle Armie whose absence have occasioned this his inability to justifie and cleare himselfe but if your Lordship please but to adjcu●●e the busines but till their mickle Advance into the South the matter shall be made cleare unto your Honour for then we make no question to awe and crush those Hereticall false witnesses and advance Presbytry to its super Prelaticall Throne of CLASSICALL SUPREMACY and though at first it be but jure H 〈…〉 no a little five and faggot will quickly Commence it jure divino J. Reass My Lord I am much affraid of a Conspiracy betwixt Sir Symon and Sir Iohn Presbyter with Justice Confomity whome like an Ignora●us they have perswaded into their Combination how to delude your Lordship thereby to deliver PERSECUTION from the justice of this Court You may easily perceave how they would pinch your Lordships Nose with a paire of Scotch-Spectacles and fixe a paire of long Synodian Eares unto your Lordships head that your Lordship might see nothing but Blew Caps heare nothing but Synodian Thunder but I hope your Honour is thoroughly sensible hereof yet least your Lordships Innocency and honest endeavoures for the generall and equall Rights and Liberties of the Common People should be circumvented and perverted by their policie I shall hoping my plaine dealing meerly I call God to witnesse out of unfeigned love unto your Honour and the common Good of all the Common People shall not be recompensed with your High Displeasure present the cunning insu●●uations and subtile fictions of Justas Conformity in their true shape for whereas he saith that this presont Prisoner is not the person indicted and convicted of Treason Rebellion c this being but a yong●●e man the other very old I can assure your Lordship that he is herein meerly delusive for the man is the very same only through the advise of Sir JOHN he hath made use of a Presbyterian Barber who hath shaven from his head his old deformed Tresses cropt of his haire above the eares after the halfe moon fashion taught him the Presbyterian posture of his eyes plaistered up the wrinkles of his bended brow with Scotch morter whereby he hath acquired a more smooth Synodian countenance but in a small time if he be let alone he 'l be as terrible and frightfull as ever for his pritty small Pegges that he speakes off your L. is therein misinformed for the Farrier that rearched his mouth was a Presbytere●● Horse Doctour prepared on purpose by yongue Sir JOHN for that very end who discovered to your 〈◊〉 only the upper part of his fore teeth whereas were his mouth but searched by an Independant Farrier he would discover besides those in the hinder part of his Classicall Jawes his Great Iron Fangs as great and terrible as those spoaken of by Daniell cap. 7. 7. And as for the good service Justice Conformity mentioned that be performed in his Roade from Scatland to London It was so good that the Prisoners there care for no more of his goodnesse for if he mumble us thus with his yongue small Presbyterian Pegges what bloody massacrie what cruell crushing of bones rending tearing and devouring of flesh must we expect if your Lordship permit him the use of his dreadfull devouring Tuskes his huge monsterous iron Fangs but I hope your Lordship will first grant him the favour of an Independant Tooth-drawer and then wee shall not greatly feare his Gun●●es And concerning the Mickle Armie my Lord you may perceive how they would bind your hands from the execution of justice by the force of Armes as though the wisedome of this Court were to be inslaved to such sinister respects my Lord it is highly dere●atory to your Honour and here are sufficient English Evidence to prove this old seducer to be PERSECUTION himselfe as hath been manifest before your Honour let not the people be thus depriv'd of justice they did not in chusing your Lordship to this place wherein you are intend the makeing of themselves slaves in any the least kind to Synods Sir Johns force of armes or the like or to put themselves at so vast a distance as to make their addresses to you as to some Dietie but in their chusing of you authorised and entrusted you to vindicate and preserve their native and just Liberties in generall yea and common to them with your selfe therefore you cannot without betraying this Trust by any coersive power subject any of their consciences persons or estates to any Ecolesiasticall Jurisdiction whatsoever And now seeing this vile person at the Barre hath been legally indicted araigned and convicted and thereby found an Arch enemio and Traytour to the peoples common Liberty and Safety Judgement and Execution ought forthwith to passe upon him accordingly that this Hypocritical Pharisie this blood-thirsty Catiffe this Long Gown'd M 〈…〉 ntebanke with his spirituall delusions may no longer cheate the world as he hath done Hereupon the Court proceedeth to Judgment Iudge Make Proclamation Crier O yes every man keep silence c. Judge With much patience this Coure hath heard the severall pleaes betwixt PERSECUTION and LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE u●●sd on both sides having seriously weighed the same in the Ballance of equity hath found PERSECUTION and his Abettours with all their Pleas too light even meere subtile alrie and empty delusions It is therefore the Sentence of this Court concerning Sir Symon and Sir John Presbyter who have thus Iesuitically endeavoured to pervert the justice of this Court by their false their subtile and Trayterous su●●stions in the behalf of this notorious bloody Malefactour PERSECUTION that Sir SIMON be committed close Prisoner to King Henry the eigh●●s Chappell there to be kept in Parliamentory safe custody till the GREAT ASSISES held in the first yeare of the RAIGNE of our Soveraigne Lord CHRIST when the Kingdom and the greatnes of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shal be given to the Saints of the most High there and then to be Araigned with the rest of his Holy Tribe whether Vniversall Nationall Provinciall or Consistoriall Counsels or Synods whatsoever before his Highnesse the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS I. Reas And my Lord in the meane time to keep his Holinesse in action I beseech your Honour that he may Synodicate a full Resolution to these enfuing Queries 1. Whether it doth not as much conduce to the Subjects Liberty still to be subjected to Episcopall usurpation as to be given over to Presbyterian cruelty 2. Whether it would not been more profitable for the Kingdome of England to have forthwith hired a Coach and twelve Horses to have set a Directory from Scotland then to have spent the learned consultations pi●us debates and sacred conclusions of such an holy such a reverend such an heavenly such a godly such a learned such a pious such a grave such a wise such a sollid such a discreete

deliver me Judge PERSECUTION what would'st thou have here 's no place of mercy for thee the Vengance of God cannot be dispens'd with thou art not in the High Commission nor before the Assembly this is a Court where justice must take place Pers Oh my Lord I beseech your Lordship for the mercy of this honourable Bench My Lord I am a Clergie man and beseech your Honour for the benefit of my Clergie I have been of all the Vniversities of Christendom have taken all their Degrees proceeded through all Ecclesiasticall Orders and Functions and my Lord at present am under the Holy Order of Presbytrie and I hope a Presbyter shall find favovr in your eyes Wherefore I beseeth you my Lord that I may have the benefit of Degration Judge PERSECUTION be contented you shall be sent to the place of Degradation Pers Oh Good my Lord let not a Presbyter come to so shamefull an end I beseech this Honourable Bench that I may be repreeved but as long as the Synod and Presbytrie endure Judge No PERSECUTION such is thy Treason Rebllion c. as cannot be dispensd with Pers Oh my Lord a psalme of mercy I besoech your Honour a psalme of mercy Judge No PERSECUTION no prepare to heare thy Sentence Hereupon this ensuinge Letter was privately conveyed to Justice Conformity To the right worshipfull Iustice Conformity all blessing and benedictition from his Holynesse Sir SYMON and his Son Sir IOHN Right worshipfull Tese are to adjure you as you will Answer it before VS at the great and dreadfull DAY of OUR Classicall exaltation above all persons in the Kingdome that you forthwith sollicite my Lord to suspend his Sentence but till the advance of the mickle Armie into the South for then we feare not the procurement of his plenary pardon and for your encouragement herein last night my Son Jacke and I went into our Presbyterian ware-house and have taken a list of all the Instruments of torture and torment already prepared for our Designe to wit triple knotty corded whips Gagges Pillories Stockes Sharpe Knifes Pincers hot burning Irons Halters Gallowes Gybbets Rackes Spits Fine-forkes Gridirons Axes Sawes Fleshhookes firery Furnaces hot Ovens boyling Caldrons Fire and Faggot close Prisons darke and noysome Dungeons Fetters Manaeles all in abundance most bloody and cruell Executioners terrible and Divilish Tormentours as Presbyterian Hangmen Goalers c. besides multitudes of Synodean Tyranies newly invented not yet discovered to the people such as never either by Pope Bishop on their adherents were devised and though we have prepared those Divelish Instruments yet we shall not be so indiscreet to rush them in all on a suddaine no we shall observe the temper of the people the course of times make a graduall progression now a little and then a little and alwayes a most godly and holy pretence to usher in a damnable and wicked designes if in the paysing a businesse wee find it so he avy that neither Synod Divell nor Presbyter can lift we 'll suspend the matter and insensibly prepare the people for the entertainment thereof which by our vaine-glorious fasting hypocriticall teares prayres and suphisticall Serimans we shall easily doe And for your further encouragement understand there are of certaine from a late Consistorie of Divels dispatched seaven foule Spirits a pecce for every Presbyter throughout England to attend them in their Parochiall Jurisdiction so that a Presbyter shall be seaven times worse then a Bishop for it is intended he shall be more fearce and cruell then his followes therefore Woe Woe unto those Anabaptists Brownists c. those cursed Heretickes for those presbyterian Feinds expect but the word of commaund to dovoure them up But Mr William all this will come to nothing if this Prisoner be put to death you see those Sectaries have had such freedome of speech that my Son Jacke and I can doe no good now there being not such a considerable person in this County as your self to prevaile WEE therefore charge you as your hope to be a Judge faile not at this dead lift for your Eares indeed he 's in your debt but he vowes by your fiat justitia that if you prevaile he 'll provide you a paire of better and longer then ever you had Hereof faile not and we shall not be backward to answer your deserts when WE and the parliament shall be Commenced by Your intire Freinds Sir SYMON SYNOD and Sir JOHN PRESBYTER J. Conformity My Lord were your Lordship but rightly informed concerning this Prisoner under the name of Mr. PERSECUTION what he is and from whence he came your Honour would lesse wonder at his severall ●●ations and dilatory pleaes to award the Sentence of death for were he guilty what would not a man doe for his life skin for skin and all that a i● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will be give for his life but such is his innocency that the proceedings against him have been altogether upon false grounds for whereas by the Evidence he is asserted to be born soon after the time of Innocency and by them ●●andeth charged with all the Innocent blood spilt upon the whole earth I shall by your Lordships favour upon good grounds make it appeare to be otherwise for my Lord this prisoner is not yet above an 100. yeares of age being borne in Geneva of very good Lutheran and Calvenish parentage about the yeare 1544. where he was very well educated and instructed both in the Tongues and Liberall Sciences and upon a certaine time going to Sea he was by a great wind raised by Belg●bub the Prince of Divels blowne into Scotland And being so neare us forth of his zeale and pious affection to reforme the Church of the Eiscopall Prelacy to Presbyterian he occasioned the rising of the Scots as one man to oppose that power against which ever since he hath contested and he lately advanced with their mickle Armie to the Leagure before Yorke and for all this he received many an affront by Gronewels scismaticall Brigade and from thence taking his joyrney through Derby Stafford Coventry and Cambridge where performing much good service he came to London since whose coming old Grand Mr. PERSECUTION charged in the Indict●●ent and convicted by the Jurie was happily and timely executed uppon Tower Hill by all which it appeareah that the Witnesses that have given in Testimony against this prisoner the Gentleman at the Bu● have greatly abused him your Lordship and the Jurie he not being the person charged and consequently innocent of the crimes laid to his charge he being Indeed as reall an adversary to Old Mr. PERSECUTION as any Gentleman of this whole County hereof if your Lordship make any doubt I beseech you that a Farrier may be called into the Court who may make a perfect discovery to your Lordship of his age by opening his mouth and vewing his Teeth whose yongue small Presbyterean Pegges have no proportion betwixt the Great Twangs and Boarish Tuskes of Old Mr. PERSECUTION

found to be PERSECUTION a sad event there is no way now but Bedlam for our Doctours it may chance to chastize them into their wits againe and then upon their second thoughts it may be they 'l bethinke themselves to put a Blew Bonnet upon 't and then 't will passe from England to Scotland and from Scotland to England againe without Question or controule Indge Sir Symon Weblesse God that hath put it into the hearts of those honest godly people though publikely despised and hated those faithfull friends and lovers of the Parliament and Kingdome whome you nicke-name Anabaptists Brownists Independants c. to discover and detect unto us the Iesuiticall and Trayterous Designes of the Synod with the hazard of their Liberties and for ought they know of their lives and fortunes for should they not ventured themselves in the discovery of such a subtile generation We should have been kept ignorant through their zealous pretences and had there been a mountaine more of their villany it seemes they would have covered it with a vaile of teares Fastings affected prayers and the like from Our discerning J. 〈◊〉 It is an approved truth that such as are called Anabaptists Brownists c. have in all Ages ventured yea given up their lives to enforme Kings Kingdomes Parliaments and States in things that concerne their peace and the glory of God which ubough condemned at first afterwards have proved no other yea such as your Lordships Predecessours have condemned by peuall Lawes Statutes c. which now your Lordship through the mercy of God find otherwise and it is we that reape the benefit of their blood in the suppression of Episcopall Inrisdiction High Commission c. not they for their sufferings and their testimony have detected and informed us of their unlawfulnesse it being their custome my Lord to weare out the Mysteric of Iniquity with their blood And now my Lord we that have received vantage by their bitter sufferings shall we boast our selves against them it were ungrtitude to God and inhumanity to them Iudge True We find by dayly experience that the Seperates are not such as ground their Religion on selfe ends for like Salamanders in the fire they live in the heate of Persecution they spare not their lives to witnesse the innocende of their Cause the fire of Persecution cannot consume but endames them towards their God and the Truth the menacing of Kings and Governours and cruelties of their greatest Adversaries hinders not their testimony this we find when euer they are convented before Vs even to our astoneshment and we further find it is not their owne good alone that they aime at but the generall good of all men that all one as well as an other may lead an honest and a quiet life under Our Protection and We have to our benefit found the blessing of God upon their endeavours as the hopefull and glorious successe in the Conquest of Yorke which envie and malice it selfe cannot deny was instrumentally atcheived by their valour and sidelity Wherefore in justice to their uprightnesse and faithfulnes to that trust reposed in Vs for the publike Good the Liberty and property of the Subject We may not deny them the benefit of Subjects but as they are faithfull parties in the generall venture so to be heriditatory to the generall purchase having as just a Right thereto by the price of their blood as Our Selves for that which is purchased by blood all the purchasers have an equall right to the thing purchased J. Reas My Lord but our Dessembly Doctours teach otherwise yet I think if your Lordship should settle Anabaptistrie or the like even that which they now persecuts and threaten preach and pray against and forewarne the people off as hereticall and damnable provided you should endow it with goodly fat Benefices and sanctifie it with the hallowed Ordinance for Tythes Offerings Oblations c. questionlesse the generallity of those Persecutiones of Anabaptists would have the wit to turne Anabaptists for their Religion is moved upon the Wheele of the State when the State was for Bishops then they were for Bishops and were very Canonicall Surplisse men Altar bowers and the like and the precisest sort those that are now our most zealous Presbyters did then so comply conforme to Episcopall superstition as they kept their Benefices except here and there one of the honoster sort while the honest Seperate counting nothing too deare for his God did openly resist and witnesse against it even to imprisonments deprivation of goods c. But our temporizing Doctours our State Protestant Ministers are not so simple to swime against the streame they are wiser in their generation for they know most wealth goes that way as long as your Ordnance is laden with Tythes Offerings and Oblations they 'l be sure to give fire but should the State deprive their Religion of all Ecclesiasticall Revenue of Parsonages Tythes c. yea should it be this very Presbyterid they so aime at that they should so impoverish certainly we should have more Parishes then Presbyters more Steeples then Doctours then they would no be so hot for Presbytry so zealous to persecute its opposers I would your Lordship would make tryall call in but your Ordinance for Tythes and turne them to the good will of people and then a tyth Pigge wil be sold for a penny Judge Well notwithstanding the Doctrine and subtilty our Divines we cannot deale so unworthely with those honest men but must by the grace of God being by them better informed proceed to Sentence against this Malefacture according to the just Verdict of the Jurie PERSECUTION fals upon his knees Pers Good my Lord have mercy upon me I beseech your Houour even for the Clergies sake have mercy upon me consider my Lord that in my death is their ruine it will be the greatest in road upon the Divines of Christendome that ever was made Oh! I beseech you my Lord by the Mysterie of their holy Convocation by their agony and bloody sweate by their Crosse and Passion at my shamefull approaching death and buriall Good Lord deliver me By their glorious Resurrection and Ascention from the Pulpit above the State By the coming of the Holy Ghost to them in Cloake Bagge from Scotland Good Lord deliver me By the late solemne League and Covenant By the 400. and 50. l. for the Copy of their Directory By all the fat Benefices and goodly Revenues of the Clergie Good Lord deliver me By the Apocripha writings and non-sense Arguments of Mr. Edwards By the distracted thoughts and subitaine apprehensions of Mr. Prinne By the Designes of the Clergie By their fained teares By their hypocrisie By their false Glosses Interpretations and Sophistications Good Lord deliver me By the Advance of the mickle Armie into the South By the late innocent and undefiled Ordinance for Tythes By all that is neare and deare unto the Clergie the pompe and glorie of this world Good Lord