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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44838	The Common-wealtsh's [sic] remembrancer for discovery of the disturbers of her peace with a loving reproof to such offendors and a caveat to others to beware of them / by a friend to peace with truth and true liberty, R.H.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3222A; ESTC R6707	26,466	36

serve and grief of the persons then scornfully called Puritans and others the sober minded amongst you which then were by that means cruelly mocked contemned scorned despitefully used and abused because they ran not with others into the same excess of riot and those of you that remembers these things consider who the prophane the then irreligious and vicious persons did applaud and rejoice in for publishing encouraging and joining with the said Exercises they then called lawful sports and pastimes 2. From whence and by whose Ordination Concurrence and Agreement in the late Kings reign were the then Altars and by whose Practice Example and Commands the frequent bowings thereto and at such distinct distances and differnt manners with other the Inventions and Actions then and there performed with so great zeal for their new high places Rails Garments and other Innovations And who were they that in those performances and in visiting Crosses Wells and other places in Preambulations singing the Letany c. were adorned with Canonical Coats Girdles Surplices Rockets Tippits Hoods and the like besides the great reverence said to be due to their persons Office and Ministry which their Followers were directed to manifest by distinct Bowings standings up and kneelings down before them when and as they pleased to teach order and command to be performed in their Meeting-Houses and elsewhere 4. Who were they that as the aforesaid services were increased flockt to London Westminster and Lambeth to have their Wages also increased to ten Groats or at least eight Groats out of each pound of every mans Lands Stock and Labours and a part of poor servants Wages not then esteeming Tythes G●ebe-Land and other their Offerings Incombs and several plurallities a competent or sufficient maintenance but they being over hasty therein and the time not judged seasonable failed in that particular and then what frequent Counsels and Consultations held those men in the several Count●es and corners of the Land under colour of Lectures Em●er-Week-●asts and otherwise to consider of consult and find out s●nse other way for Augmentation to their Authority and Maintenance 4. Who were they that began and continued such and so many vexations Suits in Law with their Patrons Parishioners and others wherewith the Courts at Westminster the Great Assizes in Counties and other Inferior Courts were even pestered as Records may manifest besides their frequent Suits and Summons before and in the then Bishope Courts sometimes for small Tythes working upon some Popish Holy Days though but in repairing a Fence to save Corn and preserve peace amongst Neighbours for not g●ving them timely notice when Tythes were to be set forth to them for going from some of them to hear in other Parishes for Meetings by them called Conventicles or for not allowing Servants to join in the before mentioned sports and pastimes and oft times obtaining Excommunications therefore and speedily turning them into Writs and thereby causing mens bodies to be attached and imprisoned whereby many consciencious persons were in a manner necessitated to leave their dwellings and this Land to seek peaceable Habitations elsewhere which divers of the said active persons made use of as an encouragement to their then design some boasting thereof and that they hoped to have another Authority before it were long wherein their labours have not been lacking neither at their then High Commission Court nor other places as hath notably appeared to all that have been willing to see it Who served assisted and encouraged the late Bishops in making the Cannons Liturgy and Service-Book little differing from the Mass-Book to be imposed upon Scotland and preached against the Scots when that Book was refused by them endeavouring to make them their Religion and practise seem odious their own new-invented Altar Worships forms and bown● acceptable services to God thereby then obtaining a Declaration against the Scots whereby with great zeal they proclaimed them Rebels and after that a Form of Prayer against them which divers of the said men as zealously read and seemed to pray in their said Meeting-houses And who after that preached up an Army of Londoners and others to enforce the said Book upou the Scots and for the maintenance of those Forces did the like to have Ship-Mony paid by you as also concerning Grants to Pattentees and pleading for such and other Monopolies and Arbitrary Inventions all oppressive to tender consciences Besides the many Articles the Bishops and they then set forth so numerous and contradictory that they could not be performed by the Church-Wardens so called whom they caused or rather forced to swear to present men by nor could others find how to escape the Snares thereby laid for them 6. Who or what sort of men continued the Convocation-House ut Westminster about the year 1640. after the then Parliament was dissolved by a Commission obtained of the then King under the Name or Title of a Synod and thereat made new Constitutions Canons c. Armed with Censures Deprivations and Excommunications whereat was the then new Oath made for establishing their usurpations and to justifie their Altar-Worships Inventions and Innovations And who of them there imposed that great Tax upon themselves in general and on divers others for the raising of more Forces as an Additional-army to go against the Scots and procured divers of their Creatures to go and send forth men Horses and Arms to carry on that their Design all contrary to Law and your Rights and Liberries and for the raising of those differences so far prevailed as to obtain the discountenancing and putting out of favour trust and office in the Common-Wealth divers of the most consciencious sober discreet and fit persons for those services and thereupon procuring others that they knew would comply with them to be setled in such Offices and Imployments thereby uniting a sort of the Nobility and Gentry to themselves as also the generality of the prophane ignorant negligent professors but these then call'd Puritans they found themselves unable to seduce Have I need to remember you or ask you concerning the charge of those Forces what or how many hundred thousand pounds was paid the said Scots afterwards or who paid it or of those other Matters of dangerous consequence by the said Convocation or Synod contrived whereof all other sorts of persons besides themselves have sufficiently tasted Or how they so continued acting until the next Parliament call'd them to account and punished some few of them but the generallity escaped and ever since have stood in the way of and endeavoured to prevent all just proceedings tending to your Rights and Liberties Was not your fire hereby kindled unto which the Authors have ever since been adding Fuel of one kind or other to this very day Were they not of this sort of men that made Libels against the Parliament in the year 1642. imputing it as a crime that the King was not then believed and those with him trusted several ways charging

generall way 20. To passe by the Popish Clergy so called in Ireland with the cruel Murthers and bloody Massacres by their instigations committed in that Land during that late horrid Rebellion Call to mind and remember who they were that about the tenth year of the late King before the said Rebellion brake forth assembled in Dublin Composed an Instrument and thereby raised a Subsidy called a free Subsidy of four shillings out of each pound of all their promotions and Spirituall Livings so called in order to a War that had such an inordinate desire to bear Rule and exercise Authority thereby to maintain and support their new sound Altar-Worships Bowings and other their then then Inventions their frequent Disturbances by medling with matters of Civil Government so by writing preaching and otherwise of what they liked or disliked in Magistrates or others the severall Inventions and Designings in the time of the said Rebellion the solemn Oath many took and preached up and which many of the people there did take in the latter end of the year 1648. to be true and faithfull to him they called their young King Charls the second how they would fight for him assist him c. Who were they that before and about that time Preached for extolled and encouraged those they called their Excellent and Right Honourable Lords Ormond and Inchequin to make Leagues and Cessations and joyn in amity with the said Popish Priests and Irish Rebels and that about the same time in 1648. Composed and set forth in Print certain Prayers so call'd for their said young King and therein such execrations and expressions against the said Parliament and their Armies as I find not freedome here to name then and in these times frequently read in their Congregations and yet since how forward and prevalent have some been in preferring their friends and favourites severall that assessed them in those their former actings into imployments of publick trust by having divers faithfull servants of the Common-Wealth put out of such imployments to make room for them and because of not complying to do such unfit things as some of that sort of men desired whereby Justice hath been turned into wormwood and gall and of such persons so brought into Authority have they severall times prevailed by letters preaching and otherwise to have men chosen as Members to serve in Parliaments there also to carry on their Designs Not to say much how the said sort of men have been enabled to do such things by their large Salaries or how frequently divers of them have caused the Publick Peace to be broken by the rude people in and near their Meeting-houses in beating stoning and abusing sober persons that did but tell or offer to tell them plainly of their Deceits and lying inventions in love and for amendment that the people might cease from these that so beguile unstable Souls the time being come that Christ Jesus will have all spirits to bow and bend to his spirit which is if they were acquainted with they would not onely favourably resent but lovingly entertain such discoveries and Counsels as tend to their own and the peoples knowledge of him of whom many have as yet got but a sound of words not knowing whereof they affirm 1. Ob. But divers of the before mentioned men would not have so taught encouraged or done the things they did in the Bishops dayes but that they were then under the Bishops Commands and liable to their Censures so that they durst not disobey them lest they should be silenced and lose their Benefices whereby themselves Wives and Children might have come to want and they ought to provide for their Families he denies the faith and is worse then an Infidel which doth not that and the like may be said in the beginning and time of the Wars some of them dwelling under the Kings Power and others where the Parliament had power and likewise where both Armies came upon occasions and further that their affections led them some to encourage and assist the one side and the other as they could have opportunities c. which I take to be their strongest Reasons for I suppose none of them will now say their Altar-Worships were done for Conscience sake much lesse will they say they so laboured to set men to kill one another for Conscience sake or thereby to exalt themselves into greater Authority and Estates and therefore briefly answer An. It was Christs meat and drink to do the will of his Father who came not to destroy mens lives but to save them and his love in all his Ministers constrains them to be obedient to him and labour even so to walk as he walked in all things seeking the good of others that they might be saved but never did taught or allowed the doing of such things as these in any Nation or amongst any people upon any accouunt whatsoever much lesse for a worldly maintenance Wives Children or like affections to any man or thing and they that are such lovers of their own selves fear outward wants or so please men cannot be the servants of Christ his Ministers were never such and therefore let no man deceive you so any more with vain words Besides this who or what enforced any such men so to preach or incite men to Wars on the one side or on the other or who occasioned such sidings making Parties and causing enmity in each against other surely this Parliament did it not for that it was begun some years before they sate besides they were necessitated to make use of all means and helps they had or could conveniently have for their own and your safeties and preservations when the then King would not be perswaded to Peace but raised a War by means of many of these men in his own Land with and against his own Subjects and yet where or when did the Parliament so much as imprison any of these men because they would not preach in their names for Wars provided they sate quiet and medled not against them 2. Ob. But the Priests or Ministers are not to be blamed in such cases because what they do is for the good of the peoples Souls to have them of an uniform Religion whereby to prevent Sects Schismes Heresies and all sorts of Divisions amongst ●hem wherein the Magistratate is to take the said mens Advice and they to assist and help the Magistrate therein they being so usefull in Government for support of Authority that all would fall into confusion without them it being their duties to satisfie mens Consciences that all Governments are of God and to direct their minds to Obedience and Subjection to every Ordinance of man in every change of Government and Governours and to help therein by inciting to Wars or otherwise as they shall see occasion An. Instead of doing good to your Souls or bodies have they not done the contrary on all occasions pretending to be Christs Ministers to Preach the