Devil No the People of England will one day if God please to cast his Net upon you and put his hook into the all-devouring jawes of your Leviathan make you and your Dawbers with the untempered mortar of a mouldred and dissolved Parliament to understand that they abominate you and your deeds as much as Hell it self for your monstrous sins are their own Hell and Horror more to be detested than all the sinless sufferings of Hell The antient and most honourable House of Peers whom sometimes you flattered into a Fools Paradise while the poor shreds and remnants of that Court might serve your turn to face your affairs by any shew of their Authority as if you had designed nothing to their diminution Yet you have wholly laid them aside as useless and dangerous Idols of honour fit to be cast out to the Bats and Moles to be levelled unto or abased beneath the meanest Animals and vilest beasts of the People for though â—hey should any of them so dishonour themselves as to descend â—nto the Hell of your infected walls yet could they never there ascend to any degree of publique influence either for Counsel or Action being sure to be alwaies overlaid smothered and oppressed by your over-voting crew of Mechanick Idols who saving that they have mouths to speak a Treasonable Yea or No in other points have Eyes and see not Noses but smell not Hearts but consider not the blood cruor carkases skulls and dead bones of their King and their Brethren of all degrees with which they have inhumanely filled that Charnel-house that Golgotha of that quondam House of Commons Sure the numerous and once both famous and flourishing Nobility of England besides those of Ireland and Scotland cannot but infinitely abhorre and detest your arrogant despising of them and trampling upon them if they have but any drops of their Ancestors noble blood running in their veins or any sparks of true Honour left in their Breasts It will at length kindle such a fire of just indignation and revenge in those Cedars as shall consume such base shrubs such offensive thistles and such domineering Briars But if their ignoble despondency have so debased them to Luxury and Cowardise that they dare not vindicate the Honour of their Nation Name and Order together with the rights of the Crown the Fountain of their Honour but are content to be either bowed or hewed down or over-dripped or exsuccated by such Aspiring Ivies as you are our Counsel is that the antient Barons of England sometimes Peers and chief Counsellors in Parliament would solemnly Degrade themselves lay aside their vain and ridiculous Titles reverse their Escocheons sell their Scarlet Robes to the Brokers in Long-lane rather than keep them either to feed Moths or to be Monuments to all posterity What Capons Poultroons and dangerous Buzzards they are descend from such Eagles as many of their Ancestors were But if the Nobility should so far betray and desert themselves their Posterity their King and their Countrey who though their number be not great yet their interest is and so might their influence on the Publique yet be both great and good if their spirits and gallantry were such yet how can you the greater buggs of the Army or you the lesser Vermine and Maggots of the Commons who survive and crawl after the dissolution of your Parliament bred of and feeding upon the putrefaction of that House How can you think that the People of England who are generally and highly concerned in the Honour Credit and Religion of the Nation can ever with a good Conscience or any face of common honesty agree to your Jugling and Sophistry as if you or your Western Mahomet and new Antichrist Hugh Peters had any Papal power to absolve their souls from those Protestations Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy by all which they were and are both lawfully and religiously bound under the greatest curses of God both to the Kingdom in general and specially to the Parliaments Priviledges and the Rights of the King and his lawful Successors of which gross and manifold perjuries they must make themselves guilty only to make way to the Dictatorship and Empire of some of your greater Brambles That forsooth the People of England might enjoy that Liberty Peace and Plenty under your unavoidable Tyranny uusatiable Rapine and cruel Oppression of such Beggars as most of you are and were which formerly they could never have under the gracious Kings wise and Loyal Parliaments the ingenuous Laws and excellent Government of this sometime flourishing Kingdom Sure you are not yet so much beasts as to think that the Community of this great people can all govern themselves or mutually one another Government must necessarily be setled and centred somewhere Nor is it likely that your leaders and Bashâ—â—es whose hands are imbrued in the blood of their King will ever be so modest as to lay themselves aside and denying their own most ambitious and covetous desires to let any others but themselves and their creatures reap the fruit of their projects and labours for which they have pawned their souls to the Devil and sold themselves as Ahab to do wickedly But if you dare venture it upon so ingenuous a Trial let the people of England without your terrour cunning injurious restraints and exceptions be their own Umpires and Choosers whether they will bear the light and easie yoke of the Laws and the gentle as well as just chastisements of their penalties under a lawful King or the iron-yoke of your Tyranny and the Scorpions of your wills being so many Evening Wolves bloody Traytors and unlimitted Tyrams whose little fingers in these last three years have been infinitely heavier than the loins of all the Kings that ever were in this Kingdom let the people have free suffrages you will soon find That the true Agreement of the People a hundred voices to one is this to shake off your cruel Tyranny to bring to condign punishment such unheard of Traitors and to invest in his Throne our lawful King Charls the Second the Eldest Son of that good King you lately murthered But how can the people of England ever hope to have any other Civil Agreement of theirs binding to you and your pragmatick faction further than your own fancies lusts and pleasures think fit since they find you to have so lately broken through all Laws of God and Man all Antient and Fundamental Agreements in this Nation on which the Honour and Safety of our Kings the Priviledges of our Parliaments the Liberties of the People the Order and Purity of our Church and the happiness of our Nation were setled What Cautions can you give that you will hereafter submit to any publick Agreement who are such shifters juglers and dissemblers that no Laws Leagues Protestations or Promises you freely make can bind you No faith to King Parliament People Neighbour Nations or God Almighty can hold you but like the man possessed with the unclean
of measure sinful and your Treasons incomparably trayterous beyond what any Catelines but your selves ever had the desperate boldness to have conceived or committed Had you been our Open Enemies or self-raising Rebels in a declared rivalry and enmity against King Parliament and Country we could either have prevented and opposed you or have born with less shame and disdain your insolent and prevailing Cruelties against them all But when we consider what ostentation and shew you made of exact obedience and plenary aquiescence in their Votes Results and Orders from whom you had your unhappy Commission also of loyal regard to His Majesties Safety Rights Honour and Posterity to whom some of your chief Commanders as they well know engaged their Souls as much as was possible for any mortal men to doâ— devoting themselves to all the Curses of God temporal and eternal upon the breach and failer of their words to His Majesty Add to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting of speedy and impartial endeavours to seâ—tle all things in Peace Justice due Liberty and Piety which how faithfully you have effected the present Deplored state of this Church and state may witness whose face is now miserably squalled and hideously besmeared with the blood of the King and those most indelible Reproaches wherewith you have blasphemed our God our King and our Religion We the People of England of all sorts Lords Gentry Clergy and Commons do again and again declare to God and all the World the present Age and Posterity so long as the World shall endure our infinite adhorrence utter detestation and total disagreement from what you the Officers of the Army and your most slavish ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done or shall further do through Gods vengeance upon this Nation in prosecution of your never sufficiently abominated Villanies Nor do we desire any thing more of the just and Almighty God not in order to the satisfaction of our private malice or desire of revenge on any of you though our particular injuries have been many from you but only in order to the publique Vindication of Gods Glory the Honour of the Reformed Religion the Loyalty Faith and Credit of this Nation the wiping away those foul sins of Treason Perjury Truce-breaking and Regal Parricide in all which Villanies your execrable Faction wallowing in the blood of your King and fellow-Subjects now seek impenitently and irreparably to implunge this whole Nation That we might as some solace under our immense sorrows and tyrannizing miseries inflicted by you but live to see Gods temporal judgements so far upon you as may pull down your Luciferian pride and make your obstinate minds to see the horrour of your Villanies That like Cain you may be afraid of all men like Judas accursed to all Posterity given over to Satan and excommunicated by all good Christians as Murtherers of your Father Killers of your King That you may ever be haunted with the rueful Ghost and hideous Phantasme of the King whom you have trayterously butchered That the exemplary vengeance of God may be upon you and your Adherents so remarkably and in such a Proportion to your Villanies that if there be any place left for Repentance you may find it and yet all the World may see your destruction is the Lords doing and say Doubtless there a God that judgeth the Earth Nor do we despair but God will upon our true Repentance for our great sins and supine folly which gave you advantages to fulfil your most odious Villanies so far remember his mercies to his most deplorable Kingdom and by you as so many wild Bores desolated Churches as to stirre up some powerful Avenger of the Kings blood and all that other innocent blood which the depths and deceits at first the force and violence afterward of your bloody Faction hath occasioned and caused to be shed by your tumultuating the people your instigating the spirits of the two Houses with false and pannick fears Your calumniating the King and perverting his gracious purposes Your enflaming the enmities and heightning the Animosities on both sides Your fraudulently voting No Addresses and publishing that lying and most infamous Libel for your pretended grounds Your widening the differences and hindering all fair equable closings both formerly and in that 〈◊〉 memorable Treaty at Newport of which you were the most rude savage and perfidious Violators that ever History recorded We know that you can now only trust in your Arm of Flesh in the Devils aid and Counsel having in your works denied the Living God instead of whom your Bellie and the present World are become your God and your glorie for the satisfaction of which and the attaining places of profit and power agreeable to your lusts which are enlarged like Hell you have dared to advance thus far to the destroying of King Parliament and Laws which were the only boundaries and conservers of our Peace Properties Lives and Liberties yet after all this you inscribe on your Bloody Banners and impudent foreheads The Agreement of the People and the Restorers of our Liberties Which Plots although you think them your Master-pieces for artifice jugling and policy that so you might by fair words and flattering lies allure the many and meaner People to maintain those Monsters which you have brought forth yet you must know That the People of Englands eyes are not so blood-shotten not their Consciences so â—eared nor their Hearts so disloyal nor their sences so bewitched by your Magick and Charms as not to see through and fully both discover and detest your devilish designs of Tyrannie Anarchie and Profaneness whereto you drive through all these cloudings of immethodical Nonsense and indigested scriblings which like your late damnable Remonstrance and your other illiterate and irrational Papers discover that where there is so much want of grace and common honestie as in you it is impossible not to want even those shews of common sense and vulgar Reason which are necessarie not to justifie which no tongue pen or wit of Devils can do but so far as to palliate your filth and cover your nakedness or to render your wicked projects but tolerably plausible to those that have the grossest perception of things The better to temper this your Cup of deadly poison to please the vulgar relish which you think is gross and undecerning you tempt them with the name of Liberty first in Civil things which all men see is but a meer Cheat while they are like to be held under your Iron hands and squeezed under your tyrannous wills and intolerable Exactions instead of injoying the benefit of our antient and famous Laws the best that any Subjects in the world enjoyed the just and only bounds of our Liberties and Conservers of our both Peace and Prosperities to which all honest men who have no joynt stock with you in Knavery Poverty and Baseness desire most humbly and earnestly to return Despairing and
no sense to be counted the People of England any more than Scabs or Plague-sores or Leprosie or putid Ulcers and noysome Excrements are to be repured any part of the Body whose grief burthen and annoyance they are So that unless you can flatter your selves to have done well and worthily in all you have cruelly insolently and trayterously acted against King Lords Commons Gentry Clergy and all honest men Unless you can propound something to recompence the inestimable Injuries you have done to all Estates in these three Kingdoms as in other acts of your Tyranny and Treason so chiefly in that unparallel'd Villany of Murthering such a King and depriving us of so Incomparable a Prince for Wisdom Piety Gravity Patience Magnanimity Courage Constancy Charity and all other Vertues most adorning a Man a King and a Christian the loss of whom all the lives of you and your Approvers cannot countervail or expiate being but as so many Dogs heads to such a Boon Unless you can stop the Mouths of all men or cut their Throats or sear their Consences or perswade them to damn their Souls for your sakes to gratifie a few Cauterised Consciences bloody and ambitious Spirits among you You cannot but hear the sound of much Vengeance coming upon you to which your own black Souls summon you and which your own Consciences will in the first place silently but yet severely execute upon you Nor will your Seeming Smiles and forced confidences nor yet the Applauses of your sordid Flatterers and desperate Confederates nor yet the assistance of your numerous and deluded Souldiers be able to exempt you from that storm of Fire and Brimstone that Pit Snare Curse and Hell which pursues you and is ready to overtake you How can such Zimri's who have so trayterously slain such a King their Lord and Master ever hope to have peace or impunity in this or the other World Since the Justice of Divine Providence in a Case where his Name was not blasphemed and so his Glory not so concerned as in this of your murthering so lawful and so Christian a King suffered not any of the Murtherers of Julius Caesar who was but an Usurper to dye other than a violent and immature death Nor will we hope our Solomon by Gods blessing and his Subjects assistance suffer the hairy Scalps of those who were the chief Counsellors and Actors in destroying his dear Father and our Dread Soveraign to go down to the Grave in peace or to dye a dry death who have shed the blood of War in a time when all Differences were by a Treaty drawn to a Peace and Union We can never think that a Babel of so confused a fashion of such a headlong height as yours is such a Toads-stool suddenly grown out of the Earth of Beggary and Ignorance by Fraud and Cruelty lately watered with the blood of the King and his Subjects can long thrive or stand having no foundation in the World or any shew of reason equity honour peace liberty or piety to support it Not any seeming Authority for due and legall you could have none upon Earth Not any general desire delight consent or Agreement in what you have done or propound further to do but rather a general detestation an utter abhorrence and a perfect hatred of you and your deeds which honest men will then agree to and subscribe when they can be content to love Death and Hell or to hate God and their Souls Nor doubt we but many of those Souldiers whose valour and simplicity you have thus far grossely abused by ingaging them in such desperate assistances whose profit will redound to but few or none of them when their Christian penitent and smiteing hearts shall come to see as no doubt many of them already do who are not throughly poisoned with your desperate Principles to what horrid Villanies they they are made Gossips and accessary by your Fraud and Hipocrisie they will speedily reâ—â—rn from you dead Dogs desperate Sheba's and cursing Shimei's â—hose mouths and hearts are full of the gall of bitterness whose hands and feet are swift to shed blood who know not the way of Peace nor have any fear of God before your eyes whose Curse is to boâ—st your selves in your iniquity to fall from one wickedness to another till eterual vengeance upon you Penitently smiting their breasts as those that came from crucififying Christ Jesus a work proportionate to the malice and crueltie of you our Kings Murtherers our barabasses whose barbarity hath at once deprived the King of what is wont to be dearest to men his Life and his Kingdoms robbing his Subjects the Christian World and all Mankind of the greatest glory and most Illustrious Example of Vertue and Pietie that ever sate upon a Christian Throne The most unspotted Persoâ— the wisest Prince the most Charitable Christian the most imitable Pattern for Moderation in Prosperity for Patience in Adversity for devout humility toward God for judicious zeal to true Religion for constant love to the Church for winning Majesty upon all men that ever swayed the Scepter of this or any other Kingdom Accessible in his brightest splendor Magnanimous in his Diminutions Of a thâ—iving and victorious Vertue under the heaviest Pressures and Crosses Whose excellent Skill was never so much discovered as in the late Storms Whose Darknings rendeâ—ed him not less formidable to his Enemies or less venerable to his Friends Nor was he ever more terrible to those that are perfect haters of God of Him and of all Goodness than when they saw that the Eminency of his Vertues was not to be smothered by their Calumnious Expressions but the beams and lustre of Divine Majestie in him daily conquered all Ecclipsings that either his own misfortunes or your malice cast upon him This was the Man this the Christian this the King this the Saint this the Martyr whom â—hese Judas's have betrayed these Jews destroyed these Caniballs devoured A Sin questionless exceeding in many respects that of Christs Crucifiers not as to the dignity of the person wherein Christ infinitely surpassed the Majestie as well as Merit of all Earthly Kings but as to that Eminency of Civil Dignity and Soveraignty wherewith the King from God was invested which Christ Jesus never assumed contenting himself with the form of a servant and subjecting himself to Civil Magistracy Also in regard of that malice hypocrsie and pretenceless Crueltie which thesâ— Monsters shewed against the King destitute of any shew of Due Authority which the Crucifiers of our Saviour wanted not urging also a Law they had by which they said though falsely he ought to die What Law the Kings Murtherers either produced or pretended to justifie their Authoritie their Accusations or their Sentence against and Execution upon the King we and they are yet to learn nor is it possible they ever should since all our Laws do most fully and clearly declare the person of the King as Supream Sacred Unaccountable Inviolable by
exercised indeed their Donatistical and Anabaptistical frauds and fucies chiefly upon the vulgar to the ruine of many thousands of the Country people and Citizens But you like so many Ravilliacks are not content to have spoilâ—d so many Noble and flourishing Families to have exhausted so many plentifull Estates to have made so many mourning Widows and Fatherless Children to have destroyed the lives and sucked the blood of so many Christians your fellow-Subjects but you must in one day swallow up the two Houses of Parliament in another murther the King in a third cut off the right and inheritance of the Crown from the Undoubted Heir and all the Kings Children At last you conspire to tempt us all by your simple and foolish Paper falsly called The Agreement of the People to joyn with you in the utter overthrowing of our Laws Liberties and the whole frame of this antient and renowned Kingdom whose weight you will find too heavy for such weak Atlases as you will shortly appear both in Counsel and in Power who are only wise to doe wickedly and strong to shed or drink the bloud of your King and Country-men Your Cruelty hath fulfilled the wish of Caligula at one blow to cut off the head of three Kingdoms and with him all Monarchy to make way for your Polemocracy a Military Tyranny or Schismatical Anarchy Thus have you been profound to deceive skilfull to destroy our Souls faint within us because of such treacherous dealers such hideous Murtherers into whose snares the breath of our nostrils is fallen and in whose deep dissembling pits the Annoynted of the Lord our meek patient and most Christian King is swallowed up under the shadow of whose just Authority Princely wisdom and judicious piety we hoped to have been safe How doth this sometime famous and flourishing Kingdom now sit as a Widow oppressed desolate despised full of unexpressible lamentations The bitterness and gall of your cruel Hypocrisie hath entred into filled and overwhelmed our Souls How is she that was the Joy Crown and Queen of all Nations the Envy or Emulation of all Christian Churches now become the horror and astonishment of her Neighbours round about the pity and calamity of all her friends the scorn reproach hissing and triumph of all her Enemies Nor is there any helper comforter or Deliverer left till God take the matter into his own hands and plead the cause of the King and Kingdom against those proud Goliahs whose uncircumcised hearts and lips out of a riot and superfluity of wickedness have blasphemed our God destroyed our King laid waste and exhausted the Kingdom and turned this Church into a Den of Thieves O Lord arise O Lord consider O Lord hear the voice of our sighs tears and prayers let the cry of the blood of our King and our people come up to Heaven have mercy on us for we are brought very low Our gracious King the Husband of the Kingdom the Father of his Subjects the Prâ—â—erver of our Laws the Patron of Religion the Protector of the Church you have treacherously and barbarously murthered the two Houses of Parliament whose weakness perverseness unevenness inconstancy and cowardise God hath seen disliked judged and punished you have forcibly invaded scattered and oppressed notwithstanding all your special Engagements to them both of duty and promise commission and trust The loyalty and love of the people you every where either with terror and cruelty seek to suppress and smother so that they shall not dare to petition for redress or complain of those endless calamities which they suffer under your tyranny or else making lyes your hope and refuge with forged semblances of complyant Petitions and counterfeit Gratulations you falsly and impudently pretend the concurrent Votes of the Countreys and the Communities approbation to your most abominated practices When God knows and even your selves in your bloody dissimulation cannot be ignorant that the generality of all men in all places of all degrees doe from their Souls utterly abhor deprecate and detest your execrable Counsels and accursed Actions which have thus brought upon us the abomination of desolation through the damnable deceivableness of your unrighteousness Nor doe we believe that your pride and tyrannous hypocrisie either finds any comfort in them or much considers those papers which seem to own you or applaud your wicked deeds further than they may carry on your strong delusions with the vulgar whom you know to be neither very wary of evil nor very steady in what is good If you had the general Consent of the Vulgar which you know you have in no sort yet neither is their judgement any good rule to measure the Morality of your actions nor their inconstant pleasure any rest of honour vertue or piety But indeed you as well as we are sadly conscious that all those clamorous Petitions for Justice by which you would seem as by Oracles of your own inspiring to be fatally directed and divinely incouraged in your Cruelties and Treasons were nothing else but the strokes of the Lions own tayl the more to enrage himself the very froth and scum which arose only from the zealous activity and boylings of your own bloody Faction who restl 〈…〉 Devils continually go about seeking whom they may deâ—â—iâ—e and destroy we are well assured that your Schismatical crew of Regicides are no more to be compared to the people of England than the Gleanings may be to the Harvest or Canters Thieves Beggars and Juglers to the sober and setled Dwellers in this Kingdom No every honest man who hath any sense of piety loyalty modesty pitty or humanity left in his Soul as you have none takes up Jacobs words against you Cursed beyour wrath for it is fierce and your anger for it is cruel Into the secrets of these men let not our Souls enter Lord lay not the guilt of the sins of these men to the Charge of the People of this Kingdom No let the blood of our pious patient and most Christian King be upon you and your Abettors for ever who as without any sense of Loyalty Pity or Charity so without any shadow as well as substance of Justice having neither Law Rule nor any due Authority first by Fraud and unheard of Insolency seized upon his Majesties person afterward by Flatteries Lies and Terrours sought to deceive him At last by meer Force and beast-like Crueltie have massacred and as so many horrid Assassinates utterly destroyed him And all this after many fawnings and shews of loyal and tender regard toward his Majesty and his Royal Family as both your first Proposals and your after Agitations honestly and very providentially discovered by Major Huntington do declare In which all men now plainly see that you did but make way by the Fox to let in the Wolf and by your Dalilah to bring the Philistims upon our Sampson Yea after his Majestie was not only entred into and advanced in a Treaty with the two Houses agreeable to their
spirit you break all ties and bonds casting Church and State into fire or water as the rash motions of your Frantick humors carry you c. Conscience you can have none since your lights are so Lunatick and your principles varie every moneth Credit you have none who have made bankrupt of the Publick Faith and forfeited so many solemn and Sacred Obligations to God and Man Sense of Honour or Duty you can have none since you have neither fear of God nor reverence of Man Estates you have little or none to hazard or lose upon any forfeiture of your Faith or Agreement And for your Heads and Lives they are now so vile and cheap that although you are not fit to live yet they are scarce worth the taking Sure you cannot but appear to your selves as well as to all men the most outlawed notorious and stigmatized Rebels the most perfidious Traytors that ever any King or Senate State or People imployed or trusted Having utterly blotted out all your former promeritings and good service so much boasted of Since the Event proclaims you served not King Parliament or Countrey but your own lusts and villanous designs which by the advantages of mutinous power you now seek to accomplish under the void and forfeited Commission of that stupid Saint that dumb shew of your silent extatick and seduced General who in so great a concern forgat his pristine valour and honour So that the darkning of your most wicked designs by this tiâ—le of The Agreement of the People amounts to no more in the true and last sense of it but this That you would have the People of England and the other two united Kingdoms willingly to bow down to your Hoddy doddy your all Breech-Idol as a Prophet of your own so variously and falsly inspired justly calls your unlick'd and monstruous projects not of Goverment but of Anarchy and Tyranny who may live indeed to see a day of judgement come upon you You would have us all to pledge you in that horrible draught of the Kings blood which you have greedily drank to appove and abet your execrable villanies and to submit for ever to the intollerable Tyranny of such Goths Vandalls and Saracens as you are Who are but the Devils Leieutenants Factors for the God of this impure World signal Anti-christs accurate fullfillers of all the characters foretold and brands set upon you in the last and perilous time in which true glass you and all men may clearly see the ugly lineaments of your most deformed faces and manners It is hoped that God hath yet so much mercy left in store for these sinful and by you most miserable Kingdoms as he gives us grace utterly to abhor your desperate sins So that we trust he will never suffer us by a Devillish Apostasie to fall from all Vows and Oaths by which we and our posterity are bound to God the Crown and our Countries only to have yours and the Devils absolution to make a Covenant and Agreement with Hell and Death with your most irreligious and damnable designs and practices No the sin and horrour of your waves are now like Absaloms incestuous and noon-day Rapes discovered in the sight of the Sun and all the World Nor will the subtilty of your soft and faigned voyces like Syrens any more charm and enchant the honest people of England into such Beasts and Monsters as your selves are to whose hellish deformities you would have all others to conform They have seen and felt too much already of your cruel Hypocrisies your devillish and strong Delusions Have not your words been alwayes Soloecisms to your purposes and your practices contradictions to your pretences Have you not as much as lies in your power and malice cast us into the dead Sea of disloyalty perjury cruelty barbarity irreligion and confusion that is possible for any Nation suddenly to relapse and fall into after so many Sacred and Solemn Professions of Loyalty and Reformation to God and the World whom we called to witness upon our Souls Agreeable to all which and to fill up the measure of our sins as if our Rebellion against God and the King were hitherto but a light and small matter by which we have most unhappily occasioned his death by the hands of cruel Edomites and cursed Amalekites as you are which most deplorable calamity to us and this Nation we penitently look upon as the severest temporal stroke which the wrath of God gone our against us can inflict upon us Yet your impudent Hypocrisie now seeks to obtrude upon us your wretched and abhorred Agreement The Sum of which is to leave the Kingdom without a King Government without Authority Magistrates without Power a People without Laws a Body without an Head Sheep without a Shephere Christians without Christ Churches without Ministers Ministers without Maintenance a Nation without Faith In a word you would have us live as men without Souls without God willfully degeneraring to Beasts without sense of Vertue or Vice shame or honour without fear of Hell hopes of Heaven or thoughts of Eternity and all this to maintain a few Tyrannous Hypocrites and Sodomitick Saints the cry of whose sins like Sodom is gone up to Heaven and are a burden too heavy for the Earth to bear Have you not already made the Name of these Protestant and Reformed Churches to stink among all Nations both Christian and Heathen through the dead flies and rottenness of your principles and manners Have you not surpassed the cunning and cruelty of the most Jesuitick heads and hands as much as you come short of their learning and pretensions which are to advance the Popes Authority above that of Kings But you upon baser Principles seek to subject the Regal Soveraignty to that of the People as you call it nor that you mean so in good earnest further than to delude the people and to raise the heads of your desperate Faction above all both King Prince Peers and People We appeal to all sober Christians whether your Treasons have not far surpassed the Powder Conspiracy Inasmuch as they plotted secretly but you have peracted openly the murther of the King the ruine of all the Royal Issue the overthrow of all our Laws the blowing up of all Parliaments the subverting of the whole State and Government the devastation of your Country the abolition of all true Religion the extirpation of all Liberty Peace Order and Humanity Your Elder Brother Faux himself might seem a Saint compared to you whose New Light and Dark Lanthorn you have so long made use of to hide and disguise your desperate intentions Nor were the rest of those Powder Traytors so criminal as you if they had effected what they designed since they neither pretended to that Saintship or that smooth preciseness which you have done nor had they upon them such signal ties of Publique and special Trust besides your many voluntary Obligations The total violation of all which renders your Sins out