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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93344	An alarum: to the last warning peece to London by way of answer: discovering the danger of sectaries suffered: and the necessity of order, and vniformity to bee established. Wherein the Presbiterian way of government, and the Independant liberty, is compared.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4033; Thomason E339_6; ESTC R200848	17,531	24

An Alarum To the last warning peece to LONDON By way of ANSWER Discovering The danger of Sectaries suffered and the necessity of Order and Vniformity to bee Established Wherein The Presbiterian way of Government and the Independant Liberty is compared Levit. 9. 14. Vlt. Ye shall have one Ordinance both for the stranger and for him that is borne in the Land Col. 2. 5. For though I be absent in the flesh yet am I with you in the Spirit Joving and beholding your order and the stedfastnesse of your faith in Christ Heb. 10. 25. Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as ye see the day approaching LONDON Printed for L. Chapman An Alarme To the last warning peece to LONDON By way of answer A Printed Pamphlet that passed without Licence or name Intituled the last warning peece to all the inhabitants of London was some few dayes since brought to my hand which I examining found to be full of malevolency and sedition which the Author cunningly obscureth in himselfe by subtile sophestry to ludifie well meaning people like a Wolfe in sheeps clothing He appeares to be no Covenanter else a Covenant breaker and by Scripture example lyable to confiscation of goods or death 2 Chron. 15. 13. Ezra 7. 26. Amos 1. 9. Hee at first salutes with insinuating flattery like the Devill to Eve Gen. 3. These are his words Well meaning people such as you are are ever most lyable to be deceived because you trust those that give you good words c. you see how Serpent like he comes telling them they trust in good words and are lyable to bee deceived when himselfe meanes to deceive them like a canting Fortune teller that tells you you are neer an ill turne When he is picking your pocket and farther to exercise his Sophistry and please his seditious humour hee would perswade the people that they are possessed with two unreasonable humors The first for maintenance of a Kingly government The second for Ecclesiasticall Government he inveieth against all Government to make an open way to sensuall and licentious liberty and so goes on with Sophisticall and seditious expressions full of bitternes and scandall against the Presbyterian Government endeavouring to kindle a fire of contention between the two Kingdomes and to divide both the Parliament and City I shall give you his owne words in order with some answer thereunto to discover his seditious intention and to satisfie the weake by reason and texts of Scripture I begin with the first YOu have an unreasonable humour in you for the maintenance of Kingly Government and he that will nourish this humour in you though he cannot shew you any good act that ever any King did voluntarily for good of the people though your selves if you will examine stories or your owne experience may produce thousands of oppressions murders and other tyranies though no condition of mankinde ever did so many so intolerable mischiefes though it cannot be said to what use they serve or that there is any use of them except to debauch and vex the people c. This is an Anabaptisticall tenent contrary to Scripture which warranteth the Government of Common-weales by Kings and the lawfulnesse of the Kingly Office I say not that Kings are Jure Divino but the Office of a King is lawfull usefull and warrantable by the Ordinance of God By me Kings Reigne and Princes decree justice Prov. 8. 15. Kings are called nursing fathers Esay 49. 23. They beare the Image of God as the supream Magestrate and are stiled by his name I have said ye are Gods Psalm 82. 6. John 10. 34 35. we are commanded to feare God and the King Prov. 24. 21. and to feare God and honour the King 1 Pet. 2. 17. That Kings have done good and voluntary Acts of good for the people is cleare Example in David Asa Jehoiadah Amaziah Hezekiah Iosiah Iehosaphat c. also in those Heathen Kings Ahashuerus and Artaxerxes Darius c. besides if we examine other stories we shall finde other examples and in our owne Chronicles we shall Read that Kings have done voluntary Acts of good for their people as they have bin moved thereunto by the providence of God On the other side we know it is true that many Kings have bin oppressors as Solomon and Rehoboham of whom one was by God rejected from being King the other forsaken by his people many have bin murderers and Tyrants as Manasses and Hazaell Antiachus Nero Charles of France and others of that name and in England we have had some so bad that by the just Lawes of the Kingdome they have bin deposed example in Edward the Second and Richard the Second as our Chronicles tells us It pleaseth God oftentimes to punish a wicked people by the wickednesse of a King therefore God is said to give a King in his anger and take him away in his wrath But the use of Kings is to be protection and safety to the people and for that cause the people first made Kings to go in and out before them Meerely worldly Covetous wretches Fraudelent over-reaching verlets Patentees brawling projectors are your only Councellors and put into Offices of trust and lead you whither they please cause you to hate and abhorre those that would purge this humour out of you and shew you a more just and rationall way of Government then that of Kings c. We make not worldly covetuous fraudulent men our counsellours not put them into Office oftrust but men fearing God men of justice wisdome and honour wee know that some that have bin projectors Patentees and are coveteous over reaching men that are now sectaries are made Counsellors but not by us and are put into chiefe places of command but not by us we see it but cannot helpe it the whole Kingdome observes the course of Sectaries they are wiser in their generation then the Children of light and these lead us whither we would not goe like a second captivity Simple people are seduced by them good men are hated for goodnesse and order sake which is repugnant to their Malignant humour These are those that are selfe-willed that despise government as the Apostle foretold and are not afraid to speake evill of dignities 2 Pet. 2. 10. these promise liberty to others while themselves are the servants to corruption and that is the greatest bondage the Apostle Iude describes them to be such as turne the grace of God into laciviousnesse Iude 4. Murmurors Walkers after their owne lusts speaking swelling words c. He saith these are they that seperate themselves sensuall having not the Spirit verse 19. we know the fruit of the Spirit is love Ioy peace long-suffering meekenesse c. Gal. 15. 22. Others are troubled with an other unreasonable humour concerning Ecclesiasticall government they are undone ruined torne in peecees with rents and divisions if all the people may

humble hearts and seek verity rather then victory which yet we doubt not t' is pride that is the cause of our contention Nothing tendeth more to the disolving of that Army that under God hath bin your preservation or can so miserably teare you into rents and divisions leaving you all a naked disunited prey to those that of purpose have begotten and nourished these destructive honours in you c. You see where charity is wanting Envy abounds and breakes out into sedition he is not contened to cast divisions in Familyes and Citties but into the Army of peace whe●e I dare say he hath few friends for sectaries seldome do any act of publike good I know there are in the Army Independants as well as Presbyterians not Sectaries Godly and gallant men which together make an Army like the host of Israell when Jehova went in and out be ore them God hath done great things for them and for us by them But sectaries like the evill Spies bring false reports to cause murmuring in the Campe let those that sow sedition reape the fruit of it as God shall recompence it unto them according to their humour c. EIther of these two unreasonable humours of Kingly authority or Presbyterian Government are enough to undo you and to perplex if not frustrate all the labour of the Parliament to preserve you and is likely to bring a n●w confusion upon the Common-wealth c. I told you the Pamphleter was either no Covenanter or a Covenant Breaker observe how hee perswades the people to practise against Covenant that instead of a blessing hee might procure a curse upon them his Councell is like Baalams to Balak or like Iobes wifes in his misery curse God and di● he would expunge that clause of Covenant for preserving the honour of the King c. And that for Reformation according to any rule either Gods word or reformed Churches nothing but liberty like beasts without Law or Government This is indeed the way to ●rustrate all the care and labour of the Parliament to preserve us and to bring upon our selves confusion and swifter destruction When the Saxons had conquered England they divided it and made it into seven Kingdomes differences of Government quickly cause contentions so as they destroyed one an other the strongest get all and yet quickly lost all but the suffering of severall religions or discipline in worship will be of no lesse dangerous consequence By the first humour you are prepaired to receive the King in again upon any conditions notwithstanding all his bloudshed and perfidiousnesse whereby you encourage and assist under hand workings and projects against the Parliament and occasion horrible plots against the City and crafty devices to divide betweene the Parliament and City and to receive the King whether the Parliament will or no c. Reason commands to receive the King as a King but reason and Religion ●orbids to receive him but upon safe and good conditions or upon any other conditions then the Parliament shall in their wisedome thinke fit Nor could any Agents for the King worke any underhand workings nor effect any designe against the Parliament or City to divide them if not furthered by Sectaries under whose protection the enemyes designes are now carryed on and coloured under that Notion the Jesuites plot and seeke to divide Kingdomes Parliaments Cities all one against another it is all the hope the Enemy hath left as Sir Iacob Ashley ingeniously confessed And were it not for these home divisions the Enemy at home would crutch for mercy and forraigne Nations sue to Great Britaine for friendship as the Island beloved of God a people conjoyned in holy covenant established in Unity Order and Peace within it selfe whose King is the Lord of Hosts more admired and honored by other Kingdomes then Solomon by the Queene of the South when she heard of his wisdome and see the order of his servants To this happinesse there is no greater impediment then the pride of man by obstinate contention willing rather to consume three Kingdomes in such a fire then deny themselves or quench one burning Lust The second unreasonable and unchristian humour provoking you to be importument with the Parliament to establish a Presbyterian or compulsion Church Government all things considered threaten a more eminent danger then the former at this time can doe for if the Commons in Parliament should doe a● some have procured the Common Councell to Petition see in what a sad condition you would immediately be in for all the Independants and Sepratists of all sorts then whom the Parliament and you have not found more constant and stedfast friends all these must necessarily withdraw their assistance for if they cannot be free to worship God every one of them according to their particular conscience all liberty to them is taken away for what is all other liberty where that is not also the Army that hath recovered you out of a most languishing estate thereupon will instantly be scattered if not dissolved so you would be extreamly divided and distracted among your selves at home and destitute of any assured strength abroad and whose worke should be effected therby even there 's whose maxim it is to divide and master you c. One would thinke the Author of the Pamphlet were a meer Jesuite for many such are incorporated among our London Sectaries he complaines of the Presbyterians importunity to the Parliament that he might make them odious though they petition for nothing but what the Parliament have Voted and granted just things in case of necessity may be unseasonably asked and yet the fault is pardonable but audatious bold threats deserves severe censure for so I take the Pamphleters words that if the Commons should doe which they have declared to be there intentions as some have Petitioned it were more eminent danger to the Kingdome then the former troubles as if he would deter the Parliament from their just intentions He cunningly puts the Independants and Sectaries together as if they were all one but wee know they are divided in opinions more then Herod and Pilot though like Herod and Pilate they agree against the peace of the Church they al would have liberty right or wrong For my part I cannot in judgment nor charity ranck our de●senting Brethren called Independants who hold all fundamentalls of truth with us with Sectaries who all in some things differ from us in fundamentalls more or lesse therefore no marvill though we agree not But that Christian Brethren of the houshould of faith should disagree about trifles as if they were Enemies is strange where is love where is peace where is charity or for what doe we contend not for the faith we both professe it not for the bread of life we both enjoy it But wee contend how it shall be carved to us surely God is not in this except as he is angry against our pride and wantonnesse do wee not all set our