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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Luk. 9. 56. Joh. 3. 17. But this fellow PERSECVTION destroyeth both Life Temporall and Spirituall he wasteth mens Estates the more Godly and upright they are the more cruell raging and hatefull he is against them he bringeth Misery Poverty and Beggery on their Wives and Children yea my Lord this Savage Blood-thirsty Wretch Hangeth Burneth Stoneth Tortureth Saweth a sunder Casteth into the siery Fornace into the Lions Denne Teareth in peeces with Wild Horses Plucketh out the eyes Roastet quicke Bureth alive Plucketh out the Tongues Imprisoneth Scourgeth Revileth Curseth yea with Bell Booke and Candle Belyeth Cutteth the Eares Slitteth the Nose Manacles the Hands G●●g●th the Mouthes Whippeth Pil●oreth Ban sheth into remote Islands makes them fly by wh●le ●h●● falls into W●ld Desarts Stigmatizeth some and sometimes maketh such so Stigmatized when the wind turnes to Stigmatize their freinds with Reproaches Calumnies Oppression of Conscience c. Deprives them of the Communication of their Freinds of all Releife of Pen Inke and Paper Sep●ra●e● Man and Wife Deprives Parents of their Children and Children of their Parents Impriseneth men only for the discharge of a good Conscience Stoppeth Presses whereby men cannot make their just defence Suffers nothing to be Licensed Printed Preached or otherwise published but what himselfe alloweth and having thus bound the hands and stopt the mouthes of all good men then he comes forth in Print against them like an Armed man and furiously assalts them Exults and Exalts himselfe over them Feigneth Arguments for them and then like a Valiant Champion gives them a conquering Answere and thus puts them to f●ight and p●●snes them with Revilings Scanda●l● Forgeries and Opprob●ions Nick-names as Antinomians Anabaptists Brownists Independants Scismatiques Heretiques c. Thus he dealeth with the Godly party Yea he forceth Millions to make Shipwracke of a good Conscience who for feare of such inhumanity deny the Lord that bought them to their finall condemnation Oh! therefore my Lord if there be any Bowells of Mercy any tender Compassion in you● pitty the destitute the Afflicted the tormted who wander about in Sheepskinnes and in Goateskinnes in desarts and in mountaines in Dens and in Caves of the Earth of whom the World is not worthy Secondly my Lord he maketh a Nation guilty of all the righteous blood spilt upon the Earth from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias and of all that are slayon upon the Earth for it is all innocent blood that is shed in that case purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ who came not to destroy but to save mens lives and therefore would have all taught in all Nations that all might be perswaded to the obedience of the truth that all might be saved Therefore to kill the unbeleivor as Turke Pagan Jew c. is to slay such as Christ would have to live to repent which must needs be Murder in the highest Nature And cursed is he that shall stay an Innocent P●erson and all the people shall say Amen Deut. 29. 25. The Land that sheddeth Innocent Blood Innocent blood shall be upon it Deut. 19 10 and Innocent Blood the Lord will not pardon 2 King 24. 4. Thirdly my Lord he occasioneth Treasons Conspicasies Reballions Warres Forreigne and Domesticke in all Nations and Kingdomes in the Earth He divideth Prince against Prince Kingdome against Kingdome Kingdomes in themselves Breedeth and b●get●eth a Nationall hatred betwixt Prince and People and amongst themselves he setteth Neighbour against Neighbour Yea Father against Sonne and Sonne against Father he breaketh the bonds of Peace and Freindship Nationall and Domesticke In●●geth and Filleth the wholl Earth with blood and Violence for what at this day is the Reason the Protestants 〈◊〉 the Blood of the Papists but because the Papists seeke theirs they hate persecute the Papists because the Papists hate and persecute them they would extirpate and roote out the Papists because the Papists would doe the like to them And on the other side the Papists plot and conspire against the Protestants because the Protestants will not suffer them to live amongst them but Banish Imprison Hang Draw Quarter and set up the L●mbs of some of them in open defiance to the God of heaven earth upon the Gates of the City who though unhappily they be found Traitors to the Publique Pease and Politiqus Government yet Nature might teach them to bury their Limbe An Eye for an Eye a Tooth for a Tooth Blood for Blood saith God but now Blood cannot satisfie Inhumane cruelty If this be Canonicall Let me have old Tobits Apochripha who hazarded his life to bury the dead Where two stand at Enmity there must needs be Mastery or else no safety When one knoweth tho other is his mortall Enemy he will use all the Means Strenght and Pollicy that he can to subdue him This enrageth to all manner of Tyranny and bloodshed setteth one Kingdome against another because each knoweth and taketh each other for his deadly Enemy Their faith being built upon this rotten devouring principle of forcing the consciences one of another But if the Papist knew the Protestant the Protestant the papist to love another would no● molest or in the least injure o● another for their Conscience but live peaceably quietly one by another bearing one with another and so of all Religions What man would lift up his hand against his Neighbour This could not but cond●● to a generall true setled Peace to the wholl World And in a short time the Enmity of Heart betweene the Papist Protestant c. would be quite worne ou● Why should we hate and destroy one another are we no● all the Creatures of one God redeemed by one Lord Jesus Christ this should provoke us to Love and peace one towards another If God have revealed more Light of the Gospell to one then to another shall the more knowing trample the ignorant under his feet we should carry our selves loving and meeke one towards another with Patience perswading and exhorting the contrary minded proving if at any time God will turne their hearts by this meanes the great Incendiary of the World an inforced enraged Conscience would be at rest What is more neere and deere then our Consciences if that be enraged who can appease it if that be satisfied what Content Joy or Peace like unto it or what more mild more Gentle or Loving Therefore how tender ought we to be in Cafes of Conscience it is a Lion if enraged a Lamb if appeased it is all Honey or all Gall enraged it is like the Wild Bore of the Forrest pleased it is like the Dove from the Arke no greater Freind no greater Foe It is better therefore for Kingdomes to set the Conscience free as in Holland Polonta Transylvania c. and be at Peace in themselves then to bind and enforce it and be Rent in themselves with Emulations Heart-burnings Conspiracies Rabellions c. If this Fiery Spirit were allaied This ignorant