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A scourge for a denn of thieves.
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Chamberlen, Peter, 1601-1683.
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A SCOURGE FOR A DENN OF THIEVES Master is it Iâ— Mar. 14 19. Matt. 26.22.25 LONDON Printed by J.C. for the Author 1659. A SCOVRGE FOR A Denn of Thieves DO we live in an Age that it is a shame to speak the Truth or Danger to Proclaim the Glory of God Let the Children of him that was a Murtherer from the beginning and a Lyar Joh. 8.44 Let them that make a Lye believe a Lye Rev. 22.15 Let them that believe a Lye love a Lye 2 Thess 2.11 The Truth is JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY ONE LAW-GIVER To others may be Legislative Powers many 1 Cor. 8.5 6. BUT TO US THERE IS BUT ONE LAW-GIVER who is able to save and to destroy Ja. 4.12 Isa 33.22 Eliah was but one against 450. 1 Kings 18.22 And Micajah but one against about 400 1 Kings 22.6 8.13 16. Behold I Peter Chamberleu Doctor in Physick do once again bear Witness That if the Laws of God be set up in the Name and Title of the Laws of God And the corrupt Laws of our Heathen and Antichristian Fore-fathers and of our more corrupt Lawyers and Courtiers be abolished There shall be more equal Distribution of Justice even concerning Meum Tuum besides other Matters in one year than hath been done these 500 years by Kings Parliaments Councils Armies or People by all the Laws of men and all People shall rest satisfied But if men go on to prefer Man before God and to prefer the Laws of Men before the Laws of God I do hereby Testifie That my Soul is guiltless of the OATH that lies upon the whole Land wherein both Parliament Army and People were engaged I said in Print If Publick Goods and Lands were sold the Parliament would remain in Debt and the Souldiers unpaid AND IT IS SO. I said in writing That God would Chastise the Parliament AND IT WAS SO for this Men thought me Mad. I lost four years Attendance on the Parliament for the Publick Good yet I had many Friends amongst them I lost both Houses Lands and Goods by Committees and Officers of Parliament and Protector I lost the Rewards Wages due to me from the late King yet have done service unto all without Recompence I ask none but the fruit of mine own Labours which is not yet granted 'T WAS GOD MADE ABRAHAM RICH. Gen. 14.23 14.1 LET MY VOICE AT LAST BE HEARD We shall not need to envy Holland for Trade nor the Indies for Wealth There need be no complaining in the streets nor Souldiers want Pay We shall no more feel the oppression of Taxes Assesments or Excise but there is Remedy for all And 500000 li. at Stake for performance If yet we forbear contriving the Publick stock into private Pockets and set up a sufficient employment for all Poor And make an Everlasting Honourable Well-grounded Peace with the Uuited Provinces by countermining the Jesuits of both Nations and advancing Trade All which may well be done And for which the Pawn of 500000 li. shall be laid down which is more than King or Parliament Protector or Committee ever laid down for their fidelity without the taxing of the People though they have been trusted with Millions and Millions and the Work no forwarder than you see this day Nevertheless Shall faith be found on Earth Luk 18.8 or English Lawyers destroy English Laws Thy Kingdom come O Lord Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Matt. 6.10 Salus Populi Suprema lex If the Parliament whom the Lord hath hitherto Honoured with the Authority or the Army to whom God hath vouchsafed the Power of the Reformation we now enjoy are pleased to take this Scourge into their hands and grant what tends thereto without injury to any I will undertake upon my Life to bring those that will lay down the 500000 pound and engage much more that the things herein mentioned shall be performed in every Punctilio But if they will neither do it nor accept of it nor suffer it to be done then for certain God will overturn overturn overturn till he come to whom the Right is I am not ignorant how difficult that work must be which hath been the Engagement of Parliament Army and Protector yet not effected I am not Ignorant what sum of Money must be raised yearly to keep the Officers and Souldiers and Navy in constant Pay and maintenance I am not ignorant what a vast sum it is to offer 500000 li. Advance I am very sensible how highly Men in Power will Resent it if I should fail of my undertaking and all men before-hand will give out their several Verdicts I am very sensible how my life is exposed to the fury of the Souldiers if they want their Pay I am no lesse sensible that I cannot escape the fury of the People if once they have Tasted the sweets of Freedom and be again betrayed or intangled into Bondage Nor am I ignorant how contemptible the thing it self may be for my sake Though give me leave to ask one Question Whether if I had fed as fat upon the Publick purse and kept back mine own and could as easily dispence with Engagments as some Wise men of this Nation who were once lesse than my self I might not have been as wise and as soon believed as they But I am very well assured that this very Proposition will be my Witnesse in the Day of the Lord that I have been faithful and no Lyar but have spoken the Truth from my heart and have not hid my Talent in the day of Tryal though I have long kept silence waiting when others more near the Helm would accomplish the Work Therefore if accepted I desire all Treaties may be in Writing and Printed that no misprisions might disadvantage the Good in ended and that all the World may Witness whether the defect shall ly in me or others The Postscript VVHilst the Leaden Letter walks slowly to the Press I hear of JEALOUSY stept in between the Parliament and Army Commissionating her two Favorites the invisible Jesuite and long incensed Malignant to Divide both Them and their Spoil Machiavel is admired for his Learned Dictate of Hypocrysie and she walks confidently both into Churches and Councils of State in all Countries till at last advanced to Power she grows weary of her Mask and discovers her Face But JEALOUSY inspir'd with Fatal Prophetick Fire consumes the Thrones of Kings and Coins their Crowns into Thornes making the boldest Tyrants fearful to enjoy what once they longed for and lose what through Labour Blood and Perjury they have obtained to Oft with prophain Feet she Tramples on the chastest Beds and cruelly converts them into Graves making the dearest friends the greatest enemies O Jealousy What hast thou done Rather what hast thou not done in England But the wisdom of God is above all 'T is Jealousy doth threaten the Souldier a disbanding to provoke his Power 'T is Jealousy reminds the Parliament of their long interruption to inflame their Authority 'T is Jealousy bids the People remember their manifold unjust Plunders and Taxes to affright them with a decay of Trade Poverty and manifold Miseries till that despairing they hearken not to Moses though he fore-tell their Deliverance I know my self despicable and despised And many had rather perish than be saved by my means though forced to follow some of my former Counsels I know the Work Great Difficult and Terrible Yet Oh yet let Aaron's Censer divide between the Dead and the Living What is past cannot be Amended Who can recal yesterday The noise of 500000 li. may fright all the Usurers in Town lest I mean them and turn the Scriveners as once a grazing The noise of maintaining an Army of 30000 Men and a Navy of 100 sail of Ships and maintaining a swarm of Poor besides shuts up the Tradesmans shop and locks the Merchants Coffer for fear lest I mean them But to resolve the doubt Doth any think it impossible for 500 noble well-minded godly men in England each to advance 1000 li. a piece to Redeem Themselves and their Posterity eternally from slavery and Taxes and be repaid in time their own again Or do they suppose All my numerous acquaintance so inconsiderable that I know not where to have the sum should the number be wanting I have already 50 Worthies in London but Doubts and their former sufferings have cautioned them as yet to conceal their Names lest a Snake may be in the Grasse and a Hook in the Bait There hath been such fishing for Money these many years Were it impossible to unite these 500 Worthies in Counsel when this Paper hath purchased a good report that they may first debate the weightiest matters And so offer them to the Parliament and Army for a better Stamp of Power and Authority Then Treat with Agitators for all the several Regimâ—ts of Souldiers to condition their Pay employment and maintenance And with Trustees for all the several Shires about employing the Poor and taking off all Taxes Shall the industry of Holland maintain a constant Army by Land relieve All commers wellcome All strangers set out a formidable Navy at Sea Oppose and weary the richest Kings in Europe having neither Fire Water Earth Aire Iron Wood nor Stone c. to boast of And shall we fear to maintain our selves who have all these in abundance MAN ONELY MAKES MAN MISERABLE 'T is God makes all things good I have said Nor will I further Court Men to their happiness Though neither Parliament nor Army nor yet the People will believe me Shall they hate me for my good will My Treasure is above God is my exceding great Reward O ENGLAND SIN NO MORE LEST A WORSE THING COME UNTO THEE Joh. 5.14 FINIS