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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88379	The Lively character of the malignant partie: wherein their persons, who they are; their actions, what they have already done, and do daily further attempt; with their intentions, at what ends they ayme, are sufficiently set forth, fully described, and plainly evidenced to the indifferent judgement of any ordinary man, who hath had but a reasonable view of the strange passages of these later times. By one who cordially affects his Soveriagne, and really respects the Parliament: which illustrious and renowned senate, hath (for the safetie of the King, and presevation of the kingdome) resolved upon the question, that in this malignant partie, they may not, must not, will not, cannot confide.		1642 (1642)	Wing L2593; Thomason E240_29; ESTC R2828	6,947	8

struck at the very being both of the Head and Body depriving his Majestie in his own apprehension of their fidelity and them of his protection which are the two mutuall bands of Government and subjection By secret plots and open force they have bred all the late uprores mutinies and disturbances in most of the Counties of this Kingdom especially in the Northern parts The besieging of Hull not long since was an egge likewise of their hatching Their plots failing they have attempted what no age will ever beleeve unlesse it be as impious as this to render odious and suspected to the people the Parliament which is the onely sanctuary of their Religion Laws Liberties and properties They have betrayed Church and State by corrupting the Doctrine and Discipline in the one and subverting the Laws and form of Government in the other Their greatest influence is upon the Kings Councels And such is the malignitie of these lewd Counsellours being arrived at the very height of impudence that they are not ashamed to engrosse and monopolize his Majestie to themselves altogether from his Parliament by whose mischievous counsels he is wholly diaffected from his Parliaments faithfull advices and counsels which by the constitution of this Realm is his greatest and best Councell Thus as Christ our Lord and Saviour was led aside into the wildernesse to be tempted so Charles our Lord and Soveraign is mis-led from his great Councell in which there is strength prudence and safetie into a wildernesse of weaknesse errors and dangers In the sixt Scene ye may behold with the eye of your Intellect the Hot-spurres of the Times who are call'd the Cavaliers a name of hatred in the present age by their practises and fit to be made a terror to future ages by their punishment Their practises in themselves are as high and as insolent as any Subjects ever ventured on They would if they could by armes and violence over-rule the judgement and advice of the Parliament and by force determine the Questions there depending concerning the government of the Kingdom They have been the chief Actors in the Kingdoms Tragedy and have presumed to put that dishonour and affront upon both Houses of Parliament to make them the countenancers of Treason enough to have dissolved all the bands and sinews of confidence between his Majestie and his Parliament They would if they durst come neer it besiege London as they lately did Hull and long ago have they swallowed up in their thoughts our Religion Laws and Liberties the former by alteration and the latter by subversion Amongst these Captain Leg a Delinquent to the Parliament now a captive fast enough in the Gatehouse endeavour'd manibus pedibusque in that treasonable practise to bring up the Army against the Parliament Many of these incendiaries and fire-brands of combustion are the same now that were formerly between us and our neighbour Nation and their designes of confusion of both Nations are the same altring onely the method beginning in England now with hope to end in Scotland whereas formerly they began there with purpose to end here Most of them are such mercinarie sword-men as no Nation nor Age ever expected faith or pietie from whose continuall assertious are wounds and blood horresco referens I tremble to relate it God damme me sink me or Heavens refuse 'em if they be not reveng'd upon these rescally Round-heads Thus they have God of tentimes in their mouthes but their hearts are far from him As they are criminous in their lives so they are penurious in their estates whose good husbandry is to put all upon their backs and shift for their bellies their lands houses and revenues being above in the aire Though it be true that many of them are Gentlemen well descended valiant of good naturall parts literature and education yet for the most part men of mean estates odious lives and desperate fortunes whose end is to plunder and pillage wheresoever they come and enrich themselves upon the spoils of any This covetous desire of rapine to make a prey of people hath been the great offence committed by our common Souldiers of late as well as by the Cavaliers who as they first began to practise it so they are I suppose more expert at it for they have neither fear of God nor respect of men before their eyes but would swim through a Sea of blood to their hoped haven and that they have violently and illegally taken away from his Majesties subjects their goods before their faces 't is irrefragably evident To draw all these lines to their center from these premisses the Inference is this These grand Apostates to the Common-wealth must not expect to be pardoned in this world till they be dispatched to the other I could nominate many more of the malignant party as Projectors Pattentees and other prerogative parasites Humanarum calamitatum mercatores as one ingeniously styles them who care not to undo a whole Kingdom so they may get benefit to themselves As also a giddy-headed multitude in the Land who are onely Time-servers and like weather-cocks will turn at any time to serve their own turn in the mean time by reason of ignorance and inability to discern what may be the issue and successe of those beginnings are led on simply to their own ruine But because I will not trench too farre upon the Readers patience I here desist Thus as in a Map ye may plainly see the Malignant Party who they are what they have done and at what they ayme For the close of all let us all shun their persons abstain from their actions and hate their intentions Though they be malignant to the whole Kingdom yet let not us be malevolent to our selves and let us not be so uncharitable to them as not to pray for them that either God would be pleased to convert or confound them Pray we therefore to the King of kings that he would take away those wicked ones from before the King that his Throne may be established in righteousnesse To draw this Tract to a period May they who have endeavour'd to divide the Head and the Body the King and his great Councell the Parliament like Strafford have their heads divided from their shoulders or like Achitophel be hang'd up by the neck This is the wish of one who is neither Papist Brownist Anabaptist nor Atheist but a Protestant and son of his Mother the Church of England FINIS