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A93350	The Protestant informer, or Information to all Protestants: shewing the causes and end, of this unjust warre, plotted by Romish Jesuites, and now managed by English papists, and their abbettors against this Parliament, and in this all other Parliaments: proving by forepast proceedings, present actions and persons acting that: this warre is no new quarrell, nor caused by the militia but divellish malice, against the true Protestant religion, and lawes of this kingdom, to set up, and establish popery, and hath beene fifteene, or sixteene yeares last past, preparing. Also justifying this Parliaments proceedings, by nature, law, and religion, against the false calumniations of all malignants: with an exhortation, to courage, liberality, patience, and constancy, to the hazard of life, and fortunes: in defence of Gods true worship; your own rights, liberties, and this present Parliament; with confidence of a blessing, and victory, like Caleb, and Ioshua: for your God is with you. Published for information to the ignorant. By Gregory Thims Gentl.	Thims, Gregory.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4038A; Thomason E91_17; ESTC R13261	21,917	24

in opposition against the Law will force and destroy the Ordinance of the Law the sword by the equality of the Law may defend the Law But you will say You desire peace Answ So do all good men cursed be the man that desires it not so that it be such a peace as hath assurance of truth joyned with it But to desire peace or to accept a peace without truth will prove a cursed bondage a remedy worse then the disease Although War be a great punishment and the effects miserable yet a just War is better then an unjust peace a just War will establish a true peace but an unjust peace will prove a more destructive War our peace with Idolaters hath caused this War but to have a peace with their Idols too will be our present ruine Can we expect any good and happy peace so long as the whoredoms of Jezebel are so many when Israel chose new Gods then War was in the 2 Kin. 19 22. Iudg 5. 8. Iudg. 2. 12 13 14 gates when Israel followed the gods of the Nations and worshipped Baalim God brought upon them the sword of the Nations and delivered them into the hands of the spoylers that spoyled them But England hath followed the Idols of the Papists and worshipped Baalim therefore God hath brought upon England the sword of the Papists and may most justly deliver us up into their hands to be spoyled and ruined Eighteen yeers ago the Lord delivered them into our hands as his and our enemies to be destroyed for their Idolatry or at least to be banished for their Treason but we spared and cherished them to be as thorns in our sides and their gods to be a snare unto us We have spared them as Benhadad was spared by mercifull though wicked Acbab and 1 Kin. 20. 42. 1 Kin. 22 37. as God punished Acbab and his people by the hand of Benhadad and his people so is the King and the people of England punished at this day by the hands and plots of bloody Jesuites and Papists Their designe is great upon our King upon us and upon all his Majesties Kingdoms God rebuke them and deliver us And that we may not fail of deliverance in due time let us all of all sorts sexes and conditions seek the Lord by hearty humiliation and resolved Reformation and in the first place with zeal and detestation set our selves against that sin of Idolatry as Phineba● did against Zimri and Cozbi that Numb 25 11. so we may appease Gods anger if we with all our hearts seek truth it will bring us to true peace with God and men We have sought to the Parliament for Peace but they cannot give it us We have sought by humble Petition to the King for Peace and that procured our further prejudice For while we sought for the peace of the whole Kingdom we received from some of that malignant bloody Counsell an Answer altogether contrary to our expectation and after it a Letter to the former effect both tending to stirre up Warre where yet by Gods mercy none is in the great and pupulous City London That because they cannot destroy us themselves they would set us to destroy one another which God forbid We know that while we hold the band of Unity we are able by Gods assistance to defend our selves But if we be once divided we lay our selves open to every adversary without resistance to be devoured We will be warned by Jerusalems misery that once famous City of the world by See losephus in War Ierus such sedition brought to be a heap of stones And by the experiences of the bloody cruelties and mercilesse plundrings of all those Towns that have or do by such division give them entrance Banbury had as much securing as King could give them and yet plundred and the man M. Vivors by name who was the chiefest agent to bring them in was most plundered But we will honour our King and hazard our lives and fortunes for His Person Posterity and Parliament to rescue them from the bloody hands of that malignant Counsell and Army of Cavaliers and will assure His Majesty of safety and security in this City if His Majesty will be pleased to come to His Parliament and to us peaceably as our King and to the Parliament as his great and faithfull Many Procters Prebends c. and mercinary trades men for profits and favour care neither for the welfare of King nor Kingdom If we lose this Parliament we must expect to have greater without all remedy Exo. 7. 11 Exod. 14. 10 11. Icr. 5. 25. Councell and besides them we know no other though some who seek honour from the King rather then honour to the King divide between his Majesty and them We cannot forget how much we all groaned under the burdens of oppressions late layed upon us by the hard task-masters that were set over us and then we all cryed fot a Parliament to ease us Our Bondage had some resemblance to that of the people of Israel in Aegypt and so hath our ingratitude For whilst their deliverance was working their burdens grew greater and then they murmured and so have some of us They cryed for deliverance and God heard their cry we cryed for a Parliament and God graciously yea miraculously gave us a Parliament But because malignant Counsellors as the Magicians of Aegypt have hindered our present deliverance we murmure against the Parliament as they against Moses and Aaron God led them thorow the Wildernesse to prove them and they said They bad rather have died in Aegypt c. Thus God proves us by some opposition and some say It was better with us when we endured our former oppressions but consider not that our sins have provoked God and therefore he suffers our King to be misled for a great punishment to us nor understand that our impenitency hinders good things from us and stop the Parliaments proceedings We are a foolish and sinfull people that love our sins and lose our Liberty we prefer the twentieth part of our money before our Religion as the Gadarens their swine before Christ But let us not tempt God as the Israelites did nor with the multitude of Atheisticall Libertines revile our Moses and Aarons much lesse give assistance to destroy them and our selves left we be found to fight against God We know what became of those wicked men that east an evill report upon the Land of Promise and discouraged the people saying Mighty men were in the Land that could not be overcome But thus some do by reproachfull speeches and spreading venomous Pamphlets and lying Fictions to the dishonour of this chrice honourable Parliament as if the Parliament had brought these things to this passe to make us die by the sword and our children to be a prey c. Thus the Israelites murmured and were destroyed by the Plague before the Lord Numb 14. 37. and all their Carkasses fell in