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A69637 Britannicus his pill to cvre malignancy, or, Frenzie now raigning amongst divers English Protestants which will not see the danger that their religion and liberties now lie in being the whole progresse of the adversaries long and continued plots briefly laid open and discovered : whereby the archest malignant will be either convinced or condemned and the weakest of the well-affected sufficiently strengthened and encouraged with all vigour to proceed with the Parliament in the defence of religion and liberty. Britannicus. 1644 (1644) Wing B4822; ESTC R5141 4,874 8

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Britannicus His Pill TO CVRE MALIGNANCY OR Frenzie now raigning amongst divers English Protestants which will not see the danger that their Religion and Liberties now lie in BEING The whole Progresse of the Adversaries long and continued Plots briefly laid open and discovered whereby the archest Malignant will be either convinced or condemned and the weakest of the well-affected sufficiently strengthened and encouraged with all vigour to proceed with the Parliament in the defence of Religion and Liberty Published by Authority London Printed for Robert White 1644. Britannicus his Pill to cure Malignancy I will begin with His Majesties Raign A strange Wife is prepared which according to the Scripture is a dangerous Preparative for a strange God surely they will turn their hearts after their Gods 1 Kin. 11. 2. This ground-work being laid they endeavour to perswade the King by fraud and subtiltie to bring in Popery and Slavery for the effecting whereof observe first the designe of the bringing in the German Horse the Billiting of Souldiers the frequent and untimely breaking and disolving Parliaments setting before his Majestie the example of France and his broken Parliaments in full power as an obiect of Emulation Then the Bishops and their Episcopall Creatures have publikely preached and in their discourse and writing indeavoured to maintain that opinion and argument That all we have is the Kings and he ought to do what he pleaseth as if God made all the world for a few Kings and not for the people and perswaded Him that Parliaments and Puritans were His Majesties chiefest enemies Moreover looke what endeavors have been used by the Bishops to cheat us of our Religion by degrees and pauses to set up Popery at one time would have made too great a noise but with a gentle hand and to do it so as it might steale upon us insensibly and should devour us but we should neither know nor see To have suspended all Orthodox preachers at once that would have been too conspicuous but by degrees First to suspend all Lectures as an order of Vagrants not to be tollerated in the Church Next forbid all Pastors preaching in their owne Churches in weeke dayes Then inhibit preaching on the Lords day in the afternoone under pretence of advance of Catechis●e soone after forbid all Praying but in the words of the Canon After this the Communion Table must be rayled in soon after it must be set in Altar Posture Then all must be compelled to come and kneel before it or not receive the Sacrament then it must be cryed up as Sanctum Sanctorum and that all mens faces must be towards it in Prayer Secondly to presse the Examples and practices of some as a great means to bring on the rest to dazle the eyes of the lesse judicious people of the Kingdome as my Lord Archbishop or Bishop bow versus Altare the Lords of the must honorable Order of the Garter at their instalment bow towards the Altar His Majesties Chapell is thus and thus adorned Thirdly an Edict for Recreation up on the Lords day is procured and it must be read by the Ministers Fourthly to Cast all out of the Ministery that will not be punctuall and full Conformists to the old Ceremonies Fiftly inioyning a fardell of new and unheard of Ceremonies and iniunctions Sixtly Prayers must be made and Proclamations read against our brethren the Scots lastly the new and unparelled oath for Episcopacy Thus you see how by degrees stratagems and Engines they indeavored to worke out those Arch-heriticks as they called all good and godly Ministers out of the Ministry As it was sometimes said to Eliah 1 Kings 19. him that escapeth the sword of Hazaell shall Iehu slay and him that escapeth the sword of Iehu shall Elisha slay so had they said him that escapeth the dint of the Ceremonies shall the book of sports slay and him that escapeth the book of sports shall the Proclamations slay and him that escapeth the Proclamations shall the Oath slay The chiefest and greatest fomenters and promoters of these s●cessive Stratagems we all know neither can any Malignants or Atheists deny but the Late Earle of Strafford and the Archbishop of Canterbury were the two great engines of this work and what manner of favorites both of them were at Court and what interests they had in His Maiestie and the Queen is apparant enough and by the events it doth too notoriously appeare The Archbishop was he that held Correspondency with Rome as by severall Letters may appeare and to whom the Cardinalls Cap from Rome was sent and he that indeavored to be papa alterius orbis This is he that altered the oath to be taken by the King at His Coronation and indeavored to overthrow and annihilate Magna Charta and to bring in Tiranny and Popery as by these and severall other Articles which are proved against him in the house of Peers by which his designe is sufficiently apparent what he intended for which it is hoped he shall receive suddenly his just reward Since these private designes was discovered and the War against the Scots became frustrate then brake out the Irish in Rebellion who are now esteemed his Majesties best and faithfull Subjects although it is apparent that the Irish Nation beares not only an inveterat hatred to the Brittish Nation and our Religion but even to the very beasts and Plants of the English by their cruell torments and massacres of two hundred thousand Protestants and the wasts and spoiles made upon the English Plants and Cattle as by severall Depositions taken upon Oath doth and may appeare and in their generall discourse they say they have and had the Kings Commission for what they have done or do and the horses or other Cattle they took away from the Protestants there they marked with the Queenes marke and usually called themselves the Queenes souldiers You may remember the Oath they have taken with all their power to uphold and maintain the free exercise of the Romane Catholike Faith and Religion and to obey and ratifie all the Orders and Decrees made and to be made by the supreame Councell of the Confederate Catholicks you may likewise take notice that thousands of Proclamations and Declarations how speedily and quickly they were read against the Scots but when the Irish Rebellion broke out first it was a long time neere two moneths before any Proclamation could be obtained against them though often pressed and desired by the Parliament and when obtained the Printer of the Proclamation by speciall command must print but forty such favour such countenance had that barbarous and most horrid Rebellion Remember also Generall Munro writ that about a yeare since the Earl of Antrim being going over out of England into Ireland was taken at Sea and about him was found severall papours and instructions whereby it doth plainly appeare as he writes that the designe was to root out and wholly extirpate the Protestant Religion in all the three