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A90057	A declaration of the Right Honourable the Earle of Newcastle His Excellency, &c in answer of six groundlesse aspersions cast upon him by the Lord Fairefax, in his late warrant bearing date Feb. 1642.	Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.; Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, Baron, 1584-1648.	1643 (1643)	Wing N882; Thomason E92_17; ESTC R13716	7,933	13

disciplinarian● for malignants and your Anabaptists again your Brownists c. Thirdly you charge me to have invaded this County of York An insolent and presumptuous Challenge Can the Kings Forces be said to make an Invasion in His own Dominions The second blow may be said to make the fray but it is the first that makes the Invasion Say in good earnest Did not your Forces first make Inrodes into the Bishoprick of Durham under my charge where they had no pretence of employment Did they not rob and plunder sundry of His Majesties liege people at Darnton in such cruell manner that the prime Officer of the Town died of grief within three or four dayes Did they not give an assault upon Piers-bridge to their losse And when I come to chastise these Intruders can it be called an Invasion Neither did I then set foot into this County but upon the earnest solicitation and intrerty of the prime Nobility and Gentry of York-shire to secure them from your violence and oppression If Protection be Invavasion then this is Invasion I could nourish little hopes that these restlesse spirits who could not be bounded within their own calling would be contained within the limits of a County Or that they would spare me any longer then untill they had fully subdued their Neighbours and fellow Subjects at home Neither could I have been ever able to have given an Account to His sacred Majesty for such an unpardonable omission if being Armed by His goodnesse with sufficient power to represse such tumultuous disorders I should see before mine eyes His loving and loyall Subjects trampled upon by His and their Enemies in His Cause and for His sake and whilest they seek to me for succour I should be wanting in my Duty to my dread Soveraign and my necessary assistance to them All this while the Lincoln-shire Forces are quite forgotten they were Brethren no Invaders The fourth Charge ariseth yet higher For killing and destroying some numbers of the Religious Protestant Subjects Where did ever my Forces kill one man who did not take up Arms against us or was not ready to have killed us first if he could The weight of guiltlesse blood is more heavy then a mountain The stain thereof not to be washed out with all the water in the Ocean but onely by the tears of Repentance and the blood of Christ This weight and guilt of blood shall lie heavy upon the heads of those men and of their seed after them who have been the authors and fomentors of these horrid distractions when Peace shall be upon the head of our Soveraign and His Seed and His Throne for ever They that take Sword without lawfull calling shall perish by the Sword And he that sheddeth mans blood without a Commission from the King of Heaven who onely hath originall Power over the lives of his creatures and no multitude of men in the World collective or representative whatsoever by man shall his blood be shed The supreme Magistrate is Gods Vice-gerent and beareth not the Sword in vain But those who presume to use the Sword and can derive no power from Him it were meet for them to make their Accounts betimes with God lest they die in the estate of Murtherers both of themselves and others both of soul and body It is an easie thing for an Orator to cast a mist before the eyes of vulgar people and make them a plausible Discourse of the Cause of God the true Religion of suppressing Superstition and Idolatry and setting up the right Worship of the Lord They had hard hearts if they could not afford themselves a good word But admitting not granting all this to be true which is most false will this Plea yet serve before the Judge of Heaven and Earth Nothing lesse These very men and their Predecessors have taught the contrary have protested the contrary have printed the contrary Ant●mota certamina before these unhappy differences began whilest mens eyes were not fascinated with faction and prejudice Then themselves condemned this very Doctrine which now they practice as Antichristian and Anabaptisticall and their present practice which they now defend as seditious and sinfull this would be truely laid to heart And withall That if the Lord Fairfax and his friends had been men of their words or performed that Agreement to which Honour and Justice did oblige them all the blood which hath been spilled or shall be shed hereafter in this Cause had been saved and upon their score it will be cast in the end both by God and man It would be known who they are whom emphatically if not exclusively he calls Protestants Are they the successors in Doctrine of those first Reformers in Germany whom from a Protestation made they named Protestants No what these old Protestants allowed and practised as lawfull and necessary these new Protestants condemn as superstitious and Antichristian This is beyond the power of Omnipotency to make both parts of a contradiction to be true Protestants whilest they continue the same to be no Protestants and no Protestants to be Protestants If they do cordially love the thing as they do hugge the name why do we not all shake hands and become friends And so from murthering their bodies he proceeds to starving their souls that is By banishing and imprisoning the Zealous Ministers This is my fifth Charge I envy no mans zeal but wish them Discretion proportionable to their Devotion To satisfie their Charge home first de jure what may be done It hath ever been accounted lawfull to binde a phrenetick mans hands Shall it be lawfull for these seditious Orators to bring railing Accusations to the Pulpits daily against the Lords Anoynted such as Michael the Arch-Angel durst not bring against the Devill and yet be free from question May they prostitute the Ordinance of God to the rebellious designs of ambitious men yet be free from question Could these Ambassadours of Peace keep themselves to that Theme which was bequeathed to them by the Prince of Peace they might long enjoy their Benefices and Liberties yea with some connivence to a truely tender conscience But when a man may frequent their Sermons a whole yeer and hear nothing but incentives to War shedding the blood of the ungodly and joyning with others to make a great Sacrifice to the Lord may not a man justly say to them as Queen Elizabeth sometimes to an Ambassadour Hei mihi vocem Pacem expectavi cur Belli clamorem audio Are not these the same men who teach in their own Case That he deserves more rigorous punishment who shall infect the Souls of men with poysoned Doctrine then he that shall destroy their bodies with poyson Are not these the men who upon the same grounds have silenced or imprisoned or to use their own phrase banished from their Churches so many of our Reverend Learned and Worthy Divines thorowout the whole Kingdome to sub-introduce Heteredox and contentious persons in their Rooms and may