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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85282	The fifth of November, or, The popish and schismaticall rebells. With their horrid plots, fair pretences, & bloudy practices, weighed one against another: and in opposition unto both two things asserted. 1 That the supreame authority of establishing, reforming, and vindicating religion is placed in the King. 2 That religion is not to be established or reform'd in bloud.		1644 (1644)	Wing F891A; Thomason E43_8; ESTC R23274	14,141	27

that this fortresse which you build will be your overthrow this fire you kindle will burne your selves these knives you forge will be tempered in your owne intrails and that thereby you wil leave neither of your selves nor your league but a most pitifull shameful memory In the mean while Protestants will grow so famous for their loyalty unto every truth reveled in holy Scripture that the very name wil be amiable had in veneration and that Religion no more shaken by the breath of factious spirits then the raies of the Sun are diverted by the wind shall stand immoveable as a rock against every storme from what point soere it bloweth And your selves when you shall consider the patience and constancie and successe of this Church in bearing the sharp brunt of your malicious fury when you shall with a more sad eye look upon her whom you have so often pierced you will relent I doubt not But when you shall see her in bayes triumphing over all her enemies when you shall behold her drest again in her ancient attire of decencie and order wanting nothing but the neglects and nakednesse that are on the one side and the rags superfluities that are on the other side amongst you when you shall find her neither scandalous in the choice quality nor defective in the number and proportion of her externall rites and ornaments I am perswaded you will lay aside those prejudices that kept you thus long from her communion and with all alacrity cast your selves into her secure bosome and most dear embracements But if you be either Jesuits or Anabaptists I feare though there be nothing else your obstinacy will be a sufficient rub in the way to your conversion which is the onely thing makes me doubt of it The fifth of NOVEMBER THIS Day is consecrated to the memory of a happy deliverance from a bloody horrible and odious act to God and man a matter distastfull to me to remember Speed in the life of King James or to write of saith our Chronologer that it abhorres my very soule to fill my pen with inke or to blot my paper with these black spots of darknesse A stratagem invented by him that blowes the bellowes of destruction fashioned in the forge of the hottomlesse pit It was the Powder-Treason a plot to blow up and destroy at once our gracious King of blessed memory with his royall Issue the whole stock of Nobility the glory of the Clergy and the chiefe flower of the Commons A designe so barbarous and devillish that it was able to make the earth to cremble and the heavens to looke black with horrour and astonishment But alaâ— whilst I should pursue the flying memory of this I am surprised by another Powder-Treason which presents and gives fire upon me A Treason so like the former that had not the first bin crusht in the shell and this latter nonrisht to the growth of a great gigantine stature you might very well have imagined them to be the issue of the same wombe and however you may call them sworne Brethren without any disparagement to your Judgements They runne a great way parallel at last these get the start by committing actuall rebellion and out-run them They have both the same place the same plot the same plea for their execrable treason 1. The stage upon which this Tragedy was to have been acted by the Salt-peter men of Rome was the House of Parliament The designe was to blow up that and so it hath prov'd here Our wishes for the assembling of such a Senate were rather passions then prayers as if omnipotency it selfe had had no other way left to restore and secure our happinesse and Almighty God answered us as it were with another passion He gave us a Parliament as he did Israel a King in his anger And under the influence of this anger which was more then enough to blast and blow up all our hopes that way some of that assembly abused His Majesties grace and clemency they provoked him to anger too He was driven our and after him most and the most eminent of the Lords and Commons by which meanes we are deprived of the present benefit of all those acts of grace vouchsafed by our Soveraigne and that which should have beene our Phisicke had all the Ingredients beene tempered together is become our poyson Ibid. As the place is the same so the plot is the same Their intent when that irreligious atchievement had been performed was to surprize the remainder of the Kings issue to alter Religion and the Government invade the Kingdome by strangers What aimes here hath beene at an alteration you all know The standard of our publike devotions is taken downe Church-Government voted downe Sir Edward Deerings booke and it is asserted in print by one that was sometimes an eminent man amongst them that it was concluded if the Lords were brought downe to the House of Commons and the King made as lowe as a Lord the worke were done And if their Cannon at Edge-hill or Newbery had reached the King and cut off the two Glive branched now about his Table what would be done with the rest of the royall Issue we may easily imagine As for the invasion of the Kingdom by strangers they have endeavoured and offered faire to make a purchase of it having by Commissioners to that purpose bidden earnest and strooke hands with the Brethren of the Covenant for their advancing in upon us in a warlike manner The plot is the same the plea is the same too Religion is made the stalking horse to Rebellion by both Parties The Jesuited and Anabaptized party rowe with the same Oares saile by the same wind and compasse though their coasts be as farre distant as Amsterdam from Rome They justifie their Treasons and King-killing upon the same grounds and pretended authorities They are like Sampsons Foxes though their faces looke contrary wayes they are coupled by the tailes where they carry those fire-brands that destroy both Church and State and betweene them Christian Kings are crucified as our Saviour was betweene two Theeves The letter from Dublin of the third of October 1643. to a Member of the House of Commons telleth us what precedents the Rebels now in England made for those of the Romish party in Ireland the words are these There was a Fryar taken in the last expedition into Conaight about whom was found a collection of all your votes Ordinances and Declarations in England very carefully perused and marked with short marginall notes by him and out of them a large manuscript framed by himselfe and intituled An Apology of the Catholicks of Ireland or a Justification of their defensive arms for the preservation of their Religion the maintenance of His Majesties rights and prerogatives the naturall just defence of their lives estates the liberty of their country by the practise of the State of England the Judgment and

The fifth of November OR The POPISH and SCHISMATICALL REBELLS With their horrid Plots fair Pretences bloudy Practices weighed one against another AND In Opposition unto both Two things asserted 1 That the supreame Authority of establishing reforming and vindicating Religion is placed in the King 2 That Religion is not to be established or reform'd in bloud 1 CHRON. 22.7 8 9 10. And David said to Solomon My Son as for me it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God But the word of the Lord came to me saying thou hast shed bloud abundantly and hast made great wars thou shalt not build an house unto my name because thou hast shed much bloud upon the earth in my sight Behold a son shal be born unto thee who shal be a man of rest and I wil give him rest from all his enemies round about for his name shal be Solomon and I wil give peace and quietnes unto Israel in his daies He shal build an house for my name 1 KINGS 6.7 So there was neither hammer nor axe nor any toole of Iron heard in the house while it was in building OXFORD Printed for H. Hall and W. Webb 1644. To the Popish Rebell To the Schismaticall Rebell I Take the boldnesse for the present to put you both together for I need not be at the charge of a several glasse to represent you If you will take the paines to look upon one anothers eyes you may therein discover your own pictures I know the comparison will be odious to you both you think that none but a blind man would father this resemblance Herein you are like two women equally famed for their deformity yet cannot endure to be told they are of the same complexion Why should you be angry that I take notice of your reconciliation when all the world that runs not a madding with you see you shake hands together I have read of waters that run unmixt in the same channel What communion is grown betwixt you I know not but your course speaks you both to have drawn and drunk at the same fountain Neither of you commits a wickednesse so lewd or broaches an Errour so grosse and palpable but can doth pretend an infallibility to warrant it The Oracles of holy men inspired were never uttered wâ—th more confidence and zeale then your blasphemies against both God and King and both of you by murdering such as are faithfull to their Church and Soveraigne climb the ladder to your pretended martyrdome You have divorced that couple which the Son of God came from Heaven to knit together and instead of Mercy Truth which were sweetly met together instead of righteousnes peace which were wont most lovingly to kisse each other your execrable practices have from time to time bin ready to betray us to those fatall meetings wherein bloud toucheth bloud Though you be together by the eares in other matters you are together by the hearts in treason and rebellion and your design is as good as that which procured the atonement of Herod and Pontius Pilate Since Lisymachus Nicanor did congratulate your offer of the right hand of fellowship in the treachery how strangely have you younger brethren been encouraged What a progresse have you made since you walkt by the staffe of his instructions Me thinks the holy leagues are entred upon the Stage of England to play those parts over here which they did in France in the time of the third Henry The same designs are here cloathed with the same pretences Their intent was saith the Historian to incroach upon the King to leave him nothing but a vain shadow of Royal authority under the conduction and direction of their tyrannie to make their way to this devilish design the fairer they cast scandalous aspersions upon all the Kings actions to render them odious and intolerable And lest the smooth glasse of peace should represent things in their true proportions undeceive the people the waters must be kept troubled to make them appeare on the Kings part crooked and distorted The people are stirred up to oppose the Kings edicts of peace and desires of accommodation In the interim the Leaguers goe on pretending they were for God for the honour and increase of Religion the utter extirpation of Heresie to preserve the estate and Crown of the King and to maintain the rights priviledges of the Subject yet they swore obedience to the General appointed without yea against the Kings commandement and engaged their lives honours estates to adhere unto him and all that would not associate in this holy league were persecuted as enemies to God rebels to the state perturbators of the publike good I beseech you what difference does the late Covenant bear to distinguish it from that holy League Are they not as much alike as a bond is like an obligation Do not therefore allow that in your selves which you abominate in one another but take notice from one anothers practices how pernitious and detestable those principles are that your severall sides do build upon His Holines can give no better dispensatioÌ„ for murder or rebellion then John of Leyden and what is treason in subjects that dissent in other matters from you is a crime of the same complexion in your selves though your Assembly of Divines joyne with the remnant of your Members to Vote it otherwise Therefore let me expostulate with you in the language of the Historian What think you to do O you Covenanters and Leaguers for God for the faith for the King You undertake Arms for God who desires nothing but peace You publish Rebellion he commands obedience you trouble the rest and quietnesse of a Christian King God willeth us to endure at the hand of a Prince although he be a Pagan you doe it for God whose name you call upon and deny the power you do it for God who detects your actions and knows your thoughts you do it for God that will confound al those that breed confusioÌ„ among the people you undertake wars for religion and nothing hinders that more then wars you fight for holines and yet you authorize blasphemies plant Atheisme impiety and despising of devotion in all places you march under pretence of the Churches cause and yet spoile the Clergie and destroy the Churches c. You say tâ—s for the King it it be where are his Commissions if for his service where are his coÌ„mandements If for him why do you it without him If for his obedience wherfore do you adhere to the head of that league covenant which is made against him can you serve two Masters be bound by one oath to two contraries c. Know you not that all bearing of Arms is treason without the Kings authority That the Subject cannot make any league without the Prince c. Pardon me I beseech you saith he Nobles Princes Prelats Lords Gentlemen if I tel you

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