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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71091	Scripture vindicated from the mis-apprehensions, mis-interpretations, and mis-applications of Mr Stephen Marshall, [in] his sermon preached before the Commons House of Parliament, Feb. 23. 1641. and published by order of that House. : Also a militarie sermon, wherein [b]y the VVord of God, the nature and disposition of a rebell is discovered, and the kings true souldier described and characterized. / [B]y Edward Symmons ...	Symmons, Edward.	1645 (1645)	Wing S6349; ESTC R222629	80,878	99

sale by an Ordinance of the House and ●ome of the Members who it seems had drank downe a larger draught of his doctrine then the rest would have had it also decreed that the Irish should be rooted out from being a Nation they should all be put to the sword that so their very name might be had no more in remembrance for this indeed according to M. Marshall's phrase and instruction pag. 5. was fully to curse them vehemently to curse them and never to leave cursing them even to annihilate them by cursing them whereupon the Popish Irish fearing to be quite outgone in cruelty by these new Reformers grew desperate indeed and most outragiously mischievous against the English Nation and against all that professed the Protestant Religion And verily I doe beleeve that God was so highly displeased with those bloody purposes those over-harsh decrees those cursing doctrines so contrary to the Gospell from men professing the same that he did for these things sake suffer those wild and savage Irish to be more prevalent in that Kingdom and should I be in the case of those that either Preached such doctrines or had vented such cruell purposes or had layed out any mony for Irish lands or had been a means any way to provoke that people to be so outragiously desperate and destructive as they have been I beleeve my Conscience would tell me that God would lay to my charge the guilt of that Protestant English blood there shed and the King might justly lay unto me the losse of those his Subjects and I should alwaies think that blood would pursue me because I had not hated blood And hereby the way also let me suggest two things a Caveat and an observation 1. A Caveat to all my countrymen of England of what side or faction soever who begin now to be as bold with the lands and Estates of some in their own Nation as three years agoe they were with those of the Irish both in buying and selling the Buyers I would have but remember Ireland and thinke that by their good Bargains there God did foreadmonish them to beware how they venture here And the sellers I would have them remember Felton that killed the Duke of Buckingham and withall that their own Orders and doings have taught men to make no scruple of shedding blood 'T is no wisdome to put great spirits upon desperate courses the Beare will more willingly Hazard his life then part with his skinne to make good the word of the Hunter 2. An observation from the progresse of men in wayes of blood quam tument gustato sanguine fauces how dangerous the tast of blood is it makes even a sheep grow wolfeish si torrida parvus venit in ora cruor itur in omne nefas they that were lately accounted the persecuted flock of Christ having lapt a little of the blood of an Enemy how extreamly on the suddaine doe they thirst for the blood of their friends they who at first devoured in their expectations the lands of Strangers and panted after the destruction of the Popish Irish how greedy are they now become of the estates of their own Country-men and thirsty after the ruine of the Protestant English inter mensasque torosque Quae modo complexu foverunt pectora caedunt Whom lately they at bed and board Did brotherly embrace They now do slay with murdering sword And Brotherhood deface And yet I know 't is the opinion of some that this Effusion of English Bloud was primum intentione the first thing in the intentions of these unnaturall men and the Irish Combustions were onely raised as a mist to cloud their purpose at home that honest Eyes might not discerne it for notwithstanding M. Marshalls phrase to help the distressed people in Ireland 't is too well known that the present prevailing Faction amongst those whom in the next words he calls the Captaines and Leaders of the Lords Host were not onely neglective themselves in affording ayde but also obstructive to his sacred Majesty who in pitty to those poore distressed would have ventured his Royall Person to have carried comfort to them so irkesome was it to his Pious Soule to heare that any of his Subjects should want that protection which throughout the time of his sole Government they so happily had enjoyed Sod latebat Anguis in Herba there was a pad in the Straw which every one did not then see the maine designe or worke to be done was to destroy the Government of Gods Church and to overthrow Monarchy in this Kingdome and to effect this the Shipping and Militia of the Kingdome must be griped into their hands to which purpose there was to be aliquid apparens above board to gaine some beliefe to Iealousies and Feares and therefore knowing the discontentments and disposition of the Irish Nation they cut of their Governours Head and did providently forbeare to send any other to succeed him that so they might render to them an advantage to rebell and to themselves a faire pretence to be possessed of the Men Monyes and Ammunition of this Kingdome Which when they had got Ireland is neglected the poore distressed people there are massacred the Subsidies given for their ayde and the Contribution gathered for their reliefe is imployed another way many of our gallant men who at first went thither to their helpe for want of timely supplies are slaine for had they lived a while longer 't was feared they might have done their King too much good service at their owne home and the rest of the Armies there abiding were well nigh famished for want of maintenance which they could not obtaine at last but upon condition they would first subscribe to a kind of new dependance upon these new State men and two of the Members of the House of Commons are sent over to require it of them And here for the Confirmation of this Opinion let me declare by the way two things which I shall desire the judicious Reader seriously to thinke upon and let him conclude from the same what his owne Reason and Conscience shall suggest 1. What I have understood of His Majesties Princely care and wisdome to prevent those Irish miseries had that Kingdom been so happy as to have tasted the fruits thereof When they had cut off Strafford's Head the King providently foreseeing that those forces raised there by the said Earle for his assistance in the Northern expedition if they continued together being Irish and Papists might be mischievous in that Kingdome after their Governours death who had he lived was both able and ready enough to have kept them under from Rebelling therefore his Majesty ordered they should be sent out from thence and had granted their service to the Ambassadors of Portugall and Spaine soliciting the same at that time in the behalfe of their severall Princes in which particular had not His Majesty been crossed it had been impossible in human reason there should have been