the generality of the People discharging Counsellors and Iudges of their Allegiance and threatning them with Excommunication in case they disobeyed the Assembly All this they did according to the Covenant and whether This was Religion or Ambition let the World judge These Affronts drew the King down with an Army to the Borders and with two miles of Barwick the two Bodies had an Enterview March 28. 1639. But the Scots craving a Treaty his Majesty most graciously accorded it Commissioners were appointed Articles agreed upon and a Pacification Concluded Iune 17. Not one Article of this Agreement was observ'd on the Covenanters part but immediately upon the Discharge of his Majesties Forces the Scots brake forth into fresh Insolencies and Encroachments upon the Prerogative addressing to the French King for assistance against their Native Soveraign And yet the Quarrel was as they pretended for the Protestant Religion and against Popery In August 1640. they entred England and upon a Treaty at Rippon soon after a cessation is agreed upon referring the decision of all differences to a more General Treaty at London In November began the Long Parliament and now the Scene is London Where with great License and Security Parties are made and Insolences against the Government committed and Authorised under protection of the Scotch Army and the City-Tumults By degrees matters being prepar'd and ripened they found it opportune soon after to make something a more direct attempt upon the Soveraignty but by request first and resolving if that way fail to try to force it In Ian they Petition for the Militia In February they secure the Tower and in March Petition again for 't but so that they Protest if his Majesty persist to deny it they are Resolv'd to take it And the next day it is Resolv'd upon the Question That the Kingdom be forthwith put into a Posture of defence by Authority of both Houses of Parliament In April 1642. the Earl of Warwick seizes the Navy and Sir Iohn Hotham Hull Refusing the King entrance which was Iustified by an Ensuing Vote and his Majesties Proclayming him Traytor for it was Voted a Breach of Privilege In May the pretended Governour of Hull sends out Warrants to raise the Trayned Bands and the King then at York forbids them moving the Country for a Regiment of the Trayned Foot and a Troop of Horse for the Guard of his Royal Person whereupon it was Voted That the King seduced by wicked Counsell intended to make a Warr against his Parliament and that whosoever should assist him were Traytors They proceed then to corrupt and displace divers of his Servants forbidding others to go to him They stop and seize his Majesties Revenue and declare that whatsoever they should Vote is not by Law to be Questioned either by the King or Subjects No Precedent can limit or bound their proceedings A Parliament may dispose of any thing wherein the King or People have any right The Sovereign Power resides in Both Houses of Parliament The King hath no Negative Voyce The levying of Warr against the Personal commands of the King though accompanied with his presence is not a levying of Warr against the King but a levying Warr against his Laws and Authority which they have power to declare is levying Warr against the King Treason cannot be committed against his Person otherwise then as he was Intrusted They have Power to judge whether he discharge his Trust or not that if they should follow the highest precedents of other Parliaments Patterns there would be no cause to complain of want of Modesty or Duty in them and that it belonged only to them to Judge of the Law Having stated and extended their Powers by an Absurd Illegal and Impious severing of the Kings Person from his Office their next work is to put Those Powers in Execution And to subject the sacred Authority of a Lawfull Monarch to the Ridiculous and Monstrous Pageantry of a Headlesse Parliament and That 's the Business of the 19. Propositions demanding That the great affairs of the Kingdom and Militia may be menaged by consent and Apprebation of Parliament all the great affairs of State Privy Councell Ambassadours and Ministers of State and Judges be chosen by Them that the Government Education and Marriage of the Kings Children be by Their consent and approbation and all the Forts and Castles of the Kingdom put under the Command and Custody of such as They should approve of and that no Peers to be made hereafter should sit and Vote in Parliament They desire further that his Majesty would discharge his Guards Eject the Popish Lords out of the House of Peers and put the Penal Lawes against them strictly in Execution and finally that the Nation may be govern'd either by the Major part of the Two Houses or in the Intervals of Parliament by the Major part of the Councell and that no Act of State may be esteemed of any validity as proceeding from the Royal Authority without Them Upon These terms they insisted and Rais'd a Warr to Extort them So that 't is clear they both design'd and fought to Dethrone his Majesty and exercise the Soveraign Power Themselves which was to suit their Liberty of Acting to That of Sitting and to make themselves an Almighty as well as an Everlasting Parliament CAP. IV. The Instruments and Means which the Conspirators imployed to make a Party THat Their Design was to Usurp the Government is Manifest Now to the Instruments and Sleights they us'd to compass it The Grand Projectors knew very well that the strength of their Cause depended upon the favour of the Ignorant and Licencius Multitude which made them court all people of That Mixture to their Party for men of Brain and Conscience would never have agreed to a Conspiracy against so clear a Light so just an Interest and Those they found their fast Friends whom neither the Horrour of Sin nor the brightest evidence of Reason was able to work upon To fit and dispose Both Humours to their purpose the first scruple they Started was Religion which taken as they used it in the external form and jâ—ngle of it is beyond doubt the best Cloke for a Knave and the best Rattle for a Fool in Nature Under This Countenance the Murther of the King pass'd for a Sacrifice of Expiation and those Brute-Animals that scarce knew the Bible from the Alcoran were made the Arbitratours of the Difference The fear of Popery was the Leading Iealousie which Fear was much promoted by Pamphlets Lectures and Conventicles Still coupling Popery and Prelacy Ceremonies and the Abominations of the Whore by these resemblances of the Church of England to That of Rome tacitly instilling and bespeaking the same Disaffection to the one which the people had to the other Their Zeal was first employ'd upon the Names of Priests and Altar the Service-book Church-habits and Ceremonies From Thence
have no Cause to Complein of any Wrong or Oppressions Contrary to their Iust Rights and Liberties To the Preservation whereof he holds himself in Conscience as well obliged as of his prerogative This Answer though Clear and Full as possible to any just Intention did not yet Relish and the pretended Exception was not to the Matter of it but the Forme So that a New Petition is agreed upon for a more formal Answer Which his Majesty taking notice of Prevents with a Le droit soit fait comme il est Desirè This Grant finish'd Foundation of the Kings Ruine Now see the Return they made him for This Goodnesse how they Requited This Benignity and Trust. The Commissions Of Loan and Excize are Instantly Cancell'd and a Scandalous Remonstrance is Presented to his Majesty with the Bill of Subsidies Upon which the King reflects as he had Cause with some Displeasure and drawes a Stinging and a Punctuall Answer to it This puts the Commons upon Another Remonstrance against Tonnage and Poundage which Provok'd the King to give a sodain End to That Session Declaring before his Assent to the Bills The true Intent of what he Granted in That Petition And that as it was the Profession of Both Houses in the time of Hammering That Petition no way to Trench upon his Prerogative so he could not be conceiv'd to have Granted any New but only to have Confirm'd the Antient Privileges of his Subjects And here his Majesty Prorogues This Parliament In Ian. following they Meet again and Appoint Two Committees The One for Religion the Other for Civill Affairs And These are to Inspect Abuses and lay open the Kings Misgovernments to the People In the Heat of their haste his Majesty sends Secretary Coke upon an Interâ—eding Message to them with all the Gentlenesse Imaginable Whereat the House takes Snuffe and calls to Adjourn In short the King Adjourns them from Ianuary to the 2. of March and Then being Met Sir Iohn Eliot begins with a Bitter Invective against the Lord Treasurer After which the Speaker acquaints the House with his Majesties Command of their Adjournment till the 10th They give him a Check for his Peins and follow their Businesse Up rises Sir Iohn again and Offers a Remonstrance against Tonnage and Poundage to their Reading which both Speaker and Clerk Refusing Hee Reads it Himself When it should be put to the Vote whether or no to be Presented to the King the Speaker excuses himself as Commanded by the King to Leave the House and endeavouring to Rise he was forcibly kept in his Chaire till as the Protestation of the House was Read as Follows First Whosoever shall bring in Innovation of Religion or by favour seek to introduce Popery or Arminianisme or other Opinions disagreeing from the true Orthodox Church shall be reputed a capitall Enemy to this Kingdome and Common-wealth Secondly Whosoever shall Counsell or Advise the Taking or Levying of the Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage not being Granted by Parliament or shall be an Actor or Instrument therein shall be likewise reputed a Capitall Enemy to this Common-wealth Thirdly If any man shall voluntarily yield or Pay the said Subsidies of Tonnage or Poundage not being Granted by Parliament he shall be reputed a Betrayer of the Liberties of England and an Enemy to this Common-wealth Upon Notice of These Distempers the King sends for the Sergeant of the Mace and the House refuses him Whereupon the Usher of the Black Rod is Dispatch'd to Dissolve them but finding no Entrance at length the Guard is call'd for and Then the Members Vanish After These Provocations and Contempts The King Himselfe Dissolves them This was the Embryo of our late Rebellion and the Indulgence of That Gratious Prince to That Ungrateful Faction was That which Ruin'd him Whether Design'd or not may appear from the Sequel Divers of the most Popular and Active persons in This Contest being found afterward among his Mortal Enemies in the Warr. Having Trac'd the Mischief to This Head we may be shorter with the Rest and taking for Granted that neither Scotland would be out at a Godly Project nor the English Faction upon any Terms reject their Brotherly Kindnesse we may rationally presume that they were of Intelligence in our succeeding Troubles especially if we observe what Time they kept in their motions towards one another In that which follows we shall not so much apply our selves to the Order of the Story as to the Noting of those Fatalities which had a most particular Influence upon the Life and Fortune of That Incomparable Prince In 1634. a Seditious Practice was discover'd in Scotland and the Lord Balmerino detected to be one of the Prime Conspiratours His Father out of Nothing became Chief Secretary to King Iames whom he Betray'd the Treachery was Prov'd and the Traytour Condemn'd but by the Mercy of the King Restored both in Bloud and Estate So was the Son found Guilty and Pardon'd likewise by the Successour of the Father's Master Never in shew a more remors-ful Penitent Yet in the next Conspiracy of 1637. who deeper In again then this Presbyterian It would be hard to find Two Persons of That Leaven to whom the Late King ever refused his Grace or that did not abuse it How easily had the Scotch Rebellion been Crush'd in the First Tumult had not his Majesty's Excessive Goodness ore-slipped the Time of Doing it by Force expecting their Return by fairer means He that would read the greatest Opposition that ever was in Nature of Truth and Falshood Kindnesse and Malice Mercy and Ingratitude Piety and Wickedness Let him but Read the Story of the Scotch-Rebellion in 1638. drawn by his Majestie 's expresse Command The Perjuries Insolencies Forgeries and Usurpations of the Holy Kirk at Glasgow and then say if ever such a Contest of Light and Darkness as betwixt That Saint and Those Monsters Nor was his Majesty's Clemency abused more then his Confidence betray'd for to the Publick Mockery they made of his Indulgence was added the Private Correspondence and Treachery of a Presbyterian Faction in his Counsell His Majesty himself avers as much This says the King in his large Declaration Our Commissioner did not adventure to communicate with the whole Counsell because he did know that some of our Counsellours were Covenanters in Their Hearts though for Dangerous ends they had forborn the Subscribing of the Covenant with their Hands and that They would acquaint the Covenanters with it with whom they kept Private Meetings The next Eminent Transaction was upon the Enterview of the Two Armies near Berwick where his Sacred Majesty had the Rebells Effectually at his Mercy and exhausted himself and his Friends to the Despair almost of ever Raysing another Army Yet even There also was his Majesty persuaded such was his Royall Charity and Tendernesse for his People upon the Supplication of the
they stept to the Demolishing of Church-Windows Images Crosses the Persons of the Bishops went to 't next and Then the Office Thus far the Rabble Carry'd it the Leaders at last sharing the Revenues and here 's the Reformation of the Hierarchy complete When by these Scandalous Impostures the Duties of a Christian and a Subject Conscience and Loyalty seem once to enterfere what can be looked for but Rebellion from a Loose Multitude that think themselves discharged of their Allegeance All Governments are lyable to Abuses and so was Ours among the Rest where Personal Faylings and Excesses were emprov'd into the Fame of an Universal Prophanenesse or Apostacy Nor did they reckon it enough to Expose and Aggravate Particular miscarriages and Humane Fraylties but the most horrid Crimes Imaginable were without either Proof or Ground or Colour laid to the Charge of the Episcopal and Royal Party Both which were ruin'd by the same Methode of Calumny and Sedition The main Encouragement to their Attempt was that The Presbyterians had a strong Party in the Kings Councel and this His Majesty himself takes notice of in his Large Declaration of 1639. Pag. 124. by which means the Kings Counsels were both Distracted and Betray'd and the Conspiratours Secure at Worst of Mediatours for a Commodious Peace in case they Fayl'd of a Successful Warr. Nor did this Confidence deceive them in the following Enterview of the Armies near Barwick where the Covenanters had been almost as easily Beaten as look'd upon had not the Quarrel been taken up by an Importune and dear-bought Peace for that expedition cost more Mony only to face the Scotch Rebels then would afterward have serv'd His Majesty to have Reduced the English Throughout the Menage of their Affairs it may be Observed that they had these Three regards still in their eye and Care 1. To Reproche his Majesties Government 2. To Animate and Reward his Enemies And 3. To Persecute his Friends And still as any thing Stuck a Tumult ready at a dead lift to help it forward For they were not Ignorant that the King was to be Defam'd before he could be Disarm'd Disarm'd before Depos'd Deprived of his Friends before Despoyl'd of his Rights and Privileges and That being their Designe This was Rationally to be their Methode Their first Uproar about the Service-book was but a wild tryall how far the Multitude would Engage and the Magistrate Endure which appeared in This that the City-Magistrates did at first Earnestly and Publiquely Protest not only against the Outrage but for the Liturgy not daring to do Otherwise till a while after Encouraged by the Boldness and Importunity of the Offenders and the Patience of some in Authority those very Persons did in their Pulpits and Discourses magnifie that Beastly Crew for the Worthies of the Age whom just before they had decry'd for Rogues and Villeius The Truth is they were Then about to play the Rogues Themselves and when Persons of Quality turn Rascals Then do Rascals become Persons of Quality At the beginning of the Broyle half a dozen broken Heads had saved Three Kingdoms Who would have own'd That Rabble had they been Worsted or What Resistance could they have made to any Legal Opposition But they were Flatter'd to be Quiet and That advanc'd this Tumult to a Party the Faction growing every day more and more Formidable As their Strength encreased so did their Pretenses both in Number and Weight and nothing less would content them then to strip the King as bare as they had done the Bishops The Particulars of their Insolencies are too many for a Treatise and in Truth too foul for a Story but in grosse nothing was wanting to the perfection of the Wickednesse which either Hypocrisie Perjury Treason Sacrilege Rapine Oppression Forgery Scandal Breach of Faith Malice Murther or Ingratitude could Contribute All which in every Poynt shall be made good by several Instances if any man require it We 'll now look homeward where we shall find the English Rebellion wrought to a Thridd according to the Trace of the Scotish Pattern The Presse and Pulpit were already at the Devotion of the Reforming Party the Covenanters had an Army on Foot and the Schismatiques were prepar'd for a General Rising at which time his Majesty summon'd a Parliament to assemble in November following In This Convention those of the Confederacy made it their first work to engage the People by ripping up of Common Grievances Breach of Laws and Priviledges and by contending to assert their Rights Liberties and Religion against the Encroachments of Prerogative and Popery Being Secure of their Party they propose next the Manner of accomplishing their Purpose which must be Effected by Craft and Terrour In Order whereunto they first attaqu'd two of his Majesties prime Counsellours and Confidents the Earl of Strafford and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Two Persons worthy of the Kings Trust and Kindnesse however Worried by the Multitude To weaken the Lords House they nulled the Bishops Votes and Committed 12 of them for Treason Five of the Iudges were Committed likewise and to dispose the Lower House nothing was wanting which either Force Flattery Corruption or foul-play in Elections could Procure them So far as the King Granted all went well but if his Majesty deny'd them any thing the Fault was Laid upon his Evill Consellours under which Notion all his Friends were comprehended So that his Choyce was This either to give away his Crown or to have it wrested from him In May the Faction of the Two Houses Publish'd a Protestation which was but a Gentle slip into the Prerogative Royal to try their Interest and by degrees to inure the People to their intended and succeeding Usurpations Some Four or Five dayes after were signed those Two Fatal Bills for the Death of the Earl of Strafford and the Perpetuity of the Parliament and having now gain'd leave to sit as long as they please they have little further to ask but that they may likewise do what they list Where Loyalty was made a Crime 't was fit Rebellion should pass for a Virtue Upon which suitable equity The Scots were Justified and Voted our Dear Brethren 300000 l. in Iune 1641. and Sixscore Thousand more in August following and so we Parted In this Perplexity of Affairs the King takes a journey into Scotland if Possible to secure an Interest There but the Conspiracy was gone too far to be composed by Gentleness Upon his Majesties Departure the Houses adjourn and during the Recesse appoint a standing Committee and They forsooth must have a Guard for fear of their own Shadows In which Interval of the Kings Absence the Usurpers lost no time as appear'd by their readiness to Entertein him at his Return When the first Present they made his Majesty was the Petition and Remonstrance of December 15. which I cannot think upon but That Text
Elizabeth At That Time it was Principally that the English took the Scotch Dâ—sâ—ase and upon the Peace brought it with them into England whereof we have abundantly tasted the blessed Fruits ever since Let such as are curious of Particulars look into the 11. 16. 31. and 36. of that Queens Reign and see what Prodigious Haeresies what Seditious Opinions and Practices what desperate Libels and Sermons proceeded from That Schismaticall Separation At length by an Exemplary Severity upon Hackett and Barrow she gave her self some Quiet Upon King Iames his coming to the Crown of England they Try'd Him too but when they fell to Scruplize about the Surplice and the Crosse in Baptism The King having first Choak'd them in Points more Materiall to make short work of it tells them 'T was Obstinacy not Tendernesse bids them Conforme at Perill For the Perill-sake They did Conforme and so That Prince was Quiet But though no Flame Appear'd the Fire was not Extinct but prudently Conceal'd and Cover'd in the Embers And now Succeeds King Charles the Martyr under the Disadvantages First of a Great Debt and a present Necessity Secondly of a Natural so void of Guile as hardly to believe that there was such a thing in Nature which made him somewhat apt to Credit And the Third Disadvantage was his Inexperience of That Faction which he was now to Cope with Upon his coming to the Crown Hee Calls a Parliament Tells them his wants which They knew of Themselves to be exceeding Great and Pressing Their Answer was in effect that Petitions were to precede Subsidies And thereupon Two they presented The One for Religion the Other concerning Grievances and to Both These his Majesty gave ample and Particular Satisfaction which in stead of Thankfulnesse and Supply produced only Expostulation and Boldnesse So high already were they Flown as to resolve upon a Remonstrance foul upon the Memory and Government of the Father and Imposing upon the Authority of the Son which mov'd the King to Prevent That Affront by Dissolving That Parliament This was in August 1625. See but how Great a Confidence did This small yielding give them And Thence wee 'll Date the History of his ensuing Troubles Marque forward how they grow upon him and abuse his aptnesse to comply with Them In Febr. following meets a Second Parliament wherein a matter of Three Moneths were spent in a Debate betwixt the King and the Lords concerning the Privileges of the House of Peers The Commons having in the Interim a Committee for Religion at work to spy Faults where at last was Retriv'd a Letter under the Signet for the Reprieve of some Iesuites c. and This Reported to the House by Mr. Bim These Petulancies did not at all discompose the King but he calmly again Sollicites them for Mony The Fleet being in great distresse and ready to Mutiny for want of Pay In stead of being Supply'd his Majesty is insufferably Affronted Particularly by Mr. Clement Coke and Doctor Turner of whom he compleins but without obteining satisfaction save upon such conditions as were utterly inconsistent with his Royalty In fine This Parliament prepares another Declaration of the same Stamp with the Former and so they are Dissolved too These Disappointments they knew must needs put the King upon Extraordinary wayes to furnish himself for the Present and that at the last his recourse must be to a Parliament into which they were sure to be Chosen and easily foresaw that the Greater his Majesties Necessities were the more Argument would there be for Compleint In This Intervall the King was left to his Choice of These Two Evills whether he would hazzard the Revolt of his Navy and the putting of his Kingdomes into a Flame for want of Mony or venture at some uncommon way of Raysing it This extremity puts him upon his Commissions of Loan Privy Seals A Project of Levy by Excize Nay such was his Necessity that he was fain to Part with 21000 li. per Annum of his own Lands to the Common-Counsell of London only for 120000 li. together with some other Debts of his Fathers which they Hedg'd and bought in for little and clapp'd upon his Majesties Accompt to the Uttermost Farthing The Loan was much Opposed and who but the Refusers of This Loan were the Popular men for the Next Parliament which was Summon'd to meet in March 1627. Accordingly they Meet and the King minds them of their Past Faylings and their Present Duties in a Speech worthy of the Prudence and the Majesty of a Great Prince In This time sayes the King of Common Danger I have taken the most Antient Speedy and Best way for Supply by calling you together If which God forbid in not contributing what may answer the Quality of my Occasions you do not your Duty it shall suffice I have done mine in the Conscience whereof I shall rest Content and take some other Course for which God hath empowred Mee to Save That which the Folly of Particular men might hazzard to Lose Take not This as a Menace for I scorn to Threaten my Inferiours but as an Admonition from him who is Ty'd both by Nature and Duty to provide for your Preservation This Tast of the Kings Mettle gave them to understand that Rufling would not do their work and put them rather upon a semblance of Closing with him But with Regard still to Their Trust and that the People might be as well Eas'd as his Majesty Supply'd Which being formally resolv'd upon and that the Kings Wants and the Subjects Grievances should march hand in hand By an Unanimous Vote they granted his Majesty Five Subsidies who being too syncere to take That Bounty for a Bait even Wept with Ioy at the surprize of a Kindnesse so unexpected But This is but the Guilding of the Pill now comes the Poyson Upon the Motion of Sir Edward Coke was fram'd The Petition of Right which Passes the House of Commons but Sticks with the Peers as utterly Destructive of the Prerogative Royall without a Salvo Whereupon they offer This Addition We present This our humble Petition to your Majesty not only with Care to Preserve our own Liberties but with regard to leave entire That Sovereign Power wherewith pour Maiesty is trusted for the Protection Safety and Happinesse of your People But this Addition was not for Their Turn whose businesse was more to Depresse the King and Advance Themselves then to provide for the Freedome of the People And in fine the Commons adhering after a long struggle it pass'd the Lords House without Amendment In regard that we are now upon the very Crisis of King or No King we shall be a little the more Particular After Five Dayes Consideration thereupon the King returns This Answer The King willeth that Right be done according to the Laws and Customes of the Realm and that the Statutes be put in Execution that Subjects may
The most Dangerous Poverty Corruption the Cause of Scarcity * A word us'd in Westminster Schoole when a Boy Counterfeits Sick Private Hoards breed Publique Penury The Composition of Wicked Ministers of State The Misery of them If either they look Back Forward Round about Above them Bâ—low or within them The Sollicâ—tous estate of the Guilty Taxes may cause or occasion a Scarcity divers wayes Subjâ—cts are to Obey without Disputing ☜ Note Leave no Marque standing to remember a Discourtesie by Josh. 4. 6. Shiftings passes for Wisdome Excessive Building Knavery of â—radesmen Pride The Coâ—ntry is sure to be undone by a Waâ—r The Fruits of it A Discontented Nobleman Ambition Pride Râ—venge The Rich Chuâ—le The Contentious Free bornâ—Subject ☜ The Dangerous mixture of a Representative The Designing Party Their Industry and Combination The Matter they work upon Their Maner of Proceedâ—ng ☜ The Permâ—tters of Seditious Contrivements The Deserters of their Trust are taken off by Profit Pleasure Vanity by Sloth and Neglect ☜ by Partiality Passion Fear or Personal Animosity Fools are fit Instâ—umâ—nts for Knâ—ves Love and Reverence are the Pillars of Majesty The Power of a Prince depends upon the Love of his People The Grâ—unds of Sedition Let a Prince Stick to his Laws and his People will stick to him The Oath of Protecting implyes a Power of Protecting Where a King has it not in his Power to Oppresse his People They have it in Theirs to Destroy their King ☜ A Mixture of Indulgence and Severity Obliges the Loyall and Aws the Refractary The Influeâ—ce of Prudence and Courage Aâ— Prince that bears Affronts and Familiarities from his Subjects Lessens himself How to hindâ—r the Sprâ—ading of a Seditious Humour ☜ Let a Prince keep an Eye over Great Assemblies Let him be Quâ—ck and Watchfull The mostdangeâ—â—us of all Sects A sure way to prerent Schisme Have a Care ☜ The Presbyterians Set-form And Methode Their Modesty ☞ The means of Preventing Schisme Object Petition fâ—â— Peace pag. 4 5. Answ. The Hazzards of Toleration ☜ The Foundaâ—ion of Presbytery ☞ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 239. Let Pagans blush at These Christians ☜ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 263. The Growth of Schisme ☜ A Noble Resolve Let the Prince Reform betime And Impartially Note Ambition is the Cause no matter what 's the Cry Corrupt Divines and Lawyers are in the forlorne of all Rebellions ☞ But the Contrary are the Pillars and Blessings of Society The Common Crime of Vitious Lawyers is Avarice The Basest of Corruptions An Ignorant Judg is a Dangerous Minister And so is a Timorous A hard matter to make a good choice A Rule to Chuse by He nugâ— sâ—riâ— duc 〈◊〉 in mala ☞ A way to prevent Treasonous Mistakes The Contrivers of Seditions are of Three Sorts The Puritan ☞ Religion is but Talk Every man for himself A Traytour is of no Religion No ill Story The Presbyterian has gotten a Streyn A Ceremony may be as well impos'd as a 〈◊〉 ☜ ☞ Ambition dangerous in a Favourite A Caution Ambition does better in a Souldiour then in a Counsellour It is the Interest of a Prince to dispose of Offices by Particular Direction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 240. How to 〈◊〉 an Insolent Favourite The Danger of a Favourite that upholds a Faction And menage of his Design St. 〈◊〉 Bacon ☜ How to disappoint an Ambitious Design Favouritâ—s necessary to the Prince and desirable to the People Concerning the Choice of Servants Let them be Honest and Fit Of approved Loyalty to thâ— Father Not upon Recommendation Publique Natures for Publique Places Not One to all Purposes Let a Prince set his Confident his Bounds afore-hand In Points of Conscience Honour and Convenience let not a Favourite presse the Sovereign The Danger of Over greatnesse as to the People A Proud man in Power Easily crush'd A Covetous Great man The Mischief of False Intelligence Good Advice 〈…〉 Counsel 〈◊〉 ☞ Prudence provides for the worst Reward and â—unishment keep People in Order Honest Truths are Dangerous A Case put The Lower Region of the Court. Four or Five Beggers in Chief ☞ Corrupt Officers a General Pest. Ill-Pay the reason of Ill-Payment Want of Mony makes People Religious The Ill-principled Courtier Dangers from the Camp How Mutinies may be caused ☜ Good Pay will bear good Discipline Modelling and Disâ—banding are dangerous How to New-Modell an Army How to Dis-band The Causes of Revolts A good Choice is the best Security against a Revolt The Danger of an Illâ—order'd City ☜ Pretext of Religion is a dangerâ—us and wicked Quarrell Is there a God Or â—s there None All Seditions proceed from Misgovernment Begin with the Clergy to prevent Schisme Let the Magistracy be well-affected Oppression procur'd by Ill Instruments ☞ Though the Levy be Extraordinary let the way be Ordinary Privileges are Sacred ☞ Poverty is a terrible Enemy The Prince not to forsake his Metropoliâ— Let the Choice be Legall and Prudent ☜ Better the Sovereign Reforme then the Counsell The effects of a Good Choyce and of a Bad. The Mischieves of Partiality ☜ 〈◊〉 a â—yranny then 〈◊〉 Anarchy The Antient Prudence of England for the Prevenâ—ing of Seditâ—ons The Custome of 〈◊〉 or Frank-Pledges The Condition of it Oathes of Allegeance The Judges Charge concerning Tâ—easons c. Knights Service Commission of Array Libido Dominandi Causa Bâ—lli Sal. The King is above Ambition And the Commons Below it ☞ The Interests of the King and Commons are Inseperable The Peerage are either as Petty Kings 〈◊〉 Subjâ—cts The Excellent Government of England was subverâ—ed by a mean â—action Security lost us ☞ A word to my Back fâ—iends Object Answ. Ask Doctor Owen and 〈…〉 That was Anglicâ—e D. â— A Private Person may discover a Publique Enemy The King the Law the Parliment and the Counsell are Sacred Beware of Imputing the faults of a Faction to the Government The Faction has a great Advantage The Presbyterians are True to their Principles but not to their Profession Their Industry ☞ Two Libels The Libellers Character Kings had need to be well enform'd ☜ ☞ 8 H. 6. 11. 11 H. 6. 6. Edict Iuly 7. 1606. Ill Appearances The Custome of Frank-Pledges revived ☜ Discoveries Rewarded Judges in their circuits are good Intelligencerg ☞ How This Discourse may become usefull Treasons Encouraged ☜ Why was Late King Murther'd Not for Religion Nor Tyranny Nor Cruelty Nor for want of Abilities and Valour Nor for Impiety or Intemperance The Kings Indulgence was his Ruine Presbytery is a Specifique Poyson to Monarchy king Iames his Answer to a Presbyterian Queen Elizabeth â—uieted the Schismatiques by Severity Sâ—r did King Iames. Three Disadvantages of King Charles the martyr The Originall of his Troubles The Progresse of them The House of Commons Affronts him The King put to a sad Choice ☜ The Kings Speech The Bounties of the Faction are Baites The Petition of Right His Majesties first Answer to the Petition of Right The Commons Cavill The King Passes the Bill The Commons Requitall His Majesty Explains himself The Commons Inquisition and Insolence ☜ The Protestation of the Commons Their Contest and Dissolution The Kings Mercy Abusâ—d ☜ Abus'd again ☜ The King Betray'd by his Counsell Scotch Declar. Pag. 124. The Kings Mercy again abus'd The Ingratitude of the Scotch Presbyterians Now see the English The Bounty and Grace of the King The Requital of the Presbyterians ☞ His Majesties Patience and Goodnesse Ruin'd him The Kings grand Fatalityes